Dear Dan,
Over here in Cologne, Germany, we have a special chair for "Humanities Computer Science" which is involved in a number of BA/MA programs. Beside these, it offers an "IT Certificate" for students in the humanities faculty (students from the specialized degree programs, i.e., media informatics, digital media and cultural heritage studies, and information processing in the humanities are excluded).
The certificate for the "normal" humanities student includes the following four courses: - Course 1, common technologies I: operating systems, office applications (e.g. open office), image processing, webserver (installation, configuration, maintenance) - Course 2, common technologies II: networks, internet technologies, html/css/javascript, programming by example (PHP), online databases by example (MySQL) - all applied in a hands-on course project ("transform a humanities information resource (a.k.a. "book") into an online database") - Course 3, dedicated systems: CMS by example (Typo3), digital repository systems by example (DSpace) - Course 4, data- and metadata standards: XML (with Schema and XPath), XSLT, metadata theory, data standards in the humanities and the cultural heritage sector, DC, TEI, METS/MODS, EAD, CDWA, semantic web, RDF, OWL - X-technologies and TEI applied in a hands-on course project ("transform a humanities information resource (a.k.a. "book") into a markup-based and XSLT-generated online presentation").
You can find further information here: http://www.hki.uni-koeln.de/lehrveranstaltungen
Best, Patrick Sahle
Lecturer in Humanities IT, University of Cologne, Germany Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung, Universität zu Köln Universitätsstraße 22, D-50923 Köln, +49 - (0)221 - 470 1750 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing / Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik: http://www.i-d-e.de