U-DQ-C - Digital Intelligence Certificate

The certificate is targeted at all Duke students. To complete the certificate students must take six courses in all:

• The core course (“Computing and Ethics”, SCISOC 256)

• Four elective courses from the following elective areas

  • Elective Area 1: Computational Thinking

  • Elective Area 2: Ethics and Policy

  • Elective Area 3: Representations, Translation & Communication

  • Elective Area 4: Computation in Practice

• A capstone course (“Digital Intelligence Capstone”, SCISOC 498S)

Together, the core and electives will provide students with a broad understanding of emerging computational and data technology as well as the policy and ethics issues they raise. The capstone course will provide students a way to integrate what they have learned across the different core and elective areas, with a culminating project and a course that helps them learn to present the findings in a compelling and accessible way.

Before enrolling in the Capstone course, students must participate in a substantial, summer-long or semester-long experiential research project, also known as their Capstone Project. This can be accomplished either through participation in existing Duke programs such as Data+, DOmath, Code+, CS+, or through a substantial independent project, equivalent to a semester in length, developed in consultation with Certificate faculty and supervised by a faculty mentor.