The 2025 WARC School Application is now closed.
WARC School Curriculum
Program Details
WARC School is a 1-year program with a comprehensive curriculum that invites participants and instructors to bring the fullness of their experiences and interests into the classroom. The components of the program include:
- In-person orientation
- 5 Courses and a Culminating Practicum
- 4 week courses
- 1 month break between courses
- 2 hr virtual classes
- Live sessions (recorded for later viewing)
- Mentors available
- Monthly Study Hall session
- Opportunity to participate in ATBW Symposium in Fall 2026
Courses
April 28–May 1, 2025
In-person orientation in Atlanta, GA.
The orientation is an opportunity to meet other the ATBW Team, WARC School Fellows and WARC School Instructors and TA’s. We’ll discuss this history of the Black Web, the Black content creation, the ethics of web archiving, surveillance, social media changes, and other topics impacting the Black Web and web archiving.
May 2025
A Black History of the Web asks what are Black people’s contributions to the culture, infrastructure, development, and experience of the Web both in the past and as we now know it. From discussions abouts Black Internet and computing pioneers to online activism to memes, participants will gain an understanding of Black digital life and the scholarship that illuminates and celebrates the Black experience online.
Learning Outcomes:
4. Gain an understanding of how web archiving fits into your current personal or professional memory work practice
5. Understand how Black people have contributed to the development of the infrastructure and culture of the web
July 2025
Intro to Web Archiving is a survey course that provides a grounding introduction to the history, practices, technologies, and concerns of web archiving. Discussions on how the Internet works, web archiving ethics, and the evolution of web archiving practices will prepare participants for later courses within WARC School.
Learning Outcomes:
2. Be able to articulate ethical concerns of web archiving
4. Gain an understanding of how web archiving fits into your current personal or professional memory work practice
September 2025
Web Archiving Tools is a hands-on course that explores the most used tools and technologies in the web archiving field. Understanding the development of web archiving tools and their different uses and applications will prepare participants to make decisions about which tools are suitable for their different web archiving needs.
Learning Outcomes:
1. Be competent in using at least one web archiving tool
2. Be able to articulate ethical concerns of web archiving
6. Be able to develop and implement an independent web archiving initiative
November 2025
Building a Web Archive delves into the skills and knowledge necessary to ethically and effectively build a web archive collection and program. Facilitated by web archiving professionals that have built and managed extensive web archiving programs and projects, this course will cover key components of successful programs such as: Collection Development policies and procedures, appraisal / selection, project management, copyright, ethics, descriptive practices, web archiving workflows, collaborative efforts, and tool and service selection.
Learning Outcomes:
2. Be able to articulate ethical concerns of web archiving
3. Gain an understanding of how to build, sustain, preserve and provide access to web archives.
4. Gain an understanding of how web archiving fits into your current personal or professional memory work practice
6. Be able to develop and implement an independent web archiving initiative
January 2026
Managing Web Archives moves from the creation of web archive collection and programs towards providing access, facilitating research, and ensuring sustainability. This course will explore how to manage collections including outreach, take down policies, data management, budgeting and funding, security and privacy protocols, and training and succession planning.
Learning Outcomes:
2. Be able to articulate ethical concerns of web archiving
3. Gain an understanding of how to build, sustain, preserve and provide access to web archives
4. Gain an understanding of how web archiving fits into your current personal or professional memory work practice
6. Be able to develop and implement an independent web archiving initiative
7. Understand how to support research with web archives
February–March 2026
The practicum provides participants with an opportunity to develop and implement an independent web archiving initiative guided by the theory and practices learned in WARC school courses and informed by their cultural practices and ways of knowing. With the support of a WARC School faculty and mentors, participants can truly experiment with incorporating web archiving into their current personal or professional memory work practice.
Learning Outcomes:
4. Gain an understanding of how web archiving fits into your current personal or professional memory work practice
6. Be able to develop and implement an independent web archiving initiative
Learning Outcomes
- Be competent in using at least one web archiving tool
- Be able to articulate ethical concerns of web archiving
- Gain an understanding of how to build, sustain, preserve and provide access to web archives
- Gain an understanding of how web archiving fits into your current personal or professional memory work practice
- Understand how Black people have contributed to the development of the infrastructure and culture of the web
- Be able to develop and implement an independent web archiving initiative
- Understand how to support research with web archives