WARC School Courses
Program Details
WARC School has 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
- 3 Courses, 2 Special Topic Courses, and a Culminating Practicum
- 6-week courses
- Evening course times (Eastern standard time)
- 2-week break between courses
- 2 hr virtual classes
- Weekly office hours sessions
- Live sessions (recorded for later viewing)
- Opportunity to participate in ATBW Conference in Fall 2026
Courses
March 18–20, 2026
In-person orientation in Harlem, NYC
The orientation is an opportunity to meet the ATBW Team, WARC School Fellows, Instructors and TA’s. Orientation will include a Black Internet Studies intensive where we’ll discuss the history of the Black Web, Black content creation, the ethics of web archiving, surveillance, social media changes, and other topics impacting the Black Web and web archiving.
April 2026
Intro to Web Archiving & Tools is a hands-on 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. The course will 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
4. Gain an understanding of how web archiving fits into your current personal or professional memory work practice
June 2026
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 who 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
August 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
September 2026
Course Content: TBD
September 2026
Course Content: TBD
September 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