PG Cert / PG Dip / MSc Global Digital Humanities

A 2.1 Honours undergraduate degree. If you studied your first degree outside the UK, see the international entry requirements

The qualifications listed are indicative minimum requirements for entry. Obtaining the listed entry requirements will not guarantee you a place, as the University considers all aspects of every application including, where applicable, the writing sample, personal statement, and supporting documents.

The qualifications listed are indicative minimum requirements for entry. Some academic Schools will ask applicants to achieve significantly higher marks than the minimum. Obtaining the listed entry requirements will not guarantee you a place, as the University considers all aspects of every application including, where applicable, the writing sample, personal statement, and supporting documents.

Application requirements

• CV that includes your personal details with a history of your education and employment to date
• personal statement (500 words)
• sample of your own, single-authored academic written work (2000 words)
• two original signed academic references
• academic transcripts and degree certificates

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The Global Digital Humanities course is an online self-paced programme, with options to study for a PGCert, PGDip, or MSc. 

Highlights

• Delivered jointly by the School of Modern Languages and the School of Computer Science.
• Understand the development of language technologies and their implications for Modern Languages and related industries.
• Identify and discuss current challenges of Artificial Intelligence for Modern Languages and broader society globally.
• Apply computational methods to the study of languages and literary texts.  
• Acquire theoretical and applied knowledge about publishing texts digitally and creating accessible digital books.  
• Flexible and fully online degree programme.

PG Cert / PG Dip

• Digital Humanities Principles and Methods: introduces contemporary debates on the future of the humanities in our digital age; you will learn about digital tools, methods and themes, and identify interdisciplinary research questions relating to Digital Humanities.  
• Programming in Python: introduces and revises modelling, design and implementation in Python.
• Research methods in data science: introduces the skills necessary for the planning, data gathering, data analysis and dissemination stages of data science research.
• Digital Global Literatures: enables students to enhance the analysis and presentation of literary texts with advanced digital and computational techniques.
• Digital Modern Languages: examines the capabilities, limitations, and impact of these technologies on Modern Language and related industries.
• Memory and Storytelling in the Digital Age: delves into storytelling as a cultural practice, examining the storyteller’s role and narrative techniques for crafting memory in a digital world.
• Data and information visualisation: focuses on the question of how to utilise visual representations to make information accessible for exploration and analysis.
• End-to-End Machine Learning: focuses on using Python packages to perform end-to-end data-driven analyses.

MSc

Dissertation in Digital Humanities or applied research project

Following the successful completion of the coursework, MSc students undertake a dissertation module of 60 credits (15,000 words) or an applied research project accompanied by a report (8,000 words). The dissertation should demonstrate an element of independent thinking or originality of thought in the establishment of the argument and be based upon clearly founded research, analysis and interpretation. It should demonstrate how to address the challenges relating to conducting and completing a research thesis and, likewise, the applied research project should demonstrate how to reflect and manage the execution of a digital humanities project from requirements to results.  

The topic of the dissertation or the applied research project must be agreed before the start of the project with an academic supervisor. These modules involve regular one-to-one contact with the supervisor.