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Discover how digital tools and methods can help you explore your subject in exciting new ways. Understand how digital technology is transforming our world, creating inequality and opportunity.
Introducing Digital Humanities
Enhance your degree
The minor in Digital Humanities is a unique programme that complements your skills in a humanities discipline with training in digital methods and a deeper understanding of how digital technologies are shaping our lives and our future. It is available to students on Single Honours degrees through Flexible Honours, a scheme that allows you to take 40 credits (equivalent to one third of your course credits for the year) in another subject. All our courses are also available as free choice units and all students can earn a Certificate in Digital Humanities. The courses take place in the new Digital Humanities Lab, where students are provided with a laptop.
Develop new skills
Over three years, you will explore how techniques like mapping, distant reading, and data visualisation can transform the way you read books, understand the past, and communicate your ideas. You will create and curate your own digital projects and exhibitions, developing specialist expertise in digital methods relating to your main subject area. You will also be able to choose between a range of optional courses, including digital literary studies, the spatial humanities, data visualisation, and computational and statistical methods, with the opportunity to create your own dissertation-level digital project in your major subject area in your final year. Please note that no technical experience is required, as all training will be provided.
Participate in the debates of tomorrow
The courses touch on key concepts and debates around digital media, politics, and culture, such as data collection and civil liberties or the ethics of artificial intelligence. Why do search engines misrepresent women and people of colour? How do digital platforms spread conspiracy theories and ‘fake news’? How does Facebook predict its users’ sexual orientation or mental health? And to what purposes is this data put? The minor will help you understand key debates of our time and equips you with the knowledge you need to make your voice heard.
Bridge the gap between creativity and technology
With its combined focus on technical skills, creativity and criticism, the minor will allow you to develop skills and the confidence needed to thrive in a variety of workplaces looking for people who can bridge the gap between creative and technical work.
Explore course units
Level 1
Core unit – you will be automatically enrolled onto the following unit (20 credits):
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester |
| DIGI10111 |
Introduction to Digital Humanities |
20 |
1-2 |
Optional units - Please choose 20 credits from the following list:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester |
| CAHE10341 |
Understanding the Past: Human Stories through Science |
20 | |
| ECON10151 |
Computing for Social Scientists |
20 | |
| SOAN10361 |
Introduction to Business Anthropology: Consumers, Companies and Culture |
20 | |
| SOCY10441 |
Media, Culture & Society |
20 | |
|
SOST10012 |
Understanding Social Media |
20 | |
| SOST10021 |
Measuring Inequalities (Unequal Societies) |
20 | |
| SOST10142 |
Applied Statistics for Social Scientists |
20 | |
| UCIL20122 |
AI: Robot Overlord, Replacement or Colleague? |
10 | |
| UCIL20132 |
Trust and Security in a Digital World: From Fake News to Cybercriminals |
10 | |
| UCIL20282 |
Information Visions: Past, Present and Future |
10/20 |
|
| UCIL26002 |
Digital Society: Your Place in a Networked World |
10 |
*The availability of optional units may vary.
Level 2
Core unit – you will be automatically enrolled onto the following unit (20 credits):
|
Code |
Title | Credits | Semester |
| DIGI20020 | Digital Tools for the Humanities | 20 | 1-2 |
Optional units - Please choose 20 credits from the following list:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester |
| BMAN10252 |
Fundamentals of Technological Change |
10 | |
| BMAN20792 |
Technology, Strategy and Innovation |
10 | |
| EART24102 |
Extracting and Communicating Knowledge from Environmental Data |
10 | |
| EART29102 |
Geospatial Techniques |
10 | |
| EDUC20221 |
Digital Marketing & Promotion |
10 | |
| GEOG20502 |
Spatial Thinking with GIS: Constructing and exploring virtual worlds |
20 | |
| GEOG20621 |
Skills for Geographers |
20 | |
| LAWS20441 |
Making Sense of Criminological Data |
20 | |
|
LELA20232 |
Quantitative Methods in Language Sciences |
20 | |
| HSTM20782 |
The Information Age |
10/20 |
|
|
MUSC20511 |
Popular Music in the Digital Age |
20 | |
| SOCY20041 |
Social Network Analysis |
20 | |
|
SOCY20242 |
New Media |
20 | |
| UCIL20122 |
AI: Robot Overlord, Replacement or Colleague? |
10 | |
| UCIL20132 |
Trust and Security in a Digital World: From Fake News to Cybercriminals |
10 | |
|
UCIL20282 |
Information Visions: Past, Present and Future |
10/20 |
|
|
UCIL26002 |
Digital Society: Your Place in a Networked World |
10 |
*The availability of optional units may vary.
Level 3
Core unit – you will be automatically enrolled onto the following unit (20 credits):
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester |
|
Digital Humanities Research Project |
20 | 2 |
Optional units - Please choose 40 credits from the following list:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester |
| DIGI30012 |
Literary Landscapes |
20 | 2 |
| DIGI30022 |
Mapping the Past: Spatial History |
20 | 2 |
| HCRI30212 |
Geographic Information Systems and Disasters |
20 |
|
| UCIL20122 |
AI: Robot Overlord, Replacement or Colleague? |
10 | |
| UCIL20132 |
Trust and Security in a Digital World: From Fake News to Cybercriminals |
10 | |
| UCIL20282 |
Information Visions: Past, Present and Future |
10/20 |
|
| UCIL26002 |
Digital Society: Your Place in a Networked World |
10 |
*The availability of optional units may vary.
Contact
Programme Director: Dr Luca Scholz