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Discover how digital tools and methods can help you explore your subject in exciting new ways. Understand how digital media and technology are transforming our world, creating inequality and opportunity.

MA Digital Media, Culture and Society

Our MA in Digital Media, Culture and Society offers advanced interdisciplinary study in the critique and use of digital media and technology with a particular focus on their cultural and societal implications.

Find out more: MA Digital Media, Culture and Society

Digital Humanities Minor

Undergraduate students on Single Honours degrees can choose to take a Minor in Digital Humanities 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.

Digital Humanities Certificate

All our courses are also available as free choice units. Completing two Digital Humanities course units will earn you a undergraduate Certificate in Digital Humanities that allows you to document your skills.

Develop new skills

Digital humanities modules complement your studies with training in digital methods and a deeper understanding of how digital media and technology are shaping our lives and our future. You will explore how techniques like mapping, text mining, and data visualization 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 and develop specialist expertise in digital methods relating to your main subject area. Our courses take place in the new Digital Humanities Lab, where students will also be provided with laptops. Note that no technical experience is required, as all training will be provided.

Participate in the debates of tomorrow

The digital humanities also 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.

Find a job you enjoy

With its combined focus on technical skills, creativity, and criticism, the Digital Humanities allow you to develop the skills needed to thrive in a workplaces looking for people who can bridge the gap between creative and technical work.

For any questions, please contact:

Dr Luca Scholz
Programme Director, Digital Humanities
Email: luca.scholz@manchester.ac.uk

Explore undergraduate course units eligible for the Digital Humanities Minor and Certificate

Level 1

Core unit – you will be automatically enrolled onto the following unit (20 credits):

CodeTitleCreditsSemester
DIGI10031 Decoding Inequality: Reimagining Digital Culture 20 1

Optional units - Please choose 20 credits from the following list:

CodeTitleCreditsSemester
ECON10151 Computing for Social Scientists 10 1
SOAN10361 Introduction to Business Anthropology: Consumers, Companies and Culture 20 1
SOCY10441 Media, Culture & Society 20 1
SOST10012 Understanding Social Media 20 2
SOST10021 Measuring Inequalities (Unequal Societies) 20 1
SOST10142 Applied Statistics for Social Scientists 20 2
UCIL20401/
UCIL20421
Visualising Information: Uses and Abuses of Data 10/20 2
UCIL24141/
UCIL24151
Science, Technology and Democracy 10/20 1
UCIL20132 Trust and Security in a Digital World: From Fake News to Cybercriminals 10 2
UCIL26002 Digital Society: Your Place in a Networked World 10 2
UCIL20122 AI: Robot Overlord, Replacement or Colleague? 10 2

*The availability of optional units may vary.

Level 2

Core unit – you will be automatically enrolled onto the following unit (20 credits):

CodeTitleCreditsSemester
DIGI24232 Digital Ways of Seeing: Theory and Practice 20 2

Optional units - Please choose 20 credits from the following list:

CodeTitleCreditsSemester
UCIL20401/
UCIL20421
Visualising Information: Uses and Abuses of Data 10/20 1
EDUC20221 Digital Marketing & Promotion 10 1
GEOG20502 Spatial Thinking with GIS: Constructing and exploring virtual worlds 20 2
GEOG20621 Skills for Geographers 20 1
LELA20231 Quantitative Methods in Language Sciences 20 1
BMAN20792 Technology, Strategy and Innovation 10 2
SALC20081 Data Analysis and Reasoning in a Digital World 20 1
UCIL24141/
UCIL24151
Science, Technology and Democracy 10/20 1
UCIL20132 Trust and Security in a Digital World: From Fake News to Cybercriminals 10/20 2
UCIL26002 Digital Society: Your Place in a Networked World 10 2
UCIL20122 AI: Robot Overlord, Replacement or Colleague? 10 2

*The availability of optional units may vary.

Level 3

You must choose between 20 and 40 credits from the following list:

CodeTitleCreditsSemester
DIGI30022 Mapping the Past: Spatial History 20 2
DIGI30042 Producing Digital Projects 20 2

 If you have chosen only 20 credits from the list above, you should choose a further 20 credits from the following list:

CodeTitleCreditsSemester
GEOG30551 Understanding GIS 20 1
UCIL20401/
UCIL20421
Visualising Information: Uses and Abuses of Data 10/20 1
UCIL24141/
UCIL24151
Science, Technology and Democracy 10/20 2
UCIL20132 Trust and Security in a Digital World: From Fake News to Cybercriminals 10 2
UCIL26002 Digital Society: Your Place in a Networked World 10 2
UCIL20122 AI: Robot Overlord, Replacement or Colleague? 10 2

*The availability of optional units may vary.

Contact

Programme Director: Dr Luca Scholz