Digital Humanities

Our course in Digital Humanities brings digital theory and practice to the study of human culture: from history, English and music to museums, digital publishing and more.

Digital technology provides many new opportunities and challenges to those working with textual, visual or multimedia content. Our course studies the history and current state of the digital humanities, exploring their role in modelling, curating, analysing and interpreting digital representations of human culture in all its forms.

Leads to careers in cultural heritage, publishing and web-based businesses.

Key Benefits:

• This course in a world-leading department is highly multidisciplinary and draws on a wide range of expertise in web technologies, digital publishing, open software and content creation, digital cultural heritage, coding in humanities/cultural contexts and maps, apps and the Geoweb.
• The course provides opportunities to scope, build and critique practical experiments in digital research with an arts, humanities and cultural sector focus.
• Through the optional internship module students can have direct access to some of the world's most important culture and media institutions.
• The MA can lead to further research or to careers in cultural heritage institutions (such as museums, libraries, and archives), in multimedia and new media companies, in internet companies, in publishing houses, and in web-based businesses in London and overseas.

Bachelor's degree with 2:1 honours in any Arts or Humanities subject. No prior computing experience is required beside basic digital literacy: email, web browsing and word processing.

MA

Courses are divided into modules. You will normally take modules totalling 180 credits.

Required Modules:

You are required to take:

• Introduction to Digital Humanities (40 credits)
  • Dissertation (60 credits)

Optional Modules:

In addition, you are required to take four modules totalling 80 credits from a list of options that may typically include:

• E-Texts, Annotation & Markup (20 credits)
• Web Technologies (20 credits)
• Digital Publishing (20 credits)
• Communication & Consumption of Cultural Heritage (20 credits)
• Open Cultures (20 credits)
• Making the Connected World (20 credits)
• Maps, Apps & the GeoWeb: Introduction to the Spatial Humanities (20 credits)
• Internship: Digital Humanities in the Workplace (20 credits)
• Management for Digital Content Industries (20 credits)
• Metadata Theory & Practice (20 credits)
• Digital Media, Digital Marketing (20 credits)
• Digital Asset & Media Technologies in Practice (20 credits)
• Digital Asset & Media Management in the Broadcast Media (20 credits)
• Crowds & Clouds: Digital Ecosystems (20 credits)
• Digital Culture & Political Protest (20 credits)
• The Social Life of Big Data (20 credits)
• Other master's modules offered in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, subject to approvals

If you are a part-time student, you will take Introduction to Digital Humanities in your first year, and your dissertation in your second.

King's College London reviews the modules offered on a regular basis to provide up-to-date, innovative and relevant programmes of study.

Fees:

• Full time overseas fees:

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