Do you want to be at the forefront of the digital turn in the humanities? The current information revolution opens up exciting perspectives for research and its applications in society.
This Master's track equips you to look at culture, language, history or philosophy through the lens of digital methods.
We are witnessing many exciting new trends in information
technology. The vast amount of digital data that is available
nowadays opens up new research questions and opportunities for real
life applications. This Digital Humanities track offers a
systematic way to incorporate information technology in humanities
research.
It trains students with a humanities background for the growing
number of research and other job opportunities that require
processing of digital information. It reflects on the underlying
theory and the impacts on our culture and society. It offers
courses for collecting, analyzing and visualizing humanities data.
Finally, you will be skilled to work with professional databases,
programming scripts, and statistical tools.
Students who graduated successfully from this programme were able to integrate a humanities perspective with computational methods. For instance, the thesis “Tracing Joyce’s notes for Ulysses” (2017) employed automation strategies for the digital representation and for source-tracing of Joyce’s notebooks. Another example is the thesis “Visualizing trade” (2018), in which an analysis of the Baltic trade in the 18th century was done by using visualization applications on the Sound Toll registers. By exploring visualization as a tool, the student was able to implement a Digital Humanities approach to a historical problem not just to identify patterns and analyze them, but also suggesting new interpretations.
