MA Digital Humanities and Culture gives you specialist training and knowledge to create, analyse and manage digital texts and media, to understand and critically appraise cultural data and artefacts, and to explore the impact and future potential of artificial intelligence, digital tools and media in diverse contexts. With the opportunity to work with the university’s unique historical and cultural collections at the Brotherton Library, you will develop a specialist understanding of the practical, theoretical and ethical dimensions of digital research and analytics relevant to the arts, humanities and culture. Delivered by specialists from across the University of Leeds, and supported by the university’s Digital Creativity and Cultures Hub, the course focusses on key and emerging areas relevant to digital technologies and their applications in the creative industries, media professions and fields of humanities research. Topics include: text analytics and corpus linguistics; data analytics and management; digital and scholarly editing; Artificial Intelligence, machine learning and programming languages (i.e. Python); (digital) archival curation; digital literacy and equity; and social media and digital communication. It provides a flexible and tailored postgraduate curriculum, adaptable to your interests and needs.
The course is taught through a combination of small-group classes, one-to-one supervisions, large-group teaching (workshops, lectures), and collaborative and peer-to-peer learning. Problem-based learning is a key part of the course. In the compulsory and optional modules, you have the opportunity to work on short-term projects linked to the archives and collections unique to the University of Leeds, gaining experience and building links with organisations linked to the digital texts and cultures industry and professions. In addition to face-to-face classroom activities, you will have the opportunity to use dedicated technology and learning spaces on campus e.g. HELIX, and benefit from research expertise including the Digital Creativity and Cultures Hub, the School of English’s PlayhouseLab, and the national poetry centre, Poetry@Leeds.
You will encounter a range of assessment types promoting creative, empirical and critical engagement with the course topics. We support you in practice-based and collaborative responses to problems and themes, alongside critical modes of learning. The course culminates in the capstone research project, where you can explore a topic of your choosing. The project may take different formats, subject to approval, including an extended written dissertation, practice-based projects involving the creation of digital objects (e.g. coding, digital editions, metadata), and projects linked to live-briefs from partners within the university or external organisations, where available.
The MA Digital Humanities and Culture at the University of Leeds is a rich and distinctive course, representing the diversity of digital approaches to real-world challenges across the arts and humanities. It provides practical training in digital software and analytic tools, and provides you with advanced levels of digital literacy, criticality and awareness of cultural and social issues; attributes that are vital for professional and academic work and career development.
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
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| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENGL5410M | Exploring Digital Cultures, Texts, and Creativity | 30 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL5411M | Digital Humanities and Culture Research Project | 60 | 1 Oct to 30 Sep (12mth) |
Candidates will be required to study 90 credits from the following optional modules:
Select from 30 to 45 credits from Basket 1:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| COMP5712M | Programming for Data Science | 15 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| DESN5111M | Experiential Practices | 30 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL5413M | Text At Scale: Introducing Corpus Analysis | 15 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL5414M | Text At Scale: Introducing Corpus Analysis | 30 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL5855M | Digital and Scholarly Editing | 30 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| MEDV5153M | Palaeography: Reading Medieval Manuscripts | 30 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Please note that optional modules run subject to enrolments. An optional module may not run if only a low number of students choose it.
Select up to 60 credits from basket 2 AND/OR basket 3
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENGL5012M | TextLab: Analysing Authorship and Style | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5225M | Children's Literature: Language, Discourse and Education | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5412M | Short Form Creative Writing for Digital Audiences | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5837M | Victorian New Media | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Please note that optional modules run subject to enrolments. An optional module may not run if only a low number of students choose it.
Select up to 60 credits from basket 3
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARTF5211M | The Cultural Politics of Artificial Intelligence | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF5256M | Collecting and Curating Popular Culture | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| COMP5840M | Data Mining and Text Analytics | 15 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| MEDV5100M | Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| MODL5051M | Genres across Media Cultures in the Digital Age | 15 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| MODL5700M | Corpora, Data Science and AI | 15 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| PECI5407M | Digital and Intermedial Storytelling | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| PECI5410M | Screenwriting | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Please note that optional modules run subject to enrolments. An optional module may not run if only a low number of students choose it.
Please note: Some modules may required fluency in two or more languages as a pre-requisite for enrolment
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