MA/MSc in Digital Humanities at UCL

MA/MSc in Digital Humanities at University College London

The Masters degree in Digital Humanities at UCL draws together teaching from a wide range of disciplines, to investigate the application of computational technologies to the arts, humanities, and cultural heritage.
Digital Humanities is an important multidisciplinary field, undertaking research at the intersection of digital technologies and humanities. It aims to produce applications and models that make possible new kinds of research, both in the humanities disciplines and in computer science and its allied technologies. It also studies the impact of these techniques on cultural heritage, memory institutions, libraries, archives and digital culture.
The Centre for Digital Humanities is able to capitalise on UCL's world-leading strength in information studies, computer science, and the arts and humanities. It brings together work being done in many different departments and centres, including the university's library services, museums and collections. The Centre's location in central London, surrounded by the greatest concentration of libraries and professional bodies in Europe, also makes it an ideal base for collaboration with organisations outside UCL, such as museums, galleries, libraries and archives.
The MA/MSc in Digital Humanities is a truly interdisciplinary programme, creating linkages between teaching in the UCL Department of Information Studies and UCL Computer Science, and drawing upon modules offered in different parts of the UCL faculties of Arts and Humanities, Social and Historical Sciences, Engineering Sciences and the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment. The programme will also depend on facilities offered by UCL Library Services, notably Special Collections, and of UCL Museums and Collections, whilst liaising closely with a variety of world-class, London based libraries, archives and museum within the vicinity of UCL.

About the Programme
The MA/MSc will provide research-led teaching delivered by leading scholars, and will include a dissertation/project and placement where students will work on a practical application of digital humanities, either at UCL or in partner institutions. It will allow students who have a background in the humanities to acquire necessarily skills in digital technologies, and will also make it possible for those with a technical background to become informed about scholarly methods in the humanities.
Students take the following four core modules, plus a further four from a wide range of options available from various departments and faculties at UCL. In addition, students write an original dissertation (up to 15,000 words) on a topic of their choice in consultation with their supervisor, and undertake a placement at a related institution where they can apply taught aspects of the programme.

Further information about the programme and the modules offered can be found in the course handbook.
Core Course 1: Digital Resources in the Humanities
Introducing a range of issues involved in the design, creation, management and use of digital resources in the humanities.
Core Course 2: Internet Technologies
Exploring the basic concepts of markup (including Extensible Hypertext Markup Language, XHTML), website structuring and design, and issues involved in generating and delivering online content.
Core Course 3: XML
Providing an overview of Extensible Markup language; giving students the opportunity to practice XML markup techniques, and demonstrating the use of XML in publishing.
Core Course 4: Database Systems
Covering the theory, methods and technologies of relational databases and their development; giving students the ability to develop web facing database systems.

Terms One and Two
A fuller description of all modules listed here can be found in the course handbook.
Core courses (15 credits): Digital Resources in the Humanities, XML, Internet Technologies, Database Systems
Further options include
(subject to meeting course prerequisites and availability): Image
Processing and Graphics, MultiMedia Computing, Interaction Design,
Electronic Publishing, Introduction to Programming and Scripting,
Legal and Social Aspects, Historical Bibliography, Server Technologies and Programming,
Fundamentals of Information Science, Analytical
methods, Numerical Data Analysis, Mapping
Science, IT and GIS, Geographical
Information Systems in Archaeology, Research and Presentation Skills
for Spatial Analysis, Spatial Analysis in Archaeology, Model-Building in Archaeology, Digital
Anthropology, The Anthropology of Games and
Simulation, The Anthropology of Cultural
Heritage and Critical Museology, Applied
Cognitive Science, Design Experience,
Design Practice, Usability
Evaluation Methods, Computational
Synthesis, Embodied and Embedded
Technologies, Digital Ecology,
English Corpus Linguistics.
In addition, one module in a pure humanities discipline may be taken from any of those offered in the faculties of Arts and Humanities, or Social and Historical Studies, subject to the agreement of the module tutor and programme directors.


PLEASE SEE THE UCL WEBSITE FOR FURTHER INFO!
Academic enquiries to Dr Melissa Terras (m.terras@ucl.ac.uk) or Dr Claire Warwick (c.warwick@ucl.ac.uk) 
Admissions enquiries to Mr Ian Evans (ian.evans@ucl.ac.uk) 
Core Teaching staff include:
Melissa Terras (Information Studies)
Claire Warwick (Information Studies)
Simon Mahony (Information Studies)
A variety of other teaching staff from across various departments at UCL will also teach on the course, depending on modules chosen, and the proposed dissertation topic.