Digital Humanities and Culture (Taught)

This programme gives you specialist training and knowledge to understand and critique cultural data and digital content, whether historical, contemporary or of your own creation. You’ll also explore the growing impact and future potential of artificial intelligence, digital tools and media in applicable to professional and academic contexts. It gives you cutting-edge insights into what it means to do arts, humanities and culture in our digital world.

The course draws on the unique breadth of expertise in digital arts, humanities and cultural industries from across the University and offers you the opportunity to work with our unique historical and cultural collections at the Brotherton Library.

During your time at Leeds, you'll have professional and academic development opportunities. You may undertake internal and/or external collaborations with local, national or international partners. You can build your professional and academic networks, and advance your skills for the digital workplace. You will develop your experience of real-world issues around digital media, heritage and culture, giving you demonstrable skills in the use and evaluation of texts and digital objects, as well as their creators and audiences. This may include the use of specialist software for digital text analysis, learning programming languages i.e. Python, gaining familiarity with local and global policy and ethics around technology and AI, and quantitative and qualitative digital research methods.

During the programme, you are encouraged to take a problem-solving approach to your learning and assessments, supported by experienced researchers and tutors. As an MA student you'll be part of the University of Leeds’ vibrant and internationally-recognised research culture in digital humanities.

Why study at Leeds

• Access to University of Leeds’ unique archival and cultural collections alongside the world-class expertise of our academics, librarians and curators.

• Opportunities for collaboration and research with internal and external partners and organisations.

• A flexible research- and practice-led curriculum spanning cutting-edge areas of digital humanities and culture with a unique combination of modules from across the University of Leeds.

• Specialist support from the Digital Cultures and Creativity Hub and the Digital Education team, with access to dedicated campus workspaces and specialist equipment for digital work, such as HELIX.

• We welcome graduates from a variety of backgrounds with the chance to tailor your modules across different areas of expertise.

• Dedicated skills training and hands-on learning opportunities in creating, evaluating and critiquing digital assets and their contexts through in-course and extracurricular workshops and training sessions.