Master Digital Humanities

This master's degree programme aims to develop professionals ready to enter fields relating to humanities and IT, and specifically their application in the field of Digital Humanities, the role and methodology for which consist in conceiving new ways of conducting research and teaching students, and in producing cultural events and activities within the international framework established by the current Next Generation EU 2021-2024, one of the pillars of which is digital transformation.

The graduate programme in Digital Humanities is therefore geared towards those having a baseline of knowledge, understanding, and acumen in the fields of history, archiving, library management, philology, linguistics, philosophy, information technology, amongst other fields. The programme is intended for those seeking to build capacity and facilitate access to sources of knowledge and learning (documents, codicils, print materials, collections of letters, libraries, archives, museums, special collections) by marshalling the most advanced programming and digital communication tools available.

This goal of the Digital Humanities programmes is to provide, beyond a specific technical skill-set and familiarity with the canon, a new approach in the field of humanities coupled with a novel application of information technology. This new approach, which is at once open, visionary, and multi-disciplinary, makes it possible to spark a dialogue between diverse but related disciplines, including library management and archiving, palaeography, research methodology for history, literature, philology, IT, and the law, denoted by language registers that must communicate with one another; to allow for research, in the broadest sense of the word, to be conducted in a manner that embraces the infinite avenues of exploration and interaction available through analogue and virtual resources, including the transversal approach using Big Data in the humanities.