Digital Humanities is an interdisciplinary field of study located at the intersection of humanities scholarship and computational technologies. Its key purpose is to investigate how digital methodologies can be used to enhance and transform research in the Arts and Social Sciences. It also employs traditional humanistic skills to analyse modern digital artefacts and to scrutinise contemporary digital culture.
This major will help students develop a broad understanding of the historical, cultural, and social aspects of current digital humanities research. It thus addresses the growing demand for graduates well-versed in a combination of humanistic and digital skills and able to work in a variety of professional environments, from cultural and memory institutions, to the emerging job markets of information management and online content delivery.
Relevant Degrees
Requirements
This major requires the completion of 48 units, which must consist of:
18 units from completion of the following course(s):
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| HUMN1001 | Digital Culture: Being Human in the Information Age | 6 |
| HUMN2001 | Digital Humanities: Theories and Projects | 6 |
| HUMN3001 | Digital Humanities: Methods and Practices | 6 |
A maximum of 6 units may come from completion of courses from the following list:
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| ARTV1103 | Animation and Video: The Digital Workspace | 6 |
| COMP1040 | The Craft of Computing | 6 |
| COMP1100 | Introduction to Programming and Algorithms | 6 |
| COMP1110 | Introduction to Software Systems | 6 |
| COMP1710 | Web Development and Design | 6 |
| COMP1720 | Art and Interaction in New Media | 6 |
| VCUG1001 | The Art of Computing | 6 |
A minimum of 24 units must come from completion of courses from the following list:
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| ANTH2128 | Media and Modernity | 6 |
| ANTH3015 | Introduction to Visual Anthropology | 6 |
| ARTV2018 | Cyberculture | 6 |
| ARTV2615 | Animation: Creative Possibilities | 6 |
| ARTV2616 | Animation: Creative Project Research and Development | 6 |
| ARTV2617 | Video: Creative Possibilities | 6 |
| ARTV2618 | Video: Creative Project Research and Development | 6 |
| ARTV2619 | Digital Compositing: Creative Possibilities | 6 |
| ARTV2620 | Digital Compositing: Creative Project Research and Development | 6 |
| COMP2300 | Introduction to Computer Systems | 6 |
| COMP2400 | Relational Databases | 6 |
| COMP2410 | Networked Information Systems | 6 |
| COMP2610 | Information Theory | 6 |
| COMP2620 | Logic | 6 |
| COMP3600 | Algorithms | 6 |
| COMP3630 | Theory of Computation | 6 |
| ENGL3008 | Introduction to Literary Theory | 6 |
| ENGL2086 | Literature in the Digital Age: Theories, Texts, Methods | 6 |
| GEND3001 | Posthuman Bodies | 6 |
| HIST2237 | Digital History, Digital Heritage: the past in a digital present | 6 |
| HUMN2002 | Gutenberg to Google: Histories of Information | 6 |
| LING2023 | Dictionaries and Dictionary-Making | 6 |
| MUSI3309 | Music and Digital Media | 6 |
| SOCY2166 | Social Science of the Internet | 6 |
| SOCY2053 | Imagining the Future: The Social Origins of Utopias and Science Fiction | 6 |
