Digital Humanities and Culture MA

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.

Students need a bachelor degree with a 2:1 (hons) or equivalent qualification, preferably in an English related degree specialising in one of the following subjects:

English literatures, English language, World literatures, History, Creative writing, Journalism, Publishing, Modern languages or a related Humanities and Arts subject.