Digital Humanities modules
Why should you take Digital Humanities modules as part of your MA?
Digital Humanities is new a discipline born from the intersection of humanities scholarship and computational technologies. Its key purpose is to investigate how digital methodologies can be used to enhance research in disciplines such as History, Literature, Languages, Art History, Music, Cultural Studies and many others. Digital Humanities has a very strong practical component as it includes the concrete creation of digital resources for the study of specific disciplines, while at the same time having a strongly theoretical basis.
Digital Humanities methodologies have been used in many outstanding recent research projects such as, for instance, Fine Rolls of Henry III, Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England, and Electronic Sawyer, among many others.
A module in Digital Humanities will help you:
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To develop a critical understanding of digital technologies and research in historical disciplines.
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To teach a set of practical computational skills which enable the creation of digital resources and which can also open up exciting professional perspectives.
Digital Humanities modules
All Digital Humanities modules are taught in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London, one of the biggest and most prestigious research and teaching centres in the world. The following modules will be on offer in 2011-12:
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7AAVMHIS Digital Resources for Historial Studies - This module will provide you with tools to enable a critical evaluation of digital resources for historical studies as well as having a strong practical component, including labs working on computers to apply the tools to example situations.
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7AAV7004 Material Culture of the Book - This module will explore the issues and the potentialities of digital representation of the materiality of books and in general written documents from scrolls, early manuscripts up to printed volumes.
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7AAVMDAT Structured Data in the Digital Humanities - This module will give a practical introduction to Database modeling and creation, allowing to understand the technologies at the base of projects such as the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
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7AAVDH06 Advanced Text Technologies - This module will introduce students to XML and the Text Encoding Initiative, the most pervasive technology in Digital Humanities and at the base of projects such as Fine Rolls of Henry III.
For a full list of Digital Humanities modules, please see: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/study/pgt/madh/index.aspx