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Overview
The MA in Digital Humanities at King’s College London is an interdisciplinary course designed for students who want to explore how digital innovation is reshaping culture, research, and society. As technology and artificial intelligence continues to transform the ways we create, interpret, and engage with the humanities, this programme equips students with both the technical expertise and the critical perspective necessary to thrive at the intersection of computing and humanistic inquiry.
The MA in Digital Humanities builds on over two decades of pioneering work at King’s College London. Rooted in one of the oldest and largest Digital Humanities departments in the world, the course continues to evolve in response to the rapid transformations in technology and society. Drawing on King’s world-leading expertise, including the Computational Humanities Research group, the MA programme in Digital Humanities integrates emerging methods and debates into its curriculum, ensuring students engage with the most current developments in areas such as natural language processing, geo-analytics, cultural heritage, music computing, and computational creativity.
Key benefits
- Master how to scope, build and critique digital projects across the arts, humanities, and cultural sectors..
- Graduate with Python programming skills that are highly desirable beyond academia.
- Develop a broad understanding of the most important applications of digital methods and technologies.
- Learn from a team of multidisciplinary academics with expertise in data-driven research, natural language processing, web technologies, digital publishing, digital cultural heritage, coding, open software, content creation, and the Geoweb.
- Join a Digital Humanities Department that’s the largest in the UK and a global leader in researching digital methods and culture.
Course essentials
Throughout this Digital Humanities MA, you’ll develop a range of key skills, including research methods, data management, content design and production, leadership and collaboration, theoretical thinking and writing, and technical skills like data science and programming, all grounded in a humanities perspective.
You’ll start by exploring digital methods for studying human culture, analysing how technology and AI shape the creation, sharing, and interpretation of knowledge. You’ll also learn to critically assess digital resources and infrastructures. This compulsory module will also give you your first taste of working with digital tools. In the second core Digital Humanities MA module, you’ll consider how to apply digital and computational methods to specific use cases in academic, cultural, and commercial spheres.
You will explore how Digital Humanities applies computational techniques to analyse and interpret diverse data sources, including text, music, images, and spatial information, using methods such as text mining, natural language processing, and geospatial analysis.
You’ll complement the core modules by acquiring foundational Python programming skills and developing a conceptual understanding of coding as a tool for digital research. As part of this module, you will gain the necessary tools to apply basic programming to research challenges in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and beyond.
This will be practised by producing your own coding-driven project, which you can include in your graduate portfolio. Previous students have used geospatial tools to map the evolution of Cantonese, used Python to see the language differences between male and female characters in Disney Princess films, and analysed what politicians tweeted during the Coronavirus outbreak in the UK. Thanks to various optional modules, you can choose how to focus your studies. You could learn more about socio-technical methods and technologies, data visualisation and information analysis, advanced computational methods, or digital production. You will also get the opportunity to work on your very own research and produce a dissertation.
Key Information
Course type:
Master's
Delivery mode:
In person
Study mode:
Full time / Part time
Duration:
One year full-time, two years part-time, September to September
Credit value:
UK 180/ECTS 90
Application status:
Open
Start date:
September 2026
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