MPhil in Digital Humanities

University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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# 2QS Subject Rankings

9 monthsProgram duration

45,829 GBPTuition Fee/year

04 Jan, 2024Application Deadline

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Program overview

Main Subject

English Language and Literature

Degree

MPhil

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

The MPhil in Digital Humanities is directed by Cambridge Digital Humanities, a research centre with links across a wide range of faculties and units at Cambridge. The course is administered by the Faculty of English and runs from October to June.
This exciting MPhil explores the ways in which the humanities engage with digital futures, digital research, and digital cultures, as questions arise around the ethics of automation, algorithmic analysis, privacy/surveillance, virtual cultures, data sharing, intelligent agency and creativity, archival justice and digital histories, collections and heritage issues.
The course gives students critical/theoretical orientations and delivers a structured form of engagement with digital methods, tools, and approaches while enabling flexibility in terms of specialism. Students may come from multiple disciplines and the course caters to different skill levels in DH methods. Students take two broad core courses – Digital Humanities Approaches and Methods, and Data and Algorithmic Analysis – and follow two courses from a basket of more specialist options. The course is assessed through shorter essays and a year-long dissertation or portfolio project.
This course aims:

to give students a structured form of engagement with digital methods, tools, approaches and critical/theoretical orientations. To expand the humanities offering at taught post-graduate level at Cambridge by offering a route for cross-disciplinary engagement and the development of new skills and knowledges for a cohort spanning humanities areas as broadly conceived. The course responds to the growth of the field of Digital Humanities both as a research area and as a teaching location;
to enable humanities/social science trained students to develop the critical literacy and practical skills and knowledges to understand and engage with digital materials and digital methods for the study of matters relevant to the humanities; and
to respond to the need for the humanities to grapple with emerging forms, practices, and social formations shaped in a digital age.

The course will benefit:

students seeking to stay with the field of DH at doctoral level and beyond – by enabling them to hone their critical and methodological skills, develop new approaches and test them out, and specialise;
students who will take their learning back into home disciplines – by giving them the critical and practical digital literacy to inform future research at doctoral level and beyond; and
students entering other careers – in GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives and museums), creative industries, digital media industries, media arts – by giving them the critical perspectives, practical digital literacies, and methodological insights to pursue these pathways.

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Program overview

Main Subject

English Language and Literature

Degree

MPhil

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

to give students a structured form of engagement with digital methods, tools, approaches and critical/theoretical orientations. To expand the humanities offering at taught post-graduate level at Cambridge by offering a route for cross-disciplinary engagement and the development of new skills and knowledges for a cohort spanning humanities areas as broadly conceived. The course responds to the growth of the field of Digital Humanities both as a research area and as a teaching location;
to enable humanities/social science trained students to develop the critical literacy and practical skills and knowledges to understand and engage with digital materials and digital methods for the study of matters relevant to the humanities; and
to respond to the need for the humanities to grapple with emerging forms, practices, and social formations shaped in a digital age.

The course will benefit:

students seeking to stay with the field of DH at doctoral level and beyond – by enabling them to hone their critical and methodological skills, develop new approaches and test them out, and specialise;
students who will take their learning back into home disciplines – by giving them the critical and practical digital literacy to inform future research at doctoral level and beyond; and
students entering other careers – in GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives and museums), creative industries, digital media industries, media arts – by giving them the critical perspectives, practical digital literacies, and methodological insights to pursue these pathways.

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Admission Requirements

TOEFL

110+

IELTS

7.5+

Cambridge CAE Advanced

193+

Applicants for this course should have achieved a UK Good II.i Honours Degree.

Normally, applicants must have at least a high II.i Honours degree (67 or above) from a UK university or an international equivalent to this.

Application Deadline

04 Jan 2024

Program Duration

9 Months

Starting Month(s)

Oct

Candidates are required to submit references or letter(s) of recommendation for acceptance

Tuition Fee and Scholarships

Domestic Students

Tuition Fee/year

28,459 GBP

Tuition Fee (Out of State)

International Students

Tuition Fee/year

45,829 GBP

Other Expenses

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MPhil in Digital Humanities

University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

# 2QS Subject Rankings

9 monthsProgram duration

45,829 GBPTuition Fee/year

04 Jan, 2024Application Deadline

Program overview

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Program overview

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