Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 1 Year Full-time 2 Years Part-time
Throughout the course, you'll learn about and receive skills training in areas including digital text and data analytics, the use, design and evaluation of digitally-created texts, objects and assets , and the social and ethical dimensions of AI, digital media and adjacent technologies. You'll develop your skills in problem-solving, collaboration, and critical and creative thinking, and gain experience in working with digital materials, such as digitized manuscripts, metadata for heritage collections, and born-digital literature. The course cultivates practical skills specific to digital disciplines, including data analysis and visualization, programming languages, and associated hardware e.g. 3D printing, grounded in a humanities approach to culture, texts and creativity.
We encourage critical debate around current issues and topics and promote innovation in communication, practice and problem solving. You'll acquire vital skills for modern workplaces and emergent sectors in the creative industries, data management, digital marketing, heritage and cultural curation, communications, and publishing, as well as preparing you for further postgraduate research in digital humanities.
You’ll 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.
We will also consider applicants with relevant experience, an interest in literary studies, or coming from an area of expertise to which English literature is complementary.
We welcome applicants from a diverse range of subject disciplines so please do not hesitate to apply if your subject is not listed.
All applicants will be required to respond to the questions in the supporting statement section of the online application form to explain why you wish to study this particular course and your career plans. Relevant professional experience may also be considered. We may request additional documentation to inform our decision.
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Careers available to graduates of the course include: text and data analysts; data scientists; archivist and library roles; market researchers; marketing executives; multimedia specialists; human-computer interaction and UX researchers; website content managers; software testers; project managers and administrators in arts, heritage and cultural sectors; and academic researcher e.g. PhD.
Compulsory modules
Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)
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