M.A. Digital Humanities

What are the digital humanities?

Digital Humanities refers to the combination of humanities issues with digital methods, tools and infrastructures. They open up new approaches to texts, images, objects and data and form an interdisciplinary field of research at the interface of the humanities, cultural studies and computer scientists. In research and teaching, we combine digital methods with questions from the humanities and cultural studies. The aim is to utilise digital technologies to analyse, process and communicate cultural and historical materials. Our projects deal with digital text analysis, digital editions, the annotation and modelling of humanities research data, the visualisation and exploration of complex data sets, the preparation and sustainable provision of research data and the critical reflection of digital methods in the humanities. Thematically, the programme also focuses on gender studies.

Target group

The Master's programme in Digital Humanities is non-consecutive, i.e. it does not build on a corresponding Bachelor's degree, but is aimed specifically at career changers.
The DH Master's programme is aimed at humanities scholars who are interested in strengthening their profile in the field of digital methods and algorithmic-analytical processes and thereby expanding their methodological skills in the humanities. It does not require any knowledge of programming or statistics beyond A-levels.
In order to apply for the Master's degree programme, you must have chosen a humanities subject combination in your Bachelor's or teacher training course . If you have already completed your studies or are about to complete them, please send us your application by 1 July!