Learn Digital Humanities: MA in Digital Humanities

Digital Humanities is a growing teaching and research specialism internationally, and a dynamic emerging discipline. In Ireland, NUI Maynooth is the only university to offer an undergraduate module on Humanities Computing and is the first to introduce an MA in Digital Humanities which will provide a key bridge between undergraduate qualifications and postgraduate attainment.

The introduction of an MA in Digital Humanities is designed to fill an identified gap in current educational and professional provision, one which An Foras Feasa is uniquely positioned to fill. It is designed for graduates both in the Humanities and in the Computing Sciences, integrating the needs, practices and challenges of humanities research with new methodologies, theories and practices in Information Communications Technologies. The programme will be of benefit to students wishing to embark in such careers as archivists and librarians, software engineers, or educators; to existing practitioners in all of these fields who seek further professional development; and to students planning doctoral projects in the Humanities or Computer Science which require a digital humanities or humanities computing dimension.

The MA programme includes modules which will be of benefit to PhD students in other departments of the Faculty of Arts, seeking specialist, advanced digital humanities training as part of their structured Phd programmes. It is envisaged, for example, that modules such as AFF606 (Texts and Textuality) or AFF609 (Creating Digital Humanities Artefacts) may be taken by doctoral students in the School of Celtic Studies, working on digital editions of texts or digital artefacts. Module AFF603 'Modeling Humanities Data' has many potential applications to doctoral history projects, and builds on many years of collaborative work between An Foras Feasa and colleagues in the Department of History.