The Digital Studies M.A. curriculum is tailored for humanities students. Combining technical and humanistic courses, our M.A. program allows students flexibility to explore interests in a number of areas, including textual analysis, computational linguistics, historical or cultural studies, and digital arts and media.
Course Requirements
- 11 courses over 4 academic quarters
- 7 required courses, 3 elective courses, and 1 capstone project course.
- At least one of the elective courses must have a digital component; the other two electives can be in any department of the humanities or humanistic social sciences.
Course Sequence
Summer Quarter
- Introduction to Computer Programming
- Basic Mathematics and Statistics
Autumn Quarter
- Data Analysis for Linguistic, Cultural, and Historical Research
- Data Management for Linguistic, Cultural, and Historical Research
- Elective course
Winter
- Data Publication for Linguistic, Cultural, and Historical Research
- Natural Language Processing
- Issues in Digital Studies of Language, Culture, and History
Spring
- M.A. project preparation
- Elective course
- Elective course