OPEN DAY Welcome to your future!
Text Sciences and Culture Enhancement in the Digital Age Master degree
DATE December 13, 2023
(LM-43) Why an MA in digital humanities?
Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures as a Department of Excellence in Translation and Digital Humanities (MA’s programme in DH)
We live in a digital age where it is crucial to develop an interaction between the traditions of high quality academic studies focusing on linguistics, literature, history, philology, visual arts and cultural heritage and the demands of today's information society
DHs are the Back to the Future of scientific research: by generating new applications and new models for traditional knowledge, DHs enable revolutionary and transdisciplinary scientific research
DH at UniBg Among the various foci of the Digital Humanities degree programmes existing in Italy, (literary, linguistic, cultural-archaeological, historical, psychological, geographical-anthropological, socio-legal, etc.), we prefer the linguistic-literary focus with its implications for methodology and textual analysis with digital capabilities on the one hand, and for cultural theory and criticism on the other. Our proposal is different from the rest of the national educational offer, and is oriented towards the trends of the international community (universities, associations, international congresses).
DH at UniBg Foreign universities • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Cambridge (UK), Oxford (UK), Imperial College London (UK), Stanford (US), Harvard (US), Lancaster (UK) MIT (US), Caltech (US), Universidad Complutense de Madrid (ES), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - ETH (Switz), École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne - EPFL (Switz), Riga Technical University (Latvia) National University of Singapore (Singapore)
Associations • AIUCD (Associazione Informatica Umanistica e Cultura Digitale), • EADH (European Association for Digital Humanities) • ADHO (Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations). International conferences • ACL 2022 e precedenti (Annual Meeting Computational Linguistics); • ADHO (Alliance of Digital Humanities Organization) 2017-2022 conferences • (University of Tokyo 2022; University of Ottawa 2020; Utrecht 2019; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 2018; Montreal 2017
Enhancing skills The degree programme in Text Sciences and Cultural Enhancement in the Digital Age combines -
the knowledge of humanities scholars
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the scientific and technological knowledge of information technology. F (AI, IT, statistics, etc).
for the development of critical thinking in the digital age
Enhancing skills With the degree in Text Sciences and Cultural Enhancement in the Digital Age, you can: • acquire transversal skills • develop specific technical knowledge to operate in a working world increasingly influenced by digitalisation • The programme develops diverse skills in the international labour market and responds to the urgent demand for graduate specialists in the humanities with a technical specialisation that only a degree in Digital Humanities can offer.
Educational path computer science and technical disciplines culturalhistorical disciplines
linguistic, literary philological disciplines
ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE divided into 2 ROUTES
Digital text science, multimodal translation, transcoding Valorisation and digital management of cultural productions
Educational path • Bilingual curricula and Internationalised course • Possibility of creating cooperations and dual degrees with international universities (visiting lecturers) • Distance Teaching (20% of the MA modules)
Study plan SECOND YEAR
FIRST YEAR Denomination
Teaching units
Information Information Technology technology for DH Digital Humanities Digital Digital linguistics linguistics and Digital Philology in the philology information society
Public history Open Data and knowledge and knowledge society society Law Digital innovation for DH
17701-EN1
ING-INF/05
17701-EN2 ING-INF/05 17702-MOD1 L-LIN/01
Artificial intelligence for DH Machine based reading and digital methodology
ETCS 12
12
17702-MOD2 L-FIL-LET/08 17703-EN1
M-DEA/01
Public History 17703-EN2 M-STO/04 Law and intellectual property in the information society 17704 IUS/01 Theory and techniques of web projects 93173-MOD2 ING-INF/05
Digital research methodologies Visual Culture and Digital 1 Mediascape Machine based reading and Digital digital methodology research methodologies Geotracking and webmapping 2 for the Humanities Digital research methodologies 3
Teaching SCIENTIFIC unit code SECTORS
17705-EN2
ING-INF/05
17706-EN1
INF/01
17706-EN2
L-ART/06
17706-EN1
INF/01
17707-EN2
M-GGR/01
Machine based reading and digital methodology
17706-EN1
INF/01
Social media and digital storytelling (CIE)
17708-EN2
SPS/08
12 6 12
Teaching units Project (research) management Text mining and analysis (in the humanities)
Teaching SCIENTIFIC unit code SECTORS 17722-ENG ING-IND/35 17711-ENG SECS-S/03
ETCS 3 6
Digital text science, multimodal translation, transcoding
Sustainability in Data Sciences 17710-ENG ING-IND/09 Multimedia digital products 17712-ENG L-ART/06 Visual cultures and social semiotics 17713-ENG L-LIN/12 Digital discourse analysis 17714-ENG L-LIN/12 Comunicazione museale digitale 17715 L-LIN/14 Machine translation and audiovisual products 17716-ENG L-OR/21
6 6 6 6 6 6
Valorisation and digital management of cultural productions 12 cfu (student 's choice)
ICT for Environmental humanities and heritage 17718-ENG M-STO/04 Literary texts in the digital age 17724-ENG L-FIL-LET/14 Seriality and Transmedia studies 17726-ENG L-LIN/10 Free choice modules Workshops (LAB OCR and text recognition) 17728-MOD1 Internships 17728-MOD2 Final dissertation 17717
6 6 6 9 3 3 12
Future jobs • Expert in design, production and exploitation of web resources • Expert in text data processing and analysis • Expert in Public and Digital Humanities, Historian, Scientific and Popular Storyteller • Knowledge manager • Expert in electronic publishing • Expert in science and technology applied to cultural heritage • Document Management Systems Manager; Digital Document Registrar • Archival Research Expert, Documentalist, Archival Historian, Digital Curator, Digital Librarian
Teaching approach
Student-centred teaching Objective:
Traineeships and internships
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ENCOURAGE students' critical and creative autonomy TRAIN in interdisciplinarity and teamwork STRENGTHEN communication skills in relation to the learned knowledge RAISE ethical and sustainable awareness of the impact of computerisation processes
museums, media publishing, storytelling, social mapping, digital mapping, use of targeted software for analysing written/oral texts, etc.)
Delivery modalities:
International:
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Alignment courses (crash courses - mutual aid) Face-to-face and teaching from home Flipped classroom Laboratory activities with active student participation
Summer Schools International seminars and workshops ERASMUS+ mobility ErasmusTraineeship
MA qualifying elements Lecture
Software
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UniBg teaching staff
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Antconc
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Visiting professors from qualified foreign universities
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Wordsmith tools
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SketchEngine
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NooJ
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EnglishCorpora
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Voyant
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Atlas.Ti
Facilitated timetable for students and workers Research Network •
Italian Network of Departments of Excellence
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WMatrix
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Agreements and collaborations with national and international universities
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Vertex AI, in Google Cloud Services
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National and international networks
(automatic language processing, video, sounds, images, sentiment analysis)
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AIUCD (Association for Humanities Informatics and Digital Culture) - National
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HARDWARE
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EMOTIV - EpocX
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EADH (European Association for Digital Humanities) European
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(neurolinguistic investigations applied to language, literature and culture)
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ADHO (Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations) at global level - International
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Local, national and international stakeholders of specific interest to the project
N-house facilities Centres and Laboratories •
UniBg ReDH - Research Group on Digital Humanities ( http://redh.unibg.it) being set up - for the creation of research networks, research projects of scientific interest and the dissemination of their results
Contacts For further information Prof. Stefania Maci Co-ordinator stefania.maci@unibg.it
Web sites
www.unibg.it https://dllcs.unibg.it https://ls-tsce.unibg.it/en
Prof. Valentina Piunno Orientation valentina.piunno@unibg.it lingue@unibg.it Find out more
https://ls-tsce.unibg.it/en www.unibg.it
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