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Master of Digital Humanities (Leuven)

Master of Science
Digital Humanities is a young field of research, focused on the use of computational techniques to support
research in the Humanities, Social and Behavioral Sciences. One of the key drivers of the field is the recent
availability of large digital repositories within many areas of the Humanities, Social and Behavioral Sciences.
These repositories offer the prospect of applying computational visualization, querying and analysis
techniques, leading to the discovery of new knowledge and insights. The field also applies new digital
techniques to enhance approaches, processes, skills and methods developed and applied in the Humanities,
Key information
Social and Behavioral Sciences. This includes the use of digital techniques in instructional sciences, the use
of digital games in social sciences or the use of digital techniques in on-line publishing. Location
Leuven
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Ects + duration
60 ECTS (1 year full-time)

Educational level
Advanced Master's
Master of Digital Humanities (60 ECTS)
Academic calendar
1st semester: end of September -> end
of January (exams in January)

2nd semester: half of February -> end

Education of June (exams in June)

KU Leuven academic calendar

What is the Master of Digital Humanities all about?
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The Master of Science in Digital Humanities helps graduates from Humanities, Social and Behavioral Sciences Application deadline
programmes to develop digital competencies that will allow them to add digital dimensions to their own domain expertise. It
aims to explicitly link these competencies to research questions, case studies and applications related to the domain 1 March (for non-EEA citizens)
expertise of the students. 1 June (for EEA citizens)

Graduates of this programme will be able to bring their own domain expertise to a significantly higher level of functionality, How to apply
using digital tools and techniques. Building both on the expertise they obtained from the programme and their prior www.kuleuven.be/application
expertise in Humanities, Social or Behavioral Sciences, graduates will be well placed to open many new digital applications
to a much wider community. Moreover, those who wish to move to a professional profile involving more advanced digital Tuition fee 2018-2019
competencies, are well prepared to do so. €1,750 for EEA students and for non-
EEA students
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The programme is organized around a number of clusters of course units. The central clusters are the Application
Domains cluster and the Tools for the Digital World cluster. Supporting clusters are the Introductory Digitization Open days
Components cluster, the Advanced Digitization Components cluster and the Management Component. The heart of the Meet us in Belgium
research activities is situated in the Master’s thesis. Meet us abroad

International and multidisciplinary Brochure

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The master’s programme is conceived as a one year, international and multidisciplinary advanced master programme Request the brochure
(master-after-master). The programme is unique in Flanders and one of only a few in Europe. The programme is firmly
framed in an explicit collaboration between the Faculty of Arts, the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, the Programme website
Faculty of Social Sciences and the Faculty of Sciences - Department of Computer Science. As such, it is supported by Master of Digital Humanities
experts in Digital Humanities applications, who supply research expertise for the programme, as well as by experts in
digital techniques and tools, who provide a sound technical basis for the students.

Application deadline for 2019-2020

1 March 2019 (for non-EEA citizens)

1 June 2019 (for EEA citizens)
KU Leuven uses an online application system. You can submit your application form
via www.kuleuven.be/application. Students with a Flemish degree can consult www.kuleuven.be/inschrijven.

Tuition fee

The current tuition fee is €1,750. The tuition fee for the 2019-2020 academic year will be determined in the spring of 2019.
Please consult the website for the most recent information: www.kuleuven.be/tuitionfees.

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Is this the right programme for me?
Candidates have successfully completed a master’s programme in the Humanities, Social or Behavioral Sciences.
Alternatively, candidates have successfully completed a bachelor’s program in the Humanities, Social or Behavioral
Sciences which has a normal duration of at least 4 years. For candidates with a 4- or 5-year bachelor’s degree we require
that the applicant has obtained excellent academic results.

Admission to the programme is granted on the basis of an application file. A good knowledge of the English language is
required, i.e. a paper-based TOEFL score of at least 600, or equivalent. Other criteria for admission are based on the
applicant’s academic results, his/her motivation and research objectives. Students will only be admitted to the
programme if the teaching staff has the required expertise to guide the student in his/her research objectives. Also,
experience with computers is expected. Only applicants with very good qualifications are admitted to the programme.

Admission requirements

Admission requirements Master of Digital Humanities

General admissions

Career perspectives

Career perspectives
Academically, researchers in the Humanities, Social or Behavioral Science are confronted with the need to apply digital
tools to facilitate and enhance their research. The program enables graduates to enhance their research in the Humanities,
Social or Behavioral Sciences through non-trivial uses of digital tools and techniques. This may include modeling and
querying databases, accessing data, interconnecting and querying web resources, extending tools with scripts to
provide extra functionality, text-encoding and e-publishing, mining repositories, data visualization, analyzing social
networks, adopting, adapting and enhancing e-learning environments, improving usability of human-computer
interaction. As such, graduates are very well placed to take on the challenges that novel research positions require.

Professionally, graduates of the Humanities, Social of Behavioral Sciences enter professional environments where
connecting the company’s business with digital tools and techniques has become standard. In this case as well, the
programme enables its graduates to put to use non-trivial digital techniques in their professional occupations, including e-
media, publishing, arts, history, culture, music, libraries, e-education or interactions for end-user applications.
Thus, graduates who want to pursue a career in the usual sectors for graduates of the Humanities, Social or Behavioral
Sciences will be much better prepared to cope with the digital techniques that are currently applied there.

More generally, graduates of this programme provide society with professionals and researchers who are able to bring
their own domain expertise to a higher level of functionality, using digital tools and techniques. Building both on the
expertise they obtained from the programme and their prior expertise in Humanities, Social or Behavioral Sciences, they
are well placed to take part in opening the digital world to a larger community.

Graduates of this programme who wish to move to a job profile involving more advanced digital competencies, are
prepared to do so and will help to close the gap in an IT-focused labor market. This will require extra training at the
company and aims at positions such as project analysts, project managers, service managers.

Start your career, during your studies

During your bachelor's and master's programme you can already shape your own profile by choosing a certain
specialisation, studying abroad (Erasmus), doing a work placement, or starting your own business.

The Student Career Centre is happy to put you on the right track towards your first work experience. The centre also
coaches you in the search for an interesting job and helps you with job interviews. For students wanting to start their own
business KU Leuven also has Lcie, the KU Leuven community that encourages students with innovative and
entrepreneurial ideas.

Don’t know where to start? The Student Career Centre's databases contain offers for jobs, volunteer work, innovation
projects and student jobs. You can also visit one of the events organised by the Career Centre.

Contact

Programme director
Prof. D. De Schreye
Tel. +32 16 32 75 56
danny.deschreye@kuleuven.be

Administrative Office
Geel Huis
Kasteelpark Arenberg 11 box 2100
3001 HEVERLEE, Belgium
Tel. + 32 16 32 14 01
info.wet@kuleuven.be

Visit the programme's web page

 Objectives

Digitization affects in many ways how future scientists in Humanities and Behavioural Sciences will conduct their research.
Also, graduates from Humanities and Behavioural Sciences programs enter a professional world in which digitization
becomes the standard, be it in publishing, arts, libraries, teaching and many others.

The Master of Science in Digital Humanities program aims to prepare graduates from Humanities and Behavioural
Sciences programs for these challenges. It aims to help such graduates to develop digital competencies that will allow
them to add digital dimensions to their own domain expertise. It aims to explicitly link this knowledge and these
competencies to case studies and applications related to the domain expertise of the students. It will train them to master
information structures and functionalities of data, programming structures and technique to produce scripts for digital
applications, tools for improving access and interactive use of data and the development of new digital applications. It will
train them how to manage projects related to digitization and introduce them to emerging new digital technologies and
their applications.

As an advanced master program (master-after master), it is assumed that the students entering this program have already
achieved the general academic competencies defined for any master's program. Nevertheless, it is also within the aims of
the program to further strengthen these competencies, within the specific context that Digital Humanities offers.

More specifically, graduates understand the basics of Digital Humanities, databases and query languages, scripting
languages, the role of IT in management and of some of the emerging technologies in Digital Humanities. They are able to
formulate research goals, determine trajectories that achieve these goals, collect and select information relevant to achieve
the research goals and interpret collected information on the basis of a critical research attitude. They are able to
communicate scientifically. They are able to model a database and use SQL, to use a scripting language, to apply tools for
Digital Humanities and to study applications in Digital Humanities. They have the attitudes of valuing and fostering
creative, critical and independent thinking, of applying an interdisciplinary and participative approach in innovative
development and of striving towards opening the digital world to a broader society.

Admission requirements

Master of Digital Humanities (Leuven)

In the context of the wellbeing law certain data must be stored for each student and they must be informed timely on the
subject of:

the risks to which the student is exposed during the study programme (practicals, traineeships, master's theses,…)
the associated preventive measures for each risk, such as medical follow-up, personal protective equipment and
instructions.
The risks and preventive measures are collected in the HSE-file for students. Through this link you can consult the HSE-
file. The HSE-file will be used for traineeships and/or master’s theses. For more information about traineeships, we refer to
the following site: traineeship.. For questions, please contact the HSE Department.

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