Digital Humanities MA

Key Information

Delivery mode: In person Study mode: Full time, Part time Duration: One year full-time, two years part-time, September to September Credit value (UK/ECTS equivalent): UK 180/ECTS 90 Application status: Open Start date: September 2025

Course Essentials

Throughout this Digital Humanities MA, you’ll develop a range of key skills, including research methods, management, information management, information organisation, content design and production, leadership, theoretical thinking and writing, and technical skills like data science and programming. You’ll begin this Digital Humanities master's by learning about the digital methods and techniques used to study human culture, explore society’s changing relationship with technology and its influence on how we create and share information, and assess digital resources. This compulsory module will also give you your first taste of working with digital tools. In the second core Digital Humanities MA module, you’ll consider how to apply digital theory and practice to specific use cases in academic, cultural, and commercial spheres. You will explore how Digital Humanities can address the challenges of digital diversity, foster public action and engagement, and support professional development. You’ll round off your core Digital Humanities MA modules by picking up Python programming skills and learning how coding works at a conceptual level. As part of this module, you will gain the necessary tools to apply basic programming to research challenges in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and beyond. You’ll also get to engage with professional roles and frameworks commonly used to generate culture-facing digital products. This will be practised by producing your own coding-driven project, which you can include in your graduate portfolio. Previous students have used geospatial tools to map the evolution of Cantonese, used Python to see the language differences between male and female characters in Disney Princess films, and analysed what politicians tweeted during the Coronavirus outbreak in the UK. Thanks to various optional modules, you can choose how to focus your studies. You could learn more about socio-technical methods and technologies, data and information analysis, or digital production. You will also get the opportunity to work on your very own research and produce a dissertation.

Base Campus

• Strand Campus: Located on the north bank of the River Thames, the Strand Campus houses King's College London's arts and sciences faculties.

Regulating Bodies

• King's is regulated by the Office for Students

Entry Requirements

UK Applicants

• Standard requirements: A minimum 2:1 undergraduate Bachelor’s (honours) degree
• Programme-Specific Requirements: Bachelor’s degree with 2:1 honours valid in any discipline and/or substantial work experience involving the design, creation or use of digital media and resources. No prior computing experience is required beside basic digital literacy: email, web browsing and word processing.

International Applicants

• Equivalent International qualifications: Select a country to view equivalent qualifications
• English language requirements: English language band B

Teaching & Structure

Teaching Methods

• On this course, we will develop and enhance your awareness and understanding of a range of subjects that are relevant to the digitally mediated study of human culture, including:
  • How we model human culture using computers and how we can create memory and knowledge environments which facilitate new insights or new ways of working with the human record.
  • How the ethos of openness that the internet encourages – open access, open data – influences the knowledge economy.
  • The role of digital culture in changing concepts of authorship, editing and publication.
  • The potential application and limitations of big data techniques to further the study of human culture in an era of information overload.
  • The place of coding in our digital interactions with culture and cultural heritage.

Assessment

• Your performance will be assessed through coursework. Forms of assessment may typically involve essays and project work. Coursework contributes 100% to your final mark.

Structure

• Required modules:
  • Introduction to Digital Humanities 1 (30 credits)
  • Introduction to Digital Humanities 2 (30 credits)
  • Coding and the Humanities (15 credits)
  • Dissertation (60 credits)
• Optional modules:
  • Curating & Preserving Digital Culture (15 credits)
  • Communication & Consumption of Cultural Heritage (15 credits)
  • Digital Storytelling (15 credits)
  • Music and Sound in Digital Societies (15 credits)
  • Artificial Intelligence & Society (15 credits)
  • Web Technologies (15 credits)
  • Global Digital Audiences
  • Digital Innovation (15 credits)
  • Digital Publishing (15 credits)
  • Data Journalism (15 credits)
  • Social Media, Marketing and Platforms (15 credits)
  • Digital Asset and Media Management Technologies In Practice (15 credits)
  • Management for Digital Content Industries (15 credits)
  • Digital Media, Digital Marketing (15 credits)

Careers

Employability

• Graduates of this Digital Humanities master’s are well-placed to pursue various careers. Some have worked in cultural heritage industries, publishing houses, digital media/marketing companies, and other digital strategy positions in London and overseas. Other Digital Humanities MA graduates have continued their careers in the academic and research sector, with some even pursuing PhDs.

Digital Humanities MA Graduate Roles

• Program Manager at Amazon
• Consultant at Salesforce + Vlocity

Fees & Funding

Tuition Fees

• UK: Full time £13,500 per year (2025/26), Part time £6,750 per year (2025/26)
• International: Full time £33,600 per year (2025/26), Part time £16,800 per year (2025/26)

Deposit

• Home deposit: £500
• International deposit: £2000

Additional Costs

• Books
• Clothing for optional course related events and competitions
• Library fees and fines
• Personal photocopies
• Printing course handouts
• Society membership fees
• Stationery
• Travel costs for travel around London and between campuses
• Graduation costs

Funding

• To find out more about bursaries, scholarships, grants, tuition fees, living expenses, student loans, and other financial help available at King's please visit the Fees and Funding section.