University of Pisa

Course Details

Digital humanities

Course Description

The undergraduate degree programme in Digital Humanities prepares students with background knowledge of humanistic disciplines as well as competences in the methods and tools for the digital processing of cultural contents. Within this general framework students acquire the following competences: a. Language and text processing b. Web design and digital publishing c. E-learning content preparation and tutoring

Course Duration

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3year

Career outcomes

Graduates of the programme will be able to demonstrate: - Basic knowledge in linguistics, philology, literature, history, history of art; - professional writing skills; - competences in the theories, methods and tools for digital processing of texts and images; - competences in web design, database design, web programming, multimedia production; - competences in language processing and text encoding; - awareness of technical and legal issues concerning computer security, copyrights, privacy, digital rights management; - the ability to critically evaluate methodologies and technical solutions in relation to specific case studies; - the flexibility to renew their knowledge relying on sound research methodologies, and critical evaluation of sources; - the ability to fluently use, in written and oral form, at least a language of the European Union, besides Italian, with reference to disciplinary lexicons.




Digital humanities University of Pisa