Thematically, we divide our Digital Humanities (DH) programme into three areas: Digital Humanities Basics, Digital Humanities Methods and Digital Humanities Models.

Digital Humanities Basics

The Digital Humanities foundation courses offer an initial insight into the Digital Humanities as a field of research and an overview of the computer-based methods used in the Digital Humanities. Students learn to categorise, evaluate and use these technologies in the context of cultural studies issues.

Courses and Lectures

• Digital Humanities I: Introduction to the Digital Humanities
• Digital Humanities II: Information technology and theoretical foundations of the DH

Digital humanities methods

In practice-oriented courses, students learn how to use digitisation technologies for various media (e.g. books, manuscripts, images, historical artefacts), how to describe and document them digitally using metadata and other indexing methods, and how to make them accessible online. In addition, students are given an insight into the computer-aided analysis and processing of data and information in a cultural studies context. Finally, students learn to analyse and critically reflect on the effects of a digital culture and environment on cultural studies and society

Courses and Lectures

• Digitisation of cultural heritage
• Computer-aided information analysis and processing
• Knowledge communication in the digital age

Digital Humanities models

The foundations of modelling and designing digital information spaces are developed in practice-oriented courses to expand the skills already acquired in the foundation module at the interface between cultural studies and computer science. In addition, students learn to analyse the digital knowledge cultures of the networked society of the 21st century in a critically reflective manner.

Courses and Lectures

• Modelling cultural science data and information
• Digital knowledge cultures