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Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence

Minor

The Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence minor teaches BA students new ways to analyse and study cultures and languages and provides insight into how digital methods and artificial intelligence (AI) are changing our personal lives and societies. The programme provides an introduction to the critical application of computational methods and thinking in a wide range of humanities and social science subjects including linguistics, literature, history, the arts, religious studies, and media and area studies.

The minor offers two tracks to choose from:

DH track: This track offers a diverse Digital Humanities toolset, including advanced information visualization skills, corpus linguistics, introduction to programming, and digital world building.

Artificial Intelligence track: This track offers a deep dive into the theories and advanced methods, including statistics and machine learning, needed to work with and understand the AI revolution and how it impacts our cultures and societies at large.

A series of core courses in each track provide theoretical discussions of digital media and data as well as hands-on experience of a range of useful tools, such as Python, text analysis, visualization, database management, formal modelling, Wordpress, html and css, and more. Students will develop analytic, communicational and project management skills that have broad applicability and relevance for their future studies and careers. The minor includes a sixth, ‘Capstone’ course (Special Topics in Digital Humanities), in which students design and run a Digital Humanities or AI project related to their own interests under the close supervision of a staff member.

Maximum number of participants: 50

Prospectus number: 5000MDIHN

Class number: 7825

Language: English

Registration: via EduXchange

LEI students 8 May to 15 July 2023

TUD and EUR students 8 May to 31 May 2023

DH Track 30 EC Package

Course EC Semester 1 Semester 2

Semester 1
Hacking the Humanities: An Introduction to Python and Text Mining 5
Digital Media, Culture and Society 5
Information Visualization and the Humanities 5

Semester 2
Digital Text and Data Analysis 5
Exploring the Past in the Digital Present 5
Special Topics in Digital Humanities 5

AI Track 30 EC Package

Course EC Semester 1 Semester 2

Semester 1
Hacking the Humanities: An Introduction to Python and Text Mining 5
Digital Media, Culture and Society 5
Statistics for the Humanities (Statistics I) 5

Semester 2
NLP for the Humanities 5
AI and the Humanities 5
Special Topics in Digital Humanities 5

15 EC Package

Students can also opt for a 15 EC package of courses. This will consist of the Hacking the Humanities and two others of the core courses. The Special Topics ‘Capstone’ course is meant for those students who take the 30 EC package.

More Information

Information

  • Extent: 30 EC

  • Intended for: all BA3 students who successfully completed their first year-programme (propedeuse)

  • Language of instruction: English

  • Website: Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities

  • Programme Coordinator: Prof. dr. L.C.J. Barbiers Coordinator of Studies

  • For more information: Minors in English

  • Board of Examiners: Linguistics

  • Registration:
    LEI students 8 May to 15 July 2023
    TUD and EUR students 8 May to 31 May 2023
    Register for the minor activity via EduXchange (applies to all students)
    From July, register separately for the courses via MyStudymap (only applies to LEI students).

Remarks

Students can also opt for a 15 EC package of courses. This will consist of the Hacking the Humanities and two others of the core courses. The Special Topics ‘Capstone’ course is meant for those students who take the 30 EC package.

Faculty wide electives

These courses are all elective courses, and are open for all students of the Humanities (if there is space), and not only for those students following the Digital Humanities Minor. If you are unable to register via uSis successfully, please contact the DH Study Coordinator for assistance: stuco-digitalhumanities@hum.leidenuniv.nl

Course EC Semester 1 Semester 2
Statistics for the Humanities (Statistics I) 5
Introduction to Experimental Methods for the Humanities 5
Digital Media, Culture and Society 5
Digital Storytelling for the Humanities 5
Digital Text and Data Analysis 5
AI and the Humanities 5