M.Sc. Digital Humanities

Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Digital Humanities at IIT Jodhpur is designed to address developments, implications, and inflections of digital technologies on historical and contemporary culture, and society. To contextualize, disciplinary evolutions of the natural sciences, social sciences, the arts and humanities and allied technologies have converged and diverged over the centuries. The digital scholarship in the social sciences, the arts and humanities are only emerging. One reason for the growth of digitization in the social sciences, the arts and humanities is not an emulation of the natural sciences, rather, discovering meaning in the application of information technology as an aid to fulfil the disciplines’ basic tasks of preserving, reconstructing, transmitting, and interpreting the human record historically and contemporaneously.

Given the above, the primary objective of this program is to orient students in the ways in which the study of the humanities, social sciences, and similar areas have been transformed by the influence of digital technologies and economic compulsions. This confluence of disciplines has redefined the contours of the subject of “humanities”. In the present context, a critical interrogation into the history of digital approaches to the humanities, modes of implementation of digital tools & platforms, issues related to the utilization of big data (through database construction, text markup, informatics, statistical analysis to name a few) are imperatives in contemporary research in Humanities. This interdisciplinary M.Sc program has been tailored to provide such critical insights into the key parameters that are continually influencing and impacting the amalgamation of diverse disciplines, especially digital technologies with humanities that will re-engineer emerging societal structures and behavior.

Objectives

The M.Sc. DH program offers unique opportunities to redraw conventional disciplinary boundaries among the humanities, the social sciences, the arts, technology and engineering, and the natural sciences. Primary objectives of the program include (but are not limited to):

Exploring contested definitions of the digital humanities
Exploring debates about the digital humanities within the emerging field
Beginning to consider why the digital humanities matter beyond the academic field itself
Through hands-on experimentation, trying out various types of digital humanities analysis using heterogeneous datasets, tools, and methods

Learning Outcome

The student will have the ability to:

Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the main field of study and significant in-depth knowledge in some subcategories of the digital humanities
Analyze, assess, and manage complex phenomena, questions, and situations related to the digital humanities as a field of study and work
Describe the prospects and limitations of science and technology in digital humanities, their role in society, and the individual’s responsibility for how they are used

Courses

Foundations of Digital Humanities
AI for Digital Humanities
Principles of Digital Economics
Seminar in Digital Humanities
Programming Techniques
Data Structures and Algorithms
Civilizations, Cultures, and Technologies
Perspectives in Language and Literary Studies
Research Methods in Digital Humanities
Archiving and Databases
Place and Identity in the Digital Age
Social Media Application Development
New Media Studies
Introduction to Cultural Studies
Social Network Analysis
Digital Cinema
Digital Storytelling
Human Factors in Interaction Design
Introduction to Typography
Consumer Culture and Commodities
Special Topics in DH
Introduction to Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality
Sociology of Science and Technology
Gender and Society
Cine Politics under the National Emergency
Art, Aesthetics and the Public
Climate Change and Society
Sociocultural Theories