Master of Arts in Digital Humanities
New York, USA
MA
DURATION
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2026
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: The M.A. in Digital Humanities at The CUNY Graduate Center teaches practical skills and humanistic methods for projects in universities, libraries, museums, and cultural nonprofits. The curriculum covers fundamentals and specialization in digital textuality, data visualization and mapping, and digital pedagogy. Students from history to computer science are welcome. You'll learn mapping, network and text analysis, digital pedagogy tools, and scholarly communication platforms, preparing you for public humanities, digital scholarship, or doctoral study.
Career Outcomes: Graduates work in digital project management, archiving, data visualization, museum technology, digital pedagogy, scholarly communications, research in libraries, cultural organizations, government, nonprofits, and tech.
The M.A. in Digital Humanities cultivates both the practical skills and the humanistic knowledge needed to work on digital humanities-related projects in universities, libraries, museums, and non-profit cultural organizations. The program welcomes students from a variety of academic backgrounds including history, literary studies, art, computer science, philosophy, and music, among others.
Our curriculum introduces students to fundamental principles and methods of the digital humanities and includes specialization in one of three areas: digital textuality, data visualization and mapping, and digital pedagogy. Upon graduation, students will be prepared to work in the private and public sectors, or to pursue doctoral studies in a variety of academic areas.
Digital humanists use a variety of technological tools and platforms to explore humanities subjects. They employ maps to diagram the action that takes place in novels; use network analysis software to explore relations between historical figures; develop tools to deploy in their digital pedagogy; prototype advanced platforms for scholarly communication; study social media and its effects on human expression and coordination; and analyze text and images through computational tools.
