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KU Leuven's Advanced Master of Science in Digital Humanities helps graduates from 

Humanities, Social and Behavioral Sciences

 programs to develop digital competencies that will allow them to add digital dimensions to their own domain expertise. It aims to explicitly link these competencies to research questions, case studies, and applications related to the domain expertise of the students.

Graduates of this program will be able to bring their own domain expertise to a significantly higher level of functionality, using 

. Building both on the expertise they obtained from the program and their prior expertise in Humanities, Social or Behavioral Sciences, graduates will be well placed to open many new digital applications to a much wider community. Moreover, those who wish to move to a professional profile involving more advanced digital competencies, are well prepared to do so.

The master’s program is conceived as a one-year, international, and multidisciplinary advanced master's program (master-after-master). The program is unique in Flanders and one of only a few in Europe. The program is firmly framed in an explicit collaboration between the Faculty of Arts, the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, the Faculty of Social Sciences, and the Faculty of Sciences - Department of Computer Science. As such, it is supported by experts in Digital Humanities applications, who supply research expertise for the program, as well as by experts in digital techniques and tools, who provide a sound technical basis for the students.

Digital Humanities is a young field of research, focused on the use of computational techniques to support research in the Humanities, Social and Behavioral Sciences. One of the key drivers of the field is the recent availability of large digital repositories within many areas of the Humanities, Social and Behavioral Sciences. These repositories offer the prospect of applying computational visualization, querying, and analysis techniques, leading to the discovery of new knowledge and insights. The field also applies new digital techniques to enhance approaches, processes, skills, and methods developed and applied in the Humanities, Social and Behavioral Sciences. This includes the use of digital techniques in instructional sciences, the use of digital games in social sciences, or the use of digital techniques in online publishing.

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The program is organized around a number of clusters of course units. The central clusters are the Application Domains cluster and the Tools for the Digital World cluster. Supporting clusters are the Introductory Digitization Components cluster, the Advanced Digitization Components cluster, and the Management Component. The heart of the research activities is situated in the Master’s thesis.

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EFMD Equis Accredited

AMBA Accredited

AACSB Accredited

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Humanities Studies

Humanities

Digital Humanities

Education

Education Technology

Learning Systems

KU Leuven is the highest-ranked university in Belgium and a top 50 university worldwide. As one of Europe’s oldest universities, KU Leuven boasts a long tradition of ground-breaking research and high-quality education.

Advanced Master of Digital Humanities (Leuven) KU Leuven

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