Master in Digital Heritage and Landscape Archaeology
Aglantzia, Cyprus
DURATION
3 Semesters
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
31 Mar 2025
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 5,125
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
The Master’s programme Digital Heritage and Landscape Archaeology of the University of Cyprus is a unique postgraduate programme in the area of the E. Mediterranean that offers a concrete interdisciplinary academic course platform dealing with the application of spatial technologies and GeoInformatics in the wider domain of Digital Humanities. The programme will act as an interface between New Technologies and the Humanities, exposing students to the latest spatial technological developments, providing hands-on training on different instrumentation and software, promoting a critical perspective of their application in terms of addressing archaeological- and historical-oriented questions and opening a dialogue between different disciplines.
The particular knowledge and skills will equip students to deal successfully with the existing challenging conditions of the competitive job market in the humanities and provide them with a solid base of knowledge to continue their research at an even more advanced level.
The Master’s programme Digital Heritage and Landscape Archaeology contests the mainstream of the traditional graduate studies in the Humanities and it is targeting the following objectives:
- Open a dialogue and create a concrete platform of collaboration between the technological and humanities disciplines.
- Develop a dynamic environment of theoretical and practical training of highly qualified students.
- Provide synergies between research, museums, academia, and public and private agencies, where students will be able to apply their knowledge and carry out their research.
- Offer an international educational setting, where students and researchers will interact productively and enhance the level of the research.
- Create a new generation of Archaeologists and Historians that can deal with the current trends of geospatial technologies and geoinformation systems.
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Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Postgraduate Study Scholarships for International Students at the University of Cyprus
Since its establishment in 1989, the University of Cyprus (UCY) has earned a strong reputation domestically, regionally, and internationally, and it has earned a prominent place in World University Rankings. Its focus on academic excellence, as well as research and teaching, is widely recognized. UCY, in line with its internationalization strategy and commitment to excellence in teaching and learning, offers a number of scholarships to qualified international candidates in the following interesting and specialized postgraduate programs:
- Master in Business Economics (total tuition fee: 10.000 euros)
- Master in Economic Analysis (total tuition fee: 5.125 euros) or PhD in Economics (total tuition fee: 4.000 euros for Master’s holders)
- Master in Artificial Intelligence (total tuition fee: 5.125 euros)
- Master in Teaching French as a Foreign Language (total tuition fee: 5.125 euros)
The scholarships will be awarded in the form of a deduction from the total amount of tuition fees of the selected postgraduate program. Candidates must meet the academic criteria and adhere to the admission requirements of the specific study program.
UCY is currently accepting online applications for admission in September 2024. The deadline for applications for the above-mentioned postgraduate programs is 14th June 2024, except for the Master in Artificial Intelligence, which has a deadline of 31st May 2024.
Curriculum
Course per Semester
Semester 1
- ARC 653 Introduction to GIS Technologies in Archaeology 10
- ARC 670 Applications of Geoinformatics in Archaeology 10
- Restricted Elective Selection from a List of Courses 10
Semester 2
- ARC 671 Computational and Analytic Techniques in the Humanities and Social Sciences 10
- ARC 673 Geospatial Analysis and Modelling in GIS (GIS II) 10
- ARC 699 Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities 10
Semester 3
- ARC 680 MA Thesis 20
- Restricted Elective Selection from a List of Courses 10
Program Outcome
Through the specific graduate programme, students will be able to:
- Comprehend the relation between environment, climate and anthropogenic activities of the past with emphasis on the settlement patterns and the exploitation of environmental resources.
- Obtain state-of-the-art skills that can be used in both field campaigns and laboratory analysis of surface survey and excavation results.
- Understand how the different spatial analysis tools operate to address questions related to the habitation patterns and the intra and inter-spatial distribution of finds.
- Acquire the knowledge of creation of maps (distribution of finds, geophysical measurements, geological and topographic maps, environmental maps, etc.) and comprehend the different spatial statistic algorithms to analyze them.
- Familiarize themselves with the actual research questions and take a critical stand on the statistical and spatial statistical results.
- Obtain practical hands-on training in software (GIS, network analysis, statistical analysis, mapping, etc.) and instrumentation/hardware (geophysical instruments, drones, cameras, GPS, etc.) that will make them competitive in their future profession (academia, cultural resources management, practical archaeology, etc.) and boost their career opportunities.