Master Digital Humanities
2nd level vocational master
A.Y. 2025/2026
Study area
Humanities
Master Coordinator
This master's degree programme aims to develop professionals ready to enter fields relating to humanities and IT, and specifically their application in the field of Digital Humanities, the role and methodology for which consist in conceiving new ways of conducting research and teaching students, and in producing cultural events and activities within the international framework established by the current Next Generation EU 2021-2024, one of the pillars of which is digital transformation.
The graduate programme in Digital Humanities is therefore geared towards those having a baseline of knowledge, understanding, and acumen in the fields of history, archiving, library management, philology, linguistics, philosophy, information technology, amongst other fields. The programme is intended for those seeking to build capacity and facilitate access to sources of knowledge and learning (documents, codicils, print materials, collections of letters, libraries, archives, museums, special collections) by marshalling the most advanced programming and digital communication tools available.
This goal of the Digital Humanities programmes is to provide, beyond a specific technical skill-set and familiarity with the canon, a new approach in the field of humanities coupled with a novel application of information technology. This new approach, which is at once open, visionary, and multi-disciplinary, makes it possible to spark a dialogue between diverse but related disciplines, including library management and archiving, palaeography, research methodology for history, literature, philology, IT, and the law, denoted by language registers that must communicate with one another; to allow for research, in the broadest sense of the word, to be conducted in a manner that embraces the infinite avenues of exploration and interaction available through analogue and virtual resources, including the transversal approach using Big Data in the humanities.
The tuition fee for participants will be euro 3516,00, including the insurance costs.
The graduate programme in Digital Humanities is therefore geared towards those having a baseline of knowledge, understanding, and acumen in the fields of history, archiving, library management, philology, linguistics, philosophy, information technology, amongst other fields. The programme is intended for those seeking to build capacity and facilitate access to sources of knowledge and learning (documents, codicils, print materials, collections of letters, libraries, archives, museums, special collections) by marshalling the most advanced programming and digital communication tools available.
This goal of the Digital Humanities programmes is to provide, beyond a specific technical skill-set and familiarity with the canon, a new approach in the field of humanities coupled with a novel application of information technology. This new approach, which is at once open, visionary, and multi-disciplinary, makes it possible to spark a dialogue between diverse but related disciplines, including library management and archiving, palaeography, research methodology for history, literature, philology, IT, and the law, denoted by language registers that must communicate with one another; to allow for research, in the broadest sense of the word, to be conducted in a manner that embraces the infinite avenues of exploration and interaction available through analogue and virtual resources, including the transversal approach using Big Data in the humanities.
The tuition fee for participants will be euro 3516,00, including the insurance costs.
To be eligible for the programme, candidates must hold a Master's or Single Cycle Degree under Ministerial Decree 270/2004.
The key employment opportunities for the course are available through cultural institutions, in the public administration, archiving, libraries and museum, companies and private-sector entities requiring complex skill-sets, ones that are able to establish a dialogue between IT systems with humanities content, and vice versa.
- For administrative information on admission applications, enrolments, payments, final parchment, contact us online via the InformaStudenti platform > Post-Graduate Category > Master
https://www.unimi.it/it/studiare/servizi-gli-studenti/segreterie-informastudenti - Department of Historical Studies
via Festa del Perdono, 7 - 20122 Milano
https://masterdh.unimi.it/
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Courses list
Open sessions
| Courses or activities | Professor(s) | ECTS | Total hours | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compulsory | ||||
| Cataloguing and Valorization of Museum Heritage | 1 | 16 | Italian | |
| Cms and Search Engine Optimization for Digital Humanities | 2 | 18 | Italian | |
| Copyright and Digital Content Legislation | 2 | 18 | Italian | |
| Data Analysis Techniques and Big Data | 2 | 18 | Italian | |
| Database Management Systems | 2 | 18 | Italian | |
| Digital and Visual History | 3 | 27 | Italian | |
| Digital Archiving | 3 | 27 | Italian | |
| Digital Library and Information Science | 3 | 27 | Italian | |
| Digital Manuscript Studies | 2 | 18 | Italian | |
| Digital Museology and Museography of Material and Immaterial Cultural Heritage | 2 | 18 | Italian | |
| Digitization and Long-Term Preservation of Digital | 1 | 9 | Italian | |
| Final Examination | 3 | Italian | ||
| Foundations, Developments, and Methodologies in Digital Humanities | 3 | 27 | Italian | |
| Generative Ai Tools and Applications | 2 | 18 | Italian | |
| Laboratory: 3d Modeling and Acquisition for Cultural Heritage | 2 | 32 | Italian | |
| Laboratory: Geographic Information System for Cultural Heritage | 2 | 32 | Italian | |
| Laboratory: Python Programming | 2 | 32 | Italian | |
| Laboratory: Textual Languages for Data Representation | 1 | 16 | Italian | |
| Laboratory: Web Languages | 2 | 32 | Italian | |
| Laboratory: Wikimedia Projects for Cultural Heritage | 1 | 16 | Italian | |
| Linked Open Data and Semantic Web | 2 | 18 | Italian | |
| Natural Language Processing (NLP) | 3 | 27 | Italian | |
| Representation and Coding of Multimedia Resources | 2 | 18 | Italian | |
| Training Internship | 10 | 250 | Italian | |
| Virtual Environments and Digital Storytelling | 2 | 18 | Italian | |
Enrolment
Call for applications
The call for applications is being finalized. Please refer to the call, once it is available, for admission test dates and contents, and how to register.
Application for admission: application deadlines will be published shortly.
The call for applications is being finalized