Study programme: Digital Humanities | Computational Humanities

The subject of Digital Humanities encompasses the application of computer-aided methods and the systematic use of digital resources in the humanities and cultural studies. It is an interdisciplinary subject whose representatives are characterised both by a traditional education in the humanities and cultural studies and by their familiarity with a range of relevant concepts, procedures and standards in computer science. In Germany, these are in particular researchers in computer philology, historical computer science and computational linguistics. Typical fields of work and research include digital editions, quantitative text analysis, visualisation of complex data structures and the theory of digital media.

In Würzburg, Digital Humanities can be studied in a BA programme  and then in an MSc programme, usually as one subject of a double degree programme. Doctorates in Digital Humanities are also supervised. The lecturers on the Digital Humanities degree programmes come from fields like Modern German Literature, German Linguistics, Musicology, History, Classical Philology and Computer Science - in addition to lecturers from archives, libraries and relevant companies.