Digital Tools for Premodern Studies

The MA in Digital Tools for Premodern Studies is designed for students wishing to gain a deeper knowledge of the humanities and apply computational methods in their research and teaching. Students study the creation, transmission, preservation, and transformation of knowledge across time and culture from Antiquity to the Renaissance and the early modern period using computerized techniques.

Program Outcomes

As a graduate student in the Digital Tools for Premodern Studies master's program, you will gain a broad interdisciplinary perspective of the humanities while developing a research portfolio in hands-on classes and labs. By the end of your studies, you will have acquired familiarity with advanced research in the humanities and a range of computerized methods for data collection, formatting, analysis, annotation, and display.

Many graduates have gone on to attend PhD programs and pursue careers in academia, while others have gone on to work in the fields of publishing, media, and technology.