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Master of Digital Humanities and Public Culture
Master of Digital Humanities and Public Culture

Master of Digital Humanities and Public Culture

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  • Level:Master's Degree
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Admission Requirements

Entry requirements

At a minimum, all applicants must meet program-specific academic/non-academic requirements, and English language requirements. Admission to most ANU programs is on a competitive basis. Therefore, meeting all admission requirements does not automatically guarantee entry.

Applicants must present a Bachelor degree or international equivalent with a minimum GPA of 5.0/7.0

English requirements

  • Academic IELTS and IELTS Indicator:  An overall score of 6.5 with a minimum of 6.0 in each component of the test.

  • TOEFL - internet based test : An overall score of 80, with a minimum of 20 in Reading and Writing and 18 in Speaking and Listening.

  • PTE Academic:  An overall score of 64 with a minimum score of 55 in each of the communicative skills.

  • TOEFL - paper based test: A score of 570 with a TWE* score of 4.5.

  • Cambridge CAE Advanced (Post 2015):  An overall score of 176 with a minimum of 169 in all sub-skills.

Course Information

The Master of Digital Humanities and Public Culture enables students to develop high level skills in digital literacy and applied humanities. A flexible structure allows students to learn emerging digital research methods, advanced critical thinking and data analysis. Students gain an understanding of how academic research is applied in broader society and are supported to develop communication skills across traditional and digital platforms aimed at both the academic and public spheres. Students will collaborate with researchers from across the ANU, and have the opportunity to engage with the national cultural institutions, the public and government sector, and international organisations in Canberra.

CRICOS CODE: 088508M

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Program Requirements

The Master of Digital Humanities and Public Culture requires the completion of 96 units, of which:

96 units must come from 6000-level, 7000-level and 8000-level courses

A minimum of 48 units must come from completion of 8000-level courses

The 96 units must consist of:

24 units from completion of Introductory Courses from the following list:

  • ANTH6005   Traditional Australian Indigenous Cultures, Societies and Environment

  • ANTH6009   Culture and Development

  • ARCH6006   The History of Archaeology: Discovering the Past

  • ENGL6033   Post-Colonial Literature

  • HIST6007   Making History

  • HIST6110   Approaches to History

  • HIST6121   Electric Citizens: The Rise of the Modern Media in the United States, 1865-2000

  • LING6001   Introduction to the Study of Language

  • LING6002   Language and Society

  • LING6030   Advanced Academic English

12 units from completion of Research Training courses from the following list:

  • HUMN6001   Digital Humanities: Theories and Projects

  • HUMN6003   Digital Humanities: Methods and Practices

  • HUMN8026   Writing in the Public Sphere

  • HUMN8028   Humanities in the Public and Digital Sphere

  • HUMN8029   Debates and Issues in the Humanities

  • HUMN8032   Writing for the Research Process

12 units from completion of Research Experience courses from the following list:

  • ANIP6503   Australian National Internships Program Internship A (Graduate)

  • ANIP6505   Australian National Internships Program B

  • HUMN8012   Writing, World Histories and Lives: Research Project

  • HUMN8030   Digital Humanities and Public Culture Research Project

  • HUMN8031   Digital Humanities and Public Culture Research Project (Advanced)

  • 24 units from completion of Discipline Focus courses from the following list:

  • ARCH8104   An Introduction to Cultural and Environmental Heritage

  • ARTH6162   Cyberculture

  • ARTV6000   Animation

  • ARTV6003   Video Art

  • ARTV6059   Introduction to Virtual Reality

  • ASIA8046   Maps and Mapping for the Social Sciences and Humanities

  • COMP6240   Relational Databases

  • COMP6261   Information Theory

  • COMP6262   Logic

  • COMP6300   Computer Organisation and Program Execution

  • COMP6340   Networked Information Systems

  • COMP6466   Algorithms

  • COMP6490   Document Analysis

  • COMP6700   Introductory Programming

  • COMP6710   Structured Programming

  • COMP6720   Art and Interaction in New Media

  • COMP6780   Web Development and Design

  • DESN6001   Digital Form and Fabrication

  • DESN6002   Foundations of Creative Code

  • DESN6003   Creative Data Visualisation: Representing Data in Visual and Material Form

  • DESN6004   Dynamic Design and Generative Systems

  • DESN6006   Front-End Web: Crafting Online Experience

  • ENGL6086   Literature in the Digital Age: Theories, Texts, Methods

  • GEND6021   Trauma, Memory and Culture

  • GEND6501   Posthuman bodies

  • HIST6234   The Reach of History: Presenting the past in the public domain

  • HIST6236   Debating Anzac

  • HIST6237   Digital History, Digital Heritage

  • HIST8011   Biography and History

  • HUMN6001   Digital Humanities: Theories and Projects

  • HUMN6002   Gutenberg to Google: Histories of Information

  • HUMN6003   Digital Humanities: Methods and Practices

  • HUMN8001   Interdisciplinary Humanities Research: Methods, Theories and Skills

  • HUMN8019   World Heritage: conserving cultural heritage values

  • HUMN8026   Writing in the Public Sphere

  • HUMN8027   Critical Issues in Heritage and Museum Studies

  • HUMN8033   Tourism, Heritage and Globalization

  • HUMN8036   Who do we think we are? Using Archives and Special Collections

  • LING6023   Dictionaries and Dictionary-Making

  • LING8026   Qualitative Research Methods in Language Studies

  • LING8027   Quantitative Research Methods in Linguistics

  • MUSC8017   Museums and Collections: Key Concepts and Practices

  • MUSI6009   Music and Digital Media

  • SOCR8001   Statistics for Social Scientists

  • SOCR8003   Qualitative Research Analysis

  • SOCR8006   Online Research Methods

  • SOCR8008   Qualitative Social Research

  • SOCR8009   Quantitative Social Research

  • SOCY6066   Social Science of the Internet

24 units from completion of elective courses offered by the ANU

A course used to satisfy the requirements of one list may not be double counted towards satisfying the requirements of another list.

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