Post-Digital Humanities MA

at Coventry University

Why you should study this course
 

• You will be encouraged to use digital media, participatory media, and public spaces to help shape and inspire societal discussions.
• Students studying the MA Post-Digital Humanities course will reflect on how to lead public discourse and disseminate academic ideas to a wider audience.
• You will have the option to apply for a ‘professional experience’ opportunity2, designed to further develop your skills and knowledge with the aim of maximising your employability prospects. See modules for more information.
   

What you'll study
 

The Post-Digital Humanities MA emphasises collaboration, co-created learning and fosters new and progressive pedagogical methodologies which will inculcate a broad range of distinct employability skills which look not just to the present but to the future.

This is a course which champions the way Coventry approaches higher education, offering a new and exciting opportunity for further study for new and existing students. The course is structured around two 60 credit modules which are rooted in the idea of assessment as learning, you will have three summative pieces of assessment in each of these two modules but these will be informed by an educational strategy conditioned by continuous formative assessments to encourage engagement, learning and success. It sees assessment as learning whereby course level learning of formative tasks – such as weekly presentation of images and short videos – allowing learners the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding.

This course is built around a studio-based learning experience designed to empower you to engage in continuous, collaborative, creative work. The course offers students an opportunity to produce work which results in real world outcomes, such as publication in our online, digital journal.

Modules
 

• Digital Histories, Analogue Cultures - 60 credits

  This module will provide you with an opportunity to critically study how modern societies engage with non-mainstream histories and the ways in which hierarchies of power and inequality are maintained and justified. It will challenge you to consider the ways that minority communities and non-western perspectives are implicitly marginalised in a globalising world which privileges western settler-colonial worldviews. You will have the opportunity to engage with the histories of indigenous peoples, racial and sexual minorities, and groups whose voices are rarely represented in popular media artefacts. You'll also engage with the process of academic content creation, considering how those same artefacts can be used to present marginalised historical and contemporary voices on a global digital stage.

  Compulsory
   

• Humanism vs the Algorithm: The Battle for the 21st Century - 60 credits

  This module will challenge you to question the fundamental basis of the humanities, exploring how digital technologies pose a threat to human dominance as the central source of power and authority in the world. It will also ask you to think critically about the nature of the self in a society increasingly dominated by digital interactions. We will pay particular attention to the ways in which debates about environmental change, anthropocentrism, and climate change, for example, shape the future of life on earth or speculatively in the development of new societies on newly colonised planets.

  Compulsory
   

• Final Project in Post-Digital Humanities - 50 credits

  You will work towards the creation and exhibition of your final projects. The final project will be digital in nature, but displayed in an off-line space as part of a collaborative exhibition. This final project will allow you to bring online and offline spaces together, to create a 360 degree immersive experience which will be open to the public and will encapsulate some of the core themes taught as a part of this course.

  Compulsory
   

• Global Professional Development – Consultancy - 10 Credits

  The aim of this module is to critically evaluate and develop solutions to complex, inter-related, multi-faceted issues that can be found in a variety of organisations and professional contexts. The module will normally involve students working together, across disciplines and or from a range of workplace settings, to facilitate an appreciation of how different sectors solve internal issues and how different sectors can learn and adopt or adapt solutions from other fields. International, cultural and ethical issues will underpin the practical and theoretical developments in the module coupled with the principles of consultancy and the theories and practices found in leadership. The module will engage in wide-ranging debates and problem solving exercises using examples from real-life issues.

  Compulsory

Applicants should ideally hold an undergraduate degree with a 2:1 or higher.
 

English language requirements

• IELTS: 6.5 overall, with at least 5.5 in each component area

International Fees
£16,950 per year

International Pathways 2022 Scholarship
You could enjoy a £3,000 reduction in tuition fees.
Our high-quality foundation, international year one and pre-masters courses are for international students who do not meet the requirements for direct entry to their preferred Coventry University undergraduate or postgraduate course. We can support you to achieve the academic and/or English grades you need and help you gain the personal and professional skills required to study at university.
 

We want to encourage ambitious international students like you to study at Coventry University, so we’ve secured extra financial support for you worth £3,000, to help with the cost of tuition fees, living expenses and accommodation.

The scholarship application deadline is:
September 2022 intake: 31 July 2022

On successful completion of the course, you will have in-depth knowledge of:
 

• Global human societies
• Societal development
• Cultural evolution
• Digital history
• International relations in action
• Digital communication
• Event curation
• Environmentalism
• Post-Digital