Digital Humanities

专业详情

The power of data, the depth of culture.

As data proliferate and play an ever-growing role in our life decisions, a human-centric and interdisciplinary approach to technology is the most powerful method we have for fostering creativity, asking relevant questions and ultimately making the best possible decisions for our future.

The Master of Science in Digital Humanities offers future engineers the unique opportunity to pair a rigorous technical education with a deeper understanding of user experience, cultural and social contexts as well as real-world application of digital tools.

The diverse backgrounds of the EPFL digital humanities faculty are uniquely positioned to provide this type of interdisciplinary training. Our society is shaped with data primarily produced, consumed, and curated by people – from cultural and social media to historical and urban data. Digital humanities engineers have the advantage of pairing technical skills in computer and data science with the applied interdisciplinary understanding needed to pursue a broader range of career opportunities.

Program’s objectives

The program offers a high level qualification in data science as well as in humanities and social sciences, on a theoretical but also on an operational level in order to manage all the steps in the chain of rich data processing. This encompasses the creation of data-harvesting processes, the choice and design of algorithms, the maintenance of databases and archives, the design of user experience, and the interpretation to propose.