The Collaborative Master’s with a specialization in Digital Humanities is especially designed for master’s students in participating programs in the Faculties of Arts and Social Science who wish to enrich their training in a particular discipline or area of study by developing expertise in Digital Humanities. The general academic objective of this program is to provide training in critical theories and methodologies in humanities scholarship enabled by new digital media, texts and tools, and thereby to provide the skills necessary to undertake a piece of original research.

The Digital Humanities program will be multidisciplinary in that it will include students and faculty from a variety of disciplines. This new program will be at its core collaborative in that Digital Humanities research involves new scholarly tools and databases, which greatly facilitate dialogue, collaboration and translation between traditionally defined disciplines. The program is also interdisciplinary in what students from different disciplines can learn from each other in developing the same substantive core of understanding and expertise. It will offer students the opportunity to engage in genuinely interdisciplinary research with other students and faculty from across the Faculty.