Text Sciences and Culture Enhancement in the Digital Age is an international MA in Digital Humanities.
It aims to both complement and integrate humanities education with courses in quantitative methods, programming and computer science, and to bring students with technical-quantitative, data mining and IT skills closer to the humanities.
The course will provide students with lab and internship activities aimed at introducing them to professional contexts with a strong digital, intermodal and/or transmedia orientation.
Students will also be able to internationalise their CV by participating in initiatives such as the Blended Intensive Programme.
Making sense of the digital cultural expresses the essence of this course, which will enable students to operate in the digital humanities by applying current methods to the digital analysis of linguistic data and cultural productions.
Text Sciences and Culture Enhancement in the Digital Age is characterised by an interdisciplinary approach that combines the humanities with highly qualified technical and IT skills.
An only case among degree programmes in Lombardy, the entire didactics of the Master's degree programme Text Sciences and Culture Enhancement in the Digital Age is taught in English.
The Master's degree programme in Text Sciences and Culture Enhancement in the Digital Age offers blended learning in addition to traditional classroom teaching. Twenty per cent of lectures take place online and students can interact with visiting professors from leading European institutions. This format will also help students to better balance work and/or family commitments.
The Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures provides students with technological equipment that they can use not only for innovative but also for applied teaching methods. In particular, students will familiarise themselves with the Eye-tracking Lab, a research facility dedicated to the biometric analysis of linguistic and cultural data, and they will be able to study virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and augmented reality (XR).
During the MA in Text Sciences and Culture Enhancement in the Digital Age students will study subjects organised around three main areas:
computer science disciplines
linguistic, literary and philological disciplines
historical, cultural and artistic disciplines as well as law, anthropology and geography (web tracking)
In the first year, there are common modules that allow students to develop basic skills in ICT, digital research methods in linguistics and digital philology, public history and copyright, i.e. digital intellectual property law.
From the second year onwards, the Master's programme in Text Sciences and Culture Enhancement in the Digital Age offers two curricula:
Digital Text Sciences, Multimodal Translation, Transcoding
Students will study the impact of digital change on various linguistic-textual dynamics and specialise in the digital analysis of linguistic data and its archiving, with modules in computational and corpus linguistics, machine translation and multimedia studies.
In particular, students will become experts in the design and implementation of tools for the digital analysis of linguistic and cultural productions, as well as consultants in the development and design of digital environments and multimedia and digital content.
Digital valorisation and management of cultural productions
Students will study transmediality phenomena in their impact on cultural production also from a management perspective and specialise in the digital management and valorisation of cultural artefacts, focusing on transmediality and literary studies, environmental humanities and digital arts.
In particular, they will be able to work as public historians, specialist consultant in archives and digital libraries, digital curators.
The demand for professionals with transversal and multidisciplinary qualifications that guarantee the ability to operate in the world of globalisation and digital change is constantly increasing. The Master's degree in Text Sciences and Culture Enhancement in the Digital Age trains students to become a Knowledge Manager, a new figure on the labour market, increasingly important in society, capable of managing, cataloguing, preserving and updating the cognitive heritage of institutions, public and private bodies, organisations and companies, monitoring its digitisation and developing new forms of accessibility and analysis.
After their Master's degree in Text Sciences and Culture Enhancement in the Digital Age, students will be able to develop their profile as Knowledge Managers, which includes professional expertise in the following roles:
web designer and expert in the design, production and exploitation of web resources
digital text analyst and expert in the processing and analysis of text data and language technologies
digital heritage expert
digital storyteller
digital librarian
As experts, students will have a strong theoretical awareness that will allow them to reflect on the abstract issues (epistemological, sociological, legal) arising from the design of the human-machine relationship and artificial intelligence, as well as the social and environmental implications linked to the overdose of information in the public and private spheres.
By acquiring skills in digital literacy, digital archives and social media, students will develop a profile that is required by organisations, companies and public and private bodies involved in the production and design of content for the internet, including in the field of cultural heritage and analogue and digital archiving and cultural heritage. Students may work for organisations that focus on business and market information. Or they can continue their studies at research centres for linguistics and language technologies.
The figure of the Knowledge Manager has taken shape with the emergence of technological systems. The presence of a Knowledge Manager is essential in the productive contexts of public and private bodies, institutions, organisations and companies in the modern world, which are characterised by globalisation and intense competition.
Very widespread abroad, the Knowledge Manager is also an increasingly sought-after profile in Italy. S/he traditionally deals with the identification, collection, synthesis, organisation and management of knowledge, skills and experience within an organisation and its information services, and takes on a multifaceted role that focuses on the issues of the person and 'web knowledge', i.e. the search for meanings (semantic search) of the digital big data made available on digital networks.
Fields embedded in rapidly changing economic, cultural, social and production contexts need and will continue to need the skills of a Knowledge Manager. Indeed, advanced development ecosystems are interested in professionals who are able to find, collect, organise and reuse knowledge from different and diversified sources (Big Data).
The course location is in Piazza Rosate and classes take place in Via Salvecchio. Here you will find the IT Lab, where you will have access to hardware and programmes that you will use during the modules. There is also an open-air relax area and a study room.
Pre-enrolment and enrolment
The Master's programme in Text Sciences and Cultural Promotion in the Digital Age has no limited number of students.
There is a single-time window for the entire process (pre-enrolment + enrolment) from 1 April to 21 October 2024.
Pre-enrolment requires a 52€ fee and is necessary to determine whether prospective students fulfil the admission requirements.
The University of Bergamo offers a wide range of courses with 50 Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes, 13 of which are offered in English. Its international orientation is also supported by the +330 agreements with global partners.
Since 2023, it has launched the Open Campus project, i.e. numerous initiatives dedicated to the well-being and conviviality of the academic community.
It is inclusive and open and strengthens your right to study (Diritto allo studio) by giving people in an economically disadvantaged situation the opportunity to study.
The University is a protagonist of strong relationships with the entrepreneurial activities of the region, which is looking for professional profiles that match the skills and knowledge acquired by UniBg graduates.
The city of Bergamo is easily accessible from all over Italy thanks to an extensive railway network and air connections from the nearby Orio al Serio airport.
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