Digital humanities is an innovative, multidisciplinary specialisation at the intersection of the study of human culture and digital technologies, of the disciplines of the arts, humanities and computing. It utilises a variety of different critical approaches that make use of new digital technologies to research and understand media communication. Rather than taking digital technologies as simply objects of study, digital humanities employs them as tools for making sense of the media-saturated world in which we live and the cultural transformations that are taking place with their development. By combining the expertise of the faculties of Arts, IT, and Art, Design and Architecture you will develop the necessary skills to create and evaluate digital media content, use digital technologies to analyse complex problems and creatively express yourself and to work both independently and collaboratively with others across disciplines boundaries. The specialisation will prepare you for professional media practices such as data journalism, data visualisation, data archiving, social media analysis and other computer-mediated communication analysis, and interactive experience design.
Undergraduate
Commencement year
This area of study entry applies to students commencing this course in 2018 and should be read in conjunction with the relevant course entry in the Handbook.
Any units listed for this area of study relate only to the 'Requirements' outlined in the component of any bachelors double degrees.
Unit codes that are not linked to their entry in the Handbook are not available for study in the current year.
Managing faculty
Offered by
School of Media, Film and Journalism
Coordinator(s)
Contact details
Media communicationMedia communication (https://arts.monash.edu/bachelor-of-media-communication/)
Location
Units
Students complete:
Two first-year level gateway units (12 points):
- ATS1208 Digital humanities: Concepts, tools and debates
- FIT1033 Foundations of 3D* or FIT1052 Digital futures: It shaping society or FIT1046 Interactive media foundations
* Students wishing to take technically-based units further within the specialisation are advised to complete FIT1033.
Two level 2 cornerstone units (12 points):
The following unit (6 points):
- ATS2329Not offered in 2018 Project in applied digital humanities
And one unit (6 points) chosen from:
- ATS2280 Video games: Industry and culture
- ATS2305Not offered in 2018 Digital humanities: Expanding research paradigms
- ATS2672 Exploring texts with computers
- ATS2931Not offered in 2018 Making history at the museum
One level 3 capstone unit (12 points):
- DGN3107Not offered in 2018 Digital humanities in action
Four units (24 points) chosen from:
- the remaining cornerstones, media practice labs or from the digital humanities specialisation electives. Students can choose to follow the suggested streams - digital media, digital scholarship or digital cultural heritage as outlined below - or they can choose to take a selection of units from across the streams.
Digital humanities electives
Digital media stream
One unit (6 points):
- FIT3169 Immersive environments
And three units (18 points) chosen from:
- ATS2186Not offered in 2018 Audio lab
- ATS2187Not offered in 2018 Video lab
- ATS2188Not offered in 2018 Media scriptwriting lab
- ATS3191Not offered in 2018 Media analytics lab
- ATS3192Not offered in 2018 Media entrepreneurship lab
- ATS3193Not offered in 2018 Virtual reality lab
- ATS3306Not offered in 2018 Digital storytelling
- DIS2105 Digital Imaging
- FIT2105 Creative computing: understanding art, science and technology
- TAD2214 Critical issues in design
Digital scholarship stream
One unit (6 points):
- FIT3098 Social informatics
And three units (18 points) chosen from:
- ADA3111 Design thinking
- ATS2186Not offered in 2018 Audio lab
- ATS2187Not offered in 2018 Video lab
- ATS2188Not offered in 2018 Writing scriptwriting lab
- ATS3191Not offered in 2018 Media analytics lab
- ATS3192Not offered in 2018 Media entrepreneurship lab
- ATS3193Not offered in 2018 Virtual reality lab
- CDS2521 Creative coding
- FIT2105 Creative computing: understanding art, science and technology
- FIT3179 Data visualisation
Digital cultural heritage stream
One unit (6 points):
- FIT3169 Immersive environments
And three units (18 points) chosen from:
- ADA3111 Design thinking
- AHT2602Not offered in 2018 Art criticism and curatorship
- ATS2186Not offered in 2018 Audio lab
- ATS2187Not offered in 2018 Video lab
- ATS2188Not offered in 2018 Media scriptwriting lab
- ATS3191Not offered in 2018 Media analytics lab
- ATS3192Not offered in 2018 Media entrepreneurship lab
- ATS3193Not offered in 2018 Virtual reality lab
- ATS3306Not offered in 2018 Digital storytelling
- CDS2521 Creative coding
- CDS2523Not offered in 2018 Creative visualisation
- FIT2105 Creative computing: understanding art, science and technology
- TAD2214 Critical issues in design
Relevant courses
Bachelors
Single degrees
Successful completion of this specialisation can be counted towards meeting the requirements for the following single degree:
- A2002 Bachelor of Media Communication
Students in other single bachelor's degrees are not eligible to complete this specialisation.
Double degrees
Successful completion of this specialisation can be counted towards meeting the requirements for the Bachelor of Media Communication component in the following double degrees: