Textual studies for digital professions
Course Overview
The new graduate degree course in Textual studies for digital professions, designed by the Department of Humanities (Disum), offers an innovative path, which stems from a contemporary vision of the skills, knowledge and competences involved in the humanities nowadays. We offer perspective students a truly interdisciplinary and up-to-date programme that draws together teaching from a wide range of disciplines, integrating longstanding traditions in the Department (linguistics, philology, philosophy of language, history of science, archival studies) and contemporary competences related to information flow in the digital era.
Attendance to the degree course, which enrols a max. of 50 students, is compulsory in order to favour a coherent and smooth path leading towards professional careers in the planned two-year programme. Admission to the programme is based on a written self-presentation by prospective students followed by an interview, aimed at assessing effective communicative competence, full awareness of the chose study path, and personal skills and motivation. The interview will also evaluate the required B2 (CEFR) level for the English language.
Educational Goals
The subjects offered by the programme revolve around three main areas:
- information technologies (Introduction to computational linguistics; Database, ontologies and the semantic web; Artificial intelligence);
- linguistics and language analysis and processing (Corpus Linguistics; Pragmatics and communication; Database and digital text treatment; Quantitative methods for textual data analysis; Lexicography);
- historical, philosophical, sociological, and law studies (History and epistemology of machines; Social epistemology and informal reasoning; Sociology of digital media; Law, intellectual rights, and digital technology).
Job Opportunities
The degree programme prepares students for careers in:
- automated language analysis and processing;
- artificial Intelligence impact analysis.
Its graduates are likely to assume new, sought-after leading roles in businesses involved in the digital humanities.
Business partners
Our partners include national and international businesses; and there is an increasing number of partnerships that are signed by the Department. Our business partners have had a central role in the creation of the Degree Course from the very beginning; they also contribute to the programme with dedicated teaching modules, internships connected to the study path, and project leading to the master thesis.
We presently (at 15th July 2019) have collaborations with: Halley Sud, ICC Digital Media, Immedia SPA, Mondadori, Neodata Group, Neperia Group, STMicroelectronics, Reputation Lab.
