Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies
Digital Humanities and Textual Studies
Focuses on digital textual editing, archiving, and publishing, and on the study of new media and computing platforms from the perspectives of the humanities and computer science. Covers archiving, computer programming, cultural studies, and textual criticism.
Inside the major
Programs within this field
Colleges may offer this field under 4 more specific program names. The program you choose affects the courses you take.
- Digital Humanities and Textual Studies, General
- Focuses on digital textual editing, archiving, and publishing, and on the study of new media and computing platforms from the perspectives of the humanities and computer science. Covers archiving, computer programming, cultural studies, and textual criticism.
- Digital Humanities
- Focuses on the use of new technologies, advanced computing, and public engagement to investigate and analyze questions in the humanities. Covers anthropology, art, data mining and machine learning, design, digital archives, geospatial technologies, history, human-computer interface design, literature, markup languages, social media technologies, and software development.
- Textual Studies
- Focuses on the interconnected histories of digital or print texts and manuscripts for cultural and literary study. Covers archiving texts, bibliography, book and literary history, cultural studies, codicology, paleography, stemmatology, and textual criticism.
- Digital Humanities and Textual Studies, Other
- Digital humanities and textual studies not listed above.
Where it can lead
Careers this field can lead to
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- Hiring change through 2035
- 4.9%
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- $85,020
- Hiring change through 2035
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Working style
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College options
Where to study it
Ordered by how many degrees each college awards in this field. Sort by any numbered column.
| College | Degrees a year | Admit rate | Average annual cost after aid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rochester Institute of Technology NY | 12 | 71% | $29,000 |
| CUNY City College NY | 2 | 58% | $7,000 |
| Boise State University ID | 1 | 84% | $21,000 |
| Emmanuel College MA | 1 | 81% | $24,000 |