Education
Educational programme and summer school
Master's degree in Digital and Public Humanities
The Master’s Degree in Digital and Public Humanities is an innovative course that integrates Humanities and Information Technology (IT), promoting the dissemination of culture and cultural activities in the public sphere.
It builds on the teaching and research carried out at Ca’ Foscari’s Department of Humanities, combined with the advanced technological expertise of the Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics, and Statistics.
With an interdisciplinary approach, the curriculum covers literature, philology, history, art history, archaeology, and cultural heritage, connecting them to computational tools, digital methodologies, and public engagement.
Supported by the local Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH), the course is closely linked to the Centre’s activities. It is entirely taught in English and has a duration of two years.
Website of the Master's degree in Digital and Public Humanities
Career opportunities
The programme equips the students with the necessary digital, analytical, and communication skills to work across different sectors. Prospective occupational fields include:
- Cultural Institutions – Museums, archives, libraries, and heritage organizations, working in curation, digital preservation, and cultural heritage management.
- Publishing and Media – Digital publishing, content creation, and journalism, specializing in digital storytelling, multimedia content, and editorial strategy.
- Digital Research and Academia – PhD opportunities, research projects, and university teaching, focusing on digital humanities methodologies and interdisciplinary research.
- Public Engagement and Cultural Communication – Science communication, NGO work, and government initiatives that leverage digital tools to make culture and history more accessible to the public.
- Creative Industries and Game Studies – Interactive storytelling, digital media production, and game studies, applying narrative design and immersive technologies to cultural projects.
Curriculum structure
Teaching methodologies include:
- Lectures
- Hands-on workshops
- Practical projects and assignments
- Online classes and blended learning methods
- Guest lectures and field trips
The available courses include Digital and Public Art; Digital and Public History; Digital and Public Archaeology; Web and User Experience Design; Information Visualization, Data Science and Social Media Analytics; Digital Tools and Resources for Textual Data; Modelling and Visualizing Textual Data; Text Encoding and Digital Scholarly Editing, and much more.
Internship and semester abroad
The programme includes a mandatory 150-hour internship, which provides practical experience in relevant fields. Internships can be completed at external cultural institutions, archives, libraries, museums, or companies in Venice, Italy, or abroad (including the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities).
The programme offers to the students the opportunity for a semester abroad within the framework of the Erasmus+ programme funded by the European Union. The students can attend relevant programmes at other universities. Among others, the programme has the following specific agreements:
- University of Helsinki (MA in Linguistic Diversity and Digital Humanities)
- University of Vienna (MA in Digital Humanities)
- University of Luxembourg (MA in Digital and Public History)
Admission requirements for 2025/2026
To be admitted applicants must meet the following criteria:
- Specific curricula requirements, based on previous credits in relevant subjects
- Adequate personal preparation
- English language certification at B2 level
Venice Summer School in Digital and Public Humanities
Venice, 8-12 July, 2024
The Venice Summer School in Digital and Public Humanities provides advanced and in-depth training in theories, technologies and methods applied to historical monuments, artefacts and texts.
Focussing on cultural, archaeological, historical, literary, and artistic materials from Venetian sites and cultural heritage institutions, participants will engage in debates about digital cultural heritage and public humanities while enhancing their competences and skills in digitising materials and sources and in modelling, analysing and visualising multimedia humanities data.
 | Programme 8-12/07/2024 | 1.63 M |
Professional master in Digital Humanities
The professional master in Digital Humanities born in 2015, thanks to the collaboration of Department of Humanities and Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics of Ca’ Foscari, offers an educational path devoted to application and development of digital tools for humanities, like as history, art history, philology, archival studies, museology. The professional master in Digital and Public Humanities ceased in 2019/2020.