Digital Humanities combine traditional research approaches with new technologies. The ISKB83 course, provided by the Department of Information and Library Studies at the MU Faculty of Arts. In autumn 2025, it will offer an overview of the methods, tools and data approaches shaping contemporary humanities research.
Digital technologies are fundamentally changing the shape of humanities research. If you are interested in how scholars analyze texts, maps, or visual material using digital tools today, don't miss the Digital Humanities course, newly introduced in the fall semester under the code ISKB83 under the Department of Information and Library Studies.
The course is an introduction to the dynamically developing field of Digital Humanities and offers twelve online lectures by experts in the field, who will guide students through the entire research cycle: from digitizing and extracting data, to cleaning, analyzing and visualizing it, to presenting and archiving the results. Participants will learn about the basic tools for working with textual, spatial and network data, and will have the opportunity to try them out in practice at the end of each lecture.
The main goal of the course is to support the development of digital competences and to create the background for the emergence of a new generation of digital scientists. Students will learn to use the research platforms of the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University and will understand the possibilities of digital methods in humanities research.
“Many thanks for this class, it was my favorite. It covered a really wide range of topics that were presented by great experts, and the opportunity to try out everything within the assignment was priceless.”
Graduate of the last course
The course has had a successful run last year when it was listed under the code ARTS020, now it is listed as ISKB83 following the phasing out of courses with the ARTS prefix.
The course is open to students of all FF MU disciplines and is designed to be easily mastered by those who are just starting with digital tools. Registration takes place from 1 July 2025 in the MU Information System.
Join and find out what the humanities look like in the digital age.
Course outline and more about other related courses at MU Faculty of Arts here.
Digital technologies are changing the way libraries acquire, manage and access information. How is the digitalization of documents taking place in the second largest library in the Czech Republic? Find out in an interview with the Head of the Digital Document Management Department of the Moravian Library Mgr. Filip Jebavý.
