Digital Humanities

Elective credits (15EC)

Elective credits in Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence

Students who wish to take this Elective credits in semester 1 take the following courses:

• Digital Media, Culture and Society
• Hacking the Humanities: An Introduction to Python and Text Mining
• Information Visualization and the Humanities 

Students who wish to take this Elective credits in semester 2 take the following courses:

• Digital Text and Data Analysis
• Exploring the Past in the Digital Present
• Special Topics in Digital Humanities 

These courses are all elective courses, and are open for all students of the Humanities (if there is space), and not only for those students following the minior. If you are unable to register, please contact the study adviser for assistance: stuco-digitalhumanities@hum.leidenuniv.nl

Since in some departments there is room for only a 15EC in elective courses, it is also possible to take this minor for 15EC, half of the number of ECs required for a complete minor. You can find more information about this option in the Prospectus. Note, however, that this is not the same as completing a minor and therefore it is not called a minor. 

Anyone is free, however, to take more than the required minimum of courses and thus earn more ECs than the 180EC required for receiving a bachelor’s degree. Therefore, you can take a 30EC minor if you are willing to earn 15EC more than you need to have to complete the requirements for your bachelor’s degree.

You can find more information about the elective space and a personalised interpretation of it on the page on Elective credits.