Digital Humanities
Academic Contributors
- Siti Mazidah Haji Mohamad
- Hannah Ho
- Khairunnisa Haji Ibrahim
- Lalu Yaqin
- Maria Carinnes Alejandria
- Mayyer Ling
- Muhammad Najib bin Noorashid
- Noreena Liu
- Min Shen (Language Centre)
- School of Digital Sciences (SDS)
- School of Business and Economics (SBE)
Staff from other Faculties:
Programme Description
The BA in Digital Humanities explores how culture and society are transformed in the digital age. Bridging the humanities with emerging technologies, this programme equips students with the critical, creative, and technical skills to engage with digital media, AI, data archives, and cultural data.
Students will investigate how identity is preserved and reimagined through digital storytelling, how communication and popular culture evolve on global platforms, and how futures thinking can anticipate transformations in work, creativity, and society. With a strong emphasis on digital literacies, cross-cultural and professional communication, and ethical governance, the programme offers hands-on training in digital methods, data science for the humanities, and foresight tools.
BA in Digital Humanities addresses the urgent need to integrate cultural, ethical, and critical perspectives with digital technologies in higher education. Globally, the digital turn has transformed how knowledge, culture, and memory are produced, preserved, and accessed, requiring a new generation of graduates who can navigate both technological and humanistic domains. For Brunei and Southeast Asia, the programme is particularly timely. It supports national and regional priorities for digital transformation and smart nation agendas while safeguarding local histories, languages, and cultural heritage in digital formats. At the same time, it equips students to critically address pressing challenges such as misinformation, AI ethics, and the politics of digital narratives.
Students graduating from this programme will acquire a unique hybrid skillset:
- technical competence in data and digital archiving
- critical literacy in media and culture
- creative expertise in digital storytelling and analysis
The programme not only preserves the relevance of the humanities in a rapidly changing world but also ensures their contribution to shaping ethical, innovative, and sustainable digital futures that align with UBD’s GENBESTARI Framework.
Careers
Students will be prepared for careers in cultural industries, media, education, archives, digital innovation, policy research, media and communication, digital curation and emerging fields in the digital economy.
Programme Themes
The BA Digital Humanities is structured around five interconnected programme themes. Students explore digital society and everyday life, examine ethics and digital governance, develop skills in data management and analysis, engage with creativity and digital economies, and build futures thinking through research, foresight, and applied projects.
Module Offering
Major Core
| APX-1201 Digital Media, AI, and Everyday Life |
| APX-1202 Digital Media and AI Literacies: Skills for the Future |
| APX-2201 Futures Thinking and Foresight Skills |
| APX-2202 Researching Digital Media, Culture and Communication |
| APX-3201 Research Project I |
Major Option
| ZZ-1103 Introduction to Digital Transformation |
| ZD-1201 Introduction to Data Analytics |
| APX-2301 Philosophy of Digital Technology and Humanities |
| APX-2302 Ethics, Disinformation, and the Politics of Digital Narratives |
| APX-2303 Cultural Data and the Humanities: Text, Image, Sound |
| APX-2304 Digital Communities and Participatory Culture |
| APX-2305 Statistics for Social Sciences and Humanities |
| APX-2306 Human Communication in Digital Contexts |
| APX-2307 Global Communication in Digital Media |
| APD-2301 Cultural and Creative Industries |
| APW-2320 Youth Geographies |
| APX-3301 Research Project II |
| APX-3302 Participatory Digital Humanities |
| APX-3303 Digital Governance and Policy |
| APX-3304 Future of Work, Creative Practices, and Attention Economy |
| APX-3305 Digital Youth Cultures |
| APN-2312 Intercultural Communication |
| APN-3312 Professional Communication |
| APW-3320 Geographies of Media, Communication, and Popular Culture |
| BN-xxxx Social Media Management |
| BN-xxxx Social Entrepreneurship |
| BN-xxxx Digital Startup Strategies |
| BN-xxxx Global Entrepreneurship Trends |
Structured Electives
| APX-1201 Digital Media, AI, and Everyday Life |
| APX-1202 Digital Media and AI Literacies: Skills for the Future |
| APX-2201 Futures Thinking and Foresight Skills |
| APX-3302 Participatory Digital Humanities |
| APX-3303 Digital Governance and Policy |