数字人文硕士课程致力于探索人文学科与数字技术交叉领域的研究路径与方法，聚焦以下主题相关的批判性、伦理性与方法论议题：算法能动性、偏见与创造性；增强现实与虚拟现实、数据本体与共享；数字档案与社会正义；网络文化遗产收藏与社群。本课程在为学生奠定批判理论与框架基础、传授数字方法与技术应用的同时，还提供多元化应用领域与专业方向的选择灵活性。学生将有机会与澳大利亚国立大学各领域的研究人员开展合作，并接触堪培拉国家级文化收藏机构与研究所的实践资源。
本课程主要面向两类学生群体：其一，具备人文学科背景（如文学研究、文化研究、历史学、人类学、性别研究、古典学或哲学），希望系统学习新兴数字方法、数字文化、理论与技术体系的学习者；其二，拥有数字或计算领域经验（如计算机科学、信息科学、统计学或物理环境科学），渴望以批判性与伦理性的视角，将技术应用于创造性、文化性、政治性及社会性议题的实践者。
The Master of Digital Humanities explores research approaches and methods at the intersection of humanities disciplines and digital technologies, addressing critical, ethical and methodological questions relating to topics including: algorithmic agency, bias, and creativity; augmented and virtual realities, data ontologies and sharing; digital archives and social justice; and online cultural heritage collections and communities. The program provides students with grounding in critical and theoretical frameworks, and in digital methods, tools and approaches, while offering flexibility in terms of areas of application and specialisms. Students will have opportunities to engage with researchers from across the ANU and with national cultural collections and institutions in Canberra.
This program will interest two broad cohorts of students: those who have humanities training (e.g. in literary studies, cultural studies, history, anthropology, gender studies, classics, or philosophy) and wish to learn more about emerging digital methods, cultures, theories and systems; and those who have experience with digital or computational approaches (e.g. from computer science, information studies, statistics, or the physical or environmental sciences) and wish to learn more about how to apply them, critically and ethically, to creative, cultural, political, and social questions.