Digital Media & Information Studies/ Latin

Digital media and information studies brings a critical, humanistic perspective to the digital age, examining how digital content and information are created, distributed, used, and understood in the arts, humanities, and society. It asks what digital technologies have done to how we communicate, how we remember, how we access knowledge, and how culture is produced and shared, and it develops the analytical tools to engage with these questions with rigour and depth. Latin adds a very different kind of knowledge: the language of one of the world's great literary, legal, and philosophical traditions, giving direct access to texts that have shaped European culture for more than two thousand years.

At the University of Glasgow this part-time Joint Honours programme allows you to pursue both disciplines alongside other commitments. Digital media and information studies develops your understanding of the digital landscape and its cultural implications, while Latin develops your reading skills in the language alongside engagement with a wide range of literary, historical, and philosophical texts from antiquity through the medieval period. A year abroad is built into the programme, broadening your academic experience and giving you exposure to different scholarly and cultural traditions.

Graduates with this unusual combination move into careers in digital heritage, archives and libraries, cultural institutions, publishing, journalism, education, and the digital humanities, where the ability to think critically about digital information and to engage with historical and classical materials is a distinctive asset. The combination is particularly well suited to roles in heritage digitisation projects, digital archives, academic publishing, and the growing field of digital history and digital humanities research. Many graduates continue to postgraduate study in digital humanities, information studies, classical studies, or media studies.