Call for Applications: 2025 Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Digital Arts & Humanities, UBC Okanagan

Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Digital Arts & Humanities
UBC Okanagan, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies

Application Deadline: January 15, 2025

Earn an Interdisciplinary MA or PhD in Digital Arts & Humanities at UBC’s Okanagan campus. Research and creative practice undertaken in this graduate program brings computing technologies and makerspace methods together to address such humanities topics as social justice, access, sustainability, ethics, labour, ecology, collaboration, interaction, making, pedagogy, and reading, as well as the ways in which the arts and humanities can pose vital questions about computing technologies.

In our Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies degree in Digital Arts & Humanities at UBC Okanagan, students learn to apply arts and humanities frameworks to digital tools and technologies and use digital technologies to explore questions central to the arts and humanities.

Our students will gain a host of skills that prepare them for careers in education, consulting, governmental and non-governmental organizations, industrial sectors, and more. With the research, teaching, making, and analytical skills they gain in the Digital Arts and Humanities theme, our PhD students will be prepared to pursue academic and alternative academic career paths.

Students in the IGS Digital Arts & Humanities program have access to the expertise of diverse, nationally and internationally recognized researchers from a variety of faculties and disciplines in a coherent, thematic framework. During their degree, students will have the opportunity to conduct original research, learn to become effective educators, and work as teaching assistants, as well as acquire knowledge in the professional practices of writing for publication, academic CV development, grant writing, networking, and community-engaged research skills.

Find out more about the program and professors; learn about the labs and centres that form our community and how you can become part of them.

Application Requirements

• Online application and application fee
• Unofficial transcripts for all post-secondary institutions attended are required for the application package, however, if admitted, students are required to submit official transcripts to the College of Graduate Studies.
• Statement of Intent
• English language test (for non-native speakers of English)
• CV or resumé
• Two letters of reference (applicants may submit the online application form at any time during the call for applications – doing so triggers the invitation to referees – and continue to upload supporting documents until the deadline.)
• Please provide one example of your scholarly writing, such as a term paper or a substantial scholarly paper AND/OR submit electronic portfolio of artistic work (3-5 samples of artistic production and/or links to digital work).

How To Apply

Applying takes time. Students are advised to start the application process two months in advance of the application deadline.

gradstudies.ok.ubc.ca/igs/digital-arts-humanities

Application Deadline: January 15, 2025

For additional information or questions, please contact: dahu.ok@ubc.ca

UBC Okanagan
Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies
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Kelowna BC, V1V 1V7

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Image descriptions:
1. DAHU graduate student presenting her thesis defence using digital projections of her project.
2. DAHU graduate student’s final thesis exhibition.
3. Students discussing a digital humanities project using a touchscreen.