Four-Year Learning Pathway

The TDH curriculum provides a progressive four-year learning pathway:

  • Year 1: Build foundations in communication and digital society.

  • Year 2: Develop language studies, human values and ethics in a digital world, and data storytelling skills.

  • Year 3: Form the transdisciplinary core — digital arts and aesthetics, global digital transformation, digital narratives and storytelling, interactive digital media design, web and app development for the humanities, and digital heritage and curation.

  • Year 4: Apply AI-human collaboration and digital text analysis and visualization, culminating in the Final Year Project.


Course Type

Units

Major Required

45

Major Elective

30

University Core

37

General Education

18

Free Elective

21

Total

151


Major Required Courses



Course CodeCourse NameUnits
COMM1023Fundamentals of Communication3
DSS1023Invitation to Digital Social Science3
DSS4053AI-Human Collaboration:   Principles, Applications, and Social Implications3
ENG1013Foundations of Language Studies3
GLD2053Global Digital Transformation: AI, IoT and Blockchain3
GTSC2053Telling A Story With Data3
TDH2003Digital Arts and Aesthetics3
TDH2013Human Values in a Digital World:   Ethics, Policy, and Culture3
TDH3003Interactive Digital Media Design3
TDH3013Digital Narratives and Storytelling3
TDH3023Web and App Development for Humanities3
TDH4003Digital Heritage and Curation3
TDH4013Digital Text Analysis and Visualization3
TDH4023Final Year Project (TDH)6


Major Elective Courses


Course CodeCourse NameUnits
CCGC4073Chinese Cultural Resources and Creative Industries3
COMM3033Social Media Communication3
DSS2043Machine-Learning Mathematics for Non-Science Students3
DSS3043Digital Emergency and Disaster Risk Management3
DSS3073Classical Sociological Theory and the Digital World3
DSS4073Sociology of Digital Transformation3
ENG2123Introduction to Corpus Linguistics3
ENG3073Language and Society3
ENG3123Posthuman Futures: Science Fiction Since 19603
ENG3163Dramatic Words: Theatre and   Performance3
ENG3183Creative Writing for Performance3
ENG3223Comparative Literature: Reading across Cultures3
ENG3233Nonfiction Narrative Writing and Editing3
ENG3313Foundations of Literary Criticism3
ENG4053Creative Writing3
ENG4153Editing and Publishing Practicum3
ENG4203Globalisation, Media and Intercultural Communication3
ENG4213Special Topic in Literature3
GLD2073Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development3
GLD3103Project Management in International Development3
MCOM1013New Media, Culture and Society3
MCOM3053Seminar in Cultural Theories and   Globalisation3
MCOM3063Social Media Analytics3
TDH3033Internship (TDH)3
TDH3043Translating Cultures through Multimedia3
TESL3013Language and Education3
TESL4093Learning Through Digital Narratives3