
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 |
| Course Code | Course Name | Units |
| COMM1023 | Fundamentals of Communication | 3 |
| DSS1023 | Invitation to Digital Social Science | 3 |
| DSS4053 | AI-Human Collaboration: Principles, Applications, and Social Implications | 3 |
| ENG1013 | Foundations of Language Studies | 3 |
| GLD2053 | Global Digital Transformation: AI, IoT and Blockchain | 3 |
| GTSC2053 | Telling A Story With Data | 3 |
| TDH2003 | Digital Arts and Aesthetics | 3 |
| TDH2013 | Human Values in a Digital World: Ethics, Policy, and Culture | 3 |
| TDH3003 | Interactive Digital Media Design | 3 |
| TDH3013 | Digital Narratives and Storytelling | 3 |
| TDH3023 | Web and App Development for Humanities | 3 |
| TDH4003 | Digital Heritage and Curation | 3 |
| TDH4013 | Digital Text Analysis and Visualization | 3 |
| TDH4023 | Final Year Project (TDH) | 6 |
| Course Code | Course Name | Units |
| CCGC4073 | Chinese Cultural Resources and Creative Industries | 3 |
| COMM3033 | Social Media Communication | 3 |
| DSS2043 | Machine-Learning Mathematics for Non-Science Students | 3 |
| DSS3043 | Digital Emergency and Disaster Risk Management | 3 |
| DSS3073 | Classical Sociological Theory and the Digital World | 3 |
| DSS4073 | Sociology of Digital Transformation | 3 |
| ENG2123 | Introduction to Corpus Linguistics | 3 |
| ENG3073 | Language and Society | 3 |
| ENG3123 | Posthuman Futures: Science Fiction Since 1960 | 3 |
| ENG3163 | Dramatic Words: Theatre and Performance | 3 |
| ENG3183 | Creative Writing for Performance | 3 |
| ENG3223 | Comparative Literature: Reading across Cultures | 3 |
| ENG3233 | Nonfiction Narrative Writing and Editing | 3 |
| ENG3313 | Foundations of Literary Criticism | 3 |
| ENG4053 | Creative Writing | 3 |
| ENG4153 | Editing and Publishing Practicum | 3 |
| ENG4203 | Globalisation, Media and Intercultural Communication | 3 |
| ENG4213 | Special Topic in Literature | 3 |
| GLD2073 | Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development | 3 |
| GLD3103 | Project Management in International Development | 3 |
| MCOM1013 | New Media, Culture and Society | 3 |
| MCOM3053 | Seminar in Cultural Theories and Globalisation | 3 |
| MCOM3063 | Social Media Analytics | 3 |
| TDH3033 | Internship (TDH) | 3 |
| TDH3043 | Translating Cultures through Multimedia | 3 |
| TESL3013 | Language and Education | 3 |
| TESL4093 | Learning Through Digital Narratives | 3 |