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Digital Studies Online - Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
Faculty of Computer Science via distance learning
Digital Studies via distance learning
This program in digital studies provides an interdisciplinary framework for studying the digital tools, cultures, and practices that permeate everyday life. These tools, cultures, and practices determine how we work, play, communicate and learn. Understanding the digital world and their underlying technologies is fundamental to anticipate the social, economic, and political contexts that are shaping our future. Innovation, entrepreneurship, arts, and a new way of thinking are now rooting in the possibilities displayed by the digital environment.
Academic Supervisor : Pedro Jose Riba Rueda
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Digital Studies Online via distance learning
Specialist, Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor - Digital Studies.
This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's & Ph.D. (Doctor) Degree Programs. This academic program is designed at the postgraduate level (Master’s or Doctoral). This module may also be adapted to complete the course requirements of Specialist, Expert Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree. A further option is the enrollment into each of the courses listed within this specialization module. This module may be combined or completed with other modules from this faculty. For example: Cryptocurrency - Digital Marketing - Digital Media - E-Business & E-Commerce - Influencer Marketing - Internet Studies - Persuasive Technology - Social Community Management - Social Media Management .
Specialist - Expert Diploma - Digital Studies Online
Tuition Fee: 1.050 Euros (1.350 US$) ... 1.470 Euros (1.890 US$).
Specialist - Expert Diploma Online: 15 ... 21 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Digital Studies via distance learning = 39 Academic credits - Select 5 courses for the online diploma of Specialist or 7 courses for the Expert Diploma from the total of courses from the specialization module.
Bachelor's Degree - Digital Studies Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 3.510 Euros (4.420 US$) ... Max. 6.800 Euros (8.700 US$).
Bachelor's Degree Online: 130 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Digital Studies via distance learning = 39 Academic credits + 40 credits in General Education (may be transferred from previous education and professional experience) + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Computer Science from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Internet Studies.
Master's Degree - Digital Studies Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 4.680 Euros (6.120 US$) ... Max. 7.020 Euros (9.180 US$).
Master's Degree Online: 36 ... 54 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Digital Studies via distance learning = 39 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Computer Science from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Internet Studies. + 13 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree - Digital Studies Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 5.850 Euros (7.650 US$) ... Max. 9.360 Euros (12.240 US$).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree Online: 45 ... 72 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Digital Studies via distance learning = 39 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Computer Science from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Internet Studies. + 18 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Payment plans are available upon request up to 36 monthly installments. More info...
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Digital Studies Online
Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 academic credits):
1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credits (30 hours of study).
You may study any subject as an independent online continuing education course. More info...
Internet Technology
This course provides a study of the architecture, utilities, services, and protocols of the Internet and World Wide Web. Topics cover markup languages (e.g. HTML), data location resources (e.g. search engines and agents), web page management, scripting languages, TCP/IP, IP routing and servers, reliability, security, electronic commerce, and virtual worlds.
Academic Supervisor: Javier Fernandez Salgado
Information Technology
This course provides updates on the development in the field of information technology and prepares students to properly and effectively use these technologies in any project. Students will learn hardware and software functions to solve problems commonly found in information technology systems, database systems, networks, peripherals, and telecommunication systems.
Academic Supervisor: Javier Fernandez Salgado
Media Influence
This course describes and evaluates various strategies that attempt to explain individuals' and groups' reaction to media. It explores the theories of media influence and public attitude change. It explains what it means (politically, economically, culturally, and morally) to live in a culture in which a major portion of information comes to the citizen through multiple channels of mass communication.
Academic Supervisor: Pedro Jose Riba Rueda
Social Science
This course in social sciences is devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals. It requires a multidisciplinary approach in order to achieve an understanding of human beings within their social context.
Academic Supervisor: Djaber Nacer Eddine
Cultural Studies
This course of cultural studies seeks to understand how a culture is generated and disseminated from the social, political and economic spheres. It attempts to explain and analyze how cultural forces relate and interact from a multidisciplinary perspective.
Academic Supervisor: Sara Hejazi
Digital Studies
This course in digital studies explores the relationship between society, culture and communication and how they are affected by digital technologies. Digital media affects the ways we communicate and its shaping new rules and new cultural contexts for the development of society, economy and political affairs.
Academic Supervisor: Pedro Jose Riba Rueda
Digital Privacy
This course of digital privacy examines the rights of individuals to determine how their digital information is collected and used, to exist freely on the internet, and to choose what types of information they are exposed to. In this context, communication privacy states the right to communicate information digitally with the expectation that those communications are secure and only accessible to the sender's original intended recipient. Digital Privacy encompasses information privacy, communication privacy, and individual privacy.
Academic Supervisor: Alex Vuginshteyn
Digital Media
This course in digital media explores any form of media which is encrypted in machine-readable form. Digital media is any media which depends on electronic devices for its creation, distribution, view, and storage. Some popular examples of digital media include digital games, software, video games, digital videos, websites, digital audio, social media, etc.
Academic Supervisor: Pedro Jose Riba Rueda
Electronic Payments Systems
This course covers the principles of various methods of online payment transfer and compares their functionality. Topics include electronic money, electronic contracts, micro-payments, authenticity, integrity and reliability of transactions, the encryption and digital signature techniques needed to support electronic cash, and the technologies available to support secure transactions on the Internet.
Academic Supervisor: Humayun Bakht Dr.
Digital Marketing
This course deals with the theory and practice of marketing on the Internet and focuses on the role of Internet in the marketing strategy. It helps to identify the web marketing goals; to understand web site promotion, referral programs, and search engine placement; to analyze e-commerce, online sales, and customer service methods; to plan a web store; and to think about future trends in e-commerce.
Academic Supervisor: Maria Smetanina
Digital Media Production
This course examines the use of multimedia material (audio, MIDI, graphics, and video) from a production point of view. It explains how to undertake a digital multimedia production and the manipulation tasks to create or modify a multimedia project.
Academic Supervisor: Ricardo Miralles Damm
Technology Ethics
This course of technology ethics explores the application of ethical thinking to the practical concerns of the use of technology. New technologies give us more power to act, which means that we have to make choices we didn't have to make before. Some ethical dilemmas derived from technology are: digital addiction (many people are addicted to technology), breakdown of truth (it’s becoming harder to tell what’s real and what isn’t); ideological polarization; manipulation through persuasive technology, and many other mental and emotional issues derived from the excessive impact and dependency of the use of technology.
Academic Supervisor: Ahmad Khodaverdi Darian
E-Commerce
This course examines web commercial services. E-commerce is the name given to the business process of selling products, goods, and services over a Web browser. In its simplest form, it allows a company's product catalog to be hosted on a Web server that can be accessed by clients and potential customers to see what's been offered and make orders. Each E-commerce site is different and requires specific considerations.
Academic Supervisor: Thiyagu Nagaraj
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Digital Studies Online via distance learning
Recommended Professional References.
Joining the proper association is the best way to become an updated professional.
Bircham International University graduates may join many professional associations. Membership requirements for each association may vary depending on the degree program, specialization and graduate resume en each occasion. BIU can not guarantee membership in all instances. BIU does not intermediate in these procedures. Bircham International University provides a list of available memberships and professional references from each faculty where some BIU graduates may belong. Contact directly the ones you select. More info...
AADH - Australasian Association for Digital Humanities
ABMDE - Associação Brasileira de Mídia Digital Embarcada
ABMDOH - Associação Brasileira de Mídia Digital Out-of-Home
ABRAMIDIA - Associação Brasileira de Mídia Digital e Eletrônica
ADHO - Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations
ADIGITAL - Asociación Española de la Economía Digital
AGN - Association Génération Numérique
APD - Asociación de Periodismo Digital
CSDH - Canadian Society for Digital Humanities
DAA - Digital Analytics Association
DF - Digital Federation
DMA - Digital Media Association
EADH - European Association for Digital Humanities
Humanistica - Association Francophone des Humanités Numériques Digitales
IDAXA - International Digital Asset Exchange Association
iDMAa - International Digital Media and Arts Association
JADH - Japanese Association for Digital Humanites
SIHDH - Sociedad Internacional de Humanidades Digitales Hispánicas
SN - Syntec Numérique
SOMOS-DIGITAL - Asociación de Redes de Centros de Competencias Digitales
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Admission requirements - Digital Studies
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
For official admission status at Bircham distance education university; you need to send in a filled out, dated, and signed official Application for Admission. You may download this application form from the website or request it by email or mail. Please send this application and enclosed documents to our address. You may also submit this application and attached documents by email in a PDF Format. More info...
Bircham International University issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the distance learning degree program's major. Bircham University can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission. More info...
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METHOD OF INSTRUCTION: Distance Learning Higher Education
This distance learning education program is completed by a traditional correspondence instruction method. Once you sign up for the course, Bircham International University will send you (to your mailing address) the suggested textbooks. After reading the book, you will be asked to write a 20 to 35 pages report that reflect your understanding of the book. This report is equivalent to the exam and can be submitted by email or mail. Bircham International University will evaluate your written work. If passed, BIU will issue the corresponding diploma. For more instructions about BIU pedagogy, tutoring, and evaluation, please read our distance learning education study guide. More info...
Students enrolling into this distance education program should be aware that:
1. Location: Bircham International University needs a functional geographical location to ship the book and materials for successful completion of this program of study.
2. Communication: Email, courier, phone are key communication instruments with Bircham University that play an important role in the progress and support of this program of study.
3. Capacity: Any impediment, physical or psychological, to read a book and write a report must be communicated to Bircham International University prior to enrollment into this distance learning program.
4. Technology: No specific technology is required to complete this distance education program.
5. Language: Book reading and report writing in other language than English must be requested (and approved by BIU) prior to enrollment in any distance learning program.
6. Discrimination: There is no discrimination with respect to race, color, gender, beliefs or religion.
7. Age: Check the admission requirements for each distance education degree program. More info...
Duration - Digital Studies Online via distance learning
For a program of 21 credits, the estimated time for completion is 21 weeks. For 45 credits, the estimated time for completion will be 45 weeks, and so on. Calculations are approximate. The length of each distance learning degree program is calculated based on an average of 15 hours of learning per week. It also depends on the number of validated credits from previous knowledge and the level of commitment to the studies. More info...
All information related to the distance learning degree programs is in English, although you may, upon request and approval, submit the required assignments in other languages.
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Faculty of Computer Science via distance learning
Digital Studies Online
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
