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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2024/2025

Timetable information in the Course Catalogue may be subject to change.

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Year 1 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: September

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses

Course options

DSTI Full-time course selection

Select between 70 and 90 credits of the following courses
AND

Level 11 courses in Schedules A to W and Y

Select between 0 and 20 credits from Level 11 courses in Schedules A to W and Y
Notes:
Over the course of your programme, you may take up to 20 credits of outside courses in place of the course options. Outside courses must be delivered online and agreed with the Programme Director, as well as the Course Organiser, prior to course enrolment. You cannot take any courses which start after semester two as outside courses (no courses which start after February). The number of additional online courses is limited.

Please email the Programme Team at datascience@ed.ac.uk if you have found an outside course you are interested in taking.
AND

DSTI Social and Political Sciences dissertation

Select between 0 and 70 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Students on this programme have two options for a dissertation:
- The School of Informatics
or
- The School of Social and Political Sciences

As well as the 60 credit dissertation course both schools require students to take a 10 credit project preparation course prior to the 60 credit dissertation
OR

DSTI Informatics dissertation

Select between 0 and 70 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Students on this programme have two options for a dissertation:
- The School of Informatics
or
- The School of Social and Political Sciences

As well as the 60 credit dissertation course both schools require students to take a 10 credit project preparation course prior to the 60 credit dissertation

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