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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2024/2025

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

You will be required to show that your choices reflect an appropriate breadth of interest.

Not all electives may run in any given year and places may be limited.

NOTE: Students following the Quantitative Methods pathway will take either 'Core Quantitative Data Analysis 1 and 2 (SCIL11009)' OR 'Statistical Modelling in the Social Sciences (PGSP11486)' as compulsory courses. See relevant course entries for more information. Entry to 'Statistical Modelling in the Social Sciences 'will be on the basis of a discussion with the Programme Director during welcome week.

Students will have an opportunity to apply for a Placement-based Dissertation in Semester 2. http://www.drps.ed.ac.uk/24-25/dpt/cxpgsp11537.htm

Compulsory courses

Research Skills in the Social Sciences: Data Collection

Core quantitative data analysis 1 and 2

Research Design for Societal Challenges

Dissertation (MSc/Dip Social Research)

Must be passed at 50% and taken during Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond

Course options

Humanities and Arts-informed Research Methods in the Social Sciences

Comparative Analysis of Social and Public Policy

Internet, Society and Economy

Qualitative Methods and Ethnographic Fieldwork

Gender and Development

Evaluation Research Methods

Analysing Social Networks with Statistics

Longitudinal Data Analysis

Gender, Politics and Representation

Computational Sociology

Computational Text Analysis

Advanced Methods Workshops (20 credit)

Nationalism, Populism and Democracy

Social Network Research: Theories and Analysis

AND

Courses in this collection can only be taken with permission from the Programme Director and the Course Organiser.

OR

These courses specialise in quantitative methods and analysis.

Multi-Level Modelling in Social Science

Longitudinal Data Analysis

Computational Text Analysis

Advanced Methods Workshops (20 credit)

AND

Humanities and Arts-informed Research Methods in the Social Sciences

Comparative Analysis of Social and Public Policy

Internet, Society and Economy

Qualitative Methods and Ethnographic Fieldwork

Gender and Development

Evaluation Research Methods

Analysing Social Networks with Statistics

Longitudinal Data Analysis

Gender, Politics and Representation

Computational Sociology

Computational Text Analysis

Advanced Methods Workshops (20 credit)

Nationalism, Populism and Democracy

Social Network Research: Theories and Analysis

AND

Courses in this collection can only be taken with permission from the Programme Director and Course Organiser.

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