BSc Social Data Science

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Sep 2025
Sep 2026
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4 - 6 weeks after your application is submitted
  • You’ll receive technical training in statistical methods, Python and R and learn where social data science can be applied to analyse contemporary social issues
  • Offered under the prestigious Q-Step programme, we will train you in developing data/statistical analysis and applied research skills
  • Designed for those without an advanced mathematical background who wish to study data types and manipulation, web scraping, algorithms, sequences and iteration and data visualisation
  • Our broad range of optional modules in your second and third years gives you the flexibility to tailor your degree to your interests and develop specialist knowledge on a range of topics
  • You’ll gain a full range of social and data science skills suitable for developing careers within business intelligence and business analytics, data journalism, market research and social research
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Requirements

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Modules

  • Compulsory modules
  • Introduction to Social Data
  • Data Analysis in Social Science 1
  • Programming for the Social Sciences
  • Social Problems
  • Imagining Social Worlds: Qualitative Research
  • Options modules
  • Power and Democracy
  • Introduction to Comparative Politics
  • Social Issues: Part I - Introducing Crime and Deviance
  • Social Issues: Part II - Themes in Criminology
  • Introduction to philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
  • Compulsory modules
  • Research Design in the Social Sciences
  • Data Analysis in Social Science 2
  • Data Analysis in Social Science 3
  • Options modules
  • Ethics of Emerging Technologies
  • Sociology of Family and Gender
  • Introduction to Terrorism Studies
  • Sociology and Demography of Religion
  • Introduction to Open-source Intelligence (OSINT)
  • Cybercrime
  • Digital Society
  • Learning from Work Experience in Social Sciences
  • Immigration in Western Societies
  • Mapping the Social World: Introduction to Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences
  • The Economics of Politics
  • Issues in Modern British Politics
  • Data, Experiments, and Society
  • Data, Experiments, and Society
  • Compulsory modules
  • Quantitative Dissertation
  • Options modules
  • Sociology and Demography of Religion
  • Immigration in Western Societies
  • Ethics of Emerging Technologies
  • Data, Experiments, and Society
  • Political Psychology
  • Political Representation UK-Style
  • Developments in British Politics: Institutions and Behaviour
  • Sociology of Family and Gender
  • Evidence-Based Policing
  • Introduction to Terrorism Studies
  • Cybercrime
  • Introduction to Open-source Intelligence (OSINT)
  • Digital Society
  • Introduction to Social Network Analysis
  • Learning from Work Experience in the Social Sciences
  • Mapping the Social World: Introduction to Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences
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    Use our magical AI system, to check your admission chances for this course.
    Tuition fee
    Apply by
    Start date
    Sep 2025
    Sep 2026
    Duration
    Campus
    Mode of study
    Fees and deadlines depend on the selected options. Fees and currency conversion are approximate.
    Offer response
    4 - 6 weeks after your application is submitted