771A44 · 7.5 credits · Advanced level (A1N) · Computational Social Science
Applied Research Design for Computational Social Science
Active · next start HT 2026
90%
passed the latest ordinary exam
EXA1 · 15 Dec 2025 · 40 students
90%
passed the ordinary exams, all sittings over the last 5 years
EXA1 · 40 students
39%
Harder than 39% of courses at advanced level
Compared with 285 courses at the same level, ordinary exams over the last three academic years. 40 students.
Part of 1 programme
Exam
EXA1 Final examination
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Ordinary exams
90% passed · 40 students
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Re-exams
No sittings with at least 5 students.
- Get B or A: 70% (40 students)
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Other modules
Partial exams, hand-ins and labs. They are not part of the figures at the top.
Other module
OBL1 Mandatory seminars
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Main rounds
88% passed · 42 students
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Later rounds
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- Get B or A: 69% (42 students)
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About the course
Aim
After completion of the course, the student should at an advanced level be able to:
- Formulate and motivate social scientific research questions, connecting them to relevant theories and literatures in social science.
- Evaluate and justify the selection of computational methods for answering social scientific research questions.
- Assess data needs and related operationalizations for computational social science research designs.
- Compare, critique, and defend different computational social science research designs.
- Identify and resolve ethical issues in conducting research in computational social science.
Content
This course offers preparation for conducting social scientific research using a computational approach. The focus of the course is preparation of a social scientific research proposal as a basis for a thesis, research article, or report. Along the way, best practices with respect to writing, reference management, open science, ethical research conduct, and related topics are presented.
- Examiner
- Sarah Valdez
- Main field of study
- Computational Social Science