Courses are delivered either online, in person or in hybrid mode. The mode of delivery for each course is stated below.
Please note the following:
In person study: These course will be delivered in person at the Colchester campus. Online study is not available for these courses.
Online study: These courses will be taught online only. In person study is not available for these courses.
Hybrid: Hybrid delivery of courses will include synchronous live sessions during which on campus and online students will be taught simultaneously. Students need to choose the mode by which they will study at the point of application.
PRE-SESSIONAL: Monday 30 June – Friday 4 July 2025
0A Introduction to R Programming for the Social Sciences (Online only, one week course) – AM
SESSION ONE: Monday 7 July – Friday 18 July 2025
1A Mathematics for Social Scientists (Online only) 8:15 – 9:45 BST
Morning – 10:00 – 13:30 BST
1B Introduction to Quantitative Text Analysis (Online only)
1D Mixed Methods (Hybrid)
1F Designing and Analysing Surveys (Hybrid)
1G Longitudinal and Panel Data Analysis (Hybrid)
1H Qualitative Data Analysis: Methodologies for Analysing Text and Talk (In person only)
1K Quantitative Text Analysis (Hybrid)
1M Introduction to Quantitative Methods in R (Hybrid)
1N Methods for Field Work in Social Science (Online only)
1Q Doing Discourse Analysis: Populism, Neoliberalism and Radical Democratic Politics (Online Only)
Afternoon – 14:15 – 17:45 BST
1C Web Scraping and Data Management for Social Scientists (Hybrid)
1E Applied Social Statistics using Stata (Hybrid)
1J Categorical Data Analysis (Hybrid)
1P Agent Based Models (Hybrid, 17.5 hours, week 1 only 7-11 July) (Hybrid)
1S Data Visualization with R: Explore, Model and Communicate Social Data Analysis (Hybrid)
1T Introduction to Programming and Simulation Methods for Computational Social Science (Hybrid)
Full day – 10:00 – 17:45 BST
1I Qualitative Interviewing (In person only, one week course, week two only 14-18 July)
