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Qualification
Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
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Location
Main Campus
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Study mode
Full time
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Start date
14-SEP-26
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Duration
3 Years
Course summary
You will learn theories about politics and international relations, and learn how to translate these theories into empirical questions that can be studied using real life data.Specifically, you learn data analytic and data science techniques to evaluate the effectiveness of policies, understand political behaviour, predict and classify political phenomena and describe and analyse networks of relationships between individuals, political agents or organisations.By completing the core and optional units, you can gain sought-after skills, including:how to collect, describe and visualise datahow to build quantitative models to explain phenomenahow to quantitatively evaluate the effectiveness of policieshow to map and analyse complex social networkshow to implement key machine learning algorithmshow to implement data analytic techniques and data science algorithms using statistical software including R, as well as proprietary packages such as SPSS.
Modules
Tuition fees
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£ 27,800per year
Tuition fees shown are for indicative purposes and may vary. Please check with the institution for most up to date details.
Entry requirements
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QUALIFICATION TYPE
- A level
- Scottish Higher
- Scottish Advanced Higher
- UCAS Points
- AS
- Access to HE Diploma
- Extended Project
- GCSE/National 4/National 5
- International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
- OCR Cambridge Technical Diploma
- OCR Cambridge Technical Extended Certificate
- OCR Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma
- OCR Cambridge Technical Foundation Diploma
- Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
- Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificate (first teaching from September 2016)
- Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
- Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Foundation Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
- Welsh Baccalaureate - Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate (last awarded Summer 2024)
A level : ABB
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University of Manchester
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University League Table
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The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, England
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