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Digital Civics MRes

Postgraduate

In Newcastle Upon Tyne ()

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

Profile Digital Civics is about exploring new ways in which digital technologies can promote public participation in the design and delivery of local services. This includes education, public health and social care and planning.      

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Subjects

  • IT
  • Public
  • Planning
  • Public Health
  • Design
  • Health and Social Care

Course programme

Modules Compulsory modules
  • CSC8601 Introduction to Digital Civics
  • CSC8602 Research Methods for Digital Civics
  • CSC8603 Human-Computer Interaction for Digital Civics
  • CSC8604 Technologies for Digital Civics
  • CSC8605 Interaction Design Methods for Digital Civics
  • CSC8609 Project and Dissertation in Digital Civics
Optional modules

You select optional modules from one of the four following strands:

Strand 1: Technologies
  • CSC8202 Information Security and Trust
  • CSC8101 Big Data Analytics
  • CSC8111 Machine Learning
Strand 2: Local Democracy
  • TCP8001 Planning Frameworks
  • TCP8939 Planning, Power and People
  • SOC8034 Social Divisions and Inequality
Strand 3: Public Health and Social Care
  • HSC8056 Introduction to Global Health
  • HSC8047 Health and Society
  • HSC8042 Public Health Intervention
Strand 4: Community Learning
  • EDU8031 Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment as Foundations of Teaching and Learning
  • SOC8034 Social Divisions and Inequality

Modules might change for your year of entry.


Entry Requirements

A 2:1 honours degree, or international equivalent, in any discipline, if you have relevant additional non-academic experience.

Or a 2:1 honours degree, or international equivalent, in:

  • computer science
  • engineering
  • education
  • politics
  • social science
  • architecture
  • planning
  • psychology
  • health studies (or related discipline)
  • design

You will also be considered on an individual basis if you have different or non-standard qualifications, particularly if you have relevant industrial experience.

Digital Civics MRes

Price on request