Paper

Course number, title (unit value)

Paper 1

MY470 Computer Programming (0.5)

Exceptionally, students who can demonstrate sufficient prior training in or professional experience with computer programming commensurate with that covered in MY470 can substitute a 0.5-unit course from Paper 3 for MY470. This would be subject to the approval of the MSc Programme Director.

And courses to the value of 0.5 units from the following:

MY472 Data for Data Scientists (0.5)

ST445 Managing and Visualising Data (0.5)

Paper 2

MY400 Fundamentals of Social Science Research Design (0.5)

And courses to the value of 0.5 units from the following:

MY452L Applied Regression Analysis (0.5) ^#

MY452M Applied Regression Analysis (0.5) ^#

MY474 Applied Machine Learning for Social Science (0.5) ^#

ST443 Machine Learning and Data Mining (0.5) ^#

Paper 3

Courses to the value of 0.5 units from the following:

MY405 Research Design for Policy and Programme Evaluation (0.5)

MY456 Survey Methodology (0.5) ^#

MY457 Causal Inference for Observational and Experimental Studies (0.5) ^#

MY459 Special Topics in Quantitative Analysis: Quantitative Text Analysis (0.5) ^#

MY461 Social Network Analysis (0.5)

ST446 Distributed Computing for Big Data (0.5) ^#

ST449 Artificial Intelligence (0.5)

ST451 Bayesian Machine Learning (0.5) ^#

ST455 Reinforcement Learning (0.5) ^#

ST456 Deep Learning (0.5) ^#

OR

Courses to the value of 0.5 unit(s) from the following:

Methodology Options List

Paper 4

Choice of any other 0.5 unit LSE course (including MY) with approval of the Academic Mentor.

Paper 5

MY498 Capstone Project (1.0)