Courses

You have to choose four courses, two in each period. The list of pre-approved electives and the relation with the application domains that are contributing to the Master’s study programme is as follows:

Health Science:

• Epidemiology and big data
• Using data from routine care

Geoscience:

• Spatial data analysis and simulation modelling
• Spatial statistics and machine learning

Social and behavioural sciences:

• Human network analysis
• Dynamics and causality in the social and behavioural sciences

Humanities:

• Text and Media Analytics
• Personalisation for (public) media
• Transformers: Applications in Language and Communication
• Data Ethics: Responsible data practices and value-sensitive design

Economics

• Causal inference methods for policy evaluation

IMPORTANT NOTE: Some courses may have a limit on the number of students that can enrol in them. Therefore, it may not always be possible to satisfy your top preferences. However, there are other electives that you will be able to choose from. All electives cover relevant data science practices from various application domains.

Overview of all electives:

For more details on the Thesis project, please see the ADS thesis project page.

Within all Master's programmes one or more research projects are mandatory. Please see ‘Study programme’ for general information on such projects in your curriculum. In many cases, a research project may be carried out outside of the university, in the form of an internship at a company, research institute, or another university. This can be in the Netherlands as well as abroad, with the exception of ADS (see also: ‘study abroad’). 

You are required to apply for approval of your research project by submitting a request via OSIRIS Student. Please select ‘My Cases’, ‘Start Case’ and then ‘Research Project GSNS’. Important: in order to apply completely and correctly, you must have discussed the project setup with your intended project supervisor beforehand! We advise you to study the request form previous to discussing it with your supervisor, or fill it out together, to make sure you obtain all of the information required.

After submitting your request, it will be forwarded to your master’s programme coordinator, the board of examiners and student affairs for checks and approvals. After approval of your project it will be automatically registered in OSIRIS. If something needs to be amended, you will be notified by email. Please DO NOT register yourself in OSIRIS for the relevant research project courses. You will be automatically registered upon approval of the Research Application Form.

• Please note that this protocol (English version) applies when a project is delayed
• In case of a project or internship outside of Utrecht University, please make sure you fill out the Work Placement Agreement in OSIRIS Student / my cases. This agreement will be available for filling out in OSIRIS Student / My Cases after you have submitted your initial request for research project approval