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Digital Society at University of Glasgow - UCAS

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2025 - 2026
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Course summary

New digital technologies have become part of our lives in ways and with depths that would have been difficult to imagine two decades ago. The Masters in Digital Society aims to respond to the needs of this fast-changing environment, by preparing social scientists who can critically and effectively engage with the realities and challenges of the digital era. WHY THIS PROGRAMME

  • This programme introduces you to the examination of how digital technologies permeate different aspects of social life. You will learn how they become interconnected with the self, social relations, education, work and labour markets, cultural and institutional transformations, commerce and finance, health, security and a variety of other areas of social world.
  • You will become familiar with current debates informed by sociological theory and methodology, but also interdisciplinary approaches aimed at grasping the continuously deepening influence of digital technologies on our lives.
  • Core courses will cover the topics of theoretical understandings of digitalisation, methodological training, and practical engagement with/investigation of socio-technical contexts.
  • The degree will enrich your analytical capacity and develop your abilities to design and conduct research on topics related to digitalisation, and to work with data collected and/or analysed through digital tools.
  • This programme covers different substantive areas which are shaped by digital technologies, enabling you to focus in depth on certain topics or social fields which interest you (for example: digitalisation in culture, education, organisational contexts and interpersonal communication).
  • You will be taught by a team of specialists in sociology (The Sociology Subject Area) and draws on the expertise of interdisciplinary scholars in the field of digitalisation (The Glasgow Social and Digital Change Group).
  • Sociology at Glasgow is ranked 4th in the UK by the Times & Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025 and 4th in the UK by the Complete University Guide 2025.
PROGRAMME STRUCTURE You will take three core and three optional courses. Innovative and wide-ranging learning and teaching approaches include lectures and seminars, project work, and field-based activities. You may choose to conduct empirical research in an area of interest through a dissertation, or you may identify non-academic ways to understand and reflect on the experience of being directly and actively engaged with digitalisation in a practical project. Core courses Digital Society-Theory and Substantive Issues Practicing Research and Working with Data in the Digital Age Digital Societies - The Living Lab Optional courses You will have the opportunity to develop your critical thinking and analytical abilities by choosing optional courses within the Sociology subject area. Depending on your interests, you may opt for courses on race or class inequality, disability, gender relations, to name a few. Combining in depth knowledge on these sociological issues with the knowledge about processes of digitalisation and digital social research tools, will allow the development of well-informed research and socially aware practice in digital times. You will need to take at least two courses from this list. One additional course may be chosen from other subjects within the School of Social & Political Sciences. A Public Social Science for Social Justice. Class and Stratification Gender Relations (Contemporary Critical Approaches) Improving Health and Society: Programme Development and Evaluation Introduction To Social Theory For Researchers Quantitative Data Analysis Sexualities And Society Sociology of Culture Social Media, Disinformation and Democracy

How to apply

International applicants

International applicant information can be found via gla.ac.uk by searching for 'international'.

Entry requirements

2.1 Hons (or non-UK equivalent) in Sociology, Political Economy, Cultural Studies, Media Studies (Not the same as Journalism), Gender Studies, Human Geography, Psychology, Digital Humanities, Social/Cultural Anthropology, Philosophy, Cognitive Sciences, Social Work, Urban Studies, Criminology, Business Studies, Business Administration, History, Law, English or Foreign Language and Literature, Film and Theatre Studies, Management, Marketing or Public Administration. International students with academic qualifications below those required should contact our partner institution, Glasgow International College, who offer a range of pre-Masters courses.

Fees and funding

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Digital Society at University of Glasgow - UCAS