Teaching & modules
Modules
Courses are divided into modules. You will normally take modules totalling 180 credits.
Required modules
- Theorising Data (30 credits)
- Data in Practice: Collaboratories, Tools and Methods (15 credits)
- Social and Cultural Analytics (30 credits)
- Big Data & the Law: Foundations, Regimes & Principles, Challenges (15 credits)
- Dissertation (60 credits)
Optional modules
In addition, you are required to take two modules totalling 30 credits from a range of optional modules that typically includes:
- Artificial Intelligence & Society (15 credits)
- Music and Sound in Digital Societies (15 credits)
- Digital Storytelling (15 credits)
- Web Technologies (15 credits)
- Global Digital Audiences (15 credits)
- Digital Innovation (15 credits)
- Digital Publishing (15 credits)
- Data Journalism (15 credits)
- Social Media, Marketing and Platforms (15 credits)
- Management for Digital Content Industries (15 credits)
- Digital Media, Digital Marketing (15 credits)
- Curating & Preserving Digital Culture (15 credits)
Up to 30 credits from master’s modules offered in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, subject to approval.
If you are a part-time student, you will take between 45 to 105 credits of taught modules in your first year and between 75 to 135 credits, including your dissertation, in your second year. (Data in Practice: Collaboratories, Tools and Methods 15 credit module can be taken in years 1 or 2.)
King’s College London reviews the modules offered on a regular basis to provide up-to-date, innovative and relevant programmes of study. Therefore, modules offered may change. We suggest you keep an eye on the course finder on our website for updates.
Teaching methods - what to expect
Full-time:
If you are a full-time student, we will provide you with 120 to 180 hours of teaching through lectures and seminars across the year. We expect you to undertake around 1,674 hours of independent study.
Part-time:
If you are a part-time student, we will provide you with 90 hours of teaching through lectures and seminars in your first year, and 50 hours in your second. We expect you to undertake 720 hours of independent study in your first year and 954 hours in your second.
Typically, one credit equates to 10 hours of work
Assessment
- Coursework
- Written/practical examinations
- Assessed Essays
- Mini-projects
Your performance will be assessed through a combination of coursework and written/practical examinations. Forms of assessment may typically include essays and mini-projects. Coursework contributes approximately 100% to your final mark.
Application closing date guidance
Key Information
Course type:
Master's
Delivery mode:
In person
Study mode:
Full time / Part time
Duration:
One year full-time, two years part-time, September to September
Application status:
Open
Start date:
September 2026