The UvA launches new Bachelor’s programme in Computational Social Science

The University of Amsterdam has been given the go-ahead for the new Bachelor's programme in Computational Social Science. In this programme, students will learn to develop sustainable digital interventions that contribute to solving complex social issues. The degree programme will start in September 2022 and is the first of its kind in the world. How can we develop digital interventions that increase the political and social engagement of citizens? Or that can strengthen freedom, well-being and ecology? What does it mean to be human when more and more human skills, such as memory and decision-making, are embedded in technology? The Bachelor's programme in Computational Social Science will academically train students to come up with creative and research-based answers to these kinds of questions and to develop sustainable digital interventions themselves. This week, the programme was given the green light by the Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO), thus making it the first programme of its kind in the world. 'This Bachelor's programme comes at the right time, given the rapid digitalisation of an increasingly globalised world', say the founders. Academic professionals who can design sustainable digital interventions .