DEMOG 180 Social Networks 4 Units
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Summer 2024 Second 6 Week Session, Fall 2023
The science of social networks focuses on measuring, modeling, and understanding the different ways that people are connected to one another. We will use a broad toolkit of theories and methods drawn from the social, natural, and mathematical sciences to learn what a social network is, to understand how to work with social network data, and to illustrate some of the ways that social networks can be useful in theory and in practice. We will see that network ideas are powerful enough to be used everywhere from UNAIDS, where network models help epidemiologists prevent the spread of HIV, to Silicon Valley, where data scientists use network ideas to build products that enable people all across the globe to connect with one another.
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Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Suggested: Introduction to Statistics (Computer Science/Information/Statistics C8 or "Data 8"), Pre-calculus (Mathematics 32), Python, or consent of instructor
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-3 hours of lecture and 0-1 hours of discussion per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5-7.5 hours of lecture and 0-2.5 hours of discussion per week
8 weeks - 6-6 hours of lecture and 0-2 hours of discussion per week
10 weeks - 4.5-4.5 hours of lecture and 0-1.5 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Demography/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructor: Feehan