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CSS 2Data and Model Programming for Computational Social Science

4 units · CSS · UC San Diego

This course explores the use of computational methods across the social sciences. Topics include thinking like a computational social scientist; research design for big data; legal and ethical dimensions of computational social science (CSS). Students will implement demonstrations of these methods in Python.

Before you enroll

Prerequisites

From the catalog: “CSS 1 and choose one of the following courses: COGS 14B, MATH 11, MGT 3, POLI 30, POLI 30D, PSYC 60.”

Where it fits

Where it sits in degree plans

Suggested plans most often put it in Year 1 · Winter (1 program).

One of the options in (1)

  • Linguistics (Speech and Language Sciences) (B.A.)
What it opens up

Courses that list CSS 2 as a prerequisite (4)

  • CSS 100 Advanced Programming for Computational Social Science
  • SOCI 102 Network Data and Methods
  • SOCI 103M Computer Applications to Data Management in Sociology
  • SOCI 109 Analysis of Sociological Data