CSS department

CSS 2. Data and Model Programming for Computational Social Science (4 units)

Link to catalog page: https://catalog.ucsd.edu/courses/css.html#css2

Description

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

Prerequisite courses

Successor courses

CSS 2 is a prerequisite of the following 4 courses:

• CSS 100
• SOCI 102
• SOCI 103M
• SOCI 109