/GTY 591. Social Network Analysis

Catalog description

The course on social network analysis focuses on applications to social phenomena. This includes topics such as the types of networks, network centrality, network clustering, associativity, community detection, random graph models, models of diffusion, and network visualization. The course allows students to investigate social networks, explain and examine their important characteristics, and relate these features back to social theories. CAS-C. Prerequisite: POL 306 or STA 363 or ISA 291. Cross-listed with POL 491/POL 591 /591.