The Minor in Social Data Science provides students with training that integrates social science theory and perspectives with data science and artificial intelligence (AI) methods and tools, enabling them to analyze social phenomena across an interdisciplinary landscape. Courses develop students' technical and analytical skills, while fostering critical thinking about how data and evidence is generated and understood in different contexts. This Minor will appeal broadly to science students looking to research social phenomenon, as well as social science and humanities students looking to acquire data science skills and methods.
Program Requirements
Note: Students may not combine more than one Minor program offered by the Department of Sociology.
Students completing more than one program offered by the Department of Sociology (e.g., the Specialist in Sociology with this Minor, or the Major in Sociology with this Minor) may count up to 1.0 credit toward both programs.
Students must complete 4.0 credits:
1. 2.5 credits in Foundations as follows:
SOCA05H3 The Sociological Imagination
SOCB05H3 Logic of Social Inquiry
SOCB29H3 Artificial Intelligence and Society
SOCB35H3 Foundations of Social Data Science
SOCC70H3 Applied Modeling for Social Data Science
2. 1.5 credits in Skills and Applications for Social Data Science from the following:
(maximum 0.5 credits from Sociology; at least 0.5 credits must be at the C- or D-level)
Note that additional non-Sociology credits may have discipline-specific prerequisites. Please consult the relevant program section of the calendar for details.
ANTC62H3 Medical Anthropology: Biological and Population Perspectives
ANTC67H3 Foundations in Epidemiology
ANTC70H3 Ethnographic Methods in Anthropology: Past, Present, and Future
BIOB20H3 Introduction to Computational Biology
CITB05H3 Researching the City: An Introduction to Methods
EESA10H3 Human Health and the Environment
EESB03H3 Principles of Climatology
EESB18H3 Natural Hazards
EESC25H3 Urban Climatology
ESTB05H3 Climate Science for Everyone
ESTC35H3 Environmental Science and Technology in Society
ESTC38H3/EESC28H3 The Anthropocene
GGRB30H3 Fundamentals of GIS
GGRC30H3 Advanced GIS
GGRC32H3 Essential Spatial Analysis
HCSB03H3 Ready for Research: HCS Skills Lab
HISB03H3 Critical Writing and Research for Historians
HLTB15H3 Health Research Methodology
HLTB27H3 Applied Statistics for Public Health
HLTC04H3 Qualitative Health Research
HLTC16H3 Health Information Systems
LINA02H3 Applications of Linguistics
LINB29H3 Quantitative Methods in Linguistics
LINC35H3 Introduction to Computational Linguistics
PHLB18H3 Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
POLB40H3 Quantitative Reasoning for Political Science and Public Policy
POLC11H3 Applied Statistics for Politics and Public Policy
POLD56H3 Politics and Computational Social Science
PSYB06H3 Applied Statistical Analysis for Psychology & Neuroscience
PSYC06H3 Advanced Statistical Analysis for Psychology & Neuroscience
STAB23H3 Introduction to Statistics for the Social Sciences
SOCB20H3 The City and the Fight against Climate Change
SOCB22H3 Sociology of Gender
SOCB26H3 Sociology of Education
SOCB30H3 Political Sociology
SOCB44H3 Sociology of Cities and Urban Life
SOCB47H3 Social Inequality
SOCB54H3 Sociology of Work
SOCB60H3 Issues in Critical Migration Studies
SOCB70H3 Social Change
SOCC15H3 Work, Employment and Society
SOCC23H3 Research in Action: Gathering and Analyzing Qualitative Data
SOCC31H3 Research in Action: Quantitative Data and Statistical Analysis
SOCC49H3/HLTC49H3 Indigenous Health
SOCC61H3 Sociology of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
