Complete all courses and requirements listed below unless otherwise indicated.

Core Requirements

Core Requirements
INSH 6300Research Methods in the Social Sciences4
INSH 6500Statistical Analysis4

Required Concentration

Complete one of the following concentrations:

Electives

Complete 12 semester hours from the following:12
Concentration courses may not be double counted as elective courses.
CRIM, ECON, INSH, POLS, PPUA, and/or SOCL at the 5000 level or higher

Optional Co-op Experience

Four-month co-ops require registration at 1 semester hour for one term. Longer co-ops require registration at 1 semester hour per term for two consecutive terms.1-2
Experiential Integration
Co-op Work Experience

Program Credit/GPA Requirements

32 total semester hours required (33–34 with optional co-op)
Minimum 3.000 GPA required


 Concentration in Computational Social Science

Concentration Requirements
DA 5030Introduction to Data Mining/Machine Learning4
INSH 5302Information Design and Visual Analytics4
or POLS 7334 Social Networks
or PPUA 5262 Big Data for Cities
or PPUA 5263 Geographic Information Systems for Urban and Regional Policy
INSH 6406Analyzing Complex Digitized Data4
or INSH 5301 Introduction to Computational Statistics

 Concentration in Data Analytics in the Social Sciences

Concentration Requirements
DA 5020Collecting, Storing, and Retrieving Data4
or DA 5030 Introduction to Data Mining/Machine Learning
INSH 5301Introduction to Computational Statistics4
INSH 5302Information Design and Visual Analytics4

 Concentration in Information Ethics for Social Analysis

Concentration Requirements
CY 5240Cyberlaw: Privacy, Ethics, and Digital Rights4
PHIL 5001Global Justice4
or PHIL 5002 Ethics and Public Policy
or PHIL 5010 AI Ethics
PHIL 5005Information Ethics4

Concentration in Machine Learning and Econometrics

Concentration Requirements
ECON 5140Applied Econometrics4
ECON 5210Machine Learning in Economics4
ECON 5220Computational Finance and Financial Econometrics4

Concentration in Network Analysis in the Social Sciences

Concentration Requirements
INSH 5301Introduction to Computational Statistics4
INSH 5302Information Design and Visual Analytics4
INSH 6304Modeling and Analyzing Social Networks4
or POLS 7334 Social Networks

Concentration in Statistical Methods in the Social Sciences 

Concentration Requirements
INSH 5301Introduction to Computational Statistics4
INSH 7400Quantitative Analysis4
INSH 7500Advanced Quantitative Analysis4