SOC 2090

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SOC 2090
Networks

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025. The Catalog/Courses of Study 2025-2026 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

This interdisciplinary course examines network structures and how they matter in everyday life. The course examines how each of the computing, economic, sociological and natural worlds are connected and how the structure of these connections affects each of these worlds. Tools of graph theory and game theory are taught and then used to analyze networks. Topics covered include the web, the small world phenomenon, markets, neural networks, contagion, search and the evolution of networks.

When Offered Fall.

Distribution Category (SSC-AS) (SBA-AG)

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CS 2850, ECON 2040, INFO 2040

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  3058 SOC 2090   LEC 001

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    • MWF
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Lamba, R

      Yin, Y

  • Instruction Mode: In Person