Courses

Communication Research Methods Seminar

A graduate seminar that introduces social scientific research methods in communication and guides students in applying these methods to real-world communication problems. The course emphasizes developing research questions, linking theory and method, and formulating students’ own research projects.

Persuasive Communication Seminar

A graduate seminar exploring classic and contemporary theories and research on persuasive communication. Students examine how persuasion operates across different media contexts and apply theoretical frameworks to analyze real-world communication cases and develop original research ideas.

Communication Network Analysis

A graduate seminar focused on the theory and application of network analysis for understanding communication-related social phenomena. Students learn to analyze relational data and extract insights from communication networks using R packages such as igraph and statnet, with applications to media, opinion, and social interaction networks.

Introduction to Computational Social Sciences

An interdisciplinary omnibus course offered by faculty affiliated with the Center for Computational Social Sciences (C2S2). The course introduces a broad range of computational approaches for studying social phenomena, including data collection, modeling, and large-scale data analysis across multiple domains.

Media Psychology Seminar

A graduate seminar examining psychological processes underlying mediated communication in modern societies. Students engage with key theoretical and empirical research on media effects, media representations, and mediated social interaction, and critically assess how media environments shape perception, cognition, and behavior.

Collective Behavior & Communication

A graduate seminar on collective social phenomena from both classical perspectives and contemporary complexity science approaches. The course introduces agent-based modeling and simulation as tools for studying information diffusion, public opinion dynamics, polarization, and the emergence of social norms in networked environments.