Undergraduate Courses

Undergraduate courses

The following courses are offered for undergraduate students:

Economic Analysis of the Digital Economy This course shows how the tools of economics can further our understanding of online behaviour, and also how economics can contribute to the future development of the Internet. The course also demonstrates how data from the Internet are being used to answer important long-standing research questions in economics.

Social Science of the Internet equips students with the theory and methods for understanding the social, political and economic impact of the Internet. Students will also learn how digital methods and big data are being used to answer long-standing questions in social science.

Online Research Methods covers unobtrusive/non-reactive methods involving socially-generated digital trace data (networks and text) from sources such as websites, social networking sites such as Facebook and microblogs such as Twitter.