This is intended to be a COLL 200 course. It sits in the NQR (the Natural world and Quantitative Reasoning) domain, but contains significant applications and motivations in Cultures, Societies, and the Individual (CSI) domain. At each topic, there is a case study/project/reading component, which requires students to read or work on some related topics in natural or social sciences. Throughout the course, the students will be guided to explore the properties and structures of social networks and at the last two weeks, we will introduce how to model and analyze the social networks. Our reading examples including molecule constitutional isomers and graph isomorphism in chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate’s speech on matching theory and applications in economics, the philosophical significance of Four Color Problem, gene recombination, and how NFL schedule the games et al. Projects includes design Apps to improve the course registration process, design routes for more efficient door-to-door campaign, and model popular social medias, just to name a few.
Start homework early and work steadily!
The letter grade is assigned using the scale:
A > 93 > A- > 90 > B+ > 87 > B > 83 > B- > 80> C+ > 77 > C > 73 > C- > 70 > D+ > 67 > D > 63 > D- > 60 > F