Course outline

The course is organized around eight 3-hour sessions (15:15-18:30) that walk you through as many and more different research topics and methods. 

The structure of each session is the following. I provide an overview of a particular topic and its methods (e.g., experiments) and present and submit for discussion with the class applied research paper examples for which some students prepare via written commentaries. The session ends with a series of short student presentations of applied papers.

Week 1   -   4 Oct.: Introduction + Social Biology

Week 2   - 11 Oct.: Qualitative & Mixed Approaches

Week 3   - 25 Oct.: Experiments

Week 4   - 8 Nov.: Mechanisms

Week 5   - 15 Nov.: Patterns & Big Data

Week 6   - 22 Nov.: Networks

Week 7   -  29 Nov.: Social Ecology

Week 8   - 6 Dec.: Social Physics + Conclusion