Courses I've designed and taught on social networks and sociology, each built to introduce students to a new way of thinking and analysis.
An introduction to network analysis: vocabulary, metrics, and the mechanisms behind tie formation and diffusion, built around an independent project in which students construct their own network dataset from scratch. At Dartmouth, this culminated in a mini-conference where students presented findings ranging from alliance networks between nations to voting patterns on reality TV.
Syllabus (PDF) → Read the writeup →An accelerated summer-session survey of sociology as a field, from classical theory (Durkheim, Marx, Weber, Mead) to contemporary work on inequality, deviance, and social networks, taught as instructor of record while a PhD student.
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