COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO COMMUNICATION RESEARCH

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Gain familiarity with major computational methods currently available to social scientists. Audience: Graduate 2. Develop a conceptual understanding of the core assumptions, modeling strategies, and programming tools associated with each of the surveyed computational method. Audience: Graduate 3. Critically assess how computational methods could help describe, predict, and explain communication phenomena and improve Interventions. Audience: Graduate 4. Examine how computational approaches could triangulate with other research methods to help advance communication theory. Audience: Graduate 5. Collectively build a shared resource library that includes annotated bibliographies, short response papers, and tutorials & codes for a selected set of R packages popular for computational communication research. Audience: Graduate 6. Gain experiences with applying computational methods to address research questions of your interest. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Gain familiarity with major computational methods currently available to social scientists. Audience: Graduate 2. Develop a conceptual understanding of the core assumptions, modeling strategies, and programming tools associated with each of the surveyed computational method. Audience: Graduate 3. Critically assess how computational methods could help describe, predict, and explain communication phenomena and improve Interventions. Audience: Graduate 4. Examine how computational approaches could triangulate with other research methods to help advance communication theory. Audience: Graduate 5. Collectively build a shared resource library that includes annotated bibliographies, short response papers, and tutorials & codes for a selected set of R packages popular for computational communication research. Audience: Graduate 6. Gain experiences with applying computational methods to address research questions of your interest. Audience: Graduate