Introduction to Using AI to Study Society

Undergraduate

How can we use AI to study society? Social scientists have begun integrating AI technologies into the designs and methodologies of their research projects. How are they doing so? What new discoveries has this integration generated? This lecture course is an introduction to why and how AI can be used to study society, and what we are learning by incorporating AI in social science research. In addition to lectures, students read cutting-edge articles explaining and demonstrating the use of AI in social science. They also gain hands-on experience through structured assignments that explain how to use AI to conduct social science research activities. Students should be familiar with the R programming language or be committed to learning R. SO 0 Course cr HTBA