The master’s (Sc.M.) program in Social Data Analytics trains students in advanced techniques for data collection and analysis.
For more information on admission and program requirements, please visit the following website: https://graduateprograms.brown.edu/graduate-program/social-data-analytics-scm
Brown undergraduates who enter the program as fifth-year Master’s students are allowed to use up to two undergraduate courses to count towards the eight credit requirements if the courses are among the required or elective courses for the program.
All entering students are required to have
- One-semester introductory statistics course (SOC 1100 Introductory Statistics for Social Research or an equivalent),
- More advanced course in statistics or a course in college calculus (MATH 0050 and 0060, or MATH 0090 or an equivalent), and
- One-semester course in research methods (SOC 1020 Methods of Social Research or an equivalent).
| Two Required Courses | ||
| SOC 2010 | Multivariate Statistical Methods I | 1 |
| SOC 2020 | Multivariate Statistical Methods II | 1 |
| Five Elective Advanced Analysis Courses Across Three Topical Areas | ||
Qualitative Methods of Investigation and Market Research | ||
| SOC 1117 | Focus Groups for Market and Social Research | 1 |
| SOC 1118 | Context Research for Innovation | 1 |
| SOC 1120 | Market and Social Surveys | 1 |
| SOC 2210 | Qualitative Methods | 1 |
| SOC 2250 | Ethnography: Theory and Practice | 1 |
| SOC 2430 | Fields and Methods of Social Research | 1 |
| SOC 2600 | Comparative Historical Analysis | 1 |
Spacial Analysis | ||
| SOC 1340 | Principles and Methods of Geographic Information Systems | 1 |
| SOC 1871W | Geographical Analysis of Society | 1 |
| SOC 2610 | Spatial Thinking in Social Science | 1 |
| SOC 2612 | Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Analysis for the Social Sciences | 1 |
| SOC 2960G | Spatial Data Analysis Techniques in the Social Sciences | 1 |
| SOC 2961B | Applications in Geographic Information Systems | 1 |
Advanced Multivariate Methods for Population Analysis and Behavioral Modeling | ||
| SOC 2230 | Techniques of Demographic Analysis | 1 |
| SOC 2240 | Event History Analysis | 1 |
| SOC 2960S | Statistical Methods for Hierarchical and Panel Data | 1 |
| SOC 2960Y | Causal Analysis | 1 |
| SOC 2961M | Computational Methods for Social Scientists | 1 |
| One Substantive Course in Sociology | ||
To be selected from a pre-approved list of graduate courses (2000-level) taught in the Department of Sociology | ||
Research Internship and Directed Research Practicum
Students may elect to enroll in a faculty Directed Research Practicum (SOC 2982) in the first or second semester in conjunction with a research internship. The internship provides students with hands-on experience in social research. Internship experiences may occur outside of the department (either off-campus with a local organization in the for-profit or not-for-profit sector or an on-campus organization) or on a faculty member's research project. Activities may range from data collection, data entry, data file management, descriptive analyses, and more advanced model estimation. Students sometimes opt to design their own project under the supervision of a faculty member.