DINS offers undergraduate major in Computational Social Science with the Department of Political Science

DINS, with the Department of Political Science, now has a new undergraduate major in Computational Social Science. The Computational Social Science (CSS) major educates students to build, compute, and improve theoretically informed models of social processes, bridging domain and technical expertise. This major will prepare students to understand, engage with, and innovatively solve evolving, complex multi-scale challenges such as climate change, transnational political violence, cybersecurity and privacy, social polarization, and inequality. This major will draw on and enhance Pitt’s strength in both social science theory, broadly construed, as well as computing, informatics, and networked systems. Students will gain an understanding of modern computational tools and resources, and social, political, and economic concepts from core social science classes. INFSCI 0510: Data Analytics will be a core component of this major as also some of classes like INFSCI 0410: Human Centered Systems, INFSCI 0610: Networks and Information, INFSCI 1500: Database Management Concepts and Applications as well as INFSCI 1600: Security and Privacy. Stay tuned for more on this degree.