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S5 International politics and data
Understand foreign policy and relations between major powers, and study society with networks, simulation and AI.
191hours of coursework
20weeks at 10 h
2steps
8new courses
2universities
Target skills
- US institutions and society
- How foreign policy is made, and diplomacy
- Geopolitics, culture and economics of bilateral relations
- Social network analysis
- Simulation and agent-based models
- Big data, AI and ethics
Semester project
A five-page analysis of an international issue, complemented by a network study (alliances, trade or online debates).
Courses this semester
- 1O.P. Jindal Global UniversityBeginner
Stated prerequisites: No prior experience required
Show the 3 courses
Course Level Length Rating (reviews) American Politics, Society, and History Beginner 59 h 4.0 (10) The Making of US Foreign Policy Beginner 41 h 4.5 (12) India-US Relations: Geopolitics, Culture, and Business Beginner 34 h 4.5 (11) - 2University of California, DavisBeginnerIBM Watson
Stated prerequisites: No prior experience required
Show the 5 courses
Course Level Length Rating (reviews) Computational Social Science Methods Beginner 11 h 4.7 (357) Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Ethics Beginner 9 h 4.6 (784) Social Network Analysis Beginner 10 h 4.7 (248) Computer Simulations Beginner 13 h 4.5 (87) Computational Social Science Capstone Project Intermediate 14 h 4.7 (44)
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Things to watch
- American Politics, Society, and History (O.P. Jindal) is long (59 h) and has only ten reviews, rated 4.0.
- Computational Social Science (UC Davis) requires no programming; the Python for Everybody option lets you go further.
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