Computational Social and Political Science — Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano

Il piano degli esami

1° anno

• Advanced multivariate analysis — 6 CFU
• Data governance: ethical and legal issues — 6 CFU
• Foundations of statistical modelling for social and political sciences — 9 CFU
• Policy design — 6 CFU
• Programming for social data science — 6 CFU
• Research design and experimental methods in the social sciences — 12 CFU
• Survey methods for public opinion research — 9 CFU
• Students must earn 6 credits/ects for Elective substantial course (scegli 6 CFU):

2° anno

• Agent-based modelling — 6 CFU
• Causal inference in social and political science — 6 CFU
• Social network analysis — 6 CFU
• Text analytics and machine learning and large language models — 12 CFU
• Final exam — 15 CFU
• Students must earn 6 credits/ects for Elective substantial course (scegli 6 CFU):
• Italian students or students with a certificate in Italian at level A2 or above must acquire 9 ECTS from an internship in the private sector, in government or public administration organisations or in academic institutions (including departmental laboratories and centres). Students who do not have a certificate in Italian at level A2 or above must acquire 3 ECTS of Italian language provided by the University Language Centre (SLAM), which reduces the ECTS for an internship to 6 ECTS. (scegli 9 CFU):