DGT HUM 120Social Media Data Analytics
Digital Humanities · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Social media data analytics, with focus on questions of power, privilege, identity, whose voices count and in what spaces, as well as how data science and digital humanities may be used to challenge power structures. Study of how social media has been used both to undermine and to support social justice and political change movements, ways in which social media data is currently used by corporate entities, and ethical data usage. Students learn digital research methods including quantitative and qualitative data analytics, statistics, as well as data visualization to examine social media data.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 101 or consent of instructor.
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confidence 0.80 · from text- DGT HUM 101
- consent of instructor
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
DGT HUM 120
- DGT HUM 101Introduction to Digital Humanities
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.