EPIDEM 217Social Networks and Public Health
Epidemiology · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Principles of social network research, social network analysis, and social network intervention, especially in relation to public health and health behavior. Coding examples are provided in R (mainly R igraph and ggplot2 packages). Discussion of landmark social network papers relevant to public health.
S/U or letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
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 100 or 200A, or Public Health 200A and 200B.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
needs reviewconfidence 0.55 · from text- · "PUB HLT 200A" is not in this catalog version
- · "PUB HLT 200B" is not in this catalog version
- · mixed comma-level AND/OR in "course 100 or 200A, or Public Health 200A and 200B" — grouping is a best reading
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
EPIDEM 217
- EPIDEM 100Principles of Epidemiology
- EPIDEM 200AMethods I: Basic Concepts and Study Designs
2 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 2 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
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.