Six Degrees: The New Science of Networks
Duncan J. Watts · TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology · 2010
A central objective of this course is to help you to think about real-world social, cultural, economic, organizational, ecological, and technological problems in a different way. To this end, instead of a term paper, you will be required to submit at the end of the semester, a scrap book of annotated clippings from the media. This project is not meant to be arduous—in fact, it is intended to be fun—and you can approach it in many different ways. The main objectives are (a) to encourage you to keep abreast of current events, as well as contemporary ideas and trends; and (b) to help you take the concepts of the course out of the classroom and use them to interpret the world around you.