The 12-hour Digital Sociology graduate certificate provides a cutting-edge combination of social science theory and methods with the foundations of data science. Courses cover topics including text mining, web scraping, online surveys, digital ethnography, social media analytics, human performance analytics, and a variety of sociological topics including social movements, criminology, immigration, and gender. The knowledge and skills acquired in this program position students to work in fields that value combinations of social science and data science skills. The courses taken for this certificate count toward the sociology MS degree.