QCSS Program Calendar

In addition to courses, the program will offer a regular schedule of workshops, colloquia, and public events. A typical year might look something like this:

Summer Semester May/June August
Courses: Quantitative Research Methods for the Social Sciences Workshops: Math Bootcamps for Graduate Students
Summer Undergraduate Research Participation Program (for rising juniors and seniors)
Fall Semester September October November December
(1) Workshop: Flying Excel
(2) How the QCSS Program Works
(3) Field Trip: Facebook
(1) Workshop: GIS
(2) Workshop: Finding and Crunching Historical Data
(1) Workshop: Experimental Social Science
(2) TedX Event with Local CompQuant Collaborators
(1) Workshop: Coding 101
(2) Workshop: Crossing the Bridge to CS
January Term Minicourses (1) Building Social Science Apps (2) Coding for Social Scientists (3) Getting Started with R
Spring Semester January February March April
Workshop: Careers in QC SocSci (1) Summer Internship Workshop
(2) Field Trip: Google
(3) Ignite Talks @Mills
(1) Workshop: Crowdsourcing and Peer Production
(2) Spring Hackathon
Workshop: Building Your QuantComp Portfolios