ECON 2040

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ECON 2040
Networks

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

This interdisciplinary course examines network structures and how they matter in everyday life. The course examines how each of the computing, economic, sociological and natural worlds are connected and how the structure of these connections affects each of these worlds. Tools of graph theory and game theory are taught and then used to analyze networks. Topics covered include the web, the small world phenomenon, markets, neural networks, contagion, search and the evolution of networks.


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Distribution Category (SSC-AS) (SBA-AG)

When Offered Fall, Winter, Summer.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CS 2850, INFO 2040, SOC 2090

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4392 ECON 2040   LEC 001

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person