Lecturer Pool - Master of Computational Social Science - ISSP - College of Letters & Science

The Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Program (ISSP) is the administrative unit that oversees the interdisciplinary majors, minors and graduate programs within the Social Sciences Division of the College of Letters and Sciences at UC Berkeley. Housed in ISSP, the Master of Computational Social Science (MaCSS) is a new one-year professional master's program that will provide students with practical skills for analyzing, interpreting, and visualizing social data.

Social data are data about people, groups, organizations, and their interactions from surveys and censuses, company websites, store loyalty cards, cell-phone records, social media posts, internet searches, etc. MaCSS graduates will be able to work as analysts and data specialists in business, non-profit, and government settings.

DUTIES OF THE POSITION: Teaching one or more of the following courses:

• Introduction to Computing;
• Introduction to Applied Statistics;
• Computing I;
• Applied Statistics I;
• Computing II;
• Applied Statistics II;
• Ethics, Data, & Society;
• Special topics in Computational Social Science;
• Career Development;
• Capstone Project In addition to teaching responsibilities, general duties may include holding office hours, assigning grades, preparing course materials (e.g. syllabus), writing exams, interacting with students outside of class time via email and/or a course web site, and managing teaching assistants. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States at the time of hire. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.