Advance your success as a college student! Through weekly workshops, presentations and assignments you will develop study and writing skills, understand own values system and connect with campus mentors.

There is more than one way to find success in college and the path to getting there is different for every student. Our goals in this course are to 1. Make social/interpersonal connections that will enhance your ability to become more productive contributors to your communities, both at UMass and beyond, 2. Develop academic goals and begin to plan individual pathways toward achieving those goals, 3. Understand the values and perspective of an SBS major and the overall structure of UMass, 4.

SOCBEHAV 190T is a one-credit, graded seminar for College of Social and Behavioral Science (SBS) transfer students. It will introduce you to your SBS major and the SBS Pathways model of student success while helping you build strong connections with each other and engage in directed reflection and goal-setting. It is designed to welcome transfer students to UMass and to address some needs that are specific to transfer students while also respecting that you come to UMass with college experience and important success skills already in place.

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Individualized secondary or applied research in special areas of guided doctoral-level investigation.

This course focuses on the theory and application of Social Network Analysis to manage social and organizational networks effectively. This course is designed to help you assess, diagnose, analyze, and prescribe a wide variety of social and organizational network problems using theory and analytic software.

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