This course is restricted to students in the Honors Program.  Further, you must have already completed HONR 101, HONR D101, HONR 102, and HONR D102.  Beyond that, it is strongly recommended (but not officially required) that you have at least some college-level social science background.  The course is apt to be of greatest interest and value to students majoring in one of the social sciences, especially anthropology, economics, political science, psychology, or sociology.

Prior experience with computer programming/coding is not a prerequisite.  Although a little coding experience may be helpful, most students should be able to learn the necessary programming skills without prior experience.  NetLogo, the programming language we will use in this course, is a "low-threshold, high ceiling" language, meaning that it is relatively easy to learn (low threshold) but still very powerful (high ceiling).

Students taking this course should have a laptop or desktop computer at their disposal in order to complete homework assignments and projects.  Further, you must be willing to install the free NetLogo language and simulation environment on that computer.  The homework assignments and projects cannot be completed without having NetLogo installed.  NetLogo is available on lab computers and on other public computers across campus (e.g., in the IC), but you are apt to find it frustrating if you have to rely exclusively on those resources in order to do all of your out-of-class work for this course.  (Note: Because all lab computers have NetLogo installed, it is not necessary to bring your laptop to class.)

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