Developments in online and social technologies have changed the way we interact with each other, expanding and changing our capabilities for collaborative work. The field of Social Computing, or Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) seeks to address the ways that we collaborate and create with each other with the assistance of technology. This prominent sub-field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) seeks to answer questions like how we adapt to emergent technologies, how we create new interactions for collaborative work, and how the medium we work with changes the way we interact with each other. This course introduces the field of Social Computing, providing qualitative research methods for studying the way humans interact socially in social media platforms, community networks, and interactive platforms. We seek to provides a theoretical and empirical underpinnings for research in Social Computing and CSCW, utilizing qualitative methods for writing and analyses.