Teaching

Courses taught as instructor or teaching assistant at Nanjing University, National University of Singapore, and City University of Hong Kong. Topics include computational methods, data journalism, visualization, and social media analytics.

2026

NM2226 Introduction to Visual Cultural Analytics

Fall 2026 Zhicong Chen

A mixed-methods undergraduate course on studying and researching visual culture in contemporary media environments, combining qualitative interpretation, content analysis, and artificial intelligence and machine learning methods including image feature extraction, classification, clustering, and the use of large language models for visual annotation.

NMC5344 Coding for Communicators

AY 2026/2027 Semester A 2026 Zhicong Chen

A course introducing coding for communication research and professional practice using R, with an emphasis on understanding code, verifying results, and communicating computational findings responsibly.

2025

Data Visualization

Spring 2025 Zhicong Chen

A graduate course covering principles and practices of data visualization, with a focus on theory, tools, and best practices for communicating data insights effectively.

NMC5342 Introduction to Applied Social Media Analytics

Fall 2025 Zhicong Chen

A hands-on graduate course introducing social media data collection, text and network analysis, visualization, and ethical analytics with Python.

Text as Data

Spring 2025 Zhicong Chen

A graduate course on computational text analysis methods for social science research, covering topic modeling, word embeddings, sentiment analysis, and large language models.

2024

Data Journalism

Fall 2024 Zhicong Chen

An undergraduate course on data-driven storytelling, covering data collection, analysis, and visualization in the context of journalism and media.

Introduction to Python

Spring 2024 Zhicong Chen

An undergraduate course introducing Python programming for data analysis, with applications in social science and communication research.

Text as Data

Spring 2024 Zhicong Chen

A graduate course on computational text analysis methods for social science research, covering topic modeling, word embeddings, sentiment analysis, and large language models.

2023

Data Journalism

Fall 2023 Zhicong Chen

An undergraduate course on data-driven storytelling, covering data collection, analysis, and visualization in the context of journalism and media.

2019

COM5508 Media Data Analytics

Spring 2019 Xiaofan Liu (Teaching Assistant: Zhicong Chen)

A graduate course on computational methods for media research, covering data collection, text mining, network analysis, and machine learning applications in communication studies.