This is a project-oriented course to expose graduate students with both fundamental theories and practical knowledge about recent advances in social media and big data applications. Common and trending designs of systems in latest social media and big data applications will be introduced. Important and emerging techniques to collect, process and model massive datasets for developing useful analytics will be discussed. Some hands-on skills and tools will be covered through the tutorial sessions to help students applying what learnt from the course to solve today challenges in analytics and systems for social media and big data applications.