SOC 519 - Research Methods I: Quant Survey Analys

Credits: 3
This course will provide students with the skills necessary to collect, understand, compute, analyze, and interpret introductory-level quantitative data. Students will develop and apply increasingly sophisticated quantitative reasoning techniques with an existing dataset using the SPSS statistical package. Students will also create and distribute a survey and analyze the resulting data. This course will enable students to become critical consumers of statistical information presented in other classes, the media, politics, workplaces, and throughout their daily lives. Normally offered every fall.