SOC 395-02 - Advanced Special Topic: Quantitative Tools for Social Research

4 credits (Spring)

This course offers students an overview of two quantitative methodological tools that sociologists frequently use to arrive at conclusions about the social world: survey and experimental data analysis. After delineating the uses, assumptions, and limitations that underlie these tools, the course will take a hands-on approach to data collection, preparation, and analysis. The course will also place considerable emphasis on a substantive interpretation of the results to ensure that data analysis is not divorced from social theory. Students will be expected to complete an individual project as part of the requirements for this course.

Prerequisite: SOC 291 and MAT 115, SST 115, or STA 209.
Instructor: Pandian