This course introduces students to the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences and its statistical procedures. The course will teach students how to run programs with the software and to interpret the output from those programs. Students will enter, edit, and learn how to analyze data using SPSS.
Prerequisite(s): Political Science major or department chair approval.
Corequisite(s): POLSC 3010 Research Methods I: Design/Qualitative Methods and POLSC 3020 Research Methods II: Quantitative Methods/Project Implementation.
(Normally offered each fall semester.)
POLSC 3010 Research Methods I: Design/Qualitative Methods (2 hours)
This course teaches the basics of research in political science, including questions of design and measurement. Students will also learn different qualitative research designs such a focus groups, interviews, case studies, and field work.
Corequisite(s): POLSC 2000 Introduction to Statistics and SPSS and POLSC 3020 Research Methods II: Quantitative Methods/Project Implementation.
Prerequisite(s): Political Science major or department chair approval.
POLSC 3020 Research Methods II: Quantitative Methods/Project Implementation (2 hours)
This is the second of the Research Methods course sequence. It introduces quantitative research methodology and the carrying out of a research project. Students will carry out the research design prepared in Research Methods I and learn about how to test their hypothesis quantitatively.
Corequisite(s): POLSC 2000 Introduction to Statistics and SPSS and POLSC 3010 Research Methods I: Design/Qualitative Methods.
Prerequisite(s): Political Science major or department chair approval.
