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Fall 2025 Lecture Distance Learning Upper DivisionData from last updated 10/3/2025
Fall 2025
Fall 2025 Instructors:
Introduction to the methods of data collection and analysis and to the use of the scientific method of social research. Formulation of hypotheses and research designs for their testing. Elementary principles for the conduct of experiments, observation and interviewing, documentation, content analysis, and surveys. Relationship between social research and social theory.
Learning Outcomes1Understand the conditions needed to establish social causation in social research.
2Become familiar with major approaches to collecting data for social research.
3Understand practices to achieve valid measurement and representative samples.
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