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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Fall 2020 |
Registration ID | SOCLB265001 |
Course Title | Quantitative Methods |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Health Studies |
Instructor | Wright,Nathan Daniel |
Times and Days | WSa 02:40pm-04:00pm
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Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2276 An introduction to the conduct of empirical, especially quantitative, social science inquiry. In consultation with the instructor, students may select research problems to which they apply the research procedures and statistical techniques introduced during the course. Using SPSS, a statistical computer package, students learn techniques such as cross-tabular analysis, ANOVA, and multiple regression. Required of Bryn Mawr Sociology majors and minors. Non-sociology majors and minors with permission of instructor.; This course will serve as an introduction to quantitative research methods and the statistical software package SPSS used to employ these methods. It will situate quantitative methods within a broader framework of methodological approaches for constructing analytic representations of social life. It will provide a foundational understanding of basic quantitative methodological concepts, including measures of central tendency and variability, sampling distributions and statistical inference, crosstabulation, analysis of variance (ANOVA), and multivariate analysis using ordinary least squares (OLS) regression. In addition, specific attention will be given to how to acquire sources of data and how to manipulate and analyze acquired data using the statistical software package SPSS. Finally, we will focus on how to formally write up quantitative results and document our work so that our research is reproducible. This course is required of Sociology majors and minors and will be capped at 25 students, with those students receiving priority. Approach: Quantitative Methods (QM), Quantitative Readiness Required (QR); Haverford: B: Analysis of the Social World (B), Social Science (SO) Enrollment Cap: 25; If the course exceeds the enrollment cap the following criteria will be used for the lottery: Major/Minor/Concentration; Senior; Junior; Sophomore; Primary mode of instruction is synchronous interactive lecture with discussion. All classes will be live-streamed over Zoom for remote students to participate synchronously. All classes will also be recorded for remote students who cannot participate synchronously, and asynchronous discussion boards will also be made available on Moodle. However, asynchronous participation is not anticipated or desired except for temporary situations and with permission of instructor. |
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