SOA 316: Research Methods

Prerequisite: SOA 101 or SOA 102 or SOA 111 and SOA 200 (may be taken simultaneously), and SOA 211; SOA Majors and Minors only

General Education requirement: 1C - Intermediate Writing

Quantitative and qualitative approaches to research design and analysis, to develop student competency in conducting and critiquing social research. What we observe - and what we overlook - guides our understanding of social life. Fundamental to anthropology and sociology is systematic design, collection, and analysis of observations, which become data for developing new concepts and theories about the social world.