SOA 316: Research Methods

Prerequisite: Sophomore Standing

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.