SOCI 427 - Introduction to Social Research

(4 hours) Prerequisites: SOCI 101, 203, 301, 426. The exploration of practical problems in social science research design, e.g., hypothesis construction, operationalization of variables, measurement, sampling, questionnaire development, data collection and processing, index and scale construction, elementary analysis of data, etc. Lecture 3 hours, Laboratory 2 hours. (Laboratory fee required) This course cannot be challenged.