Social Research

Catalog description

This course addresses how social scientists go about asking and answering questions to learn about people's beliefs, attitudes, and actions. Students will actively discuss theories about doing research, approaches to gathering data, and how to make sense of their own and others' data. Students will learn how to be critical consumers of information in the media, how to formulate precise questions about current issues, and how to write a research proposal. This course meets the critical thinking/communications outcome.