PSCI 360 - Political Analysis

Credits: (3)
Majors and Minors only. This course should be taken in the junior year and it is a prerequisite to PSCI 498 Senior Seminar (3). This is the second research and writing intensive course in the three-course methods sequence of the political science and international studies major. this course is a study of the basic procedures that constitute the research process in political science, focusing on the principles and problems of data collection in qualitative and quantitative research, and basic competence in the use of statistics for hypothesis testing an measuring central tendency, variability, and correlation. Prerequisite(s): Sophomore status required. PSCI 290 Investigating Politics (3) (Every semester, as possible)