Research Methods

This course introduces undergraduate students to the methods of social science research, with an emphasis on crime and criminal justice topics. First, this course will explain the concepts and vocabulary needed to understand social science research. Students will learn about different types of research methods, including: experiments, surveys, secondary data analysis, interviewing, and more. Second, the course will provide students with practical experience in reading, understanding, and writing research. The course will cover a variety of design issues, methodological issues and analytic techniques. The techniques provide a springboard for the discussion of important methodological issues: the relationship between theory and data, the logic of inference, causality, data collection, model specification, standardized versus un-standardized data and many others.

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Universal Code: SOC0