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2024-2025 Undergraduate Hill Book 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Hill Book

SOC 311 - Quantitative Research

3 Credits
Offered Spring
An introduction to descriptive and inferential statistical methods as applied to research in sociology. Topics include measures of central tendency, dispersion, hypothesis testing using parametric and nonparametric tests, contingency table analysis, t-tests, analysis of variance, correlation and regression. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) will be used throughout the course.

Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): SOC 101 - Introduction to Sociology  and one additional sociology class
Core Curriculum Attribute(s): Statistical Reasoning  
Note: Not open to Biology majors.