Section Info: SOCI-225-01

Course Title: Social Science Research and Data Analysis

Start Date: 01/28/2025 End Date: 05/13/2025

Term: Spring Semester 2025

Description: This course is an introduction to the use of quantitative data in sociology. It focuses on the ways in which data is collected, analyzed, and presented to make sociological arguments. It introduces various tools to describe data for single variables, explore relationships between pairs of variables, and make statistical inferences. Students will learn basic skills to conduct their own social science research and analyze data using statistical software. The aim of the course is to allow students to conduct elementary statistical analyses on their own and become critical readers of statistical evidence.

Distribution(s): NO - Meets No Distrib. Rqmt

Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate

Credits:4.00

Faculty	Phone	Email address
Ayca Zayim		azayim@mtholyoke.edu

Meeting Dates	Method	Meeting days	Meeting times	Building name	Room	Frequency
01/28/2025 - 05/13/2025	Seminar	Tuesday and Thursday	10:30AM - 11:45AM	TBA	TBA	Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Requisite Courses
None

Comments

Additional Comments

Course Tags
NXLAR0001	NXLAR: Nexus in Law, Public Policy, and Human Rights	This course is approved for the Law, Public Policy, and Human Rights Nexus track.
NXDTA0001	NXDTA: Nexus in Data Analytics and Society	This course is approved for the Data Analytics

Cross-listed Sections

None

Course Availability
Section status: Waitlisted	Capacity: 18	Enrollment: 17	Available: 0	Waitlist: 9

Please note: The "Available" count will equal 0 in a Waitlisted course where spaces in the course have recently opened and students have not yet been moved into them from the waitlist.

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List	Required	Publisher Full Price
To be determined.

Additional Book Comments

This is NOT the complete book list for this class.