GOVT366 - Statistics for Social Scientists

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Academic Year 2003/2004

Statistics for Social Scientists
GOVT 366 SP

This course is a standard introduction to statistics and quantitative methods for the social sciences. The goal is to cultivate an ability to conceive and test political and social theories. The coverage of quantitative methods includes descriptive statistics, probability and sampling theory, and the deductive logic of hypothesis testing and statistical inference, with a special emphasis on measurement, cross-tabulation, and regression. The intended audience for this course includes majors in Government, Sociology, and the College of Social Studies. Research problems and data sources are drawn from various fields of political science and sociology.

MAJOR READINGS

Moore, THE BASIC PRACTICE OF STATISTICS

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

2 hour exams and a finla exam, plus problem sets.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

The content of G366 also overlaps with E300 Quantitative Methods in Economics, P201 Psychological Statistics, and M132 Elementary Statistics. Students who have already taken or who intend to take any of these three courses should not enroll in G366.

"Students who wish to be eligible to register for the course during Drop/Add should place themselves on the wait list during on-line registration. Wait list preference rankings will be one factor I will consider in making Drop/Add period reg istration decisions."

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture/Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS GOVT Grading Mode: Graded

Prerequisites: NONE

SECTION 01

Instructor(s): Boyd,Richard W.

Times: .M.W.F. 10:00AM-10:50AM; Location: SCIE74

Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 18)

SR. major: 7 Jr. major: 7

SR. non-major: 2 Jr. non-major: 2 SO: X FR: X

Special Attributes:

Curricular Renewal: Quantitative Reasoning

Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-19-2004