SOC WLF 249A
Foundations of Scientific Inquiry I
Description: Lecture, three hours; outside study, nine hours. Course 249A is enforced requisite to 249B, which is enforced requisite to 249C. Limited to Ph.D. students. Introduction to underlying logic(s) of scientific inquiry to provide students with building blocks for independent scholarship. Experimental and quasi-experimental approaches in intervention research, ways of enhancing internal, external, and statistical conclusion validity, and inferring causality. Letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0