Course Description |
This module is designed to provide students with an overview of the fundamentals of both qualitative and quantitative research methods. The qualitative approach to the social sciences will be focused on collecting data using questionnaires and interviews, including the construction and administration of a questionnaire, data analysis and inferring the results. The quantitative approach will be focused on two statistical techniques commonly used in social sciences: time series analysis and the multivariate regression analysis. Software packages will be introduced during the tutorials to process various data sets commonly collected by specialists in the social sciences.
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