DATA ANALYSIS IN COMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: LSC 250 and senior standing or graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Mathematics & Quantitative Reasoning Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2022 Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain the processes of social science research Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Connect research theory and logic to methods & analyses Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Clean, examine, and analyze experimental, survey, and human language and interaction data using a scientific programming language Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Explain social science research methods, research analyses, and results clearly to lay audiences Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Create real-world problem sets to apply research methods Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Explain how to implement research methods in an integrated development environment such as RStudio Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Present social science research analyses and results Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 8. Produce manuscripts for publication in academic journals Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain the processes of social science research Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Connect research theory and logic to methods & analyses Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Clean, examine, and analyze experimental, survey, and human language and interaction data using a scientific programming language Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Explain social science research methods, research analyses, and results clearly to lay audiences Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Create real-world problem sets to apply research methods Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Explain how to implement research methods in an integrated development environment such as RStudio Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Present social science research analyses and results Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 8. Produce manuscripts for publication in academic journals Audience: Graduate