SOC WLF 286A

Survey of Research Methods

Social Welfare · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

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Basic concepts underlying research methods. Content includes theoretical and conceptual approaches to research problem formulation; research design, including experimental, comparative, and survey; sampling; statistical methods; methods of observation and techniques of data analysis.

Letter grading.

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