Limited to Sociology majors and Demography majors/minors

This course is designed to allow students to develop competence in the use of statistical computing packages for social research. The objective of the course is to ensure that students understand the relationship between theoretical concepts, empirical measures and the computing techniques for manipulating data in order to explore social relationships. In order to demonstrate competence, students will be required to select a research question, and to subject this problem to computer analysis based on an existing data-set.