Intro to Research Methods
Course Calendar
Autumn 2005

Date	Topics	Readings
First Week	Introduction to the Course, Ways of Knowing, Errors in the Process of Human Inquiry,	Singleton et al., (1993, ch. 1), Chapter 1
	Overview of Scientific Approach, Scientific Process of Inquiry, General Steps in Research Design.	Chapter 2
	Conceptualization and Operationalization, Selecting Samples.	Chapter 4
Second Week	Overview of Probability Theory and Sampling Theory, Selecting Samples (continued)	Mauro (1992), Chapter 8
	Qualitative and Quantitative Methods	Chapter 11
	Overview of Qualitative Methods,	Singleton et. Al., (1993, ch. 11)
Third Week	Overview of Qualitative Research Design	Creswell (1994)
	Qualitative Research Products	Rosen & Smith (1995)
	Overview of Quantitative Research Methods
Fourth Week	Steps Involved in Quantitative Research Operationalization- Levels of Measurement	Weiss & Leets (1998, ch. 1), Chapter 3
	Describing Data	Chapter 5
Mon. Sep. 26th	Midterm I Exam	Weiss & Leets (1998, ch. 3), Gould (1996)
Fifth Week	Content Analysis	Chapter 12
	Hypothesis Testing
Wed. Oct. 5th	Participant Observation Report Due

Sixth Week	Statistics Used with Content Analysis	Greenberg et al., (1996)
	Purpose and Logic of Experimental Designs	Chapter 9 Mauro (1992)
Seventh Week	Experimental Designs
	Factorial Designs
	Statistics used with Experimental Designs
Eight Week	z-tests
	t-tests, F-tests	North et al., (1997)
Mon. Oct. 24th	Midterm II Exam
Ninth Week	Survey Research	Felmlee (1995)
	How conduct Survey Research
Wed. Nov. 2nd	Content Analysis Paper Due
Tenth Week	Statistics Used with Survey Research -- Correlation, Regression	Duggan & Brennan (1994)
	Research Ethics	Babbie (1998, ch. 18)
Third Exam	Monday, Nov. 14th  12:00pm.