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Not offered during 2021-22 academic year.

This class will introduce students to the fundamental scientific principles, experimental methods, and analytical approaches involved in the study of human behavior.  The initial major topics to be covered include how basic scientific approach can be gainfully and ethically used to study human behavior.  The following topics in the course will cover the most prevalent manners of collecting data in behavioral research and the most common types of statistical analyses and tests such data is subjected to.  The latter topics in the course will introduce some of the more advanced experimental designs and statistical approaches that are more specific to the social sciences.