5 courses with the subject SSCI, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
SSCI 010Special Topics in the Social Sciences3
Hour(s) This course provides students with an opportunity to investigate a concept, theory, or issue relevant to the social sciences. Students will use information technology to develop solutions to complex problems and demonstrate effective communication as the concept, theory or issue is analyzed from historical or contemporary perspectives. (SS)
Hour(s) This course will provide the student with the basic research and analysis skills necessary to accomplish scholarship within the social science discipline. Students will be instructed in the development of research questions, hypotheses, ethics of research, data collection, and empirical methods of analysis for both qualitative and quantitative study.
Hour(s) In this course, students will learn qualitative methods such as interviewing, textual analysis, ethnography, and historical analysis. Emphasis will include feminist methodologies and intersectional approaches to conducting non-extractive community oriented research.
Hour(s) This course focuses on quantitative methods of statistical analysis to conduct social science research. This course will provide students with the ability to utilize statistical analysis methods, focusing on tests of hypotheses; parametric and non-parametric techniques; multivariate analysis; data transformation and manipulation. This course will consider both the logic of these analysis methods and the practice of these methods with the statistical software SPSS.
Hour(s) This capstone course is designed to be a culminating experience for majors in Communication & Media Studies, Health Advocacy & Humanitarian Systems, Nonprofit Management & Community Leadership, Political Science, and Sociology. Students will draw on knowledge gained in their respective degree programs to complete an interdisciplinary group project focused on evaluating a complex social problem. Students will analyze root causes, examine the current solutions landscape, and develop recommendations for potential interventions to positively impact change.
