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Dr. Andrew Austin |
Office Phone: 465-2359 |
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Democracy and Justice Studies |
Messages: 465-2355 |
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University of Wisconsin-Green Bay |
Office Hours: TBA |
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Office:
MAC Hall 326A |
Email: austina@uwgb.edu |
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Web page: http://www.uwgb.edu/austina |
Course email: C6033-sp12@uwgb.edu |
COMM SCI
301—Summer 2012
FOUNDATIONS OF
SOCIAL RESEARCH
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
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Topics |
Readings
and Assignments |
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Week
1 |
May
21 |
The
Character of Human Inquiry |
Babbie,
Chapter 1 |
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May
22 |
The Character of Human
Inquiry |
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May
23 |
Paradigms, Theory, and
Research |
Babbie,
Chapter 2 |
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May
24 |
Science and Politics |
Babbie,
Chapter 3 |
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Prospectus due 4:30 pm
Friday. |
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Week
2 |
May
28 |
Memorial Day (no class) |
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May
29 |
Research Ethics |
Online
readings: Diesing, Harding, Humphries, and Wallerstein. |
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May
30 |
Research Design |
Babbie,
Chapter 4 |
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May
31 |
Conceptualization,
Operationalization, and Measurement |
Babbie, Chapter 5 |
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Week
3 |
June
4 |
First
hour: midterm exam |
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Remainder of class: Bring your proposals and ethnographies to discuss. |
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June
5 |
Indexes, Scales, and Typologies |
Online reading: Gould Babbie
Chapter 6 |
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Probability, Sampling |
Babbie,
Chapter 7 |
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June
6 |
Experiments |
Babbie,
Chapter 8 |
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Survey Research |
Babbie,
Chapter 9 |
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June
7 |
Ethnography |
Babbie,
Chapter 10 |
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Week
4 |
June
11 |
Unobtrusive Measures |
Babbie,
Chapter 11. Online
reading: Skocpol |
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June
12 |
Evaluation Research |
Babbie, Chapter 12 |
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June
13 |
Qualitative Data
Analysis |
Babbie,
Chapter 13 |
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Proposal due 12:00 pm
(noon). |
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June
14 |
Quantitative
Data Analysis |
Babbie,
Chapter 14. Online: Gottfredson and
Hirschi. |
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Ethnographic experience
project due 12:00 pm (noon). |
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June
15 |
Final exam |
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