Course Offerings

This course starts by discussing broad landscape of epistemological and theoretical perspectives and styles of reasoning and by situating in it quantitative research. It introduces you to the foundational concepts in quantitative research methods, such as causality, conceptualization, operationalization, measurement and sampling. It presents experimental design, survey design, and basic descriptive and inferential (frequentist) statistics, as well as a brief introduction to Bayesian inference and statistics.