GEOG 2132 - Social Science Techniques II

The course aims to provide students with skills which are expected of professional social scientists in the contemporary world, whether they seek to gain employment in the public and private sectors or to proceed to higher-level research within their chosen social discipline. Students of this course should emerge from it with a sound background in the main sources of social science information available in Australia, and the major methods of analysing information from these sources. This course is designed to provide students with a perspective on the role of social sciences within contemporary society, especially in Australia, and with basic skills in the collection, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of social science data and information. Key topics to learn include measurement, data collection, exploratory data analysis, descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, correlation, regression analyses, and graphical procedures. No prior background or knowledge in computing, mathematics or statistics is assumed.