Research Methodology, Graduate Minor
老司机福利网 offers a graduate minor in research methodology designed to provide students with a background in advanced analysis and methods.
Administered through 老司机福利网's Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the聽minor is open to all students and can be tailored to meet students鈥 own disciplinary program needs.
Elements of the minor are developed by consensus between students, their advisor/mentor and the graduate director in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.
Curriculum Overview
SLU's graduate minor in research methodology consists of (with prerequisites) five courses: a basic, quantitative statistics/analysis course; two advanced quantitative analysis courses; and two advanced research methodology courses.
Students may petition to include additional courses by submitting a copy of the syllabus for such courses. Upon approval, these courses can also be included in the minor. At least 80% of the courses included in the minor must be taken at 老司机福利网 and all courses must be graded courses; no pass/fail or satisfactory/unsatisfactory coursework will be accepted.
老司机福利网 Requirements
To be admitted to this minor program, students must be seeking a聽degree in a 老司机福利网 graduate program. They must have taken a general research methodology course prior to admission to the minor. This must be a basic introductory course that provides an overview of all major forms of research methodology and design. This prerequisite serves as a foundation for all other courses taken in this minor.
To add the research methodology minor, contact the coordinator of the graduate research methodology minor. A petition to amend the graduate program along with an academic plan for the minor must be completed and submitted to the associate graduate dean/director of the college, school or center appropriate for the student. Upon completion of the minor requirements, it will be noted as a 鈥淢inor in Research Methodology鈥 on the academic transcript.
Students are encouraged to discuss the possibilities of the minor with their advisor/mentor, or they can contact the graduate director in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, allowing them to build a minor that is best suited for their own needs and the goals of their major program.聽
The research methodology minor is administered through SLU's College of Arts and Sciences. It is composed of at least 15 credits that include a basic statistical analysis course, two courses in advanced methodology and two courses in advanced analysis.
Courses that fulfill these categories come from a wide variety of departments across the University.鈥
- Cluster I: Core course. All students must take an introductory inferential statistics course.
Code | Title | Credits |
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Choose one of the following courses to meet the basic statistical analysis course requirement. | 3 | |
叠厂罢听5020 | Theory of Biostatistics | |
颁础顿听5050 | Introduction to Statistical Inference | |
贰顿搁听5100 | Intro to Inferential Stats: Ed | |
狈鲍搁厂听6805 | Introduction to Applied Statistics for Healthcare Research | |
翱搁贰厂听5010 | Introduction to Biostatistics for Health Outcomes | |
笔厂驰听5790 | Applied Univariate Statistics in Behavioral Science | |
厂翱颁听5015 | Quantitative Research Methods |
- Cluster II:聽Advanced methodology and design courses. A student would select at least two courses from this cluster.
Code | Title | Credits |
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Choose any two courses from this list to meet the advanced methodology requirement. | 6 | |
叠厂罢听5400 | Applied Data Management | |
叠厂罢听5420 | Sampling Theory and Survey Design in Public Health | |
颁惭惭听5810 | Digital Storytelling | |
颁惭惭听5820 | Advanced Research Methods | |
贰顿搁听5500 | Evaluation of Education Programs | |
贰顿搁听6150 | Single Subject Experimental Research Design | |
贰顿搁听6400 | Advanced Qual Research for Ed | |
骋滨厂听5010 | Introduction to Geographic Information Systems 鈥 | |
惭贵罢听6140 | Interpretive Phenomenology | |
狈鲍搁厂听6809 | Quantitative Methods in Nursing Research | |
翱搁贰厂听5160 | Data Management | |
翱搁贰厂听5410 | Evaluation Sciences | |
翱搁贰厂听5260 | Pharmacoepidemiology | |
翱搁贰厂听5440 | Comparative Effectiveness Research | |
翱搁尝顿听5020 | Applied Research Methods | |
厂尝贬厂听5050 | Research for the Clinician | |
厂翱颁听5530 | Urban Ethnography | |
厂翱颁听5650 | Principles and Methods of GIScience 鈥 | |
厂翱颁听5750 | Qualitative Analysis, Grounded Theory Method | |
厂翱颁听5800 | Survey Design & Sampling | |
厂翱颁听5850 | Policy Evaluation and Assessment | |
厂奥搁碍听5774 | Measurement & Experimental Design | |
奥骋厂罢听5050 | Program Evaluation |
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骋滨厂听5010 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems and 厂翱颁听5650 Principles and Methods of GIScience are the same course. Only one of these can count toward this requirement.
- Cluster III: Advanced statistics/analysis courses. A student would select at least two courses from this cluster.
Code | Title | Credits |
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Choose any two courses from this list to meet the advanced analysis requirement. | 6 | |
叠滨翱尝听5780 | Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis | |
叠厂罢听5100 | Introduction to General Linear Modeling | |
叠厂罢听5200 | Survival Data Analysis | |
叠厂罢听5210 | Categorical Data Analysis | |
叠厂罢听5220 | Multilevel and Longitudinal Data Analysis | |
叠厂罢听5230 | Bayesian Statistics | |
叠厂罢听6100 | Causal Inference | |
叠滨翱尝听5190 | Geographic Information Systems in Biology | |
贰顿搁听6060 | Research Design and Analysis | |
贰顿搁听6100 | Intermediate Applied Statistics for Education | |
贰顿搁听6500 | Multilevel Regression Models | |
贬顿厂听5320 | Inferential Modeling | |
狈鲍搁厂听6802 | Measurement of Nursing Variables | |
翱搁贰厂听5150 | Multivariate Analysis for Health Outcomes Research | |
翱搁贰厂听5400 | Pharmacoeconomics | |
翱搁贰厂听5430 | Health Outcomes Measurement | |
翱搁尝顿听5030 | Applied Analytics | |
笔厂驰听6500 | Applied Multivariable and Multivariate Statistics in Behavioral Science | |
笔厂驰听6600 | Structural Equations Modeling | |
厂翱颁听5640 | Demographic Methods, Analysis, and Public Policy | |
厂翱颁听5670 | Spatial Demography 鈥 Applied Spatial Statistics | |
厂翱颁听6100 | Regression Analysis & Non-linear Models | |
厂奥搁碍听6030 | Multivariate Data Analysis |
While 15 credits are required, students may take more courses and get credit for them. In order for the minor to be listed on an official University transcript, students must complete the Petition to Amend the Graduate Program.
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Substitutions of coursework can only be made with the prior approval of the student's mentor and the coordinator of the research methodology minor program.
Continuation Standards
Students must maintain a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.00 in all graduate/professional courses.
For more information about the research methodology minor, please contact:
Hisako Matsuo, Ph.D.
Professor of Research Methodology and Sociology
Morrissey Hall, 1905
hisako.matsuo@slu.edu
314-977-2536