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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.
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.
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
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
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

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.
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.

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