The Craft of Social Science Research

Data analysis is a powerful tool to investigate many important and interesting questions about societies and human behaviour. This course introduces students to intermediate skills of data analysis with a focus on applying these skills to questions in social sciences and media and communication. The main focus of the course is on "doing" and "producing" research. This course will also prepare students to be critical consumers of social science and media and communication literature. We will use powerful R programming language and open-source statistical software RStudio, both are employed routinely across many industries in many countries. This course will be valuable preparation for students considering postgraduate studies at the honours level and beyond.