The objective of this course is to provide students with the necessary knowledge to design and implement quantitative data analysis as part of scholarly research. The focus is on crafting research questions, hypotheses and proper data collection schemes. Students will explore a range of data analysis techniques useful for testing hypothesis and answering research questions. Research topics include: survey design, correlational design, casual-comparative design and experimental designs. Statistics topics include: types of data, parametric versus non-parametric classes of tests, descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. Prior experience with statistics is not required. (3)