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Sep 01, 2025
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Fall 2025 Health Sciences Catalog
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HWC 512 - Research II
Research II is the second part of a two-semester course sequence designed to prepare social work students to engage in research informed social work practice and practice informed social work research and evaluation. The second semester (HWC 512) follows-up on the first by examining specific data collection methods (experiments; surveys; interviews; focus groups; ethnographies; etc.), with attention given to understanding how these methods are used appropriately in social work research and evaluation processes. Quantitative data analysis procedures at the bivariate and multivariate levels (t-tests; ANOVA; correlation; regression; chi-square test, etc.), hypothesis testing, inferential statistics, and computer assisted data analysis using SPSS will be presented in the context of appropriate data collection methods. Emphasis placed on research proposal development and critical evaluation of research reports. Class meets two hours in-class and one hour of instructor directed assignments.
3 credits
Prerequisite(s): HWC 511
Grading Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)
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