Opportunities to become familiar with research theories and methodologies.

This approach is entirely teacher-centered, describing what the teacher will provide, not what the student will learn through this experience.

The role of evidence and qualitative and quantitative methods in sociology, such that the student will be able to:

• identify basic methodological approaches and describe the general role of methods in building sociological knowledge;
• compare and contrast the basic methodological approaches for gathering data;
• design a research study in an area of choice and explain why various decisions were made; and
• critically assess a published research report and explain how the study could have been improved.