Please refer to General Education Requirements and to the section Preparation for Secondary Teaching for liberal arts and professional education requirements. Division III Courses 252. AThis course provides an introduction to statistics. It covers the design of experiments, descriptive statistics, and statistical inference, including confidence intervals and significance tests for population sums, percentages, and averages. There is also a brief introduction to probability theory.
Emphasis is placed on understanding the logic of statistics via spreadsheet simulation.
Students also receive considerable exposure to actual sample survey data from the social sciences. One-half course credit each semester. The focus will be on the reading and discussion of some classic and contemporary works in social science, each selected for its concern with broad social issues and interdisciplinary approach. Taught by the faculty of the division. Enrollment limited to 15.