The Department of Anthropology offers methods courses and field training in archaeology, ethnography, and visual anthropology.
ANTHR 396 – Archaeological Field Training
The Department of Economics offers methods courses in statistical methods in economics including econometric methods and training in software such as Microsoft Excel.
ECON 299 – Quantitative Methods in Economics
ECON 399 – Introductory Econometrics
ECON 400 – Honors Essay: Fourth-Year Honors Economics
ECON 497 – Econometric Methods
The Department of Human Ecology offers methods training for conducting research on the relationships between people and objects.
HECOL 465 – Material Culture, Methods and Identities
The Department of Human Geography offers both qualitative and quantitative methods courses including field placement and training in GIS.
HGEO 399 – Research Methods in Human Geography and Planning
HGEO 470 – Geographical Information Systems for Social Science
HGEO 496 – Undergraduate Thesis
HGEO 497 – Directed Study in Human Geography or Planning I/II
HGEO 499 – Human Geography Field School
The Department of History, Classics, and Religion offers an introductory course that outlines the basic concepts of historical inquiry and techniques of research and writing in History
HIST 290 – Introduction to History as a Discipline
The Department of Linguistics offers directed research and practicum options for linguistics research in addition to training in discourse analysis.
LING 314 – Discourse Analysis
LING 375 – Linguistics Directed Research I
LING 402 – Honors Project
LING 460 – Practicum in Language Documentation and Revitalization
LING 475 – Linguistics Directed Research II
The Faculty of Native Studies offers methods courses that cover research using secondary sources, community-based research, and data analysis when conducting Indigenous studies. Courses offer critiques of strategies and techniques applied by social science researchers with Indigenous peoples.
NS 290 – Introduction to Research and Inquiry
NS 390 – Research Methods in Native Studies
NS 490 – Community-Based Research
NS 498 – Honors Paper or Project
NS 499 – Research Project
The Department of Political Science offers methods training regarding the preparation, analysis, and communication of quantitative data about politics and public policy.
POL S 399 – Third-Year Honors Seminar
POL S 411 – Quantitative Political Analysis
POL S 499 – Honors Essay: Fourth-Year Honors Political Science
The Department of Psychology offers methods training in experimental, quasi-experimental, single-subject designs, and field studies in sociocultural psychology, covering both quantitative and qualitative designs.
PSYCH 212 – Introduction to Research Methods in Psychology
PSYCH 325 – Applied Research in Developmental Psychology
PSYCH 398 – Individual Study I
PSYCH 399 – Honors Thesis I: Research Apprenticeship
PSYCH 412 – Quantitative Methods in Sociocultural Psychology
PSYCH 413 – Design and Analysis of Experiments in Psychology
PSYCH 415 – Qualitative Methods in Sociocultural Psychology
PSYCH 490 – Honors Thesis II: Thesis Research
PSYCH 496 – Individual Research
PSYCH 498 – Individual Study II
The Department of Sociology offers both quantitative and qualitative methods courses as they relate to social science research, including advanced internship and field placement options.
SOC 210 – Introduction to Social Statistics
SOC 315 – Introduction to Social Methodology
SOC 401 – Honors Individual Study
SOC 402 – Demographic Methods
SOC 402 – Indigenous Research Methods
SOC 403 – Individual Study
SOC 407 – Honours Essay 1
SOC 408 – Honours Essay 2
SOC 415 – Applied Research Internship
SOC 418 – Qualitative Methods in Social Research
SOC 456 – Data Analysis and Research
SOC 499 – Advanced Field Placement in Criminology
The Department of Women’s and Gender Studies offers methods training with a focus on feminist methodologies.
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