MSCM 7400: Conflict Management Research Methods

3 Credit Hours
Unlike most courses you will take in graduate school, this course does not revolve around discussing the merits of certain arguments or analyzing specific research findings. This course will teach you how to develop a literature review, design a research project, select and apply the appropriate methods to systematically answer your research questions(s). More specifically, you will learn to break down social science theory into testable hypotheses that lay out relationships whose magnitude and significance can be measured and explained (statistically, substantively, and hermeneutically), particularly within the context of specific problems.