Singapore University of Social Sciences

This course aims to give students practical insights to research methods and statistics in action. Instead of traditionally teaching statistics and research methods by topic, a problem-based learning approach will be used in this module, where students will systematically critique research and will be challenged to use their existing knowledge in research methods and statistics foundation to solve a range of issues from every day dilemmas to work-based problems. As an applied course, students are expected to have a foundation in both research methods and statistics. Hence, prerequisites for this course are HBC211 Social Science Research Methods and HBC203 Statistics and Data Analysis for the Social and Behavioural Sciences. Additionally, to help ensure all students have a foundation and are ready to apply their learning, a graded adaptive learning component will be integrated within this course for the first 4 weeks.