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Core course descriptions

For additional course descriptions see the Wright State University Graduate Catalog on the web for the most up to date information. http://www.wright.edu/academics/gradcatalog/

ABS 788 (2 credit hours) Research Skills. 

Emphasis is on computer software and technologies available to assist in the assembling and communication of information relevant to social research, such as e-mail, the Internet, and bibliographic databases.

ABS 701 (4 credit hours) Methodology I. 

Emphasis on research designs, testing hypotheses, and techniques for collecting data such as questionnaire formation, sampling, surveys, scaling, interviewing, and analysis of documents and records.

ABS 702 (4 credit hours) Methodology II.

Analysis and interpretation of data in social research, with emphasis on multivariate statistical techniques. Prerequisite: ABS 701.

ABS 703 (4 credit hours) Applied Methodology. 

Addresses issues pertaining to the collection and analysis of data in various settings, for the purpose of program evaluation, policy analysis, and other applied objectives. Prerequisite: ABS 701,702.

ABS 751 (4 credit hours) Theoretical Foundations. 

Focuses on theories of anomie, alienation, social disorganization, and social dysfunction that underlie contemporary paradigms in the study of deviance, criminology, and criminal justice.

ABS 752 (4 credit hours) Social Deviance.

Study of contemporary theories of deviant behavior from both an institutional and social-psychological perspective, with emphasis on the relationship between social change and social disorganization.

ABS 753 (4 Credit hours) Criminal Justice. 

An investigation of the criminal justice system in the United States and its relation to deviant adult and juvenile behavior. Prerequisite: ABS 752.