ENVR 299 - Research Methods and Analysis

3 Credit(s)

This course is designed to provide students with sufficient theoretical and practical knowledge to plan, conduct, evaluate, and present faculty directed original research. Topics include the historical and philosophical development of scientific research, introduction to the scientific method, writing a research proposal, selection of research arena, qualitative and quantitative observations, sampling techniques, collecting, recording, summarizing, statistically analyzing, and graphically presenting data, bibliographic searching techniques, oral presentation of research, and writing a research paper. 3 hours lecture.
3 hours laboratory. 3 hours lecture.
Corequisite(s): ENVR 298