ENVR 298 - Research Methods Lab

1 Credit(s)

This course is the laboratory component for ENVR 299. It is designed to provide students with hands on experience planning, conducting, evaluating, and presenting 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.
Corequisite(s): ENVR 299