PSIR112 STATISTICS FOR POLITICAL SCIENTISTS
| Course Code: | 3540112 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 6.0 |
| Department: | Political Science and International Relations |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | |
| Offered Semester: | Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, the students will be able to
- Understand the usage of statistics in social sciences.
- Convert raw data into useful information and interpret it.
- Apply basic statistical concepts and methods useful in decision making.
- Use a statistical software to obtain statistical results.
Course Content
For course details, see https://catalog2.metu.edu.tr.Course Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, the students will be able to
- Give examples of statistics used in business, economics and political science.
- Organize and present numerical and categorical data using tables and graphs.
- Calculate and interpret descriptive summary measures.
- Use basic probability concepts to calculate probabilities.
- Differentiate amongst different distributions and use distribution characteristics to calculate probabilities.
- Construct and interpret confidence interval estimates for parameters.
- Construct hypothesis tests, compute the statistical results using SPSS/Excel, and interpret the results.
- Use one-way ANOVA, compute the statistical results using SPSS/Excel, and interpret the results.
- Develop simple linear regression models, compute the statistical results using SPSS/Excel, and interpret the results.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | Having academic knowledge in Political Science and International relations disciplines | ✔ | |||
| 2 | Developing an interdisciplinary perspective incorporating other areas of the social sciences as well | ✔ | |||
| 3 | Being capable of evaluating political, economic and social matters at local, national and international levels | ✔ | |||
| 4 | Being capable of making sense of, follow and analyze political, economic and social events | ✔ | |||
| 5 | Being sensitive to global, environmental and social problems | ✔ | |||
| 6 | Developing a critical mind capable of making constructive criticisms, open to lifelong learning, researching, inquiring, questioning and problems solving | ✔ | |||
| 7 | Being capable of individual work, entrepreneur, good time management and able to actively take part in group work for common purposes | ✔ | |||
| 8 | Having effective communication skills in Turkish and English languages | ✔ | |||
| 9 | Being capable of using communication technologies in reaching to information and organizing and presenting this information in a systematic way | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution