Department of Counselling and Psychology Course outline
Course Title Statistics for Social Sciences
Course Code PSY103
Number of Credits 3
Duration of Weeks 15
Contact Hours Per Week 2 hours Lecture; 1 hour Tutorial
Pre-requisite Course(s) N/A
Course Aims
This course will introduce students to the fundamental concepts and principles for understanding and applying statistics in social and behavioral research. Students will learn how to employ appropriate statistical techniques and how to compute descriptive and inferential statistics with data at different levels of measurement. The course will also focus on teaching students how to appropriately organize, present, and interpret statistical results.
Course Intended Learning Outcomes (CILOS)

After completing the course, students should be able to:

1. recognize the role of statistics as a tool in scientific inquiry;

2. understand the conceptual foundations on which statistical thinking is based;

3. apply descriptive statistics appropriately in exploring and reporting research data;

4. organize and present statistical data in appropriate tabular and graphical forms;

5. demonstrate the concepts and computation of measures of central tendency and dispersion;

6. explain the concepts and principles of the normal distribution;

7. comprehend the logic and steps of inferential statistics and hypothesis testing;

8. apply appropriate statistics in testing group differences, estimating associations, and making predictions.
Assessment
 
Assessment Tasks
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Assignments
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Pop quizzes
15%
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Mid-term
20% 
4.
Final exam
40%
 
 
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