| source University of Texas at Austin (X) |
level Graduate (37) |
department Sociology (X) |
Sociological topics not otherwise offered at the graduate level. The equivalent of one, two, or three lecture hours a week for one semester. May be repeated for credit, but no more than six semester hours may be counted toward the Master of Arts and no more than twelve semester hours may be counted toward the doctoral degree. May not be substituted for required courses in statistics, methods, or theory, nor may more than one of the three other area requirements be fulfilled by Sociology 380. Prerequisite: Graduate standing and consent of instructor and the graduate adviser.
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Substantive issues and current topics in social psychology. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. May be repeated for credit when the topics vary. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
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Review of descriptive statistics; probability concepts; statistical inference, bivariate correlation and regression, multiple regression, dummy variables, analysis of variance, analysis of covariance; applications of statistical computing packages to social science data. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. May be counted toward the statistics and methods requirement. Required of all graduate students during their first semester of study. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
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Quantitative sociological research integrating the use of statistical analysis with computer applications and survey data. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. May be repeated for credit when the topics vary. Prerequisite: Graduate standing, and Sociology 384L or the equivalent.
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Assumptions, estimation, testing, and parameter interpretation for models using categorical data; applications of statistical computing packages and programs to social science data. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. May be counted toward the statistics and methods requirement. Required of all graduate students during their first semester of study. Prerequisite: Graduate standing, and Sociology 384L or the equivalent.
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Model specification; review of simple regression; multiple regression in matrix form; ordinary and generalized least squares; recursive and nonrecursive structural equation models; measurement error and unobserved variables. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. May be counted toward the statistics and methods requirement. Prerequisite: Graduate standing, and Sociology 384L or the equivalent.
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Applications of dynamic models to data collected at successive points in time. Dynamic structural equation models; statistical time-series analysis; stochastic processes, panel, and event-history analysis. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. May be counted toward the statistics and methods requirement. Prerequisite: Graduate standing, and Sociology 384L or the equivalent.
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Fundamental assumptions and procedures for conducting sociological research, including the logic of science, the links between theory and methods, measurement, experiments, sampling, surveys, qualitative methods, and ethics. Three lecture hours and one and one-half laboratory hours a week for one semester. May be counted toward the statistics and methods requirement. Required of all graduate students during their first semester of study. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
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Qualitative survey research methods, approaches, and designs, including participant observational techniques, semistructured interviewing, and formal questionnaire and census-type surveys. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. May be counted toward the statistics and methods requirement. Sociology 387L and 387T may not both be counted. Prerequisite: Graduate standing, and Sociology 384L or the equivalent.
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Restricted to students in the Texas Survey Project. Principles of sampling, questionnaire design, and survey implementation. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. May be counted toward the statistics and methods requirement. Sociology 387L and 387T may not both be counted. Prerequisite: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.
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Rationale and logic for field research; participant and nonparticipant observation; informant and conversational interviewing; personal documents, records, and physical traces; life histories; sources of error and bias; personal and ethical dilemmas; modes of analysis. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. May be counted toward the statistics and methods requirement. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
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Scope and methods of historical and comparative sociology; application of historical sources to answer sociological questions, various kinds of historical sources available to sociologists, and ways these sources may be used. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. May be counted toward the statistics and methods requirement and toward the political sociology specialization. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
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New approaches in the use of qualitative methodologies, including focus groups and ethnography, that complement traditional quantitative methodologies in the study of social phenomena. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. May be counted toward the statistics and methods requirement. Prerequisite: Graduate standing, and Sociology 387L or the equivalent.
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Restricted to students in the Texas Survey Project. Data cleaning, analysis, and reporting, including final projects based on survey data. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. May be counted toward the statistics and methods requirement. Prerequisite: Graduate standing, consent of instructor, and Sociology 387L or 387T.
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Substantive issues and current topics in population studies and social demography. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. May be repeated for credit when the topics vary. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
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Methods of human ecology and their comparative applications, both regional and international. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. May be repeated for credit when the topics vary. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
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Preparation of proposal for the doctoral dissertation. For each semester hour of credit earned, the equivalent of one lecture hour a week for one semester. Offered on the credit/no credit basis only. Prerequisite: Graduate standing, completion of all coursework, and consent of instructor.
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Population composition, change, and distribution; methods of standardizing and decomposing rates; life tables and population models; analysis of data from advanced and developing countries; applications of computer programs for demographic analysis. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. May be counted toward the statistics and methods requirement. Required of all students specializing in demography. Prerequisite: Graduate standing, and Sociology 384L or the equivalent.
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Theory and estimation methods for single-decrement, multiple-decrement, and increment-decrement life tables; reproductivity; the stable population model; graduation, interpolation, and other data adjustments for faulty data; applications of computer packages for demographic analysis. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. May be counted toward the statistics and methods requirement. Recommended for all students specializing in demography. Prerequisite: Graduate standing and Sociology 391L.
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Development of social thought; the emergence of systematic sociological theory; interrelations with other social sciences. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. May be repeated for credit when the topics vary. Graduate students in sociology must take Topics 2 and 3. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
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Three lecture hours a week for one semester. May be repeated for credit when the topics vary. Not all topics are offered every year. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
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Three lecture hours a week for one semester. May be repeated for credit when the topics vary. Not all topics are offered every year. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
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Three lecture hours a week for one semester. May be repeated for credit when the topics vary. Not all topics are offered every year. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
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Three lecture hours a week for one semester. May be repeated for credit when the topics vary. Not all topics are offered every year. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
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Stratification and nonhierarchical differentiation; plural and homogeneous ethnic systems, social mobility. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. May be repeated for credit when the topics vary. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
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