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Created: June 22, 2003
Latest Update: September 24, 2003
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Soc. 220-01: Introduction to Statistics:
Preparations for Class and Internet Discussions

Statistics Preparations and Readings
Week	Topic	Readings
Week 1	Answerability and Academic Assessment	Kendrick. Introduction Academic Assessment
Week 2	What Numbers Can and Can't Do
Week 3	Entering Your Own Data	Kendrick Survey
Week 4	Recoding	Recoding
Week 5	Planning Survey Questions	McKendrick, Chapters 3 and 4
Week 6	California Recall Survey Schedule	Entering data into SPSS
Will update soon
7	Kant as a Source and Autonomy and Authenticity	Nielsen, Chapter 4 Pia Lara, Chapter 4
8	From Kant to Weber to Bakhtin and Narrative and the Role of Literature	Nielsen, Chapter 5 Pia Lara, Chapter 5
9	Mead and Bakhtin and Women and the Public Sphere	Nielsen, Chapter 6 Pia Lara, Chapter 6
10	The Nation-State and Recognition in the Public Sphere	Nielsen, Chapter 7 Pia Lara, Chapter 7
11	A New Understanding of the Nation? and Multiculturalism	Nielsen, Chapter 8 and Conclusion Pia Lara, Chapter 8
12	Pulling it all together. Answerability as a Moral and Illocutionary Force	jeanne and Pat
13	Review, Revise, and Practice Answerability as a Moral and Illocutionary Force	jeanne and Pat not available
14	Presentations Answerability as a Moral and Illocutionary Force	One day for presentations. Thanksgiving Break
15	Presentations Answerability as a Moral and Illocutionary Force	Two days for presentations.
16	Exam Week

Week 1: Week of August 25, 2003
Topic: Academic Assessment of Learning: The Technical Term for Grading Policy

Week 2: Week of September 1, 2003
Topic: What Numbers Can and Can't Do

Week 3: Week of September 8, 2003
Topic: SPSS: Frequency Distributions and Measures of Central Tendency

Week 4: Week of September 15, 2003
Topic: Measures of Dispersion

Week 5: Week of September 22, 2003
Topic: Contingency or Two-Way Tables

Week 6: Week of September 29, 2003
Topic: Measures of Association

Week 7: Week of October 6, 2003
Topic: Pearsonian r: Correlation

Week 8: Week of October 13, 2003
Topic: Inferential Statistics - What Is It?

Week 9: Week of October 20, 2003
Topic: Chi-Square

Week10: Week of October 27, 2003
Topic: T-Tests

Week 11: Week of November 3, 2003
Topic: Analysis of Variance

Week12: Week of November 10, 2003
Topic: Analysis of Co-Variance

Week13: Week of November 17, 2003
Topic: Where's the Beef? Qualitative Support and Interdependence

Week 14: Week of November 24, 2003
Topic: Inferential statistics - What Is It?

Week 15: Week of December 1, 2003
Topic: Review

Final Exam scheduled for Tuesday, December 9, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. in our regualr classroom Welch Hall F 144. In accordance with our philosophy of testing there will be no final exam, but grades will have to go in by Tuesday, December 16.

For purposes of grading we provide the readings and exercises listed here and on weekly journal issues of Dear Habermas. There will be no "testing." That means that you will not have to live in anxious anticipation of what we will ask and how much you will have to know. Instead, we will provide weekly discussion questions, lectures, essays, and concepts we feel that you should know as a result of having taken this course. You will assure us of that learning and receive your grade for the questions and concepts about which you choose to write and talk with us. In addition you will find detailed explanations and examples on our grading policies in the first week's reading.

Each week provides readings both online and in the texts, discussion questions, terms and phrases you are expected to know well enough to link them conceptually to your readings. In additon, through the Academic Assessment section of the weekly issue of Dear Habermas, we provide writing help, including examples and critiques of samples from past students.