PAD 656 - Research Methods for Public and Nonprofit Administrators

3 Credits

Emphasizing practical application of research methods, this course will acquaint students with basic methodological concepts and research tools used in public and nonprofit administration, such as surveys, case studies, interviews, and content analysis. This course introduces students to the study of quantitative and qualitative research and descriptive and inferential statistics used in statistical research reports. Statistical tests that are used to conduct data analysis will be discussed.