Communication Research Strategies

This class is designed to develop communication studies as a social science and is especially suited for those students seeking admission into Communication Studies programs of graduate study. Some of the activities in the class involve the students certifying themselves as undergraduate researchers through the CUNY CITI Human Research Subjects Training Modules, learning about existing scales to measure attitudes and behaviors as they relate to communicative phenomena, working with the Baruch College Qualtrics online survey builder, submitting surveys to a pedagogical research pool (a pool of research subjects drawn from students currently enrolled in CS classes and approved by IRB for instructional purposes), downloading data into SPSS v.19, and using various descriptive and inferential statistics to validate their measures and report on findings.