The course deals with the varied approaches designing experimental research with particular focus on applications in science education research. It opens with a brief discussion of research design strategies and perspectives to establish the importance of experimental research designs. The wide array of group and single/diagrammatic, procedural and analytical discussions. The group designs include pre-experimental, true experimental, quasi-experimental, time series, factorial, counter-balanced and action research designs; while the single-subjects designs include the baseline designs. Data analysis is performed with the two-sample procedures and analysis of variance and covariance. Threats to generalizability of results (internal and external validity) of experiments are identified and clarified with the hope of controlling them through the most appropriate experimental design.

This course focuses on the methods of science particularly on experimentation in the investigation of problems and issues in Psychology including ethical considerations in the conduct of experimental research. The student is expected to design and conduct experiments in psychology, write research reports, and present and defend the findings of the experiment. 

         The course focuses on Sociology as  a social science that studies human societies, their interactions, and the processes that preserve and change them. It does this by examining the dynamics of constituent parts of societies such as institutions, communities, populations, and gender, racial, or age groups. Further, Sociology also studies social status or stratification, social movements, and social change, as well as societal disorder in the form of crime, deviance, and revolution.

                  THIA CLASS IS MERGED WITH 6019