Non-Greenlee Course Electives
The remaining credits needed to complete the program of study come from electives
to be selected and approved by the adviser and program of study committee.
At least two of the courses must be taken outside the School.
A wide variety of courses outside the Greenlee School may be taken. The 2003-2005 Iowa State Bulletin of Graduate Courses and Programs contains a complete list of courses. Copies of the bulletin may be obtained
at the Graduate College Office. Outside courses should be selected
in consultation with the adviser and program of study committee to
match research interests and educational goals. In general, students
are urged to talk with other students as well as faculty about recent
course experiences. Often, it may be more important to select the
right faculty member who is teaching a course than it is to select
a course from its description. Listed below are several courses that
are frequently taken by graduate students in the School.
Soc 415. Sociology of Technology
3 cr. Offered Fall. Prereq: 130 or 134 plus
three credits in social sciences. Review of physical, biological,
and social theories of technology and risk. Examination of risk perception,
public responses, and differential rates of adoption of new technologies.
Applications to topics in agriculture, development and marketing.
Soc 541. Technological Innovation, Social Change and Development
(Also TSC 541). 3 cr. Offered Fall. Sources, theories and models of technological
innovation, social institutional, cultural, economic and political
contexts of technology transfer; issues and methods of assessing
impacts of technological change; local and international case studies.
Soc 642. Sociology of Adoption and Diffusion
3 cr. Offered Spring. Prereq:
six graduate credits in sociology. Sociological and social-psychological
theories related to adoption and diffusion of new ideas; analysis
of adoption and diffusion models; methods of field research; factors
related to rates and intensity of adoption and diffusion; adopters'
characteristics related to rates of adoption.
Listed below are several quantitative methods courses that satisfy the requirement
for a research methods course outside of the School:
Stat 401. Statistical Methods for Research Workers
4 cr. Offered Fall, Spring
and Summer. Methods of analyzing and interpreting experimental and
survey data. Statistical concepts and models; estimation; hypothesis
tests with continuous and discrete data; simple and multiple linear
regression and correlation; introduction to analysis of variance.
Stat 402. Statistical Design and the Analysis of Experiments
Stat 403. Nonparametric Statistical Methods
Stat 404. Regression for Social and Behavioral Research
Stat 407. Methods of Multivariate Analysis
RESEV 552. (Research and Evaluation) Basic Educational Statistics
RESEV 553. Intermediate Educational Statistics
RESEV 557. Computer Data Analysis Procedures
Soc 512. Sociological Measurement
Listed below are several qualitative methods courses that satisfy the requirement
for a research methods course outside of the School:
Anthropology 530. Ethnographic Field Methods
Art and Design 580. Ethnography of the Visual Arts
Art as a cultural symbol;
emphasis on the role of the artist and the function of the visual
arts within particular cultural settings.
English 527. Discourse Analysis
Application of discourse analysis to the study
of texts in a variety of settings.
Research and Evaluation 580. Qualitative Research Techniques
History 576. Research Methodology in the History of Science and Technology
History 583. Historical Methods
Written evidence and analysis, criticism of
evidence.
HDFS 604. (Human Development and Family Studies)
Advanced qualitative studies.
Ethnomethodology, hermeneutics, oral life stories, content analysis.
Sociology 513. Intermediate research methods II
Qualitative approaches.
Applied qualitative approaches to sociology.
This Program of Study form provides a handy list of required courses and suggested electives.
