COUN 6120 - Research Methods

This course introduces students to research methods in the behavioral sciences focusing on clinically relevant qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods research designs. Students will analyze professional and ethical guidelines for conducting research with human subjects, including the purpose of Institutional Review Boards (IRB) and issues of diversity and equity in research and evaluation. This course provides students with intense guidance and support as they write a full research proposal from the selection of a research topic, to generating a research hypothesis, conducting an extensive literature review, to describing the methodology and statistical analysis for the study. Due to the intensive nature of this 6-credit course, students are encouraged to take this as their only course in a term. Prerequisites: COUN 5140 , COUN 5910 , and COUN 6190 . This course has both synchronous components with faculty and student interaction via Zoom every week and asynchronous components with faculty and student interaction through Blackboard multiple times each week. Credits: 6