Research Methods and Applications Minor (MIN)

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Research Methods and Applications Minor MIN

Degree Type: Minor

Career Path: Business, Management, Marketing, and Technology

Required Courses		Credit Hours
Required Foundations courses (select two, 6 credits):
STQM 322	Inferential Statistics	3
Choose one:
MATH 251	Stats for the Life Sciences	3
MFGE 341	Quality Science Statistics	3
PSYC 210	Statistics for PSYC Sciences	3
STQM 260	Introduction to Statistics	3
Elective Tools Courses (select three, 9 credits):
MKTG 378	Marketing Data Analysis	3
SOCY 271	Sociological Meth/Qualitative	3
SOCY 371	Sociological Statistics	3
SSCI 310	Applied Social Research Method	3
STQM 200	Intro to Data Mining	3
STQM 311	Cont Improvement Tools-Techniq	3
STQM 341	Management Science	3
STQM 342	Data Mining Tools	3
STQM 380	Data Mining Processes	3
STQM 351	Quality Control for Management	3
*	Elective (must be pre-approved by minor advisor)	3
Elective Applications Course (select one, 3 credits):
COMM 300	Research Methods in Comm	3
EHSM 315	Epidemiology - Statistics	3
MATH 360	Operations Research	3
MFGE 342	Statistical Proc Engineering	3
MGMT 370	Quality-Operations Mgmt	3
MKTG 425	Marketing Research	3
PSYC 280	Psych Research Methods-Design	3
RMLS 468	Research Methods in LS	3
SCWK 450	Appl Social Research Statistic	3
SOCY 411	Applied Community Research	3
*	Elective (must be pre-approved by minor advisor)	3
Minimum credit hours required for minor:		18

Why Choose the Research Methods and Applications Minor?

Today, more than ever, those who can make sense of data enjoy a competitive edge over those who cannot. Perhaps you will work in production, marketing, quality management, a healthcare delivery system, the automotive industry or some high tech research firm. The research methods and applications minor offers you a chance to develop this competitive edge – the practical know-how of creating and presenting information by collecting, organizing, analyzing, and interpreting data. Today, employers favor graduates with quantitative or research methods skills. When you are looking for a job, do you want to have an advantage over other applicants? If so, the research methods and applications minor will provide that advantage for you.

The minor requires 18 semester credit hours, consisting of two required courses, three elective “tools” courses, and your choice of one “applications” course. The tools and applications electives allow you the opportunity to personalize the minor to your area of study or interest.

Get a Great Job

The proliferation of computers within organizations of all types has created a greater demand for employees who can combine their professional knowledge of business, health sciences or technology with skills in collecting, organizing and interpreting quantitative information. The research methods and applications minor prepares students to make better use of data in their chosen career. Whether working in a production facility, marketing service, health care systems or areas such as applied mathematics, marketing research or quality control, the employee who has a minor in research methods and applications is better equipped to utilize data in the decision-making process.

Admission Requirements

Any Ferris student interested in improving his/her career opportunities can obtain the minor in research methods and applications in conjunction with his/her baccalaureate.

Graduation Requirements

A Ferris student will receive the research methods and applications minor upon graduation with a baccalaureate degree, and after completion of the requirements for the minor with a minimum 2.0 grade point average in quantitative business analysis courses.

Note: No more than 50% of the credits in this minor may be transferred from another institution, nor will the minor be granted if more than 6 of the minor credits are specifically required in the student's major.

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