Required Courses (21 Hours)

• SOWK/SWK 851 Foundations and Theories of Multiculturally Informed Research in Social Work (3)
• SOWK/SWK 853 Quantitative Methods in Social Work (3)
• SOWK/SWK 854 Qualitative Methods in a Multicultural Context (3)
• SOWK/SWK 855 Quantitative Data Analysis in Social Work (3)
• SOWK/SWK 856 Community-Engaged Research in Social Work (3)
• SOWK/SWK 880 Research Planning and Development (3)
• SOWK/SWK 885 Issues and Trends in Social Work (3)

Electives (15 credit hours)

In order to honor the student’s individual professional goals and aspirations, the primary advisor
will assist the student in selecting courses that fulfill the student’s professional interests and
development. Students may consider areas of specialization as they refine their interests. At least one elective course must be a research methods course. 4 letter course abbreviations are N.C. A&T State University; 3 letter abbreviations are UNC Greensboro.   

• SOWK/SWK 886 Intervention Design in Social Work Research
• SOWK/SWK 887 Causal Inference in Social Sciences
• ADED 716 Research in Adult Education (3)
• COUN 709 Statistics and Research Methods (3)
• COUN 770 Applied Research in Counseling
• COUN 810 Descriptive & Inferential Statistics (3)
• COUN 830 Design Methodology & Implementation (3)
• COUN 865 Analysis of Qualitative Research (3)
• CST 602 Engaging Communication Research Methodology (3)
• ELC 664 Foundations of Interpretive Inquiry (3)
• ELC 685 Passionate Pedagogies (3)
• ELC 767 Qualitative Data Collection and Analysis (3)
• ERM 604 Methods of Educational Research (3)
• ERM 645 Culturally Responsive Approaches to Research and Evaluation (3:3)
• ERM 668 Survey Research Methods in Education (3)
• ERM 680 Intermediate Statistical Methods in Education (3)
• ERM 681 Design and Analysis of Educational Experiments (3)\
• ERM 682 Multivariate Analysis (3)
• ERM 731 Structural Equation Modeling in Education (3)
• ERM 732 Hierarchical Linear Modeling (3)
• ERM 745 Culturally Responsive Approaches to Research (3)
• ERM 750 Case Study Methods in Educational Research (3)
• ERM 788 Contemporary Problems Seminar (3)
• GRO 620 Research Methods in Gerontology (3)
• GRO 621 Health and Aging (3)
• HDF 756 Advanced Research Design in Human Development and Family Studies (3)
• HEA 676 Problems Seminar (specific course title varies each term) (3)
• HED 728 Scholarly Writing in Higher Education (3)
• HHS 650 Applied Multiple Regression (4)
• LEST 815 Research design and Methodology (3)
• LEST 845 Women and Leadership (3)
• LEST 860 Qualitative Research (3)
• LEST 862 Quantitative Research (3)
• LEST 865 Mixed Methods Research (3)
• NUR 701 Statistical Applications for Nursing Research I (3)
• NUR 702 Statistical Applications for Nursing Research II (3)
• NUR 703 Qualitative Methods for Nursing (3)
• PSC 503 Survey Methods for Policy Research (3)
• PSY 609 Statistical Methods in Psychology I (4)
• PSY 610 Statistical Methods in Psychology II (4)
• SES 760 Single Subject Research Design (3)
• SOC 618 Advanced Data Analysis (3)
• SOC 651 Criminology (3)
• STA 670 Categorical Data Analysis (3)
• STA 676 Sample Survey Methods (3)
• STAT 707 Intro to Data Science (3)
• TED 738 Mixed Methods Research Design in Curriculum and Instruction
• WGS 650 Feminist Theory, Gender Race Class
• WGS 651 Feminist Research Analysis

Dissertation (12 Credit Hours)

After successful defense of the dissertation proposal, students will complete dissertation research and writing, culminating in a successful oral defense of the dissertation.

SWK 799 Dissertation or SOWK 997 Dissertation (3 hours, four times)