INFO 6620

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INFO 6620
Social Research Design and Method

Course information provided by the 2026-2027 Catalog.

This graduate seminar is intended to acquaint students with critical issues in designing and executing social research. The goal of the course is to equip students to make their own analytically sound contributions to social research about technology, while critically considering their own roles as social scientists. Among the topics the course is likely to cover are: formulating good research questions and fitting appropriate methods to them; practical aspects of data collection; forms of validity; critical assessment of constructs and classifications; the roles of failure and surprise in social research; and positionality and the researcher's relationship to social policy.


Enrollment Priority Enrollment limited to: INFO Ph.D. students or instructor permission.

Last 4 Terms Offered 2024FA, 2023FA, 2020FA

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16782 INFO 6620   SEM 101

  •  
    • M
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • Levy, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Enrollment limited to: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) students.
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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16783 INFO 6620   SEM 131

  •  
    • M
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • Levy, K

  • Instruction Mode: Distance Learning-Synchronous

    Enrollment limited to: Cornell Tech Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) students.