Welcome to the Honors Section
See the honors section syllabus.
Any student enrolled in Soc 114 is welcome to enroll in the honors section (Soc 189 Sem 3). The honors section is graded as a separate 1.0 credit course. It is an opportunity to engage in a small creative research project and interact with the professor and peers in a seminar format.
Our goal
Our goal in the honors section is to:
- create our own social science questions
- download actual data relevant to the questions
- use the tools of data science to produce answers
- present findings orally and in writing
What comes next
- Week 1: Discuss how to ask good research questions and access data
- Week 2–3: Prepare data with a guided activity using
tidyversetools - Week 4: Plan a possible visualization by drawing a sketch
- Week 5–6: In-class work to produce your visualization
- Week 7: Practice how to write results
- Week 8: Plan to present findings
- Week 9–10: Presentations in class