Behavioral Research Minor

Advisor: Skip Kendrick, Department of Psychology
Skip.Kendrick@mtsu.edu

The Behavioral Research minor is designed to provide more specialized instruction in research skills and data analysis and is appropriate for students planning careers emphasizing research and/or quantitative analysis including students majoring in fields such as psychology, sociology, political science, marketing, and mathematics. This minor may be particularly attractive to students wanting to pursue graduate work. The minor in Behavioral Research requires 15 semester hours.

Interdisciplinary Minors

Interdisciplinary minors require the student to complete a minimum of 15 to 21 hours from a list of specific courses. Unless otherwise noted, a student may take no more than 6 hours of courses from a single department until he or she surpasses the required minimum number of hours necessary for completing the minor. Exceptions to this rule may be found within the discussions of several of the minors. In most cases, a student is also limited to just 3 hours of credit toward the minor in the same department or discipline in which he or she is taking a major. Except for the Paralegal Studies minor, no course may be counted both for major and minor credit. Students must fulfill all departmental prerequisites for any course within an interdisciplinary minor. In some cases, advisors may approve course substitutions within these program requirements.

Basic Statistics (3-7 hours)

MATH 1530 - Applied Statistics 3 credit hours
PS 3001 - Research Methods in Political Science 3 credit hours
PSY 3020 - Basic Statistics for Behavioral Science 3 credit hours
BIA 2610 - Statistical Methods 3 credit hours
SOC 3050 - Data Analysis 4 credit hours

Basic Research Methods (3-7 hours)

PSY 3070 - Research Methods 3 credit hours AND
PSY 3071 - Research Methods Lab 1 credit hour
MKT 3930 - Marketing Research 3 credit hours
SOC 3040 - Research Methods 3 credit hours
SW 2630 - Interviewing Skills for Social Work Practice 3 credit hours
SW 3110 - Research Methods for Social Work Practice 3 credit hours

Advanced Statistics (3-6 hours)

MATH 2050 - Probability and Statistics 3 credit hours
PSY 4070 - Advanced Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences 3 credit hours
BIA 3620 - Introduction to Business Analytics 3 credit hours

Advanced Research Methods (3-6 hours)

MKT 4880 - Applied Marketing Research 3 credit hours
PHIL 4500 - Philosophy of Science 3 credit hours
PSY 4080 - Advanced Research Methods 3 credit hours

NOTE:

No more than 7 credit hours in a single department may count toward the interdisciplinary minor unless the student surpasses the required 15 hours necessary for this minor.
No more than 7 credit hours may be taken toward this minor in the same department or discipline in which a student is majoring.
Courses will not be counted for both the major and the minor.
A student who is majoring in any of the areas listed in the Basic Statistics category or the Basic Research category and is taking any course in the category as a part of his or her major requirement may take no more than 3 credit hours (or 4 credit hours if taking the course with a lab) from other departments in that category.

If you have any questions about this minor, email Dr. Skip Kendrick at Skip.Kendrick@mtsu.edu.