News and Numbers (202-0-70)

Instructors

Claudia Kozman

Meeting Info

Northwestern Qatar Room 1-225: Tues, Su 2:30PM - 3:45PM (AST)

Overview of class

Introduction to statistics for journalism students. Students will discuss ways to detect fraud in government data, methods for dissecting academic research from scholarly journals (as well as research promoted in press releases), and strategies for reporting numbers to a mass audience, among other skills. Students will become deeply familiar with SPSS software. Covered topics include those common in general statistics courses, including the Central Limit Theorem, descriptive and inferential test statistics, correlation, One‐ Way and Two‐Way Analyses of Variance, and multiple regression. Specific attention is given to challenges journalists encounter in reporting numbers.

Registration Requirements

Prerequisites: None

Open to sophomores and above, Journalism majors only

Enrollment Requirements

Enrollment Requirements: NUQ: Journalism majors only sophomore and above