This hands-on workshop is designed to train participants with practical skills in organizing, summarizing, and visualizing social science data using Microsoft Excel, a widely accessible and powerful tool. Social sciences increasingly rely on quantitative data to inform decisions, evaluate programs or projects, and understand societal trends.
Regardless of your specific professional field, these sessions aim to strengthen your data literacy and confidence in handling quantitative information. By the end of the workshop, you will improve your ability to manage real-world social data and lay the groundwork for more advanced statistical analysis.
This course presents a review of multiple statistical methods for data
analysis, ranging from the most fundamental concepts to modern analysis
techniques. The course will be given with a practical and intuitive approach,
which will be developed through the use of the R program (no previous
experience is required). In addition, the course will seek to cultivate an
appreciation for good practices in data visualization, as well as to foster
students' critical analysis of different problems related to the manipulation
and interpretation of statistical information.
This course presents a compilation of ecological research methods, extending
from classical methodologies to modern tools and techniques. The course will emphasize
a practical approach, which will be conducted in different locations of the
university campus, like the UPeace Recreational Park. In addition, students
will visit the Insect Museum to complement the sampling methods component, and
prepare presentations intended to strengthen their associative skills and
concept assimilation among the different methodologies and their applications
in ecological research.
In this course we will become familiar with contemporary issues in the field of Ecology & Society. To provide context to our discussions, we begin with an analysis of key frameworks and principles including Social-Ecological Resilience, Environmental Justice and Community Based Research. Via contemporary case studies we put these frameworks and principles into practice. In this course we mainstream social justice to ensure that we understand how programs and policies affect countries and peoples differently