SOC SC 402
Quantitative Data Analysis in Social Science
Grades
3.75
Average grade awarded in SOC SC 402. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
80%
of the 97 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
-
the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 97 grades over 4 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 4 terms ran 3.63 to 3.86.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 32 · 33.0%
- A 37 · 38.1%
- A- 9 · 9.3%
- B+ 3 · 3.1%
- B 7 · 7.2%
- B- 7 · 7.2%
- C+ 1 · 1.0%
- C 1 · 1.0%
- I 1 of 98
Percentages are of the 97 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: incompletes (I).
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Summer Session A 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RIVAS, MARIELA JANET reviews ↗ | 3.80 | 3.82 | 46 | 2 | 89% | - | not teaching it |
| WOOD, BRIAN M reviews ↗ | 3.68 | 3.63 | 28 | 1 | 68% | - | not teaching it |
| FRIES, LAURA CAROL reviews ↗ | 3.75 | 3.74 | 23 | 1 | 78% | very light | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
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Workload and assignments
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From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, two and one half hours; discussion, one hour. Introduction to fundamentals of data analysis and statistics, focusing on application of statistical methods in social problems research. Students develop skills and strategies for evaluating research evidence, and for comparing and synthesizing results of studies that adopt different research methodologies. Descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, probability, statistical tests, correlation, and causation, and regression analysis. Other topics include organizing quantitative data (e.g., tables, graphs), methods for describing data with respect to central tendency, dispersion, and association. At course end students should be able to perform data analysis using appropriate software, to interpret results, and to make critical evaluations of quantitative social science research. Letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session A 2026
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