Overview
Description
This course covers foundational aspects of experimental design and writing in the STEM field, including hypothesis formulation, identifying groups and outcome measures, planning controls, reducing experimental biases, performing power calculations, choosing statistical tests, data visualization, and proposal writing.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall
Terms
fall
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- apply historical and contemporary research, as well as readings from the primary literature, to a broad range of biological problems.
- demonstrate skills in critical thinking and communication through participation in and leadership of in-class discussions.
- present and analyze experimental data (or simulated data) so that collaborators (the other students and the instructor) can independently analyze the quality of the experimental design.
- contribute to discussions of their collaborators’ data analysis.
- complete a project proposal to ensure skills in experimental design and scientific writing.