EPSY5123
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EPSY 5123 - Programming Workflows for Psychological Research (3 Cr.)
Educational Psychology (11211)TCED - College of Education and Human Development
Course description
How can researchers use open-source programming to create a reproducible and flexible workflow? This course teaches programming and computer-based skills that are increasingly important methods in psychological research, like fundamental programming concepts, data wrangling in R, online experiments and surveys with JavaScript, version control with git, using the Open Science Framework, and writing reproducible reports with R Markdown. It emphasizes open science practices and readily implementable skills for a more streamlined and automated research workflow. The course is taught with an active, hands-on approach to programming, including class discussions and group work. It is designed to be accessible to students without any prior programming experience.
prereq: Students should have taken an undergraduate- or graduate-level statistics course.
prereq: Students should have taken an undergraduate- or graduate-level statistics course.
Minimum credits
3
Maximum credits
3
Is this course repeatable?
No
Grading basis
OPT - Student Option
Discussion
Fulfills the writing intensive requirement?
No
Typically offered term(s)
Every Spring