Approved Courses
The following list includes undergraduate courses that have been approved as of June 2010. Courses added after that date do not appear in this list. Courses eliminated after that date may still appear. Not every course is offered regularly. Students should consult the Schedule of Classes at www.testudo.umd.edu to ascertain which courses are actually offered during a given semester.
COURSE NUMBERING SYSTEM
| Number |
|
Eligibility |
| 000-099 |
|
Non-credit course |
| 100-199 |
|
Primarily freshman course |
| 200-299 |
|
Primarily sophomore course |
| 300-399 |
|
Junior, senior course not acceptable for credit toward graduate degrees |
| 386-387 |
|
Campus-wide internship courses; refer to information describing Experiential Learning |
| 400-499 |
|
Junior, senior course acceptable for credit toward some graduate degree |
| 500-599 |
|
Professional School course (Dentistry, Architecture, Law, Medicine) or post-baccalaureate course |
| 600-899 |
|
Course restricted to graduate students |
| 799 |
|
Master Thesis credit |
| 899 |
|
Doctoral Dissertation credit |
Use the search box below to view the approved courses.
Courses in "SURV-Survey Methodology"
SURV - Survey Methodology
SURV 400 Fundamentals of Survey Methodology (3)
Prerequisite: STAT100; or permission of BSOS-Joint Program in Survey
Methodology department. Credit only granted for: SURV699M or SURV400.
Formerly: SURV699M.
Introduces the student to a set of principles of survey design that are
the basis of standard practices in the field. The course exposes the
student to both observational and experimental methods to test key
hypotheses about the nature of human behavior that affect the quality of
survey data. It will also present important statistical concepts and
techniques in simple design, execution, and estimation, as well as
models of behavior describing errors in responding to survey questions.
Not acceptable to graduate degrees in Survey Methodology (SURV).
SURV 410 Introduction to Probability Theory (3)
Prerequisite: MATH240 and MATH241; or permission of BSOS-Joint Program
in Survey Methodology department. Also offered as: STAT410. Credit only
granted for: SURV410 or STAT410.
Probability and its properties. Random variables and distribution
functions in one and several dimensions. Moments, characteristic
functions, and limit theorems.
SURV 420 Introduction to Statistics (3)
Prerequisite: SURV410 or STAT410. Also offered as: STAT420. Credit only
granted for: STAT420 or SURV420.
Mathematical statistics, presenting point estimation, sufficiency,
completeness, Cramer-Rao inequality, maximum likelihood, confidence
intervals for parameters of normal distributions, chi-square tests,
analysis of variance, regression, correlation, and nonparametric
methods.
SURV 430 Fundamentals of Questionnaire Design (3)
Restriction: Permission of BSOS-Joint Program in Survey Methodology
department. Credit only granted for: SURV430 or SURV630.
Introduction to the scientific literature on the design, testing and
evaluation of survey questionnaires, together with hands-on application
of the methods discussed in class.
SURV 440 Sampling Theory (3)
Prerequisite: STAT420 or STAT410. Restriction: Must not have completed
STAT440.
Simple random sampling, sampling for proportions, estimation of sample
size, sampling with varying probabilities of selection, stratification,
systematic selection, cluster sampling, double sampling, and sequential
sampling.
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