Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: understand, design, and evaluate experimental, quasi-experimental, and non-experimental research; understand and apply ethical principles and practices in conducting research with human and non-human subjects; recognize and describe the value of the scientific method, research ethics, research design, experimental control, sampling and generalization, conduct hypothesis testing and statistical analysis; and review journal articles, design an original experiment and write an APA-style research report.