PSY/SOC 314, Statistics, fulfills the Liberal Education Communications I requirement for students entering Whittier during or after fall 2005.As such, students entering Whittier during or after fall 2008 must have taken the Math Placement exam and placed beyond Math 76 (College Algebra), or they must have successfully completed Math 76 before enrolling in PSY/SOC 314. Because this course is designed to provide the student with an understanding of, and competency in, the appropriate application of statistics to the behavioral sciences, algebra is an integral and necessary component of this course.Regardless of whether you ever actually conduct your own research in psychology or some other field, you will encounter statistics in your daily life as a consumer of research and as an informed citizen of whichever nation in which you reside.Finally, this course will provide you with an opportunity to learn to use computers to analyze data, employing the most commonly used behavioral statistics program, SPSS.