| 1st November 2016 06:33 PM | |
| shikha | Re: Nutrition Courses in Mumbai University The Syllabus of Semester I & Semester II of M.Sc. (Home Science) Branch IA: Foods Nutrition and Dietetics offered by University of Mumbai is as follows: PSHSIA101 Research Methods and Statistics UNIT I 1.A. Introduction and Overview (a) What is a research? (b) Objectivity and subjectivity in scientific inquiry: Premodernism, modernism, and postmodernism (c) Steps in the research process (d) Importance of research in general, and in each discipline (e) Illustration of research in each of the three specialisations: Foods, Nutrition, and Dietetics; Human Development; and, Textile and Fashion Technology (f) Qualitative versus quantitative research 1.B. The beginning steps in the research process (a) Identifying broad areas of research in a discipline (b) Identifying interest areas; using multiple search strategies (c) Prioritising topics; specifying a topic; feasibility (d) Review of literature/scholarly argument in support of study (e) Specifying research objectives/hypotheses/questions UNIT I 1.A. Introduction and Overview (a) What is a research? (b) Objectivity and subjectivity in scientific inquiry: Premodernism, modernism, and postmodernism (c) Steps in the research process (d) Importance of research in general, and in each discipline (e) Illustration of research in each of the three specialisations: Foods, Nutrition, and Dietetics; Human Development; and, Textile and Fashion Technology (f) Qualitative versus quantitative research 1.B. The beginning steps in the research process (a) Identifying broad areas of research in a discipline (b) Identifying interest areas; using multiple search strategies (c) Prioritising topics; specifying a topic; feasibility (d) Review of literature/scholarly argument in support of study (e) Specifying research objectives/hypotheses/questions UNIT III 3. A. Introduction and overview to statistics (a) Role of statistics in (quantitative) research (b) Definition/changing conceptions (c) Prerequisite concepts in mathematics (e.g., properties of the summation sign, basic algebra) 3 B. Descriptive Statistics for summarizing ratio level variables (a) Frequencies and percentages (b) Computing an average/measure of a central tendency Mean, median, mode(s) Contrasting the mean vs. median Computing an average when there are outliers or extreme values in the data set Robust measures of the center (5% trimmed mean; M estimators) Quartiles and percentiles (d) Computing a measure of variability or dispersion Why? (inadequacy of the mean) Minimum value and maximum value Range Interquartile range Variance and standard deviation (e) Discrete and continuous variables (f) Histograms and line graphs UNIT IV 4 A. Descriptive Statistics for summarizing nominal, ordinal and interval level variables 4 B. Demonstration of computer software such as the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) (a) Data entry (b) Data Management (c) Descriptive Statistics 4. C. Probability: Foundation of Advanced/Inferential Statistics (a) Definition (b) Role of probability in research and statistics (c) Elementary concepts in probability Sample space, experiment, event/outcome/element of the sample space Equally likely outcomes and the uniform probability model Stabilization of the relative frequency |
| 1st November 2016 06:22 PM | |
| Unregistered | Nutrition Courses in Mumbai University Can you provide me the Syllabus of Semester I & Semester II of M.Sc. (Home Science) Branch IA: Foods Nutrition and Dietetics offered by University of Mumbai? |
