Who's Who in Quantitative Social Science
Director:
Niki Marinov, Department of Political Science
Overview
The Quantitative Social Science Minor exists to encourage students to acquire the knowledge, skills and tools needed to conduct scientific research. We draw inspiration from Herbert Simon - a seminal figure in the fields of Psychology and Political Science, and a Nobel Laureate in Economic Science - who wrote, "The social sciences need the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that made the "hard" sciences so brilliantly successful."
Quantitative Social Science is an interdisciplinary initiative, with faculty drawn from the departments of Economics, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology. The Minor in Quantitative Social Science is available to all UH students; academic advising is offered by undergraduate advisory staff members in the aforementioned departments. The Minor is directed by Dr. Niki Marinov.
Many courses can satisfy both a requirement of the student's major and a requirement of the Quantitative Social Science Minor. However the interdisciplinary nature of quantitative methodology obliges students not to confine coursework to any one department. A maximum of 6 semester hours of completed minor coursework may be counted towards a student's major. Note that any course that counts towards a student's major and towards the Core Curriculum cannot also count towards the 18 semester hours required for the minor.