Human Behavior and Data Analysis Skill Badge

Issued by Bunker Hill Community College

This Skill Badge validates students’ ability to collect, analyze, and apply basic statistical methods to communicate data related to human behavior. Students use research skills to search databases, read and evaluate scientific literature, and analyze information from diverse sources. They apply critical thinking to assess credibility, draw evidence-based conclusions, and communicate findings through research papers, presentations, or visual graphics.

Type Learning
Level Intermediate
Time Months
Cost Free

Skills

Earning Criteria

PSY-101 Principles of Psychology: This introductory psychology course covers a survey of information and theory. Topics include the brain and behavior, research methods, learning, consciousness, motivation, emotion, human growth and development, personality, abnormal behavior, and psychotherapy, social cognition and understanding.
PSY-235 Introduction to Behavioral Research: This course is an introduction to the ways of discovering, describing, and making warranted assertions about aspects of people and social life. The chief objectives are 1) to help students develop the skills and knowledge necessary to become intelligent critics of research in the behavioral and social sciences, and 2) to give them a rudimentary understanding of the design and evaluation of scientific research.
MAT-181 Statistics: This course covers statistical concepts and methods. Topics include data organization, averages and variation; elementary probability; binomial, normal, and t-distributions; estimation and hypothesis testing; and linear correlation and regression.
Students who complete this badge participate in an employer and faculty co-designed workshop where they apply the Human Behavior and Data Analysis skills they learned in their coursework in workplace simulation scenarios.