The Basic principles of Research Methods will be covered in this course and the data management, coding and Statistical analysis will then be covered. The preliminary data analysis as well the inferential statistics will be covered. This course will capacitate students to handle and manage data sets collected from various research fields, this will cover the capture of data, the cleaning and management of data and the appropriate coding. The data management will include the management of CSV files, Microsoft access data sets etc and exporting them into excel spread sheets before coding and preparing them for import into the different data analysis application software's and tools. Students will be exposed to different statistical packages like R-software, MINITAB, GENSTAT, SAS etc. but major focus will be on SPSS. The data analysis and interpretation skills will also be imparted to the students giving them the data handling, management, analysis and interpretation proficiency that is above par.