This course is designed to provide students with conceptual understanding of structural equation modeling (SEM) and guided experience running these analyses. The emphasis in this course is more applied than technical. At the end of this course, students will have the conceptual and analytic stills to specify, analyze, and interpret SEMs. A second goal of the course is for students to have sufficient conceptual, technical, and syntactic understanding of SEM to solve the methodological problems that will come up in your future work.