POS 6736 - Fall 2018
The goal of this course is for you understand how we study politics and to teach you how political scientists conduct original research. Essentially, the purpose of this course is to explain the “science” in political science. The course will provide you with a general understanding of what science is and a foundation in the logic and practice of systematic political inquiry. We will cover fundamental issues such as arriving at a research question, theory building, hypothesis development, variable measurement, identifying and dealing with confounding factors, and causality. The topics covered in this course are crucial to any research project, but this is only the first step towards you being able to conduct your own research.
Below you will find the course syllabus as well as readings for the class.
Below you will find the course syllabus as well as readings for the class.
| Syllabus.pdf |
| Week 1 Reading #1 |
| Week 1 Reading #2.pdf |
| The Science of Political Science.pptx |
| The Basics of Social Science.pptx |
| Week 2 Reading.pdf |
| Theories Hypotheses Concepts and Variables.pptx |
| Operationalization and Measurement of Variables.pptx |
| Causality Correlations and Statistical Inference.pptx |
| Gerber and Green 2000 - Experiment Paper.pdf |
| Experiments lecture.pptx |
| OLS Regression.pptx |
| Barking Up The Wrong Tree |
| Multiple Regression.pptx |
| lab_tutorial_do_file.do |
| stata_tutorial_cces.dta_.dta |
| reading_-_when_contact_changes_minds.pdf |
| Conduct of Inquiry HW1.pdf |
| NFL Statistics.xlsx |
| Bad Research.pptx |
| Qualitative Research and Writing Your Paper.pptx |