PSCI/INTR 389W Senior Honors Seminar

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  • Fall 2024
    Casey Petroff
    Fall 2024 ("W" Required) — W 14:00 - 16:40
    Course Syllabus

    Through reading and critiquing political science research in American politics, comparative politics, and international relations, students learn how to select a research question, formulate testable hypotheses, find and evaluate relevant literature, locate or collect data that addresses their research question, analyze the data, and write a research report. Course requires instructor's permission.

  • Fall 2023
    Scott Abramson
    Fall 2023 ("W" Required) — W 14:00 - 16:40
    Course Syllabus

    Through reading and critiquing political science research in American politics, comparative politics, and international relations, students learn how to select a research question, formulate testable hypotheses, find and evaluate relevant literature, locate or collect data that addresses their research question, analyze the data, and write a research report. Course requires instructor's permission.

  • Fall 2022
    Scott Abramson
    Fall 2022 ("W" Required) — R 14:00 - 16:40
    Course Syllabus

    Through reading and critiquing political science research in American politics, comparative politics, and international relations, students learn how to select a research question, formulate testable hypotheses, find and evaluate relevant literature, locate or collect data that addresses their research question, analyze the data, and write a research report. Course requires instructor's permission.

  • Fall 2021
    Fall 2021 ("W" Required) — R 14:00 - 16:40
    Course Syllabus

    Through reading and critiquing political science research in American politics, comparative politics, and international relations, students learn how to select a research question, formulate testable hypotheses, find and evaluate relevant literature, locate or collect data that addresses their research question, analyze the data, and write a research report. Course requires instructor's permission.

  • Fall 2020
    Scott Abramson
    Fall 2020 ("W" Required) — R 14:00 - 16:40
    Course Syllabus

    Through reading and critiquing political science research in American politics, comparative politics, and international relations, students learn how to select a research question, formulate testable hypotheses, find and evaluate relevant literature, locate or collect data that addresses their research question, analyze the data, and write a research report. Course requires instructor's permission.

  • Fall 2019
    Scott Abramson
    Fall 2019 ("W" Required) — R 14:00 - 16:40
    Course Syllabus

    Through reading and critiquing political science research in American politics, comparative politics, and international relations, students learn how to select a research question, formulate testable hypotheses, find and evaluate relevant literature, locate or collect data that addresses their research question, analyze the data, and write a research report. Course requires instructor's permission.

  • Fall 2018
    Fall 2018 ("W" Required) — R 14:00 - 16:40
    Course Syllabus

    Through reading and critiquing political science research in American politics, comparative politics, and international relations, students learn how to select a research question, formulate testable hypotheses, find and evaluate relevant literature, locate or collect data that addresses their research question, analyze the data, and write a research report. Course requires instructor's permission.

  • Fall 2017
    Fall 2017 ("W" Required) — R 14:00 - 16:40
    Course Syllabus

    This course will teach students how to write an original social scientific research paper. Students enrolled in the class are expected to complete a thesis in the spring. In this course, they will choose a research topic and question, find an advisor in the political science department, read the relevant literature, generate hypotheses, begin collecting data, learn strategies for addressing confounding concerns, and produce a paper of roughly 12-15 pages that constitutes a draft of the final thesis. Along the way, students will read high-quality published articles, learn how to interpret regression tables and how to produce their own, understand pros and cons of various research design techniques, replicate a published research article, and learn how to organize and to write a research paper. This course is primarily geared toward teaching students how to write statistical empirical research papers, although it will also provide guidance for writing theses using game theory or qualitative methods.

  • Fall 2016
    Fall 2016 — R 16:50 - 19:30
    Course Syllabus

    Through reading and critiquing political science research in American politics, comparative politics, and international relations, students learn how to select a research question, formulate testable hypotheses, find and evaluate relevant literature, locate or collect data that addresses their research question, analyze the data, and write a research report. Course requires instructor's permission.