Overview
Description
This course focuses on research methods, research design, and empirical data collection and analysis in political science. We will learn how to read and analyze rigorous political science research, design our own research projects, and do basic statistical analysis. The course equips students to conduct research and to evaluate others’ research critically.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- 3 units in PSC coursework
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
3 units in PSC coursework
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Other
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- locate and identify reputable empirical political science research.
- distinguish scientifically rigorous analysis in the discipline.
- develop a research question and project.
- analyze existing scholarship’s relationship to their own research questions.
- identify different types of social science data.
- develop testable hypotheses.
- perform analysis of data using appropriate techniques for the topic and research design.