Introduces students to political science as a discipline by focusing on the development of research questions, research designs, and the quantitative and qualitative tools commonly used to implement research designs.
Semester: Fall
Offered: 2023
Related Materials
Week 1: Syllabus Week
Week 2: Questions and Hypothesis
Week 3: Deduction, Induction, Normative and Positivist Social Science Questions
Week 4: Correlation and Causation
Week 5: Sampling and Case Selection
Week 6: Reading Data and Quantitative Data Analysis
Week 7: Survey Research
Week 8: Mid-Semester Review
Week 9: Experiment and Identification
Week 10: Survey, Lab, Field and Natural Experiment
Week 11: Qualitative Research: Process-Tracing
Week 12: Archival and Ethnographic Research
Week 13: Research Ethics and Research Fraud
X. (Xunchao) Zhang 