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  • POSC 100 American Elections of 2024 6 credits

    This seminar introduces methods of political analysis through a case study of media and politics in the 2024 elections. Students will learn how to conduct research on election news and advertising as part of our Carleton Election Study—a content analysis project covering media and US elections of the first two decades of the twenty-first century. We analyze the activities and results from the 2024 elections by looking at trends in news coverage, political advertising, campaigns and candidate communication and public opinion. 

    Held for new first year students

    • Fall 2024
    • AI/WR1, Argument & Inquiry/WR1
    • Student is a member of the First Year First Term class level cohort. Students are only allowed to register for one A&I course at a time. If a student wishes to change the A&I course they are enrolled in they must DROP the enrolled course and then ADD the new course. Please see our Workday guides Drop or 'Late' Drop a Course and Register or Waitlist for a Course Directly from the Course Listing for more information.

    • CL: 100 level POSI Elective
    • POSC  100.02 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Barbara Allen 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • T, THHasenstab 109 10:10am-11:55am
  • POSC 204 Media and Electoral Politics: 2024 United States Election 6 credits

    Our analysis of media influences on politics will draw from three fields of study: political psychology, political behavior and participation, and public opinion. Students will conduct a study of the effects of campaign ads and news using our multi-year data set of content analyzed election ads and news. We study a variety of quantitative and qualitative research methods to learn how political communication affects U.S. elections.

    • Fall 2024
    • IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies QRE, Quantitative Reasoning SI, Social Inquiry
    • ACE Theoretical AMST Democracy Activism CAMS Extra Departmental CL: 200 level POSI Elective AMST Production Consumption of Culture AMST Race Ethnicity Indigeneity DGAH Critical Ethical Reflection
    • POSC  204.00 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Barbara Allen 🏫 👤
    • Size:28
    • T, THHasenstab 002 1:15pm-3:00pm
  • POSC 304 Media and Electoral Politics: 2024 United States Elections 6 credits

    Our analysis of media influences on politics will draw from three fields of study: political psychology, political behavior and participation, and public opinion. Students will conduct a study of the effects of campaign ads and news using our multi-year data set of content analyzed election ads and news. We study a variety of quantitative and qualitative research methods to learn how political communication affects U.S. elections. Students enrolled in the POSC 304 version will conduct more extensive analysis of data for their seminar papers.

    • Fall 2024
    • IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies QRE, Quantitative Reasoning SI, Social Inquiry
    • CL: 300 level
    • POSC  304.00 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Barbara Allen 🏫 👤
    • Size:28
    • T, THHasenstab 002 1:15pm-3:00pm
  • POSC 394 Directed Research in Political Science 1 – 6 credits

    Students work on a research project related to a faculty member's research interests, and directed by that faculty member. Student activities vary according to the field and stage of the project. The long-run goal of these projects normally includes dissemination to a scholarly community beyond Carleton. The faculty member will meet regularly with the student and actively direct the work of the student, who will submit an end-of-term product, typically a paper or presentation.

    Register for this course by submitting the Directed Research form which requires approval from the project faculty supervisor and your adviser.

    • Fall 2024, Fall 2025, Winter 2026, Spring 2026
    • No Exploration
    • CL: Faculty Research POSI Elective
    • POSC  394.12 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Barbara Allen 🏫 👤
    • Credits:3
  • POSC 400 Integrative Exercise

    The comprehensive exercise is a substantial (approximately 25-30 page) research paper on a topic within American Politics, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Political Theory, and Public Policy. The student should have completed a 300-level POSC course. The usual comps process starts with a research paper from an already-completed advanced seminar, which is revised or used as an anchor to write the senior thesis, with approval and guidance from the instructor, who becomes the comps adviser. The students must also prepare a poster based on their comps paper for presentation in a group forum.

    • Fall 2024
    • No Exploration
    • Student is a Political Science and International Relations major AND has Senior Priority.

    • POSC  400.03 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Barbara Allen 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • Grading:S/NC
    • Credits:1 – 6

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