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POSC 232 PS Lab: Agent-Based Models 3 credits
Linear modeling using statistical techniques and equilibrium-centered, game-theoretic approaches are standard methods in quantitative social science. However, research into complex systems suggests that dynamic, chaotic and non-linear processes are common in networked, multi-actor systems. Equilibrium may also be difficult to achieve in a world of adaptive or evolutionary agents. How do these concepts apply to our political world? In this class we will explore agent-based models related to political, social and policy questions while student build their own models using the open-source NetLogo language.
- Fall 2023
- Quantitative Reasoning Encounter
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Political Science 230 or concurrent enrollment
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POSC 232.02 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Greg Marfleet 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- THasenstab 002 8:15am-10:00am
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POSC 232 PS Lab: Focus Group Analysis 3 credits
This lab offers a hands-on experience in designing and moderating a small group discussion for the purpose of observing not only attitudes, beliefs, and opinions but also dynamic social interactions as a method for getting answers to complex, dynamic social science research questions. Students will design a focus group study, learning about participant selection and recruitment; question writing and protocol design; group conversation moderation; data extraction and analysis, report writing, and overall project and data management.
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POSC 232.01 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Barbara Allen 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- THasenstab 105 3:10pm-4:55pm
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POSC 232 PS Lab: Interview Techniques 3 credits
This class provides a hands-on introduction to how researchers devise, conduct, and analyze interviews in political science. Students will learn about different types of interview methodologies with a particular focus on semi-structured techniques. Over the course of the class, students will consider the types of questions most appropriately answered by interviews, the fundamentals of different sampling strategies, how to devise questionnaires, and how to use the information collected for both quantitative and qualitative analysis. We will also cover interview ethics, how to employ culturally sensitive techniques, and how to employ interviews in individual, group, and crowd situations.
- Spring 2024
- Social Inquiry
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POSC 232.01 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- THasenstab 105 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 232 PS Lab: Political Philosophy and the Art of Reading 3 credits
Political philosophy inquires into basic matters that most of us take for granted: what is good and bad? what is just and unjust? and why? These inquiries can threaten, or be perceived as threatening, our most dearly held beliefs and all that rests on these beliefs. Political philosophers have often employed arts of writing aimed at veiling their most radical thoughts from all but their most careful and persistent readers. In this course we will study these arts of writing and the arts of reading that they demand of us. We will learn not only about various methods and techniques but also about a philosophic education.
- Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry
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POSC 232.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THHasenstab 109 3:10pm-4:55pm
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POSC 232 PS Lab: Public Policy Analysis 3 credits
How do we read news reports, government documents, and follow policy debates? How do we understand public policy process and outcomes? How do we evaluate governmental and non-governmental policies that affect provision and production of public goods? How do we conduct benefit and cost analysis of a public policy? Students will learn how to conduct archival document research, benefit-cost analysis, and public policy analysis.
- Spring 2024
- Social Inquiry
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POSC 232.02 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- WHasenstab 002 12:30pm-1:40pm