Search Results
Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · tagged with POSI Methods Sequence · returned 8 results
-
POSC 222 Political Science Lab: Interviewing 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, including elite and non-elite, structured, semi-structured, and intensive approaches. 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.
1st 5 weeks
- Spring 2022
- Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
-
POSC 222.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 114 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 114 12:00pm-1:00pm
-
2nd 5 weeks
-
POSC 223 Lab in Electoral Politics 3 credits
This lab is designed as a supplement research in POSC 203, 204, 215, or 227. Students currently enrolled in POSC 204 and students who have taken the above courses are encouraged to enroll. We learn to conduct focus groups, depth interviews, content analysis, and experimental analysis using election news, ads, speeches, and debates (in the U.S. or other democracies) as our cases for analysis.
2nd 5 weeks
- Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
-
POSC 223.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Barbara Allen 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 235 3:10pm-4:55pm
-
2nd five week
-
POSC 223.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Barbara Allen 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 235 3:10pm-4:55pm
-
POSC 223.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Barbara Allen 🏫 👤
- Size:24
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:45pm-3:30pm
-
second 5 weeks
-
POSC 223.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Barbara Allen 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 235 3:10pm-4:55pm
-
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
-
Political Science 230 or concurrent enrollment
-
POSC 232.02 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Greg Marfleet 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- THasenstab 002 8:15am-10:00am
-
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
-
POSC 232.01 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- THasenstab 105 1:15pm-3:00pm
-
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
-
POSC 232.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THHasenstab 109 3:10pm-4:55pm
-
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
-
POSC 232.02 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- WHasenstab 002 12:30pm-1:40pm
-
POSC 232 PS Lab: Simulation Research 3 credits
Simulations, games and role-play exercises are commonly used as experiential learning tools to help students understand complex problems. They can also be used in a research context to explore processes that are difficult to observe in the field or that involve strategic, adversarial and interactive social choices among multiple actors (such as red team exercises). In this lab we will explore the use of simulation as a tool for social inquiry and policy making and use participant observation approaches to gather data from a large simulation exercise.
Extra time: Departmental Simulation Evening May 19th and Daytime May 20th
- Spring 2023
-
Previous or concurrent registration in Political Science 230
-
POSC 232.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Greg Marfleet 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 105 8:30am-9:40am
- FHasenstab 105 8:30am-9:30am
-
POSC 232 Political Science 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.
- Fall 2022, Fall 2023
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
-
POSC 232.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Barbara Allen 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 230 3:10pm-4:55pm
-
2nd 5 weeks
-
POSC 232.01 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Barbara Allen 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- THasenstab 105 3:10pm-4:55pm