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POSC 232 PS Lab: The Comparative Method 3 credits
In this lab, students will examine the epistemology, history, and application of the comparative method in contemporary political science with a particular focus on the subfields of comparative politics and international relations. Instruction will begin with an examination of methods of similarity and difference in paired comparisons and move to large-N comparative methods employing both qualitative and quantitative techniques.
1st Five Weeks
- First Five Weeks, Winter 2026
- SI, Social Inquiry
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POSC 232.01 First Five Weeks, Winter 2026
- Faculty:Alfred Montero 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 002 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FHasenstab 002 1:10pm-2:10pm
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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.
Repeatable: Course is repeatable provided the topics are different.
- Spring 2026
- SI, Social Inquiry
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POSC 232.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Summer Forester 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- THasenstab 109 8:15am-10:00am
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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.
Repeatable: Course is repeatable provided the topics are different.
- Spring 2026
- HI, Humanistic Inquiry
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POSC 232.02 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- THasenstab 109 3:10pm-4:55pm