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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.
Expected preparation: completion of one prior course in political science or a related field.
- Fall 2024
- SI, Social Inquiry
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POSC 232.02 Fall 2024
- Faculty:Summer Forester 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- THasenstab 109 1:15pm-3:00pm
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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. Prerequisite: POSC 230
- Winter 2025
- QRE, Quantitative Reasoning
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POSC 232.01 Winter 2025
- Faculty:Greg Marfleet 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THHasenstab 002 3:10pm-4:55pm
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POSC 232 PS Lab: Hacking the Case Study 3 credits
This course explores the case study method for investigating important political science questions. We will begin by discussing the philosophy of science, causality, theory building and testing; this will provide us with the grounding to think critically about the uses, strengths, and limitations of case study methods. We will then explore the core issues of case study research design, including methods of comparison, case selection, process tracing, and building cases into mixed method studies. We will also explore how various techniques such as interviews, participant observation, and archival research contribute to building case studies.
- Winter 2025
- SI, Social Inquiry
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POSC 232.03 Winter 2025
- Faculty:Huan Gao 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- THasenstab 109 1:15pm-3:00pm
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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 Required for ISCNE simulation.
- Spring 2025
- No Exploration
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): POSC 230 with grade greater than or equal to C- or better.
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POSC 232.01 Spring 2025
- Faculty:Greg Marfleet 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 109 12:30pm-1:40pm
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POSC 232 PS Lab: Intelligence Methods for National Security 3 credits
This course is designed to look at two or three lesser-covered current crises around the world. Students will study the issue from all sides, and assess what the stated and actual policy objectives are for all sides in the conflict. Students will take a hard look at the kind of intelligence requirements that a national leader or other policymaker might levy on the security apparatus to better inform the policy-making process, and consider how tools of national power might be applied by all sides to gain leverage or even to solve the crises situation.
Extra Time Required for ISCNE simulation.
- Spring 2025
- IS, International Studies SI, Social Inquiry
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POSC 232.04 Spring 2025
- Faculty:Jon Olson 🏫
- Size:25
- THasenstab 109 3:10pm-4:55pm
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POSC 232 PS Lab: Political Research in Spanish 3 credits
This political science lab will train students interested in conducting social science research in Spanish on Latin America or Spain. All reading and audio visual materials used in this course will be in Spanish. Students will exercise and receive further training in their ability to read both qualitative and quantitative scholarship, access official and scholarly databases, read and discuss primary materials such as presidential speeches and interviews with political leaders, as well as journalistic sources. All discussion and instruction will be conducted in Spanish.
- First Five Weeks, Spring 2025
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POSC 232.02 First Five Weeks, Spring 2025
- Faculty:Alfred Montero 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 002 3:10pm-4:20pm
- FHasenstab 002 3:30pm-4:30pm