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POLITICAL SCIENCE 5 HOMEPAGE

Research Methods in Political Science

University of San Diego

Department of Political Science and International Relations

Spring 2004

Instructor: Mieczyslaw P. Boduszynski


,Instructor's email address: mbod@socrates.berkeley.edu,


iCourse Syllabusi

REVISED SCHEDULE FOR THE FIRST THREE WEEKS OF APRIL

 
 
 

New Instructor's Office Hours Starting Tuesday, March 30, 2004:
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4:15-5:15pm, after lecture, and by appointment


!I. Links to Assignments:!

 

Preparing the Research Prospectus
 

Preparing the Final Project
 
 

Homework #1
 

Homework #2
 

Homework #3
 

Homework #4
 

Homework #5























CII.  Links to Readings:C

Inglehart reading for Meeting #3

 

Banaszak and Plutzer reading for Meeting #4

 

Campbell reading for Meeting #6 (no longer required) Rule reading for Meeting #6
Larson reading for Meeting #6 Rasinski reading for Meeting #7
Economist reading for Meeting #7 (to be handed out) All readings for Meeting #9 (Kagay reading not available)
Lijphart reading for Meeting #16 Frendreis reading for Meeting #16 (to be handed out)
Fish reading for Meeting #23 Vogel reading for Meeting #25
Table 1 for Vogel reading
Table 2 for Vogel reading
Table 3 for Vogel reading
Geddes reading for Meeting #26 Segal and Cover reading for Meeting #27

(Note: in order for reading links to work, you must access this page through the USD network)
 


JIII.  Links to Lecture Notes:J

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Meeting #1
Meeting #2 Meeting #3 Meeting #4 Meeting #5 Meeting #6
Meeting #7 Meeting #8 Meeting #9 Meeting #10 Meeting #11--Midterm (no notes)
Meeting #12 Meeting #13 Meeting #14 Meeting #15
(many notes outside of visual presentation--get notes if you missed it)
Meeting #16 (no visual presentation--only oral--get notes if you missed it)
Meeting #17 (no Powerpoint pres--get notes) Meeting #18 Meeting #19 (film--no notes) Meeting #20 (no Lecture--holiday!) Meeting #21
Meeting #22--Midterm (no notes) Meeting #23 Meeting #24 (get notes) Meeting #25 Meeting #26 (discussion of Vogel article--get notes)
Meeting #27 (guest lecturer-get notes) Meeting #28 (final study guide distributed) Meeting #29 (no class-instructor absence)

Examples of Research Questions and Hypotheses (from lecture)
 
 
 

Another example of how to compute a chi-square statistic (PowerPoint file)

























(Note: You must have PowerPoint to open and view the lecture notes.  If you don't have Microsoft Power Point, you can read and print these slides by going to the Microsoft website and downloading their Power Point Viewer.)


JIV.  Links to Study Guides and Solution SetsJ

Midterm #1 Study Guide Midterm #2 Study Guide Midterm #1 Answer Key
Midterm #2 Answer Key Final Study Guide Final Answer Key
 

Final Grading Scale

Homework #1 Solutions Homework #2 Solutions Homework #3 Solutions (see envelope on instructor's door)
Homework #4 Solutions Homework #5 Solutions Midterm #1 Grading Scale
Midterm #2 Grading Scale


sV.  Links to Web-Based Methods Resourcess


Chi squared table

MicroCase Homepage (software help and download other data sets here)
 
 

Learn more about the difference between reliability and validity here
 
 
 
 

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