Political Science 30: Political Inquiry

University of California San Diego

Summer Session I 2006

Class 1: July 6 – Introduction

Class 2: July 11 – Concepts and Measurement - lecture - handout

Class 3: July 13 – Explanations and Hypotheses

Class 4: July 18 – Describing Variables and Making Comparisons

Class 5: July 20 – Making Controlled Comparisons – review exercise and articlelab exercise

Class 6: July 25 – Sampling and Inference

Class 7: July 27 – Association and Significance

Class 8: August 1 – Correlation and Regressionlab exercise

Class 9: August 3 – Understanding Research in Political Sciencearticle to go with lecture notes

                           Review exercisearticle to go with exercise

                           (Note: these article links will only work if you are on campus or if you have set up a proxy server access to UCSD.  Otherwise, you will be denied access.)

 

Syllabus

Books

Homework Assignments