Political Science 30:
Methods of Political Inquiry
Spring 2009
Will Terry's Website
Prof. Langche Zeng's course website
Email: wterry{at}ucsd.edu
Office hours: Wednesdays 11-12pm (and by appointment)
Office: 341 Social Science Building
649488 (A02) - Wednesday, 1:00p-1:50p in PCYNH
120
649489 (A03) - Thursday, 11:00a-11:50a in
WLH 2115
Greetings! This is the website for Will Terry's sections of Poli 30.
Please note, section participation is worth 10% of your grade. You earn credit for participation by turning in the weekly quizzes
available on this website. Quizzes will only be accepted in section and on time.
Don't worry, be happy.
Announcements
April 20: This week's sections (on 4/22 and 4/23) will introduce you to Stata. We will meet in the
computer lab in Solis
105.
April 23: Three copies of the Stata
companion to your Pollock text are available in my mailbox in the poli sci grad lounge, SSB 314. If you borrow a copy please
sign it out and be kind to it! The workbook is an alternative to the online tutorials available on Prof. Zeng's website.
April 23: The syntax in the example Stata do file I wrote in section is available here. You will need to modify the code a bit so that Stata can find the data on your machine.
April 27: For those of you in Thursday section, I aplogize! I'll be out of town at a conference, Chris Dawes will lead section.
April 29: You must bring a blue book to Monday's midterm! You may also bring a single 8.5" by 11" cheat sheet for use in the exam.
May 14: Dear Thursday section: Apologies! Please bring Quiz 5 to the next section to recieve credit for attendance. I will be
holding make-up sections next week, on Monday before and after lecture: 10:30am and 2:00pm, meet at my office SSB 341. Start on Homework 2!
May 17: I will be holding office hours as usual on Wednesday
10:30-11:30am. Start Homework 2!
May 18: Q5 on HW2 contains a typo. To download the data, issue the following command in Stata: use "http://dss.ucsd.edu/~lazeng/ps30/gss2002.dta"
May 18: I will be holding extra office hours Tuesday 11:30-12:30 to help with HW2.
May 26: The Normal distribution applet was given in Lecture 10 (May 6). Here it is: http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/z_table.html. Use for good, not evil!
June 7: I will be holding additional office hours Monday, June 8 from 11-1:00. Good luck on the exam!
Quizzes
Quiz 1 (Due week of April 6)
Quiz 2 (Due week of April 13) Note, the grading
function has some bugs. :^(
Quiz 3 (Due week of April 20)
Quiz 4 (Due week of April 27)
There is no quiz due the week of May 4. Take your text book to the beach!
Quiz 5 (Due week of May 11)
Quiz 6 (Due week of May 25)