Research Goals and Strategies

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Offered autumn. Restricted to students with at least junior standing. We explore the main methods used in political science research, focusing on research design, best research practices, and pitfalls in research. Students develop their own research design as the final course project. PSCI 480 can be counted as a Required Upper-Division Field Course in any of the five PSCI subfields (comparative government, international relations, political theory, public administration and public policy, or American government) if students write a reading analysis focused on methods in a particular subfield and complete a final research design paper in the same subfield. Co-convenes with PSCI 580 . Level: Undergraduate