INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL INQUIRY AND WRITING

Catalog description

This course introduces students to how political scientists conduct inquiry into political questions and how they write about the results of their investigations for various kinds of audiences. Students will learn the basics of quantitative and qualitative research methods in political science, will learn how to use the library and other available sources of information, and will produce the various kinds of writings by which political scientists communicate their findings to the public, to other scholars, and to political and governmental actors.