Course Schedule
This page displays an outline of the topics, content, and assignments for the semester. Slides and reading and assignment links will be updated as the semester progresses.
Week | Date | Topic | Reading | Video | Slides | Skill | Assignment |
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1 | Oct 13 | Course overview | Explore MS Excel | ||||
The economy and society | 📖 📖 | 🖥️ | Explore Tableau | ||||
2 | Oct 20 | Institutions and development | 📖 | 🖥️ | Install Excel | ||
Modernization theory | 📖 | 🖥️ | Analyzing data | ||||
3 | Oct 27 | Democratic backsliding | 📖 | 📺 | 🖥️ | Importing data | |
The resource curse | 📖 | 📺 | 🖥️ | Organizing data | 🧮 | ||
Nov 3 | NO CLASS – Think about your final project. | ||||||
4 | Nov 10 | Women’s empowerment | 📖 | 🖥️ | Bar charts | ||
Review and project help | 🖥️ | Line charts | |||||
5 | Nov 17 | Programmatic politics vs. clientelism | 📖 | 🖥️ | Scatter plots | ||
Vote buying | 📖 | 🖥️ | Maps | ||||
6 | Nov 24 | Ethnicity and public goods | 📖 | 📺 | 🖥️ | Creating bar charts in Excel | |
Democracy and redistribution | 📖 | 📺 | 🖥️ | Creating line charts in Excel | |||
7 | Dec 1 | Washington consensus reforms | 📖 | 📺 | 🖥️ | Creating scatter plots in Excel | |
The gendered legacy of reform | 📖 | 📺 | 🖥️ | Creating Maps in Excel | 🧮 | ||
8 | Dec 8 | Populism and social policy | 📖 | 🖥️ | |||
Review and project help | 🖥️ | ||||||
9 | Dec 15 | Final Project Workshop | 📖 | 📺 | Wrangling data in Power Query | ||
Winter Break | Work on Your Papers! | ⛷️ ❄️ | |||||
10 | Jan 12 | Welfare states in the OECD | 📖 | 🖥️ | |||
U.S. exceptionalism | 📖 | 🖥️ | ✍️ | ||||
11 | Jan 19 | Unions and collective bargaining | 📖 | 🖥️ | |||
Varieties of capitalism | 📖 | 🖥️ | |||||
12 | Jan 26 | Globalization | 📖 | 🖥️ | |||
Inequality | 📖 | 🖥️ | ✍️ | ||||
13 | Feb 2 | The populist backlash and extremist politics | 📖 | 🖥️ | |||
TBD | 🖥️ | ||||||
14 | Jan 26 | Artificial Intelligence | 📖 | 🖥️ | |||
Automation | 📖 | ||||||
15 | Feb 2 | Final paper workshop | Working with Zotero | ||||
Final paper workshop | ✍️ |