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
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	Feb 9	Artificial Intelligence	📖		🖥️
		Automation	📖
15	Feb 16	Final paper workshop				Working with Zotero
		Final paper workshop					✍️