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Jul 31, 2025
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PSC 2012 - RESEARCH METHODS IN POLITICAL SCIEN
credits: 3.0
Course is designed to help students acquire skills to critically evaluate various - i.e., economic, social, and political - aspects of life in a scientific manner. Will experience an explosion of information through such media as the Internet. Accordingly, it is becoming increasingly more important for us to be able to separate facts from conjectures and tell what is relevant, and what is not, so that we can make better judgments on various important issues in life. Course teaches some of the techniques to “test” the validity of “conjectures,” “hypothesis,” or “speculations.” By reading and discussing scholarly works, will familiarize students with the proper procedure to carry out empirical research. Further, by using empirical data, will actually test students’ own hypothesis on one aspect/issue of life that is of interest to them. Objectives: A) To help learn the proper techniques to test a hypothesis; B) To provide an opportunity to conduct an empirical research. Method of Instruction: A mixture of lecture, discussion of scholarly works, and field research collecting data through library materials and the internet to test one’s own hypothesis. Method of Evaluation: Participation in class discussion (20%), mid-term exam (25%), research paper (30%), and final exam (25%). Meets *WRT and *MQR Distribution Requirements.
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