Materials

Unit	Topic	Lecture	Supplementary Materials
Unit 1 – The Nuts and Bolts of Political ‘Science’	Introduction to the Course	Lecture 1	Recitation
	Political Science as a “Science”	Lecture 2	Recitation
	Theories, Hypotheses, Variables	Lecture 3	–
	Measurement	Lecture 4	–
Unit 2 – Research Designs in Political Science	Causality	Lecture 5	–
	Experimental Designs	Lecture 6	–
	Quasi-Experiments	Lecture 7	Recitation
	Observational Designs	Lecture 7	Recitation
Unit 3 – Research Designs II — Formal, Comparative, and Qualitative Approaches	Rational Choice and Formal Modeling	Lecture 8 Lecture 9	Recitation
	Comparative and Qualitative Research	Lecture 10 Lecture 11	–
Unit 4 – Data Collection Strategies	Survey Research	Lecture 12	Recitation
	Content Analysis and Big Data	Lecture 13	Recitation
Unit 5 – Basic Statistical Methods	Descriptive Statistics and Introduction to Inference	Lecture 14	Recitation
	Statistical Inference and Hypothesis Testing	Lecture 15 Lecture 16	–
	Cross-Tabulation	Lecture 17 Lecture 18	Recitation
	Correlation and Regression	Lecture 19	–
	Multivariate Analysis	Lecture 20	–