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Political Science Scope and Methods

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States17.801
Free, no sign-up neededFall 2017English
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This course is designed to provide an introduction to a variety of empirical research methods used by political scientists. The primary aims of the course are to make you a more sophisticated consumer of diverse empirical research and to allow you to conduct advanced independent work in your junior and senior years. This is not a course in data analysis. Rather, it is a course on how to approach political science research.

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