2021 Fall

POLSCI 290A 001 - SEM 001

Research and Writing

Eric Schickler, Michaela Mattes

Aug 25, 2021 - Dec 10, 2021

10:00 am - 11:59 am

Social Sciences Building 115

Class #:19557

Units: 4

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Offered through Charles & Louise Travers Dept of Political Science

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 10

Enrolled: 8

Waitlisted: 0

Capacity: 18

Waitlist Max: 5

Open Reserved Seats:

10 reserved for Political Science: Graduate Students

Hours & Workload

2 to 3 hours of student-instructor coverage of course materials per week, and 10 to 11 hours of outside work hours per week.

Other classes by Michaela Mattes

The goal of this yearlong course is to provide a forum in which students propose, develop, and complete a research project that produces a journal-length paper of publishable quality. It is primarily oriented towards second-year Ph.D. students in any subfield (students in other years may participate with the professors’ consent). The course meets regularly during parts of the fall semester and irregularly during the spring semester. In the first few weeks of the course, we discuss the process of moving from research topic to research question; and we survey published articles by recent Ph.D. students/assistant professors, focusing on the structure and nature of the writing and presentation as well the quality of the argument and evidence.