Fall 2009

 

Designing Social Inquiry

Data Analysis

  

 Old Courses

 

Civil Liberties

Law and Society

Diversity

General Resources

Past Syllabi

 


Teaching

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct

him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike
than those who think differently.
~Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

It is the mark of an educated mind to
be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
~Aristotle

 

Designing Social Inquiry
Syllabus

 

 

Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
Syllabus

Discussion Questions

Blaine amendments

Dred Scott

Anatomy of a Civil Liberties Paper

Model Blaine Amendment Paper

Civil Liberties Model Midterm 1: Religious Freedom

Civil Liberties Undergraduate Midterm 2: Religious Freedom

Civil Liberties Undergraduate Final Paper: The Death Penalty and International Law

First week reading - Free Exercise

 

Data Analysis
Example of a Literature Review
Comments on past literature reviews
Comments on past measurement papers
 

 

Diversity, Disagreement and Democracy
Syllabus


Law and Society
Syllabus
Paper Topic Ideas and Questions for Law and Society and Judicial Politics
Law and Society Final Paper

One of the anonymous midterms
Another anonymous midterm

 

 

General Resources

Tell them what you're going to tell them. Tell them. Then tell them what you just told them.

-- Sam Crane (Professor of Political Science, Williams College)

 

Writing Rules
General Exam Grading Criteria

The American Political Science Association Style Manual

What is Critical Thinking?

 

 

Past Syllabi
Introduction to Data Analysis 5085 Fall 2004

Civil Liberties and Rights 4771 Fall 2004

American Political System - Honors

Civil Rights and Liberties 4771

Law and Society: 4028 Fall 2001

The Judicial System 3261