Political Science 104: Introduction to Research in Political Science (Spring 2008)

Garrett Glasgow
3719 Ellison Hall
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays, 2-3pm or by appointment.
Office Phone: 893-5304
email: glasgow@polsci.ucsb.edu
Class meets Mondays and Wednesdays from 12:30pm to 1:45pm in Bren 1414.

Teaching Assistants:

Cameron Hall
Sections: Tuesday 11am, Tuesday 12pm, Tuesday 2pm.
Office Hours: Monday 10-11:30am, Wednesday 3-4:30pm.
4708 Ellison Hall
email: cameron_hall@umail.ucsb.edu

Holly Klick
Sections: Monday 2pm, Monday 3pm, Monday 5pm.
Office Hours: Fridays 8:30-11:30am.
2626 Ellison Hall
email: holly_klick@umail.ucsb.edu

Homeworks

Course Materials and Readings

Week 10:
- Final Review Sheet
- Notes from Lecture 17
- Read Johnson and Reynolds, Chapter 12 (pp. 454-462), Chapter 14
- Read Salkind, Chapter 16 (pp. 264-270)
- Notes from Lecture 16
Week 9:
- Read Johnson and Reynolds, Chapter 13 (pp. 519-521)
- Handout on Regression Output in Journal Articles
- Handout on Dummy Variables and Interaction Terms
- Notes from Lecture 15
Week 8:
- Notes from Lecture 14
- Read Johnson and Reynolds, Chapter 11 (pp. 393-425), Chapter 12 (pp. 495-502)
- Read Salkind, Chapters 7 and 9
- Notes from Lecture 13
Week 7:
- Notes from Lecture 12
- Read Johnson and Reynolds, Chapter 7, Chapter 12 (pp. 487-490), Chapter 13 (pp. 514-519, 524-525)
- Read Salkind, Chapters 8 and 15
- Notes from Lecture 11
Week 6:
- Midterm Review Sheet
- Read Johnson and Reynolds, Chapter 12 (pp. 426-439, 477-487, 490-492)
- Read Salkind, Chapter 5 (pp. 74-85), Chapter 15 (pp. 245-256)
- Notes from Lecture 10
Week 5:
- Notes from Lecture 9
- Read Johnson and Reynolds, Chapter 4, Chapter 11 (pp. 351-393)
- Read Salkind, Chapters 2, 3, 4
- Notes from Lecture 8
Week 4:
- Notes from Lecture 7
- Read Johnson and Reynolds, Chapter 3 (pp. 77-81 only), Chapter 4
- Read Salkind, Chapter 6
- Read Campbell and Ross, "The Connecticut Crackdown on Speeding"
- Read Collier, "The Comparative Method"
- Notes from Lecture 6
Week 3:
- Notes from Lecture 5
- Read Johnson and Reynolds, Chapter 5
- Notes from Lecture 4
Week 2:
- Notes from Lecture 3
- Read Johnson and Reynolds, Chapters 3 (skip pp. 77-81), 5 (pp. 166-175 only), and 6
- Notes from Lecture 2
- Read Johnson and Reynolds, Chapters 1 and 2
Syllabus

Announcements

April 9:Someone lost a phone in class today. I have it in my office -- get in touch with me to pick it up.
March 31:There is no class meeting this Wednesday (April 2) -- I will be at a conference. Sections will begin to meet in week 2. All sections will meet in the Ellison Hall computer lab (Ellison 2626).