Course Schedule
This page displays an outline of the topics, content, and assignments for the semester.
| Week | Date | Topic | Reading | Video | Slides | Skill | Assignment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jan 13 | The economy and society | NotebookLM | ||||
| Jan 15 | Economic liberalism | 📖 📖 📖 |
🖥️ | MS 365 GWU | |||
| 2 | Jan 20 | Institutions and development | 📖 | 🖥️ | Install Excel | ||
| Jan 22 | Modernization theory | 📖 | 🖥️ | Importing data | |||
| 3 | Jan 27 | Democratic backsliding | 📖 | 📺 | 🖥️ | Basic functions and cell reference | |
| Jan 29 | The resource curse | 📖 | 📺 | 🖥️ | 🧮 | ||
| 4 | Feb 3 | Womens empowerment | 📖 | 🖥️ | |||
| Feb 5 | Exam 1 | 📘 | |||||
| 5 | Feb 10 | Programmatic politics vs. clientelism | 📖 | 📺 | 🖥️ | Bar charts | |
| Feb 12 | Vote buying | 📖 | 📺 | 🖥️ | Line charts | ||
| 6 | Feb 17 | Ethnicity and public goods | 📖 | 📺 | 🖥️ | Scatter plots | |
| Feb 19 | Democracy and redistribution | 📖 | 📺 | 🖥️ | Maps | 🧮 | |
| 7 | Feb 24 | Washington consensus reforms | 📖 | 🖥️ | |||
| Feb 26 | The gendered legacy of reform | 📖 | 🖥️ | ||||
| 8 | Mar 3 | Populism and social policy | 📖 | 🖥️ | |||
| Mar 5 | Exam 2 | 📘 | |||||
| 9 | Mar 10 | Spring Break | 🏄♂️ 🌴 🏖️ | ||||
| Mar 12 | Spring Beak | ||||||
| 10 | Mar 17 | Final paper research clinic | 📺 | Wrangling data in Power Query | |||
| Mar 19 | Final paper research clinic | Writing with Zotero | ✍️ | ||||
| 11 | Mar 24 | Welfare states in the OECD | 📖 | 🖥️ | |||
| Mar 26 | U.S. exceptionalism | 📖 | 🖥️ | ||||
| 12 | Mar 31 | Varieties of capitalism | 📖 | 🖥️ | |||
| Apr 2 | Central bank independence | TBA | |||||
| 13 | Apr 7 | Globalization | 📖 | 🖥️ | |||
| Apr 9 | Inequality | 📖 | 🖥️ | ✍️ | |||
| 14 | Apr 14 | AI and automation | TBA | 🖥️ | |||
| Apr 16 | The populist backlash | 📖 | 🖥️ | ||||
| 15 | Apr 21 | Extremist politics | 📖 | 🖥️ | |||
| Apr 23 | Exam 3 | 📘 ✍️ |