Course Schedule

This page displays an outline of the topics, content, and assignments for the semester.

Week Date Topic Reading Video Slides Skill Assignment
Aug 23 Course overview
1 Aug 28 The economy and society ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ MS 365 GWU
Aug 30 Economic Liberalism ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Explore Tableau
2 Sep 4 Institutions and development ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Install Excel
Sep 6 Modernization theory ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Analyzing data
3 Sep 11 Democratic backsliding ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“บ ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Importing data
Sep 13 The resource curse ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“บ ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Organizing data ๐Ÿงฎ
4 Sep 18 Womenโ€™s empowerment ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Bar charts
Sep 20 Exam 1 review ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Line charts ๐Ÿ“˜
5 Sep 25 Programmatic politics vs. clientelism ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Scatter plots
Sep 27 Vote buying ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Maps
6 Oct 2 Ethnicity and public goods ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“บ ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Creating bar charts in Excel
Oct 4 Democracy and redistribution ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“บ ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Creating line charts in Excel
7 Oct 9 Washington consensus reforms ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“บ ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Creating scatter plots in Excel
Oct 11 No class, fall break ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ‚๐ŸŽƒ
8 Oct 16 The gendered legacy of reform ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“บ ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Creating Maps in Excel
Oct 18 Labor and development ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ ๐Ÿงฎ
9 Oct 23 Populism and social policy ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Writing with Zotero
Oct 25 Exam 2 review ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Install Tableau ๐Ÿ“˜
10 Oct 30 Welfare states in the OECD ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Wrangling data in Power Query
Nov 1 U.S. exceptionalism ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ โœ๏ธ
11 Nov 6 Unions and collective bargaining ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Create visualizations in Tableau
Nov 8 Varieties of capitalism ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ
12 Nov 13 Globalization ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Create a Tableau dashboard
Nov 15 Inequality ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“บ ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ โœ๏ธ
13 Nov 20 The populist backlash ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ
Nov 22 Extremist politics ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ
14 Nov 27 No class, Thanksgiving break ๐Ÿฆƒ๐Ÿฅง๐Ÿด
Nov 29 No class, Thankgiving break
15 Dec 4 Final project presentations ๐Ÿ“บ
Dec 6 Exam 3 review ๐Ÿ“˜ โœ๏ธ