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 | ๐ ๐ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | MS 365 GWU | ||
| Aug 30 | Economic Liberalism | ๐ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | Explore Tableau | |||
| 2 | Sep 4 | Institutions and development | ๐ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | Install Excel | ||
| Sep 6 | Modernization theory | ๐ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | Analyzing data | |||
| 3 | Sep 11 | Democratic backsliding | ๐ | ๐บ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | Importing data | |
| Sep 13 | The resource curse | ๐ | ๐บ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | Organizing data | ๐งฎ | |
| 4 | Sep 18 | Womenโs empowerment | ๐ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | Bar charts | ||
| Sep 20 | Exam 1 review | ๐ฅ๏ธ | Line charts | ๐ | |||
| 5 | Sep 25 | Programmatic politics vs. clientelism | ๐ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | Scatter plots | ||
| Sep 27 | Vote buying | ๐ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | Maps | |||
| 6 | Oct 2 | Ethnicity and public goods | ๐ | ๐บ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | Creating bar charts in Excel | |
| Oct 4 | Democracy and redistribution | ๐ | ๐บ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | Creating line charts in Excel | ||
| 7 | Oct 9 | Washington consensus reforms | ๐ | ๐บ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | Creating scatter plots in Excel | |
| Oct 11 | No class, fall break | ๐๐๐ | |||||
| 8 | Oct 16 | The gendered legacy of reform | ๐ | ๐บ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | Creating Maps in Excel | |
| Oct 18 | Labor and development | ๐ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | ๐งฎ | |||
| 9 | Oct 23 | Populism and social policy | ๐ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | Writing with Zotero | ||
| Oct 25 | Exam 2 review | ๐ฅ๏ธ | Install Tableau | ๐ | |||
| 10 | Oct 30 | Welfare states in the OECD | ๐ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | Wrangling data in Power Query | ||
| Nov 1 | U.S. exceptionalism | ๐ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | โ๏ธ | |||
| 11 | Nov 6 | Unions and collective bargaining | ๐ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | Create visualizations in Tableau | ||
| Nov 8 | Varieties of capitalism | ๐ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | ||||
| 12 | Nov 13 | Globalization | ๐ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | Create a Tableau dashboard | ||
| Nov 15 | Inequality | ๐ | ๐บ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | โ๏ธ | ||
| 13 | Nov 20 | The populist backlash | ๐ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | |||
| Nov 22 | Extremist politics | ๐ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | ||||
| 14 | Nov 27 | No class, Thanksgiving break | ๐ฆ๐ฅง๐ด | ||||
| Nov 29 | No class, Thankgiving break | ||||||
| 15 | Dec 4 | Final project presentations | ๐บ | ||||
| Dec 6 | Exam 3 review | ๐ โ๏ธ |