Course Schedule
This page displays an outline of the topics, content, and assignments for the semester.
Week | Date | Topic | Reading | Video | Slides | Skill | Assignment |
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Aug 23 | Course overview | ||||||
1 | Aug 28 | The economy and society | 📖 📖 | 🖥️ | MS 365 GWU | ||
Aug 30 | Economic Liberalism | 📖 | 🖥️ | Explore Tableau | |||
2 | Sep 4 | Institutions and development | 📖 | 🖥️ | Install Excel | ||
Sep 6 | Modernization theory | 📖 | 🖥️ | Analyzing data | |||
3 | Sep 11 | Democratic backsliding | 📖 | 📺 | 🖥️ | Importing data | |
Sep 13 | The resource curse | 📖 | 📺 | 🖥️ | Organizing data | 🧮 | |
4 | Sep 18 | Women’s empowerment | 📖 | 🖥️ | Bar charts | ||
Sep 20 | Exam 1 review | 🖥️ | Line charts | 📘 | |||
5 | Sep 25 | Programmatic politics vs. clientelism | 📖 | 🖥️ | Scatter plots | ||
Sep 27 | Vote buying | 📖 | 🖥️ | Maps | |||
6 | Oct 2 | Ethnicity and public goods | 📖 | 📺 | 🖥️ | Creating bar charts in Excel | |
Oct 4 | Democracy and redistribution | 📖 | 📺 | 🖥️ | Creating line charts in Excel | ||
7 | Oct 9 | Washington consensus reforms | 📖 | 📺 | 🖥️ | Creating scatter plots in Excel | |
Oct 11 | No class, fall break | 🍁🍂🎃 | |||||
8 | Oct 16 | The gendered legacy of reform | 📖 | 📺 | 🖥️ | Creating Maps in Excel | |
Oct 18 | Labor and development | 📖 | 🖥️ | 🧮 | |||
9 | Oct 23 | Populism and social policy | 📖 | 🖥️ | Writing with Zotero | ||
Oct 25 | Exam 2 review | 🖥️ | Install Tableau | 📘 | |||
10 | Oct 30 | Welfare states in the OECD | 📖 | 🖥️ | Wrangling data in Power Query | ||
Nov 1 | U.S. exceptionalism | 📖 | 🖥️ | ✍️ | |||
11 | Nov 6 | Unions and collective bargaining | 📖 | 🖥️ | Create visualizations in Tableau | ||
Nov 8 | Varieties of capitalism | 📖 | 🖥️ | ||||
12 | Nov 13 | Globalization | 📖 | 🖥️ | Create a Tableau dashboard | ||
Nov 15 | Inequality | 📖 | 📺 | 🖥️ | ✍️ | ||
13 | Nov 20 | The populist backlash | 📖 | 🖥️ | |||
Nov 22 | Extremist politics | 📖 | 🖥️ | ||||
14 | Nov 27 | No class, Thanksgiving break | 🦃🥧🍴 | ||||
Nov 29 | No class, Thankgiving break | ||||||
15 | Dec 4 | Final project presentations | 📺 | ||||
Dec 6 | Exam 3 review | 📘 ✍️ |