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 15 The economy and society 📖 📖 MS 365 GWU
Jan 17 Economic Liberalism 📖 🖥️ Explore Tableau
2 Jan 22 Institutions and development 📖 🖥️ Install Excel
Jan 24 Modernization theory 📖 🖥️ Analyzing data
3 Jan 29 Democratic backsliding 📖 📺 🖥️ Importing data
Jan 31 The resource curse 📖 📺 🖥️ Organizing data 🧮
4 Feb 5 Women’s empowerment 📖 🖥️ Bar charts
Feb 7 Exam 1 review 🖥️ Line charts 📘
5 Feb 12 Programmatic politics vs. clientelism 📖 🖥️ Scatter plots
Feb 14 Vote buying 📖 🖥️ Maps
6 Feb 19 Ethnicity and public goods 📖 📺 🖥️ Creating bar charts in Excel
Feb 21 Democracy and redistribution 📖 📺 🖥️ Creating line charts in Excel
7 Feb 26 Washington consensus reforms 📖 📺 🖥️ Creating scatter plots in Excel
Feb 28 The gendered legacy of reform 📖 📺 🖥️ Creating Maps in Excel
8 Mar 5 Labor and development 📖 🖥️
Mar 7 Sustainable development 🧮
9 Mar 12 Spring Break 🏄‍♂️ 🌴 🏖️
Mar 14 Spring Beak
10 Mar 19 Populism and social policy 📖 🖥️ Writing with Zotero
Mar 21 Exam 2 review 🖥️ Install Tableau 📘
11 Mar 26 Welfare states in the OECD 📖 🖥️ Wrangling data in Power Query
Mar 28 U.S. exceptionalism 📖 🖥️ ✍️
12 Apr 2 Unions and collective bargaining 📖 🖥️ Create visualizations in Tableau
Apr 4 Varieties of capitalism 📖 🖥️
13 Apr 9 Globalization 📖 🖥️ Create a Tableau dashboard
Apr 11 Inequality 📖 📺 🖥️ ✍️
14 Apr 16 The populist backlash 📖 🖥️
Apr 18 Extremist politics 📖 🖥️
15 Apr 23 Final project work session 📺
Apr 25 Exam 3 review 📘 ✍️