[From the syllabus] This is a foundational class. It is foundational in that what you study, learn, and do in this class is meant to help you in all your political science classes. More specifically, this class is designed to develop your writing, research, and analytical skills as a student of political science. This will require you, first and foremost, to think and write about political phenomena in a "scientific" manner. Being scientific, I should stress, does not mean conducting carefully controlled experiments in a laboratory (although, in some of the natural sciences, this is certainly the case). Rather, it means studying political (social and economic) phenomena in a systematic, disciplined, and coherent fashion. Being scientific also requires, as one professor puts it, "a commitment to assessing whether the evidence assembled to support a proposition is adequate to the task." The requirement for evidence, you will learn, is absolutely essential to the task of "doing political science." Click here to download the rest of the syllabus as a PDF file.

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