Spring 2023  |  POL 3108H Section 001: Honors Tutorial: Thesis Preparation and Political Science Inquiry (53638)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
Honors
Enrollment Requirements:
Politcal Science honors major, jr or sr
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/17/2023 - 05/01/2023
Mon 01:30PM - 03:55PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 110
Enrollment Status:
Open (18 of 25 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
In this course, students will improve their research skills in preparation to write their senior theses. Students will enter with a few ideas for topics about which they might like to write their theses. They will leave the class with a clear and tractable research question, a literature review that describes how this question fits in with the existing scholarly literature, and a research design that will enable them to answer the question. Along the way, they will advance their understanding of what constitutes political science research and how to conduct political science research. Students will be graded on the basis of drafts of their annotated bibliography, literature review and research design, a class presentation of the "front half" of their senior thesis, and class participation including short weekly assignments. Students are expected to keep up with the reading and, most importantly, to begin to conduct their own independent research. prereq: Pol sci major, honors
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?kpearson+POL3108H+Spring2023
Class Description:
In this course, students will advance their research skills and prepare to write their senior theses. Students will gain a deeper understanding of what constitutes political science research and how to conduct research in political science. Most important, students will develop their own thesis topics and research designs, testing out their ideas in a structured and collegial setting. The first half of the course will enhance students? understanding of political science research, and the second half of the course will focus on the students? own research. Students will be graded on the basis of several short assignments and two revised papers, a class presentation, and class participation. Students are expected to keep up with course reading and conduct their own independent research. Students will turn in two drafts of a literature review and their research design.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53638/1233
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
11 November 2011

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