週次
Week | 日期
Date | 課程主題
Topic | 指定閱讀
Required Readings | 作業
Homework | 1 | 9/15 | Course introduction | No readings | | 2 | 9/22 | Building theories and research design | Chapters 1, 2, 4, 6 | HW1 | 3 | 9/29 | No class (public holiday) | | | 4 | 10/6 | Sampling, operationalizations, and measurement | Chapters 5, 7, 8, 9 | HW2 | 5 | 10/13 | Descriptive statistics | Chapters 14, 15 | | 6 | 10/20 | Relationships between two variables | Chapter 16 | HW3 | 7 | 10/27 | Regression analysis | Chapter 17 | | 8 | 11/3 | Midterm exam | | | 9 | 11/10 | Literature review | Chapter 3 | | 10 | 11/17 | Case studies and comparative studies | Chapter 12 | HW4 | 11 | 11/24 | Direct observation | Chapter 18 | | 12 | 12/1 | Focus group and elite interviewing | Chapters 19, 20 | HW5 | 13 | 12/8 | Guest lecture | | | 14 | 12/15 | Student presentation | | | 15 | 12/22 | Student presentation | | Paper due | 16 | 12/29 | Course wrap up | | | 17 | 1/5 | Flexible teaching week | | |
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Required:
- Rich, Richard C., Craig Leonard Brians, Jarol B. Manheim, and Lars Willnat. 2018. Empirical Political Analysis: Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods. Ninth Edition. Routledge.
Supplementary:
- Agresti, Alan and Barbara Finlay. 2014. Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences. Fourth Edition. New Jersey: Pearson.
- Monogan, James E. 2015. Political Analysis Using R. Springer.
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