Individual grades will be given for workshop attendance, individually completed assignments, and final survey implementation. Group grades will be given for assignments turned in collectively. All group members will also evaluate their fellow group members to protect against shirking. The reading load in this class is heavy, but it should not be burdensome. The reading comes from books and a course packet that I have constructed on your behalf.
Most pieces rely on some form of quantitative analysis of large samples of people.
I will teach you how to understand the methods used, but most of the time you can rely on the author s interpretations in the text. Ginsberg, B. 1986. Hibbing, John and Elisabeth Theiss-Morse. Congress as public enemy . Cambridge University Press.