Analytical Methods for Global Policy Studies (PA397G)
A.K.A., Learn Useful Methods For Solving Real Research Questions But Not (Only) For Passing Course Exams And Assignments
- Instructor team (J.F.J.):
- Ji Ma (Primary Instructor, maji@austin.utexas.edu)
- Felipe Antequera (Instructor of Statistics and Teaching Assistant, felipe.antequera@utexas.edu)
- Joycelyn Ovalle (Grader, joyce.ovalle@utexas.edu)
- Weekly sessions:
- TA hours: Tue 2pm-5pm and Thu 9am-12pm, SRH 3.224 sign up on the
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Overview
Data crunching is hard, applying data crunching methods to empirical social science studies is harder. This course has three purposes:
- Understand basic quantitative and qualitative empirical analysis methods.
- Able to conduct the analysis manually and with software packages.
- Know how to apply these analysis methods to answering research questions from a research design perspective, and know how to assess the quality of an empirical study.
Required textbook: Meier, K. J., Brudney, J. L., & Bohte, J. (2014). Applied Statistics for Public and Nonprofit Administration (9th edition). Cengage Learning.
Where to get the textbook:
- UT Co-op Textbook
- Previous versions are fine as long as the course content is covered. If the contents are substantially different from the 9th edition, you can ask your classmates for help, or use the University Library’s service.
Grading
- A >= 95%, A- >= 90
- B+ >= 87%, B >= 83%, B- >= 80%
- C+ >= 77%, C >= 73%, C- >= 70%
- D+ >= 67%, D >= 63%, D- >= 60%
Assignments
See assignment page for details.
- Plagiarism test - 5 pts
- Participation - 20 pts
- Reading annotation, 5 pts.
- Class participation, 5 pts.
- Group project participation, 10 pts.
- Customized learning - 20 pts
- Learning plan, 5 pts.
- Completion, 15 pts.
- Group replication project - 55 pts
- Replication plan, 10 pts.
- Presentation of replication plan, 5 pts.
- Replication report, 20 pts.
- Presentation of your replication, 10 pts.
- Verification report, 10 pts.
Policies
- University Policies
- License for Open Education: This syllabus and all course content created by the instructor, TA, and students are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.