Course Schedule

This page displays an outline of the topics, content, and assignments for the semester.

Week	Date	Topic	Reading	Video	Slides	Skill	Assignment
1	Jan 15	The economy and society	📖 📖			MS 365 GWU
	Jan 17	Economic Liberalism	📖		🖥️	Explore Tableau
2	Jan 22	Institutions and development	📖		🖥️	Install Excel
	Jan 24	Modernization theory	📖		🖥️	Analyzing data
3	Jan 29	Democratic backsliding	📖	📺	🖥️	Importing data
	Jan 31	The resource curse	📖	📺	🖥️	Organizing data	🧮
4	Feb 5	Women’s empowerment	📖		🖥️	Bar charts
	Feb 7	Exam 1 review			🖥️	Line charts	📘
5	Feb 12	Programmatic politics vs. clientelism	📖		🖥️	Scatter plots
	Feb 14	Vote buying	📖		🖥️	Maps
6	Feb 19	Ethnicity and public goods	📖	📺	🖥️	Creating bar charts in Excel
	Feb 21	Democracy and redistribution	📖	📺	🖥️	Creating line charts in Excel
7	Feb 26	Washington consensus reforms	📖	📺	🖥️	Creating scatter plots in Excel
	Feb 28	The gendered legacy of reform	📖	📺	🖥️	Creating Maps in Excel
8	Mar 5	Labor and development	📖		🖥️
	Mar 7	Sustainable development					🧮
9	Mar 12	Spring Break				🏄‍♂️ 🌴 🏖️
	Mar 14	Spring Beak
10	Mar 19	Populism and social policy	📖		🖥️	Writing with Zotero
	Mar 21	Exam 2 review			🖥️	Install Tableau	📘
11	Mar 26	Welfare states in the OECD	📖		🖥️	Wrangling data in Power Query
	Mar 28	U.S. exceptionalism	📖		🖥️		✍️
12	Apr 2	Unions and collective bargaining	📖		🖥️	Create visualizations in Tableau
	Apr 4	Varieties of capitalism	📖		🖥️
13	Apr 9	Globalization	📖		🖥️
	Apr 11	Inequality	📖	📺	🖥️		✍️
14	Apr 16	The populist backlash	📖		🖥️
	Apr 18	Extremist politics	📖		🖥️	Tableau Demo (class online)
15	Apr 23	Final project work session		📺
	Apr 25	Exam 3 review					📘 ✍️