Course Schedule

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

Week	Date	Topic	Reading	Video	Slides	Skill	Assignment
	Aug 23	Course overview
1	Aug 28	The economy and society	📖 📖		🖥️	MS 365 GWU
	Aug 30	Economic Liberalism	📖		🖥️	Explore Tableau
2	Sep 4	Institutions and development	📖		🖥️	Install Excel
	Sep 6	Modernization theory	📖		🖥️	Analyzing data
3	Sep 11	Democratic backsliding	📖	📺	🖥️	Importing data
	Sep 13	The resource curse	📖	📺	🖥️	Organizing data	🧮
4	Sep 18	Women’s empowerment	📖		🖥️	Bar charts
	Sep 20	Exam 1 review			🖥️	Line charts	📘
5	Sep 25	Programmatic politics vs. clientelism	📖		🖥️	Scatter plots
	Sep 27	Vote buying	📖		🖥️	Maps
6	Oct 2	Ethnicity and public goods	📖	📺	🖥️	Creating bar charts in Excel
	Oct 4	Democracy and redistribution	📖	📺	🖥️	Creating line charts in Excel
7	Oct 9	Washington consensus reforms	📖	📺	🖥️	Creating scatter plots in Excel
	Oct 11	No class, fall break				🍁🍂🎃
8	Oct 16	The gendered legacy of reform	📖	📺	🖥️	Creating Maps in Excel
	Oct 18	Labor and development	📖		🖥️		🧮
9	Oct 23	Populism and social policy	📖		🖥️	Writing with Zotero
	Oct 25	Exam 2 review			🖥️	Install Tableau	📘
10	Oct 30	Welfare states in the OECD	📖		🖥️	Wrangling data in Power Query
	Nov 1	U.S. exceptionalism	📖		🖥️		✍️
11	Nov 6	Unions and collective bargaining	📖		🖥️	Create visualizations in Tableau
	Nov 8	Varieties of capitalism	📖		🖥️
12	Nov 13	Globalization	📖		🖥️	Create a Tableau dashboard
	Nov 15	Inequality	📖	📺	🖥️		✍️
13	Nov 20	The populist backlash	📖		🖥️
	Nov 22	Extremist politics	📖		🖥️
14	Nov 27	No class, Thanksgiving break				🦃🥧🍴
	Nov 29	No class, Thankgiving break
15	Dec 4	Final project presentations		📺
	Dec 6	Exam 3 review					📘 ✍️