This weekend has been filled with reading and some writing. So I thought my post would be a super new clever way of me preparing a study guide. It will give all of my assignments and the topics of my courses. This invariably means the post will be a bit....dry. lol
Methods of Research for the Social
Sciences
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Concepts: Qualitative
o Progress in Science
o Quantitative vs. Qualitative Research: Claims and Critiques
o Academic Cultures and Concept Formation
o Qualitative Research Design and Case Selection
o Explaining and Understanding
o Gathering Data and Interpreting Qualitative Research
o Pragmatism and Abduction
o Critical Approaches
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Concepts: Quantitative
o Quantitative Methods for Social Science: an Overview
o Working with Numbers: Basic Tools
o Hypothesis Testing
o Comparisons Between Groups
o Correlation and Simple Regression
o Multiple Regressions
o Impact Analysis
o The Role of Theory and Practices
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Weekly Requirements
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Read materials assigned before
the start of each class
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Once or twice during the term,
work with other students to give a presentation
§ Between 20-30 minutes: Synthetic and critical assessment of the
readings
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For classes taught by Dr
Friedrichs
§ Be ready to orally present a first-cut answer for each of the
questions of the week
§ Deliver a rumination sheet on the readings (Word count to be
included)
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For classes taught by Dr
Gledhill
§ Will be assigned an article for review, which must be prepared
before the relevant class session. Will play the role of a peer reviewer for an
academic journal
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Practice Essays
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Required to submit two practice
essays from the questions offered on the syllabus for each week. The first
essay should be submitted through Weblearn by Monday 10 am 8th week
of Michaelmas Term. The second essay will be submitted through Weblearn by
Monday 12 noon, second week of Trinity Term. The essays should be between
1500-2000 words (Word count to be included)
Global Governance
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Concepts: Michaelmas
o The Concept of Global Governance
o International Organisation: Analytic Traditions (I) – Realist and
Liberal Traditions and Problems of Collective Action and Public Goods
o International Organisation: Analytic Traditions (II) – Gramscian,
Grotian and Constructivist Analysis
o International Regimes: Analytic Approaches
o International Regimes: Institutional, Cognitive and Epistemic
Functions
o Multilateralism
o Regional Integration and Supranational Institutions
o Public and Private Power in Global Governance
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Concepts: Hilary
o Public and Private Authority in Global Governance
o Private Military and Security Companies (PMCs and PSCs)
o Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs)
o Global Civil Society and its Organisations (GSOs)
o Knowledge and Epistemic Functions in Global Governance
o Corporate Social Responsibility (and Its Networks)
o Global Public Policy Networks (GPPNs) and Private Internaitonal
Regimes
o Global Legal Orders as Governance
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Weekly Requirements
o Critical reading of assigned materials before each seminar
o Each week one or more students will present a critical summary of
the readings to the seminar of not more than 40 minutes duration
§ The students presenting for that week will be responsible for
generating some discussion questions to supplement those provided at the head
of each section of the syllabus
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Practice Essays
o Each student will develop and submit 4 essays of 3000 words (max) on
4 of the seminar questions found at the head of the readings sections over the
course of the two terms.
Global Financial Governance
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Concepts
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International Monetary Systems:
The Gold Standard
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The Bretton Woods System and
the Floating Exchange Rates System
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Capital Account Liberalisation
and Financial Governance
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International Financial
Architectures as Financial Governance
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Sovereign Debt Markets and
Ratings Systems as Financial Governance
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Failed Governance: Asymmetric
Monetary Policy and Regulatory Failure
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Responses: Socialising Risk and
Regulatory Reform as Financial Governance and the Future of the Dollar
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Weekly Requirements
o
Critical reading of assigned
materials before each seminar
o
Each week one or more students
will present a critical summary of the readings to the seminar of not more than
45 minutes duration
§ The student or students presenting for that week will be responsible
for generating some discussion questions to supplement the discussion questions
provided at the head of each section of the syllabus
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Practice Essays
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Each student will develop
essays of 3000 words (max) on 3 of the seminar questions found at the head of
the readings sections
The Political Economy of Institutions
and Development
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Concepts
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Conceptualizing institutions
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Fundamentals of new
institutional economics
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The political economy of rent
seeking and corruption
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The political economy of growth
and development (2 seminars)
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The evolution and persistence
of institutions (2 seminars)
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Analytical narratives on
institutions
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Weekly Requirements
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Critical reading of assigned materials
before each seminar
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Readings will be divided among
students beforehand and each student will be required to prepare a critical
summary of the allocated reading
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Practice Essays
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Each student will be required
to write during the course of the term two essays of no more than 2000 words
each and a vacation essay analyzing the ways in which global influences might
shape domestic institutions. Sample essay questions are provided under each
topic.
See you all next week with what will hopefully be a much more fascinating entry :P
