Spring 2027

Experimental Methods

Covers the logic of experimentation in political science, teaching students to interpret, design, execute, and analyze experiments to investigate social phenomena.

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What you’ll be able to do

  • Explain important concepts and arguments made by prominent scholars in causal inference and experimental methods

  • Design, analyze and field experiments suited to your own particular research question

  • Understand and explain the ethical debates that surround experimental research

  • Assess varied types of experimental designs on several dimensions

  • Apply course concepts to analysis of current research and contemporary social scientific debates

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POLISCI 820

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Experimental methods in the social sciences, with specific application to political science. Covers the logic of experimentation and how experiments can be used to investigate social phenomena. Interpret, design, execute and analyze experiments.

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Topics

  • Logic of experimentation
  • Investigating social phenomena through experiments
  • Ethical debates surrounding experimental research
  • Scholarly arguments in causal inference and experimental methods

Skills

  • Explain concepts and arguments in causal inference and experimental methods
  • Design, analyze, and field experiments for specific research questions
  • Assess varied types of experimental designs on several dimensions
  • Apply course concepts to analysis of current research and debates

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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