Introduction to Research Methods

This course is aimed at helping Political Science students understand and use the quantitative methods and research designs widely employed throughout the discipline.

Prerequisite: A course in POL

Winter 2009-10
Instructors: Joseph Fletcher
Teaching Assistants: Wayne Chu, Jennifer Hove and Michael Painter-Main



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In accessing the homework worksheets, please be certain that you have the current version of the assignment. It should be dated February 2010. If you find that your browser returns an older version of the assignment, please hold the "shift" key as you refresh your browser's contents.

Tutorials offering support in preparing the regression homework assignment will be held in room 3002 of Sidney Smith Hall while presentations are being this week held in our regular classroom (FE36) on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Tutorials return to FE36 on Friday.

Office hours will be temporarily changed both this week and next so that I may attend tutorials to hear student qualitative presentations. Rather than the usual times, during the next two weeks I will be in my office on Friday Jan 29th from 12:30-2pm, Monday Feb 1st from 12:30-2pm and Fri Feb 5th from 12:30-2pm.

 

As of 5:00 pm, all ethics protocols which have been submitted either in class or to the department have been reviewed, marked and placed with the receptionist in Political Science, where they are available for pick up.

Qualitative Presentations are now scheduled for Jan 25-Feb 5. As with the bivariate presentations, they will be held in tutorial sessions. Click here for the schedule.

Reminder: Graded assignments that are not collected in class are routinely placed with the receptionist in the Department of Political Science.

 

Notice regarding Submitting Assignments

 

Provost's message regarding H1N1:

http://www.provost.utoronto.ca/public/pdadc/200910/13.htm

 

 

 


Website design by David M. Di Biase, Tuan Diep and Renan Levine with code, inspiration and content from many sources.
Most of the content on this website was originally done by Joseph Fletcher (or on his behalf), and appeared on Professor Fletcher's original POL 242 website.
The lab manual (the online exercises) was prepared by Joseph Fletcher, Thineish Ramanathan, Sebastien Dallaire, Michael Szala, Anna Saini, Steve White and Renan Levine.