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210051 LK BAK7: Comparative Political Analysis (2019W)
(engl.)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Studierende, die der ersten Einheit unentschuldigt fern bleiben, verlieren ihren Platz in der Lehrveranstaltung.Beachten Sie die Standards guter wissenschaftlicher Praxis.Die Lehrveranstaltungsleitung kann Studierende zu einem notenrelevanten Gespräch über erbrachte Teilleistungen einladen.
Plagiierte und erschlichene Teilleistungen führen zur Nichtbewertung der Lehrveranstaltung (Eintragung eines 'X' im Sammelzeugnis). Ab WS 2018 kommt die Plagiatssoftware (‘Turnitin') bei prüfungsimmanenten Lehrveranstaltungen zum Einsatz.Es wird dringend empfohlen, VO und LK des jeweiligen Kernfaches im gleichen Semester zu besuchen, da beide Lehrveranstaltungen aufeinander abgestimmt sind.
Studierende, die der ersten Einheit unentschuldigt fern bleiben, verlieren ihren Platz in der Lehrveranstaltung.Beachten Sie die Standards guter wissenschaftlicher Praxis.Die Lehrveranstaltungsleitung kann Studierende zu einem notenrelevanten Gespräch über erbrachte Teilleistungen einladen.
Plagiierte und erschlichene Teilleistungen führen zur Nichtbewertung der Lehrveranstaltung (Eintragung eines 'X' im Sammelzeugnis). Ab WS 2018 kommt die Plagiatssoftware (‘Turnitin') bei prüfungsimmanenten Lehrveranstaltungen zum Einsatz.Es wird dringend empfohlen, VO und LK des jeweiligen Kernfaches im gleichen Semester zu besuchen, da beide Lehrveranstaltungen aufeinander abgestimmt sind.
Registration/Deregistration
Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Mo 02.09.2019 08:00 to Mo 16.09.2019 08:00
- Registration is open from We 18.09.2019 08:00 to Tu 24.09.2019 08:00
- Deregistration possible until Su 20.10.2019 23:59
Details
max. 50 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- Friday 11.10. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 1 (H1), NIG 2.Stock
- Friday 18.10. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 1 (H1), NIG 2.Stock
- Friday 25.10. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 1 (H1), NIG 2.Stock
- Friday 08.11. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 1 (H1), NIG 2.Stock
- Friday 15.11. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 1 (H1), NIG 2.Stock
- Friday 22.11. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 1 (H1), NIG 2.Stock
- Friday 29.11. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 1 (H1), NIG 2.Stock
- Friday 06.12. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 1 (H1), NIG 2.Stock
- Friday 13.12. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 1 (H1), NIG 2.Stock
- Friday 10.01. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 1 (H1), NIG 2.Stock
- Friday 17.01. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 1 (H1), NIG 2.Stock
- Friday 24.01. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 1 (H1), NIG 2.Stock
- Friday 31.01. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal 1 (H1), NIG 2.Stock
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
Requirements and Grading:
Students are required to attend all meetings. It is allowed to miss up to 2 classes, whereby students need to attend the first session. Students are expected to complete the assigned readings (1 scientific article and 1 chapter from Caramani (2017)) each week and be ready for class discussions. This means that class participants should be prepared to summarize and discuss any required reading when called upon.Grading of the course will be based on the following three components:
- 1) 30% - Class attendance, participation in class discussions and weekly home assignments. Home assignments include annotation of the required readings on Perusall. Every week students are expected to discuss the required scientific article in groups using the interactive online tool Perusall (https://app.perusall.com, for more information about Perusall, watch some YouTube videos (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhTonln1T6A) and check the “live demo” (https://app.perusall.com/demo) ). In particular, students are required to post at least 5 questions/comments every week.
- 2) 15 % - Mid-term test (open book)
- 3) 15 % - Final test (open book)
- 4) 40 % - Timely submission of a term paper (min. 3000, max. 4000 words).The term paper should pose a research question embedded in the scientific literature, develop theoretical expectations (testable hypotheses) and propose a research design to test the theoretical expectations. Class participants are NOT required to gather data and analyze it. In essence, the term paper should include a title page, an abstract, an introduction, literature review, theory, a research design, conclusions, and references and is practically a half of a standard scientific article. Students are expected to work on the term paper throughout the whole semester and deliver their written progress in three stages ( 1. research question, 2. literature search, 3. draft paper) on the set deadlines. In addition, students are expected to write a review with constructive feedback on two draft peer papers following the guidelines provided by the instructor.The exact deadlines for the working progress, peer feedback and the final deadline for the term paper will be communicated in the first class session.
Students are required to attend all meetings. It is allowed to miss up to 2 classes, whereby students need to attend the first session. Students are expected to complete the assigned readings (1 scientific article and 1 chapter from Caramani (2017)) each week and be ready for class discussions. This means that class participants should be prepared to summarize and discuss any required reading when called upon.Grading of the course will be based on the following three components:
- 1) 30% - Class attendance, participation in class discussions and weekly home assignments. Home assignments include annotation of the required readings on Perusall. Every week students are expected to discuss the required scientific article in groups using the interactive online tool Perusall (https://app.perusall.com, for more information about Perusall, watch some YouTube videos (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhTonln1T6A) and check the “live demo” (https://app.perusall.com/demo) ). In particular, students are required to post at least 5 questions/comments every week.
- 2) 15 % - Mid-term test (open book)
- 3) 15 % - Final test (open book)
- 4) 40 % - Timely submission of a term paper (min. 3000, max. 4000 words).The term paper should pose a research question embedded in the scientific literature, develop theoretical expectations (testable hypotheses) and propose a research design to test the theoretical expectations. Class participants are NOT required to gather data and analyze it. In essence, the term paper should include a title page, an abstract, an introduction, literature review, theory, a research design, conclusions, and references and is practically a half of a standard scientific article. Students are expected to work on the term paper throughout the whole semester and deliver their written progress in three stages ( 1. research question, 2. literature search, 3. draft paper) on the set deadlines. In addition, students are expected to write a review with constructive feedback on two draft peer papers following the guidelines provided by the instructor.The exact deadlines for the working progress, peer feedback and the final deadline for the term paper will be communicated in the first class session.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
The minimum requirement is the completion of each of the four class components (see above) – not necessarily successfully. In order to be graded, students can miss up to 2 classes, have to write the mid-term and final tests and submit the term paper on the set deadlines. This means that students can NOT master the first three components (class participation, mid-term and final test), which make up 60 % of the final grade and decide not to write the term paper or vice versa.Plagiarism and Ghostwriting are strictly forbidden. To make sure that these rules are not violated in some occasions students will be required to provide an oral discussion of their written work.
Examination topics
Required Literature
Reading list
The assigned readings present an introduction to the session topic. There are usually two texts per session. Two sessions will cover chapters from the Powner (2015) book on empirical research and writing. The remaining class sessions will cover one text that gives an overview of the main concepts and one scientific article. For the overview text, we will mostly use chapters from the Caramani (2017) lecture book. The second text will be an article from a top political science journal (e.g. American Journal of Political Science) with an interesting research question, research design, and findings. The purpose of the second text is to give a concrete example from scientific research and deepen the general understanding of the topic. All scientific articles are accessible online via the university library. For copyright reasons, there is no Reader for this course.Books:
Caramani, D. (2017) Comparative Politics, 4th Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Powner, L. (2015) Empirical Research and Writing. A Political Science Student’s Practical Guide, Los Angeles: CQ Press.Highly recommended for your studies, in general, is the following book how to lean efficiently:
Oakley, B. (2014) A mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even if You Flunked Algebra), New York: Penguin.The SYLLABUS for SS2019 * is available here: https://sites.google.com/view/mariyanaangelova/teaching* The syllabus for WS 2019 will be similar to the syllabus from SS2019.
Caramani, D. (2017) Comparative Politics, 4th Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Powner, L. (2015) Empirical Research and Writing. A Political Science Student’s Practical Guide, Los Angeles: CQ Press.Highly recommended for your studies, in general, is the following book how to lean efficiently:
Oakley, B. (2014) A mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even if You Flunked Algebra), New York: Penguin.The SYLLABUS for SS2019 * is available here: https://sites.google.com/view/mariyanaangelova/teaching* The syllabus for WS 2019 will be similar to the syllabus from SS2019.
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