FYI
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From: "Charles Stewart III" <cstewart(a)MIT.EDU>
To: <gov2001-l(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 1:16 PM
Subject: TA possibility at MIT
Hello Gov 2001 students,
Gary King told me to e-mail.
Because I have recently been named department head at MIT, we are
scrambling to arrange teaching this coming spring (Feb. 1) of my normal
spring class, called the Political Science Laboratory (17.871). It's
basically a project-based data analysis class for majors that introduces
them soup-to-nuts to doing quantitative analysis in political science. An
earlier version of the class is characterized at the MIT Open CourseWare
site at
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Political-Science/17-871Political-Science-Laborat…
We are looking for someone to help TA the class. There is some grading
and helping on statistical assignments (they learn linear regression
really fast), but the real help that's needed is in leading undergraduates
through their first quantitative research. They have to identify a
tractable topic, design a study and write a paper. They need help
learning the mundane aspects of doing quantitative research, such as using
Stata, getting data sets together, understanding what a researchable topic
is, etc.
If you're interested in helping out on something like this, please let me
know.
Charles Stewart
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Charles Stewart III
Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science
MacVicar Faculty Fellow
Housemaster of McCormick Hall
Voice: 617.253.3127 / Facsimile: 617.258.6164 / e-mail:
cstewart(a)mit.edu / URL:
http://web.mit.edu/cstewart/www/
Building E53-473
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
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Charles Stewart III
Head of the Department of Political Science
Professor of Political Science
MacVicar Faculty Fellow
Housemaster of McCormick Hall
Voice: 617.253.3127 / Facsimile: 617.253.3164
e-mail: cstewart(a)mit.edu / URL:
http://web.mit.edu/cstewart/www/
Department of Political Science
Building E53-473
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139