Hi all,
Welcome to Gov 1002/2001/E-2001! We look forward to a great semester. Just
a couple of quick announcements:
1. From this point forward, we will be using this email list extensively
for class announcements. We also encourage everybody to use this email list
for questions about class concepts, about the problem sets, about finding
paper partners, or about anything class related. We also encourage you to
help one another out by responding to emails or answering questions. You
will learn better from each other than you will from us.
2. We will have our first class sections tomorrow. There will be two
identical sections at 7-8pm and 8-9pm in CGIS K-354. Feel free to attend
either one, although we may start assigning sections if the distribution of
students is too uneven between the two sections. The 8-9pm section will be
videotaped for distance learning students.
3. The first homework assignment will be posted on the course website. It
will be due next Thursday before 7pm. Unless otherwise stated, the homework
assignments will be distributed on Thursdays and due the following
Thursday.
4. In general, the class will be run from the fas course website (
http://isites.harvard.edu/k48701), even for the distance learning students.
5. My office hours will be on Wednesdays 2-4. Miya's office hours will be
(tentatively) on Thursdays 2-4. They will both be at the basement computer
lab in the CGIS Knafel building.
6. For all non-extension school students (1002 and 2001), you should start
thinking about picking partners for the replication project and also start
looking for papers that you might want to replicate. Feel free to use the
email list. By March 9, you will need to have a partner and a proposed
paper replication.
--
Patrick Lam
Department of Government and Institute for Quantitative Social Science,
Harvard University
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~plam<http://www.people.fas.harvard.ed…