POLITICAL METHODOLOGY - Specialized FieldThese are minimum requirements. Additional courses may be desirable and are up to the supervising committee to designate.Requirements for the PhD.Completion of at least eight courses. The Methodology field does not have a comprehensive examination. Students must earn a grade of 3.3 or above in all courses counting toward the requirements.A. Four Required Courses: Pol S 500 Political Research Design and Analysis (5 credits) Pol S 501 Advanced Political Research Design and Analysis (5 credits) Pol S 502 Qualitative Research Methods (5 credits) Pol S 503 Advanced Quantitative Political Methodology (5 credits) B. One additional course from the Political Methodology list. D. Three additional courses from the Political Methodology list. Political Methodology List Any 500-level class taught through the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (with the exception of CS&SS 590) as well as the Economics and Sociology classes listed below. Additional courses will be approved on an ad hoc basis. Submit a petition for course review – course description and syllabus, if available – to the Political Methodology Field Coordinator. The course will be evaluated for inclusion in the Political Methodology Course List. In cases where the course is applicable to the student but not to the program in general, the course will be approved only for the student who submitted the petition. Courses offered through the Department of Statistics will typically be approved. |