
Butterfly ballot from 2000 U.S. presidential elections. (Image courtesy of MIT OpenCourseWare.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Adam Berinsky
MIT Course Number
17.869
As Taught In
Fall 2010
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course is designed to provide an introduction to a variety of empirical research methods used by political scientists. The primary aims of the course are to make you a more sophisticated consumer of diverse empirical research and to allow you to conduct advanced independent work in your junior and senior years. This is not a course in data analysis. Rather, it is a course on how to approach political science research.