Course requirements

Credit
For students taking the course for credit:

• Participation in class analyses; contribution of data or analysis sketch periodically
• Selected readings
• Paper topic (1-2 sentences.) by October 20 (beginning of Week 8)
• Paper proposal (1-2 paragraphs) by October 27 (beginning of Week 9)
• Short oral presentation based on some data collected by you (ca. mid. November)
• Final paper (minimally data analysis and interpretation, cf. above) due December 5. The final paper should be about 15 pages.

For those who wish to pursue a topic you are already writing a paper on for other program purposes, e.g. a qualifying paper, see me to see how they can be integrated if you want or need credit for this course. There are different possibilities for integrating the work. For example, sometimes the same data set can be used and analyzed using different frameworks or from different perspectives, or a subpart of the data you collected could be 'zoomed in on' for a somewhat more in-depth analysis in a course paper that is smaller than a qualifying paper.

The ultimate aim will be a paper that can be used as a qualifying paper or the basis of a conference paper or publication.

Audit
For those students who want to have the course on your transcript as a course you audited:

• Attendance in at least half the course meetings
• Participation in class discussions as you can
• No written work required

Participants need to sign up either as credit students or as auditors.

© 2008 Suzanne Kemmer
Last modified 3 Sept 08