COURSE OUTLINE AND READING LIST FOR POLI 443 FOR THE 2018/2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

UNIVERSITY OF GHANA

Instructor:      Prof. A. Essuman-Johnson

Course Code:   POLI 443                                  Course Title:    Applied Political Research

Semester:        1^st (August, 2018)

Class Hours:    15:30  – 17:20:  Tuesdays       Lecture Room: JQB 22 (GROUP A)

17:30  -  19:20:  Thursdays      Lecture Room: JQB 19 (GROUP B)

Office :                        Dept. of Political Science        Email:  aessuman-johnson@ug.edu.gh         

Office Hours:   10:00 - 11:00 am Fri.                          essumanj@gmail.com

Course Description

The course seeks to provide students with the statistical skills that enable them to analyze data for political analysis. The broad topics to be treated in the course would include (i) Descriptive statistics for univariate data analysis (ii) Measuring relationships and tests of hypothesis and (iii) Multivariate data analysis. The course assumes students have passed Poli 344. The course will be examined as follows:

Continuous Assessment: 30%

End of Semester Exam:    70%

Total                               100%

 

Text

1.                  Murray R. Spiegel (1972) Theory and Problems of Statistics, (Schaum’s Outline Series) New York, McGraw Hill.

2.                  Janet B. Johnson & Richard A. Joslyn (1986) Political Science Research Methods, Congressional Quarterly Press, Washington,

Week 1 Tuesday Aug 21 & Thursday Aug. 23

Introduction: Discussion Course objective, class regulations and miscellaneous issues. SPSS Review.

Week 2 Tuesday Aug 28 & Thursday Aug. 30

Review basic knowledge of tests of hypothesis: test for the normal distribution.

Week 3 Tuesday Sept 4 & Thursday Aug. 6

Contd. Test of hypothesis: test for the normal distribution.

Week 4 Tuesday Sept11 & Thursday Aug. 13

Test of hypothesis: test for the student t distribution.

Week 5 Tuesday Sept 18 & Thursday Aug. 20

Bivariate Data Analysis: Cross tabulations.

Week 6 Tuesday Sept 25 & Thursday Sept 27

Multivariate Data Analysis: Cross tabulations.

Week 7 Tuesday Oct 2 & Thursday Oct. 4

Multivariate Data Analysis: Percentage tables.

Week 8 Tuesday Oct 9 & Thursday Oct. 11

Difference of Means tests and ANOVA.

Week 9 Tuesday Oct 16 & Thursday Oct. 18

Contd. Difference of Means tests and ANOVA.

Week 10 Tuesday Oct 23 & Thursday Oct. 25

Multivariate Data Analysis: Linear Regression Analysis.

Week 11 Tuesday Oct 30 & Thursday Nov.1

Contd. Multivariate Data Analysis: Multiple Regression Analysis.

Week 12 Tuesday Nov 7 & Thursday Nov. 9

Contd. Multivariate Data Analysis: Multiple Regression Analysis.

Week 13 Tuesday Nov 14 & Thursday Nov. 16

Contd. Multivariate Data Analysis: Multiple Regression Analysis.

Teaching ends

Week 14  Tuesday Nov 21 & Thursday Nov. 23

Revision Week

Week 15 Monday, Nov 5 23

End of Semester Examinations