imclab / opinioncourse

Public Opinion course materials

Public Opinion Seminar

This repository holds materials for a course on public opinion. The initial version of this course is being conducted as a master seminar at Aarhus University during Autumn term 2013. The course website can be found at: http://thomasleeper.com/opinioncourse/.

Syllabus

You can find an outline of the course objectives, schedule for the course, and assigned readings in the Syllabus.

Course Evaluation

Here is a link to the course evaluation: http://www.survey-xact.dk/LinkCollector?key=RC43FLYF9P1J. It closes on December 16th.

Slides and Notes

PDF versions of course slides (and the LaTeX sources for those slides) are available in the /Slides directory.

Some rough notes for each week's readings and discussion are available in the /Notes directory.

Each class ends with a "preview" lecture of the next week's reading materials. Slides are posted before class.

Links to these materials can be found in the following table:

Slides	Reading Notes	"Preview" Slides
Week 1	No notes	Week 1
No slides	Week 2	Week 2
Week 3	Week 3	Week 3
Week 4	Week 4	Week 4
Week 5	Week 5	Week 5
Week 6	Week 6	Week 6
Week 7 (No class)
Week 8	Week 8	Week 8
Week 9	Week 9	Week 9
Week 10	Week 10	Week 10
Week 11	Week 11	Week 11
Week 12	Week 12	Week 12
No slides	Week 13	Week 13
No slides	Week 14	n/a

Weekly Assignments

Each week one student will write a short (less than one double-spaced page) response to whatever they find interesting or important from that week's readings. This will be due Monday before class (by 12:00 noon). Another student will respond however they see fit (i.e., agree, disagree, highlight other readings or perspectives, etc.) in a short (less than one double-spaced page) due Tuesday morning (by 12:00 noon). Papers should be distributed via email to all course participants. This can be done via Blackboard.

Class will start each week with these students discussing their papers. All students should read the papers before class.

Why GitHub?

Read more about why this course is on GitHub here.