Resources
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Internships
Legislative internship. The application period for this internship runs from early September to early October. Students who are selected for the program are placed with an elected representative or senator in the State Assembly to intern through the legislative session, which coincides with the Spring semester at CSU-Pueblo. The POLSC 480 manual has information about expectations and assignments; it also has evaluation forms to be completed at midterm and the end of the semester. Students who are selected for the program must also fill out and submit to the Political Science Coordinator the legal form for unpaid internships that can be found here on the website of the CSU-Pueblo General Counsel.
Other internships. Students who do internships and enroll in POLSC 480 for university credit should familiarize themselves with the POLSC 480 manual, which includes information about expectations and assignments; it also has evaluation forms to be completed at midterm and the end of the semester. Students who are selected for the program must also fill out and submit to the Political Science Coordinator the legal form for unpaid internships that can be found here on the website of the CSU-Pueblo General Counsel.
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Other forms
- Political Science advising forms: 2017 catalog (and earlier), 2018 catalog
- Graduation contract
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Professional development
Advice for undergraduates - political science
Advice for undergraduates - general
Careers post-political science degree
What I did with my Political Science Degree (Ohio State)
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POLSC 250 Research methods
Core content in POLSC 250 includes:
- Core concepts in analytical social science
- omitted variable bias
- selection bias (compositional differences between groups (which is OV bias) or a selection bias in sampling, leading to an unrepresentative sample)
- how to distinguish between causation vs. correlation
- the importance of theory
- the importance of research design, including experimental designs (with random assignment of the independent variable) and observational studies
- Understanding the foundations of inferential statistics & how to interpret 3 types of tests. In each case, it is important to understand the difference between statistical measures of uncertainty and (estimated) substantive relationships.
- t-tests
- Chi-square
- OLS regression (and its assumptions)
- Statistic measures of uncertainty (t-statistics, F-test) vs. substantive relationships (betas, R-squares)
- Uses of statistics:
- Test a hypothesis against a null
- Estimate the magnitude of a causal effect
- Also: data analysis that is more exploratory in nature, to facilitate inductive
- Basic SPSS
- Creating interval-level variables (Transform --> Compute)
- Creating nominal variables (Transform --> Recode into different variable)
- Univariate: descriptive statistics, frequency tables, histograms, box plots
- Relationships:
- scatterplots (typically for interval x interval)
- pearson's r (typically for interval x interval)
- bar charts (one of the variables is nominal or ordinal)
- crosstabs (for 2 or 3 non-interval level variables)
- mean difference tables (for interval-level x nominal)
- OLS regression (interval-level dependent variables with multiple independent variables)
- logit regression (dummy dependent variables)
- Core concepts in analytical social science
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Local Media
- CSU-Pueblo Today
- The Pueblo Chieftain
- The Denver Post
- KTSC (PBS affiliate)
- KKTV (CBS affiliate)
- KOAA (NBC affiliate)
- KRDO (ABC affiliate)
- KXRM (FOX affiliate)
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National Media
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International Media
- Associated Press
- Reuters
- BBC World News
- The Economist (Access available through Political Science)
- International Herald Tribune
- Le Monde (French)
- Haaretz
- Al Jazeera
- Xinhua News Agency
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Government
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Research Portals
