2008 Short Courses

APSA offers Short Courses on the Wednesday prior to the start of the Annual Meeting. They provide diverse opportunities for professional development and offer attendees the chance to connect with scholars from a range of backgrounds. 

Sponsored and organized by APSA Organized Sections Related Groups, and other non-APSA affiliated organizations, short courses will be held on the premises of the Annual Meeting unless otherwise noted.  Locations, registration, and other details are all handled by the organizers themselves.  To participate in a Short Course, you must register for it prior to the Annual Meeting. If you have questions about particular short courses, contact the organizer directly.  Organizer contact information is detailed in the course description.

2008 Short Courses

For descriptions and registration information for the short courses listed below, click on the short course title.  If you have questions about any of the short courses, please contact the organizer listed in the description of the course.

SC 1:    Multi-Method Research

SC 2:    Designing and Conducting Field Research

SC 3:    New Opportunities, New Challenges:  The CSES Data Set

SC 4:    Bringing the Military into the Political Science Curriculum

SC 5:    Democracy and Its Critics:  
                   Re-Introducing Anti-Democratic Thought into the Syllabus

SC 6:    Genetics for Political Scientists

SC 7:    Doing Feminist Research in International Relations

SC 8:    Teaching Public Policy

SC 9:    The Political Scientist as pre-Law Advisor **

SC 10:  Globalization:  Dimensions, Significance, & Impacts

SC 11:  Getting a Job at a Teaching Institution -- and Succeeding!

SC 12:  Canada and the United States

SC 13:  Research Funding: Getting Started, Getting Funded

SC 14:  Developing & Teaching an Online Political Philosophy

SC 15:  Social and Political Analysis at the World Bank

SC 16:  European Election Studies  

SC 17:  Women and Politics Around the World 

SC 18:  Trends in Graduate Education

SC 19:  Teaching the Presidency: Best Ways to Engage your Students

SC 20:  Intersectionality

SC 21:  The Fulbright Scholar Program and Political Scientists

SC 22:  Writing (Up) Interpretive Research: Preparing 'Trustworthy' Manuscripts

SC 23: Old Media, New Media: Political Communication in Transition

** The morning and afternoon sessions will be at Suffolk University Law School and Boston University School of Law, respectively.