BA Seminar: American Politics and American Political Thought (Seminarium licencjackie: Polityka amerykańska i amerykańska myśl polityczna)

This is the second half of the BA Research Project. Here students

will execute that research and produce a written BA research

from the topic and research frame they produced in their BA

Prosemiar. Here the focus of the seminar will be guiding the

student through the sucessful compleation of their proposed

research and the production of a written paper where that

resesarch is effectively presented to an academic audience.

BA Semiar is intimately connected and is a continuation of the BA

Proiminar offered in the fall semester. The two courses together

allow the students to obtain necessary skills to develop and

complete a BA paper. Here in the BA Semiar will execute that

research and produce a written BA research from the topic and

research frame they produced in their BA Prosemiar.

The goal of this class is to guide the student through the

sucessful compleation of their proposed research and the

production of a written paper where that resesarch is effectively

presented to an academic audience. Students will be constantly

reminded of the core principles of the philosophy of social science

that underlay all research methods and to methods that are

currently being used by students of political science, while they

produce their final written paper on their chosen research topic.

The instructor has interests in the following topics: American

Political History (especially topics dealing with the American

Founding, the Civil War, the Progressive Period and the New

Deal, and various Presidents and statesmen); American political

thought and the influence and sources of Western political

philosophy upon American political and constitutional thought;

U.S. Constitutional Law and how it shapes and defines American

politics; the nature, character, and processes of American political

institutions (Congress, Presidency, the Federal Departments and

Agencies, the Courts and the States).

Kate Turabian (Williams, Colomb, and Booth eds.), A manual for

writers of research papers, theses, and dissertations (Chicago

Style) University of Chicago Press.

Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams, The

Craft of Research 4th edition.

Leanne Powner, Empirical Research and Writing: A Political

Science Student’s Practical Guide.

Stephen Van Evera, Guide to Methods in Political Science

Baglione, Writing a Research Paper in Political Science: A

Practical Guide to Inquiry, Structure, and Methods.

1. Formulating a Clear Topic (that is approved by the Instructor).

[SKILL AND COMPETENCES]

2. Generating and producing a working bibliography on the

chosen Topic [SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE].

3. Formulating a clear and workable research question and

hypothesis. [SKILLS AND COMPETENCES]

4. Generate a working outline of the BA Paper.[SKILLS]

5. Apply the various methods that are common in the study of

political science.[SKILLS AND COMPETENCES]

6. Compare and contrast different methods and decide the most

effective for the type of project that is being desired.

[KNOWLEDGE, COMPETENCES, AND SKILLS]

7. Executing a research project.[SKILLS AND COMPETENCES]

8. Producing an effective written research paper that clearly

addresses and offers clear analysis on the paper’s main claim.

[SKILLS AND COMPETENCES]

9. Learning to present and defend your research finding to an

audience or academic panal. [SKILLS AND COMPETENCES]

Assessment methods and assessment criteria:

1. Submission of various drafts of the paper for review and

comment moving the student to be able to submit a final draft.

2. Submission of a final draft for corrections before producing a

final version to offically submit.

3. Submission of a final version of the research paper for BA

Exam

I think this is a pass/fail assessment. Pass is to satasfactory

complete all these step and submit a final approved version of the

paper/thesis to the online platform to start the BA exam process.