APSA will host short courses on Wednesday, August 27, prior to the 2008 Annual Meeting in Boston, as an added opportunity for attendees to enhance their knowledge and teaching and research skills. This is a preliminary list of proposed short courses; a complete list will be printed in the July issue of PS. For the most updated information on short courses, please consult the Online Program at www.apsanet.org/2008. For further details or to find out how your group or organization can host a short course, visit www.apsanet.org/content_4650.cfm
Multi-Method Research
Co-sponsors: Qualitative and Multi-Method Section and the International History and Politics Section
Designing and Conducting Field Research
Co-sponsors: Qualitative and Multi-Method Section and the International History and Politics Section
New Opportunities, New Challenges: The CSES Data Set
Sponsor: CSES (Comparative Study of Electoral Systems)
Bringing the Military into the Political Science Curriculum
Co-sponsors: Committee for the Analysis of Military Operations & Strategy (CAMOS), Women in International Security, and the Women & Politics Section
Democracy and Its Critics: Re-Introducing Anti-Democratic Thought into the Syllabus
Co-sponsors: Sussex Centre for the Individual and Society (SCIS), Brighton (UK) and Paris (France); Imprint of Academic, Exeter (UK) and Charlottesville, VA (USA); Annual conference “Workshops in Political Theory,” Manchester (UK)
Genetics for Political Scientists
Sponsor: Political Psychology Section
Teaching Public Policy
Sponsor: Public Policy Section
The Political Scientist as pre-Law Advisor
Sponsor: Pre-law Advisors National Council
Dimensions, Significance, & Impacts
Sponsor: New Political Science
Doing Feminist Research in International Relations
Co-sponsors: The Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section of the International Studies Association; The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association; The Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government
