Classes outside the department

[ThisGuyRiteHere]

What classes do you guys plan on taking (or recommend) to be taken outside of the department to stregthen research?

 

 

[CorvusCorvus]

That would really depend almost entirely on what your research is on.

[IRToni]

I agree with Corvus.

 

I am interested in Political Economy, and also quantitative methods/game theory etc. That means I have taken and continue to take methods classes in Econ, which are very rewarding. My school is pretty bad on stats for political scientists, so I'm taking the MA/PhD-level Econometrics sequence. I also took a Game theory class in undergrad in Econ (in addition to micro and macro), took a GT for PS class last semester, focusing on us writing our own research papers using Game Theory, and will take a more technical class on "Information Economics" in the Econ department next semester.

 

I am in a European M.A. though, where classes in other departments are par for the course (compulsory), and the assignment of classes to departments is somewhat random, so I also took "history" classes that were basically Poli Sci.

[peternewman89]

I haven't started my program yet, but I'll surely be taking a number of classes outside of my department.  My primary field will be political theory, and to expand on that I will need to go into course-offerings from the Philosophy department.  My interests can range at times to the more philosophical side of political philosophy, and to create and analyze the underlying metaphysics of an ideology the poli sci department might not cut it.

 

I'm actually planning to get in touch with a few people in my department in the next week or two to see about the advisability of taking outside courses during my first semester, as we won't have any theory offerings.