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Short Courses

APSA offers short courses on the Wednesday prior to the start of the Annual Meeting. Short courses are half or full-day sessions that 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 are held on the Annual Meeting premises 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.

2009 Short Course Schedule

SC 1   Multi-Method Research

SC 2   Designing and Conducting Field Research

SC 3   Coding the Blogosphere: Introducing the Coding and Blog Analysis Toolkits

SC 4   The Toronto Tea Party: LGBT Challenges and Strategies in Political Science

SC 5   Approaching Visual Images: Photography, Politics, & Political Science

SC 6   Library 2.0: Knowledge, Power, and Pedagogy in Net Space -- Evolving Collaborations and Roles

SC 7   Tools for Middle-sized Data Projects

SC 8   New Challenges, New Opportunities: The CSES and EES Data Sets

SC 9   A Taste for Sovereignty: Global and Local Change in the New Politics of Food

SC 10   Cities, Climate Change, and Multilevel Governance

SC 11   Addressing Challenges in Teaching Traditional, Hybrid, and OnLine American Government Courses

SC 12   Latino Politics Workshop

SC 13   Getting a Job at a Teaching Institution -- and Succeeding!

SC 14   Studying Governance on the Ground: The Police Borders of Democracy

SC 15   The Fundamentals of Political Forecasting

SC 16   Applied Political Network Analysis

SC 17   Political Scientists and the Fulbright Scholar Program

SC 18   Creating and Teaching American Politics Courses in a Globalized Context and Curriculum


Short course organizers: The deadline to submit short course proposals has passed, but space might still be available. Please contact Lauren Barry, Assistant, Meetings and Conferences, if you are interested in hosting a short course at the 2009 Annual Meeting.