POL 495 Senior Research Project: Group Based Senior Research Project
While discourses of academic achievement oftentimes glorify the individual genius, knowledge production is a deeply social and cooperative process. Building on the methodological skills acquired in
POL 497, this course provides students with the opportunity to develop an overarching and shared research project over the course of the semester. Doing so, allows students to apply their acquired knowledge in the context of a research project that would not be possible to finalize by any individual student alone, and consequently to contribute to the joint development of new insights. This project will be supported by the teaching faculty member who will provide guidance in terms of topics, theoretical and methodological approaches, and coordination and workload distribution.