Analytic Skills for Global Affairs
GLOB1-GC3035
Credit:
Global Affairs
The study of global affairs requires more than just interest, passion or even intelligence, it also demands that students master and develop a range of crucial skills that will allow them to gather information, quickly and effectively assess data and opinion and understand how these sources may be biased or open to misinterpretation, and then marshal and present convincing arguments on paper in a range of forms. This experiential course is divided into two separate units, Writing for Global Affairs and Quantitative Methods. The former covers the basics of research and formulating a research question, plagiarism and derivation, the different forms of writing (a memo, a research paper, etc) and the actual art of constructing and writing a piece. The latter accustoms students to handling data and familiarizes them with some of the basic statistical techniques used in policy analysis, in order that they may become intelligent consumers and producers of analyses.
To register for this course you must be an admitted student in an NYU credit or degree program or have special student status.
Admitted NYU credit or degree students may visit NYUHome to register through ALBERT.
To apply to an NYU-SCPS credit or degree program, call (212) 998-7100.
