Instructor: Assistant Professor Charles Crabtree
Office: Silsby 216A or dartmouth.zoom.us/my/crabinatree
Office hours: F from 12-3pm or by appointment calendly.com/crabinatree
Email: [email protected]
Classroom: 209 Rockefeller
Schedule: M, W 3:30-5:20pm
x-hour: M 5:30-6:20pm
Class Discord: https://discord.gg/svssQBrb
This course is designed to provide the tools necessary to design and implement social science experiments along with the skills for analyzing and interpreting experimental results. We’ll discuss issues of causal inference, measurement, validity, and ethics in experimental design. Students will also learn about different experimental modes, how to program online experiments, and how to analyze data using R.
Much of the course will be structured like a lab-style seminar in which we collectively design, field, analyze, and write up an experimental study on anti-Asian discrimination in the United States, an increasingly prevalent problem in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The ultimate goal is to publish a scholarly article in a peer-reviewed journal–an ambitious project that will require a substantial commitment from every student.