Capstone in African Stud

This capstone course will examine major historical, political, and cultural themes that shaped the processes of state-society formations in precolonial, colonial, and post-colonial Africa. Course lectures and discussions on a wide range of themes will draw on various texts, including primary documents, secondary scholarly works, documentary films, and digital materials. Following background lectures, scholars from the Five College Africanist community will lead seminar discussions of specific case studies drawn from their specialty on various regions across the African continent.

Causal Inference Special Topic

This course will introduce students to both statistical theory and practice of causal inference. We will review the basics of causal inference, introduce a missing data perspective of causal inference and instrumental variable methods. We then cover 3 advanced topics based on a survey to students. Tentative topics include randomization inference, mediation analysis, principal stratification, measurement error, natural experiments, and causal inference with interference.

Advanced Sport Analytics

This course provides a hands-on dive into sport analytics. After completing this course, students should understand how to formulate a meaningful sport-related question, identify and collect appropriate data to address their question, determine a suitable analysis plan, execute a range of statistical analysis techniques, and communicate the results through a variety of media.
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