History 103 Syllabus

Overview	Part One	Part Two	Part Three	Part Four	4th-hour Option

Fourth-hour Option

Students who take the course for four credit hours must attend (in addition to the regular class meetings) computer labs on Mondays, 2:30-3:20 p.m., in the DOS/Windows Lab, located on the A-level of Mudd Center. The following is a list of the topics to be covered in these lab meetings and relevant reading assignments in Haskins and Jeffrey, Understanding Quantitative History (hereafter UQH). Problem sets and other lab exercises will be distributed weekly in class.

Sept. 9 Introduction to Microsoft Excel

Required Reading: Haskins and Jeffrey, UQH, 1-38
Assignment One

Sept. 16 Charts and Graphs

Required Reading: Haskins and Jeffrey, UQH, 39-74

Sept. 23 No class (Yom Kippur)

Sept. 30 Averages and Standard Deviation

Required Reading: Haskins and Jeffrey, UQH, 75-118

Oct. 7 Sampling

Required Reading: Haskins and Jeffrey, UQH, 121-161

Oct. 14 Historical and Statistical Significance

Required Reading: Haskins and Jeffrey, UQH, 167-208

Oct. 28 Introduction to the Great American History Machine (GAHM)

Nov. 4 Correlation

Required Reading: Haskins and Jeffrey, UQH, 209-257

Nov. 11 Oberlin History Research Project, Part 1: Data Entry

Nov. 18 Testing the "Two Civilization Thesis" with GAHM

Nov. 25 Exploring the Politics of the 1850s with GAHM

Dec. 2 Oberlin History Research Project, Part 2: Data Analysis

Dec. 9 Oberlin History Research Project, Part 3: Conclusions

Overview	Part One	Part Two	Part Three	Part Four	4th-hour Option