Lecturer

Summer 2026 Haley Daarstad

The Scientific Study of Politics

Undergraduate Methods R

Undergraduate political science methods course at UC Davis covering causal inference, data visualization, and R programming.

Course website · Syllabus

Graduate Teaching Assistant with Sections

Fall 2026 Haley Daarstad

The Scientific Study of Politics (Discussion Sections)

Undergraduate Methods R Section

Discussion sections for POL 051 at UC Davis, where students work in smaller groups to clarify course material, practice data analysis in R, and build causal reasoning skills.

Section website · Syllabus

• Intro to Comparative Politics, Spring 2024; Fall 2025; Winter 2026
• The Scientific Study of Politics, Fall 2023 – Spring 2025

Section Teaching Materials for The Scientific Study of Politics on GitHub and a link to my R for The Scientific Study of Politics.

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Graduate Teaching Assistant without Sections

• Gender and Politics, Spring 2026
• International Political Economy, Winter 2022; Spring 2026
• Comparative Electoral Systems, Winter 2025
• Political Psychology, Fall 2024
• Russian Politics, Winter 2024
• Intro to Political Modeling, Spring 2023
• US Public Opinion, Winter 2023
• British Politics, Fall 2022
• Media and Politics, Summer 2022
• Group Identity Politics, Spring 2022

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Syllabus Examples

• Gender in the International Context
• The Comparative Study of Contentious Politics
• Organized Crime and Transnational Organizations