Welcome to the Political Science 168 Homepage

Chican@/Latin@ Politics

“Across the Wire” Photo by A. Feldwick-Jones ( http://arlenfeldwickjones.com )

Professor B. Jones

Department of Political Science

University of California, Davis

Davis, CA 95616

Syllabus

Lecture Slides (Will be posted throughout quarter)

Hispanics in the US: 2006 Census Data (This slide set created by US Census Bureau)

Homework Assignments/Projects

Documentary Response Paper Assignments

Exam Study Guides

Information for those interested in R

R is a freely available statistical computing environment. To use R:

1. Download package (choose Mac, Windows, etc.)

2. The program should be self-executing.

3. Open R. You’ll see a blank console.

4. Move cursor to “file” in toolbar and click.

5. Then click on “New Script.”

6. A window will open.

7. Type your R code there.

8. To run the code, highlight the text of the code and right click and

select “run line or selection.”

9. This will execute the commands.

10. Output will show up in console window.

11. I will post my R script. You can cut and paste that into the script window and

run it if you want to.

To access R, see the website below.

Websites we will use this quarter:

Latin@-Oriented Websites

Statisical Computing
The R Project (Optional, but you will be required to use some statistical software)