Senior Seminar: The Arab Spring. POL 401.
This course surveys the most recent literature on protest, political instability, and rebellion. We then collaboratively build a dataset for analysis. Each student then developes a case study based on the quantitative results. The result is a substantive empirical paper of 30-40 pages.
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Rachel Burckhardt
Graduation: 2013
Major: Biology
Scientists have estimated 50 to 75 trillion cells make up the human boy, but Rachel Burckhardt ’13 can find even more reasons why biology is the right major for her.
The Waterford senior’s soft spot for the small things is anything but microscopic.
“There’s a lot of stuff going on that the celllar level that you don’t realize is happening, and I find it interesting to see how all the little workings of a cell make up a person,” she says.
