Department of Government, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University

First Semester 2008

"Skills in Social Inquiry"

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Lecturer: Pitch Pongsawat

 

Website: http://www.polsci.chula.ac.th/pitch/skillsoc08

Webblog: http://skillsocpolsci61.exteen.com

Password: skillsocpolsci61

Venue: Pol Sci Building 3

 

Course Outline: Updated 13 June 2008

Download Font: Pimpdeed

 

Voice Clips:

Week 1: 6 June 2008

Week 2: 13 June 2008

Week 3: 20 June 2008

Week 4: 27 June 2008

Week 5: 5 July 2008

Week 6: 11 July 2008

Week 7: 1 August 2008

Week 8: 8 August 2008

 

Tasks:

Task No.1: Essay on Sujit Wongthes' Disillusioned Guy or Seksan Prasertkul's Reminiscence of My Student Time 

Task No.2: Essay on Win Leowarin's Two Democracies

Task No. 2.5: Reworking on Win's Project - The Killing of the Self

Task No.3: Essay on the Seminar "59 Year Anniversary of Political Science Thammasat"

Task No.3.5: Reworking on the Seminar Essay

Task No. 4: Essay on Public Article: - Nithi's No name article or Kasian's A Critique of Thainess

Task No.5: Essay on Academic Article - Nithi's Cultural Constitution or Kasian's Consuming Thainess

Task No. 6: Web-board Exercise

Task No. 7: Research Proposal

 

Lecture Notes:

1) Dunleavy's How to write a good essay

2) What is an argument?

3) What is criticism?

 

Extra (but interesting) Readings:

1) The "Over-politicization" of Thai Politics by Kasian Tejapera (In Thai) (PDF)

2) Debate Technique