Working in mixed teams, students carry a single applied project from question to public presentation over ten weeks, drawing on the technical and political-economic content of the two companion courses. Projects are real, local, and bounded: mapping a public good across Istanbul neighborhoods, documenting an information-control event, digitizing a small archival collection, or fielding a small, IRB-approved survey. Every team includes at least one student from each side of the program, and every project needs a genuine technical component and a genuine political-science component.
Mixed teams form; scoping and feasibility of candidate projects.
Every project is gated behind an approved ethics and risk plan before methods are locked and piloted.
Izmir and Ephesus, shared across all three courses.
Teams execute their data collection or measurement plan under instructor supervision.
Analysis, drafting, cross-team critique, and a public presentation in Week 10.
All fieldwork is gated behind an approved ethics and risk plan, and any human-subjects work requires prior IRB approval. The recurring message of this course is to scope down and do it well; the same realism applies to this page; treat it as a working plan, not a commitment.