This course is a research-intensive seminar. In this course, students profile a political leader and use the quantitative scores to explain their decision-making and policy choices. Students identify where to collect leaders’ words from government archives or elsewhere (news sources); and clean these for political content only. Students use a specialized software called ProfilerPlus process text and analyze data. Achieves technology student learning outcomes a and d.

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Approved for Data Intensive Course Designation starting Fall 2025.