The Hidden Curriculum

GOV 2020 Subject & Catalog Number

Description

Gov 2020 has two components:  (1) A popular semester-long project designed to show how to write and publish an article in a scholarly journal, beginning with an article replication. This assignment, an early version of which was described in the article “Publication, Publication” and previously part of Gov 2001, has resulted in many students' first publications, conference presentations, dissertations, and awards. (2) How science (and, by extension, the profession) works.  It includes what a big idea is in our field; developing defensible answers; co-authoring; writing for impact; effective presentations; solving problems by changing the question; going beyond publication to impact; managing the transition academics undergo from private to public figure; leveraging universities, startups, industry, and government for research; and more.