The Hidden Curriculum

Harvard FAS

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…