Courses

This course covers research methods and research design in political science.  We cover concrete and practical issues of conducting research that are useful for all types of empirical political science research: picking a topic, generating hypotheses, case selection, measurement issues, and the ethics of research; with a focus on qualitative and mixed-methods tools such as: interviews, fieldwork, case studies, archival research, ethnographic work, designing and conducting experiments, coding data and working with data sets, combining quantitative and qualitative methods, etc.

The course is designed for several audiences in Political Science, including:

• PhD students
• MA students undertaking a major research project or intending to continue on to the PhD
• Advanced undergraduates writing or contemplating an honors thesis, or another major research project