Syllabi Database

Political Science

The History of Political Science , Chris Achen and Arlene Saxonhouse, University of Michigan (Winter 2001)

Social Scientific and Historical Research Methods: Introduction to Research Design , Hayward R. Alker, University of Southern California (Spring 2004)

Advanced Research Methods: text, Talk and Context , Hayward R. Alker, University of Southern California (Spring 2004)

Qualitative Research Methods , Andrew Bennett, Georgetown University (Spring 2007)

Qualitative Research Methods , Michelle Betsill, Colorado State University (Spring 2009)

Seminar on Comparative Methods , Michael Bernhard, Pennsylvania State University (Spring 2001)

Social Science Logics and Methods , Mark Blyth, Johns Hopkins University (Spring 2001)

Systematic Inquiry/Research Design , Christopher Deering, George Washington University (Fall 2006)

Qualitative Methods , Richard Doner, Emory University (Spring 2006)

Designing Research and Writing Proposals , Matthew Evangelista, Cornell University (Fall 1996)

Methods of Inquiry and Research Design , Page Fortna and Tanisha Fazal, Columbia University (Spring 2007)

Qualitative Communication Research Methods , Larry Frey, Department of Communication, University of Colorado (Fall 2007)

Qualitative Communication Research Methods , Larry Frey, Department of Communication, University of Colorado (Spring 2006) (Undergraduate Class)

Seminar in Scope and Approaches to the Study of Politics , James C. Garand, Louisiana State University (Fall 2006)

Political Analysis , John Gerring, Boston University (Fall 2008)

Qualitative Methods , Betty Glad, University of South Carolina (Spring 2000)

Qualitative Research in the Political and Social Sciences , R. B. Hall, University of Iowa (Spring 2003)

Science and Interpretation in Social Theory , Gary Herrigel, University of Chicago 

An Introduction to Qualitative Methods , Ted Hopf, The Ohio State University (Winter 2008)

Qualitative Research , Elizabeth Kier, University of Washington (Spring 2008)

Qualitative Political Analysis , Audie Klotz, Syracuse University (Fall 2008)

Analytic narratives and other systematic and rigorous ways to do case study and qualitative comparative research , Margaret Levi, University of Washington

Introduction to the Study of Politics , Mark Lichbach, University of Colorado (Fall 1997)

Critical and Creative Thinking in Comparative Government and Politics , Mark Lichbach, University of Maryland (Spring 2009)

Methods of Comparative Analysis , James Mahoney, Northwestern University (Winter 2008)

Seminar on the Comparative Case Study Method , John Mearsheimer, University of Chicago, (Winter 2004)

The Comparative Method in Political Science , Gerardo Munck, University of Southern California (Spring 2002)

Qualitative Research Design , John Odell, University of Southern California (Spring 2007)

Interpretive Methods to Political Science , Ido Oren, University of Florida (Spring 2009)

Theories and Methods of Qualitative Political Research , Bruce Parrott, Johns Hopkins SAIS, (Fall 2008) ( click here for supplemental reading list )

Political Inquiry and Analysis , Vincent Pollard, University of Hawaii at Manoa (Summer 2002)

Introduction to Research , Vincent Pollard, University of Hawaii at Manoa (Spring 2009)

Political Economy for Post-Moderns: Metaphors and Narratives of the Economy and of Post-communist Market 'Reform' in Eastern Europe, China and India , Lloyd Rudolph, University of Chicago

Empirical Methods of Political Inquiry, Virginia Sapiro, University of Wisconsin (Spring  2004)

Qualitative Methods in Political Research , Ed Schatz, University of Toronto (Winter 2008)

Creativity and Method in Comparative Research , James C. Scott and Arun Agrawal, Yale University (Fall 2001)  

Field Research Methods in Comparative Politics and International Studies , Apichai Shipper, University of Southern California (Spring 2007)

Empirical Methods of Political Inquiry: Qualitative , Joe Soss, University of Wisconsin-Madison American University (Fall 2005)

Qualitative Methods , Randall Strahan, Emory University (Spring 2007)

Research Design , Craig W. Thomas, University of Washington (Fall 2007)

Designs of Social Research , Charles Tilly, Columbia University  [We have also posted Professor Tilly’s bibliography, Readings on Research Design, 1988-2003, as a separate Word file.]
Qualitative Methods, David Waldner, University of Virginia (Fall 2005)

Seminar on Comparative Case Study Method , Stephen Walt, The University of Chicago (Winter 1996)

Seminar on the Comparative Case Study Method , Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, The University of Chicago (Winter 1999)

Interpretive Methods in the Social Sciences , Lisa Wedeen, The University of Chicago

Scope and Methods of Political Science , Alex Wendt, Ohio State University (Fall 2006)

Qualitative Research Methods , Susan Whiting, University of Washington (Spring 2006)

Sociology

Qualitative Research Methods , Mario Small, Princeton University (Spring 2003)

Law and Social Science

Naturalistic Field Research, Susan Coutin, University of California at Irvine (Fall 2005)

Qualitative Research Design , Jody Miller, University of Missouri, St. Louis (Fall 2008)  Click here for Undergraduate Class 

Public Administration

Research Methods in Public Administration I , Dvora Yanow, California State University, Hayward (Fall 2005)

Social Realities and Human Organization , Dvora Yanow, California State University, Hayward (Fall 1999)

Political and Policy Ethnography , Dvora Yanow, ECPR Summer School (Summer 2007)

Interpretive Methods , Dvora Yanow, ECPR Summer School (Summer 2006)