QUALITATIVE METHODS SYLLABI (last updated 4/19/07)

Political Science (recent additions in red)

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 2006)

Qualitative Research Methods, Michelle Betsill, Colorado State University (Spring 2005)

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)

Qualitative Analysis, Colin Elman, Arizona State University (Spring 2005)

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 2006)

Qualitative Research Methods, Larry Frey, Department of Communication, the University of Memphis (Spring 2001)

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 2006)

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

Contemporary Political Analysis: An Introduction to Qualitative Methods, Ted Hopf, The Ohio State University (Winter 2000)

Qualitative Research, Elizabeth Kier, University of Washington (Spring 2003)

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)

Core Seminar in Comparative Politics, Mark Lichbach, University of Colorado (Spring 1993)

Methods of Comparative Analysis, James Mahoney, Northwestern University (Winter 2006)

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)

Theories and Methods of Qualitative Political Research, Bruce Parrott, Johns Hopkins SAIS, (Fall 2007) (click here for supplemental reading list)

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

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 (Spring 2007)

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)

Qualitative Research Methods, Joe Soss, American University (Fall 2002)

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

Research Design, Craig W. Thomas, University of Massachussetts, Amherst (Spring 2006)

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)

Sociology

Qualitative Methods, Kathleen Blee, University of Pittsburgh (Spring 2004)

Qualitative Social Analysis Soc 209, Michele Lamont, Harvard University (Fall 2004)

Historical Sociology 260, James Mahoney, Brown University (January 2005)

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

The Urban Ethnographic Tradition: Theory, Method, Standpoint, Alford Young, University of Michigan (2004-2005)

 

Anthropology

Qualitative Research, Gery Ryan, RAND Graduate School in Policy Analysis (Spring 2004)

NSF Short Course on Systematic Techniques for Analyzing Qualitative Data, Gery Ryan and Clarence Gravlee (Summer 2005)  (early draft)

 

Law and Social Science

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

Qualitative Research Methods, Jody Miller, University of Missouri, St. Louis (Fall 2003)

 

Public Administration

Research Methods in Public Administration I, Dvora Yanow, California State University, Hayward (Fall 2001)

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