22 classes matched your search criteria.

Spring 2025  |  SOC 8890 Section 001: Advanced Topics in Research Methods -- Sex, Death, and Mobility: Population Modeling (64865)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
6 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate Student
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025
Tue 04:00PM - 06:30PM
UMTC, West Bank
Enrollment Status:
Open (0 of 12 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Advanced Research Methods (e.g., multilevel models), historical/comparative, field, survey research. Topics specified in Class Schedule.prereq: 8801, 8811, or instr consent. Cr will not be granted if cr has been received for the same topics title
Class Notes:
Click this link for more detailed course information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?ewf+SOC8890+Spring2025
Class Description:

Populations are made up of people whose lives are changing all the time: growing up; moving around; having kids; gaining and losing jobs and spouses; entering and leaving schools and prisons; getting sick; and dying.


This course covers population modeling techniques from the demographic tradition, organized around these kinds of life changes. These techniques excel at describing social and epidemiological changes occurring along multiple time scales simultaneously; identifying the inequalities lurking beneath population averages; relating multiple dimensions of population structure; and figuring out what population a research question is really about.


The course assumes no prior knowledge of demography and will cover a range of applications from across the social and health sciences.

Who Should Take This Class?:
Graduate students from any discipline that uses mathematical modeling of human population outcomes, especially those related to social stratification, health, inequality, and families. No prior mathematical background is assumed.
Email professor for current syllabus or to ask other questions.
Grading:
50% problem sets, 50% research mini-proposals
Exam Format:
No exams
Class Format:
Reading, mini-lectures, discussions, in-class and out-of-class data exercises
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/64865/1253
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
9 November 2022

Spring 2025  |  SOC 8890 Section 002: Advanced Topics in Research Methods -- The Workflow of Reproducible Statistics (64885)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
1.5 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
6 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate Student
Times and Locations:
First Half of Term
 
01/21/2025 - 03/17/2025
Thu 04:00PM - 05:30PM
UMTC, West Bank
Enrollment Status:
Open (0 of 12 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Advanced Research Methods (e.g., multilevel models), historical/comparative, field, survey research. Topics specified in Class Schedule.prereq: 8801, 8811, or instr consent. Cr will not be granted if cr has been received for the same topics title
Class Notes:
5 seats reserved for Sociology grad students. Click this link for more detailed course information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?tvanheuv+SOC8890+Spring2025
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/64885/1253

Fall 2024  |  SOC 8890 Section 001: Advanced Topics in Research Methods -- Applied Causal Inference (32670)

Instructor(s)
Nicholas Graetz
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
6 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate Student
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2024 - 12/11/2024
Wed 11:45AM - 02:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Enrollment Status:
Open (0 of 12 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Advanced Research Methods (e.g., multilevel models), historical/comparative, field, survey research. Topics specified in Class Schedule.prereq: 8801, 8811, or instr consent. Cr will not be granted if cr has been received for the same topics title
Class Notes:
3 seats reserved for Sociology graduate students through 05/02/24. Click this link for more detailed course information:
Class Description:
This course takes a holistic approach to quantitative causal inference and is designed for population scientists - demographers, sociologists, epidemiologists, psychologists, economists - interested in developing a broad understanding of causal inference concepts and methods. The course is comprised of two units. First, we will discuss the theory and assumptions behind common causal estimands, including empirical examples. Second, we will review conventional and modern causal methods for estimation. This course offers opportunities for students with advanced training in coding and statistics to do a deeper dive on certain methods, but is also designed such that students with no coding experience and an introductory graduate course in statistics will be able to achieve all learning goals. This course may be appropriate for advanced undergraduates.
Grading:
10% Problem Sets
25% Discussion
25% Presentation
40% Final Paper
Class Format:
Class will meet once a week. Meetings will include roughly half lecture and half discussion.
Workload:
1-2 Hours Readings per week
1 Leading Discussion
1 Class Presentation
1 Final Paper
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/32670/1249
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
21 March 2024

Spring 2023  |  SOC 8890 Section 001: Advanced Topics in Research Methods -- Sex, Death, and Mobility: Population Modeling (65620)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
6 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate Student
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/17/2023 - 05/01/2023
Thu 04:00PM - 06:30PM
UMTC, West Bank
Social Sciences Building 1114
Enrollment Status:
Open (10 of 12 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Advanced Research Methods (e.g., multilevel models), historical/comparative, field, survey research. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: 8801, 8811, or instr consent. Cr will not be granted if cr has been received for the same topics title
Class Notes:
3 seats reserved for SOC graduate students. Click this link for more detailed course information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?ewf+SOC8890+Spring2023
Class Description:

Populations are made up of people whose lives are changing all the time: growing up; moving around; having kids; gaining and losing jobs and spouses; entering and leaving schools and prisons; getting sick; and dying.


This course covers population modeling techniques from the demographic tradition, organized around these kinds of life changes. These techniques excel at describing social and epidemiological changes occurring along multiple time scales simultaneously; identifying the inequalities lurking beneath population averages; relating multiple dimensions of population structure; and figuring out what population a research question is really about.


The course assumes no prior knowledge of demography and will cover a range of applications from across the social and health sciences.

Who Should Take This Class?:
Graduate students from any discipline that uses mathematical modeling of human population outcomes, especially those related to social stratification, health, inequality, and families. No prior mathematical background is assumed.
Email professor for current syllabus or to ask other questions.
Grading:
50% problem sets, 50% research mini-proposals
Exam Format:
No exams
Class Format:
Reading, mini-lectures, discussions, in-class and out-of-class data exercises
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65620/1233
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
9 November 2022

Spring 2022  |  SOC 8890 Section 001: Advanced Topics in Research Methods -- Sex, Death, and Mobility (65717)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
6 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate Student
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/18/2022 - 05/02/2022
Wed 04:00PM - 06:30PM
UMTC, West Bank
Social Sciences Building 1114
Enrollment Status:
Open (7 of 12 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Advanced Research Methods (e.g., multilevel models), historical/comparative, field, survey research. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: 8801, 8811, or instr consent. Cr will not be granted if cr has been received for the same topics title
Class Notes:
2 seats reserved for SOC graduate students until 12/9/2021. Click this link for more detailed course information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?jdewaard+SOC8890+Spring2022
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65717/1223

Spring 2021  |  SOC 8890 Section 001: Advanced Topics in Research Methods -- Sex, Death, & Mobility (63651)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
6 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Completely Online
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate Student
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021
Thu 04:00PM - 06:30PM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:
Open (9 of 15 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Advanced Research Methods (e.g., multilevel models), historical/comparative, field, survey research. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: 8801, 8811, or instr consent. Cr will not be granted if cr has been received for the same topics title
Class Notes:
4 seats reserved for Sociology graduate students. This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times. Click on this link for more information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?ewf+SOC8890+Spring2021
Class Description:
Populations are made up of people whose lives are changing all the time: growing up; moving around; having kids; gaining and losing jobs and spouses; entering and leaving schools and prisons; getting sick; and dying. This course covers population modeling techniques from the demographic tradition, organized around these kinds of life changes. These techniques excel at describing social and epidemiological changes occurring along multiple time scales simultaneously; identifying the inequalities lurking beneath population averages; relating multiple dimensions of population structure; and figuring out what population a research question is really about. The course assumes no prior knowledge of demography and will cover a range of applications from across the social and health sciences.
Who Should Take This Class?:
All disciplines welcome. No prior background in demography is required. No prerequisites.
Class Format:
In Spring 2021, we will meet online-only, synchronously. Our class time is highly interactive.
Workload:
Weekly reading and problem sets; preparing for class discussion and exercises; short research proposals.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/63651/1213
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
9 November 2020

Fall 2020  |  SOC 8890 Section 001: Advanced Topics in Research Methods -- Discourse Analysis: Theories & Methodologies (31647)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
6 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Completely Online
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate Student
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020
Fri 02:30PM - 05:15PM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:
Closed (14 of 12 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Advanced Research Methods (e.g., multilevel models), historical/comparative, field, survey research. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: 8801, 8811, or instr consent. Cr will not be granted if cr has been received for the same topics title
Class Notes:
This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times. 8 seats reserved for Sociology graduate students. Click on this link for more detailed information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?tgowan+SOC8890+Fall2020
Class Description:
Drawing from multiple traditions, we will build ways of understanding discourse which are both theoretically compelling and methodologically useful, applying them to your own case studies.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/31647/1209
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
14 April 2020

Spring 2020  |  SOC 8890 Section 001: Advanced Topics in Research Methods -- Sex, Death, & Mobility: Population Modeling (65636)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
2-3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020
Wed 11:45AM - 02:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Social Sciences Building 1183
Enrollment Status:
Open (6 of 15 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Advanced Research Methods (e.g., multilevel models), historical/comparative, field, survey research. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: 8801, 8811, or instr consent. Cr will not be granted if cr has been received for the same topics title
Class Notes:
1 seats reserved for Sociology PhD student through 12/4/19. Click this link for more detailed course information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?helgertz+SOC8890+Spring2020
Class Description:

Populations are made up of people whose lives are changing all the time: growing up; moving around; having kids; gaining and losing jobs and spouses; entering and leaving schools and prisons; getting sick; and dying. This course covers population modeling techniques from the demographic tradition, organized around these kinds of life changes. These techniques excel at describing social and epidemiological changes occurring along multiple time scales simultaneously;
identifying the inequalities lurking beneath population averages; and figuring out what population a research question is really about. The course assumes no prior knowledge of demography and will cover a range of applications from across the social and health sciences.
Who Should Take This Class?:
Students with basic knowledge of demographic methods and with an interest to acquire more breadth and depth in this topic. A prerequisite is the course PA5301 (Population Methods & Issues for the United States and the Global South).
Grading:
5 Assignments (50%)
3 Research proposals (40%)
Class participation (10%)
Exam Format:
Assignments: They will largely, but not exclusively, take the form of problem sets. Assignments will be distributed at the end of class in a given week, and will be due at the beginning of class the following week.

Research proposals: These are essays about how you will use methods covered in class to answer your own research questions. For the first two (week 5 and 10), the student will write about a method discussed to that point. For the last (week 15), the student will either write about a method discussed during the final weeks of class, or revise a previously submitted one, allowing to explore the topic even more in depth.

Class participation: Weekly participation in class is expected. Not only in person but through participating in class discussion.
Class Format:
The class is discussion and activity based. While each class will contain teacher-lead lecturing, each week's class assumes that you have done the readings and come ready to participate.
Workload:
Required readings for each class will be between 50-100 pages, with an additional 50-100 pages of suggested readings.
Each assignment consists of 4-6 problems for the student to solve, using methods discussed in class. Each problem may consist of several questions.

Each research proposal should be around 1,000 words
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65636/1203
Syllabus:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/helgertz_SOC8890_Spring2020.docx
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
6 November 2019

Spring 2019  |  SOC 8890 Section 001: Advanced Topics in Research Methods -- Sex, Death, & Mobility: Population Modeling (66103)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019
Thu 04:00PM - 06:30PM
UMTC, West Bank
Social Sciences Building 1114
Enrollment Status:
Open (13 of 15 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Advanced Research Methods (e.g., multilevel models), historical/comparative, field, survey research. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: 8801, 8811, or instr consent. Cr will not be granted if cr has been received for the same topics title
Class Notes:
Click on this link for more detailed information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?ewf+SOC8890+Spring2019
Class Description:

"He not busy being born is busy dying." -- Bob Dylan


Populations are made up of people whose lives are changing all the time: growing up; moving around; having kids; gaining and losing jobs and spouses; entering and leaving schools and prisons; getting sick; and dying. This course covers population modeling techniques from the demographic tradition, organized around these kinds of life changes. These techniques excel at describing social and epidemiological changes occurring along multiple time scales simultaneously; identifying the inequalities lurking beneath population averages; and figuring out what population a research question is really about. The course assumes no prior knowledge of demography and will cover a range of applications from across the social and health sciences.

REGISTRATION NOTE: If you are not a Sociology student, you may need a code to register. Students from all disciplines are welcome in the course. Please email the instructor (ewf@umn.edu) for a registration code if you need one.

Grading:
60% Problem Sets
20% Quizzes
20% Short Essays
Exam Format:
Short quizzes with multiple choice, short answer, or small computations
Class Format:
Active lectures and seminar discussion
Workload:
Approx. 50 pages reading per week; weekly problem sets; five quizzes; short essays at term end on using the methods in research
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66103/1193
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
17 November 2016

Spring 2018  |  SOC 8890 Section 001: Advanced Topics in Research Methods -- Sex, Death, & Mobility: Population Modeling (66997)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018
Thu 04:00PM - 06:30PM
UMTC, West Bank
Social Sciences Building 1114
Enrollment Status:
Open (5 of 12 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Advanced Research Methods (e.g., multilevel models), historical/comparative, field, survey research. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: 8801, 8811, or instr consent. Cr will not be granted if cr has been received for the same topics title
Class Notes:
Click this link for more detailed course information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?ewf+SOC8890+Spring2018
Class Description:

"He not busy being born is busy dying." -- Bob Dylan


Populations are made up of people whose lives are changing all the time: growing up; moving around; having kids; gaining and losing jobs and spouses; entering and leaving schools and prisons; getting sick; and dying. This course covers population modeling techniques from the demographic tradition, organized around these kinds of life changes. These techniques excel at describing social and epidemiological changes occurring along multiple time scales simultaneously; identifying the inequalities lurking beneath population averages; and figuring out what population a research question is really about. The course assumes no prior knowledge of demography and will cover a range of applications from across the social and health sciences.

REGISTRATION NOTE: If you are not a Sociology student, you may need a code to register. Students from all disciplines are welcome in the course. Please email the instructor (ewf@umn.edu) for a registration code if you need one.

Grading:
60% Problem Sets
20% Quizzes
20% Short Essays
Exam Format:
Short quizzes with multiple choice, short answer, or small computations
Class Format:
Active lectures and seminar discussion
Workload:
Approx. 50 pages reading per week; weekly problem sets; five quizzes; short essays at term end on using the methods in research
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66997/1183
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
17 November 2016

Fall 2017  |  SOC 8890 Section 001: Advanced Topics in Research Methods -- Ethnographic Practicum (34688)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017
Thu 02:30PM - 05:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Social Sciences Building 1183
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Advanced Research Methods (e.g., multilevel models), historical/comparative, field, survey research. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: 8801, 8811, or instr consent. Cr will not be granted if cr has been received for the same topics title
Class Notes:
Click this link for more detailed course information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?tgowan+SOC8890+Fall2017
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34688/1179

Spring 2017  |  SOC 8890 Section 001: Advanced Topics in Research Methods -- Interviewing (67184)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017
Thu 11:45AM - 02:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Social Sciences Building 1183
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Advanced Research Methods (e.g., multilevel models), historical/comparative, field, survey research. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: 8801, 8811, or instr consent. Cr will not be granted if cr has been received for the same topics title
Class Notes:
Click this link for more detailed information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?cabdi+SOC8890+Spring2017
Class Description:
In depth-interviewing remains a fascinating research method for social scientists. This involves the study of human behavior through observation as well as through question-based data collection. In-depth interviewing allow us to unveil the complex lived experiences of individuals and communities as the researcher digs deeply into the everyday practices, choices and constraints individuals face in their private and public lives. This course presents to the students ground-breaking techniques as well as interview-based published work while also requiring each student to pursue an original interview-based project that will be completed over the course of the semester.Students will thus learn about in-depth interviewing by designing, executing, coding, analyzing and writing up their own projects. There will be a constant dialogue amongst us on the strengths, weaknesses and the complexity of in-depth interviewing as a research methodology and we will apply this critique to student projects over the course of the semester.This course is appropriate for students whose research project is interview-based or those interested in trying out interviewing as they explore multiple forms of research methods. As this is a hands-on course that requires students to do interviews, auditing is not allowed.

Grading:

10% Research Proposal


10% Peer review memo on research proposals


20% Memo on interviews/Transcriptions/transcripts


20% Participation


40% Final Paper

Class Format:
Seminar
Workload:
50-70 pages reading per week
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67184/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
27 October 2016

Spring 2017  |  SOC 8890 Section 002: Advanced Topics in Research Methods -- Sex, Death, & Mobility: Population Modeling (67185)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017
Thu 04:00PM - 06:30PM
UMTC, West Bank
Social Sciences Building 1114
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Advanced Research Methods (e.g., multilevel models), historical/comparative, field, survey research. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: 8801, 8811, or instr consent. Cr will not be granted if cr has been received for the same topics title
Class Notes:
Click this link for more detailed information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?ewf+SOC8890+Spring2017
Class Description:

"He not busy being born is busy dying." -- Bob Dylan


Populations are made up of people whose lives are changing all the time: growing up; moving around; having kids; gaining and losing jobs and spouses; entering and leaving schools and prisons; getting sick; and dying. This course covers population modeling techniques from the demographic tradition, organized around these kinds of life changes. These techniques excel at describing social and epidemiological changes occurring along multiple time scales simultaneously; identifying the inequalities lurking beneath population averages; and figuring out what population a research question is really about. The course assumes no prior knowledge of demography and will cover a range of applications from across the social and health sciences.

REGISTRATION NOTE: If you are not a Sociology student, you may need a code to register. Students from all disciplines are welcome in the course. Please email the instructor (ewf@umn.edu) for a registration code if you need one.

Grading:
60% Problem Sets
20% Quizzes
20% Short Essays
Exam Format:
Short quizzes with multiple choice, short answer, or small computations
Class Format:
Active lectures and seminar discussion
Workload:
Approx. 50 pages reading per week; weekly problem sets; five quizzes; short essays at term end on using the methods in research
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67185/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
17 November 2016

Fall 2016  |  SOC 8890 Section 001: Advanced Topics in Research Methods -- Discourse Theory & Methodologies:Thematic Approach (34012)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/06/2016 - 12/14/2016
Tue 12:30PM - 03:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Social Sciences Building 1114
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Advanced Research Methods (e.g., multilevel models), historical/comparative, field, survey research. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: 8801, 8811, or instr consent. Cr will not be granted if cr has been received for the same topics title
Class Notes:
11 seats reserved for sociology graduate students Click this link for more detailed course information http://classinfo.umn.edu/?tgowan+SOC8890+Fall2016
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34012/1169
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
15 February 2016

Fall 2015  |  SOC 8890 Section 001: Advanced Topics in Research Methods -- Ethnography (20668)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/08/2015 - 12/16/2015
Thu 02:30PM - 05:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Social Sciences Building 1114
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Advanced Research Methods (e.g., multilevel models), historical/comparative, field, survey research. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: Soc Grad Student whose completed 8801 and 8811 or instr consent. Cr will not be granted if cr has been received for the same topics title
Class Notes:
Click this link for more detailed course information http://classinfo.umn.edu/?tgowan+SOC8890+Fall2015
Class Description:
Students taking this class will gain a good grasp of the theory and practice of ethnography, by reading and digesting some exemplary ethnographic work and by undertaking their own fieldwork projects. Students will learn how to generate field notes that shuttle between rich description and coherent, flexible analysis. In-depth class discussions of their own and each other's work will develop the always-tricky skill of "operationalization," that is, the transformation of social theories into workable hypotheses for the field. We will employ both the readings and student work to explore various ways that ethnographers can transcend the small scale of their research to make significant claims about the social world. Along the way we will encounter and process some of the thorny ethical, epistemological, and political questions and dilemmas which are inevitably produced by the intimate relationship between ethnographer and informant. This practicum can work well for students at different stages of their research processs. It will provide an intensive and hands-on introduction to ethnographic methodology, but it can equally work well as a springboard into PhD research.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/20668/1159
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
18 March 2010

Spring 2015  |  SOC 8890 Section 001: Advanced Topics in Research Methods -- Advanced Demographic Methods (58920)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015
Fri 09:30AM - 12:00PM
UMTC, West Bank
Virtual Rooms ROOM-TBA
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Advanced Research Methods (e.g., multilevel models), historical/comparative, field, survey research. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: Soc Grad Student whose completed 8801 and 8811 or instr consent. Cr will not be granted if cr has been received for the same topics title
Class Notes:
Classroom in Minnesota Population Center; meet in room 29 Willey Hall.
Class Description:
This course provides a second semester of training in demographic methods. The course revisits and subsequently builds on the methodological material covered in Public Affairs 5301 (Population Methods and Issues for the United States and Global South). Emphasis is placed on advanced applied extensions of previously introduced measures and models with an eye toward considering how these tools can be used to advance social scientific knowledge.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/58920/1153
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
12 November 2014

Spring 2015  |  SOC 8890 Section 002: Advanced Topics in Research Methods -- Historical Sociology (67680)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015
Thu 02:30PM - 05:00PM
UMTC, West Bank
Social Sciences Building 1183
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Advanced Research Methods (e.g., multilevel models), historical/comparative, field, survey research. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: Soc Grad Student whose completed 8801 and 8811 or instr consent. Cr will not be granted if cr has been received for the same topics title
Class Description:
This course is designed to teach graduate students to design and carry out theoretically informed historical research projects. During the first five weeks of the semester, we will explore a variety of methodological and theoretical issues, including the meaning of historical sociology, the disciplinary reflexes of sociologists and historians, conceptions of time in historical sociology, the uses of narrative in explanation, the use of case studies and comparisons in historical analysis, and varieties of explanation. The first part of the course is designed to address long-standing debates over the epistemological and ontological foundations of various approaches to socio-historical inquiry. The following four weeks will examine critical approaches to the use of sources, the problems and potentials involved in different types of sources used by historically-oriented social scientists, and the politics of historical memory. The subsequent five weeks will survey research by sociologists, historians, and political scientists that attempts to develop historically informed theories of race, nation and state formation, colonialism and imperialism, democratization and citizenship, and political contention/social movements. This part of the course will explore the design of concrete historically-focused research in the social sciences. The topics and readings reflect my own interests and expertise and therefore draw heavily on materials from Western Europe and Africa and issues in political sociology. Students should feel free to pursue other areas of interest. The written assignments require you to review key theoretical debates in your own area of interest and to think about how the methodological and theoretical issues raised in the seminar relate to historical research done in these areas.
Grading:
100% Reports/Papers
Class Format:
70% Discussion
15% Student Presentations
15% Guest Speakers
Workload:
60-70 Pages Reading Per Week
24-30 Pages Writing Per Term
3 Paper(s)
Other Workload: Discussion questions every other week.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67680/1153
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
12 November 2014

Fall 2014  |  SOC 8890 Section 001: Advanced Topics in Research Methods -- Qualitative Research Methods: Indepth Interviewing (21836)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/02/2014 - 09/18/2014
Thu 02:30PM - 05:00PM
UMTC, West Bank
Social Sciences Building 1183
 
09/25/2014
Thu 02:30PM - 05:00PM
UMTC, West Bank
Social Sciences Building 1183
 
10/02/2014 - 12/10/2014
Thu 02:30PM - 05:00PM
UMTC, West Bank
Social Sciences Building 1114
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Advanced Research Methods (e.g., multilevel models), historical/comparative, field, survey research. Topics specified in Class Schedule.
Class Description:
Arlie Hochschild, Lillian Rubin, and Michele Lamont have all given us rich sociological insights into the hearts, minds and lives of US workers on the basis of in-depth interviews. Other skillful interviewers have opened up other worlds to the sociological imagination and taught us much about the way people think, feel, and make sense of the world as well as of their own identities. This course explores in-depth interviewing as a qualitative research method, teaching students how to conduct interviews; transcribe, code, and analyze interview data; and write up interview-based research. We will also consider a range of epistemological, practical, and ethical issues related to interviewing as a research method, reading materials drawn from a range of substantive sociological subfields as well as from geography. This course is best suited to graduate students who have an interview-based project in mind and want to acquire the skills for carrying out their research; and/or students who are considering using interviews in their dissertation research and want to try their hand at interviewing before making a decision. Because this is a hands-on, fieldwork-based course, no auditors will be permitted.
Grading:
Other Grading Information: See syllabus for grading information.
Class Format:
20% Lecture
30% Discussion
15% Small Group Activities
25% Student Presentations
10% Guest Speakers Students will need to have a research project and plan within the first two weeks of the course. This course is time intensive.
Workload:
Other Workload: The course is organized around carrying out an interview-based research project and writing a substantive paper using the data you collect. The course involves conducting and transcribing four interviews. Group projects are encouraged.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/21836/1149
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
9 April 2014

Spring 2014  |  SOC 8890 Section 001: Advanced Topics in Research Methods -- Bayseian Methods (64793)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Delivery Medium
Meets With:
POL 8160 Section 005
PSY 8882 Section 003
STAT 8932 Section 002
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/21/2014 - 05/09/2014
Tue 11:15AM - 01:10PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 110
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Advanced Research Methods (e.g., multilevel models), historical/comparative, field, survey research. Topics specified in Class Schedule.
Class Notes:
Visiting Professor Jeff Gill
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/64793/1143

Fall 2013  |  SOC 8890 Section 001: Advanced Topics in Research Methods -- Qualitative Data Analysis (28205)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2013 - 12/11/2013
Tue 12:45PM - 03:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Social Sciences Building 1114
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Advanced Research Methods (e.g., multilevel models), historical/comparative, field, survey research. Topics specified in Class Schedule.
Class Description:
The course will introduce several approaches to analysis of qualitative data (both textual or narrative and visual data), such as content analysis, discourse analysis and interpretative video-analysis. Seminar will involve: a) Reading and in-class discussion of exemplary works that comprise key theoretical and methodological considerations and b) conceptualize and undertake a hands-on analysis of qualitative data of their own. Students will be expected to have some data ready to work with and have some idea of how they want to situate their research questions in relation to relevant literature. Seminar sessions include lectures, discussions, and intensive group work.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/28205/1139
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
10 June 2013

Spring 2013  |  SOC 8890 Section 003: Advanced Topics in Research Methods -- Ethnography (66833)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Seminar
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Fri 09:00AM - 11:30AM
UMTC, West Bank
Social Sciences Building 1114
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Advanced quantitative methods (e.g., multilevel models) and historical/comparative, field, and survey research. Topics specified in [Class Schedule].
Class Description:
This seminar is intended to provide a high level, hands-on introduction to the practices of ethnographic, field research in the social sciences. Ethnographic research involves two core activities: engaging people in their own time and space, and then developing an analytic perspective on that setting in theorization and writing. Indeed, ethnography is best understood and most properly operationalized as the iterative, back and forth interaction of these two operations. To cultivate this understanding and develop the necessary skills to do ethnographic research properly, students in the seminar will read classic and exemplary ethnographic works and conduct their own fieldwork projects. To those ends, students will be expected to enter the course with concrete projects and field sites already envisioned.
Grading:
40% Reports/Papers
25% Journal
10% Reflection Papers
25% Class Participation
Class Format:
20% Lecture
50% Discussion
10% Small Group Activities
20% Student Presentations
Workload:
100-150 Pages Reading Per Week
25-50 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Paper(s)
3 Presentation(s)
Other Workload: somewhere between 5-10 hours per week of fieldwork outside of class will also be expected; students will also be required to produce and circulate for distribution their field notes from this involvement on a regular basis.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66833/1133
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
3 December 2012

Spring 2013  |  SOC 8890 Section 004: Advanced Topics in Research Methods -- Apps in Event History Analysis & Panel Data (67736)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Seminar
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Wed 11:45AM - 02:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Social Sciences Building 1183
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Advanced quantitative methods (e.g., multilevel models) and historical/comparative, field, and survey research. Topics specified in [Class Schedule].
Class Description:
This course is designed to help students develop a solid working knowledge of both event history analysis and panel data models. It would be a great course for students considering a dissertation using such techniques, but it is also appropriate for those who just want more hands-on experience with these increasingly popular methodologies. Event methods are terrific when researchers want to predict whether and when something happens (e.g., wars, births, deaths, strikes, crimes, promotions). Using examples that take nations, states, and individuals as the units of analysis, we will cover topics such as demographic life tables, survival and hazard analysis, competing risks, proportional hazards, and time-varying covariates. In the second half of the course, we will bridge from the concept of time-varying predictors to panel models in which both the independent and dependent variables are changing over time. Here we will cover lagged dependent variables, first differences, fixed and random effects, clustering, and other topics. The course will be pitched at a level that will make it accessible to anyone who has taken the sociology graduate statistics course (8811) or equivalent.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67736/1133
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
2 November 2012

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