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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
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
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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