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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
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
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
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