Our teaching primarily concentrates
on social science methods. For Bachelor students, we offer the compulsory Introduction
to Empirical Social Science Methods, in alternation with Daniela Grunow's team.
We also regularly offer methods application courses, especially in the area of
research application.
For Master students, our chair
organizes the course Research Design: Comparative Case Studies every winter
semester. This course is compulsory for the MA program “Comparative Democracy",
but it is also open to students in the other MA programs of our department and in
the interdisciplinary MA in East Asian Studies (MEAS). We consider this course
to be important for successfully designing (comparative) MA theses. Constantin Ruhe
offers a complementary course on statistical inference. Still for the MA programs,
Benedikt Bender regularly offers a research training course in the field of
political economy, interest groups, welfare state, and social policy (next time
in the winter semester 2022/23), and Claudius Wagemann offers a research training
course on the method of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) (planned for the
winter semester 2023/24).
The colloquium, which is intended
to support the students in the development of their theses, follows an
innovative structure.
Our range of courses also regularly
includes other courses (such as Lukas Brenner's BA course on concepts, his MA
course on case studies, and Benedikt Bender's BA course on welfare states) and
our course for future school teachers, 'Democracy - Theory and practice',
taught by Nils Sartorius every other year.
Our teaching is based on the principle
that onsite courses and self-study elements must complement each other in a
meaningful way. We work with a didactically differentiated approach and each
course follows its own logic. We aim at providing various support mechanisms
(tutorials, etc.) whenever the budget allows for that. We are looking forward
to working with creative, motivated, committed and interested students and see
teaching as a fruitful collaboration between teachers and learners.
English language teaching offer of the Chair in the last semesters
| winter termin 2019/20 |
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Research Training Part I and II: Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Fuzzy Sets | Evaluation
Readings in Research Design
Quantitative Text Analysis
Vertiefung Forschungsanwendung: Electoral Behavior
Vertiefung Forschungsanwendung: Democracy and Democratization
|
| winter term 2018/19 |
|
Research Training Part I and II: Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Fuzzy Sets |
| winter term 2017/18 |
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Research Design
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Fuzzy Sets
|
| summer term 2017 |
|
Research Training Part I and Part II:
(Mis)Perceptions in a Globalized World – Comparative Empirical Analyses of Country Images | Evaluation
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| winter term 2016/17 |
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Research Design | Evaluation
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Fuzzy Sets | Evaluation
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