ICPS 301 - Interdisciplinary Approaches to Social Science

This course surveys a number of approaches to conducting interdisciplinary social science research, including but not limited to case selection, discourse analysis, ethnography, process tracing, content analysis, counterfactual analysis, structured focused comparison, and network analysis. The course will be useful for students who are conducting research within as well as across disciplines, and offers approaches to social scientific inquiry that complement or serve as alternatives to statistical methods.

Unit(s): 0.5
Group Distribution Requirement(s): Distribution Group II
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing
Instructional Method: Conference
Grading Mode: Letter grading (A-F)
Cross-listing(s): POL 351
Group Distribution Learning Outcome(s):

Evaluate data and/or sources;
Analyze institutions, formations, languages, structures, or processes, whether social, political, religious, economic, cultural, intellectual or other;
Think in sophisticated ways about causation, social and/or historical change, human cognition, or the relationship between individuals and society, or engage with social, political, religious or economic theory in other areas.