2009 academic programme

Refresher courses (Wednesday 29 July - Friday 31 July 2009)

These 5 courses offer an intensive introduction/ refresher on more quantitative and formal tools and software environments. They are taught by experienced instructors from the University of Ljubljana. They are particularly recommended for participants who have little formal training and wish to take a two week course, a one week course or a sequence of two one week courses*, but may also be attended on a stand alone basis.

*If you intend to take a course (two-week or one-week) which comprises some statistical or formal data treatment: you are advised to consult the detailed course descriptions (available on the website shortly) to check the course prerequisites (mathematical, statistical and/or software programme skills).

1		INTRODUCTION TO SPSS
2		INTRODUCTION TO R
3		MATHS REFRESHER (I): LINEAR ALGEBRA & CALCULUS
4		MATHS REFRESHER (II): PROBABILITY
5		INFERENTIAL STATISTICS

 

Two week courses (Monday 03 August - Saturday 15 August 2009)

6		QCA AND FUZZY SETS - CONFIGURATIONAL COMPARATIVE METHODS
7		MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS
8		CASE STUDY ANALYSIS
9		QUANTITATIVE TEXT ANALYSIS
10		GROUNDED THEORY AS A MEANS OF INTERPRETATIVE ANALYSIS
11		EXPERIMENTAL METHODS
12		DATA THEORY AND MISSING DATA
13		SURVIVAL ANALYSIS AND EVENT HISTORY ANALYSIS
14		INTRODUCTORY NETWORK ANALYSIS
15		POLITICAL GAME THEORY
16		CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS AND STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELLING
17		MIXED METHODS RESEARCH
18		MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND COMPARATIVE CROSSNATIONAL SURVEYS DATA
19		LOGICAL MODELS (Week 1)
20		WORKING WITH COMPARATIVE SURVEY DATA (Week 1)
21		ETHNOGRAPHIC METHODS AND IN DEPTH INTERVIEWING (Week 1)
22		EXPERT INTERVIEWS: QUALITATIVE DATA GENERATION (Week 1)
23		NETWORK ANALYSIS: APPLICATIONS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE (Week 1)
24		VISUAL AND STATISTICAL EXPLORATION OF DATA (Week 2)
25		QUALITATIVE TEXT ANALYSIS: DISCURSIVE APPROACHES (Week 2)
26		QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS USING NVIVO (Week 2)
27		ORGANISING AND ANALYSING FOCUS GROUPS (Week 2)
28		LIMITED DEPENDANT VARIABLES (Week 2)