https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/POLS5074?type=COREThis course introduces students to the logic and instruments of empirical social science research and helps them acquire essential practical research skills. It is structured in three parts: Part I gives an overview of the essential features of social research; Part II provides an introduction to the logic underlying some of the most important methods for data collection and analysis in political science; Part III of the course looks at practical issues of the research process and design. The course should be seen as a complement to other methods courses offered by the Department (statistics, qualitative methods, case study research, etc.). Unlike these specialized methods courses, this class aims to convey a sense of both the variety of political science research and its unity across research traditions and paradigmatic controversies.