Course outline

The course is organized around eight 3-hour sessions (15:15-18:30) that walk you through as many and more different research topics and methods. 

The structure of each session is the following. I provide an overview of a particular topic and its methods (e.g., experiments) and present and submit for discussion with the class applied research paper examples for which some students prepare via written commentaries.

Week 1   -   2 Oct.: Introduction + Social Biology

Week 2   - 9 Oct.: Qualitative & Mixed Approaches (9-12h15)

Week 3   - 9 Oct.: Experiments

Week 4   - 25 Oct.: Mechanisms

Week 5   - 6 Nov.: Patterns & Big Data

Week 6   - 13 Nov.: Networks

Week 7   -  20 Nov.: Historical approaches

Week 8   - 27 Nov.: Social ecology + Conclusion