Scope and Methods for International Development

Catalog description

This course is intended to introduce students to the concepts and methods of research in the international development subfield. Students will be introduced to research design techniques in an effort to train them to become producers, not merely consumers of knowledge. This course is fundamentally about how to conduct research in international development. The course covers both introductory quantitative methods (univariate, bivariate, and some multivariate analyses), as well as some of the most often used qualitative methods in the discipline. The course is not meant to be exhaustive of all methods utilized In the subfield.