Methodological Specialisation

Description

Students will be required to follow a course in the advanced methods and techniques which are appropriate to the pathway to which they have been admitted and the research which they intend to undertake. Students select a suitable course from courses offered by various study programmes e.g. the research MAs in Literature, Art History in Comparative Perspective and History at Leiden University, the International Development Studies at Wageningen University, the Research Masters in Development and Planning at the University of Amsterdam.

Timetable

First Semester

Mode of instruction

To be specified by the study programme that offers the course.

Reading list

To be specified by the study programme that offers the course.

Assessment method

To be specified by the study programme that offers the course.

Blackboard

No.

Overview

Details about the options for methodological courses will be provided in September.

Some options:

• At the Research Scool CERES:
  Methods of field research
  Complex systems dynamics
  Social Analysis

• University of Wageningen:
  socio-cultural field research methods
  PhD-quantitative methods
  Interaction between social and ecosystems
  Technography

• University of Groningen
  Theory International relations III (application of models and theories)

• Leiden University
  Sources and Methods
  Problems and Methods of Islamic Studies
  Bronnenonderzoek: wetenschaps- en onderzoekjournalistiek
  Theory and Methods of research in photography

• University of Utrecht
  History, role and impact of the Humanities
  Media and Ethnicity
  Feminist Toolbox: Feminist theories and methodologies
  Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML)
  GIS for ‘‘gamma’‘ students

• University of Amsterdam (VU):
  Qualitative research methods

• University of Amsterdam (UvA)
  Oral history

Contact information

Dr. Azeb Amha
Academic Coordinator
P O Box 9555, 2300 RB Leiden, NL
Tel. +31-71-527-3364