Seminars and Workshops 2021-2022
To register for a seminar or workshop use the OSIRIS Online Portal.
Credits: Full attendance in the Seminars and Workshops listed below, together with any other requirements specified by the professor teaching the seminar, is necessary in order to be awarded credits. One full seminar or masterclass counts for 20 hours, one specialised workshop typically counts for 10 hours (unless otherwise specified).
If you wish to write a term paper in relation to a seminar or workshop, it should be sent to the seminar's professor and the organising administrative assistant by the deadline for first/second term papers (see SPS deadlines).
There are different types of seminars:
- foundation seminars provide a broad introduction to the key theories, concepts and debates in given research area such as comparative sociology, political behavior, comparative politics, international relations, political economy, theory.
- research seminars are more focused on specific, cutting edge topics within a given research area.
- methods seminars go from compulsory introductory seminars in qualitative and quantitative methods to intermediate and more advanced research design ones.
- workshops are shorter in duration than seminars and are concentrated in a few days (typically, two or three days). They usually take place in the third term and are mostly devoted to research methods.
Furthermore, researchers need to take three compulsory seminars:
Introduction to Effective Research Design must be taken during the first year of the doctoral programme. You must take either Introduction to Quantitative Methods or Intermediate Quantitative Methods (depending on your previous quantitative methods training) during the first two years of the doctoral programme.
Likewise, Introduction to Qualitative Methods can be taken during the first two years of the doctoral programme.
What other departments teach check in the course catalogue.
September Programme
The September programme consists of Accademia Fiesolana and three Preparatory workshops.
Accademia Fiesolana is an introductory departmental seminar and is compulsory for all first-year researchers. Its objectives are to lay the groundwork for thinking about your research and about political and social science research in general, as well as introduce to the research done in the department.
The workshops are voluntary but recommended. The objectives of these three workshops are to prepare researchers for courses offered later in the programme and to brush up on some basic skills that researchers may need during their studies. They are offered as intensive courses over one week.
The objectives of the three workshops are to prepare researchers for courses offered later in the programme and to brush up on some basic skills that researchers may need during their studies. They are offered as intensive courses over one week.
Accademia Fiesolana, 14 – 24 September 2021 (Compulsory for all first-year researchers). No credits.
Download the full course description
No registration required
Contact: [email protected]
Preparatory workshops, 27 September – 1 October 2021 (Recommended for all first-year researchers) - No credits
10:00 – 12:00 Mathematics for Political and Social Scientists - Register for this course
13:00 – 15:00 Introduction to R - Register for this course
15:00 – 17:00 Introduction to Qualitative Methods – Philosophy and Ethics, Interviews and Ethnography - Register for this course
Contact: [email protected]
First Term: October - December 2021*
* Seminars resume on 4 October 2021 (unless otherwise specified). Registrations open in August
The Department plans to do the Autumn 2021 teaching on Campus. However, depending on the development of the COVID-19 pandemic, some or all of the teaching may need to be done in hybrid form or online.
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Second Term: January - March 2022*
* Seminars resume on 5 January 2022 (unless otherwise specified). Registrations open Mid October and close Mid December.
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Third Term: April - June 2022*
* All workshops grant 10 credits
The registrations will open by the End of February
Workshops
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Page last updated on 19 October 2021