Close sidebar Home » Departments and Centres » Academic catalogue » Political and Social Sciences courses Open sidebar menu Political and Social Sciences courses: academic year 2025-2026 1st term 2nd term 3rd term Category: SPS Field course Comparative Politics (SPS-REHIX-COM-25) Type: Seminar Professors: Prof. Simon HIX Prof. Sascha RIAZ Contact: Pistolesi, Marco Course details Category: SPS Field course Public Policy and Institutions (SPS-REHEM-PUB-25) Type: Seminar Professors: Prof. Anton HEMERIJCK Prof. Waltraud SCHELKLE Contact: Fanti, Claudia Course details Category: SPS Field course Sociology: Main questions and building blocks (SPS-REHAR-SOC-25) Type: Seminar Professors: Prof. Juho HAERKOENEN Prof. Herman VAN DE WERFHORST Contact: Rzemieniecka, Monika Course details Category: SPS Field course International Relations (SPS-RESGUZ-IR-25) Type: Seminar Professors: Prof. Raffaella DEL SARTO Prof. Stefano GUZZINI Contact: Altesini, Sofia Course details Category: SPS Methods Seminar Intermediate Quantitative Methods (SPS-METKOS-QM-25) Type: Seminar Professors: Prof. Filip KOSTELKA Prof. Kevin MUNGER Contact: Pistolesi, Marco Course details Category: SPS Methods Seminar Intermediate Qualitative Methods (SPS-MECHE-QM-25) Type: Seminar Professors: Prof. Jeffrey CHECKEL Contact: Dittmar, Pia Deborah Course details Category: SPS Methods Seminar Introduction to Qualitative Methods (SPS-MEFAIR-QM-25) Type: Seminar Professors: Prof. Tasha FAIRFIELD Prof. Natasha RUPESINGHE Contact: Altesini, Sofia Course details Category: SPS Methods Seminar Introduction to Quantitative Methods (SPS-MEMWP-QM-25) Type: Seminar Professors: Prof. Alejandro LÓPEZ PECEÑO Contact: Shcherbatiuk, Olena Course details Category: SPS Research Seminar Europe in the world (SPS-REHOF-EUR-25) Type: Seminar Professors: Prof. Stephanie HOFMANN Contact: Altesini, Sofia Course details Category: SPS Research Seminar Reviewing and Publishing (in International Relations) (SPS-REHOF-PUB-25) Type: Seminar Professors: Prof. Stephanie HOFMANN Contact: Altesini, Sofia Course details Category: SPS Research Seminar Professionalisation Seminar (SPS-KOS-PROF-25) Type: Seminar Professors: Prof. Filip KOSTELKA Contact: Rzemieniecka, Monika Course details Category: SPS Workshop SPS Accademia Fiesolana (SPS-INT-ACCAD-25) Type: Course Professors: Prof. Filip KOSTELKA Contact: Rzemieniecka, Monika Course details Category: SPS Workshop Mathematics for Political and Social Scientists (SPS-IN-MATHS-25) Type: Course Professors: Prof. Filip KOSTELKA Contact: Rzemieniecka, Monika Course details Category: SPS Workshop Basics of Qualitative Research: Philosophy and Ethics, Interviews and Ethnography (SPS-INT-QM-25) Type: Course Professors: Prof. Jeffrey CHECKEL Prof. Natasha RUPESINGHE Contact: Rzemieniecka, Monika Course details Category: SPS Workshop Introduction to R (SPS-INT-R-25) Type: Course Professors: Prof. Filip KOSTELKA Contact: Rzemieniecka, Monika Course details Category: SPS Methods Seminar Prospectus Workshop (SPS-WSHIX-PRO-24) Type: Workshop Professors: Prof. Anton HEMERIJCK Prof. Simon HIX Contact: Shcherbatiuk, Olena Course details Category: SPS Research Seminar Causal Inference (SPS-METRI-CAU-25) Type: Seminar Professors: Prof. Sascha RIAZ Contact: Pistolesi, Marco Course details Category: SPS Research Seminar Bayesian Inference for Qualitative Evidence (SPS-RE-FAI-BA-25) Type: Seminar Professors: Prof. Tasha FAIRFIELD Contact: Altesini, Sofia Course details Category: SPS Research Seminar Life Courses and Inequality: Education, labor markets, family and health (SPS-RE-JH-LIF-25) Type: Seminar Professors: Prof. Juho HAERKOENEN Prof. Herman VAN DE WERFHORST Contact: Rzemieniecka, Monika Course details Category: SPS Research Seminar Dependent development? De-centring Europe’s transitions (SPS-HEC-SCH-25) Type: Seminar Professors: Prof. Waltraud SCHELKLE Prof. Corinna Ruth UNGER Contact: Shcherbatiuk, Olena Course details Category: SPS Research Seminar Political Culture (SPS-REED-CUL-25) Type: Seminar Professors: Prof. Elias DINAS Contact: Dittmar, Pia Deborah Course details Category: SPS Research Seminar Europe in the world (SPS-REHOF-EUR-25) Type: Seminar Professors: Prof. Stephanie HOFMANN Contact: Altesini, Sofia Course details Category: SPS Research Seminar Philosophies of Social Sciences (SPS-RECHE-PHI-24) Type: Seminar Professors: Prof. Jeffrey CHECKEL Contact: Dittmar, Pia Deborah Course details Category: SPS Research Seminar Reviewing and Publishing (in International Relations) (SPS-REHOF-PUB-25) Type: Seminar Professors: Prof. Stephanie HOFMANN Contact: Altesini, Sofia Course details Category: SPS Research Seminar Professionalisation Seminar (SPS-KOS-PROF-25) Type: Seminar Professors: Prof. Filip KOSTELKA Contact: Rzemieniecka, Monika Course details Category: SPS Research Seminar Replicating Research in Political Science (SPS-RE-HI-DUP-25) Type: Seminar Professors: Prof. Simon HIX Contact: Shcherbatiuk, Olena Course details Category: SPS Research Seminar Power (SPS-RE-GU-POW-25) Type: Seminar Professors: Prof. Stefano GUZZINI Contact: Altesini, Sofia Course details Category: SPS Research Seminar Politics and IR of the Middle East (SPS-RE-SAR-EA-25) Type: Seminar Professors: Prof. Raffaella DEL SARTO Contact: Fanti, Claudia Course details Category: SPS Research Seminar Identities, Interactions, and Institutions across Place and Time (SPS-RE-STA-ID-25) Type: Seminar Professors: Prof. Léa PESSIN Prof. Valentina DI STASIO Contact: Fanti, Claudia Course details Category: SPS Research Seminar Professionalisation Seminar (SPS-KOS-PROF-25) Type: Seminar Professors: Prof. Filip KOSTELKA Contact: Rzemieniecka, Monika Course details Category: SPS Workshop Introduction to Survey Experiments (SPS-WS-KO-SUR-25) Type: Workshop Professors: Prof. Filip KOSTELKA Prof. Valentina DI STASIO Contact: Rzemieniecka, Monika Course details Category: SPS Workshop G-methods (SPS-WS-JH-G.25) Type: Workshop Professors: Prof. Juho HAERKOENEN Contact: Rzemieniecka, Monika Course details Category: SPS Workshop Theory in Practice (SPS-WS-THE-GU-25) Type: Workshop Professors: Prof. Stefano GUZZINI Prof. Arnout VAN DE RIJT Contact: Altesini, Sofia Course details Category: SPS Workshop Fieldwork practicum (SPS-WS-FI-HOF-25) Type: Workshop Professors: Prof. Stephanie HOFMANN Contact: Altesini, Sofia Course details Category: SPS Workshop Revisiting dependent variables: Principal Component Analysis and Policy Synergy Analysis in political and social science (SPS-WS-AN-HEM-25) Type: Workshop Professors: Prof. Anton HEMERIJCK Contact: Fanti, Claudia Course details Category: SPS Workshop Geographies of Violence in the Middle East and beyondergy Analysis in political and social science (SPS-WS-EAS-SA-25) Type: Workshop Professors: Prof. Raffaella DEL SARTO Contact: Fanti, Claudia Course details Category: SPS Workshop Automated Data Collection with R (SPS-WS-R-MUN-25) Type: Workshop Professors: Prof. Kevin MUNGER Contact: Pistolesi, Marco Course details Category: SPS Workshop Postcolonial, Decolonial and Feminist Theory (in IR) (SPS-WS-FEM-AV-25) Type: Workshop Professors: Prof. Stefano GUZZINI Prof. Arnout VAN DE RIJT Contact: Fanti, Claudia Course details Category: SPS Workshop The ‘nested’ politics of structural reform. In search of novel heuristics (SPS-WS-RE-SCH-25) Type: Workshop Professors: Prof. Waltraud SCHELKLE Contact: Fanti, Claudia Course details Category: SPS Workshop Focus Groups for the Social Science Researcher, or How Talking to People can Benefit Your Research (SPS-WS-FOC-FA-25) Type: Workshop Professors: Prof. Tasha FAIRFIELD Contact: Altesini, Sofia Course details Category: SPS Workshop Introduction to Large Language Models for the Social Sciences (SPS-WS-LAN-RI-25) Type: Workshop Professors: Prof. Sascha RIAZ Contact: Shcherbatiuk, Olena Course details Category: SPS Workshop Conjoint Experiments: Design and Data Analysis (SPS-WS-EX-VDS-25) Type: Workshop Professors: Prof. Valentina DI STASIO Contact: Rzemieniecka, Monika Course details Category: SPS Workshop Putting Social Science in Motion: Tracing, Following and Beyond (SPS-WS-TRA-CH-25) Type: Workshop Professors: Prof. Jeffrey CHECKEL Contact: Dittmar, Pia Deborah Course details Category: SPS Workshop Beginner-Friendly Python for GIS: A Hands-On Journey to Satellite Imagery (SPS-WS-DIN-AI-25) Type: Workshop Professors: Prof. Elias DINAS Contact: Dittmar, Pia Deborah Course details Category: SPS Workshop Conjoint Experiments: Design and Data Analysis (SPS-WS-VDS-AN-25) Type: Workshop Professors: Prof. Valentina DI STASIO Contact: Rzemieniecka, Monika Course details Category: SPS Workshop Advanced Counterfactual Methods for Causal Inference with Panel Data (SPS-WS-CAU-HI-25) Type: Workshop Professors: Prof. Simon HIX Prof. Herman VAN DE WERFHORST Contact: Shcherbatiuk, Olena Course details Page last updated on 04 July 2025