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 Natasja Rupesinghe Alejandro López Peceño Contact: Livena, Liga 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 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 Philosophies of Social Sciences (SPS-RECHE-PHI-25) Type: Seminar Professors: Prof. Jeffrey CHECKEL 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 Political Culture (SPS-REED-CUL-25) Type: Seminar Professors: Prof. Elias DINAS Contact: Dittmar, Pia Deborah 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 Professionalisation Seminar (SPS-KOS-PROF-25) Type: Seminar Professors: Prof. Filip KOSTELKA Contact: Rzemieniecka, Monika Course details Category: SPS Workshop Conjoint Experiments: Design and Data Analysis (SPS-WS-VDS-AN-25) Type: Workshop Professors: Prof. Valentina DI STASIO Flavien Ganter MWF 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 Roberto Valli (Max Weber Fellow) Sebastian Ramirez-Ruiz (Max Weber Fellow) Contact: Shcherbatiuk, Olena Course details Category: SPS Workshop Introduction to Survey Experiments (SPS-WS-KO-SUR-25) Type: Workshop Professors: Prof. Filip KOSTELKA Prof. Valentina DI STASIO Alexandra Jabbour (University of Warwick) Contact: Rzemieniecka, Monika Course details Category: SPS Workshop G-methods (SPS-WS-JH-G.25) Type: Workshop Professors: Prof. Juho HAERKOENEN Alejandra Rodríguez-Sánchez (Humboldt University) 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 Tamas Peragovics Contact: Altesini, Sofia Course details Category: SPS Workshop Fieldwork practicum (SPS-WS-FI-HOF-25) Type: Workshop Professors: Prof. Stephanie HOFMANN Miranda Loli 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 Llorenç Soler-Buades Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at EUI SPS; Lukas Lehner Assistant Professor at the University of Edinburg; Matthew Parbst Postdoctoral Researcher at the Bocconi University 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 Khushi Singh Rathore (Max Weber Fellow) Vineet Thakur (Assistant Professor at Leiden University) Contact: Livena, Liga 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. Anton HEMERIJCK Prof. Waltraud SCHELKLE Laurence Boone (Head of Santander CIB France and Head of Banking France) Ioana Petrescu (Director of Center for Leadership and Innovation at the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration) Mariëtte "Jet" Bussemaker (Professor at the Faculty Governance and Global Affairs at Leiden University) Atanas Pekanov (Economist at Austrian Institute of Economic Research) Contact: Livena, Liga 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 Jennifer Cyr Contact: Altesini, Sofia 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 Introduction to Large Language Models for the Social Sciences (SPS-WS-LAN-RI-25) Type: Workshop Professors: Prof. Sascha RIAZ Alejandro López Peceño (Max Weber Fellow) Maksim Zubok (DPhil Candidate in Politics at the University of Oxford) Contact: Livena, Liga Course details Category: SPS Workshop Ethnographic Approaches to Data Collection in the Field (SPS-WS-RUP-DA-25) Type: Workshop Professors: Prof. Natasha RUPESINGHE Contact: Altesini, Sofia 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 Anatole Cheysson (JRC) Contact: Livena, Liga Course details Page last updated on 04 July 2025