This year new on my to-do-list: A fully online, one-week PT workshop for KOMEX: the Konstanz Methods Excellence Workshops.
Course dates: 26.02 – 01.03.
Location: online
Sign up now! Early bird rate (€390) until 4 weeks before the course commences.
This five-day online course provides you with the theoretical understanding and practical skills to conduct a full Process Tracing study from theory development, through defining a causal mechanism and data-gathering, to drawing inferences.
What we will do
Process Tracing (PT) is a within-case method that focusses on tracing causal mechanisms—the actual “link” between a trigger and an outcome. This five-day online course introduces you to the essentials of this method, its main underlying assumptions, and its applicability. Taking a hands-on approach, the course develops both the theoretical understanding and the practical skills to set-up and conduct a full-fledged PT-study and addresses causal mechanism, theory development, data-gathering and analysis, and drawing inferences.
Learning goals
By the end of the class, students will be able:
- to explain to a peer the added value of conducting a PT-study,
- to design a coherent and practicable PT-study in relation to your own research interests,
- to develop a strategy to implement and execute that study,
- to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of process tracing as a method.
Schedule
09:00 – 09:45 | Asynchronous | Watch video lecture (available 16:00 the night before)
10:00 – 10:45 | Synchronous (live) | Teaching session with questions and discussion
11:00 – 11:45 | Asynchronous | Independent learning activity
Lunch break
13:00 – 14:45 | Synchronous (live) | Supervised group work/discussion with instructor
15:00 – 16:00 | Synchronous (live) | Office hours
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