Methods Courses at Purdue

The following list is intended as a resource for graduate students at Purdue interested in taking methods courses. We update the list every semester. The semester listed for each course means the most recent year when the course is, or will be, offered. 

Most of these courses qualify for the AMAP Graduate Certificate (see the full list of qualifying courses here).

• ANTH 523: GIS for Humanities and Social Science Research, Ian Lindsay (Anthropology, Fall 2023)

• ANTH 592: Data Management and Curation for Qualitative Research, Kendall Roark (Anthropology, Spring 2021)

• ANTH 592: Methods in political ecology, Andrew Flachs (Anthropology)

• ANTH 592: Ethnographic writing, Andrew Flachs (Anthropology)

• ANTH 605: Seminar in Ethnographic Analysis, Andrew Flachs (Anthropology, Fall 2018)

• ANTH 605: Ethnographic Methods, Laura Zanotti (Anthropology)

• ANTH 606: Quantitative Research Design, Erik Otarola-Castillo (Anthropology, Fall 2023)

• ANTH 640: Foundations & Frameworks for Applying Anthropology, Zoe Nyssa (Anthropology, Fall 2022)

• ANTH 641: Discovery & Design: Making Projects Work, Zoe Nyssa (Anthropology, Spring 2021)

• ANTH 642: Public engagement, Andrew Flachs (Anthropology, Spring 2021)

• CE 507: Geospatial Data Analytics, Jie Shan (Civil Engineering, Fall 2023)

• COM: Mixed Methods, Marifran Mattson (Brian Lamb School of Communication)

• COM 582: Descriptive/Experimental Research In Communication, John Greene (Brian Lamb School of Communication, Fall 2022)

• COM 585: Qualitative Methods In Communication Research, Felicia Roberts (Brian Lamb School of Communication, Fall 2022)

• COM 632: Social Network Analysis, Seungyoon Lee (Brian Lamb School of Communication, Spring 2022)

• COM 674: Introduction to Programming and Data Science, Jeremy Foote (Brian Lamb School of Communication, Fall 2022)

• COM 682: Advanced Social Network Analysis, Seungyoon Lee (Brian Lamb School of Communication, Spring 2019)

• COM 682: Multivariate Statistics For Communication Research, Brett Sherrick (Brian Lamb School of Communication, Spring 2023)

• COM 682: Advanced Computational Communication Methods, Jeremy Foote (Brian Lamb School of Communication, Summer 2023)

• CPB 626: Design and Analysis of Epidemiologic Studies, Hsin-Yi Weng (Comparative Pathobiology, Fall 2022)

• CS 573: Data Mining, Ming Yin (Computer Science, Fall 2021)

• CS 590: Crowdsourcing and Social Computing, Ming Yin (Computer Science, Fall 2018)

• HDFS 590: Quantitative Methods: Regression, Robert Duncan (Human Development and Family Studies, Spring 2023)

• HDFS 613: Quantitative Methods I: Inferential Statistics and ANOVA, Kristine Marceau (Human Development and Family Studies, Fall 2023)

• HDFS 613: Statistical Approaches for Development and Family Researchers, Sharon Christ (Human Development and Family Studies, Fall 2020)

• HDFS 617: Quantitative Methods II: Regression, Robert Duncan (Human Development and Family Studies, Spring 2019)

• HDFS 627: Multilevel Modeling in Developmental and Family Research, Kristine Marceau (Human Development and Family Studies, Fall 2021)

• HDFS 628: Structural Equation Modeling, Sharon Christ (Human Development and Family Studies, Spring 2023)

• HIST 610: History: Theory & Methods, Jennifer Foray (History, Fall 2022)

• HK 510: Introduction To The Quantitative Methods Of Public Health, Robert Duncan (Health and Kinesiology, Fall 2018)

• HTM 501: Research Methods in Hospitality and Tourism, Xinran Lehto (Hospitality and Tourism Management, Spring 2023)

• HTM 690: Research Topics and Methods Seminar, Susan Gordon, Carl Benke (Hospitality and Tourism Management, Fall 2022)

• IE 533: Industrial Application of Statistics, Zachary Hass (Industrial Engineering, Spring 2022)

• ILS 595: Geographical Information System Research Methods, Melissa Chomintra, Ningning Kong (Libraries and School of Information Science, Fall 2022)

• ILS 595: Geospatial Data Science with ArcGIS Pro and Python, Gang Shao (Libraries and School of Information Science, Spring 2023)

• ILS 630: Digital Humanities Foundations, Matthew Hannah (Interdisciplinary Studies, Fall 2023)

• ILS 695: Digital & Print Archives, Sammie Morris (Library and Information Science, Spring 2019)

• ILS 695: Computational Text Analysis, Matthew Hannah, Gang Shao (Computational Text Analysis, Spring 2022)

• NUR 626: Applied Biostatistics for Outcome Evaluation, Dongjuan Xu (Nursing, Fall 2023)

• NUR 692: Applied Statistics in Healthcare Research, Zachary Hass (Nursing, Fall 2023)

• POL 501: Political Science: Methodology, Joan Timoneda (Political Science, Fall 2023)

• POL 501: Introduction to Political Methodology, Giancarlo Visconti (Political Science, Fall 2020)

• POL 605: Political Methodology II, Giancarlo Visconti (Political Science, Spring 2019)

• POL 605: Research Design and Methods, Giancarlo Visconti (Political Science, Spring 2022)

• POL 606: Field Research Methods, Tara Grillos (Political Science, Fall 2020)

• POL 606: Political Experiments, Tara Grillos (Political Science, Spring 2022)

• POL 606: Advanced Methods Topics, Bryce J. Dietrich (Political Science, Fall 2023)

• POL 608: Qual Methods in Political Science, Ann Marie Clark (Political Science, Spring 2023)

• POL 609: Advanced Applied Research Design, James McCann (Political Science, Spring 2022)

• POL 693: Introduction to modeling Social-Technical and Socio-Hydrological Systems, David Yu (Political Science, Spring 2019)

• PSY 606: ANOVA Behavioral Sciences, Stephen B. Broomell (Psychological Sciences, Fall 2023)

• PSY 610: Multivariate Analysis in The Behavioral Science, Qianqi Song (Psychological Sciences, Fall 2022)

• PSY 626: Bayesian Statistics For Psychological Sciences, Gregory Francis (Psychological Sciences, Fall 2020)

• PSY 631: Multiple Regression Analysis, Donald Lynam (Psychological Sciences, Spring 2022)

• PSY 636: Bayesian Statistics, Gregory Francis (Psychological Sciences)

• PSY 640: Survey of Social Psychology, Ximena B. Arriaga (Psychological Sciences, Fall 2023)

• PSY 674: Structural Equation Modeling, Susan South (Psychological Sciences, Fall 2023)

• PSY 688: Research Methods in Social Psychology, William Graziano (Psychological Sciences, Spring 2022)

• PSY 688: Research Methods in IO Psych II, Louis Tay (Psychological Sciences, Spring 2022)

• PSY 692: Research Methods in Clinical Psychology, Donald Lynam (Psychological Sciences, Spring 2022)

• PSY 692: Open Science Practices in Psychology, Donald Lynam (Psychological Sciences, Fall 2022)

• PUBH 525: Statistical Methods for Public Health Evaluation, Laura Reese (Public Health, Fall 2022)

• PUBH 590: Design and Analysis of Randomized Trials in Public Health, Nilupa Gunaratna (Public Health, Spring 2021)

• PUBH 601: Introduction to the quantitative methods of public health, Robert Duncan (Public Health, Fall 2023)

• PUBH 606: Design/Analysis in Public Health, Andrea Demaria (Public Health, Fall 2023)

• SOC 580: Introduction to Methods of Social Research, Christie Sennott (Sociology, Spring 2022)

• SOC 581: Introduction to Quantitative Social Science, Shawn Bauldry (Sociology, Fall 2022)

• SOC 680: Advanced Social Research Methods (Regression Modeling), Jeremy Reynolds (Sociology, Spring 2021)

• SOC 681: Longitudinal and Multilevel Modeling, Shawn Bauldry (Sociology, Spring 2021)

• SOC 681: Causal Analysis, Shawn Bauldry (Sociology, Spring 2020)

• SOC 681: Categorical Data Analysis, Trenton Mize (Sociology, Fall 2023)

• SOC 681: Latent Variable Modeling, Trenton Mize (Sociology, Spring 2022)

• SOC 681: Experimental Design, Trenton Mize (Sociology, Spring 2023)

• SOC 681: Introduction to Computational Social Science in R, Marcus Mann (Sociology, Fall 2022)

• SOC 681: Interview Methods, Daniel Winchester (Sociology, Fall 2022)

• SOC 681: Longitudinal Data Analysis, Kenneth Ferraro (Sociology)

• SOC 681: Mixed Methods, Jill Suitor (Sociology, Fall 2023)

• SOC 686: Qualitative Methods, Danielle Kane (Sociology, Spring 2022)

• STAT 511: Statistical Methods, Dabao Zhang; Yuan Qu (Statistics, Fall 2023)

• STAT 512: Applied Regression Analysis, Lingsong Zhang; Tiantian Qin (Statistics, Fall 2023)

• STAT 517: Statistical Inference, Xiao Wang (Statistics, Fall 2023)

• STAT 519: Introduction to Probability, Gregery Buzzard; Anirban Dasgupta (Statistics, Fall 2023)

• STAT 522: Sampling and Survey Techniques, Sharon Christ (Statistics, Spring 2020)

• TECH 697: Qualitative Research Methods for Technology Studies, Austin Toombs (Computer Graphics Technology, Fall 2022)

• Social Media Analytics, Sorin Matei (Brian Lamb School of Communication, Fall 2018)

• Online Interaction, Sorin Matei (Brian Lamb School of Communication, Fall 2019)

• An Hour of Statistics & R in Anthropology, Erik Otarola-Castillo (Anthropology, Spring 2018)