Approved Courses
These are example courses from MCAP affiliated departments in CLA and HHS that have been approved for the certificate. Many other courses including those taught in other colleges may qualify but must receive MCAP steering committee approval.
Below, we color code courses as Quantitative or Qualitative; all students must take at least one quantitative and at least one qualitative course to complete the certificate.
ANTH
592 (Geographic Information System for Humanities and Social Sciences)
592 (Data Management and Curation for Qualitative [and Digital Humanities] Research)
605 (Ethnographic Analysis)
606 (Conduct of Anthropological Inquiry)
640 (Foundations and Framework: Applying Anthropology)
641 (Discovery and Design, Making Projects Work)
642 (Public Engagement)
675 (Sociolinguistic Analysis)
CE
590 (GIS)
COM
585 (Qualitative Methods)
624 (Focus Groups And Interviewing For Strategic Communication)
625 (Survey Design, Analysis, And Reporting For Strategic Communication)
632 (Social Media Analytics)
674 (Network Analysis)
682 (Variable Topics -- Computational Methods, Content Analysis, Multivariate)
HDFS
627 (Multilevel Modeling)
628 (Structural Equation Modeling)
ILS
595 (Variable Topics - Data Management and Curation for Qualitative [and Digital Humanities] Research, Geographic Information System for Humanities and Social Sciences)
695 (Introduction to Computational Text Analysis)
695 (Digital Humanities)
NUR
692 (Applied
POL
605 (Political Methodology II)
606 (Variable Topics – Models for Categorical and Limited DV, Experimental Methods, Scaling)
608 (Field Research Methods. Note this mixed methods course can count as quantitative or qualitative)
608 (Qualitative Methods)
693 (Modeling Complex Systems)
PSY
606 (Intensive Repeated Measures)
607 (Scaling / Measurement)
608 (Measurement Theory / Interpretation)
610 (Multivariate)
611 (Multilevel Theory, Measurement, and Analysis)
646 (Variable Topic -- Multilevel Modeling, Bayesian Statistics)
674 (Structural Equation Modeling (SEM))
SOC
609: Comparative / Historical Methods
609 or 681: Causal Analysis
609 or 681: Experimental Design
609 or 681: Latent Variable Modeling
609 or 681: Longitudinal and Multilevel Modeling
681: Introduction to Computational Social Science in R
681: Interviewing
681: Categorical Data Analysis
681: Mixed Methods (can also count as a qualitative course)
686: Qualitative Methods
TECH
697: Qualitative Research Methods for Technology Studies