The Methodology Center at Purdue

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. 

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


Anthropology

Communication

Human Development and Family Science

Hospitality and Tourism Management

  • HTM 501: Research Methods in Hospitality and Tourism, Xinran Lehto (Spring 2023)
  • HTM 601: Research Development and Design, Xinran Lehto (Fall 2024)
  • HTM 690: Research Problems in HTM, Multiple Instructor (Fall 2022)

Libraries and Information Science

Linguistics

  • LING 598:Introduction to Corpus Linguistics with Python, Atsushi Fukada (Fall 2024)
  • LING 598:Statistical Modeling for Linguistics, TBD (Spring 2025)

Nursing

Political Science

  • POL 501: Political Science: Methodology, Joan Timoneda (Fall 2024)
  • POL 501: Introduction to Political Methodology, Giancarlo Visconti (Fall 2020)
  • POL 605: Political Methodology II, Giancarlo Visconti (Spring 2019)
  • POL 605: Research Design and Methods, Tara Grillos (Spring 2025)
  • POL 606: Field Research Methods, Tara Grillos (Fall 2020)
  • POL 606: Political Experiments, Tara Grillos (Spring 2022)
  • POL 606: Experimental Methods in Social Sciences, Tara Grillos (Fall 2024)
  • POL 606: Advanced Methods Topics, Bryce J. Dietrich (Fall 2023)
  • POL 608: Qual Methods in Political Science, Tyler Girad (Spring 2025)
  • POL 609: Advanced Applied Research Design, James McCann (Spring 2025)
  • POL 693: Introduction to modeling Social-Technical and Socio-Hydrological Systems, David Yu (Spring 2019)

Psychological Sciences

  • PSY 606: ANOVA Behavioral Sciences, Stephen B. Broomell (Fall 2024)
  • PSY 610: Multivariate Analysis in The Behavioral Science, Qianqi Song (Fall 2022)
  • PSY 626: Bayesian Statistics For Psychological Sciences, Gregory Francis (Fall 2020)
  • PSY 631: Multiple Regression Analysis, Donald Lynam (Spring 2025)
  • PSY 636: Bayesian Statistics, Gregory Francis 
  • PSY 674: Structural Equation Modeling, Susan South (Fall 2023)
  • PSY 688: Research Methods in Social Psychology, William Graziano (Spring 2025)
  • PSY 688: Research Methods in IO Psych II, Louis Tay (Spring 2022)
  • PSY 692: Research Methods in Clinical Psychology, Donald Lynam (Spring 2022)
  • PSY 692: Open Science Practices in Psychology, Donald Lynam (Fall 2024)

Public Health

  • PUBH 525: Statistical Methods for Public Health Evaluation, Laura Reese (Fall 2022)
  • PUBH 590:  Randomized Controlled Trials in Public Health, Nilupa Gunaratna (Spring 2021)
  • PUBH 590:  Applied Regression for PUBH:Pianpian Cao (Spring 2025)
  • PUBH 590: Qualitative Methods for PH, Yumary Ruiz (Spring 2025)
  • PUBH 601: Introduction to the quantitative methods of public health, Shandey Derisa Malcolm (Fall 2024)
  • PUBH 606: Design/Analysis in Public Health, Andrea Demaria (Fall 2023)

Sociology

Statistics

  • STAT 511: Statistical Methods, Tonglin Zhang; Yuan Qu, Antik Chakraborty; Lingsong Zhang (Spring 2025)
  • STAT 512: Applied Regression Analysis, Tiantian Qin (Spring 2025)
  • STAT 517: Statistical Inference, Antik Chakraborty (Spring 2025)
  • STAT 519: Introduction to Probability, Jordan Awan (Spring 2025)
  • STAT 522: Sampling Design and Analysis Techniques, Bruce Craig (Spring 2025)
  • STAT 522: Sampling and Survey Techniques, TBA (Fall 2024)
  • STAT 524: Applied Multivariate Analysis, Lingsong Zhang, (Fall 2024)
  • STAT 656: Bayesian Data Analysis, Vinayak Rao (Fall 2024)

Other Departments

Miscellaneous