| Date | Teacher | Place | Topic | Lecture notes / comments |
| 25.08.2010 | Jon Hovi | 12:15-14:00, Room 847 | Research questions, theories and models | Required reading: King et.al (1994) pp. 3-33; Hoyle (2002) pp. 3-44; Van Evera (1994) pp. 5-39; Gaddis (1986); Trachtenberg (2006), chapter 2. (TBC) |
| 31.08.2010 | Bent Sofus Tranøy | 10:15-12:00, Room 847 | Research design: Case studies | Required reading: King, et.al (1994) pp. 208-230; George and Bennett (2005); Gerring (2007); Checkel (2008). |
| 01.09.2010 | Bent Sofus Tranøy | 08:15-10:00, Room 847 | Research design: Comparative studies | Required reading: Ragin; Mahoney; Goldstone |
| 08.09.2010 | Eli Skogerbø | 12:15-14:00, Room 847 | Collecting and analyzing oral sources | Required reading: Bryman (2008) chap. 8 and 18; Strauss and Corbin (2008), chap. 4-5 and 7-8. |
| 09.09.2010 | Eli Skogerbø | 12:15-14:00, Room 847 | Content analysis | Required reading: Wolfsfeld; Ghersetti (2004); Bryman (2008) chap. 12 and 21 |
| 15.09.2010 | Olav Njølstad | 12:15-14:00, Room 847 | Methodological issues in archival research | Required reading: Carr (1961) pp. 7-30; Lebow (2000) pp. 103-125; Wohlforth (2000) pp. 126-145; Melve (2002); Waage (2003); Trachtenberg, chapter 3,4 and 5. |
| 16.09.2010 | Jon Hovi | 12:15-14:00, Room 847 | Explanations | Required reading: Dessler (1991); Elster (2007); Trachtenberg, chapter 1. (TBC) |
| 20.09.2010 | Jon Hovi | 12:15-14:00, Room 847 | Operational definitions and measurement problems | Required reading: Adcock (2001) pp. 529-546; Hoyle (2002) pp. 75-95; Østerud (2008) |
| 22.09.2010 | Jo Thori Lind | 12:15-14:00, Room 847 | Reading statistical analysis in peace and conflict studies: Preliminaries and basics. | Required reading: Hinkle et. al (2003), ch. 1, 2 and 3. |
| 29.09.2010 | Jo Thori Lind | 10:15-12:00, Room 847 | Distributions and statistical inference | Required reading: Hinkle et.al. (2003), ch. 3, 4, 7 and 8. |
| 30.09.2010 | Jo Thori Lind | 10:15-12:00, Room 847 | Seminar | |
| 06.10.2010 | Jo Thori Lind | 10:15-12:00, Room 847 | Correlation | Required reading: Hinkle et. al. (2003), ch. 5 (except Spearman's rho). |
| 07.10.2010 | Jo Thori Lind | 10:15-12:00, Room 847 | Linear regression | Required reading: Hinkle et. al (2003), ch. 6 and 17; Muller and Weede (1990). |
| 13.10.2010 | Jo Thori Lind | 10:15-12:00, Room 847 | Seminar | |
| 14.10.2010 | Kjetil Tronvoll | 10:15-12:00, Room 847 | Field work | Required reading: Simons; Wood; Nordstrom; Tronvoll |
| 20.10.2010 | Jo Thori Lind | 10:15-12:00, Room 847 | Inference in regression models; chi2 test | Required reading: Hinkle et. al. (2003), pp. 201-204, 546-561. |
| 21.10.2010 | Jo Thori Lind | 10:15-12:00, Room 847 | Reading statistical analysis in peace and conflict studies: Logistic regression and other advanced methods. Conclusions. | Required reading: Hegre (2005); Salehyan and Gleditsch (2006). |
| 27.10.2010 | Jo Thori Lind | 10:15-12:00, Room 847 | Seminar | |
| 04.11.2010 | Henrik Urdal | 09:15- , Room 847 (+ 824 and 830) | Full-day seminar: Term paper assignments |
Teaching plan
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