Here<\/a> is the course outline that we prepared (with my colleague Brendan Carroll). All comments and suggestions are more than welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I am teaching again the Research Design class for the MSc in Public Administration at Leiden University. It is a rather challenging course since the\u00a0 background of the students is so diverse (from Religious Studies to Psychology to International Relations) and because most of the students have\u00a0very little\u00a0training and a\u00a0certain\u00a0dislike\u00a0for any formal method of data analysis. Here is the course outline that we prepared (with my colleague Brendan Carroll). 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