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

ANTH 523: GIS for Humanities and Social Science Research, Ian Lindsay (Fall 2023)
ANTH 592: Data Management and Curation for Qualitative Research, Kendall Roark (Spring 2021)
ANTH 592: Methods in political ecology, Andrew Flachs
ANTH 592: Ethnographic writing, Andrew Flachs (Fall 2024)
ANTH 605: Seminar in Ethnographic Analysis, Courtney Thomas Wittekind (Fall 2024)
ANTH 605: Ethnographic Methods, Laura Zanotti
ANTH 606: Quantitative Research Design, Erik Otarola-Castillo (Fall 2023)
ANTH 640: Foundations & Frameworks for Applying Anthropology, Zoe Nyssa (Fall 2022)
ANTH 641: Discovery & Design: Making Projects Work, Zoe Nyssa ( Spring 2021)
ANTH 642: Public engagement, Andrew Flachs (Spring 2021)

Communication

COM: Mixed Methods, Marifran Mattson
COM 582: Descriptive/Experimental Research In Communication, John Greene (Fall 2024)
COM 585: Qualitative Methods In Communication Research, Felicia Roberts (Fall 2022)
COM 632: Social Network Analysis, Seungyoon Lee (Spring 2025)
COM 674: Introduction to Programming and Data Science, Jeremy Foote (Spring 2025)
COM 682: Advanced Social Network Analysis, Seungyoon Lee (Spring 2019)
COM 682: Multivariate Statistics For Communication Research, Brett Sherrick (Spring 2025)
COM 682: Advanced Computational Communication Methods, Jeremy Foote (Summer 2023)
CPB 626: Design and Analysis of Epidemiologic Studies, Hsin-Yi Weng (Fall 2024)

Human Development and Family Science

HDFS 590: Quantitative Methods: Regression, Robert Duncan (Spring 2023)
HDFS 613: Quantitative Methods I: Inferential Statistics and ANOVA, Kristine Marceau (Fall 2023)
HDFS 613: Statistical Approaches for Development and Family Researchers, Sharon Christ (Fall 2020)
HDFS 617: Quantitative Methods II: Regression, Robert Duncan (Spring 2019)
HDFS 627: Multilevel Modeling in Developmental and Family Research, Kristine Marceau (Fall 2024)
HDFS 628: Structural Equation Modeling, Sharon Christ (Spring 2023)

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

ILS 595: Geographical Information System Research Methods, Melissa Chomintra, Ningning Kong (Fall 2022)
ILS 595: Geospatial Data Science with ArcGIS Pro and Python, Gang Shao (Spring 2023)
ILS 630: Digital Humanities Foundations, Matthew Hannah (Fall 2023)
ILS 695: Digital & Print Archives, Sammie Morris (Spring 2019)
ILS 695: Computational Text Analysis, Matthew Hannah, Gang Shao (Spring 2022)

Linguistics

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

Nursing

NUR 626: Applied Biostatistics for Outcome Evaluation, Instructor TBA (Fall 2024)
NUR 692: Applied Statistics in Healthcare Research, Instructor TBA (2024)

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

SOC 580: Introduction to Methods of Social Research, Christie Sennott (Spring 2022)
SOC 581: Introduction to Quantitative Social Science, Shawn Bauldry (Fall 2022)
SOC 680: Advanced Social Research Methods (Regression Modeling), Jeremy Reynolds (Spring 2025)
SOC 681: Longitudinal and Multilevel Modeling, Shawn Bauldry (Spring 2021)
SOC 681: Causal Analysis, Shawn Bauldry (Spring 2020)
SOC 681: Categorical Data Analysis, Trenton Mize (Fall 2024)
SOC 681: Latent Variable Modeling, Trenton Mize (Spring 2022)
SOC 681: Experimental Design, Trenton Mize (Spring 2023)
SOC 681: Data Visualization, Trenton Mize (Spring 2025)
SOC 681: Introduction to Computational Social Science in R, Marcus Mann (Fall 2024)
SOC 681: Interview Methods, Daniel Winchester (Fall 2022)
SOC 681: Longitudinal Data Analysis, Shawn Bauldry
SOC 681: Mixed Methods, Jill Suitor (Fall 2023)
SOC 686: Qualitative Methods, Danielle Kane (Spring 2025)

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

ASEC 582: Introduction To The Application Of Inferential Statistics, Rama B Rashakrishna (Fall 2024)
CE 507: Geospatial Data Analytics, Jie Shan (Fall 2024)
CS 573: Data Mining, Rajiv Khanna (Spring 2025)
CS 578: Statistical Machine Learning, Yexiang, Xue (Spring 2025)
CS 590: Crowdsourcing and Social Computing, Ming Yin (Fall 2018)
EDCI 615: Qualitative Research Methods In Education, Steve Burdick (Spring 2025)
EDCI 616: Qualitative Data Collection And Analysis In Educational Research, Amber M. Neal-Stanley (Spring 2025)
HIST 610: History: Theory & Methods, Christopher Ewing (Fall 2024)
HK 510: Introduction To The Quantitative Methods Of Public Health, Robert Duncan (Fall 2018)
IE 533: Industrial Application of Statistics, Zachary Hass (Spring 2025)
TECH 697: Qualitative Research Methods for Technology Studies, Austin Toombs (Fall 2022)
TECH 697: Qualitative Research Methods for Technology Studies, Rua Mae Williams (Fall 2024)

Miscellaneous

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)