Current Courses

Weekly Doctoral Seminar

Pillar 1

t.b.a

Pillar 2 & 3

Organizers: Prof. Dr. Cornelia Kristen & N.N.

Date: blocked workshop over two days. More details t.b.a.

Time: t.b.a.

Room: t.b.a.

Pillar 4

Organizer: Prof. Dr. Thomas Gehring

Date: Tuesday

Time: 18:00-20:00

Room: F21/03.01

Comment: starts on April 23 with an organisatory meeting.

Monthly BAGSS Colloquium

Organizers: All professors/BAGSS office

Date: Every 3rd Thursday of a month

Time: 18:00-20:00

Room: F21/03.83

April 18, 2013

Cancelled!

May 23, 2013

Guest: Dennis Niemann, University of Bremen, CRC 597 "Transformations of the State"

June 20, 2013

Guest: Professor Hartmut Esser, Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES)

July 18, 2013

Guest: Professor Kaare Strøm, University of California at San Diego

Social Science Methodology and Research Design

Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Johannes Marx

Date: Blocked in the first two weeks of October 2013

Time: t.b.a.

Room: t.b.a.

Subject-Specific Theoretical Core Courses

Pillar 1

Course title: Theoretical Issues in Research on Education, Development, and Learning

Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Sabine Weinert, Prof. Dr. Gabriele Faust, Prof. Dr. Hans-Günther Roßbach, Prof. Dr. Claus Carstensen

Date: Blocked seminar - more details t.b.a.

Time: t.b.a.

Room: t.b.a.

Pillar 2 & 3

Course title: Accounting for Inequalities in Education and the Labor Market

Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Cornelia Kristen & Prof. Dr. Guido Heineck

Date: Tuesday

Time: 14:00-16:00

Room: F21/03.03

Comment: Starts on April 23, 2013.

Pillar 4

Course title: Theories of Institutions in Sociology, Political Science, and Economics

Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Thomas Gehring & Prof. Dr. Richard Münch

Date: Wednesday

Time: 16:00-18:00

Room: F21/03.48

Advanced Data Analysis

Course title: Applied Statistics on the PC

Lecturer: M.Sc. Sara Bahrami

Date: Monday

Time: 10:00-12:00

Room: RZ/00.06

Course title: Advanced Data Analysis with R

Lecturer: Dr. Florian Meinfelder

Date: Tuesday

Time: 10:00-12:00

Room: RZ/00.06

Course Title: Latent Variable Modeling

Lecturers: Dr. Steffi Pohl, Prof. Dr. Claus H. Carstensen

Date: Blocked Seminar

April 26, 2013: 09:00-10:00 - Room MG2/00.09

May 17, 2013: 09:00-16:00 - Room MG2/01.09

May 31, 2013: 09:00-16:00 - Room MG2/00.09

June 14, 2013: 09:00-16:00 - Room MG2/00.09

June 28, 2013: 09:00-16:00 - Room MG2/00.09

Quantitative Text Analysis in Political Sciences

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Heike Klüver

Date: Blocked course July 23 - July 25, 2013

Time: t.b.a.

Room: t.b.a.

Comment: A course syllabus is available here.

Professional Skill Courses

Reading and Writing Empirical Papers - for Ph.D. Students of Psychology and Education

Lecturer: Dr. David Hopkins

Date: Tuesday

Time: 14:00-16:00

Room: MG1/01.04

Comments: For students of pillar 1. Registration for this course is necessary, please contact the BAGSS office. The focus of this course is on developing your skills for reading and writing empirical papers in the fields of psychology and education. We will highlight the skills necessary to write empirical papers at an advanced adademic level and also deal with writing abstracts both for journals and conferences. The course will ideally look at "work in progress" being carried out by advanced students as part of their doctoral programmes.