Part I. Research design and inference
Week 1: Introduction
Week 2: Research puzzles, research questions, and the literature
Week 3: Interlude I—Searching, reading, and writing
Week 4: Concepts, variables, theories, and hypotheses
Week 5: Cases and observations
Week 6: Measurement and description
Week 7: Explanation and causation
Week 8: Within-case inference
Week 9: Cross-case inference
Week 10: Interlude 2—Research ethics
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Part II. Data collection and analysis
Week 11: Ethnography
Week 12: Interviews and focus groups
Week 13: Archival research
Week 14: Qualitative data analysis
Week 15: Review