Social Sciences Courses

If you expect to work with the software Mplus, this course can help you to get started!  This course is a compact 1-day workshop on using Mplus to get you started. We will focus on how to ge...

This 5-day course zooms in on the key concepts of Bayesian Statistics and advanced techniques for data-analysis. Topics that are covered include: density of the data, prior and posterior distribution,...

This summer school course will focus on the communal and modern/colonial histories, looking in particular at the role of museums and other cultural institutions and their (potential) impact on so...

How can systemic drivers of global challenges be identified? What are transformations and how do they come about? How can different forms of experimentation - across multiple disciplines - and adaptiv...

Welcome to the LANDac Annual International Summer School. Large-scale acquisition of land in the Global South has received a great deal of interest in the last few years. Especially followin...

We offer a 5-day course on how to perform basic SEM analyses using Mplus. The main objective of this course is to learn how to analyse several models with Mplus (e.g., path models, multiple group mode...

This course gives a bird’s eye view of the fundamentals of three qualitative research methods – Case study research, Grounded theory, and Ethnography. The purpose of this course is therefo...

R is rapidly becoming the standard platform for data analysis. This course offers an elaborate introduction into statistical programming in R. Students learn to operate R, form pipelines for data anal...

This 4-day course discusses the evaluation of theory-based hypotheses using p-values, the Bayes factor, and information criteria. There will be attention for contemporary phenomena, like publication b...

The objective of the course is to provide students, that have a background in social, human or behavioral sciences, with an introduction to GIS (Geographic Information Systems). This course aims at hi...

This summer, Utrecht University offers you a 'bridging' course in psychodiagnostics, in order to overcome deficiencies in psychodiagnostics and assessment for entering the master course Clinic...

How can systemic drivers of global challenges be identified? What are transformations and how do they come about? How can different forms of experimentation - across multiple disciplines - and adaptiv...

It is with great regret that the local organizing committee decided to cancel the EUROLOC Summer School 2020 at Utrecht University. Due to the corona crisis, there are too many uncertainties to guaran...

This course will teach you the theoretical basics of multilevel modelling and some important methodological and statistical issues. You will also learn how to analyse multilevel data sets with the HLM...

Migration has made European countries ethnically and culturally more diverse. While migrants try to find their way in a new and sometimes hostile environment, host populations also have to adapt to mi...

This course is about experimentation to catalyse systemic change and confront global challenges: (1) why is experimentation essential as we search for transformative solutions for addressing global ch...

Please note: in case we are not able to offer this course on location due to the COVID-19 regulations, we will provide the courses in an online setting instead. In that case the course will be a mixtu...

This course focuses on analysis of outdoor movements in space and transport network-based distances. The objective is to provide students with insight in the principles of sense making of GPS Dat...

What we do in the present is profoundly influenced by our expectations of our futures. Join us for an interactive course to understand how techniques of futuring contribute to realizing societal trans...

This 4-day course teaches you the basics in solving your own missing data problems appropriately. Participants will learn how to form imputation models, how to combine data sets, how to model non-resp...

This three day course will teach you advanced topics in multilevel modelling. The three-day course builds upon the contents of the other summer school course “Introduction to multilevel analysis...

This is a five-day course on structural equation modeling (SEM) using Mplus. If you already know how to analyse your data in Mplus but want to learn more about what you are actually doing, and es...

Experienced CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) or EMI (English Medium Instruction) teachers learn to become fully-fledged CLIL trainers. This practical, hands-on course encourages teacher...

Please note: in case we are not able to offer this course on location due to the COVID-19 regulations, we will provide the courses in an online setting instead. In that case the course will be a mixtu...

Conflict management has become a prominent field of inquiry and practice in three main areas: scholarly, policy-oriented, and operational. In this setting, the course aims to enhance understanding of ...

The course Data science: Data Analysis offers a range of statistical techniques and algorithms from statistics, machine learning and data mining to make predict future events and uncover hidden struct...

Please note: in case we are not able to offer this course on location due to the COVID-19 regulations, we will provide the courses in an online setting instead. In that case the course will be a mixtu...

This course provides students with theoretical knowledge on developmental psychopathology. Students acquire knowledge on most common problems in youth, age specific characteristics of psychopathology ...

This course offers you a challenging introduction to conflict resolution and mediation skills. The main focus of the course is to make you familiar with the backgrounds of human conflict beh...

Humans have ‘language’, animals do not. In this course we investigate on the basis of what evidence we can make such a claim. What exactly is language? Can we can say that animals do not h...

The summer school course 'Applied Multivariate Analysis' offers hands-on experience using SPSS for the most frequently encountered multivariate statistical techniques in the social and be...

Changes in technology and society strongly influence modern survey research. This course covers the essentials of modern survey methodology and analysis and is organized by the Department of Methodolo...

This is a five-day course on how to study dynamics in intensive longitudinal data, such as ambulatory assessments (AA), experience sampling method (ESM) data, ecological momentary assessments (EMA), r...

Urban Sound Design is an emerging sub-discipline within urban planning and design. Discussions about sound in our environment tend to focus on the problematic attributes, such as the noise of traffic ...

In this course, students will be introduced to the basics of generative linguistics, the theoretical framework evolved from and based on Noam Chomsky’s work. The formal tools of generative lingu...

Ask someone their opinion on bilingualism and you are likely to hear statements such as: learning two languages from birth confuses children and impairs their cognitive development', 'Bilingua...

The course is based on a total survey error perspective and discusses the major sources of survey error. Participants will be presented with tools for detection and adjustment of such errors. Analysis...

This course is essential for experimental linguists. In this course you will learn about important aspects of a quantitative study design (research methodology), the basics of statistical (hypothesis)...

This elementary to intermediate level course will provide the student with a basic knowledge of psycholinguistics, a research domain on the intersection of linguistics, psychology and neuroscience. Th...

This course introduces the basics of (formal) semantics and first and second language (L1/L2) acquisition as well as the interface between them. Days 1 and 2 are devoted to the introduction of a broad...

This 5-day course in ‘advanced survey design’ takes students beyond the introductory courses offered in BA and MA programmes and will discuss the state of the art in both the design o...

Eye tracking is a powerful method to study the human mind and behavior. This course will allow you to explore key concepts in eye tracking research and help you integrate it in your study. The course ...