========== Teaching ========== Topics ====== In this section you can find information about my teaching at various academic institutions. By and large, my teaching experience includes the following areas: Political Sociology and Political Behaviour ------------------------------------------- This is the substantial area about which I would dare say that I have the most teaching experience, both from my earlier position at the University of Mannheim and my current position at Zeppelin Universtity in Friedrichshafen. Topics include: - Electoral Behaviour - Political Participation - The Societal Foundation of Democracy - Attitude Formation and Public Opinion - Introduction to Political Sociology Comparative Politics -------------------- The comparative of western Europe is another area I could gain some experience in teaching about, with topics such as: - Post-War German Politics - West European Politics - Political Integration and the European Union Social Science Research Methods ------------------------------- In past and present, I have been teaching courses at various levels on research methods in the social sciences. Generally, these have been mainly "quantitative" methods, but I also gave some "qualitative" methods courses. Courses I taught include: - Case Study Design - Content Analysis - Data Analysis and Graphics with R - Introduction to Empirical Political and Administrative Research - Mathematical Tools for Social Scientists - Multivariate Analysis: Factor Analysis and Structural Equations Modelling For more detailed information about what I tought where, please refer to the menu links on the right-hand side of this page. Institutions ============ Zeppelin-Universität Friedrichshafen ------------------------------------ At Zeppelin University I am mainly responsible for modules in political sociology, political behaviour and empirical political science methods. In the field(s) of political sociology and political behaviour I taught: - Introduction to the Study of Political Attitudes and Behaviour (BA) - Politics and Society (MA) - Democracy and Elections: - The US Presidential Election of 2016 - The Bundestag Election of 2017 - Opinion Fromation and Public Opinion: Polarisation and Populism I also taught the following general political science and comparative politics courses: - Polity, Policy, Politics (1st year BA) - Parties and Party Systems (BA) - National and Comparative Governance: The Political System of the UK Finally, I taught the following methods courses: - Empirical Research Design (BA) - Social Science Reserach Methods (MA) - Advanced Methods: - Multivariate Data Analysis - Causal Inference (Rubin-Holland approaches) - Panel Analysis (econometric approaches) - Structural Equation Modelling Universität Konstanz -------------------- Over the last couple of semesters I taught the following courses at the `*Fachbereich Politik- und Verwaltungswissenschaft* (Department of Political and Administrative Science) `__, University of Konstanz - Comparative Case Studies and Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) - for BA,MA, and PhD Students (2 hrs - in English) - Content Analysis - for BA,MA, and PhD Students (2 hrs - in English) - Datenanalyse mit R (Data Analysis with R) - for BA Students (2 hrs - in German) - Data Analysis with R - for MA and PhD Students (2 hrs - in English) - Datenanalyse mit Stata (Data Analysis with Stata) - for BA Students (2 hrs - in German) - Einführung in die Methoden der empirischen Politik- und Verwaltungsforschung (Introduction to Empirical Research Methods in Political and Administrative Science) - BA Lecture (4 hrs - in German) - Kolloquium für Examenskandidaten (1 hr - in German) - Multivariate Analyseverfahren: Pfadanalyse, Faktorenanalyse und Strukturgleichungen (Multivariate Data Analysis: Path Analysis, Factor Analysis and Structural Equations) (2 hrs - in German) - Preparatory Course: Empirical Research Methods (2 hrs - in English) University Essex, Department of Government ------------------------------------------ From academic years 2009/10 to 2011/12 I worked as a lecturer/DAAD-fellow ("DAAD Fachlektor") at the `Department of Government of the University of Essex `__. There I was responsible for and taught the following courses (or modules as they were called in Essex): - GV102: Introduction to European Politics (lecture, 1st year in the BA programmes) - GV271: West European Politics (lecture, 2nd year in the BA programmes) - GV373: Political Integration and the European Union (seminar, 3rd year in the BA programmes) - GV383: Post-War German Politics (seminar, 3rd year in the BA programmes) Universität Mannheim -------------------- From October 2000 to August 2009 I worked as lecturer at the Chair for Political Science and International Comparative Social Research under supervision of Professor Jan W. van Deth at the `University of Mannheim, Faculty of Social Sciences `__. During my time in Mannheim I taught a variety of courses in the fields of Comparative Politics and Political Sociology, but also some applied methods courses. Courses that I taught several times include: - The Political System of Germany in Comparative Perspective ("Grundseminar" for first-year students in the BA programme) - Electoral Behaviour (undergraduate seminar) - Political Participation (undergraduate seminar) - Public Opinion and Political Attitudes (undergraduate seminar) - The Societal Foundations of Democracy (undergraduate seminar) - Quantitative Methods for Comparative Politics (practical course for undergraduates) - Survey Analysis using SPSS (practical course for undergraduates) - "Bibliographierkurs" (course on working with academic literature for undergraduates) I also gave some courses on *R* for the `Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (GESS) `__. I did this the first time while still working at Uni Mannheim and was later invited a couple of times when I was already working at Uni Essex. Essex Summer School in Data Analysis and Collection --------------------------------------------------- From 2006 I have been teaching a courses on *R* at the `Essex Summer School for Social Science Data Analysis and Collection `__. The title of the course varied a bit through the years and I usually adapted the course to the needs of the participants. From 2006 to 2009 it was a 1-week course, which since 2010 has been expanded to a 2-week course. In this course I cover the fundamentals of R, basic data analysis, graphics, and data management, basic programming, some advanced statistical methods, and some tricks of advanced programming. GESIS - Mathematical Tools for Social Scientists ------------------------------------------------ From 2009 to 2017 I taught the course "Mathematical Tools for Social Scientists" at the Cologne branch of `GESIS/Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences `__. The course aims to provide post-graduate students and young scholars with a refresher of and introduction to some mathematical foundations needed for understanding advanced methods of data analysis, as they are taught at the GESIS Spring Seminars, the `Essex Summer School `__, or the `ICPSR Summer Program `__. The course usually covers the following topical areas: - Review of functions, their derivatives and integrals - Probability distributions and foundations of statistical inference - Algebra and geometry with vectors and matrices - Multivariate calculus (derivatives and integrals of functions in several variables) with an application to least-squares estimation - Numeric solution of equations and optimisation of functions with an application to maximum likelihood estimation in logistic regression and other generalised linear models