This course for PhD students in Political Science will deepen advanced strategies for qualitative interviews, participant and non-participant observation, focus groups, and ethnographic fieldwork to study politics. It will cover diverse research designs and techniques for qualitative research with human subjects, debate questions of ethics, positionality, immersion, and reflexivity in the conduct of such research, and equip students with methods to interpret and draw descriptive, phenomenological, and causal inferences from qualitative evidence generated from fieldwork. Course assignments will be explicitly hands-on, so that students will refine their own methodological approaches through practice.