Enrollment Data for Methods Courses

As a follow-up to one of Bill's previous posts, I would appreciate comments on enrollment information for research methodology courses taught within law schools.  I'll just stipulate to the fact that folks approach such a course in various ways, from different perspectives, and with different goals.  Because my hunch is that enrollment in such courses (however taught) is highly dependent upon a particular law school's culture, specific professors, schedule grid conflicts, etc., what I expect I'll hear is that enrollment experiences vary considerably.  Indeed, having taught such a course (the identical methods course) at two different law schools I can report notably different enrollments (and I'm pretty sure my pedagogy was relatively constant).

Comments

[Jason Czarnezki]

Bill earlier posted links to syllabi here:

http://www.elsblog.org/the_empirical_legal_studi/2006/03/new_syllabus_qu.html

I also want to note that there are two types of methods courses in law schools--one for teaching lawyers to understand science and statistical methods that arise in court, and one for social science research methods, what this Blog usually focuses on. At my law school, we have 19 students enrolled in the former this semester.

[Jeff Yates]

I'd be interested in seeing any available syllabi for such classes. I'm guessing that the scope of these courses ranges from stats for scholarly pursuits to stats for applied use in litigation, etc.

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University of Georgia
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