as well as allow students to examine how qualitative comparative techniques might apply to and enhance their own research projects. In addition to examining the conventional uses of comparison for conceptual development, description, and casual inference, this course will also interrogate the logics of control that often anchor small-n qualitative research and explore alternative ways of structuring comparisons that are attentive to distinct objects of analysis, including causal processes, social and cultural practices, and the meanings through which individuals make sense of the world around them.