I specialize in political text analysis and regularly teach courses on this topic. These range from hour-long introductory lectures in graduate courses, to the two week, full-time ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques. More details about that are below. At Maastricht I teach the usual bundle of courses in 4 or 8 week formats.
I teach Quantitative Text Analysis course at the ECPR's Summer School in Methods and Techniques with Ken Benoit. The course covers data and sampling issues for political text, content analysis, text classification, and scaling using examples from political manifestos, speeches, and legal briefs.
This course was last given at the 2009 Summer School. Course page.
This course shows how to use Python and Django to rapidly build social science coding project infrastructure. 'Middle-sized' means larger than a spreadsheet but smaller than the European Election Study. 'Rapidly' means the ability to create a database-backed website that coders can log into, with forms for all data structures, downloadable datasets for other academics, and public search and browsing, in a couple of hours.
This was last taught as a short course at APSA 2009. Course page (for participants).
Contact me directly if you are interested in having me give these courses at your institution.
At the Methods and Data Institute I used to teach the following courses:
The Institute's website provides more detail on what they're offering right now.