This introductory graduate level course in research methods is designed to sensitize students to fundamental principles of systematic investigation of the social world. But, you may ask, which so-called fundamental principles? Good question! As post-Bourdieuan scholars, we know the selection of any set of "fundamental principles" is arbitrary. Yet, lacking a coherent shared language of research--I am sure you each have some such language, but it is unlikely that we all share it--it is imperative that we take some steps forward to establish, and then critique, a shared language. Of course, there are other ways we might proceed, and, frankly, I believe that if we had a full year (or more), and not much else to do, a more inductive approach would be effective and, perhaps, even more fun. But, perhaps unfortunately, time demands and bureaucratic university organizational design prevent this immersion approach, so I am proposing a more deductive approach for our work this term.