This course introduces and explores the qualitative methods used in analysing public and political discourse. Different types and approaches to discourse analysis will be described and discussed. The focus will be on frame analysis, with students designing and carrying out a qualitative project of frame analysis on a given issue. Different types of documents (newspaper articles and other media, political and parliamentary debates, interview transcriptions) will be collected and analysed using the software program Atlas.ti. Students will be assisted through the stages of research and will be able to use the acquired knowledge subsequently in other types of qualitative research.