There are few training courses around the world preparing students to study coupled social-ecological systems. Students often need to navigate social and ecological data in a structured way; it requires an interdisciplinary mindset able to cope with the diversity of ontologies and epistemologies inherited in each disciplinary science. Methods are here presented as boundary objects that allows the exploration of the natural and social world, but also the rigorous exercise of knowledge generation in a transdisciplinary setting. We focus on the limitations of making science in a developing country context. Students will be exposed to a suit of methods that are commonly used to study social-ecological systems. The course consist of 8 modules of 2hrs each where a researcher expert on a method will share how the method serves to answers SES research questions, present case studies and provide further resources for the interested student to follow up.