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MIT OCW
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Psychology and Economics
Prof. Frank Schilbach
Psychology and Economics (aka Behavioral Economics) is a growing subfield of economics that incorporates insights...
Economics Psychology Social Sciences
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Introduction to Environmental Policy and Planning
Prof. Lawrence Susskind
This course focuses on national environmental and energy policy-making; environmental ethics; the techniques of...
Climate and Energy Policy Energy, Climate & Sustainability Policy and Administration
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Water Diplomacy
Dr. Animesh Gain
This course, which examines ways of resolving conflicts over the allocation of water resources, is...
Engineering Environmental Engineering International Development
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The Once and Future City
Prof. Anne Whiston Spirn
Class website: The Once & Future City What is a city? What shapes it? How does its history influence future...
Architecture Art, Design & Architecture Geography
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Introduction to Housing, Community, and Economic Development
Prof. J. Phillip Thompson
This course provides students with a critical introduction to: social and economic inequality in America; equitable...
Economics Policy and Administration Social Sciences
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Technology in a Dangerous World
Prof. Rosalind Williams
Aim is to analyze important current events for what they reveal about the nature and working of our technological...
Policy and Administration Social Sciences Sociology
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Malaysia Sustainable Cities Practicum
Prof. Lawrence Susskind
The Malaysia Sustainable Cities Practicum is an intensive field-based course that brings 15 graduate students to...
Climate and Energy Policy Energy, Climate & Sustainability Geography
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The Politics of Reconstructing Iraq
Prof. Yosef Jabareen
This course is being offered in conjunction with the colloquium The Politics of Reconstructing Iraq, which is...
Economics Policy and Administration Political Science
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Introduction to Psychology
Prof. John D. E. Gabrieli
This course is a survey of the scientific study of human nature, including how the mind works, and how the brain...
Cognitive Science Psychology Science & Math
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What is Capitalism?
Prof. Christine Walley
As we live in the aftermath of the Financial Crisis of 2008, there are renewed questions about the nature of the...
Anthropology Social Sciences
intermediate
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The Meaning of Life
Prof. Graham Jones
This course examines how a variety of cultural traditions propose answers to the question of how to live a...
Anthropology Social Sciences
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Microeconomics
Prof. Frank Levy
Microeconomics will ground you in - surprise - basic microeconomics-how markets function, how to think about...
Economics Social Sciences
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Making Public Policy
Prof. Christopher Warshaw
This course aims to get students thinking about politics and policy as a part of their everyday life. We treat...
Policy and Administration Political Science Social Sciences
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The Art and Science of Happiness
Dr. Holly Sweet
This seminar looks at current theories on happiness and positive psychology as well as practical implications of...
Psychology Social Sciences
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Philosophy of Law
Prof. Julia Markovits
This course examines fundamental issues in the philosophy of law, including the nature and content of law, its...
Humanities Law Philosophy
intermediate
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Feminist Thought
Prof. Elizabeth A. Wood
This course analyzes theories of gender and politics, especially ideologies of gender and their construction;...
Gender Studies Social Sciences Sociology
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Economics of Education
Prof. Frank Levy
This class discusses the economic aspects of current issues in education, using both economic theory and econometric...
Economics Education Policy Education & Teaching
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Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies
Dr. Andrea Walsh
This course offers an introduction to women’s and gender studies, an interdisciplinary academic field that explores...
Gender Studies Social Sciences Sociology
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The Anthropology of Sound
Prof. Ian Condry
This course examines the ways humans experience sound and how perceptions and technologies of sound emerge from...
Anthropology Social Sciences
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Magic, Science, and Religion
Prof. Graham Jones
This course explores the origins of magic, science, and religion as forms of belief within and across cultures. It...
Anthropology Social Sciences
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Slavery and Human Trafficking in the 21st Century
Mitali Thakor
This course explores the issue of human trafficking for forced labour and sexual slavery, focusing on its...
Anthropology Economics Gender Studies
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Planning Economics
Prof. Frank Levy
Planning Economics will apply microeconomic theory to issues that markets don’t always handle well and so are not...
Economics Social Sciences Urban Studies
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Spatial Database Management and Advanced Geographic Information Systems
Prof. Joseph Ferreira
This semester long subject (11.521) is divided into two halves. The first half focuses on learning spatial database...
Business & Management Civil Engineering Computer Science
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Gender and Japanese Popular Culture
Prof. Ian Condry
This course examines relationships between identity and participation in Japanese popular culture as a way of...
Anthropology Art, Design & Architecture Gender Studies
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Food, Culture & Politics
Prof. Heather Paxson
This course explores connections between what we eat and who we are through cross-cultural study of how personal and...
Anthropology Social Sciences
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Comparative Land Use and Transportation Planning
Prof. Pericles (Chris) Zegras
This course focuses on the land use-transportation “interaction space” in metropolitan settings. The course aims to...
Social Sciences Urban Studies
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Economic Development Planning
Jeffrey Levine
This course examines why we plan for economic development, how government is funded in the US, what strategies are...
Economics Policy and Administration Social Sciences
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How Culture Works
Dr. Xenia Cherkaev
This course introduces diverse meanings and uses of the concept of culture with historical and contemporary examples...
Anthropology Social Sciences
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Transportation Systems
Prof. Joseph Sussman
Approaching transportation as a complex, large-scale, integrated, open system (CLIOS), this course strives to be an...
Civil Engineering Engineering Social Sciences
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An Introduction to Intelligent Transportation Systems
Prof. Joseph Sussman
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) represent a major transition in transportation on many dimensions. This...
Civil Engineering Engineering Social Sciences
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Technology and Culture
Prof. Stefan Helmreich
This subject examines relationships among technology, culture, and politics in a range of social and historical...
Anthropology Policy and Administration Social Sciences
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The Anthropology of Politics: Persuasion and Power
Dr. Xenia Cherkaev
This course introduces the ethnographic study of politics, i.e., what anthropologists understand to be “political”...
Anthropology Political Science Social Sciences
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Human Rights: At Home and Abroad
Prof. Balakrishnan Rajagopal
This course provides a rigorous and critical introduction to the foundation, structure and operation of the...
Humanities Philosophy Policy and Administration
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Social Theory and the City
Prof. Richard Sennett
This course explores how social theories of urban life can be related to the city’s architecture and spaces. It is...
Anthropology Social Sciences Sociology
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Urban Design Politics
Prof. Lawrence Vale
This is a seminar about the ways that urban design contributes to the distribution of political power and resources...
Policy and Administration Political Science Social Sciences
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Politics and Religion
Prof. Lily Tsai
This graduate reading seminar explores the role of religious groups, institutions, and ideas in politics using...
Anthropology Humanities Political Science
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Sustainable Economic Development
Prof. Karl Seidman
This course explores the application of environmental and economic development planning, policy and management...
Adaptation and Resilience Climate Science Earth Science
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Analyzing Projects and Organizations
Prof. Judith Tendler
This course teaches students how to understand the rationality behind how organizations and their programs behave,...
Business & Management Organizations & Leadership Policy and Administration
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Introduction to the American Political Process
Prof. Asya Magazinnik
This course provides a substantive overview of U.S. politics and an introduction to the discipline of political...
Political Science Social Sciences
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Introduction to International Development Planning
Prof. Balakrishnan Rajagopal
This introductory survey course is intended to develop an understanding of key issues and dilemmas of planning in...
Economics International Development Policy and Administration
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MS Learn
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Empower your workforce with Microsoft 365 Copilot: Legal Use Case
This module enables students to perform a series of Use Case exercises that build their Microsoft 365 Copilot skills...
M365 Office 365
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Introduction to gaming and disability
This module introduces accessibility concepts for game titles, gaming platforms, and gaming hardware. You learn...
Xbox
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OpenStax
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American Government 4e
Social Sciences
OpenStax
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Introduction to Anthropology
Social Sciences
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Introduction to Political Science
Social Sciences
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Introduction to Sociology 3e
Social Sciences
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Lifespan Development
Social Sciences
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Psychology 2e
Social Sciences
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Open Yale
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Environmental Politics and Law (EVST 255)
John Wargo
Open Yale course by John Wargo.
Environmental Studies
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OPE
Open Yale
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Capitalism: Success, Crisis, and Reform (PLSC 270)
Douglas W. Rae
Open Yale course by Douglas W. Rae.
Political Science
intermediate
OPE
Open Yale
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Introduction to Psychology (PSYC 110)
Paul Bloom
Open Yale course by Paul Bloom.
Psychology
intermediate
OPE
Open Yale
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Foundations of Modern Social Theory (SOCY 151)
Iván Szelényi
Open Yale course by Iván Szelényi.
Sociology
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2ch Chronicle
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4chan Chronicle
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A-level Geography
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AQA Government and Politics
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Abnormal Sexual Psychology
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Allies vs. Axis
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Allies vs. Axis v1.0
beginner
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America's Army: Special Forces
intermediate
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American Government
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American Indians Today
beginner
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American Revolution
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Among Us
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An Overview of LGBT Rights
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Annotated Republic of China Case Law
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Annotated Republic of China Regulations
beginner
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Aspies Book
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Australian Contract Law
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Australian Government
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Autistic Spectrum Psychometrics
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Axis & Allies
beginner
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Backgammon
beginner
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Badminton
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Baseball
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Basic Geography
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Biological Psychology
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Brain Drain
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Canadian Civil Procedure
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Canadian Constitutional Law
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Canadian Contract Law
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Canadian Copyright Law
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Canadian Criminal Law
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Canadian Employment Law
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Canadian Patent Law
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Canadian Property Law
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Canadian Tort Law
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Canadian Trade-mark Law
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Chatbots For Social Change
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Child Psychology and Digital Technology
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Citizen Science
beginner
MIT OCW
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Comparative Politics and International Relations of the Middle East
Prof. Fotini Christia
This course surveys both classic and cutting-edge work on the politics of the Middle East, broadly defined. Topics...
Political Science Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
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The Growth and Spatial Structure of Cities
Prof. Diane Davis
This course examines the economic, political, social, and spatial dynamics of urban growth and decline in cities and...
Policy and Administration Social Sciences Urban Studies
advanced
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Graduate Seminar in American Politics II
Prof. Charles Stewart
This is the second in a sequence of two field seminars in American politics intended for graduate students in...
Political Science Social Sciences
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Memory, Culture, Forgetting
Prof. Manduhai Buyandelger
This course introduces scholarly debates about the sociocultural practices through which individuals and societies...
Anthropology Social Sciences
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Gender, Power, Leadership, and the Workplace
Dr. Mindy Fried
This course will provide students with an analytic framework to understand the roles that gender, race, and class...
Business & Management Gender Studies Organizations & Leadership
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MIT OCW
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Law, Social Movements, and Public Policy: Comparative and International Experience
Prof. Balakrishnan Rajagopal
This course studies the interaction between law, courts, and social movements in shaping domestic and global public...
Economics Gender Studies International Development
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Social and Political Implications of Technology
Prof. David Mindell
This course is a graduate reading seminar, in which historical and contemporary studies are used to explore the...
Anthropology History Humanities
advanced
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Japan and East Asian Security
Prof. Richard J. Samuels
This course explores Japan’s role in world orders, past, present, and future. It focuses on Japanese conceptions of...
Economics Policy and Administration Political Science
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Targeting the Poor: Local Economic Development in Developing Countries
Prof. Judith Tendler
This course treats public-sector policies, programs, and projects that attempt to increase employment through...
Economics International Development Social Sciences
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Ecological Urbanism
Prof. Anne Whiston Spirn
Ecological urbanism weds the theory and practice of city design and planning, as a means of adaptation, with the...
Social Sciences Urban Studies
advanced
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The Anthropology of Politics: U.S. Presidential Election Edition
Maria Vidart-Delgado
This course examines the birth and international expansion of an American industry of political marketing. It...
Anthropology Political Science Social Sciences
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Cities in Conflict: Theory and Practice
Prof. Diane Davis
This course’s aims are two-fold: to offer students the theoretical and practical tools to understand how and why...
Humanities Philosophy Policy and Administration
advanced
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Urbanization and Development
Dr. Daniel Esser
The course examines the causes and effects of rapid urbanization in developing countries. Using case studies from...
Humanities International Development Philosophy
advanced
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Culture, Embodiment and the Senses
Prof. Erica James
Culture, Embodiment, and the Senses will provide an historical and cross-cultural analysis of the politics of...
Anthropology Humanities Philosophy
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Cultural Performances of Asia
Prof. Ian Condry
This course examines cultural performances of Asia, including both traditional and contemporary forms, in a variety...
Anthropology Art, Design & Architecture Media Studies
intermediate
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International Relations Theory in the Cyber Age
Prof. Nazli Choucri
This course examines cyber dynamics and processes in international relations from different theoretical...
Political Science Social Sciences
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Race, Crime, and Citizenship in American Law
Prof. Malick Ghachem
This seminar looks at key issues in the historical development and current state of modern American criminal...
History Humanities Law
intermediate
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Politics and Policy in Contemporary Japan
Prof. Richard J. Samuels
This subject is designed for upper level undergraduates and graduate students as an introduction to politics and the...
History Humanities Policy and Administration
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MIT OCW
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Property Rights in Transition
Prof. Annette M. Kim
This course examines the theories and policy debates over who can own real property, how to communicate and enforce...
Art, Design & Architecture Business & Management Humanities
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Gendering U.S. Immigration Policy: Sociopolitical, Theological and Feminist Perspectives
Dr. Choi Hee An
This course uses theories of gender to explore sociopolitical, ethical and theological perspectives on immigration...
Gender Studies Policy and Administration Political Science
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MIT OCW
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Practice of Participatory Action Research (PAR)
Prof. Lawrence Susskind
This course introduces students to the techniques of participatory action research (PAR) and the practice of case...
Policy and Administration Social Sciences Sociology
advanced
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Race, Ethnicity, and American Politics
Prof. Ariel White
This course explores the role of race and ethnicity in modern American politics. It focuses on social science...
Political Science Social Sciences Sociology
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Studies in Women's Life Narratives: Interrogating Marriage: Case Studies in American Law and Culture
Prof. Leonard Buckle
Is marriage a patriarchal institution? Much feminist scholarship has characterized it that way, but now in the...
Gender Studies Law Social Sciences
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MIT OCW
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Poverty, Public Policy and Controversy
Prof. Martin Rein
This course covers topics and questions such as: What is poverty? How is it defined and measured in the United...
Economics Humanities International Development
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MIT OCW
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Doctoral Research Seminar: Knowledge in the Public Arena
Prof. Frank Levy
This is a course about how research knowledge and other types of knowledge come to be actionable and influential in...
Communication Policy and Administration Political Science
advanced
MIT OCW
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Civil Society and the Environment
Prof. JoAnn Carmin
This graduate seminar examines civic engagement in international, national and local environmental governance. We...
Climate and Energy Policy Energy, Climate & Sustainability Engineering
advanced
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Environmental Justice
Prof. JoAnn Carmin
This class explores the foundations of the environmental justice movement, current and emerging issues, and the...
Climate and Energy Policy Energy, Climate & Sustainability Humanities
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Modern Latin America, 1808-Present: Revolution, Dictatorship, Democracy
Prof. Jeffrey S. Ravel
This class is a selective survey of Latin American history from the beginning of the twentieth century to the...
Anthropology History Humanities
intermediate