Social Science Degrees

...connections between clear thinking, critical reading, and effective writing. Lectures: 1 session / week, 2 hours / session This Communication and Argumentation... Learn about: Communication Training...

...the true rate of return to education, the labor market for teachers, implications of the impact of computers on the demand for worker skills... Learn about: Economic Theory...

...particular attention will be given to the legitimacy and accountability of NGOs. Case studies of NGO and community responses to specific environmental...

...administrative and judicial decision making. It also considers how other political systems use science in an effort to put the US approach in comparative perspective... Learn about: Decision Making...

...1 session / week, 2 hours / session This graduate research and reading seminar examines an array of issues facing labor in today’s global world...

...transportation and local government behavior as they affect real estate. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Recitations: 1 session /... Learn about: Real Estate...

...business accounting, financial statement analysis, federal economic development programs, and public finance tools. The course covers policies and program models... Learn about: Development Finance...

...2.5 hours / session Students should have taken 11.401, 11.301J or 11.328J before taking this course. The Spring 2009 class will work with the... Learn about: Team Training...

...Urban Main Streets focuses on the physical and economic renewal of urban neighborhood Main Streets by combining classroom work with an applied class project... Learn about: Team Training...

...Main Streets Program and Main Streets Partnerships to formulate plans for two Boston neighborhood Main Streets: Mission Hill and Egleston Square... Learn about: Team Training...

...and the interaction of social structure and political power. Students will examine key theoretical paradigms that have constituted sociology since its founding... Learn about: Urban Sociology...

...and emphasizes throughout the understandings gained about why certain initiatives work and others don’t. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / sessions...

...theoretical modeling and economic issues; linkages among theories, accounts, and policies; relationships between national and regional economic structures...

...industrial societies and the theories (and theoretical perspectives) which might help us to understand them. Lectures: 1 session / week, 2.5 hours / session...

...determination of optimal arrangements for sharing fiscal responsibilities among levels of government, evaluation of local revenue and expenditure decisions...

...the restructuring of major industrial institutions; and the entry into high-technology sectors. Lectures: 1 session / week, 3 hours / session This course...

...and public policy in current areas such as gender, race, labor, trade, environment, and human rights. Finally, it introduces the theories of public policy... Learn about: Social Movements, Human Rights, IT Law...

...the historical origin and character of the modern idea of human rights, the debate between universality and cultural relativism, between civil and human rights... Learn about: IT Law, Human Rights...

...land use decisions, and risky technologies can have on vulnerable populations. However, to ensure safety and promote equity, they also must be familiar... Learn about: Land Use, IT risk...

...Why is science often ignored in important societal decisions even as the call for decisions based on sound science escalates? One reason is that decision-making... Learn about: Decision Making...