Social Science Postgraduate Degrees

...markets, technologies, and national policies, and introduces the concepts of national income accounts, sustainability, and intergenerational equity...

...of memory are more "truthful" and "real." Other topics include how memory works in the human brain, memory and trauma, amnesia, memory practices in the sciences...

...animal agency and intelligence, our moral obligations to animals, and the limits imposed on the use of animals. Students taking the graduate version complete additional assignments...

...national and transnational power relationships in which environmental interactions are embedded. In addition to utilizing a range of theoretical perspectives...

...The readings are set up in an alternating rhythm of theory and ethnography. We should try to read each week against the previous ones, building up a common... Learn about: Social Theory...

...participant-observation, and other qualitative research skills, as well as critical discussion of case studies. The course is open to all interested students... Learn about: Cross Cultural...

...chosen to illustrate central topics concerning the cultural and material practices that comprise digital technologies. We'll examine social histories of automata and automation...

...aspects of networked life through internet-related technologies (including computers, mobile devices, entertainment technologies, and emerging media forms)... Learn about: Network Training...

...including co-creation and intellectual property. Lectures: 1 session / week, 3 hours / session This course examines the social, cultural, economic... Learn about: Intellectual Property...

...effects of policy interventions on economic outcomes. Topics include minimum wages and employment, food stamps and consumer welfare, economics of risk and safety regulation...

...Students should be comfortable with multivariable calculus, linear algebra, and basic real analysis. Lectures: 2 lectures / week, 1.5 hours / lecture Recitations...

...While the course is designed for graduate students in economics, it is open to all students who have taken and passed 14.121. Lectures: 2 sessions /... Learn about: Economic Theory...

...Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Recitations: 1 session / week, 1.5 hours / session 14.121 Microeconomic Theory I, 14.122Microeconomic Theory...

...1.5 hours/session Recitations: 1 session/week, 1.5 hours/session The prerequisite for this course is 14.123 Microeconomic Theory III or MIT students... Learn about: Decision Making, IT risk...

...impact of markets, learning, and incentives, and memory, attention, categorization, and the thinking process. Lectures: 1 session / week, 3 hours / session...

...and global games. It also introduces cooperative solution concepts—Nash bargaining solution, core, Shapley value—and develops corresponding non-cooperative foundations...

...Finally, we will go over a recursive method for repeated games that has proven useful in contract theory and macroeconomics. We shall stress applications...

...two-sided matching, stochastic matching mechanisms, student assignment, and school choice. A list of topics by session is available in the calendar below...

...and structures and processes in organizations. Each class session covers a few leading papers. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session This course...

...and testing, among others. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Recitations: 1 session / week, 1.5 hours / session 18.02 Multivariable Calculus The...