Social Science Postgraduate Degrees

...research topics and a good command of the tools in the area. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours per session Recitation: 1 session /...

...Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Topics include: productivity effects of health, private and social returns to education, education quality... Learn about: Decision Making, Quality Training...

...development, transparency, and functioning of financial markets; privatization; and banks and credit market institutions in emerging markets. Lectures...

...and neo-institutionalism, the seminar examines the fundamental assumptions on which our understanding of the social world and our research are based. Seminars... Learn about: Social Science...

...or one group from another are becoming more and more permeable. For proof of this close to home, you need only to look at the composition of the MIT student... Learn about: Communication Training...

...texts themselves (songs, films, videos, and images), students will scrutinize the different interpretations of reggae's significance and the implications... Learn about: Music Industry...

...in the First and Third World; how globalization leads to a common cosmopolitan culture; the emergence of a global youth culture; and religious...

...2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session For students needing additional work in reviewing English grammar: Communication intensive subjects in the humanities...

...who intend to teach or lecture in English and includes language laboratory assignments. The goal of the workshop is to develop effective speaking and listening... Learn about: Communication Training, Listening Skills...

...of the body in gendered ways at different times. It investigates new directions in the study of gender as historians, anthropologists and others have taken...

...Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session There are no prerequisites for this course. This course will provide a survey of several feminist frameworks...

...recognition and accommodation on the basis of their differences. In practice, democratic states have granted a variety of group-differentiated rights... Learn about: Political Philosophy...

...national identity, republicanism versus liberalism, the relationship of subordinated groups to mainstream political discourse, and the role of ideas in politics... Learn about: Political Thought...

...policy-making, and the institutional structures of the political economy in industrialized democracies. Lectures: 1 session / week, 2 hours / session... Learn about: European Politics...

...state traditions ("etatist," liberal, authoritarian); government's role in decline of some economies and rise of others; why and where Keynesianism...

...and institutional imperatives, along with implications for political constitution of economic performance. Seminars: 1 session / week; 2 hours / session...

...economy, and society. Some of the key issues that will be explored include: The seminar is open to undergraduates and graduate students. Some prior...

...but it is sufficiently broad to give students an introduction to major empirical questions and theoretical approaches that guide the study of American... Learn about: American Politics, Political Institutions...

...students practice reading work critically, and thinking through the difficulties of social science research, in preparation for individual research projects... Learn about: Social Science, American Politics...

...ways of studying congressional behavior? This course focuses on both the internal processes of the House and Senate, and on the place of Congress in...