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API 205

Politics and Policies: The Impact of Data and AI

Supporting leaders to make data-based decisions, we first investigate the current role of data and AI. International and US case studies on elections, polling, climate change, economic development, education, public health, corruption, autonomous vehicles, justice and policing provide a powerful range of insights.
Fall 2024 Graduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
API 165

Energy and Environmental Economics and Policy

This course applies economic tools to understand the rationale, design, and evaluation of public policies focused on energy and environmental problems.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
DEV 309

Development Policy Strategy

This capstone course explores a wide array of theoretical and analytical tools to help policy makers diagnose, prioritize and address development challenges at a national or sub-national level.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
IGA 260

Asia in the World - Regional Security, Integration and Ideology

What are the factors that hold Asia together, or run the risk of pulling it apart? This course examines contemporary Asia, one of the most politically and economically dynamic regions of the world, exploring how far it can be seen as one region and how complex the forces within it are.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
HLS 2931

Creating Electricity in the U.S.: Exploring the Tradeoffs

In this reading group, we will explore historic and ongoing legal and policy debates about the fuels that power the US electric system.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
TBA

Writing Group: Climate Adaptation

Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
HLS 3111

ESG: Corporate Ethics in the 21st Century

This course will investigate the rise of ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) as a dominant investment strategy and its consequences for corporate governance and regulation of several sectors in the global economy.
Fall 2024 Graduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
API 141

Finance

This course provides financial concepts, techniques, and instruments that are essential to a variety of applications that include raising debt and equity finance, asset management, climate finance, development finance, financing infrastructure, banking, financial regulation, and risk management.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Business Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
HLS 2076

Ethics, Economics and the Law

Explores controversies about the use of markets and market reasoning in areas such as organ sales, procreation, environmental regulation, immigration policy, military service, voting, health care, education, and criminal justice.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
IGA 402, E-PSCI 239

The Climate Energy Challenge: A Foundation in Science, Technology and Policy

This course will consider the challenge of climate change and what to do about it. Students will be introduced to the basic science of climate change, including the radiation budget of the Earth, the carbon cycle, and the physics and chemistry of the oceans and atmosphere.
Fall 2024 Graduate Available Engineering Law & Policy Physical Sciences Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
IGA 413M

The Energy-Climate Transition

This module will look at the challenges and opportunities associated with options to transition economies toward relying on low and zero-carbon energy sources to mitigate global climate change.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
API 205

Politics and Policies: What Is the Impact of Data and AI?

Data and artificial intelligence (AI) are changing our world.. Intended for leaders, this course introduces statistics and machine learning and what they can tell us about global challenges. Using case studies on justice and policing, elections and polling, behavioral economics, development, climate change, education, and health, we analyze research design, regression, and project evaluation, and compare the perspective of ethics.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Business Engineering Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024