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17 311: Politics, Race, and Science
3.00 Credits
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Comparatively examines the historical and contemporary role of science in constructing knowledge about human differences and similarities in terms of race. Particular attention is paid to the social and political context of scientific inquiry and to its consequences for public policy. Topics include US "Jim Crow" segregation policy, US immigration policy, the US eugenics movement, and the international Human Genome Project.
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17 314J: Labor Market Regulation and Career Mobility
3.00 Credits
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Examines the way in which workers organize to structure and regulate the labor market and how those efforts interact with (as cause and effect) career mobility. Particular focus on the contrast between union organization and government regulation and on the shift from mobilization around class to mobilization around race, sex and ethnicity. Contrast between unified systems of regulation (France, Spain, Latin America) and fragmented systems (United States).
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17 314J - Labor Market Regulation and Career Mobility
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17 315: Health Policy
4.00 Credits
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Analyzes the health policy problems facing America including adequate access to care, the control of health care costs, and the encouragement of medical advances. Considers market and regulatory alternatives as well as international models including Canadian, Swedish, British, and German arrangements. Emphasis on historical development, interest group behavior, public opinion, and organizational influences in shaping and implementing policy.
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17 315 - Health Policy
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17 317: US Social Policy
4.00 Credits
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Explores historical development and contemporary politics of the American welfare state. Examines interactions among political institutions, elites, the media, and the mass public. Emphasis on reciprocal relationship between policy designs and public opinion/political action. Investigates broad spectrum of government policies that shape well-being, opportunity and political influence, including welfare, social security, health care, education, and tax policy.
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17 33: Building a Better World
3.00 Credits
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Explores today's key policy challenges, including state-building, economic development, environmental protection, corruption and the rule of law, the provision of basic public services, democratization, the strengthening civil society, and international security. Presents the problem for each topic, reviews potential solutions, discusses failed approaches, and identifies concrete successes. Examples drawn from around the world. Includes projects with a practical component.
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17 391J: Human Rights in Theory and Practice
2.00 Credits
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Provides a rigorous and critical introduction to the history, foundation, structure, and operation of the human rights movement. Focuses on key ideas, actors, methods, and sources, and critically evaluates the field. Addresses current debates in human rights, including torture, security, democracy promotion, the place of rights in development and globalization, women's rights, ethnic, religious and racial discrimination and conflict, humanitarian intervention, post-conflict rebuilding, transitional justice, terrorism, and ethical issues in science and technology. Requires familiarity with global affairs or ethics and social justice issues. Students taking graduate version are expected to write a research paper. ?
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17 393J: Environmental Law, Policy, and Economics: Pollution Prevention and Control
3.00 Credits
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Introduction to important issues in contemporary environmental law, policy, and economics. Discusses the roles and interactions of Congress, federal agencies, state governments, and the courts in dealing with environmental problems. Topics include common law, administrative law, environmental impact assessments required by the National Environmental Policy Act, and legislation and court decisions dealing with air pollution, water pollution, the control of hazardous waste, pollution and accident prevention, community right-to-know, and environmental justice. Explores the role of science and economics in legal decisions, and economic incentives as an alternative or supplement to regulation. Analyzes pollution as an economic problem and a failure of markets. Introduction to basic legal skills: how to read and understand cases, regulation, and statutes; how to discover the current state of the law in a specific area; and how to take action toward resolution of environmental problems.Students taking the graduate version are expected to explore the subject in greater depth.
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17 393J - Environmental Law, Policy, and Economics: Pollution Prevention and Control
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17 398J: Energy Policy for a Sustainable Future
3.00 Credits
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Focuses on a wide range of current energy and energy-related environmental policies that foster the development and mass deployment of sustainable energy technologies, fuels, and practices. Primary focus is US-based policies at the state, regional and federal level that impact the electricity, transportation and buildings and facilities sectors. Detailed case studies, diverse readings, and guest lectures by prominent policy makers and practitioners. Limited to 35.
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17 40: American Foreign Policy: Past, Present, and Future
3.00 Credits
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Reasons for America's past wars and interventions. Consequences of American policies. Evaluation of these consequences for the US and the world. History covered includes World Wars I and II, the Korean and Indochina wars, the Cuban Missile Crisis and current conflicts, including those in in Iraq and Afghanistan, and against al Qaeda.
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17 405: Seminar on Politics and Conflicts in the Middle East
3.00 Credits
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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