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11 130: Educational Theory and Practice II
3.00 Credits
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Concentrates on the theory and psychology associated with student learning. Topics include educational theory, educational psychology, and theories of learning. Student teaching is a key component. Assignments include readings from educational literature, written reflections on classroom observations, presentations on class topics, and practice teaching. Second of a three-course sequence necessary to complete the Teacher Education Program.
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Prereq: 11.129
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11 131: Education Theory and Practice III
3.00 Credits
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Concentrates on the theory and psychology associated with student learning. Topics include educational theory, educational psychology, and theories of learning. Assignments include readings from educational literature, written reflections on classroom observations, presentations on class topics, and practice teaching. Student teaching is a key component of 11.130, the second of the three-course sequence necessary to complete the Teacher Education Program; classroom observation is a key component of 11.131, third of the three-course sequence.
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Prereq: 11.130
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11 140: Urbanization and Development
3.00 Credits
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Examines developmental dynamics of rapidly urbanizing locales, with a special focus on the developing world. Case studies from India, China, Mexico, Brazil, and South Africa form the basis for discussion of social, spatial, political and economic changes in cities spurred by the decline of industry, the rise of services, and the proliferation of urban mega projects. Emphasizes the challenges of growing urban inequality, environmental risk, citizen displacement, insufficient housing, and the lack of effective institutions for metropolitan governance. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.
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Prereq: None
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11 147: Urban Public Finance in Developing Countries
3.00 Credits
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Addresses how cities grapple with providing urban services to some of the fastest growing populations in the developing world, with limited fiscal and institutional capacity. Explores ways to choose and pay for urban public services. Surveys both public finance theory and applied policy debates. Studies public finance analysis, various sources of public finance and their tradeoffs, and provides a general theoretical framework with which to approach urban financing problems. Examines the political economy of cities and the structural forces behind the urban physical environment. Students taking graduate version complete a final term paper.
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Prereq: Permission of instructor
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11 150J: Metropolis: A Comparative History of New York City
3.00 Credits
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Examines the evolution of New York City from 1607 to the present. Readings focus on the city's social and physical histories. Discussions compare New York's development to patterns in other cities.
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11 152J: The Ghetto: From Venice to Harlem
2.00 Credits
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Provides an in-depth look at a modern institution of oppression: the ghetto. Uses literature to examine ghettoization over time and across a wide geographical area, from Jews in Medieval Europe to African-Americans and Latinos in the 20th-century United States. Also explores segregation and poverty in the urban "Third World."
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Prereq: None
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11 153J: Shanghai and China's Modernization
2.00 Credits
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Considers the history and function of Shanghai, from 1840 to the present, and its rise from provincial backwater to international metropolis. Examines its role as a primary point of economic, political, and social contact between China and the world, and the strong grip Shanghai holds on both the Chinese and foreign imagination. Students discuss the major events and figures of Shanghai, critique the classic historiography, and complete an independent project on Shanghai history.
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Prereq: None
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11 161J: Energy Decisions, Markets, and Policies
4.00 Credits
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Structured around choices and constraints regarding sources and uses of energy by households, firms, and governments, introduces managerial, economic, political, social and cultural frameworks for describing and explaining behavior at various levels of aggregation. Includes examples of cost-benefit, organizational and institutional analyses of energy generation, distribution, and consumption. Topics include the role of markets and prices; financial analysis of energy-related investments; institutional path dependence; economic and political determinants of government regulation and the impact of regulation on decisions; and other forms of government action and social norms regarding desired behavior and opportunities for businesses and consumers, including feedback into the political/regulatory system. Examples drawn from a wide range of countries and settings.
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Prereq: 14.01 or permission of instructor
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11 162: Politics of Energy and the Environment
3.00 Credits
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Introduces politics of making local, state, national and international decisions on energy and the environment. Topics include implementing energy efficiency measures, siting nuclear and alternative energy plants, promoting oil and gas development in wilderness, adapting to climate change, handling toxic waste, protecting endangered species, and conserving water. Case studies include Cape Wind, disputes over oil and gas exploration in the Arctic, the response to Hurricane Katrina, and efforts to craft and comply with the Kyoto Protocol. Limited to 35.
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Prereq: None
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11 163J: Law and Society
3.00 Credits
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Studies legal reasoning, types of law and legal systems, and relationship of law to social class and social change. Emphasis on the profession and practice of law including legal education, stratification within the bar, and the politics of legal services. Investigation of emerging issues in the relationship between institutions of law and science.
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