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2.00 Credits
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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Prereq: Permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Examines efforts in developing and advanced nations and regions to create, finance, and regulate infrastructure and energy technologies from a variety of methodological and disciplinary perspectives. Explores how an energy crisis can be an opportunity for making fundamental changes to improve collapsing infrastructure technologies. Introduces the challenges to modern society concerning energy and infrastructure technologies. Reviews the moral hazard aspects of infrastructure and the common arguments for withholding adequate support from new energy and infrastructure technologies. Seminar is conducted with intensive in-class discussions and debates. Students taking the graduate version complete additional assignments.
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Prereq: 14.01 or permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Examines the interaction between law, courts, and social movements in shaping domestic and global public policy. Examines how groups mobilize to use law to affect change and why they succeed and fail. Primarily focuses on the interplay between law, social movements, and public policy in current areas such as gender, race, labor, trade, environment, and human rights. Introduces the theories of public policy, social movements, law and society, and transnational studies. Students taking the graduate version complete additional assignments. Limited to 15.
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Prereq: Permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
The economic growth of developing countries requires the acquisition of technological capabilities. In countries at the world technological frontier, such capabilities refer to cutting edge skills to innovate entirely new products. In developing countries, the requisite technological capabilities are broader, and include production engineering, project execution and incremental innovation to make borrowed technology work. Theories of technology acquisition are examined. The empirical evidence is taken from two sets of developing countries; the most advanced (Taiwan, Korea, India, China and Brazil) and the least advanced (Africa and Middle Eastern countries).
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Prereq: None
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4.00 Credits
Examines innovation in public policy, technology and business models that enable massive-scale improvements in energy efficiency. Explores how they help balance energy supply and demand and prevent unmanageable, irreversible climate change. Students apply analytic methods and design tools to assess strategies to enable energy efficiency. Particular focus on opportunities in US homes and buildings created by utility funding models, carbon cap-and-trade, energy-saving building codes, appliance standards, and green community practices. Limited to 25.
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Prereq: None
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3.00 Credits
Credit cannot also be received for 11.520An introduction to the research and empirical analysis of urban planning issues using geographic information systems. Extensive hands-on exercises provide experience with various techniques in spatial analysis and querying databases. Includes a small project on an urban planning problem involving the selection of appropriate methods, the use of primary and secondary data, computer-based modeling, and spatial analysis. Requires some computing experience. Content similar to 11.520.
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Prereq: None
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0.00 - 6.00 Credits
Practical application of planning techniques to towns, cities, and regions, including problems of replanning, redevelopment, and renewal of existing communities. Includes internships, under staff supervision, in municipal and state agencies and departments.
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Prereq: Permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Designed for students writing a thesis in Urban Studies and Planning or Architecture. Develop research topics, review relevant research and scholarship, frame research questions and arguments, choose an appropriate methodology for analysis, and draft introductory and methodology sections.
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Prereq: None
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0.00 - 6.00 Credits
Program of research leading to the writing of an SB thesis. To be arranged by the student under approved supervision.
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Prereq: 11.ThT
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0.00 - 6.00 Credits
No course description available.
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Prereq: None
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