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  • 88 398: Independent Study

    1.00 - 18.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Students conduct research or other independent academic study under the supervision of a Social Decision Sciences faculty member. Students who wish to engage in research should seek out a faculty member whose interests are appropriate to the topic. Prerequisite: Permission of a faculty sponsor.
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  • 88 399: Undergraduate Research

    1.00 - 18.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

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  • 88 402: Modeling Complex Social Systems

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Many of the biggest challenges facing modern societies---maintaining global political and financial stability, protecting against terrorist acts, cooperating to solve collective problems such as climate change or corruption---are complex. They are not simply complicated; they arise as interacting agents create various feedbacks that result in, often unintentional, emergent phenomena. Confronting these challenges requires an understanding of the properties of complex systems. In this course, we will provide an overview of complex systems theory and concepts. You will learn the fundamental properties of complex adaptive systems and how to apply these insights to a variety of key social science problems. We will introduce and analyze computational and mathematical models, as well as qualitative models, so you should have some familiarity with basic probability and algebra. We will explore topics such as inequality, networks, information spread, community formation, the evolution of cooperation, and the stabilization of financial markets. We will cross traditional disciplinary boundaries and venture into economics, political science, sociology, finance, cognitive science, computer science, physics, statistics, and mathematics as needed. Students will be expected to think critically about how to apply modeling insights to the real world, taking account of the social, political, and economic implications of proposed policies. They will express their ideas in class discussions, presentations, and written reports. The course will culminate with students engaging in a research project to model a complex social system of their choice.
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  • 88 405: Risk Perception and Communication

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Throughout their lives, people make decisions about risks that may potentially affect their health, safety, finances, use of technology, and effects on the environment. This course will review the risk perception and communication literature, focusing on theoretical and methodological issues as well as practical implications for educators, public health officials, engineers, economists, and other experts who aim to teach people about risks. We will discuss how to design surveys to increase our understanding of the problems people face when making decisions about specific risks, and how to design communication materials that help people to improve their decisions. We will highlight examples and applications taken from multiple disciplines, including health psychology, adolescent decision making, environmental science, and engineering.
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  • 88 408: Attitudes the Media and Conflict in International Relations

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course examines the sources of political attitudes, the effect of the media on attitudes, how both interact to influence international conflict, with some attention also to civil war, terrorism, other forms of violence. The first half of the course considers attitude formation the media, the second half focuses on conflict. Specifically, we begin by considering different social science perspectives on attitude formation, drawing from research in behavioral economics, public opinion, decision science, political psychology. We then consider the effect of the media on attitudes, the incentives facing leaders of democracies and non-democracies to manipulate the media. Here, we draw primarily from research in comparative politics IR, but we also cover information science systems thinking about the spread of ideas. Finally, we consider the effect of attitudes on conflict by examining theories of IR conflict at multiple levels of analysis: from intra-group conflict, to the relationship between domestic politics IR, to the ?first image? in IR, and to theories of cooperation under anarchy. Throughout, the diverse collection of social science theories will be both illustrated by critically evaluated through the consideration of contemporary and historical issues, including the rise of China, energy security, human security, inter-ethnic conflict. Students will leave the class with a deeper understanding of the relationship between ideas conflict, how the media affects political outcomes, the diversity of causes consequences of international conflict. Students will be expected to think critically about the theories and arguments presented ? they should not simply accept them at face value; rather, students should come prepared to discuss and question the assumptions, relevance, and explanatory power of various ideas presented.
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  • 88 411: The Rise of the Asian Economies

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    For most of the past quarter century, no region of the world has been more economically dynamic than Asia. This course is designed to provide students with the essential knowledge necessary to evaluate opportunities and risks in Asia. The course will use analytical tools drawn from economics and finance, business cases, and guest lectures to focus on the key strengths that sustained economic growth in East Asia for decades, the weaknesses that undermined that growth in the late 1990s, and what lies ahead. The course will also examine Indian economic growth since the early 1980s, and compare India's experience with that of the East Asian economies. A special focus will be placed on recent developments in India and China and the prospects for continued growth in those countries over the next decade.
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  • 88 412: Economics of Global Warming

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    The scientific community has concluded that human industrial activities are causing global temperatures to increase. Coping with the environmental, economic, and political consequences of this change is considered by many to be the preeminent public policy challenge of the 21st century. In this course, we will investigate the basic science of climate change, the prospective economic impact of global warming, the uncertainty involved in long-run climate forecasting, and the technological alternatives available to us as we seek to mitigate the impact of human industrial activity on global warming. The heart of this course will be an in-depth analysis of the policy options available to the United States and the global community. We will investigate the economic costs of these options and the way political realities are likely to shape and constrain policy at the national and international levels.
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  • 88 413: Energy and Climate: History, Science, Technology, & Policy in the US 1776-2076

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course provides CMU students with a historically grounded, technically informed, and policy-centered examination of energy and climate in the United States from the American Revolution to the nation's tri-centennial, by which time the nation will either have taken the necessary action to avoid massive catastrophes related to global warming or will be destined for?and perhaps already experiencing--a series of vastly catastrophic climate events that visit apocalyptic-like suffering and misery on large segments of the nation. Energy procurement and expenditure in the US and climate change have been surprisingly linked over the nation's entire. Now is the time for CMU students to understand these relationships historically, technically and scientifically, and politically and geopolitically. The course is structured around the reading and discussion of landmark scholarship on energy and climate sewn together by lectures, films, and various unorthodox pedagogical methods.
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  • 88 415: Global Competitiveness: Firms Nations, and Technological Change

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course introduces students to the fundamental principles surrounding global competitiveness and technological change in the 21st century. The past twenty years have seen dramatic changes in innovation ecosystems in the U.S. and internationally. Alone within the U.S., there has been a sharp decline in corporate R D labs, matched by the global fragmentation of firm activities. At the same time growing linkages have been observed across institutional ? firms, government labs, and universities ? and national borders. These changes raise critical questions about the new rules of the game driving technological change in the 21st century. This course sheds insights into these questions through the lenses of competing economic, sociological, and political science theories on the structures supporting technological change. The course is broken into three sections. The first section introduces students to theories of the firm, bureaucracy, institutional economics, and social networks as competing frameworks within which to understand technological change. The second section presents the contemporary literature on the technological change, including creative destruction, dominate designs, industry life cycles, and networks of innovators. The concluding section leverages lessons from the preceding two sections to evaluate national innovation systems, and the factors that lead to national comparative advantage. Students should leave the class able to reflect competently on what the existing literature tells us about the factors influencing global technology competitiveness, and on how modern changes in the structures supporting innovation as well as technology itself may be changing the rules of the game for firms and for nations. The course is open to seniors; also to juniors with instructor permission.
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  • 88 419: Negotiation

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Negotiation is a process in which two or more parties undertake a process to resolve conflicting interests. Decision makers use negotiation in a variety of circumstances ? to reach agreements among countries, among employers and employees, among firms, and among family and friends. There are two different sections of this course (students are not permitted to take both): Domestic section: The objective of this course is to understand the process of negotiations and how the structure of the negotiation environment affects the outcomes achieved. Students will learn to analyze the features of the negotiation environment, develop an understanding of effective negotiation strategies, and identify the barriers to reaching wise agreements. This course will focus on negotiations in a wide variety of context: public policy negotiations, business negotiations, and inter-personal negotiations. International section: The objective of this course is to understand the process of negotiations and how the structure of the negotiation environment affects the outcomes achieved. Students will learn to analyze the features of the negotiation environment, develop an understanding of effective negotiation strategies, and identify the barriers to reaching wise agreements. This course will focus on negotiations in primarily international contexts.
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