University Bulletin (2013-2014)

HS 104b American Health Care
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Examines and critically analyzes the United States health care system, emphasizing the major trends and issues that have led to the current sense of "crisis." In addition to providing a historical perspective, this course will establish a context for analyzing the current, varied approaches to health care reform. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Altman

HS 110a Wealth and Poverty
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Examines why the gap between richer and poorer citizens appears to be widening in the United States and elsewhere, what could be done to reverse this trend, and how the widening disparity affects major issues of public policy. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Shapiro

HS 120a Race and the Law
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Explores how race has been defined and used to uphold or undermine the principles espoused in the Constitution and other sources of the law in the United States. Issues discussed range from treatment of Native Americans at the nation's birth to the modern concept of affirmative action. One of our premises is that ideally the law represents the synthesis of the narratives of various elements of a society. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Hill

HS 124a Dilemmas of Long-Term Care
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Fifty million Americans have a disability. What kinds of help do they want? What are the responsibilities of families, friends, and communities to help? Current U.S. approaches to service delivery, financing, and organization are reviewed and alternatives considered. Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Leutz

HRNS/HS 232a Team Consulting Project Workshop
Corequisite: Concurrent registration with HS 299b. Yields half-course credit.
A series of sessions designed to provide students with the team building and consulting skills necessary to meet the team consulting projects client needs and provide them with tools that will be useful throughout their careers. Several sessions will enable teams to share their experiences with other teams and problem solve as a group. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Bailis, Ms. Carlson and Ms. Smith

HS 204f Education, Gender and Development
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Reviews the relationship between gender access to education and development indicators such as reduced fertility, improved health, and women's access to employment, income, and decision-making. Students look at the broader factors behind these links, and at issues that prevent education from playing the expected role in overcoming inequalities and building human and social capital in developing countries. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Epinosa

HS 205f Organizational Management for Development Practitioners
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Introduces challenges faced by managers in international and local development organizations and provides an opportunity for interactive learning of skill sets required to overcome these challenges. Students examine elements of new public management such as performance management, privatization, and partnerships and the changing role played by NGOs in development practice. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Assan

HS 206f Sustainable Agriculture and Watersheds
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Focuses on scientific principles and basic practices of sustainable agriculture and its links to watershed management, soil conservation, and landscape ecology. Topics include how sustainable agriculture links to management of water and watersheds, integrated watershed management, hydrologic cycles, and the relation of surface water and groundwater resources to agricultural productivity, ecology, and social justice. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Ellsworth

HS 207f Ecology of Health
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Develops an ecological view of the causes of good or poor health by considering aspects of “macro-habitats” that include air, water, and the multitude of other life that lives around, on, and in us. The course looks at unexpected health consequences of the modern built environment where people have achieved “the good life” with safe water, roads, cheap food, and a car in every driveway. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Olson

HS 208f Systems Solutions to Disastrous Climate Change
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Focuses on known and rapidly improving sustainable renewable energy technologies such as solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, tidal, biofuels, advanced nuclear, along with methods of energy storage, improved infrastructure, energy conservation, and demand management. Economic policies that will have the most impact on rapidly developing, urbanizing, and polluting industrialized areas are also examined. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Abt

HS 210a Coexistence and Conflict: Theory and Analysis
Open only to students enrolled in the MA program in coexistence and conflict. Other students considered with permission of the instructor. May not be taken for credit by students who took COEX 210a in prior years.
Addresses the current and emerging context of intercommunal conflict around the world and the varying and developing theoretical approaches to the emergence and resolution of such conflicts. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Fitzduff

HS 211f Agriculture and Rural Development
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Provides an overview of the impact of development policy on agriculture and rural sectors, consequences of neglecting these sectors, and policy responses in developing countries. Topics include household economics, rural production systems, land tenure, rural markets and institutions, rural poverty and inequality, the environment, and the role of institutions. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Assan

HS 213f Development in Latin America
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Introduces students to the field of development and democracy building in Latin America, discussing the historical roots of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) dilemmas and challenges, from the perspective of economic growth, democracy building and social justice. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Espinosa

HS 214f Environmental Economics and Policy
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Introduces students to economic perspectives on modern environmental issues. Students study economic theories related to natural resources, with an emphasis on the strengths and weaknesses of economic models. Students learn that economic objectives do not necessarily conflict with environmental goals, and that markets can be harnessed to efficiently improve environmental quality. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Roach

HS 215b Corporate Finance
Prerequisites: HS 250a and HS 246b.
Introduces the modern theory of corporate finance and the institutional background of financial instruments and markets. Considers ways to measure value. Explores alternative forms of financing and ways to analyze them. Considers the financing tools appropriate for for-profit and nonprofit organizations.
Mr. Friedman

HS 216f Trade and Natural Resources: A Sustainable Development Perspective
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Examines trade and environment from the perspective of sustainable development and potential for poverty alleviation. This course flows from understanding that the trade and environment policy debate has become highly specialized. As a result, it is imposing stress on developing countries to participate in these discussions and influencing policy to become ever narrower and, therefore, missing connections central to resolving challenges. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Boyer

HS 217f Eli J. Segal Seminar in Citizen Leadership and Service
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Engages students in a rigorous examination of the concepts of Citizen Leadership and Citizen Service, as they have been used in the past, in an effort to support them in integrating these ideas into their career plans and personal development. Each session will involve readings on a specific aspect of Citizen Leadership or Service and an opportunity to discuss these aspects with guest speakers and resources, most of whom are Segal Program Founders, men and women who have exemplified them. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Bailis and Ms. Schwarzenbach

HS 218f Communications for Impact
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Provides practical communication skills essential to advocate for social change including the importance of clear electronic and written public media; developing cogent arguments address policy or program challenges at the local, national, or international level; and the ability to communicate positions and potential solutions in a concise convincing manner. Students explore a variety of modern communication methods. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Arena-DeRosa

HS 219f Transitional Justice: Introduction
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Transitional justice is a relatively new and growing interdisciplinary field of study placed at the intersection between international law and justice, politics, human rights and conflict and peace studies. This module introduces the concept and practices of transitional justice. We review the various mechanisms of transitional justice, including: criminal prosecution; purges and lustrations; truth and reconciliation commissions; reparations and compensation schemes; revisions of national-historical narratives; official apologies; and, public commemoration. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Hirsch

HS 220a Strategies for Coexistence Interventions
Prerequisite: HS 210a. Open only to students enrolled in the MA program in coexistence and conflict. Other students considered with permission of the instructor. May not be taken for credit by students who took COEX 220a in prior years.
Studies the utilization of a variety of multifaceted approaches to policy and practice in coexistence and conflict interventions, as well as the strategic design and evaluation of such interventions. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Fitzduff

HS 220f The Energy-Environment-Economic Development Trilemma
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Covers the three essential components of environmentally and economically sustainable international development, and the interactions among them. The course begins with a presentation of three dual relationships: Energy and the Economy; Energy and the Environment; and Environment and the Economy, and how they affect each other at the community, national, and international levels, in the current decade and alternative 20- and 40-year trends into the future. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Abt

HS 221f Household Economics
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit. May not be repeated by students who have taken HS 259f with this topic in previous years.
Centers on (a) discussing the intuition behind concepts in household economics and (b) the applied aspects of the concepts for practitioners of development. The course is purposefully not technical and is designed for students who have taken the introductory course to economics. The course will provide a theoretical and empirical introduction to the field of household economics as well as provide practical tools to do basic analysis of intra-household gender inequalities. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Godoy

HS 222f Tourism and Development
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Explores the sustainability of tourism and of ecotourism in particular. The rapid growth of ecotourism is a welcome change in the global tourism industry. At its best, ecotourism aims to increase the sustainability of the travel and tour industry, and makes direct support of wildlife and habitat conservation an element of doing business. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Olson

HS 223f Gender and Development in the Context of Neoliberalism and Globalization
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit. May not be repeated by students who have taken HS 259f with this topic in previous years.
Reviews the connections between gender and macroeconomics before exploring main changes brought by globalization and neoliberal policies as they affect social policies, livelihoods, families and gender. Relying on recent critical scholarship, this course aims to provide a framework to understand the role of gender within development in times of neoliberal globalization, when deep transformation have altered the relations between the state, markets and civil society and the material and subjective contexts for gender identities and practices. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Espinosa

HS 224f Gender and the Environment
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit. May not be repeated by students who have taken HS 259f with this topic in previous years.
Introduces students to the field of gender and the environment, examining the relevance of gender for environmental conservation that includes social sustainability, and the different ways gender has been conceptualized and integrated within environmental conservation and within sustainable development interventions. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Espinosa

HS 225a Fundraising and Development
Examines the critical role of fundraising and development in successful nonprofit organizations. Students learn to analyze, plan, and evaluate a comprehensive fundraising program and to create elements of a professional fundraising portfolio. Explores management and leadership issues associated with the rapidly changing field of development and philanthropy. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Whalen

HS 225f The Political Economy and Measure of Inequality
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit. May not be repeated by students who have taken HS 259f with this topic in previous years.
Exposes students to current debates about the causes and consequences of three dominant topics in development: income inequality, social capital, and empowerment. Through a combination of country case studies, this course will enhance appreciation of empirical analysis of the topics. In addition, students will be familiarized with technical aspects of how one measures income inequality, social capital, and empowerment in applied work. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Godoy

HS 226f Environment and Conflict
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Examines the relationship(s) and interaction(s) between conflict and the environment. Both social and ecological theoretical frameworks regarding this interaction will be explored. The course will focus on establishing a set of analytical tools that can form the basis for intervention in emerging conflicts. Usually offered every year.
Mr. van Maasakkers

HS 227f Introduction to Design, Monitoring and Evaluation of Coexistence Interventions
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Provides an introductory review of the core concepts and practical steps of design, monitoring and evaluation in the field of coexistence and peacebuilding. The course will stress participatory methods in monitoring and evaluation, in which multiple stakeholders are involved in the process of planning, collecting, interpreting, synthesizing, and using information. The course will feature case studies and actual DM&E plans and evaluation reports. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Jean

HS 228a Social Entrepreneurship
Explores how entrepreneurship has become a driving force in the social enterprise sector, provides tools for developing and evaluating new ventures, and explores the blurring line between for-profit and nonprofit social initiatives. The course also teaches hands-on social venture business plan development tools, from assessing markets to developing financial and operating plans. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Carlson

HS 228f Social Theory Seminar
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit. May not be repeated by students who have taken HS 259f with this topic in previous years.
Even in his own lifetime, Freire became a global icon for social movements against poverty and for unshackling of the minds of the poor. This seminar will introduce Freire’s core beliefs as presented in selections from his oeuvre including a full reading of Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Students will consider the relevance of Freire’s ideas and methods to today’s poor as well as to their own experiences of societal change. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Simon

HS 229f International Health Financing
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Examines the mobilization of resources for the health system as a whole and the funding of individual providers for health services in developing countries. Provides the tools for examining broad reforms as well as refinements of individual components of the health care system. Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Shepard

HS 230f Coexistence Research Methods
Open only to students enrolled in the MA program in coexistence and conflict. Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit. May not be taken for credit by students who took COEX 230f in prior years.
Preparation for the research necessary for the required field project in the MA program in coexistence and conflict. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Johnson

HS 231b MBA Internship
Provides an opportunity for MBA students to carry out a formal internship with a client organization under the supervision of a faculty advisor. The internship allows students to apply principles from the MBA curriculum for a client organization. Usually offered every semester.
Staff

HS 231f MBA Internship
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit. May be repeated once for credit.
Provides an opportunity for MBA students to carry out a formal internship with a client organization under the supervision of a faculty advisor. The internship allows students to apply principles from the MBA curriculum for a client organization. Usually offered every semester.
Staff

HS 232f Theories of Justice
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Explores contemporary applied ethics and political philosophy on theories of justice. Students examine moral and ontological grounds of social movements from the paradigm-forming theories of John Rawls to pioneers of different traditions and movements including Amartya Sen, Michael Sandel, Wendy Brown, Martha Nussbaum, David Crocker, Gillian Brock, Abdulaziz Sachedina, Kwame Appiah, Thich Nhat Hanh, and others. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Sampath

HS 233a Implementing Policy & Practice
Begins with definitions of policy and how policy is made from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Examines several frameworks for analyzing policy implementation and for planning implementation strategies. Several sessions will focus on the management skills and tools useful to planning and managing the implementation of policy change. Students will have the opportunity to bring conceptual knowledge and skills together in analysis of several case studies. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Holcombe

HS 233f Social Policy for Shared Societies
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Examines how labor mobility, forced migration, and refugee flows have all contributed to societies that are decreasingly homogenous. Multi ethnic, cultural and religious states are now more the rule than the exception. Accommodating, managing and appreciating such diversity in social programming has proved to be one of the major challenges that governments and societies face today. This course looks at how governments and others can develop policies and programs in e.g. development, health, the environment, business and education so that such policies can prevent societal conflicts, and assist the creation of shared rather than conflicted societies. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Fitzduff

HS 234f National Health Accounts: Applications to Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
National Health Accounts (NHA) is a globally accepted framework and approach for measuring total national health expenditure. Provides an overview of the concepts and methodology of NHA. Students will understand the international classification systems used to categorize health expenditures, be able to construct NHA tables, and understand the uses to which NHA data can be put. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Nandakumar

HS 235f Democracy and Development
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Examines the relation between democracy and development geared for development practitioners and policy-makers. Students will discuss if democracy is essential for sustainable development and, if so, what kinds of democracy should be promoted in developing countries. The major critiques of aid and development theory rooted in secular democracy, free-market economies, and human rights will be explored. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Sampath

HS 236a International Health Systems
Provides students with the framework to understand how health systems are organized and to understand what affects their performance. Students also will be able to describe key features of health systems; how health system performance is measured; and how lessons from other countries can be applied to their own countries. The course examines different health system frameworks, how to use these frameworks to ask health system questions, different aspects of health systems, how national health systems differ, and what measures are being implemented in different countries to improve their health system performance and eventually health outcomes. The course will also take a broader look at the relationships between health policy, economic policy and development policy, examining some of the main economic and development theories shaping global policies and also examine the international institutions and political dynamics in health policy making. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Bowser

HS 237f Applied Cost-Benefit Analysis for Development Practitioners
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the private sector, and international development organizations have to decide whether to invest in projects. Benefit-cost analysis has become a standard method to evaluate the net monetary benefits of a project. This course introduces students to these principles and allows them to apply them by using cost-benefit analysis to evaluate a real-world development project. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Godoy

HS 238f Evaluating Survey Data: Questioning Answers
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Exposes students to principles and practices of evaluating survey data. Governments, NGOs, international development organizations, universities, and private researchers collect more and more data through surveys. Data sets cover development topics such as public health, agriculture, environment, education, and economic indicators, so it is vital that practitioners know how to critically examine what is presented. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Godoy

HS 239b International Health Economics
Prepares students with graduate-level knowledge in theories and research methods in the area of international health economics. The course aims at providing a rigorous economic framework that addresses both positive and normative issues in the economics of health in developing countries. Examples used to illustrate the economic theories have a developing country focus. Topics covered include: relationship between health outcomes and macro-economic performance; micro-economics of health care and insurance markets including demand for health care services, insurance, supply of physician services and other medical service; normative analysis for health policy and projects including market failure and public intervention. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Razavi

HS 239f An Integrated Approach to Development Practice
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Examines “development” from a Southern perspective and explores key challenges faced by countries in addressing key issues such as poverty, ill-health, education, food security, and governance. Innovative and effective responses to such challenges are also explored, especially successful examples of alternative approaches to development that have emerged in various parts of the developing world. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Ariyaratne

HS 240a Dialogue and Mediation Skills
Open only to students enrolled in the MA program in coexistence and conflict. Other students considered with permission of the instructor. May not be taken for credit by students who took COEX 240a in prior years.
Addresses the theoretical and practical approaches to mediation and facilitation skills for people and organizations working in areas of intercommunal conflict. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Johnson

HS 240b Professional Skills: Critical Reading and Writing
Yields half-course credit.
Provides students with training and experience in critical reading for development purposes and in professional writing. Combining lectures, discussions, and classroom exercises in weekly class sessions, the course is based around regular written submissions on which students receive extensive feedback. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Walsh

HS 241f Information System Strategies
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Introduces students to fundamental issues related to management information systems (MIS). Managers need an understanding of all of their organizational functions, along with ways to measure all aspects of business operations. For effective management, this ongoing flood of information needs to be ordered, monitored, evaluated, processed, and utilized in a number of ways. An effective MIS can provide both a framework and a set of tools to enable managers to accomplish each of these tasks in order to make proper strategic choices and informed decisions. A major part of our work will be to uncover what types of information we need and how best to measure and use this information effectively. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Fournier

HS 242f Development Aid
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Looks at the evolution of international development aid through multilateral, bilateral, and non-State actors; explores underlying theories of development and how theory has real world influence through aid strategies and programs; examines motivations, objectives and interests of aid programs; and introduces concepts and current debate on aid effectiveness. It helps students develop and articulate their own “theories of change” to shape aid programs toward a more sustainable development. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Simon

HS 243f Religion Identity and Conflict
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Examines the role that religious identity can play in both the escalation and mitigation of conflict. Students will study the role that ideology, belief, values, and faith-based relationships can play in developing and legitimizing, or in transforming and resolving, deeply rooted conflict dynamics. The focus of this course will be on both integration of religious identity factors into conflict analysis and an introduction to faith-based interventions skills, used by religious actors to foster coexistence. During the course, we will explore how to understand and handle conflicts perpetrated by extremist religious groups. We will also explore the diversity of faith-based reconciliation processes (such as hospitality, healing ritual, apology, etc.) as well as the kinds of roles performed by a wide variety of religious actors (education, advocacy, mediation, dialogue facilitation, etc.) Examples and case studies will be drawn from a wide variety of religious traditions and diverse cultures. In addition to those cases presented in the readings and by the professor, each student will be required to select cases on which to make class presentations and write a paper. The purpose of these assignments, and the course in general, is to provide students the opportunity to assess concrete conflict situations in which religious identity is a factor, know the potential contribution that faith-based actors can make to coexistence, and evaluate how best to function in faith-based peacebuilding roles and reconciliation processes that interest them. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Steele

HS 244a Responsible Negotiation
Provides concepts, observations and suggestions to improve analytical and operational negotiation skills. Everyone negotiates on a daily basis, but what about doing it responsibly? Faced with projects, contracts, conflicts or crises, coping with people, problems and process, how can negotiators lever the right reflections and actions in the right direction? How can they optimize utility for themselves and for others? This course also addresses negotiation foundations on how to do first things first, i.e. how to make the right moves at the right time in order to reach the right decisions and to achieve ad hoc implementation. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Lempereur

HS 244f Interdisciplinary Applied Research Design for Development
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Combines lectures with a hands-on approach to learning, training students to incorporate applied research into their careers as development professionals. Students learn elements of sound research design, gain skills to formulate a clear research question, select research methods, and understand the limits and potential of varied methods and the heuristics implied in the process. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Espinosa

HS 245f Economics I
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Introduces basic microeconomic concepts, including market analysis. This course demonstrates the basic problem that resources are scarce, and allows a consideration of various ways to deal with scarcity. Markets are also of direct relevance to managers. A manager, whether for-profit or nonprofit, must operate at least partially in a market environment. The market sets the constraints and provides some of the opportunities for the organization to pursue its goals. The course considers the behavior of consumers and organizations and examines how they interact with each other. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Friedman

HS 246b Statistics
Meets for 1.5 hours a week for a full semester; yields half-course credit.
Presents students with an introduction to the fundamentals of parametric statistics. Covers the essentials required for students to understand issues related to measurement and how to generate descriptive information and statistical analyses from these measurements. Focuses primarily on understanding the importance of summary measures along with a study of fundamental statistical distributions. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Fournier

HS 247f Evaluation for Managers
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Focuses on program evaluation techniques of interest to managers, including balanced scorecard methods, needs assessment, participatory evaluation methods, process/implementation analysis, impact analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and utilization-focused evaluation. These techniques are discussed in the context of building "learning organizations" that enable the organization and its managers to know whether they are succeeding. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Hahn

HS 248b Financial Management
Prerequisite: HS 250a.
Develops students as educated consumers of financial information. Covers financial management problems encountered by today's human service professionals in a real-world perspective based on sound financial and accounting theory. Includes topics such as financial statement analysis, budget development and control, managing growth, cash flow management, and management controls. Usually offered every year.
Mr. McLaughlin

HS 248f Economics II
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit. Prerequisite: HS 245f. Required for all MBA students except those in the Hornstein Program.
Elaborates further on microeconomic topics related to market structure and labor markets and their relevance to managers. It also considers applications of economics to social policy. The course will examine the balance between government spending and revenues and will consider issues in tax policy. It will consider briefly the government debt, unemployment, inflation, and major macroeconomic issues. The course then returns to the economic and social policy issues of poverty and inequality. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Friedman

HS 249f Social Justice, Management, and Policy
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Allows students the opportunity to explore the management implications of "Knowledge Advancing Social Justice." Examines historical and contemporary thinkers, justice issues, and management activities. Students grapple with the daily management dilemmas faced by managers and change agents both inside and outside organizations. Usually offered every summer.
Ms. Nsiah-Jefferson

HS 250a Financial Accounting
Develops a fundamental understanding of financial accounting and reporting issues as they apply to nonprofit and for-profit organizations. Students will learn about the importance of fiscal responsibility and integrity in the efficient utilization of an organization's resources relative to organizational goals. Accounting practices that are unique to nonprofit organizations will be introduced, discussed, and differentiated from those practices employed by for-profit entities. Emphasis will be placed on interpreting financial statements to understand how accounting information, in a variety of settings, can be utilized by decision makers. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Anderson and Mr. Angell

HS 250f Intercultural Communication for Conflict and Development Practitioners
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Engages students to honor and share their own culture while developing a capacity to be inclusive of many other cultures; progress from an ethnocentric toward an ethno-relative sate of understanding and acceptance of cultural differences; view cultural differences objectively and understand that differences are not hierarchical; identify and appreciate the beliefs, values and norms of their own culture, and recognize and articulate differences and commonalities in the cultures of others; demonstrate increasing ability to communicate with non-native speakers, as well as persons who exhibit a different worldview, value system and communicative style; analyze and synthesize large amounts of disparate information to produce relevant, insightful presentations; understand the relationship between national, personal, professional and organizational cultures; and learn to appreciate the challenges and develop key skills in cross cultural dispute resolution processes. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Johnson

HS 251b Managerial Accounting
Prerequisite: HS 250a or equivalent.
Provides general introduction to the concepts, problems, and issues related to managerial accounting. Managerial accounting predominantly addresses the internal use of economic information regarding the resources used in the process of producing goods and providing services. Fundamental aspects of cost behavior and cost accounting will be discussed, but always from the perspective of the manager who must make decisions rather than the accountant who prepares the information. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Anderson

HS 252b Strategic Management
Provides students with the theoretical constructs and practical tools necessary to create and manage organizations strategically. Includes strategic process, organizational design, and development of planning tools and cycles. All students perform an applied strategic analysis for an actual organization. Usually offered every year.
Mr. McLaughlin and Ms. Carlson

HS 252f Social Marketing
Prerequisite: HS 285a or permission of the instructor. Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Provides a framework for understanding target audience behavior and where best to intervene to help create positive behavior change. At the heart of our learning experience is the social marketing planning process, which is a structured approach for developing and implementing a program for behavior change. We will examine the key social marketing concepts that include competition, determinants of behavior, barriers and benefits, marketing strategy and the 4Ps or “intervention mix”. Students will have the opportunity to evaluate past programs as well as develop social marketing strategies of their own. Usually offered every year.
Staff

HS 253b Leadership and Organizational Behavior
Focuses on leadership and managing organizations. Uses cases on a variety of organizations to expose students to problems and to improve their effectiveness in analyzing, diagnosing, and leading people in organizations. Students learn organizational concepts, analytic frameworks, and models, and practice their leadership skills in class. Uses case discussions, simulations, role-playing, mini-lecturing, and experimental exercises. Provides an opportunity to develop leadership skills through group work and reflection. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Chilingerian

HS 253f HIV/AIDS and Public Policy
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Geared toward students with limited experience in HIV/AIDS as a public policy issue. In the first sessions, students learn the key perspectives to frame the HIV/AIDS epidemic as a policy issue, including an economic perspective, a social impact perspective, and a rights perspective. The second half of the course reviews lessons from the international experience in responding to the epidemic. Attention is given to sector-based interventions and necessary coordination between sectors for specific interventions to be effective. Usually offered every year.
Staff

HS 254a Human Resource Management
Considers how human resource management might aid in achieving organizational excellence. Focuses on the development of concepts and strategies that can increase effectiveness in developing policies and practices to enhance the value of people in the organizations served. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Gittell

HS 254f Governance and Development
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Increasingly development thinkers identify “good governance” as essential to justice and development. This course focuses on pathways to good governance, examining law, institutions, systems, leadership, politics, and culture that influence governance. Historical and current examples are used to illustrate how governance does - and does not - evolve toward ideals of good governance that enable sustainable development. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Holcombe

HS 255f Responsible Negotiation (1) - The Fundamentals
Everyone negotiates on a daily base, but what about doing it responsibly? Faced with projects, contracts, conflicts or crises, coping with people, problems and process, how can negotiators lever the right reflections and actions in the right direction? How can they optimize utility for themselves and for others? This course provides concepts, observations and suggestions to improve analytical and operational negotiation skills; but it also addresses negotiation foundations on how to do first things first, i.e. how to make the right moves at the right time in order to reach the right decisions and to achieve ad hoc implementation. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Lempereur

HS 256f Community Building for Managers
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Focuses on the elasticity of the term "community building," some historical themes, and how a term originally focused mostly on neighborhood revival is now also used in the context of building stronger ties among people who share specific interests and used by managers who would like to reinvent the workplace around community principles. With community building jargon increasingly entering into management and public policy literature, managers must understand the parameters of this "movement" and acquaint themselves with some of the skills and developments that people doing this work have found useful. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Hahn

HS 257b Conflict Resolution by Negotiation
Develops in students an understanding of the nature, advantages, and limitations of negotiations as a conflict resolution tool. Provides a normative and practical framework for pursuing a negotiation strategy as a method of resolving disputes. Provides students with opportunities to apply this knowledge in a variety of simulated negotiation contexts. Finally, exposes students to feedback regarding their negotiation approaches via explicit instructor evaluation and via the impact of their actions on their teammates and opponents.
Mr. Prottas

HS 258a Operations Management in Service Organizations
Prerequisite: HS 246b.
Explores how operations management skills can help organizations to deliver high-quality services while using resources efficiently. Students develop skills including quality assessment, process mapping, productivity analysis, wait-time analysis, and scheduling. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Abbott

HS 258f Transitional Justice: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Comparative Perspective
Prerequisite: HS 219f or the permission of the instructor. Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Explores the applicability of the transitional justice framework and its different practices to historical and current aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We will consider how developments in international law such as the International Human Rights Regime and the ICC affect the dynamic of the conflict. Drawing on other cases of international conflict (Northern Ireland, Indonesia/ East Timor) we will evaluate which, if any, of the transitional justice practices may advance or hinder an Israeli-Palestinian negotiation process and how useful might they be for longer-term peacebuilding and reconciliation. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Hirsch

HS 259a Topics in Sustainable Development
Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: household economics; culture, power, and development; masculinity and gender; HIV/AIDS as a public policy issue; gender and globalization; and theories of social change.
Staff

HS 259f Topics in Sustainable Development
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: household economics; culture, power, and development; masculinity and gender; HIV/AIDS as a public policy issue; gender and globalization; and theories of social change. Usually offered every year.
Staff

HS 260b Practicing Philanthropy
Juxtaposes a theoretical framework for understanding the economic, political, and social role of philanthropy in American society with the practical experience of real-dollar grantmaking. Through course readings and the simulation of a family foundation, students will be exposed to the complexity of the philanthropic process and the challenges associated with allocating scarce resources. The course also provides opportunities to explore organizational behavior, group dynamics and individual leadership skills. Through readings and group activities, students will learn how to negotiate, reach consensus, and execute the plan they design. Course readings will provide background information, a perspective on process, grantmaking, and evaluation techniques. The process will be documented by the students for use in case studies, teaching materials, and workshops. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Riccio

HS 260f Development, Aid, and Coexistence
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit. May not be taken for credit by students who took COEX 260f in prior years.
Increases the knowledge and skills of students undertaking development and aid work in conflict situations. Explores how such work can address development needs, as well as the need to increase intercommunal equity, understanding, and cooperation. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Johnson

HS 261a Threats to Development: Climate Change
Takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of climate change as a long-term overarching threat to the achievement of sustainable development, integrating issues of economics, ecology, and governance. The course provides development specialists with a holistic grounding in the significant economic, social, and ecological threats and strategies to confront climate change. Usually offered every semester.
Mr. Olson and Mr. Assan

HS 261f Advanced Development, Aid, and Coexistence
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit. May not be taken for credit by students who took COEX 261f in prior years.
This seminar builds on the concepts and theories offered in the basic course. Students will master the skills of conflict mapping, strategic intervention, and analysis using case studies of current and past conflicts where development assistance was also required. Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Johnson

HS 262f Culture, Power, and Development
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Students engage with constructs of cultural superiority, debate about modernization, and learn about what motivates individual and cultural change. Students are introduced to alternative theoretical approaches to culture and development and learn how to apply those theories to different historical contexts as well as contemporary situations. Not offered in 2013-2014.
Ms. Ready

HS 263f Applied Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit. Prerequisite: HS 297f or permission of the instructor.
Designed for students wishing to receive advanced training in GIS. Instruction includes geospatial data management and archiving, raster and vector analysis techniques, and basic GPS instruction. Emphasis is on 'hands-on' training using ARCView GIS software; qualitative skills in data gathering, analysis, and presentation; and understanding the potential of GIS as a tool for planning and evaluating development projects. Includes a computer lab. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Lakshmikanthan and Staff

HS 264f Principles of Ecology for Development Planners
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Introduces key principles of ecology that influence sustainability of national and local development programs throughout the world. The course looks at how policies affecting our use of soils, crops, and forests play a role in development. Other topics include climate, food webs, soil fertility, population growth and stability, and species protection. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Olson

HS 265f Human Rights-Based Approach to Development Policy and Practice
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Over the past two decades, international organizations, national governments, and NGOs around the world have adopted human rights frameworks, strategies, and tools to advance missions and goals. In view of the widespread adoption of such frameworks for development and social policy work, this course provides an introduction to human rights law, policy, and practice for development practitioners. Usually offered every semester.
Ms. MacNaughton

HS 266f Introduction to Economics for Development Practitioners
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Provides a foundation in economics for discerning, creative, and forward thinking development practitioners. It explores selected economic theories, historical perspectives, empirical lessons, analytical tools, and alternative proposals that are particularly relevant to sustainable international development. Usually offered every year.
Staff

HS 267f Responsible Negotiation (2): Advanced
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Everyone negotiates on a daily base, but what about doing it responsibly? Faced with projects, contracts, conflicts or crises, coping with many dilemmas on how to deal with people, problems and process, how can negotiators leverage the right reflections and actions in the right direction? How can they optimize utility for themselves and for others, while upholding strong values and the long term for the community? This course deepens concepts, observations and suggestions to improve analytical and operational negotiation skills, as to do first things first, i.e. how to make the right moves at the right time, in order to reach the right decisions and to achieve ad hoc implementation. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Lempereur

HS 268f Law, Society, and the Shaping of Public Policy in Developing Countries
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Explores whether law is critical to development. If it is, how and with respect to what kind of development, and what means are available to maximize the law’s beneficial impact. Through readings, case studies, and development projects, students examine the use of the legal order to solve problems of poverty, vulnerability, and environmental degradation in developing nations. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Russell-Einhorn

HS 269f Food Security and Nutrition
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Examines the interconnectedness of agricultural policy and planning, food policy, nutrition policy, and outcomes of nutritional status. Students explore definitions of "hunger” and “malnutrition." The planning and analytical process of defining nutritional problems at the village and household level are discussed, along with appropriate technologies and techniques to resolve food security problems. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Lockwood

HS 270a The Future of Diversity Work
This course may not be taken for credit by students who have taken COEX 270a in prior years.
This seminar uncovers the myths and challenges of race and multiculturalism and explores various approaches that have addressed them. It examines future scenarios to help form a more constructive approach to coexistence that goes beyond those challenges. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Johnson

HS 271a Poverty, Inequalities, and Development
Provides a conceptual umbrella for all the coursework in the SID program. Introduces students to the major currents of thinking about sustainable development. Topics include poverty, inequality, globalization, human rights, the environment, and the role of institutions. Students examine what is known about the drivers of development as well as the links between global and national policies, and actions for sustainable development. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Lynch

HS 271f Socio-Psychological Approaches to Local and International Conflict
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Presents the socio-psychological frameworks for understanding the development and dynamics of inter-societal and international conflicts, and their management and resolution. It will address such questions as: Are conflicts between peoples and nations inevitable? Why do they erupt, and at particular times? Why do they often take so long to resolve? Why are so many people willing to lose their lives in fighting? How do groups develop a hatred of other groups? How do you deal with ethnic, political or religious fundamentalism? What social psychological needs are important to address for peacebuilding and post conflict reconciliation to be successful? The course will also introduce students to basic socio-psychological concepts that are useful in understanding the causes of conflict and violence at local and international levels, and how to better manage them. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Fitzduff

HS 272a Responsible Leadership
Examines whether leadership is good news or bad news. It is about leading, but it might also be about misleading. It is more than just good intentions, charisma, a personal gift, or features of a person; it is about impact, serving justice, positive values and the community; it must be done right. When it is exercised properly, the good must ensue for most of all, while empowering the voiceless, the weak, the least privileged, the most at risk, the disenfranchised. That is why this course is not interested merely in a leadership that is just another word for power at any cost, just an instrument for any cause. All together, the class will be spotting responsible leadership, where the solutions of women and men of power respond to the problems of the people, to whom they are accountable for. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Lempereur

HS 272f Building Microfinance Institutions and Partnerships
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Leads students through the steps to build a large scale cost-effective microfinance program and examines design problems of existing programs, using the experience of the students and of programs the instructor has evaluated. Students examine how to build and staff microfinance institutions and explore strategies for partnerships with local NGOs and village-level organizations to expand outreach. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Ashe and Mr. Parmeshwar

HS 273f Policy, Advocacy and Community Organization
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Provides students with an overview of the processes by which individuals and groups operating at the national, state, and local levels in the United States can effectively shape social policy, focusing: a) on how knowledge is used to promote social justice, the barriers that face those who seek to use knowledge to change policy, and the kinds of strategies that have been and are likely to be effective in overcoming these barriers in the future b) the role and strategies of advocacy organization in promoting policy change that benefit those segments of society with relatively little economic or political power. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Bailis

HS 274a Directed Readings in Sustainable Development
Usually offered every year.
Staff

HS 274b Directed Readings in Sustainable Development
Usually offered every year.
Staff

HS 274f Directed Readings in Sustainable Development
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Usually offered every semester.
Staff

HS 275f Directed Research in Sustainable Development
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Usually offered every semester.
Staff

HS 276f World Health
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
A primer on major diseases and problems of health care in developing nations. Topics include descriptions of disease incidence and prevalence, including infectious, chronic, and mental disease; determinants of health, including culture and behavior; the roles of nutrition, education, and reproductive trends and poverty; demographic transitions, including aging and urbanization; the structure and financing of health systems; and the globalization of health. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Bhalotra

HS 277f The Future of Diversity Work
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Diversity and multiculturalism are challenges to global human relationships whether in conflict management, peacebuilding, or humanitarian development. Imbedded in each of these concepts are numerous misconceptions around issues of ethnicity, race, culture, religion, class, gender, and oppression. Through a combined approach including lectures, readings, films and discussions, this course will uncover many of the popular misconceptions about these concepts and factors, will offer innovative and effective approaches to understand and address them, and will help students develop scenarios for a future of constructive coexistence which goes beyond the popular misconceptions. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Johnson

HS 278f Monitoring and Evaluation
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Introduces students to the field of evaluation, including their purpose, design, methodologies for data collection and analysis, and utilization. The course also explores the organizational environment in which evaluations are carried out, frequent challenges and pitfalls in conducting evaluation, and some tricks of the trade drawing on written materials and experiences of the instructor and enrolled students as well. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Roper or Ms. Snell

HS 279a Planning and Implementation
Focuses on concepts and methods of planning and implementation to promote sustainable development. The project cycle and project development are used to give students experience in problem-solving, logic, and organizational skills applicable to all planning, implementation, and monitoring functions. Attention is given to the context in which the project cycle takes place, identifying local problems and applying holistic solutions. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Howard and Mr. Ellsworth

HS 279f The Politics of Fiscal Crisis and Social Policy
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Analyzes the role of government in the economy and the impact of public policy on the allocation and distribution of resources and development of social welfare in the United States. In this course, you will learn how to understand and predict the effects of public expenditures, taxes, and regulations. We will examine these issues at the federal, state, and local levels. The course will explore the political concerns around public finance decision-making and related issues of equality and social justice. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Kuttner

HS 280f Microenterprise Development and Finance
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Covers a broad range of background and operational issues related to design, implementation, and evaluation of microfinance initiatives reflecting a range of methods and approaches. Students learn about microfinance models, principles of effective program design and management, and how to move a program from low to high performance. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Ashe and Mr. Parmeshwar

HS 281f International Advocacy in Action
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Introduces concepts and methods to strengthen program planning and influence public policy and looks at how policy is shaped and changed in the real world. Students examine the experience of noted NGOs, learn to conceptualize and plan advocacy campaigns, become familiar with the many tools available to the advocate, and discuss how to monitor government compliance with agreed-upon policy changes. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Arena-DeRosa

HS 282f Environmental Impact Assessment
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Provides students with a working knowledge of the purpose and process of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). EIA is examined as a planning tool that can anticipate negative environmental and social impacts; increasing benefits, social acceptance, and durability of development projects while reducing their cost to budgets, communities, and the environment. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Boyer and Mr. Olson

HS 283a Legitimizing (In)equality: Attitudes, Beliefs, and Social Policy
Examines attitudes and beliefs about poverty, wealth, mobility, and inequality and their relationship to institutional practices and social policy. We will explore the forces that shape U.S. beliefs, attitudes, and opinions, how these views are expressed in the public sphere and policy discourse, and the processes by which attitudes are measured and inform policy decisions. Reading broadly from the social science literature, we will explore the legitimizing functions of beliefs about inequality and work together to develop strategies for challenging hierarchy enhancing perceptions and relationships. Usually offered every year.
Staff

HS 283f Gender and Development
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Examines politics and policies of international development from a gender-sensitive perspective. Concepts of "development" and “gender” are framed within historical and political contexts. Students examine how development affects women and men differently according to class, ethnicity, geography, age, and seniority. Ways in which gender asymmetries have been addressed in development and approaches to mainstreaming gender are explored. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Espinosa and Ms. Ready

HS 284a Transitional Justice
Introduces the concept and practices of transitional justice. We review the various mechanisms of transitional justice, including: criminal prosecution; purges and lustrations; truth and reconciliation commissions; reparations and compensation schemes; revisions of national-historical narratives; official apologies; and, public commemoration. Our focus will be on understanding the nature of the political and moral dilemmas encountered by countries that consider and apply these mechanisms. We will consider broad theoretical questions as well as specific examples. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Hirsch

HS 284f Gender Analysis in Development Planning
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Examines recent concepts and methods of gender analysis as an integral factor in program planning across cultures. Students are introduced to gender analysis frameworks, examine tools like gender budgeting and auditing, and analyze case studies that take an integrated approach to gender analysis. Students also learn how to use these tools in different settings and to address various issues. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Ready and Ms. Espinosa

HS 285a Marketing
An overview of marketing with a focus on how to formulate marketing strategies and identify and evaluate strategy-based tactics in order to achieve organizational marketing goals. Topics include strategic market planning, market research and analysis; consumer behavior; market segmentation, targeting, and positioning; social marketing; and the marketing mix-product, price, distribution, promotion, and marketing communications. Usually offered every summer.
Ms. Goldstein

HS 285f Rights-Based Approach to Development I
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Provides a broad introduction to international human rights laws, mechanisms, and practices, including special protections for vulnerable groups and the key debates underpinning the rights-based approach to development and poverty. Also covers the international and regional institutions that exist to protect human rights. Usually offered every year.
Staff

HS 286f Civil Society and Non Governmental Organizations
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
The phenomenal growth in non-governmental organizations throughout the world in the past two decades has transformed the delivery of development assistance and relationships between the north and south. Examines the nature of civil society, types of and relationships among NGOs, and NGO relationships with the state, multilateral and bilateral organizations, and community organizations.
Staff

HS 287f Land Reform: Models and Experience
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Examines the evolution of land reform theory and practice around the world. Land inequality and land poverty pose fundamental obstacles to rural development and development more broadly. Students explore problems of land inequality and land poverty, historical and current models of land reform, tools for evaluating different approaches in different contexts, and the need to integrate land policies into larger development visions. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Simon

HS 288f Shifting Development Paradigms
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Introduces students to the history and different paradigms that have dominated and challenged mainstream development institutions and interventions – including the sustainable development paradigm. Students critically review assumptions, implications, advantages and limitations of development approaches. Through this process, students begin to develop their own development theories based on informed review and critical understanding. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Espinosa

HS 289f The Demographics of Development
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
A primer on population growth and the socioeconomic dynamics of reducing fertility rates. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Holcombe

HS 290a Economic Analysis for Managers
Open to Tufts MD/MBA and MBS/MBA students only.
Introduces economic approaches to managerial and policy decision making. Covers supply and demand, market structures, pricing and market failure, as well as useful tools such as optimization and game theory. Concepts are reinforced with case analyses and examples from the health and human services sectors. Some calculus required.
Mr. Friedman

HS 290f Rights-Based Approach to Development II
Prerequisite: HS 285f or permission of the instructor. Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Builds upon HS 285f with a deeper exploration of human rights in practice. Topics covered include human rights and transnational corporations; the International Criminal Court and other forms of individual accountability for human rights violations; the rights to participation, transparency, and access to information in the context of development; the nature and role of political human rights in a development context; human rights advocacy and the integration of human rights indicators with development indicators; human rights in conflict situations; the role of human rights in UN development agencies; and finally critical responses to rights-based approaches. Usually offered every year.
Staff

HS 291f Development in Conflict Situations
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Explores trends of humanitarian action in relation to conflict evolution and transformation, as well as the connections between the concepts of development and humanitarian activities. The course approach is multidisciplinary, using a mix of academic analysis and practical experience to reflect upon working in armed conflict, as well as on the wider context of international development systems. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Quintiliani

HS 292f Critical Thinking and Advanced Professional Writing
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Develops advanced critical thinking skills, models of logical argumentation and debate, reading comprehension and advanced writing skills geared for professionals and practitioners in foundations, NGOS, government sectors and civil society organizations. Although we will focus on needs of sustainable international development, professionals and practitioners from other fields are most welcome, namely public policy, social policy and coexistence and conflict. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Sampath

HS 293f Religion and Development
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Explores the world’s different faith traditions and how they define and treat the problem of poverty. The class takes a critical look at conditions by which religion provides a source of liberation from human suffering and strategies for sustainable development. Students also examine how power is transformed along gender, class, racial, ethnic, and national lines when religions confront one another. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Sampath

HS 295f Economics of Natural Resource Planning
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Brings students up to date with economic theories, findings, and methods related to management and conservation of natural resources in developing nations. It gives students a broad way of thinking about the topic that goes beyond use of natural resources and forces students to look at other sectors of the economy and highlight practical applications of economic theory to conservation. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Godoy

HS 297a Field Project
Prerequisite: Two semesters as master's student in coexistence and conflict or permission of program director.
Offers students an opportunity to apply the theories and key themes covered in the core courses in a real-life setting. Requires completion of at least three months of a paid or unpaid internship or field project approved and monitored by a faculty adviser. The project could involve a research or consulting assignment or a structured internship in the fields of coexistence and conflict. Offered every year.
Staff

HS 297f Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
A primer for non-specialists on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and its capabilities as a tool for planning and monitoring. Students learn how to determine an organization’s GIS requirements, focus on those requirements during planning, and apply the requirements to assess the size and scope of the system needed. Includes a computer lab. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Lakshmikanthan and Staff

HS 298a Independent Study
Staff

HS 298f Independent Study
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Staff

HS 299b Team Consulting Project
A capstone educational experience for students nearing the end of the MBA program. Working under the supervision of a faculty adviser, teams of three to five MBA and Heller/Hornstein students provide management consulting services to nonprofit, community-based health and human services agencies. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Bailis and Ms. Carlson

HS 299f NGOs: Strategic Planning
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Introduces concepts, techniques, and skills related to organizational strategy; and strategic action, management, and planning for civil society and non-governmental development organizations Concepts considered include elements of strategic planning; assessing environmental factors; clarifying organizational values, vision, mission, and goals; and developing programs and services to achieve organizational goals. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Short

HS 300f Integrated Conservation and Development
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Focuses on how to reconcile priorities of biodiversity conservation with socioeconomic development. The course looks at a number of case studies to identify and examine recent field methods of community-based conservation, ecosystem-based management, and protected area alternatives to achieve conservation, sustainable use, and equity while advancing social, environmental, and economic justice. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Howard

HS 303a Historical and Contemporary Developments in Social Welfare
Examines the development of social welfare over time by reviewing policy arguments within a historical context and using an analytic framework centered on eligibility, benefits, administration, financing, and behavioral incentives to assess perennial issues in social welfare and analyze contemporary challenges. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Doonan

HS 304f Reproductive and Sexual Health and Development
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Examines how the relationship between reproductive and sexual health (RSH) and development is made clear in the Millennium Development Goals. Three of the eight goals deal directly with RSH. But it has already been recognized that it is extremely unlikely that any of those goals will be reached. The challenges faced by those seeking to advance RSH are scientific, cultural, gendered, religious, economic and political. This course will examine, from a gendered perspective, the development approaches beginning with family planning and fertility and moving through the shift to reproductive and sexual health rights. Case studies and reports will provide material to discuss various approaches and controversies in RSH. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Ready

HS 306f Survey Design and Data Analysis for Development
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Provides students with an introduction to survey design and applied principles of data analysis in development. Topics include research design (hypothesis formulation, model building), data collection (principles of survey design, definition and measurement of variables, cross-sectional and panel surveys, focus groups and pilot tests), and data analysis (statistical and social significance; univariate, bivariate, and multivariate analysis). Usually offered every year.
Mr. Godoy

HS 307f Human Development and Capabilities Approach in Practice
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Explores the theoretical and practical perspectives underpinning capabilities approach and the work of Amartya Sen. Students look at the way human capability functions as a force in political-economic systems and at the enhancement of individual, institutional, and communal capabilities as a force for sustainable development goals such as poverty alleviation, environmental protection, gender parity, and education. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Sampath

HS 309f International Law for Development Practitioners
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
An introduction to the basic principles of international law for non-lawyer professionals working in international development. Covers core terminology of international law that development practitioners are likely to encounter, explains how international agreements such as treaties are created and implemented, and examines how international disputes, on issues ranging from environmental laws to the use of force, are resolved. Also provides an overview, in an international law context, of the roles of international institutions such as the United Nations and the World Court and of private actors like corporations and NGOs. Usually offered every year.
Staff

HS 310f Introduction to Education and Development
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Examines how governments, NGOs, and other institutions can create and support educational systems that foster development, leadership, and opportunities. Students look at comparative research, teaching, and learning in varied national contexts, roles of parents and communities, and methods to measure the effectiveness of diverse approaches in enabling people to lift themselves out of poverty. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Burchfield

HS 311a Management of Aging Services and Delivery
An overview of current practice and future issues in management of aging services and delivery systems taught by professionals currently active in the field. Covers the range of service organizations and programs for people who are aging, the challenges and issues faced by managers in the day-to-day operations of these services, and how they meet these challenges and develop successful solutions. Discusses the policy challenges and range of program options available for providing services to elders. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Bhalotra

HS 312f National and International Perspectives on Youth Policy and Programs
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Young people (10-24 years of age) account for 29 percent of the population in low- and middle-income countries. Over 100 countries have a significant bulge in their youth populations and vulnerability in terms of literacy, employability, skill training, life skills, and more. Of special interest in this course are the subset of policies and programs that aim to connect young people to the economic and education mainstream. It is these programs that will be the special but not exclusive focus of this course. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Hahn

HS 313f Indigenous Peoples and Development: Challenges and Synergies
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Explores conflicts between development, conservation, and indigenous peoples and how this relation has evolved. Students look at fundamental dilemmas and potential synergies that exist between indigenous peoples and development agendas, how ethnic conflicts threaten sustainable development, structural and cultural roots of such conflicts, and the role of ethnic exclusion in maintaining and distributing poverty within countries. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Espinosa

HS 314b Applied Data Analysis for Development
Geared toward those students with little or no background in statistics but with a strong desire to learn the topic. Students focus on principles of applied multivariate regression analysis in development and econometric analysis of data. The course teaches students to use applied regression analysis, experimental research design, and STATA 10, a software to do applied statistical analysis. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Godoy

HS 315f Advanced Monitoring and Evaluation Issues in Practice
Prerequisite: HS 278f Monitoring & Development or permission of the instructor. Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
In this course monitoring and evaluation are approached from a strategic perspective. Students focus on knowledge and field methods to co-strategize how best to institutionalize good M&E practices that make a real difference in the effectiveness of development outcomes. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Roper

HS 316b International Health Policy
May not be taken by students who took HS 316f.
Examines major current issues in health policy and global governance shaping our world in the 21st century. There is increasing recognition of the development threats from health problems – from emerging infectious diseases to the recognition that global climate change is contributing to new or re emerging health threats. The recent WHO Commission on Social Determinants for Health outlined an ambitious agenda for research on health determinants, systems, and financing and new global institutions are promoting greater evidence-based research for health policy making that incorporate a wider array of inputs and stakeholders. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Kaufman

HS 317b Children, Youth and Families: Problems, Policies and Programs
Provides an overview of populations, social policies, and programs in the United States that affect the well-being of children, youth, and families. Human development theory, as well as prominent policy and management themes, are embedded throughout the course. These include defining and measuring meaningful outcomes for children, youth, and families and using knowledge to advance social justice on behalf of America's diverse populations. The objective of this course is to engage students in critical thinking, dialogue, and debate about the populations, policies, and programs in their chosen field. Provides essential information for understanding the problems, supports, and opportunities related to children, youth, and families in the United States and for considering the policies and programs that have been, or may be, developed to improve the well-being of these populations.
Ms. Curnan

HS 318f Economic Tools for Environmental Stewardship
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
In light of the growing popularity of payment for ecosystem services (PES) as a tool of environmental policy and debates about its suitability, this course focuses on the theory and practice of PES. In order to lay some groundwork for understanding the complexities of PES, the course also examines the political economy of the environment and basic concepts of environmental economics. Usually offered ever year.
Mr. Ellsworth

HS 319f Ethics, Rights, and Development
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Explores philosophical and ethical foundations of human rights as related to development studies, policy, and practice. Students look at complex political, economic, and cultural conditions to apply rights to advance sustainable development. Contemporary debates on human rights as a tool to define and realize justice and alleviate human suffering - such as poverty, hunger, and other detriments to health and environment - are examined. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Sampath

HS 320f The American Gay Rights Movement: Social Justice and Social Policy
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
This course is about the last forty years (1969-2009) of social justice and social policy in the American Gay Rights Movement. It is about the development of social justice and social policy in America that is inclusive of sexual orientation and gender identity. And, it is about policy development, and human behavior, in America that reflects the full civil, political, legal and moral equality of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people. Usually offered every second year.
Ms. Curnan

HS 321f Implementing Policy and Practice Change in Health and Social Systems
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Begins with definitions of policy and how policy is made from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Examines several frameworks for analyzing policy implementation and for planning implementation strategies. Several sessions will focus on the management skills and tools useful to planning and managing the implementation of policy change. Students will have the opportunity to bring conceptual knowledge and skills together in analysis of several case studies. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Huff-Rousselle

HS 322b Sociological Inquiry
Introduces students to the basic research literature on social stratification, social mobility, and inequality. The theme of this seminar is an analysis of rising inequality worldwide, placing the United States in this context. An examination of the sources for this phenomenon includes globalization, economic restructuring, public policy, and social mobility. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Shapiro

HS 323f Participatory Action Research
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Participatory Action Research (PAR) with its inherent emphasis on equalizing power relationships between the researcher and the researched emphasizes the importance of respecting the situated knowledge of research participants. It is large based in Paulo Freire's pedagogical framework for liberatory education which seeks to help marginalized peoples to empower themselves through research and knowledge production for the purposes of political action. Usually offered every second year.
Ms. Brown

HS 324a Social Experimentation in Child, Youth and Family Policymaking
Builds the skills necessary to critically assess the policy content, design, results and recommendations of (quasi) experimental research that examines the effects of social policies aimed at improving the lives of vulnerable children, youth and families. The focus is on providing a graduate-level introduction to the use of social experimentation methods in policy research. We examine four substantive policy areas as case studies: (1) early childhood education; (2) home visitation; (3) income incentives and supplements; and (4) housing. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Acevedo-Garcia

HS 325f The Right to Water
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Explores practical applications of the human right to clean drinking water and adequate sanitation from a science and policy perspective. It takes an interdisciplinary perspective to issues of water, focusing on geography, social arrangements, and government choices that impact access to water at the household level. Modes of decision-making with regard to water policy are examined from technical and rights perspectives. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Olson and Ms. Jones

HS 326f Introduction to Stata and SAS Programming and Data Management
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Introduces students to basic programming in Stata and SAS and provides guidance on data management strategies. The course will cover creating simple datasets and accessing existing ones, modifying and managing data, and performing simple statistical analysis in both software packages. Data management strategies will be woven into each lecture and will emphasized throughout the course itself. This course is intended for students who have no, or minimal, experience using these statistical software programs. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Torres and Ms. Acevedo

HS 327f Using Health Information for Health System Improvement
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
To achieve delivery of quality health services and subsequently sustainable health of the target populations, the World Health Organization (WHO) promotes strengthening the six major building blocks of the health system: (1) governance and policy; (2) service delivery; (3) human resources; (4) health commodities; (5) health financing; and (6) health information systems (HIS). HIS remains the backbone for providing information to track progress for improving the different health system components and monitor the achievement of the health related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This course will follow the structure of the Health Metrics Network Framework to review and better understand the health information systems that guide decision-making, leading to better health. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Lippeveld

HS 328f Essential Humanitarian Response Elements of the Future
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Explores trends, history, and influences on the humanitarian sector and looks for new ways forward, with particular emphasis on how the humanitarian system can change to better serve the most vulnerable and provide new means to save lives, reduce risk, and strengthen resilience. The course links community organization for disaster preparedness and resiliency building to government policies and the global system. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Delaney

HS 329f Epidemiology
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Introduces the basic concepts of epidemiology applied to public health problems. Emphasis is placed on the principles and methods of epidemiologic investigation, the use of classical statistical approaches to describe the health of populations, and the application of epidemiological approaches to policy evaluation and health services research. The key topics include the dynamics of disease; methods of measuring disease burden; and epidemiologic study designs; and criteria for evaluating causal associations between risk factors and disease outcomes. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Zeng

HS 330b Child-Related Policies in the United States
Provides students with information about the health problems that children face from birth to early adulthood and the policies that have been developed to prevent or ameliorate those problems in the United States. Particular attention is paid to the development of federal policies, the agencies that implement them, and the legislation under which they operate. Explores the role of local health initiatives and of the private sector, including providers, advocacy groups, and other not-for-profit organizations. Usually offered every year.
Staff

HS 331f Health and Development Frameworks
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Provides an overview of the relationships between health policy, economic policy and development policy. There are different ideas about the kinds of economic environments and economic policies which most effectively support ecnomic development for low income countries and the need for and requirements for social policies to improve health. We will examine the main economic and development theories shaping global policies and also examine the international institutions and political dynamics in health policy making, from the formation of the UN ( and the emergence of the WHO) in 1946. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Kaufman

HS 332a Research Methods and Evaluation
Prepares students to (1) thoroughly understand the rigorous conduct of research methods of public policy, with a particular emphasis on program evaluation and to (2) be sophisticated consumers of empirical of public policy research. A variety of class formats will be used throughout the semester including lectures, discussions, and seminars, depending upon the topic and readings. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Warfield

HS 334a Child and Family Policy: U.S. and Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Draws on a number of social science disciplines and women's studies to explore the construction of public policies that shape the lives of children and families. It will focus on material from the United States and will use examples from other countries for comparative purposes. The course will explore some of the key components of family policy as they have developed in the U.S. and provide a critical examination of the ways in which "the state" may alternately facilitate, control and constrain women's choices about whether and when to have children, and the conditions surrounding the employment and care of children and other family members. It will further consider the current economic and political context and how families strategize to combine jobs and family care. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Warfield

HS 335f Perspectives on Youth Policy, Program Management, and System Design
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
This seminar is offered to both deepen student understanding of one of the great challenges facing our nation and many developing countries and to explore emerging and best practices related to policy, management and systems/program design to address those challenges and create sustainable conditions for preparing youth for college, work, and life. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Curnan

HS 336a Heller MPP Capstone Seminar
Students will demonstrate the ability to define and diagnose public policy situations, collect relevant information, perform logical analysis, develop alternative, and make compelling recommendations; and to organize and communicate information clearly to a variety of audiences through formats including verbal presentations, policy briefs, and statistical charts, graphs, and tables. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Brolin

HS 337f Advanced Planning & Implementation: Issues in the Field
Prerequisite : HS 279a. Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
This course explores the context of development projects and challenges faced by project managers, executing agencies, donors, partners, stakeholders, and beneficiaries. Values and priorities --including sustainability, participation, project ownership, accountability, and legitimacy – are examined in light of changing dynamics of power, procedures, and relationships in project management. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Howard

HS 338a MA Sustainable International Development Advanced Study Seminar
Open only to MA SID Advanced Study Students.
Supports MA Sustainable International Development Advanced Study students to: 1) Research and write an on‐time, high quality, in-depth pragmatic Master’s Paper; 2) Clarify a useful framework of analysis for a case study in development; 3) Refine the use of evidence and literature to build a strong argument; 4) Choose what is important in a study and articulate this in a clear, concise way. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Brooks

HS 339a Disability Policy
Students who successfully complete this course will demonstrate an understanding of the following issues in regard to disability policy: 1) identify the principles, foundation and provisions of disability service programs in the United States; 2) understand specific current disability policies regarding financing, ethical, and legal issues related to civil rights, income transfers, education, employment and health care; 3) explain the interrelationships among disability policies at the federal, state, and local levels; 4) explain the intended and actual consequences of the major US disability policies; 5) discuss ethical issues in current disability policy, including individual and family rights, issues of distributive justice, and issues of power, discrimination, oppression, culture & race. Usually offered every second year.
Ms. Parish

HS 340a Aging Policies and Programs: U.S. and Global Perspectives
Covers a wide range of social policy issues related to aging individuals and societies. It views social policy broadly to include public policies at the national, regional/state, and local levels; policies of private organizations; and informal policies of families, religions, and racial and ethnic groups. The course lays a base of the historical and ideological antecedents of current policies in aging and presents and critiques alternatives for the future. It also covers the process of policy formation, including how aging plays out in the political sphere. The readings and discussions provide a comparative analysis of aging policies in the United States, other industrial countries, and developing countries. Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Leutz

HS 341a Public Finance and Budgeting
Utilizes facts and analytical tools to effectively make decisions about public finance and budgeting as a policymaker, policy advocate, policy analyst, scholar, reporter, and/ or citizen. Upon completion of this course, students will have a broad knowledge of why and how governments shape the economy; the extent of their intervention; and how and why government funds are currently allocated among competing uses. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Tannenwald

HS 342b Policy, Advocacy and Community Organizations
Provides students with an overview of the processes by which individuals and groups operating at the national, state, and local levels in the United States can effectively shape social policy. It will focus on two complementary sets of issues: 1) How knowledge is used to promote social justice, the barriers that face those who seek to use knowledge to change policy, and the kinds of strategies that have been and are likely to be effective in overcoming these barriers in the future, and 2) The strategies that advocacy organizations utilize in promoting policy changes that benefit different segments of society, especially those with relatively little economic or political power. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Bailis

HS 343f Entrepreneurship Boot Camp
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit. Open only to Tufts MD/MBA Students.
Enables students to master the fundamentals of entrepreneurship. It explores how entrepreneurship has become a driving force in the healthcare sector, provides tools for developing and evaluating new ventures, and explores the blurring line between for profit and non-profit social initiatives. The course is designed to provide an intellectual and practical framework for combined degree MD/MBA students interested in exercising their entrepreneurial energy to solve problems in healthcare and will explore the process of launching a new venture, particularly in the healthcare sector. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Chilingerian and Mr. Jabre

HS 344a Health Law and Ethics
Introduces MBA students in health administration and management, to the legal issues that health care professionals confront in managing a health care organization. Begins with patient care (liability) issues and thereafter provides an overview of other health care delivery issues such as the legal structure of corporations, healthcare finance and managed care, intellectual property and healthcare entitlement programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. Students become familiar with the basic legal principles governing how health care institutions are operated and how legal doctrine are formulated. The course also familiarizes students with the emerging ethical issues in healthcare management. Usually offered every summer.
Ms. Noble

HS 345f 3D Security: Diplomacy, Development and Defense
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Focuses on developing an understanding of, and response to, the security needs of a changing world order. We will examine recent efforts at coordination of diplomacy, development and defense (3Ds) as part of a new strategic framework for security sector reform. Particular attention will be given to the new paradigm of human security in which people, rather than states, become the primary beneficiaries. The scope of the course will include examination of the whole timeline from pre-war to post-war and include assessment
of both government and civil society roles. Throughout the course, emphasis will be placed on the implications for work in the fields of coexistence and sustainable international development. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Steele

HS 347a Healthcare Technology and Information Systems
Discusses the role of science and technology in health care settings. Through case studies of technology companies (pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, and information technology), the class examines how firms manage the creation, development, adoption, and spread of medical innovations in the context of a cost-constrained marketplace. The class uses current academic literature and newspaper articles to discuss how hospitals, insurers, and federal agencies can affect technological progress. Usually offered every summer.
Mr. Zinner

HS 348f Advanced Communication for Impact
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
The purpose of this course is to do what many good journalists do: help practitioners learn to identify and report the facts, analyze critically, and communicate the story effectively; all within the context and goals of sustainable development, social transformation, and enhancement of equity. The course focuses on new methods of communicating ideas, interview and presentation skills, and traditional and emerging technologies. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Martin

HS 352f Learning Across Borders: Aligning Policy and Practice with Development Goals and Values
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit. Open to second-year MA SID students or with permission of the instructor.
An experimental, inter-university course involving graduate students from the University for Development Studies in Ghana and Beijing Normal University in China. Through weekly ‘live’ discussions via video conferencing, the course fosters dialogue across borders about challenges to implementing policies and programs that achieve social justice and development goals. Priority is given to second year MA/SID students. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Holcombe

HS 353a Managing the Triple Bottom Line
Explores a new kind of “bottom line” developing for corporations which includes social and environmental returns as well as financial returns. How can we measure “Return on Responsibility?” What are the implications for stockholders, employees and consumers when it comes to social and environmental accountability in the corporate world? How do business decisions get made when financial considerations are not the only decisions central to continued growth and success? Through case studies and meetings with institutional decision makers, this course explores shifting strategies and developing programs in the rapidly changing landscape of the Triple Bottom Line. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Appell

HS 355f Social Policy Frameworks
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Provides frameworks for thinking about social policy and its implications for managers. Examines policy in terms of the organizations that initiate and deliver policy. Looks at the tools of social policy, especially those associated with the welfare state, such as social insurance, social assistance, and a wide variety of social services. Explores the underlying economic, social, and demographic trends that can drive changes in social policy. Considers issues of process in designing policy, democratic accountability, rights, opportunities for minority interests, and advocacy. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Friedman

HS 356f Issues in Social Policy
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
This course considers some of the challenges that will face social policy now and in the future. In many countries with developed welfare states, there are pressures for retrenchment, and some countries have already cut back on programs. But there remain many unmet needs. Plus, there is ongoing interest in policies to increase equality and social inclusion. This course is meant to challenge students to think about how to design policies to weave through these competing pressures. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Friedman

HS 357f Health Law and Ethics I
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Introduces students to patient care and liability issues within the context of the U.S. health care delivery system. The course will cover legal and ethical aspects of: 1.) the provider/patient relationship and liability; 2.) health care quality, cost, and access; 3.) relationships between physicians and organizations; 4.) insurance, health care delivery systems, regulation, and the Affordable Care Act. Usually offered every summer.
Ms. Noble

HS 358f Health Law and Ethics II
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Introduces students to patient care and liability issues within the context of the U.S. health care delivery system. The course will cover legal and ethical aspects of: 1.) the provider/patient relationship and liability; 2.) health care quality, cost, and access; 3.) relationships between physicians and organizations; 4.) insurance, health care delivery systems, regulation, and the Affordable Care Act; 5) health care management. Usually offered every summer.
Ms. Noble

HS 359f Research Design for Social Policy Researchers
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
The goal of this course is to provide an introduction to research design and social scientific logic as applied to policy problems. The course is intended to provide social policy students with conceptual understandings of how contemporary social scientific research is developed and, as well, practical tools to enable students to evaluate data and analyses of policy issues. Course readings and assignments will include theoretical material about approaches to causal hypothesis testing and research design, as well as case-based discussions and projects that focus on particular social policy issues. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Saxe

HS 361a Monitoring and Evaluation
Introduce students to the field of Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E), including its purpose, design, methodologies for data collection and analysis, and utilization. In keeping with the practice orientation of the SID program, we will emphasize the contexts in which M & E is carried out, the challenges and pitfalls frequently confronted in these processes, and some “tricks of the trade” drawn from written materials and the experiences of the instructors and enrolled students. Usually offered every year.
Staff

HS 365a Physicians Executive Field Experience
Open only to Tufts/Heller MD/MBA students.
An introduction to the real and complex problems of management and systems changes. Teams of three or four students work under the supervision of a faculty coordinator, physician executives, and other administrative personnel on a mutually agreed upon project designed to further the mission of the specific sponsoring health care industry organization within the time and resource constraints of the course. Usually offered every summer.
Mr. Nelson

HS 367a Working with National Data Sets to Inform Policy Analysis and Recommendations
Building on the courses in Applied Regression Analysis, Econometrics, Research Methods, and concentration course work, this full semester course provides students in-depth and hands on experience using large national data sets to conduct policy analyses. The course will guide students through the each step of the process of developing and carrying out a research project. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Meschede

HS 372b Economic Theory and Social Policy
Prerequisite: A recent course in microeconomics.
Applies economic analysis to problems of importance to social policy. The particular applications may vary from year to year and may include such topics as unemployment and inflation, Social Security, and the economics of race and gender. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Friedman

HS 401b Research Methods
Prerequisite: Open only to PhD students who have completion of, or current enrollment in, a graduate-level statistics course.
Provides a basic foundation in social science research methods. Focuses on skills needed to understand and initiate policy-oriented social research. Theoretical as well as practical issues involved in the interpretation and conduct of social research are considered. The perspective is multidisciplinary and emphasizes investigations of substantive health, education, and social welfare problems. Students have the opportunity to review and redesign research in their own area of interest. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Perloff and Mr. Tompkins

HS 403b Qualitative Research
Open to PhD students only.
Acquaints students with the theory and practice of qualitative research. Readings and discussions focus on epistemological and theoretical foundations of qualitative research, how to conduct qualitative research, and its relevance for social policy. Provides students with experience in direct observation, participant observation, and interviewing, as well as in writing field notes, memoing, and transcribing. Qualitative research from study design to analysis and presentation is approached as an iterative and interconnected process. Ethical issues are addressed, with emphasis on requirements for institutional review board applications for projects involving qualitative research methods. Students planning to go on to HS 411b typically prepare an IRB application for a project of their own design Usually offered every year.
Ms. Kammerer

HS 404b Applied Regression Analysis
An applied course in multiple regression analysis. Emphasis placed on the assumptions underlying the regression model, how to test for violations, and corrections that can be made when violations are found. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Fournier

HS 405a Applied Econometrics
Prerequisite: HS 404b.
Focuses on applications of regression analysis and extensions to areas where the standard assumptions do not hold. Introduces applications of logit and its extensions, probit, corrections for censoring and sample selection bias, and simultaneous equations. Each student designs and carries out a research project. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Zeng

HS 406f Hierarchical Linear Modeling
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Aims at providing the foundation for understanding and using a class of models falling under the umbrella of Multilevel Modeling. Analysis of multilevel data will benefit from models which explicitly take into account their more complex structure. Multilevel data is nested in the sense that the units of analysis are at some lowest level (level one, e.g. nurses or students), which lie within units from the next level (level two, e.g. wards or classrooms), which possibly lie within yet another level (level three, e.g. hospitals or schools) and so on. Many types of well-known data are multilevel, including complex survey data (for example, with PSUs and SSUs) and panel or time series cross sectional data (for example, with repeated measures nested within subject). Usually offered every year.
Mr. Fournier and Mr. Ritter

HS 409a Advanced Econometrics
Prerequisites: HS 404b and HS 405a.
Builds on the econometrics course to further develop students' skills in using multivariate statistical techniques, particularly for time-series and longitudinal data. Based on examples from human service and health care research. Students read/critique papers using each technique studied and learn to apply it in the computer lab. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Hodgkin

HS 410a Applied Research Seminar: Quantitative
Prerequisites: HS 404b and HS 405a. Open only to PhD students.
Designed to provide students with a series of formal exercises simulating the major steps in the dissertation process. Students gain competency in manipulating data from a large, complex data set; summarizing the methodology of findings from previous studies; and synthesizing and communicating the results of data analysis-placing study objectives and results in the context of prior research. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Ritter

HS 411b Applied Research Seminar: Qualitative
Prerequisite: HS 403b or permission of instructor. Open only to PhD students.
Provides students with experience conducting qualitative research, with an emphasis on data analysis and presentation. Readings and discussions address study design, sampling, credibility, triangulation, note-taking, data storage, computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software, ethical issues, and the analysis and writing process. A series of exercises focuses on data analysis, including identifying themes, coding, and memoing. Each student completes a qualitative project, using data s/he collects or has permission to use, and presents work in progress. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Kammerer

HS 412b Substance Use and Societal Consequences
Provides an overview of the use and abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. Examines the consequences of abuse from a societal perspective and reviews types of policy approaches to dealing with the problems associated with substance abuse. Specific topics include an overview of biological and clinical aspects, theories of addictive behavior, epidemiology, medical and economic consequences, prevention and education, and policy approaches including taxation and regulation. Usually offered every second year.
Ms. Horgan

HS 414f Ethical Issues in Social Science Research
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Provides students an opportunity to explore the ethical dimensions of social science research. Ethical considerations are an integral part of social science research because such research often involves the use of human participants from vulnerable populations. Although social science researchers are expected to have an understanding of the ethical issues associated with their discipline, few have the opportunity to develop this knowledge. In this course students examine different topics associated with research design, data collection, data interpretation, and publication of study findings. Usually offered every second year.
Ms. Reif

HS 422f Cost-Effectiveness
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Addresses the application of the technique of cost-effectiveness analysis to evaluate health and other types of programs in the United States and in developing countries. Presents the theoretical foundations and applications of cost-effectiveness analysis. Uses interactive discussions and computer exercises where students learn to perform cost-effectiveness analyses and apply the technique to a problem of their choice. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Shepard

HS 425f Case Study Methodologies
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Provides students with the preliminary tools to conduct and critique case studies. Begins with an examination of the appropriateness, strengths, and weaknesses of this method. Threats to internal and external validity are examined along with techniques to properly collect and document data from multiple sources. Techniques are reviewed for case selection, data analysis, and study presentation. The final class is spent critiquing actual case studies. Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Prottas

HS 426f Advanced Techniques of Cost-Effectiveness and Cost-Benefit Analysis
Prerequisite: HS 422f or permission of the instructor. Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Provides students with advanced techniques to conduct or critically review cost-effective studies, both in the United States and internationally. Students learn how to present a research question, design a study, obtain and analyze relevant date, and analyze results. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Shepard

HS 431f Transnational Labor Economics
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Rapid technological change and increasing economic globalization have created both
opportunities and challenges to countries as they try to balance the benefits of economic growth with the costs of dislocation associated with these changes. This seminar will examine the impact of these changes using tools from labor economics and the experiences of developing and developed economies. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Lynch

HS 432f Survey Research Methods
Prerequisites: Open only to PhD students who have completed HS 401b and one semester of graduate-level statistics. Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
The goal of this course is to provide doctoral students in social policy with an understanding of the basic principles of survey research design, their application, and analysis. Survey research is increasingly important as a tool in social policy analysis and the course prepares students to design/manage survey research and to use the results of others’ surveys. Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Saxe

HS 435b Development Theory and Social Policy
Open to all Ph.D. students and to a small number of master’s students by permission of the instructor.
The course begins with basic theories, models, and evolving concepts for sustainable human development and examines the contexts in which development takes place. It also looks at some of the issues constraining sustainable human development. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Simon

HS 472b Policy and Program Implementation
Provides students with frameworks of use for the study of the implementation of public policies. Considers the implementation process in the United States from a broad perspective, ranging from the context of legislation and the role of courts to how the role of street-level bureaucrats can be studied. Political science, organizational theory, and sociological perspectives are used to develop frameworks for understanding the process through which public policy is realized and how it has an impact on institutions and individuals. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Prottas

HS 492a PhD Internship
Provides an opportunity for PhD students to carry out a formal internship with a client organization under the supervision of a faculty advisor. Allows students to apply principles from the PhD curriculum for a client organization. Usually offered every semester.
Staff

HS 492f PhD Internship
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Provides an opportunity for PhD students to carry out a formal internship with a client organization under the supervision of a faculty advisor. Allows students to apply principles from the PhD curriculum for a client organization. Usually offered every semester.
Staff

HS 505f Quality and Performance Measurement in Health Care
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
A conceptual and analytic framework of the field of quality of health care, which includes quality improvement and performance measurement; understanding of the contemporary research and policy initiatives that relate to quality of health care; and insights into the ways that quality relates to issues of provider payment, organization of health care facilities, and costs and access to health care. By the end of the module, students should have an understanding of the centrality of quality of care issues in contemporary health services research, health care policy, and management of health care organizations. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Garnick

HS 506f Advanced Topics in Quality and Performance Measurement in Health Care
Prerequisite: HS 505f. Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Builds on HS 505f which is focused on the centrality of quality of care issues in contemporary health services research, health care policy, and management of healthcare organizations. The first module, offered as an elective every year, introduces basic concepts and offers an overview of the field. This module is offered as an elective every other year.
Ms. Garnick

HS 507f State Health Policy
Prerequisite: HS 513a or permission of instructor. Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Examines the role of the states in the U.S. health care system. Provides an overview of state activities in health, including state responsibilities for managing health programs and institutions. Models to understand the nature of policy making and politics in states are presented and discussed. Examines major state health programs such as Medicaid. Outlines and explores the policy and legislative processes. States' efforts to reform their health care systems are discussed with special attention to implementation issues, barriers, limits of state action, and prospects for the future of state health reform. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Rosman

HS 509a Policy and Program Evaluation
For students who have learned how to manage in a health or human services policy environment and wish to know whether the public policies they are helping to implement are working. Reviews methods, tools, and strategies to help managers assess measurable impacts of implementation of policies and programs. Teaches students how to assess policies and to evaluate programs-what evaluation is, how to do it, and, most important, how to critically review studies done by others. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Hahn

HS 511b Contemporary Issues in the Management of Child, Youth, and Family Services
Managing human service systems and programs to benefit children, youth, and families in America today means managing people in a time of fiscal constraint and dramatic social, economic, and political change, and, on the other hand, in a time of great organizational and civic innovation. Builds on the analytic tools students have begun to hone in the master's program and helps them learn how to apply these tools to effectively implement policies and programs in the not-for-profit sector. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Curnan

HS 513a Issues in National Health Policy
An overview of the U.S. health care system is followed by a critical analysis of the major issues and trends in the health care field. Concentrates on the activities of federal and state governments and the private sector. Also explores likely future issues affecting our health system. Of special concern is the issue of the large number of Americans with no or inadequate health insurance. A related problem is the rising cost of medical care, which results in increases in the number of uninsured. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Altman and Mr. Wallack

HS 515a Race/Ethnicity and Gender in Health and Human Services Research
Explores theoretical and empirical approaches to race/ethnicity and gender as factors in health and human services practices, programs, and policies in the United States. Begins by examining current data on racial/ethnic and gender differences in health, mental health, functional status, and lifestyle. Attention then turns to alternative accounts of the causes of these differences. Although primary focus is on patterns of race/ethnicity and gender differences in health outcomes and services that have received the most comprehensive attention, the course offers perspectives on research methods and analytic frameworks that can be applied to other issues. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Nsiah-Jefferson

HS 518a Management of Health Care Organizations
Introduces students to the concepts, theories, and practical problems of managing people in health care organizations. Case material is drawn from hospital, HMO, group practice, public health agency, and for-profit company settings. Students gain a better understanding of the range of strategic and operational problems faced by managers, some of the analytic tools to diagnose problems, and the role of leadership (and management) in improving performance. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Chilingerian

HS 519a Health Economics
Prerequisite: An introductory microeconomics course.
Economic models of demand, production, and markets for goods and services can be used to analyze the key resource allocation questions in health care. Applies economic models to questions of demand concerning the utilization and distribution of health care and to questions of supply, encompassing issues of cost, efficiency, and accessibility of care. The incentives and behavior of consumers and producers of health care are considered using these models. Usually offered every second year.
Ms. Bishop

HS 520a Payment and Financing of Health Care
Examines current payment practices to health care providers, the problems with current methods, and possible modifications. Focuses only upon hospital care, physician services, and managed care. Covers the different ways that managed care organizations are structured. The payment and performance of managed care organizations and how performance is related to organizational strategies are included. Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Wallack

HS 521a Approaches to Political and Organizational Analysis
Focuses on refining the analytical skills useful to students for understanding the political and organizational factors influencing public policy. Most readings were selected because they represent an innovative, interesting, or challenging piece of analysis. The goal of each class is to identify and critique the core arguments of the work, the conceptual categories and assumptions on which the argument is based, and the data presented in its support. There is a focus on the differences in making arguments from the point of view of science, policy-making and political choices. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Prottas

HS 523a Economics of Aging and Disability
Provides students with background and tools to carry out economic analysis of individual and public decision making with respect to life-cycle risks of disability and retirement, including long-term care services that compensate for functional disability. Students will compare and contrast issues and analysis for two groups: elders and working-aged persons with disabilities. Usually offered every second year.
Ms. Bishop

HS 526a Organizational Theory and Behavior
An introduction to organizational theory and behavior from a policy and management perspective. Examines a number of major perspectives on the nature and process of organization. The course objectives are: to develop an awareness of what organizational theory is and why it is important in providing analytical lenses to see (or ignore) phenomena which might be overlooked; to review how some theorists have analyzed organizations; to develop a critical attitude toward the literature; and to encourage the development of an integrative (and creative) point of view. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Gittell and Mr. Chilingerian

HS 527a Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Public Policy
Students will examine framing in public policy in general, and its relationship to challenges faced by communities of color. Further, we will address the topics of race and gender in health and health care; education, welfare policy, immigration, housing, and other issues. Students will hone their skills in policy analysis, political advocacy, communication, coalition building and networking as they relate to the policy process. Class discussion, essays/case studies, and in-class assignments are used. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Nsiah-Jefferson

HS 529a Inequalities, Social Policy, and Population Groups
Examines how social scientists and policymakers define “vulnerable” or “disadvantaged” population groups, how these constructions can shift or change over time, and how policies and programs address inequalities and serve the needs of diverse groups. We explore the causes, correlates, and consequences of inequalities across the lifespan, and consider how race, ethnicity, gender, disability, social class, sexual orientation, age, and their intersections shape lived experiences and well-being. The potential of social movements, institutional restructuring, and policy initiatives to reduce inequalities and promote inclusion, equality, and social justice are analyzed. Usually offered every year.
Staff

HS 532b Social Policy Analysis: Technique and Application
Examines approaches to policy analysis and assesses strength and limitations of various methods. Exposes students to a range of methods and theoretical frameworks for exploring and understanding contemporary social problems and policy challenges. Begins with an overview of the stages of policy process, including policy formulation, rule making, and implementation. Policy analysis will be defined and a distinction made with policy research. The course also focuses on the criteria for evaluating policy options, including efficiency, equity, security, and liberty. Ethics and the role of values in shaping analysis will be explored. Actual policy analysis is evaluated in the areas of children and family policy, health, and welfare policy. Students have the opportunity to write and present a policy analysis critique. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Doonan

HS 534b Assets and Social Policy
The class conducts a thorough and rigorous examination of the central features, assumptions, and implications of asset-based policy, focusing on four central aspects of asset-based policy. Explores the analytic features of an asset perspective, and determines whether such policies could make a significant difference. Reviews evidence regarding the impact of asset-based policies from demonstration projects just now becoming available. Also examines in detail the implications for social policy. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Boguslaw

HS 572a Economics of Behavioral Health
Applies economic analysis to policy and research issues in the mental health sector, including cost-effectiveness, managed care, benefit design, and adverse selection. Studies the impact of different approaches to financing treatment and paying providers in the public and private sectors. Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Hodgkin

HS 586a Issues in Substance Abuse Treatment
Provides an overview of issues related to clinical prevention and treatment services for alcohol, tobacco, and other drug abuse. Examines the organization, delivery, and financing of abuse services. Specific topics include the structure of the treatment system, access to service, the process of treatment, and the effectiveness, cost, cost-effectiveness, and quality of treatment. Examines the impact of managed care on the way services are organized and delivered and on clinical outcome. Usually offered every second year.
Ms. Horgan

HS 602c Children, Youth, and Families Doctoral Seminar
Staff

HS 603c Health Policy Doctoral Seminar
Staff

HS 604c Assets and Inequalities Doctoral Seminar
Staff

HS 605c Behavioral Health Doctoral Seminar
Staff

HS 606c Global Health and Development Doctoral Seminar
Staff

HS 777a Social Welfare Tutorial
Staff

HS 777f Social Welfare Tutorial
Staff

HS 800g Proseminar
Priority given to Heller students; other students may enroll with permission of the instructor. Yields one-quarter course credit (one credit). May be repeated for credit, as the seminar topic varies.
Usually offered every fall.
Staff

HS 801g Proseminar
Open only to Heller students. Yields one-quarter course credit (one credit). May be repeated for credit, as the seminar topic varies.
Usually offered every spring.
Staff

HS 210a Coexistence and Conflict: Theory and Analysis
Open only to students enrolled in the MA program in coexistence and conflict. Other students considered with permission of the instructor. May not be taken for credit by students who took COEX 210a in prior years.
Addresses the current and emerging context of intercommunal conflict around the world and the varying and developing theoretical approaches to the emergence and resolution of such conflicts. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Fitzduff

HS 220a Strategies for Coexistence Interventions
Prerequisite: HS 210a. Open only to students enrolled in the MA program in coexistence and conflict. Other students considered with permission of the instructor. May not be taken for credit by students who took COEX 220a in prior years.
Studies the utilization of a variety of multifaceted approaches to policy and practice in coexistence and conflict interventions, as well as the strategic design and evaluation of such interventions. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Fitzduff

HS 230f Coexistence Research Methods
Open only to students enrolled in the MA program in coexistence and conflict. Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit. May not be taken for credit by students who took COEX 230f in prior years.
Preparation for the research necessary for the required field project in the MA program in coexistence and conflict. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Johnson

HS 240a Dialogue and Mediation Skills
Open only to students enrolled in the MA program in coexistence and conflict. Other students considered with permission of the instructor. May not be taken for credit by students who took COEX 240a in prior years.
Addresses the theoretical and practical approaches to mediation and facilitation skills for people and organizations working in areas of intercommunal conflict. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Johnson

HS 260f Development, Aid, and Coexistence
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit. May not be taken for credit by students who took COEX 260f in prior years.
Increases the knowledge and skills of students undertaking development and aid work in conflict situations. Explores how such work can address development needs, as well as the need to increase intercommunal equity, understanding, and cooperation. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Johnson

HS 261f Advanced Development, Aid, and Coexistence
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit. May not be taken for credit by students who took COEX 261f in prior years.
This seminar builds on the concepts and theories offered in the basic course. Students will master the skills of conflict mapping, strategic intervention, and analysis using case studies of current and past conflicts where development assistance was also required. Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Johnson

HS 270a The Future of Diversity Work
This course may not be taken for credit by students who have taken COEX 270a in prior years.
This seminar uncovers the myths and challenges of race and multiculturalism and explores various approaches that have addressed them. It examines future scenarios to help form a more constructive approach to coexistence that goes beyond those challenges. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Johnson

POL 127b Seminar: Managing Ethnic Conflict
[ ss wi ]
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or higher.
Comparative study of the sources and character of interethnic conflict, with emphasis on the processes by which groups become politicized, and the strategies and techniques for managing conflict in a democratic system. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Burg

AAAS 114b Race, Ethnicity, and Electoral Politics in the United States
[ ss ]
Explores the role that racial and ethnic politics play in American political campaigns and elections. Readings provide historical, theoretical, and empirical overviews of racial and ethnic politics in four contexts: political parties, presidential elections, congressional campaigns, and state legislative contests. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Mapps

AAAS 115a Introduction to African History
[ nw ss ]
Explores the history of African societies from their earliest beginnings to the present era. Topics include African participation in antiquity as well as early Christianity and preindustrial political, economic, and cultural developments. Usually offered every year.
Staff

AAAS 117a Communications and Social Change in Developing Nations
[ ss ]
Examines the role of communications and information systems within and between developed and underdeveloped nations. Addresses the larger perspective of global communications. Usually offered every third year.
Mr. Nyangoni

AAAS 126b Political Economy of the Third World
[ nw ss wi ]
Development of capitalism and different roles and functions assigned to all "Third Worlds," in the periphery as well as the center. Special attention will be paid to African and Afro-American peripheries. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Nyangoni

AAAS 156a The Civil Rights Movement
[ ss ]
Explores the civil rights movement through primary readings and films. Includes an assessment of the consequences of the movement and the ongoing controversies over the best ways to achieve equality for black Americans. Usually offered every second year.
Staff

AAAS 163b Africa in World Politics
[ nw ss ]
Explores the impact of African states in world affairs; the African and Afro-Asian groups in the United Nations; relations with Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and the Americas; the Afro-Asian movement; nonalignment; the Organization of African Unity; and Pan-Africanism. Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Nyangoni

ANTH 129b Global, Transnational, and Diasporic Communities
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Examines the social and cultural dimensions of globalization from an anthropological perspective. It starts by critically engaging with more fundamental concepts such as state, identity, and movement. It then proceeds to debate the various contributions that anthropologists have presented to the understanding of human life in global, transnational, and diasporic contexts. Topics to be discussed include place, migration, religion, global sexual cultures, kinship, and technology—all within a global perspective. Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Anjaria, Ms. Ferry or Ms. Lamb

ANTH 156a Power and Violence: The Anthropology of Political Systems
[ nw ss ]
Political orders are established and maintained by varying combinations of overt violence and the more subtle workings of ideas. The course examines the relationship of coercion and consensus, and forms of resistance, in historical and contemporary settings. Usually offered every second year.
Ms. Ferry

ECON 122b The Economics of the Middle East
[ nw ss ]
Prerequisite: ECON 2a or 10a or the equivalent. Does not count toward the upper-level elective requirement for the major in economics.
Examines the Middle East economies – past experiences, present situation, and future challenges – drawing on theories, policy formulations and empirical studies of economic growth, trade, poverty, income distribution, labor markets, finance and banking, government reforms, globalization, and Arab-Israeli political economy. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Habibi

ECON 175a Introduction to the Economics of Development
[ ss ]
Prerequisite: ECON 2a or 10a or permission of the instructor. Does not count toward the upper-level elective requirement for the major in economics.
An introduction to various models of economic growth and development and evaluation of these perspectives from the experience of developing and industrial countries. Usually offered every year.
Staff

HBRW 121b Let's converse in Hebrew, II
[ fl hum ]
Prerequisite: Any 40-level Hebrew course or the equivalent. Four class hours per week.
An intermediate- to mid/high-level conversation course for students who wish to improve their speaking skills before entering more advanced-level courses. Role playing, vocabulary building, and guided speaking activities develop conversational skills for various situations. Reading and discussion of contemporary texts assist in vocabulary building. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Azoulay

HIST 115a History of Comparative Race and Ethnic Relations
[ ss ]
Explores and understands the origin and nature of racial and ethnic differences in the United States, South Africa, and Brazil. Explores how theoreticians explain and account for differences, and how race and ethnicity relate to economic class and social institutions. Usually offered every second year.
Staff

HIST 116a Black Homeland: West Africa
[ nw ss ]
Surveys the history of the ancestral land of most African Americans from the rise of the great African empires through the period of the slave trade and colonialism. Traces the rise of African nationalism up to 1960. Usually offered every second year.
Staff

HRNS 237b Organizational Behavior in Jewish Nonprofits
Core course required for all Hornstein students. Also open to undergraduates and to graduate students from other departments with permission and signature of instructor.
Presents contemporary management theories, case studies, skill-building exercises, and traditional Jewish teachings to provide a conceptual understanding of individual and group behavior in Jewish nonprofit organizations. Covers such topics as motivation, trust, ethics, group dynamics, decision-making, power, conflict, influence, negotiation, lay-professional relations, leadership, organizational culture, and organizational change. Offered every year.
Mr. Rosen

HS 253b Leadership and Organizational Behavior
Focuses on leadership and managing organizations. Uses cases on a variety of organizations to expose students to problems and to improve their effectiveness in analyzing, diagnosing, and leading people in organizations. Students learn organizational concepts, analytic frameworks, and models, and practice their leadership skills in class. Uses case discussions, simulations, role-playing, mini-lecturing, and experimental exercises. Provides an opportunity to develop leadership skills through group work and reflection. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Chilingerian

HS 262f Culture, Power, and Development
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Students engage with constructs of cultural superiority, debate about modernization, and learn about what motivates individual and cultural change. Students are introduced to alternative theoretical approaches to culture and development and learn how to apply those theories to different historical contexts as well as contemporary situations. Not offered in 2013-2014.
Ms. Ready

HS 279a Planning and Implementation
Focuses on concepts and methods of planning and implementation to promote sustainable development. The project cycle and project development are used to give students experience in problem-solving, logic, and organizational skills applicable to all planning, implementation, and monitoring functions. Attention is given to the context in which the project cycle takes place, identifying local problems and applying holistic solutions. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Howard and Mr. Ellsworth

HS 286f Civil Society and Non Governmental Organizations
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
The phenomenal growth in non-governmental organizations throughout the world in the past two decades has transformed the delivery of development assistance and relationships between the north and south. Examines the nature of civil society, types of and relationships among NGOs, and NGO relationships with the state, multilateral and bilateral organizations, and community organizations.
Staff

HS 472b Policy and Program Implementation
Provides students with frameworks of use for the study of the implementation of public policies. Considers the implementation process in the United States from a broad perspective, ranging from the context of legislation and the role of courts to how the role of street-level bureaucrats can be studied. Political science, organizational theory, and sociological perspectives are used to develop frameworks for understanding the process through which public policy is realized and how it has an impact on institutions and individuals. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Prottas

HS 532b Social Policy Analysis: Technique and Application
Examines approaches to policy analysis and assesses strength and limitations of various methods. Exposes students to a range of methods and theoretical frameworks for exploring and understanding contemporary social problems and policy challenges. Begins with an overview of the stages of policy process, including policy formulation, rule making, and implementation. Policy analysis will be defined and a distinction made with policy research. The course also focuses on the criteria for evaluating policy options, including efficiency, equity, security, and liberty. Ethics and the role of values in shaping analysis will be explored. Actual policy analysis is evaluated in the areas of children and family policy, health, and welfare policy. Students have the opportunity to write and present a policy analysis critique. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Doonan

IMES 104a Islam: Civilization and Institutions
[ hum nw ]
Provides a disciplined study of Islamic civilization from its origins to the modern period. Approaches the study from a humanities perspective. Topics covered will include the Qur'an, tradition, law, theology, politics, Islam and other religions, modern developments, and women in Islam. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Lumbard

LGLS 124b International Law and Development
[ nw ss ]
Surveys public and private forms of international law with special application to developing countries, and to political and social development in the global economy. Examines basic legal concepts of property, contract, and rule of law in the context of national and cultural transformations. Usually offered every second year.
Staff

NEJS 144a Jews in the World of Islam
[ hum nw ]
Examines social and cultural history of Jewish communities in the Islamic world. Special emphasis is placed on the pre-modern Jewish communities. Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Decter

NEJS 145a History of the State of Israel
[ hum ]
Examines the development of the State of Israel from its foundation to the present time. Israel's politics, society, and culture will be thematically analyzed. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Troen

NEJS 197b Political Cultures of the Middle East
[ hum nw wi ]
Explores the way in which people make assumptions about power, authority, and justice. Focuses on Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Iraq, explaining the evolving language of politics in these states. Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Makiya

POL 103b Seminar: Political Leadership
[ ss ]
Examines political leadership through biographies, autobiographies, and biographical fiction. These are used to help us understand and compare different modes of political leadership, including the "apolitical-rationalist" (McGeorge Bundy), "political" (Lincoln, Johnson, Truman), and the ostensibly "non-political expert" (Robert Moses). Usually offered every year.
Mr. Levin

POL 128a The Politics of Revolution: State Violence and Popular Insurgency in the Third World
[ nw ss ]
Introduction to twentieth-century revolutionary movements in the Third World, focusing on the emergence of peasant-based resistance and revolution in the world beyond the West, and on the role of state violence in provoking popular involvement in protest, rebellion, and insurgency. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Thaxton

POL 131b Social Movements in Latin America
[ ss ]
Origins, dynamics, and social and cultural impact of movements among indigenous groups, women, peasants, and blacks in Latin America since the 1980s. Comparative study of other social movements in Latin America and elsewhere in the world. Usually offered every year.
Staff

POL 145b Muslims in the West: Politics, Religion, and Law
[ ss ]
Few issues have caused more public furor than the accommodation of Islam in Europe and the United States. It is often overlooked that Muslims are developing the institutions of their faith in societies that offer everyone the freedom of choice and expression. This seminar looks at religious discrimination as a barrier to the civic and political inclusion of Muslim immigrants, the responses of governments, courts, and the general public, and what we know about the balance among "fundamentalist, " "moderate," and "progressive" Muslim viewpoints. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Klausen

POL 146b Seminar: Topics in Revolutions in the Third World
[ nw ss ]
May be repeated for credit with permission of the instructor.
Explores revolutionary situations, revolutionary movements (successful and unsuccessful), and revolutionary regimes in the Third World since World War II. Specific topics may vary from year to year. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Hindley

POL 147a The Government and Politics of China
[ nw ss ]
Introduction to major themes of Chinese politics, emphasizing the rise of the Chinese Communists and the post-1949 trends in domestic politics, while also surveying historical, sociological, and cultural influences in Chinese politics. Attention to the nature of the traditional state, impact of colonialism, national revolution, and the course of contemporary state development. Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Thaxton

POL 150a Politics of Southeast Asia
[ nw ss ]
Introduction to the politics of modern Southeast Asia, with the focus on the indigenous peoples and their cultures, societies, and histories. The greatly changed and changing political systems of Indonesia and Thailand are examined individually in some depth. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Hindley

POL 151a Seminar: Cultural Pluralism and Democratic Governance
[ ss wi ]
Prerequisites: Sophomore or junior class standing and at least two prior politics courses.
How liberal democracies respond to the social and political challenges of linguistic, cultural, religious, racial, and gender differences. Examines legal, political, and normative issues arising out of these differences, and the implications of various responses for the stability of a liberal democratic state. Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Burg

POL 164a Conflict and Peacemaking in the Middle East
[ ss ]
Evolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the efforts to resolve it. Focuses on key documents and developments with particular emphasis on the Palestinian-Israeli dimension, and the different narratives adopted by the parties on the conflict. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Feldman

POL 174b Seminar: Problems of National Security
[ ss ]
Analysis of the role and utility of military power in international politics. Selected case studies from the last fifty years. Selected topics on post-Cold War military issues, including the spread of weapons of mass destruction, collective approaches to coercion, and the role of U.S. military power in world stability. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Art

POL 175b Global Civil Society
[ ss ]
The role of international organizations in the contemporary global political and economic system, the ways in which they influence or contribute to major international policy issues, and the interactions between international organizations and global civil society. Usually offered every year.
Staff

SAS 140a We Who Are at Home Everywhere: Narratives from the South Asian Diaspora
[ hum ]
Looks at narratives from various locations of the South Asian Diaspora, while paying close attention to the emergence of an immigrant South Asian public culture. Examines novels, poetry, short stories, film, and music in order to further an understanding of South Asian immigrant culture. Usually offered every third year.
Ms. Singh

SOC 119a Deconstructing War, Building Peace
[ ss ]
Ponders the possibility of a major "paradigm shift" under way from adversarialism and war to mutuality and peace. Examines war culture and peace culture and points in between, with emphases on the role of imagination in social change, growing global interdependence, and political, economic, gender, social class, and social psychological aspects of war and peace. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Fellman

SOC 122a The Sociology of American Immigration
[ ss ]
Most of us descend from immigrants. Focusing on the United States but in a global perspective, we address the following questions: Why do people migrate? How does this affect immigrants' occupations, gendered households, rights, identities, youth, and race relations with other groups? Usually offered every second year.
Staff

SOC 138a Sociology of Gender, Race, and Class
[ ss ]
Examines gender as an individual and institutional factor that organizes societies. Uses a variety of media to analyze how gender and race (re)create forms of domination and subordination in labor markets, family structures, realms of cultural presentation (e.g., media), and social movements. Usually offered every third year.
Staff

SOC 147a Organizations and Social Change
[ oc ss ]
Innovation and change in communities, school systems, social services, corporations, nonprofits, federal agencies, and police. Dynamics of democratic, feminist, multicultural, and community organizations. May be combined with internships and action research. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Sirianni

HS 297a Field Project
Prerequisite: Two semesters as master's student in coexistence and conflict or permission of program director.
Offers students an opportunity to apply the theories and key themes covered in the core courses in a real-life setting. Requires completion of at least three months of a paid or unpaid internship or field project approved and monitored by a faculty adviser. The project could involve a research or consulting assignment or a structured internship in the fields of coexistence and conflict. Offered every year.
Staff

HS 264f Principles of Ecology for Development Planners
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Introduces key principles of ecology that influence sustainability of national and local development programs throughout the world. The course looks at how policies affecting our use of soils, crops, and forests play a role in development. Other topics include climate, food webs, soil fertility, population growth and stability, and species protection. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Olson

HS 266f Introduction to Economics for Development Practitioners
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Provides a foundation in economics for discerning, creative, and forward thinking development practitioners. It explores selected economic theories, historical perspectives, empirical lessons, analytical tools, and alternative proposals that are particularly relevant to sustainable international development. Usually offered every year.
Staff

HS 271a Poverty, Inequalities, and Development
Provides a conceptual umbrella for all the coursework in the SID program. Introduces students to the major currents of thinking about sustainable development. Topics include poverty, inequality, globalization, human rights, the environment, and the role of institutions. Students examine what is known about the drivers of development as well as the links between global and national policies, and actions for sustainable development. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Lynch

HS 278f Monitoring and Evaluation
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Introduces students to the field of evaluation, including their purpose, design, methodologies for data collection and analysis, and utilization. The course also explores the organizational environment in which evaluations are carried out, frequent challenges and pitfalls in conducting evaluation, and some tricks of the trade drawing on written materials and experiences of the instructor and enrolled students as well. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Roper or Ms. Snell

HS 279a Planning and Implementation
Focuses on concepts and methods of planning and implementation to promote sustainable development. The project cycle and project development are used to give students experience in problem-solving, logic, and organizational skills applicable to all planning, implementation, and monitoring functions. Attention is given to the context in which the project cycle takes place, identifying local problems and applying holistic solutions. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Howard and Mr. Ellsworth

HS 283f Gender and Development
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Examines politics and policies of international development from a gender-sensitive perspective. Concepts of "development" and “gender” are framed within historical and political contexts. Students examine how development affects women and men differently according to class, ethnicity, geography, age, and seniority. Ways in which gender asymmetries have been addressed in development and approaches to mainstreaming gender are explored. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Espinosa and Ms. Ready

HS 319f Ethics, Rights, and Development
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Explores philosophical and ethical foundations of human rights as related to development studies, policy, and practice. Students look at complex political, economic, and cultural conditions to apply rights to advance sustainable development. Contemporary debates on human rights as a tool to define and realize justice and alleviate human suffering - such as poverty, hunger, and other detriments to health and environment - are examined. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Sampath

HS 206f Sustainable Agriculture and Watersheds
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Focuses on scientific principles and basic practices of sustainable agriculture and its links to watershed management, soil conservation, and landscape ecology. Topics include how sustainable agriculture links to management of water and watersheds, integrated watershed management, hydrologic cycles, and the relation of surface water and groundwater resources to agricultural productivity, ecology, and social justice. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Ellsworth

HS 207f Ecology of Health
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Develops an ecological view of the causes of good or poor health by considering aspects of “macro-habitats” that include air, water, and the multitude of other life that lives around, on, and in us. The course looks at unexpected health consequences of the modern built environment where people have achieved “the good life” with safe water, roads, cheap food, and a car in every driveway. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Olson

HS 208f Systems Solutions to Disastrous Climate Change
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Focuses on known and rapidly improving sustainable renewable energy technologies such as solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, tidal, biofuels, advanced nuclear, along with methods of energy storage, improved infrastructure, energy conservation, and demand management. Economic policies that will have the most impact on rapidly developing, urbanizing, and polluting industrialized areas are also examined. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Abt

HS 216f Trade and Natural Resources: A Sustainable Development Perspective
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Examines trade and environment from the perspective of sustainable development and potential for poverty alleviation. This course flows from understanding that the trade and environment policy debate has become highly specialized. As a result, it is imposing stress on developing countries to participate in these discussions and influencing policy to become ever narrower and, therefore, missing connections central to resolving challenges. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Boyer

HS 222f Tourism and Development
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Explores the sustainability of tourism and of ecotourism in particular. The rapid growth of ecotourism is a welcome change in the global tourism industry. At its best, ecotourism aims to increase the sustainability of the travel and tour industry, and makes direct support of wildlife and habitat conservation an element of doing business. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Olson

HS 261a Threats to Development: Climate Change
Takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of climate change as a long-term overarching threat to the achievement of sustainable development, integrating issues of economics, ecology, and governance. The course provides development specialists with a holistic grounding in the significant economic, social, and ecological threats and strategies to confront climate change. Usually offered every semester.
Mr. Olson and Mr. Assan

HS 264f Principles of Ecology for Development Planners
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Introduces key principles of ecology that influence sustainability of national and local development programs throughout the world. The course looks at how policies affecting our use of soils, crops, and forests play a role in development. Other topics include climate, food webs, soil fertility, population growth and stability, and species protection. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Olson

HS 282f Environmental Impact Assessment
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Provides students with a working knowledge of the purpose and process of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). EIA is examined as a planning tool that can anticipate negative environmental and social impacts; increasing benefits, social acceptance, and durability of development projects while reducing their cost to budgets, communities, and the environment. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Boyer and Mr. Olson

HS 300f Integrated Conservation and Development
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Focuses on how to reconcile priorities of biodiversity conservation with socioeconomic development. The course looks at a number of case studies to identify and examine recent field methods of community-based conservation, ecosystem-based management, and protected area alternatives to achieve conservation, sustainable use, and equity while advancing social, environmental, and economic justice. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Howard

HS 325f The Right to Water
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Explores practical applications of the human right to clean drinking water and adequate sanitation from a science and policy perspective. It takes an interdisciplinary perspective to issues of water, focusing on geography, social arrangements, and government choices that impact access to water at the household level. Modes of decision-making with regard to water policy are examined from technical and rights perspectives. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Olson and Ms. Jones

HS 211f Agriculture and Rural Development
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Provides an overview of the impact of development policy on agriculture and rural sectors, consequences of neglecting these sectors, and policy responses in developing countries. Topics include household economics, rural production systems, land tenure, rural markets and institutions, rural poverty and inequality, the environment, and the role of institutions. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Assan

HS 214f Environmental Economics and Policy
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Introduces students to economic perspectives on modern environmental issues. Students study economic theories related to natural resources, with an emphasis on the strengths and weaknesses of economic models. Students learn that economic objectives do not necessarily conflict with environmental goals, and that markets can be harnessed to efficiently improve environmental quality. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Roach

HS 220f The Energy-Environment-Economic Development Trilemma
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Covers the three essential components of environmentally and economically sustainable international development, and the interactions among them. The course begins with a presentation of three dual relationships: Energy and the Economy; Energy and the Environment; and Environment and the Economy, and how they affect each other at the community, national, and international levels, in the current decade and alternative 20- and 40-year trends into the future. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Abt

HS 221f Household Economics
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit. May not be repeated by students who have taken HS 259f with this topic in previous years.
Centers on (a) discussing the intuition behind concepts in household economics and (b) the applied aspects of the concepts for practitioners of development. The course is purposefully not technical and is designed for students who have taken the introductory course to economics. The course will provide a theoretical and empirical introduction to the field of household economics as well as provide practical tools to do basic analysis of intra-household gender inequalities. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Godoy

HS 223f Gender and Development in the Context of Neoliberalism and Globalization
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit. May not be repeated by students who have taken HS 259f with this topic in previous years.
Reviews the connections between gender and macroeconomics before exploring main changes brought by globalization and neoliberal policies as they affect social policies, livelihoods, families and gender. Relying on recent critical scholarship, this course aims to provide a framework to understand the role of gender within development in times of neoliberal globalization, when deep transformation have altered the relations between the state, markets and civil society and the material and subjective contexts for gender identities and practices. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Espinosa

HS 225f The Political Economy and Measure of Inequality
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit. May not be repeated by students who have taken HS 259f with this topic in previous years.
Exposes students to current debates about the causes and consequences of three dominant topics in development: income inequality, social capital, and empowerment. Through a combination of country case studies, this course will enhance appreciation of empirical analysis of the topics. In addition, students will be familiarized with technical aspects of how one measures income inequality, social capital, and empowerment in applied work. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Godoy

HS 237f Applied Cost-Benefit Analysis for Development Practitioners
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the private sector, and international development organizations have to decide whether to invest in projects. Benefit-cost analysis has become a standard method to evaluate the net monetary benefits of a project. This course introduces students to these principles and allows them to apply them by using cost-benefit analysis to evaluate a real-world development project. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Godoy

HS 261a Threats to Development: Climate Change
Takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of climate change as a long-term overarching threat to the achievement of sustainable development, integrating issues of economics, ecology, and governance. The course provides development specialists with a holistic grounding in the significant economic, social, and ecological threats and strategies to confront climate change. Usually offered every semester.
Mr. Olson and Mr. Assan

HS 266f Introduction to Economics for Development Practitioners
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Provides a foundation in economics for discerning, creative, and forward thinking development practitioners. It explores selected economic theories, historical perspectives, empirical lessons, analytical tools, and alternative proposals that are particularly relevant to sustainable international development. Usually offered every year.
Staff

HS 295f Economics of Natural Resource Planning
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Brings students up to date with economic theories, findings, and methods related to management and conservation of natural resources in developing nations. It gives students a broad way of thinking about the topic that goes beyond use of natural resources and forces students to look at other sectors of the economy and highlight practical applications of economic theory to conservation. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Godoy

HS 422f Cost-Effectiveness
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Addresses the application of the technique of cost-effectiveness analysis to evaluate health and other types of programs in the United States and in developing countries. Presents the theoretical foundations and applications of cost-effectiveness analysis. Uses interactive discussions and computer exercises where students learn to perform cost-effectiveness analyses and apply the technique to a problem of their choice. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Shepard

HS 204f Education, Gender and Development
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Reviews the relationship between gender access to education and development indicators such as reduced fertility, improved health, and women's access to employment, income, and decision-making. Students look at the broader factors behind these links, and at issues that prevent education from playing the expected role in overcoming inequalities and building human and social capital in developing countries. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Epinosa

HS 223f Gender and Development in the Context of Neoliberalism and Globalization
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit. May not be repeated by students who have taken HS 259f with this topic in previous years.
Reviews the connections between gender and macroeconomics before exploring main changes brought by globalization and neoliberal policies as they affect social policies, livelihoods, families and gender. Relying on recent critical scholarship, this course aims to provide a framework to understand the role of gender within development in times of neoliberal globalization, when deep transformation have altered the relations between the state, markets and civil society and the material and subjective contexts for gender identities and practices. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Espinosa

HS 224f Gender and the Environment
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit. May not be repeated by students who have taken HS 259f with this topic in previous years.
Introduces students to the field of gender and the environment, examining the relevance of gender for environmental conservation that includes social sustainability, and the different ways gender has been conceptualized and integrated within environmental conservation and within sustainable development interventions. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Espinosa

HS 283f Gender and Development
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Examines politics and policies of international development from a gender-sensitive perspective. Concepts of "development" and “gender” are framed within historical and political contexts. Students examine how development affects women and men differently according to class, ethnicity, geography, age, and seniority. Ways in which gender asymmetries have been addressed in development and approaches to mainstreaming gender are explored. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Espinosa and Ms. Ready

HS 284f Gender Analysis in Development Planning
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Examines recent concepts and methods of gender analysis as an integral factor in program planning across cultures. Students are introduced to gender analysis frameworks, examine tools like gender budgeting and auditing, and analyze case studies that take an integrated approach to gender analysis. Students also learn how to use these tools in different settings and to address various issues. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Ready and Ms. Espinosa

HS 304f Reproductive and Sexual Health and Development
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Examines how the relationship between reproductive and sexual health (RSH) and development is made clear in the Millennium Development Goals. Three of the eight goals deal directly with RSH. But it has already been recognized that it is extremely unlikely that any of those goals will be reached. The challenges faced by those seeking to advance RSH are scientific, cultural, gendered, religious, economic and political. This course will examine, from a gendered perspective, the development approaches beginning with family planning and fertility and moving through the shift to reproductive and sexual health rights. Case studies and reports will provide material to discuss various approaches and controversies in RSH. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Ready

HS 232f Theories of Justice
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Explores contemporary applied ethics and political philosophy on theories of justice. Students examine moral and ontological grounds of social movements from the paradigm-forming theories of John Rawls to pioneers of different traditions and movements including Amartya Sen, Michael Sandel, Wendy Brown, Martha Nussbaum, David Crocker, Gillian Brock, Abdulaziz Sachedina, Kwame Appiah, Thich Nhat Hanh, and others. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Sampath

HS 265f Human Rights-Based Approach to Development Policy and Practice
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Over the past two decades, international organizations, national governments, and NGOs around the world have adopted human rights frameworks, strategies, and tools to advance missions and goals. In view of the widespread adoption of such frameworks for development and social policy work, this course provides an introduction to human rights law, policy, and practice for development practitioners. Usually offered every semester.
Ms. MacNaughton

HS 293f Religion and Development
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Explores the world’s different faith traditions and how they define and treat the problem of poverty. The class takes a critical look at conditions by which religion provides a source of liberation from human suffering and strategies for sustainable development. Students also examine how power is transformed along gender, class, racial, ethnic, and national lines when religions confront one another. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Sampath

HS 307f Human Development and Capabilities Approach in Practice
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Explores the theoretical and practical perspectives underpinning capabilities approach and the work of Amartya Sen. Students look at the way human capability functions as a force in political-economic systems and at the enhancement of individual, institutional, and communal capabilities as a force for sustainable development goals such as poverty alleviation, environmental protection, gender parity, and education. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Sampath

HS 309f International Law for Development Practitioners
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
An introduction to the basic principles of international law for non-lawyer professionals working in international development. Covers core terminology of international law that development practitioners are likely to encounter, explains how international agreements such as treaties are created and implemented, and examines how international disputes, on issues ranging from environmental laws to the use of force, are resolved. Also provides an overview, in an international law context, of the roles of international institutions such as the United Nations and the World Court and of private actors like corporations and NGOs. Usually offered every year.
Staff

HS 313f Indigenous Peoples and Development: Challenges and Synergies
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Explores conflicts between development, conservation, and indigenous peoples and how this relation has evolved. Students look at fundamental dilemmas and potential synergies that exist between indigenous peoples and development agendas, how ethnic conflicts threaten sustainable development, structural and cultural roots of such conflicts, and the role of ethnic exclusion in maintaining and distributing poverty within countries. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Espinosa

HS 319f Ethics, Rights, and Development
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Explores philosophical and ethical foundations of human rights as related to development studies, policy, and practice. Students look at complex political, economic, and cultural conditions to apply rights to advance sustainable development. Contemporary debates on human rights as a tool to define and realize justice and alleviate human suffering - such as poverty, hunger, and other detriments to health and environment - are examined. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Sampath

HS 325f The Right to Water
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Explores practical applications of the human right to clean drinking water and adequate sanitation from a science and policy perspective. It takes an interdisciplinary perspective to issues of water, focusing on geography, social arrangements, and government choices that impact access to water at the household level. Modes of decision-making with regard to water policy are examined from technical and rights perspectives. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Olson and Ms. Jones

HS 213f Development in Latin America
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Introduces students to the field of development and democracy building in Latin America, discussing the historical roots of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) dilemmas and challenges, from the perspective of economic growth, democracy building and social justice. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Espinosa

HS 228f Social Theory Seminar
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit. May not be repeated by students who have taken HS 259f with this topic in previous years.
Even in his own lifetime, Freire became a global icon for social movements against poverty and for unshackling of the minds of the poor. This seminar will introduce Freire’s core beliefs as presented in selections from his oeuvre including a full reading of Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Students will consider the relevance of Freire’s ideas and methods to today’s poor as well as to their own experiences of societal change. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Simon

HS 269f Food Security and Nutrition
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Examines the interconnectedness of agricultural policy and planning, food policy, nutrition policy, and outcomes of nutritional status. Students explore definitions of "hunger” and “malnutrition." The planning and analytical process of defining nutritional problems at the village and household level are discussed, along with appropriate technologies and techniques to resolve food security problems. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Lockwood

HS 272f Building Microfinance Institutions and Partnerships
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Leads students through the steps to build a large scale cost-effective microfinance program and examines design problems of existing programs, using the experience of the students and of programs the instructor has evaluated. Students examine how to build and staff microfinance institutions and explore strategies for partnerships with local NGOs and village-level organizations to expand outreach. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Ashe and Mr. Parmeshwar

HS 276f World Health
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
A primer on major diseases and problems of health care in developing nations. Topics include descriptions of disease incidence and prevalence, including infectious, chronic, and mental disease; determinants of health, including culture and behavior; the roles of nutrition, education, and reproductive trends and poverty; demographic transitions, including aging and urbanization; the structure and financing of health systems; and the globalization of health. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Bhalotra

HS 280f Microenterprise Development and Finance
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Covers a broad range of background and operational issues related to design, implementation, and evaluation of microfinance initiatives reflecting a range of methods and approaches. Students learn about microfinance models, principles of effective program design and management, and how to move a program from low to high performance. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Ashe and Mr. Parmeshwar

HS 291f Development in Conflict Situations
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Explores trends of humanitarian action in relation to conflict evolution and transformation, as well as the connections between the concepts of development and humanitarian activities. The course approach is multidisciplinary, using a mix of academic analysis and practical experience to reflect upon working in armed conflict, as well as on the wider context of international development systems. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Quintiliani

HS 310f Introduction to Education and Development
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Examines how governments, NGOs, and other institutions can create and support educational systems that foster development, leadership, and opportunities. Students look at comparative research, teaching, and learning in varied national contexts, roles of parents and communities, and methods to measure the effectiveness of diverse approaches in enabling people to lift themselves out of poverty. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Burchfield

HS 328f Essential Humanitarian Response Elements of the Future
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Explores trends, history, and influences on the humanitarian sector and looks for new ways forward, with particular emphasis on how the humanitarian system can change to better serve the most vulnerable and provide new means to save lives, reduce risk, and strengthen resilience. The course links community organization for disaster preparedness and resiliency building to government policies and the global system. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Delaney

HS 210a Coexistence and Conflict: Theory and Analysis
Open only to students enrolled in the MA program in coexistence and conflict. Other students considered with permission of the instructor. May not be taken for credit by students who took COEX 210a in prior years.
Addresses the current and emerging context of intercommunal conflict around the world and the varying and developing theoretical approaches to the emergence and resolution of such conflicts. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Fitzduff

HS 220a Strategies for Coexistence Interventions
Prerequisite: HS 210a. Open only to students enrolled in the MA program in coexistence and conflict. Other students considered with permission of the instructor. May not be taken for credit by students who took COEX 220a in prior years.
Studies the utilization of a variety of multifaceted approaches to policy and practice in coexistence and conflict interventions, as well as the strategic design and evaluation of such interventions. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Fitzduff

HS 225a Fundraising and Development
Examines the critical role of fundraising and development in successful nonprofit organizations. Students learn to analyze, plan, and evaluate a comprehensive fundraising program and to create elements of a professional fundraising portfolio. Explores management and leadership issues associated with the rapidly changing field of development and philanthropy. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Whalen

HS 226f Environment and Conflict
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Examines the relationship(s) and interaction(s) between conflict and the environment. Both social and ecological theoretical frameworks regarding this interaction will be explored. The course will focus on establishing a set of analytical tools that can form the basis for intervention in emerging conflicts. Usually offered every year.
Mr. van Maasakkers

HS 227f Introduction to Design, Monitoring and Evaluation of Coexistence Interventions
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Provides an introductory review of the core concepts and practical steps of design, monitoring and evaluation in the field of coexistence and peacebuilding. The course will stress participatory methods in monitoring and evaluation, in which multiple stakeholders are involved in the process of planning, collecting, interpreting, synthesizing, and using information. The course will feature case studies and actual DM&E plans and evaluation reports. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Jean

HS 228f Social Theory Seminar
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit. May not be repeated by students who have taken HS 259f with this topic in previous years.
Even in his own lifetime, Freire became a global icon for social movements against poverty and for unshackling of the minds of the poor. This seminar will introduce Freire’s core beliefs as presented in selections from his oeuvre including a full reading of Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Students will consider the relevance of Freire’s ideas and methods to today’s poor as well as to their own experiences of societal change. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Simon

HS 230f Coexistence Research Methods
Open only to students enrolled in the MA program in coexistence and conflict. Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit. May not be taken for credit by students who took COEX 230f in prior years.
Preparation for the research necessary for the required field project in the MA program in coexistence and conflict. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Johnson

HS 240a Dialogue and Mediation Skills
Open only to students enrolled in the MA program in coexistence and conflict. Other students considered with permission of the instructor. May not be taken for credit by students who took COEX 240a in prior years.
Addresses the theoretical and practical approaches to mediation and facilitation skills for people and organizations working in areas of intercommunal conflict. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Johnson

HS 243f Religion Identity and Conflict
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Examines the role that religious identity can play in both the escalation and mitigation of conflict. Students will study the role that ideology, belief, values, and faith-based relationships can play in developing and legitimizing, or in transforming and resolving, deeply rooted conflict dynamics. The focus of this course will be on both integration of religious identity factors into conflict analysis and an introduction to faith-based interventions skills, used by religious actors to foster coexistence. During the course, we will explore how to understand and handle conflicts perpetrated by extremist religious groups. We will also explore the diversity of faith-based reconciliation processes (such as hospitality, healing ritual, apology, etc.) as well as the kinds of roles performed by a wide variety of religious actors (education, advocacy, mediation, dialogue facilitation, etc.) Examples and case studies will be drawn from a wide variety of religious traditions and diverse cultures. In addition to those cases presented in the readings and by the professor, each student will be required to select cases on which to make class presentations and write a paper. The purpose of these assignments, and the course in general, is to provide students the opportunity to assess concrete conflict situations in which religious identity is a factor, know the potential contribution that faith-based actors can make to coexistence, and evaluate how best to function in faith-based peacebuilding roles and reconciliation processes that interest them. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Steele

HS 253f HIV/AIDS and Public Policy
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Geared toward students with limited experience in HIV/AIDS as a public policy issue. In the first sessions, students learn the key perspectives to frame the HIV/AIDS epidemic as a policy issue, including an economic perspective, a social impact perspective, and a rights perspective. The second half of the course reviews lessons from the international experience in responding to the epidemic. Attention is given to sector-based interventions and necessary coordination between sectors for specific interventions to be effective. Usually offered every year.
Staff

HS 257b Conflict Resolution by Negotiation
Develops in students an understanding of the nature, advantages, and limitations of negotiations as a conflict resolution tool. Provides a normative and practical framework for pursuing a negotiation strategy as a method of resolving disputes. Provides students with opportunities to apply this knowledge in a variety of simulated negotiation contexts. Finally, exposes students to feedback regarding their negotiation approaches via explicit instructor evaluation and via the impact of their actions on their teammates and opponents.
Mr. Prottas

HS 260f Development, Aid, and Coexistence
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit. May not be taken for credit by students who took COEX 260f in prior years.
Increases the knowledge and skills of students undertaking development and aid work in conflict situations. Explores how such work can address development needs, as well as the need to increase intercommunal equity, understanding, and cooperation. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Johnson

HS 263f Applied Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit. Prerequisite: HS 297f or permission of the instructor.
Designed for students wishing to receive advanced training in GIS. Instruction includes geospatial data management and archiving, raster and vector analysis techniques, and basic GPS instruction. Emphasis is on 'hands-on' training using ARCView GIS software; qualitative skills in data gathering, analysis, and presentation; and understanding the potential of GIS as a tool for planning and evaluating development projects. Includes a computer lab. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Lakshmikanthan and Staff

HS 268f Law, Society, and the Shaping of Public Policy in Developing Countries
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Explores whether law is critical to development. If it is, how and with respect to what kind of development, and what means are available to maximize the law’s beneficial impact. Through readings, case studies, and development projects, students examine the use of the legal order to solve problems of poverty, vulnerability, and environmental degradation in developing nations. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Russell-Einhorn

HS 269f Food Security and Nutrition
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Examines the interconnectedness of agricultural policy and planning, food policy, nutrition policy, and outcomes of nutritional status. Students explore definitions of "hunger” and “malnutrition." The planning and analytical process of defining nutritional problems at the village and household level are discussed, along with appropriate technologies and techniques to resolve food security problems. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Lockwood

HS 270a The Future of Diversity Work
This course may not be taken for credit by students who have taken COEX 270a in prior years.
This seminar uncovers the myths and challenges of race and multiculturalism and explores various approaches that have addressed them. It examines future scenarios to help form a more constructive approach to coexistence that goes beyond those challenges. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Johnson

HS 276f World Health
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
A primer on major diseases and problems of health care in developing nations. Topics include descriptions of disease incidence and prevalence, including infectious, chronic, and mental disease; determinants of health, including culture and behavior; the roles of nutrition, education, and reproductive trends and poverty; demographic transitions, including aging and urbanization; the structure and financing of health systems; and the globalization of health. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Bhalotra

HS 280f Microenterprise Development and Finance
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Covers a broad range of background and operational issues related to design, implementation, and evaluation of microfinance initiatives reflecting a range of methods and approaches. Students learn about microfinance models, principles of effective program design and management, and how to move a program from low to high performance. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Ashe and Mr. Parmeshwar

HS 281f International Advocacy in Action
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Introduces concepts and methods to strengthen program planning and influence public policy and looks at how policy is shaped and changed in the real world. Students examine the experience of noted NGOs, learn to conceptualize and plan advocacy campaigns, become familiar with the many tools available to the advocate, and discuss how to monitor government compliance with agreed-upon policy changes. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Arena-DeRosa

HS 287f Land Reform: Models and Experience
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Examines the evolution of land reform theory and practice around the world. Land inequality and land poverty pose fundamental obstacles to rural development and development more broadly. Students explore problems of land inequality and land poverty, historical and current models of land reform, tools for evaluating different approaches in different contexts, and the need to integrate land policies into larger development visions. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Simon

HS 291f Development in Conflict Situations
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Explores trends of humanitarian action in relation to conflict evolution and transformation, as well as the connections between the concepts of development and humanitarian activities. The course approach is multidisciplinary, using a mix of academic analysis and practical experience to reflect upon working in armed conflict, as well as on the wider context of international development systems. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Quintiliani

HS 293f Religion and Development
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Explores the world’s different faith traditions and how they define and treat the problem of poverty. The class takes a critical look at conditions by which religion provides a source of liberation from human suffering and strategies for sustainable development. Students also examine how power is transformed along gender, class, racial, ethnic, and national lines when religions confront one another. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Sampath

HS 297f Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
A primer for non-specialists on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and its capabilities as a tool for planning and monitoring. Students learn how to determine an organization’s GIS requirements, focus on those requirements during planning, and apply the requirements to assess the size and scope of the system needed. Includes a computer lab. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Lakshmikanthan and Staff

HS 299f NGOs: Strategic Planning
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Introduces concepts, techniques, and skills related to organizational strategy; and strategic action, management, and planning for civil society and non-governmental development organizations Concepts considered include elements of strategic planning; assessing environmental factors; clarifying organizational values, vision, mission, and goals; and developing programs and services to achieve organizational goals. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Short

HS 306f Survey Design and Data Analysis for Development
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Provides students with an introduction to survey design and applied principles of data analysis in development. Topics include research design (hypothesis formulation, model building), data collection (principles of survey design, definition and measurement of variables, cross-sectional and panel surveys, focus groups and pilot tests), and data analysis (statistical and social significance; univariate, bivariate, and multivariate analysis). Usually offered every year.
Mr. Godoy

HS 316b International Health Policy
May not be taken by students who took HS 316f.
Examines major current issues in health policy and global governance shaping our world in the 21st century. There is increasing recognition of the development threats from health problems – from emerging infectious diseases to the recognition that global climate change is contributing to new or re emerging health threats. The recent WHO Commission on Social Determinants for Health outlined an ambitious agenda for research on health determinants, systems, and financing and new global institutions are promoting greater evidence-based research for health policy making that incorporate a wider array of inputs and stakeholders. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Kaufman

HS 321f Implementing Policy and Practice Change in Health and Social Systems
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Begins with definitions of policy and how policy is made from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Examines several frameworks for analyzing policy implementation and for planning implementation strategies. Several sessions will focus on the management skills and tools useful to planning and managing the implementation of policy change. Students will have the opportunity to bring conceptual knowledge and skills together in analysis of several case studies. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Huff-Rousselle

HS 240b Professional Skills: Critical Reading and Writing
Yields half-course credit.
Provides students with training and experience in critical reading for development purposes and in professional writing. Combining lectures, discussions, and classroom exercises in weekly class sessions, the course is based around regular written submissions on which students receive extensive feedback. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Walsh

HS 292f Critical Thinking and Advanced Professional Writing
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Develops advanced critical thinking skills, models of logical argumentation and debate, reading comprehension and advanced writing skills geared for professionals and practitioners in foundations, NGOS, government sectors and civil society organizations. Although we will focus on needs of sustainable international development, professionals and practitioners from other fields are most welcome, namely public policy, social policy and coexistence and conflict. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Sampath

HS 215b Corporate Finance
Prerequisites: HS 250a and HS 246b.
Introduces the modern theory of corporate finance and the institutional background of financial instruments and markets. Considers ways to measure value. Explores alternative forms of financing and ways to analyze them. Considers the financing tools appropriate for for-profit and nonprofit organizations.
Mr. Friedman

HS 245f Economics I
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Introduces basic microeconomic concepts, including market analysis. This course demonstrates the basic problem that resources are scarce, and allows a consideration of various ways to deal with scarcity. Markets are also of direct relevance to managers. A manager, whether for-profit or nonprofit, must operate at least partially in a market environment. The market sets the constraints and provides some of the opportunities for the organization to pursue its goals. The course considers the behavior of consumers and organizations and examines how they interact with each other. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Friedman

HS 246b Statistics
Meets for 1.5 hours a week for a full semester; yields half-course credit.
Presents students with an introduction to the fundamentals of parametric statistics. Covers the essentials required for students to understand issues related to measurement and how to generate descriptive information and statistical analyses from these measurements. Focuses primarily on understanding the importance of summary measures along with a study of fundamental statistical distributions. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Fournier

HS 248b Financial Management
Prerequisite: HS 250a.
Develops students as educated consumers of financial information. Covers financial management problems encountered by today's human service professionals in a real-world perspective based on sound financial and accounting theory. Includes topics such as financial statement analysis, budget development and control, managing growth, cash flow management, and management controls. Usually offered every year.
Mr. McLaughlin

HS 248f Economics II
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit. Prerequisite: HS 245f. Required for all MBA students except those in the Hornstein Program.
Elaborates further on microeconomic topics related to market structure and labor markets and their relevance to managers. It also considers applications of economics to social policy. The course will examine the balance between government spending and revenues and will consider issues in tax policy. It will consider briefly the government debt, unemployment, inflation, and major macroeconomic issues. The course then returns to the economic and social policy issues of poverty and inequality. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Friedman

HS 250a Financial Accounting
Develops a fundamental understanding of financial accounting and reporting issues as they apply to nonprofit and for-profit organizations. Students will learn about the importance of fiscal responsibility and integrity in the efficient utilization of an organization's resources relative to organizational goals. Accounting practices that are unique to nonprofit organizations will be introduced, discussed, and differentiated from those practices employed by for-profit entities. Emphasis will be placed on interpreting financial statements to understand how accounting information, in a variety of settings, can be utilized by decision makers. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Anderson and Mr. Angell

HS 251b Managerial Accounting
Prerequisite: HS 250a or equivalent.
Provides general introduction to the concepts, problems, and issues related to managerial accounting. Managerial accounting predominantly addresses the internal use of economic information regarding the resources used in the process of producing goods and providing services. Fundamental aspects of cost behavior and cost accounting will be discussed, but always from the perspective of the manager who must make decisions rather than the accountant who prepares the information. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Anderson

HS 247f Evaluation for Managers
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Focuses on program evaluation techniques of interest to managers, including balanced scorecard methods, needs assessment, participatory evaluation methods, process/implementation analysis, impact analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and utilization-focused evaluation. These techniques are discussed in the context of building "learning organizations" that enable the organization and its managers to know whether they are succeeding. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Hahn

HS 249f Social Justice, Management, and Policy
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Allows students the opportunity to explore the management implications of "Knowledge Advancing Social Justice." Examines historical and contemporary thinkers, justice issues, and management activities. Students grapple with the daily management dilemmas faced by managers and change agents both inside and outside organizations. Usually offered every summer.
Ms. Nsiah-Jefferson

HS 252b Strategic Management
Provides students with the theoretical constructs and practical tools necessary to create and manage organizations strategically. Includes strategic process, organizational design, and development of planning tools and cycles. All students perform an applied strategic analysis for an actual organization. Usually offered every year.
Mr. McLaughlin and Ms. Carlson

HS 253b Leadership and Organizational Behavior
Focuses on leadership and managing organizations. Uses cases on a variety of organizations to expose students to problems and to improve their effectiveness in analyzing, diagnosing, and leading people in organizations. Students learn organizational concepts, analytic frameworks, and models, and practice their leadership skills in class. Uses case discussions, simulations, role-playing, mini-lecturing, and experimental exercises. Provides an opportunity to develop leadership skills through group work and reflection. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Chilingerian

HS 254a Human Resource Management
Considers how human resource management might aid in achieving organizational excellence. Focuses on the development of concepts and strategies that can increase effectiveness in developing policies and practices to enhance the value of people in the organizations served. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Gittell

HS 258a Operations Management in Service Organizations
Prerequisite: HS 246b.
Explores how operations management skills can help organizations to deliver high-quality services while using resources efficiently. Students develop skills including quality assessment, process mapping, productivity analysis, wait-time analysis, and scheduling. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Abbott

HS 285a Marketing
An overview of marketing with a focus on how to formulate marketing strategies and identify and evaluate strategy-based tactics in order to achieve organizational marketing goals. Topics include strategic market planning, market research and analysis; consumer behavior; market segmentation, targeting, and positioning; social marketing; and the marketing mix-product, price, distribution, promotion, and marketing communications. Usually offered every summer.
Ms. Goldstein

HRNS/HS 232a Team Consulting Project Workshop
Corequisite: Concurrent registration with HS 299b. Yields half-course credit.
A series of sessions designed to provide students with the team building and consulting skills necessary to meet the team consulting projects client needs and provide them with tools that will be useful throughout their careers. Several sessions will enable teams to share their experiences with other teams and problem solve as a group. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Bailis, Ms. Carlson and Ms. Smith

HS 299b Team Consulting Project
A capstone educational experience for students nearing the end of the MBA program. Working under the supervision of a faculty adviser, teams of three to five MBA and Heller/Hornstein students provide management consulting services to nonprofit, community-based health and human services agencies. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Bailis and Ms. Carlson

HS 513a Issues in National Health Policy
An overview of the U.S. health care system is followed by a critical analysis of the major issues and trends in the health care field. Concentrates on the activities of federal and state governments and the private sector. Also explores likely future issues affecting our health system. Of special concern is the issue of the large number of Americans with no or inadequate health insurance. A related problem is the rising cost of medical care, which results in increases in the number of uninsured. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Altman and Mr. Wallack

HS 518a Management of Health Care Organizations
Introduces students to the concepts, theories, and practical problems of managing people in health care organizations. Case material is drawn from hospital, HMO, group practice, public health agency, and for-profit company settings. Students gain a better understanding of the range of strategic and operational problems faced by managers, some of the analytic tools to diagnose problems, and the role of leadership (and management) in improving performance. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Chilingerian

HS 276f World Health
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
A primer on major diseases and problems of health care in developing nations. Topics include descriptions of disease incidence and prevalence, including infectious, chronic, and mental disease; determinants of health, including culture and behavior; the roles of nutrition, education, and reproductive trends and poverty; demographic transitions, including aging and urbanization; the structure and financing of health systems; and the globalization of health. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Bhalotra

HS 507f State Health Policy
Prerequisite: HS 513a or permission of instructor. Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Examines the role of the states in the U.S. health care system. Provides an overview of state activities in health, including state responsibilities for managing health programs and institutions. Models to understand the nature of policy making and politics in states are presented and discussed. Examines major state health programs such as Medicaid. Outlines and explores the policy and legislative processes. States' efforts to reform their health care systems are discussed with special attention to implementation issues, barriers, limits of state action, and prospects for the future of state health reform. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Rosman

HS 511b Contemporary Issues in the Management of Child, Youth, and Family Services
Managing human service systems and programs to benefit children, youth, and families in America today means managing people in a time of fiscal constraint and dramatic social, economic, and political change, and, on the other hand, in a time of great organizational and civic innovation. Builds on the analytic tools students have begun to hone in the master's program and helps them learn how to apply these tools to effectively implement policies and programs in the not-for-profit sector. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Curnan

ED 155b Education and Social Policy
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Examines the various functions that schools perform in a community, with special attention to the intended and unintended consequences of contemporary policies such as special education, desegregation, charter schools, and the standards/accountability movement. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Levenson

HS 256f Community Building for Managers
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Focuses on the elasticity of the term "community building," some historical themes, and how a term originally focused mostly on neighborhood revival is now also used in the context of building stronger ties among people who share specific interests and used by managers who would like to reinvent the workplace around community principles. With community building jargon increasingly entering into management and public policy literature, managers must understand the parameters of this "movement" and acquaint themselves with some of the skills and developments that people doing this work have found useful. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Hahn

HS 283a Legitimizing (In)equality: Attitudes, Beliefs, and Social Policy
Examines attitudes and beliefs about poverty, wealth, mobility, and inequality and their relationship to institutional practices and social policy. We will explore the forces that shape U.S. beliefs, attitudes, and opinions, how these views are expressed in the public sphere and policy discourse, and the processes by which attitudes are measured and inform policy decisions. Reading broadly from the social science literature, we will explore the legitimizing functions of beliefs about inequality and work together to develop strategies for challenging hierarchy enhancing perceptions and relationships. Usually offered every year.
Staff

HS 312f National and International Perspectives on Youth Policy and Programs
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Young people (10-24 years of age) account for 29 percent of the population in low- and middle-income countries. Over 100 countries have a significant bulge in their youth populations and vulnerability in terms of literacy, employability, skill training, life skills, and more. Of special interest in this course are the subset of policies and programs that aim to connect young people to the economic and education mainstream. It is these programs that will be the special but not exclusive focus of this course. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Hahn

HS 320f The American Gay Rights Movement: Social Justice and Social Policy
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
This course is about the last forty years (1969-2009) of social justice and social policy in the American Gay Rights Movement. It is about the development of social justice and social policy in America that is inclusive of sexual orientation and gender identity. And, it is about policy development, and human behavior, in America that reflects the full civil, political, legal and moral equality of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people. Usually offered every second year.
Ms. Curnan

HS 334a Child and Family Policy: U.S. and Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Draws on a number of social science disciplines and women's studies to explore the construction of public policies that shape the lives of children and families. It will focus on material from the United States and will use examples from other countries for comparative purposes. The course will explore some of the key components of family policy as they have developed in the U.S. and provide a critical examination of the ways in which "the state" may alternately facilitate, control and constrain women's choices about whether and when to have children, and the conditions surrounding the employment and care of children and other family members. It will further consider the current economic and political context and how families strategize to combine jobs and family care. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Warfield

HS 335f Perspectives on Youth Policy, Program Management, and System Design
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
This seminar is offered to both deepen student understanding of one of the great challenges facing our nation and many developing countries and to explore emerging and best practices related to policy, management and systems/program design to address those challenges and create sustainable conditions for preparing youth for college, work, and life. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Curnan

HS 265f Human Rights-Based Approach to Development Policy and Practice
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Over the past two decades, international organizations, national governments, and NGOs around the world have adopted human rights frameworks, strategies, and tools to advance missions and goals. In view of the widespread adoption of such frameworks for development and social policy work, this course provides an introduction to human rights law, policy, and practice for development practitioners. Usually offered every semester.
Ms. MacNaughton

HS 271a Poverty, Inequalities, and Development
Provides a conceptual umbrella for all the coursework in the SID program. Introduces students to the major currents of thinking about sustainable development. Topics include poverty, inequality, globalization, human rights, the environment, and the role of institutions. Students examine what is known about the drivers of development as well as the links between global and national policies, and actions for sustainable development. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Lynch

HS 283f Gender and Development
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Examines politics and policies of international development from a gender-sensitive perspective. Concepts of "development" and “gender” are framed within historical and political contexts. Students examine how development affects women and men differently according to class, ethnicity, geography, age, and seniority. Ways in which gender asymmetries have been addressed in development and approaches to mainstreaming gender are explored. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Espinosa and Ms. Ready

HS 341a Public Finance and Budgeting
Utilizes facts and analytical tools to effectively make decisions about public finance and budgeting as a policymaker, policy advocate, policy analyst, scholar, reporter, and/ or citizen. Upon completion of this course, students will have a broad knowledge of why and how governments shape the economy; the extent of their intervention; and how and why government funds are currently allocated among competing uses. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Tannenwald

HS 472b Policy and Program Implementation
Provides students with frameworks of use for the study of the implementation of public policies. Considers the implementation process in the United States from a broad perspective, ranging from the context of legislation and the role of courts to how the role of street-level bureaucrats can be studied. Political science, organizational theory, and sociological perspectives are used to develop frameworks for understanding the process through which public policy is realized and how it has an impact on institutions and individuals. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Prottas

HS 256f Community Building for Managers
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Focuses on the elasticity of the term "community building," some historical themes, and how a term originally focused mostly on neighborhood revival is now also used in the context of building stronger ties among people who share specific interests and used by managers who would like to reinvent the workplace around community principles. With community building jargon increasingly entering into management and public policy literature, managers must understand the parameters of this "movement" and acquaint themselves with some of the skills and developments that people doing this work have found useful. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Hahn

HS 303a Historical and Contemporary Developments in Social Welfare
Examines the development of social welfare over time by reviewing policy arguments within a historical context and using an analytic framework centered on eligibility, benefits, administration, financing, and behavioral incentives to assess perennial issues in social welfare and analyze contemporary challenges. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Doonan

HS 342b Policy, Advocacy and Community Organizations
Provides students with an overview of the processes by which individuals and groups operating at the national, state, and local levels in the United States can effectively shape social policy. It will focus on two complementary sets of issues: 1) How knowledge is used to promote social justice, the barriers that face those who seek to use knowledge to change policy, and the kinds of strategies that have been and are likely to be effective in overcoming these barriers in the future, and 2) The strategies that advocacy organizations utilize in promoting policy changes that benefit different segments of society, especially those with relatively little economic or political power. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Bailis

HS 422f Cost-Effectiveness
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Addresses the application of the technique of cost-effectiveness analysis to evaluate health and other types of programs in the United States and in developing countries. Presents the theoretical foundations and applications of cost-effectiveness analysis. Uses interactive discussions and computer exercises where students learn to perform cost-effectiveness analyses and apply the technique to a problem of their choice. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Shepard

HS 426f Advanced Techniques of Cost-Effectiveness and Cost-Benefit Analysis
Prerequisite: HS 422f or permission of the instructor. Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Provides students with advanced techniques to conduct or critically review cost-effective studies, both in the United States and internationally. Students learn how to present a research question, design a study, obtain and analyze relevant date, and analyze results. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Shepard

HS 228a Social Entrepreneurship
Explores how entrepreneurship has become a driving force in the social enterprise sector, provides tools for developing and evaluating new ventures, and explores the blurring line between for-profit and nonprofit social initiatives. The course also teaches hands-on social venture business plan development tools, from assessing markets to developing financial and operating plans. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Carlson

HS 353a Managing the Triple Bottom Line
Explores a new kind of “bottom line” developing for corporations which includes social and environmental returns as well as financial returns. How can we measure “Return on Responsibility?” What are the implications for stockholders, employees and consumers when it comes to social and environmental accountability in the corporate world? How do business decisions get made when financial considerations are not the only decisions central to continued growth and success? Through case studies and meetings with institutional decision makers, this course explores shifting strategies and developing programs in the rapidly changing landscape of the Triple Bottom Line. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Appell

BUS 231a Entrepreneurial Finances and Business Plans
Open only to IBS students.
Introduces techniques for preparing business plans and explores the process of using a business plan to acquire funding. Requires students to prepare a business plan for a new venture and to present this plan in front of a critical audience. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Reed

BUS 264f Business and the Environment
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Deals with environmental issues in business strategy. Using the case method, the course explores firm responses to environmental policy, the challenges of developing clean technologies, and the opportunities for firms to differentiate themselves with "green" strategies. Usually offered every year.
Staff

BUS 275f Transnational Negotiations
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Explores the dynamics of international business negotiations in the context of evolving global industries. Students will develop an understanding of negotiation strategy, positioning, and process, as well as the skills necessary to effectively design, negotiate, and manage transnational deals. Usually offered every semester.
Mr. Cohen

BUS 276a Business Dynamics: Managing in a Complex World
A study of why so many business strategies generate disappointing results or outright failure. Case studies include successful applications of system dynamics in growth strategy, management of technology, operations, project management, and implementation of improvement programs. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Morrison

BUS 278f Corporate Governance: From Colossal Failures to Best Practices
Prerequisite: FIN 212a. Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
How the board of directors, management, shareholders, and an external auditor should work. How individual goals and external pressures influence individuals, and how their decisions impact a corporation's failure or success. Focuses on the United States with comparisons to Europe and Asia. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Schumann

BUS 280f Operational Risk Management
Prerequisite: FIN 212a. Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Today's managers must be able to assess the risk profile of their business and respond to issues as they arise. Examines how companies are dealing with massive changes in legislation that have made executives in the U.S. and abroad fully accountable for effective operational risk management and how they are using the Enterprise Risk Management framework of COSO and COBIT, and the Balanced Scorecard. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Schumann

HS 210a Coexistence and Conflict: Theory and Analysis
Open only to students enrolled in the MA program in coexistence and conflict. Other students considered with permission of the instructor. May not be taken for credit by students who took COEX 210a in prior years.
Addresses the current and emerging context of intercommunal conflict around the world and the varying and developing theoretical approaches to the emergence and resolution of such conflicts. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Fitzduff

HS 220a Strategies for Coexistence Interventions
Prerequisite: HS 210a. Open only to students enrolled in the MA program in coexistence and conflict. Other students considered with permission of the instructor. May not be taken for credit by students who took COEX 220a in prior years.
Studies the utilization of a variety of multifaceted approaches to policy and practice in coexistence and conflict interventions, as well as the strategic design and evaluation of such interventions. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Fitzduff

HS 225a Fundraising and Development
Examines the critical role of fundraising and development in successful nonprofit organizations. Students learn to analyze, plan, and evaluate a comprehensive fundraising program and to create elements of a professional fundraising portfolio. Explores management and leadership issues associated with the rapidly changing field of development and philanthropy. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Whalen

HS 252f Social Marketing
Prerequisite: HS 285a or permission of the instructor. Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Provides a framework for understanding target audience behavior and where best to intervene to help create positive behavior change. At the heart of our learning experience is the social marketing planning process, which is a structured approach for developing and implementing a program for behavior change. We will examine the key social marketing concepts that include competition, determinants of behavior, barriers and benefits, marketing strategy and the 4Ps or “intervention mix”. Students will have the opportunity to evaluate past programs as well as develop social marketing strategies of their own. Usually offered every year.
Staff

HS 256f Community Building for Managers
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Focuses on the elasticity of the term "community building," some historical themes, and how a term originally focused mostly on neighborhood revival is now also used in the context of building stronger ties among people who share specific interests and used by managers who would like to reinvent the workplace around community principles. With community building jargon increasingly entering into management and public policy literature, managers must understand the parameters of this "movement" and acquaint themselves with some of the skills and developments that people doing this work have found useful. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Hahn

HS 260f Development, Aid, and Coexistence
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit. May not be taken for credit by students who took COEX 260f in prior years.
Increases the knowledge and skills of students undertaking development and aid work in conflict situations. Explores how such work can address development needs, as well as the need to increase intercommunal equity, understanding, and cooperation. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Johnson

HS 264f Principles of Ecology for Development Planners
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Introduces key principles of ecology that influence sustainability of national and local development programs throughout the world. The course looks at how policies affecting our use of soils, crops, and forests play a role in development. Other topics include climate, food webs, soil fertility, population growth and stability, and species protection. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Olson

HS 270a The Future of Diversity Work
This course may not be taken for credit by students who have taken COEX 270a in prior years.
This seminar uncovers the myths and challenges of race and multiculturalism and explores various approaches that have addressed them. It examines future scenarios to help form a more constructive approach to coexistence that goes beyond those challenges. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Johnson

HS 272f Building Microfinance Institutions and Partnerships
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Leads students through the steps to build a large scale cost-effective microfinance program and examines design problems of existing programs, using the experience of the students and of programs the instructor has evaluated. Students examine how to build and staff microfinance institutions and explore strategies for partnerships with local NGOs and village-level organizations to expand outreach. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Ashe and Mr. Parmeshwar

HS 282f Environmental Impact Assessment
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Provides students with a working knowledge of the purpose and process of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). EIA is examined as a planning tool that can anticipate negative environmental and social impacts; increasing benefits, social acceptance, and durability of development projects while reducing their cost to budgets, communities, and the environment. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Boyer and Mr. Olson

HS 283f Gender and Development
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Examines politics and policies of international development from a gender-sensitive perspective. Concepts of "development" and “gender” are framed within historical and political contexts. Students examine how development affects women and men differently according to class, ethnicity, geography, age, and seniority. Ways in which gender asymmetries have been addressed in development and approaches to mainstreaming gender are explored. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Espinosa and Ms. Ready

HS 285f Rights-Based Approach to Development I
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Provides a broad introduction to international human rights laws, mechanisms, and practices, including special protections for vulnerable groups and the key debates underpinning the rights-based approach to development and poverty. Also covers the international and regional institutions that exist to protect human rights. Usually offered every year.
Staff

HS 422f Cost-Effectiveness
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Addresses the application of the technique of cost-effectiveness analysis to evaluate health and other types of programs in the United States and in developing countries. Presents the theoretical foundations and applications of cost-effectiveness analysis. Uses interactive discussions and computer exercises where students learn to perform cost-effectiveness analyses and apply the technique to a problem of their choice. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Shepard

HS 534b Assets and Social Policy
The class conducts a thorough and rigorous examination of the central features, assumptions, and implications of asset-based policy, focusing on four central aspects of asset-based policy. Explores the analytic features of an asset perspective, and determines whether such policies could make a significant difference. Reviews evidence regarding the impact of asset-based policies from demonstration projects just now becoming available. Also examines in detail the implications for social policy. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Boguslaw

HS 253b Leadership and Organizational Behavior
Focuses on leadership and managing organizations. Uses cases on a variety of organizations to expose students to problems and to improve their effectiveness in analyzing, diagnosing, and leading people in organizations. Students learn organizational concepts, analytic frameworks, and models, and practice their leadership skills in class. Uses case discussions, simulations, role-playing, mini-lecturing, and experimental exercises. Provides an opportunity to develop leadership skills through group work and reflection. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Chilingerian

HS 303a Historical and Contemporary Developments in Social Welfare
Examines the development of social welfare over time by reviewing policy arguments within a historical context and using an analytic framework centered on eligibility, benefits, administration, financing, and behavioral incentives to assess perennial issues in social welfare and analyze contemporary challenges. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Doonan

HS 332a Research Methods and Evaluation
Prepares students to (1) thoroughly understand the rigorous conduct of research methods of public policy, with a particular emphasis on program evaluation and to (2) be sophisticated consumers of empirical of public policy research. A variety of class formats will be used throughout the semester including lectures, discussions, and seminars, depending upon the topic and readings. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Warfield

HS 404b Applied Regression Analysis
An applied course in multiple regression analysis. Emphasis placed on the assumptions underlying the regression model, how to test for violations, and corrections that can be made when violations are found. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Fournier

HS 405a Applied Econometrics
Prerequisite: HS 404b.
Focuses on applications of regression analysis and extensions to areas where the standard assumptions do not hold. Introduces applications of logit and its extensions, probit, corrections for censoring and sample selection bias, and simultaneous equations. Each student designs and carries out a research project. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Zeng

HS 472b Policy and Program Implementation
Provides students with frameworks of use for the study of the implementation of public policies. Considers the implementation process in the United States from a broad perspective, ranging from the context of legislation and the role of courts to how the role of street-level bureaucrats can be studied. Political science, organizational theory, and sociological perspectives are used to develop frameworks for understanding the process through which public policy is realized and how it has an impact on institutions and individuals. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Prottas

HS 532b Social Policy Analysis: Technique and Application
Examines approaches to policy analysis and assesses strength and limitations of various methods. Exposes students to a range of methods and theoretical frameworks for exploring and understanding contemporary social problems and policy challenges. Begins with an overview of the stages of policy process, including policy formulation, rule making, and implementation. Policy analysis will be defined and a distinction made with policy research. The course also focuses on the criteria for evaluating policy options, including efficiency, equity, security, and liberty. Ethics and the role of values in shaping analysis will be explored. Actual policy analysis is evaluated in the areas of children and family policy, health, and welfare policy. Students have the opportunity to write and present a policy analysis critique. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Doonan

HS 341a Public Finance and Budgeting
Utilizes facts and analytical tools to effectively make decisions about public finance and budgeting as a policymaker, policy advocate, policy analyst, scholar, reporter, and/ or citizen. Upon completion of this course, students will have a broad knowledge of why and how governments shape the economy; the extent of their intervention; and how and why government funds are currently allocated among competing uses. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Tannenwald

HS 372b Economic Theory and Social Policy
Prerequisite: A recent course in microeconomics.
Applies economic analysis to problems of importance to social policy. The particular applications may vary from year to year and may include such topics as unemployment and inflation, Social Security, and the economics of race and gender. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Friedman

HS 405a Applied Econometrics
Prerequisite: HS 404b.
Focuses on applications of regression analysis and extensions to areas where the standard assumptions do not hold. Introduces applications of logit and its extensions, probit, corrections for censoring and sample selection bias, and simultaneous equations. Each student designs and carries out a research project. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Zeng

HS 336a Heller MPP Capstone Seminar
Students will demonstrate the ability to define and diagnose public policy situations, collect relevant information, perform logical analysis, develop alternative, and make compelling recommendations; and to organize and communicate information clearly to a variety of audiences through formats including verbal presentations, policy briefs, and statistical charts, graphs, and tables. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Brolin

HS 511b Contemporary Issues in the Management of Child, Youth, and Family Services
Managing human service systems and programs to benefit children, youth, and families in America today means managing people in a time of fiscal constraint and dramatic social, economic, and political change, and, on the other hand, in a time of great organizational and civic innovation. Builds on the analytic tools students have begun to hone in the master's program and helps them learn how to apply these tools to effectively implement policies and programs in the not-for-profit sector. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Curnan

ED 155b Education and Social Policy
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Examines the various functions that schools perform in a community, with special attention to the intended and unintended consequences of contemporary policies such as special education, desegregation, charter schools, and the standards/accountability movement. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Levenson

HS 256f Community Building for Managers
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Focuses on the elasticity of the term "community building," some historical themes, and how a term originally focused mostly on neighborhood revival is now also used in the context of building stronger ties among people who share specific interests and used by managers who would like to reinvent the workplace around community principles. With community building jargon increasingly entering into management and public policy literature, managers must understand the parameters of this "movement" and acquaint themselves with some of the skills and developments that people doing this work have found useful. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Hahn

HS 312f National and International Perspectives on Youth Policy and Programs
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Young people (10-24 years of age) account for 29 percent of the population in low- and middle-income countries. Over 100 countries have a significant bulge in their youth populations and vulnerability in terms of literacy, employability, skill training, life skills, and more. Of special interest in this course are the subset of policies and programs that aim to connect young people to the economic and education mainstream. It is these programs that will be the special but not exclusive focus of this course. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Hahn

HS 320f The American Gay Rights Movement: Social Justice and Social Policy
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
This course is about the last forty years (1969-2009) of social justice and social policy in the American Gay Rights Movement. It is about the development of social justice and social policy in America that is inclusive of sexual orientation and gender identity. And, it is about policy development, and human behavior, in America that reflects the full civil, political, legal and moral equality of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people. Usually offered every second year.
Ms. Curnan

HS 334a Child and Family Policy: U.S. and Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Draws on a number of social science disciplines and women's studies to explore the construction of public policies that shape the lives of children and families. It will focus on material from the United States and will use examples from other countries for comparative purposes. The course will explore some of the key components of family policy as they have developed in the U.S. and provide a critical examination of the ways in which "the state" may alternately facilitate, control and constrain women's choices about whether and when to have children, and the conditions surrounding the employment and care of children and other family members. It will further consider the current economic and political context and how families strategize to combine jobs and family care. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Warfield

HS 335f Perspectives on Youth Policy, Program Management, and System Design
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
This seminar is offered to both deepen student understanding of one of the great challenges facing our nation and many developing countries and to explore emerging and best practices related to policy, management and systems/program design to address those challenges and create sustainable conditions for preparing youth for college, work, and life. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Curnan

HS 534b Assets and Social Policy
The class conducts a thorough and rigorous examination of the central features, assumptions, and implications of asset-based policy, focusing on four central aspects of asset-based policy. Explores the analytic features of an asset perspective, and determines whether such policies could make a significant difference. Reviews evidence regarding the impact of asset-based policies from demonstration projects just now becoming available. Also examines in detail the implications for social policy. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Boguslaw

HS 283a Legitimizing (In)equality: Attitudes, Beliefs, and Social Policy
Examines attitudes and beliefs about poverty, wealth, mobility, and inequality and their relationship to institutional practices and social policy. We will explore the forces that shape U.S. beliefs, attitudes, and opinions, how these views are expressed in the public sphere and policy discourse, and the processes by which attitudes are measured and inform policy decisions. Reading broadly from the social science literature, we will explore the legitimizing functions of beliefs about inequality and work together to develop strategies for challenging hierarchy enhancing perceptions and relationships. Usually offered every year.
Staff

HS 322b Sociological Inquiry
Introduces students to the basic research literature on social stratification, social mobility, and inequality. The theme of this seminar is an analysis of rising inequality worldwide, placing the United States in this context. An examination of the sources for this phenomenon includes globalization, economic restructuring, public policy, and social mobility. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Shapiro

HS 367a Working with National Data Sets to Inform Policy Analysis and Recommendations
Building on the courses in Applied Regression Analysis, Econometrics, Research Methods, and concentration course work, this full semester course provides students in-depth and hands on experience using large national data sets to conduct policy analyses. The course will guide students through the each step of the process of developing and carrying out a research project. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Meschede

HS 527a Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Public Policy
Students will examine framing in public policy in general, and its relationship to challenges faced by communities of color. Further, we will address the topics of race and gender in health and health care; education, welfare policy, immigration, housing, and other issues. Students will hone their skills in policy analysis, political advocacy, communication, coalition building and networking as they relate to the policy process. Class discussion, essays/case studies, and in-class assignments are used. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Nsiah-Jefferson

HS 529a Inequalities, Social Policy, and Population Groups
Examines how social scientists and policymakers define “vulnerable” or “disadvantaged” population groups, how these constructions can shift or change over time, and how policies and programs address inequalities and serve the needs of diverse groups. We explore the causes, correlates, and consequences of inequalities across the lifespan, and consider how race, ethnicity, gender, disability, social class, sexual orientation, age, and their intersections shape lived experiences and well-being. The potential of social movements, institutional restructuring, and policy initiatives to reduce inequalities and promote inclusion, equality, and social justice are analyzed. Usually offered every year.
Staff

HS 513a Issues in National Health Policy
An overview of the U.S. health care system is followed by a critical analysis of the major issues and trends in the health care field. Concentrates on the activities of federal and state governments and the private sector. Also explores likely future issues affecting our health system. Of special concern is the issue of the large number of Americans with no or inadequate health insurance. A related problem is the rising cost of medical care, which results in increases in the number of uninsured. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Altman and Mr. Wallack

HS 518a Management of Health Care Organizations
Introduces students to the concepts, theories, and practical problems of managing people in health care organizations. Case material is drawn from hospital, HMO, group practice, public health agency, and for-profit company settings. Students gain a better understanding of the range of strategic and operational problems faced by managers, some of the analytic tools to diagnose problems, and the role of leadership (and management) in improving performance. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Chilingerian

HS 422f Cost-Effectiveness
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Addresses the application of the technique of cost-effectiveness analysis to evaluate health and other types of programs in the United States and in developing countries. Presents the theoretical foundations and applications of cost-effectiveness analysis. Uses interactive discussions and computer exercises where students learn to perform cost-effectiveness analyses and apply the technique to a problem of their choice. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Shepard

HS 505f Quality and Performance Measurement in Health Care
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
A conceptual and analytic framework of the field of quality of health care, which includes quality improvement and performance measurement; understanding of the contemporary research and policy initiatives that relate to quality of health care; and insights into the ways that quality relates to issues of provider payment, organization of health care facilities, and costs and access to health care. By the end of the module, students should have an understanding of the centrality of quality of care issues in contemporary health services research, health care policy, and management of health care organizations. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Garnick

HS 507f State Health Policy
Prerequisite: HS 513a or permission of instructor. Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Examines the role of the states in the U.S. health care system. Provides an overview of state activities in health, including state responsibilities for managing health programs and institutions. Models to understand the nature of policy making and politics in states are presented and discussed. Examines major state health programs such as Medicaid. Outlines and explores the policy and legislative processes. States' efforts to reform their health care systems are discussed with special attention to implementation issues, barriers, limits of state action, and prospects for the future of state health reform. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Rosman

HS 519a Health Economics
Prerequisite: An introductory microeconomics course.
Economic models of demand, production, and markets for goods and services can be used to analyze the key resource allocation questions in health care. Applies economic models to questions of demand concerning the utilization and distribution of health care and to questions of supply, encompassing issues of cost, efficiency, and accessibility of care. The incentives and behavior of consumers and producers of health care are considered using these models. Usually offered every second year.
Ms. Bishop

HS 520a Payment and Financing of Health Care
Examines current payment practices to health care providers, the problems with current methods, and possible modifications. Focuses only upon hospital care, physician services, and managed care. Covers the different ways that managed care organizations are structured. The payment and performance of managed care organizations and how performance is related to organizational strategies are included. Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Wallack

HS 521a Approaches to Political and Organizational Analysis
Focuses on refining the analytical skills useful to students for understanding the political and organizational factors influencing public policy. Most readings were selected because they represent an innovative, interesting, or challenging piece of analysis. The goal of each class is to identify and critique the core arguments of the work, the conceptual categories and assumptions on which the argument is based, and the data presented in its support. There is a focus on the differences in making arguments from the point of view of science, policy-making and political choices. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Prottas

HS 572a Economics of Behavioral Health
Applies economic analysis to policy and research issues in the mental health sector, including cost-effectiveness, managed care, benefit design, and adverse selection. Studies the impact of different approaches to financing treatment and paying providers in the public and private sectors. Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Hodgkin

HS 311a Management of Aging Services and Delivery
An overview of current practice and future issues in management of aging services and delivery systems taught by professionals currently active in the field. Covers the range of service organizations and programs for people who are aging, the challenges and issues faced by managers in the day-to-day operations of these services, and how they meet these challenges and develop successful solutions. Discusses the policy challenges and range of program options available for providing services to elders. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Bhalotra

HS 340a Aging Policies and Programs: U.S. and Global Perspectives
Covers a wide range of social policy issues related to aging individuals and societies. It views social policy broadly to include public policies at the national, regional/state, and local levels; policies of private organizations; and informal policies of families, religions, and racial and ethnic groups. The course lays a base of the historical and ideological antecedents of current policies in aging and presents and critiques alternatives for the future. It also covers the process of policy formation, including how aging plays out in the political sphere. The readings and discussions provide a comparative analysis of aging policies in the United States, other industrial countries, and developing countries. Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Leutz

HS 523a Economics of Aging and Disability
Provides students with background and tools to carry out economic analysis of individual and public decision making with respect to life-cycle risks of disability and retirement, including long-term care services that compensate for functional disability. Students will compare and contrast issues and analysis for two groups: elders and working-aged persons with disabilities. Usually offered every second year.
Ms. Bishop

HS 412b Substance Use and Societal Consequences
Provides an overview of the use and abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. Examines the consequences of abuse from a societal perspective and reviews types of policy approaches to dealing with the problems associated with substance abuse. Specific topics include an overview of biological and clinical aspects, theories of addictive behavior, epidemiology, medical and economic consequences, prevention and education, and policy approaches including taxation and regulation. Usually offered every second year.
Ms. Horgan

HS 572a Economics of Behavioral Health
Applies economic analysis to policy and research issues in the mental health sector, including cost-effectiveness, managed care, benefit design, and adverse selection. Studies the impact of different approaches to financing treatment and paying providers in the public and private sectors. Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Hodgkin

HS 586a Issues in Substance Abuse Treatment
Provides an overview of issues related to clinical prevention and treatment services for alcohol, tobacco, and other drug abuse. Examines the organization, delivery, and financing of abuse services. Specific topics include the structure of the treatment system, access to service, the process of treatment, and the effectiveness, cost, cost-effectiveness, and quality of treatment. Examines the impact of managed care on the way services are organized and delivered and on clinical outcome. Usually offered every second year.
Ms. Horgan

HS 505f Quality and Performance Measurement in Health Care
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
A conceptual and analytic framework of the field of quality of health care, which includes quality improvement and performance measurement; understanding of the contemporary research and policy initiatives that relate to quality of health care; and insights into the ways that quality relates to issues of provider payment, organization of health care facilities, and costs and access to health care. By the end of the module, students should have an understanding of the centrality of quality of care issues in contemporary health services research, health care policy, and management of health care organizations. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Garnick

HS 507f State Health Policy
Prerequisite: HS 513a or permission of instructor. Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Examines the role of the states in the U.S. health care system. Provides an overview of state activities in health, including state responsibilities for managing health programs and institutions. Models to understand the nature of policy making and politics in states are presented and discussed. Examines major state health programs such as Medicaid. Outlines and explores the policy and legislative processes. States' efforts to reform their health care systems are discussed with special attention to implementation issues, barriers, limits of state action, and prospects for the future of state health reform. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Rosman

HS 513a Issues in National Health Policy
An overview of the U.S. health care system is followed by a critical analysis of the major issues and trends in the health care field. Concentrates on the activities of federal and state governments and the private sector. Also explores likely future issues affecting our health system. Of special concern is the issue of the large number of Americans with no or inadequate health insurance. A related problem is the rising cost of medical care, which results in increases in the number of uninsured. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Altman and Mr. Wallack

HS 518a Management of Health Care Organizations
Introduces students to the concepts, theories, and practical problems of managing people in health care organizations. Case material is drawn from hospital, HMO, group practice, public health agency, and for-profit company settings. Students gain a better understanding of the range of strategic and operational problems faced by managers, some of the analytic tools to diagnose problems, and the role of leadership (and management) in improving performance. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Chilingerian

HS 520a Payment and Financing of Health Care
Examines current payment practices to health care providers, the problems with current methods, and possible modifications. Focuses only upon hospital care, physician services, and managed care. Covers the different ways that managed care organizations are structured. The payment and performance of managed care organizations and how performance is related to organizational strategies are included. Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Wallack

HS 521a Approaches to Political and Organizational Analysis
Focuses on refining the analytical skills useful to students for understanding the political and organizational factors influencing public policy. Most readings were selected because they represent an innovative, interesting, or challenging piece of analysis. The goal of each class is to identify and critique the core arguments of the work, the conceptual categories and assumptions on which the argument is based, and the data presented in its support. There is a focus on the differences in making arguments from the point of view of science, policy-making and political choices. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Prottas

HS 229f International Health Financing
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Examines the mobilization of resources for the health system as a whole and the funding of individual providers for health services in developing countries. Provides the tools for examining broad reforms as well as refinements of individual components of the health care system. Usually offered every second year.
Mr. Shepard

HS 236a International Health Systems
Provides students with the framework to understand how health systems are organized and to understand what affects their performance. Students also will be able to describe key features of health systems; how health system performance is measured; and how lessons from other countries can be applied to their own countries. The course examines different health system frameworks, how to use these frameworks to ask health system questions, different aspects of health systems, how national health systems differ, and what measures are being implemented in different countries to improve their health system performance and eventually health outcomes. The course will also take a broader look at the relationships between health policy, economic policy and development policy, examining some of the main economic and development theories shaping global policies and also examine the international institutions and political dynamics in health policy making. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Bowser

HS 239b International Health Economics
Prepares students with graduate-level knowledge in theories and research methods in the area of international health economics. The course aims at providing a rigorous economic framework that addresses both positive and normative issues in the economics of health in developing countries. Examples used to illustrate the economic theories have a developing country focus. Topics covered include: relationship between health outcomes and macro-economic performance; micro-economics of health care and insurance markets including demand for health care services, insurance, supply of physician services and other medical service; normative analysis for health policy and projects including market failure and public intervention. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Razavi

HS 276f World Health
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
A primer on major diseases and problems of health care in developing nations. Topics include descriptions of disease incidence and prevalence, including infectious, chronic, and mental disease; determinants of health, including culture and behavior; the roles of nutrition, education, and reproductive trends and poverty; demographic transitions, including aging and urbanization; the structure and financing of health systems; and the globalization of health. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Bhalotra

HS 321f Implementing Policy and Practice Change in Health and Social Systems
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Begins with definitions of policy and how policy is made from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Examines several frameworks for analyzing policy implementation and for planning implementation strategies. Several sessions will focus on the management skills and tools useful to planning and managing the implementation of policy change. Students will have the opportunity to bring conceptual knowledge and skills together in analysis of several case studies. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Huff-Rousselle

HS 329f Epidemiology
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Introduces the basic concepts of epidemiology applied to public health problems. Emphasis is placed on the principles and methods of epidemiologic investigation, the use of classical statistical approaches to describe the health of populations, and the application of epidemiological approaches to policy evaluation and health services research. The key topics include the dynamics of disease; methods of measuring disease burden; and epidemiologic study designs; and criteria for evaluating causal associations between risk factors and disease outcomes. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Zeng

HS 331f Health and Development Frameworks
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Provides an overview of the relationships between health policy, economic policy and development policy. There are different ideas about the kinds of economic environments and economic policies which most effectively support ecnomic development for low income countries and the need for and requirements for social policies to improve health. We will examine the main economic and development theories shaping global policies and also examine the international institutions and political dynamics in health policy making, from the formation of the UN ( and the emergence of the WHO) in 1946. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Kaufman

HS 404b Applied Regression Analysis
An applied course in multiple regression analysis. Emphasis placed on the assumptions underlying the regression model, how to test for violations, and corrections that can be made when violations are found. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Fournier

HS 422f Cost-Effectiveness
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Addresses the application of the technique of cost-effectiveness analysis to evaluate health and other types of programs in the United States and in developing countries. Presents the theoretical foundations and applications of cost-effectiveness analysis. Uses interactive discussions and computer exercises where students learn to perform cost-effectiveness analyses and apply the technique to a problem of their choice. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Shepard

HS 316b International Health Policy
May not be taken by students who took HS 316f.
Examines major current issues in health policy and global governance shaping our world in the 21st century. There is increasing recognition of the development threats from health problems – from emerging infectious diseases to the recognition that global climate change is contributing to new or re emerging health threats. The recent WHO Commission on Social Determinants for Health outlined an ambitious agenda for research on health determinants, systems, and financing and new global institutions are promoting greater evidence-based research for health policy making that incorporate a wider array of inputs and stakeholders. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Kaufman

HS 327f Using Health Information for Health System Improvement
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
To achieve delivery of quality health services and subsequently sustainable health of the target populations, the World Health Organization (WHO) promotes strengthening the six major building blocks of the health system: (1) governance and policy; (2) service delivery; (3) human resources; (4) health commodities; (5) health financing; and (6) health information systems (HIS). HIS remains the backbone for providing information to track progress for improving the different health system components and monitor the achievement of the health related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This course will follow the structure of the Health Metrics Network Framework to review and better understand the health information systems that guide decision-making, leading to better health. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Lippeveld

HS 405a Applied Econometrics
Prerequisite: HS 404b.
Focuses on applications of regression analysis and extensions to areas where the standard assumptions do not hold. Introduces applications of logit and its extensions, probit, corrections for censoring and sample selection bias, and simultaneous equations. Each student designs and carries out a research project. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Zeng

HS 426f Advanced Techniques of Cost-Effectiveness and Cost-Benefit Analysis
Prerequisite: HS 422f or permission of the instructor. Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Provides students with advanced techniques to conduct or critically review cost-effective studies, both in the United States and internationally. Students learn how to present a research question, design a study, obtain and analyze relevant date, and analyze results. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Shepard

HS 513a Issues in National Health Policy
An overview of the U.S. health care system is followed by a critical analysis of the major issues and trends in the health care field. Concentrates on the activities of federal and state governments and the private sector. Also explores likely future issues affecting our health system. Of special concern is the issue of the large number of Americans with no or inadequate health insurance. A related problem is the rising cost of medical care, which results in increases in the number of uninsured. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Altman and Mr. Wallack

HS 248b Financial Management
Prerequisite: HS 250a.
Develops students as educated consumers of financial information. Covers financial management problems encountered by today's human service professionals in a real-world perspective based on sound financial and accounting theory. Includes topics such as financial statement analysis, budget development and control, managing growth, cash flow management, and management controls. Usually offered every year.
Mr. McLaughlin

HS 250a Financial Accounting
Develops a fundamental understanding of financial accounting and reporting issues as they apply to nonprofit and for-profit organizations. Students will learn about the importance of fiscal responsibility and integrity in the efficient utilization of an organization's resources relative to organizational goals. Accounting practices that are unique to nonprofit organizations will be introduced, discussed, and differentiated from those practices employed by for-profit entities. Emphasis will be placed on interpreting financial statements to understand how accounting information, in a variety of settings, can be utilized by decision makers. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Anderson and Mr. Angell

HS 252b Strategic Management
Provides students with the theoretical constructs and practical tools necessary to create and manage organizations strategically. Includes strategic process, organizational design, and development of planning tools and cycles. All students perform an applied strategic analysis for an actual organization. Usually offered every year.
Mr. McLaughlin and Ms. Carlson

HS 253b Leadership and Organizational Behavior
Focuses on leadership and managing organizations. Uses cases on a variety of organizations to expose students to problems and to improve their effectiveness in analyzing, diagnosing, and leading people in organizations. Students learn organizational concepts, analytic frameworks, and models, and practice their leadership skills in class. Uses case discussions, simulations, role-playing, mini-lecturing, and experimental exercises. Provides an opportunity to develop leadership skills through group work and reflection. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Chilingerian

HS 258a Operations Management in Service Organizations
Prerequisite: HS 246b.
Explores how operations management skills can help organizations to deliver high-quality services while using resources efficiently. Students develop skills including quality assessment, process mapping, productivity analysis, wait-time analysis, and scheduling. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Abbott

HS 278f Monitoring and Evaluation
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Introduces students to the field of evaluation, including their purpose, design, methodologies for data collection and analysis, and utilization. The course also explores the organizational environment in which evaluations are carried out, frequent challenges and pitfalls in conducting evaluation, and some tricks of the trade drawing on written materials and experiences of the instructor and enrolled students as well. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Roper or Ms. Snell

HS 279a Planning and Implementation
Focuses on concepts and methods of planning and implementation to promote sustainable development. The project cycle and project development are used to give students experience in problem-solving, logic, and organizational skills applicable to all planning, implementation, and monitoring functions. Attention is given to the context in which the project cycle takes place, identifying local problems and applying holistic solutions. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Howard and Mr. Ellsworth

HS 315f Advanced Monitoring and Evaluation Issues in Practice
Prerequisite: HS 278f Monitoring & Development or permission of the instructor. Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
In this course monitoring and evaluation are approached from a strategic perspective. Students focus on knowledge and field methods to co-strategize how best to institutionalize good M&E practices that make a real difference in the effectiveness of development outcomes. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Roper

HS 337f Advanced Planning & Implementation: Issues in the Field
Prerequisite : HS 279a. Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
This course explores the context of development projects and challenges faced by project managers, executing agencies, donors, partners, stakeholders, and beneficiaries. Values and priorities --including sustainability, participation, project ownership, accountability, and legitimacy – are examined in light of changing dynamics of power, procedures, and relationships in project management. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Howard

HS 518a Management of Health Care Organizations
Introduces students to the concepts, theories, and practical problems of managing people in health care organizations. Case material is drawn from hospital, HMO, group practice, public health agency, and for-profit company settings. Students gain a better understanding of the range of strategic and operational problems faced by managers, some of the analytic tools to diagnose problems, and the role of leadership (and management) in improving performance. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Chilingerian

HS 242f Development Aid
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Looks at the evolution of international development aid through multilateral, bilateral, and non-State actors; explores underlying theories of development and how theory has real world influence through aid strategies and programs; examines motivations, objectives and interests of aid programs; and introduces concepts and current debate on aid effectiveness. It helps students develop and articulate their own “theories of change” to shape aid programs toward a more sustainable development. Usually offered every year.
Mr. Simon

HS 278f Monitoring and Evaluation
Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Introduces students to the field of evaluation, including their purpose, design, methodologies for data collection and analysis, and utilization. The course also explores the organizational environment in which evaluations are carried out, frequent challenges and pitfalls in conducting evaluation, and some tricks of the trade drawing on written materials and experiences of the instructor and enrolled students as well. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Roper or Ms. Snell

HS 279a Planning and Implementation
Focuses on concepts and methods of planning and implementation to promote sustainable development. The project cycle and project development are used to give students experience in problem-solving, logic, and organizational skills applicable to all planning, implementation, and monitoring functions. Attention is given to the context in which the project cycle takes place, identifying local problems and applying holistic solutions. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Howard and Mr. Ellsworth

HS 315f Advanced Monitoring and Evaluation Issues in Practice
Prerequisite: HS 278f Monitoring & Development or permission of the instructor. Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
In this course monitoring and evaluation are approached from a strategic perspective. Students focus on knowledge and field methods to co-strategize how best to institutionalize good M&E practices that make a real difference in the effectiveness of development outcomes. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Roper

HS 337f Advanced Planning & Implementation: Issues in the Field
Prerequisite : HS 279a. Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
This course explores the context of development projects and challenges faced by project managers, executing agencies, donors, partners, stakeholders, and beneficiaries. Values and priorities --including sustainability, participation, project ownership, accountability, and legitimacy – are examined in light of changing dynamics of power, procedures, and relationships in project management. Usually offered every year.
Ms. Howard