Project-based course in which students working in teams will create, from idea to start-up, social impact ventures (not-for-profit or for-profit), while learning applied design thinking and lean startup methods, market planning, customer and stakeholder development, finances, organization configurations, social impact analysis, business development, collaboration building, and team-building and leadership. Literature covering entrepreneurship, women in business, social impact, economic impact, and opportunity analysis will be introduced and applied.

This course will engage students in interdisciplinary thinking about the dynamic relationship between environment and development. Focusing on specific case studies, we will consider complementary and contrasting perspectives about the causes of and solutions to global poverty and environmental degradation. We will examine how development theories and practices have changed over time, and we will reflect on how our assumptions shape what we "see" in specific sites, how we frame particular problems and what we suggest as solutions.

This class introduces students to the theory of social choice -- a branch of economic theory that tackles questions of "oughts." How should society choose among several alternatives? What rules constitute a fair method of collective decision-making? Among the topics we will cover are Arrow's and Sen's seminal impossibility theorems, concepts of freedom, individual rights, and opportunities. Throughout, we will make extensive use of examples, prioritizing intuition over mathematical formulation.

Demography is the scientific study of human populations, primarily with respect to their size, structure, and development. This course studies a variety demographic topics, including fertility, mortality, population age structure, poverty, and inequality. The course also covers empirical econometric techniques that are helpful for answering demographic questions.

This course introduces students to key issues of political economy such as the provision of public goods, property rights, and the role of the state in economic interactions. Students will learn how economists have tackled these issues in the past, the advantages, and the limitations of their approach.

We will explore the cultural and political impact of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. The media's role in constructing meanings will be a main organizing focus of the course. Using readings, discussions, assignments, and films, the course will allow students to form a picture of how 9/11 changed America and beyond.

This course is a critical exercise taught at the intersection of two seemingly incommensurable terms, imperialism and neoliberalism. Charting the genealogies of these terms, we will explore the lines of entanglements that hold these two concepts together as mutually reinforcing projects. In part the course will address how self-governance and self-determination under liberal democratic regimes work to accomplish the neoliberal objectives, hence curtailing the legitimacy of the sovereign will as an essential democratic value.

Today democracy is seen as the only legitimate regime type, but there is very little consensus about what democracy refers to. This course will explore competing understandings of democracy and its relationship to state institutions and laws. Students will be introduced to contemporary debates over the normative basis of democracy and difficulties of democratic practice and citizenship. Among the questions we will explore are: what is the relationship between liberalism and democracy? Do rights represent the beginning or the end of democratic citizenship?