They say English is easy to learn, but maddening to master. Polish is simply... maddening to learn. But in this class, which serves as a gateway to the Polish language classes, you will be able to acquaint yourself with the beauty (and intricacies!) of Polish, and learn about its rich culture and complex history, without having to master its grammar. All texts -- from Mickiewicz to Tokarczuk -- are in English with fragments of Polish versions studied in class.

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This course examines the critical role that the Supreme Court has played in shaping the landscape of rights and liberties in the United States over time. We begin with a discussion about the power and potential of textual rights protections. Then, we examine the historic rise of an organizational structure that supported legal mobilization to protect individual rights in the United States, and learn about why certain rights were protected before others.

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The nature of causality and techniques for making valid causal inferences have been the subject of intense recent discussion in the social sciences. These topics are also increasingly relevant in government, business, and non-profit sectors amid the growing popularity of evidence-based approaches. Rooted in the potential outcomes framework, this course will discuss various conceptualizations of causality, explore the statistics of causal inference and provide deep coverage of methods for design- and model-based causal inference with experimental and observational data.

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