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The course reviews the nature and extent of development theory, practice, and policy over the past 70 years (mid-20th century onwards), with case studies largely focused on the Global South. The course provides a broad awareness and understanding of the key theories and policy debates which inform humanitarian development ideas and practices, as well as the empirical context of different regions of the world.
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This course draws on the extensive theoretical underpinning of urban design as a means to explore approaches to appraise the character of the built environment, and, as a result, to forward practical proposals aimed at beneficially influencing the overall quality and liveability of urban space.
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This course studies the cycle of public policy in developing countries, paying attention to evaluation of public policies, taxation in developing countries.
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Python has rapidly become the standard in scientific computing. It is however much more than that, receiving much excitement about the application of Python to finance, medicine, mobile technology, online gaming, film industry. Its appeal continues to grow in both academia and industry. Much of the advances of medical technology has been due to Python. This is a an intensive Python programming course with numerous medical and health-based applications. Due to the transferability of these skills, students also study examples from investment banking and quantitative finance. The course assumes no prior knowledge of the Python programming language. However, an interest in biomedicine/health is essential.
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One often encounters situations in which two agents are involved in a mutual agreement. Invariably, one economic agent has more information about a characteristic that is relevant to the agreement, than the other. In this course, students study how agents deal with this information asymmetry by designing incentives and embedding them in contracts. Students also study the effects of information asymmetry on the prevailing market equilibrium. Applications of the theory include insurance, labor economics, industrial economics, and environmental economics.
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This advanced seminar course critically examines theories and practices of racism, racialization, ethnicity, and nationalism. The course evaluates both anthropological and wider social theoretical literatures to investigate their contributions and limitations to understanding these historically and conceptually interlinked problematics across different times and spaces.
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This course develops students' understanding of new and emerging issues in population health; it will prioritize the presentation of academic work in progress rather than established knowledge. Students are taught about emerging themes in population health as well as how knowledge develops and is disseminated within the academic community. Students develop a deeper understanding of contemporary population health research and to further develop your capacity to critically appraise key issues in population health.
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The course first offers students an introduction to the discipline of International Relations to understand some of the key questions that scholars and policy makers have focused on, and how the field has been transformed as the world has changed around them. It then studies a series of pressing contemporary issues, including war, security, development, human rights, and terrorism. These cases and questions are analyzed through different theories including realism, liberalism, constructivism, Marxism, and feminism.
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