2008-2009 Course Listing

The course listing is an online catalog, offering course descriptions, information on the faculty, syllabi (if posted by the faculty), as well as course meeting times and locations. Note that course offerings vary from year to year, and those marked with an asterisk are not currently on offer. You can search courses by subject area, semester or keyword.

Please note that with the creation of the International and Global Affairs (IGA) concentration this year, many courses (particularly those in the former ENR, ISP, and STP areas) have been renumbered to new areas. Please use the course number conversion table to determine the new assigned course numbers for those courses affected.

Please review Degree Requirements to learn more about what courses are required to earn a degree from Harvard Kennedy School.

Course Title Number Semester Faculty
Advanced Quantitative Methods II: Econometric Methods
Schedule: T/Th 10:10 AM
Credits: 1.0
 API-210 Spring Alberto Abadie
Program Evaluation: Estimating Program Effectiveness with Empirical Analysis
Schedule: T/Th 1:10 PM
Credits: 1.0
 API-208 Spring Alberto Abadie
Central Challenges of American Foreign Policy
Schedule: M/W 2:40 PM
Credits: 1.0
 IGA-201 Spring Graham Allison
Urban Politics, Planning, and Development
Schedule: M/W 11:40 AM
Credits: 1.0
 HUT-201-A Fall Alan Altshuler
Getting Things Done: Management in a Development Context
Schedule: T/Th 8:40 AM
Credits: 1.0
 STM-102 Fall Matt Andrews
Money Management and Policy Implementation in Developing Countries
Schedule: M/W 1:10 PM
Credits: 0.5
 STM-408M Spr Mod3 Matt Andrews
Policymaking in Urban Settings
Schedule: T/Th 1:10 PM
Credits: 1.0
 HUT-100 Fall William Apgar
Seminar: Housing, Urban Economic Development, and Transportation
Schedule: Th 4:10 PM
Credits: 1.0
 HUT-150Y Year William Apgar
Microeconomic Theory I
Schedule: M/W 8:40 AM
Credits: 1.0
 API-111 Fall Christopher Avery
Quantitative Analysis and Empirical Methods
Schedule: T/Th 2:40 PM
Credits: 1.0
 API-201-A Fall Christopher Avery, Julian Jamison
Mass Media, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy
Schedule: M/W 2:40 PM
Credits: 1.0
 PPP-306 Fall Matthew Baum
Political Communication
Credits: 1.0
 PAL-118 Not Offered Matthew Baum
Political Institutions and Public Policy: Comparative Politics
Schedule: M/W 1:10 PM
Credits: 1.0
 PAL-110-E Spring Matthew Baum
Behavioral Approaches to Decision Making and Negotiation
Schedule: M 3:00 PM
Credits: 1.0
 API-308 Spring Max Bazerman
Terrorism and the American Response
Schedule: W 4:10 PM
Credits: 1.0
 IGA-332 Fall Rand Beers, Richard Clarke
Performance Leadership: Producing Results in Public and Nonprofit Agencies
Schedule: T/Th 11:40 AM
Credits: 1.0
 STM-104 Spring Robert Behn
Empirical Methods II
Schedule: T/Th 10:10 AM
Credits: 1.0
 API-202-A Spring Herman Bennett
Quantitative Analysis and Empirical Methods
Schedule: T/Th 8:40 AM
Credits: 1.0
 API-201-B Fall Herman Bennett
Quantitative Analysis and Empirical Methods
Schedule: T/Th 10:10 AM
Credits: 1.0
 API-201-C Fall Herman Bennett
International Childhood, Rights & Globalization
Schedule: M/W 1:10 PM
Credits: 1.0
 IGA-305 Fall Jacqueline Bhabha
Advanced Applied Budgeting
Schedule: M 4:10 PM
Credits: 1.0
 STM-412 Spring Linda Bilmes
Budgeting and Financial Management
Schedule: T/Th 10:10 AM
Credits: 1.0
 STM-411 Fall Linda Bilmes
The Executive Branch of Government
Credits: 0.5
 STM-161M Not Offered Linda Bilmes
Planning and Environmental Law
Schedule: M/W 8:30 AM
Credits: 1.0
 HUT-263 Fall Brian Blaesser
Political Analysis and Strategy for U.S. Health Policy
Schedule: M/W 4:40 PM
Credits: 1.0
 HCP-175 Spring Robert Blendon
Public Opinion, Polling, and Public Policy
Schedule: M/W 10:10 AM
Credits: 0.5
 API-214M Spr Mod3 Robert Blendon
Judgment and Decision Making
Schedule: M/W 2:40 PM
Credits: 1.0
 API-304 Fall Iris Bohnet, Jennifer Lerner
The Economic Impact of Immigration
Credits: 1.0
 HLE-211 Not Offered George Borjas
2020 Vision and Information Policy: Considering the Public Interest
Schedule: M/W 1:10 PM
Credits: 1.0
 PPP-185 Spring Nolan Bowie
New Media and Democracy
Schedule: T/Th 11:40 AM
Credits: 1.0
 PPP-184 Fall Nolan Bowie
Crime, Community, and Public Policy
Credits: 1.0
 CCJ-104 Not Offered Anthony Braga
Civil Society and Development
Schedule: T/Th 11:40 AM
Credits: 1.0
 PED-376 Fall L. David Brown
Controlling Weapons Proliferation
Schedule: M/W 11:40 AM
Credits: 1.0
 IGA-321 Spring Matthew Bunn
Introduction to Health Care Policy
Schedule: T 4:10 PM
Credits: 1.0
 HCP-100 Fall Sheila Burke, Richard Frank
Spring Exercise
Credits: 0.5
 API-500X Spring Sheila Burke, Steven Kelman
Modern Diplomacy: Peace and War in the 21st Century
Schedule: T/Th 11:30 AM
Credits: 1.0
 IGA-208 Spring R. Nicholas Burns
Advanced Macroeconomics for the Open Economy II
Schedule: T/Th 1:10 PM
Credits: 1.0
 API-119 Spring Filipe Campante
Second-Year Policy Analysis Seminar
Schedule: Th 4:10 PM
Credits: 1.0
 PED-250Y-A Year Filipe Campante
American National Security Policy
Schedule: M/W 1:10 PM
Credits: 1.0
 IGA-202 Spring Ashton Carter
Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Public, Private, and Social Sectors
Schedule: M/W 2:40 PM
Credits: 1.0
 STM-145 Fall Dick Cavanagh, Robert Higgins
What is Jihad? Islam and International Conflicts from World War II to Bin Laden
Schedule: M/W 9:00 AM
Credits: 1.0
 IGA-333 Spring Jocelyne Cesari
The Economics of Health and Development
Credits: 1.0
 PED-318 Not Offered Amitabh Chandra
The Informal Workforce in a Global Economy
Schedule: M 4:10 PM
Credits: 1.0
 PED-375 Fall Martha Chen
State and Local Public Finance
Schedule: F 1:10 PM
Credits: 1.0
 STM-410 Spring Shelby Chodos
Managing a Living Planet
Schedule: M/W 2:40 PM
Credits: 1.0
 IGA-104 Spring William Clark
Empirical Methods II
Schedule: T/Th 11:40 AM
Credits: 1.0
 API-202-B Spring Suzanne Cooper
Doctoral Research Seminar
Schedule: M 4:10 PM
Credits: 1.0
 API-901 Fall Pepper Culpepper
Political Institutions and Public Policy: Comparative Politics
Schedule: M/W 10:10 AM
Credits: 1.0
 PAL-110-C Spring Pepper Culpepper
Public Sector Economics
Schedule: M/W/F 9:00 AM
Credits: 1.0
 API-125 Spring David Cutler, Mihir Desai, Martin Feldstein
The Arts of Communication
Schedule: M/W 4:10 PM
Credits: 1.0
 PAL-117-A Fall Marie Danziger
Advanced Risk Management and Infrastructure Finance
Schedule: T/Th 8:40 AM
Credits: 1.0
 API-148 Fall Akash Deep
Finance
Schedule: T/Th 11:40 AM
Credits: 1.0
 API-141 Fall Akash Deep
Game Theory and Strategic Decisions
Schedule: M/W 1:10 PM
Credits: 1.0
 API-303 Spring Pinar Dogan
Markets and Market Failure
Schedule: M/W 10:10 AM
Credits: 1.0
 API-101-C Fall Pinar Dogan
HKS-HBS Joint Degree First- and Second- Year Seminar
Schedule: W 4:00 PM
Credits: 1.0
 BGP-510Y Year John Donahue
Privatization Analysis
Credits: 0.5
 BGP-257M Not Offered John Donahue
Strategy, Structure, and Leadership in Public Service Organizations
Schedule: T/Th 10:10 AM
Credits: 1.0
 STM-101-C Fall John Donahue
The Economics of Education
Credits: 1.0
 HLE-227 Not Offered Susan Dynarski
Poverty and Social Policy
Schedule: M/W 10:10 AM
Credits: 1.0
 HLE-201 Fall Kathryn Edin
Research Design and Research Methods for Fieldwork
Schedule: M 4:10 PM
Credits: 1.0
 API-203 Spring Kathryn Edin