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 Macroeconomics for the Open Economy I
Schedule: M/W 2:40 PM
Credits: 1.0
 API-120 Fall Jeffrey Frankel
Advanced Microeconomics Analysis I
Schedule: M/W 11:40 AM
Credits: 1.0
 API-109 Fall Nolan Miller
Advanced Quantitative Methods I: Statistics
Schedule: T/Th 1:10 PM
Credits: 1.0
 API-209 Fall Dan Levy
Advanced Risk Management and Infrastructure Finance
Schedule: T/Th 8:40 AM
Credits: 1.0
 API-148 Fall Akash Deep
Analytic Frameworks for Policy
Schedule: T/Th 10:10 AM
Credits: 1.0
 API-302 Fall Richard Zeckhauser
Budgeting and Financial Management
Schedule: T/Th 10:10 AM
Credits: 1.0
 STM-411 Fall Linda Bilmes
Case Workshop in International Development II
Schedule: Th 4:10 PM
Credits: 1.0
 PED-402 Fall Dani Rodrik
Challenges of Democratization
Schedule: M/W 2:40 PM
Credits: 1.0
 API-413 Fall Pippa Norris
Civil Society and Development
Schedule: T/Th 11:40 AM
Credits: 1.0
 PED-376 Fall L. David Brown
Community-Based Strategies to Support Children & Strengthen Families
Schedule: T/Th 11:40 AM
Credits: 1.0
 HLE-111 Fall Julie Boatright Wilson
Core Course in Health Policy I
Schedule: T/Th 4:10 PM
Credits: 1.0
 HCP-597 Fall Joseph Newhouse, Richard Frank, Alan Zaslavsky
Development Policy Strategy
Schedule: M/W 8:40 AM
Credits: 1.0
 PED-309 Fall Ricardo Hausmann
Doctoral Research Seminar
Schedule: M 4:10 PM
Credits: 1.0
 API-901 Fall Pepper Culpepper
Driving Forces in American Politics
Schedule: M/W 2:40 PM
Credits: 1.0
 PAL-229 Fall Elaine Kamarck, David Gergen
Economics and Security
Schedule: T/Th 10:10 AM
Credits: 1.0
 IGA-312 Fall Richard Rosecrance
Election Reform
Schedule: M/W 1:10 PM
Credits: 1.0
 PAL-231 Fall David King
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
Environmental and Resource Science for Policy
Schedule: T/Th 2:40 PM
Credits: 1.0
 IGA-204 Fall John Holdren
Ethics in Public Life
Schedule: T/Th 8:40 AM
Credits: 1.0
 API-602 Fall Kenneth Winston
Exercising Leadership: Mobilizing Group Resources
Schedule: M/W 10:10 AM
Credits: 1.0
 PAL-101 Fall Ronald Heifetz
Finance
Schedule: T/Th 11:40 AM
Credits: 1.0
 API-141 Fall Akash Deep
Getting Things Done: Management in a Development Context
Schedule: T/Th 8:40 AM
Credits: 1.0
 STM-102 Fall Matt Andrews
Global Strategic Management
Schedule: M/T 11:40 AM
Credits: 1.0
 BGP-254-A Fall Jordan Siegel
Global Strategic Management
Schedule: M/T 1:30 PM
Credits: 1.0
 BGP-254-B Fall Jordan Siegel
Health Policy Reform: Comparative Perspective
Schedule: T/Th 11:40 AM
Credits: 1.0
 HCP-382 Fall Mary Ruggie
How Politicians Connect
Schedule: T/Th 1:10 PM
Credits: 1.0
 PPP-308 Fall Maralee Schwartz
Human Rights and International Politics: The Basic Policy Dilemmas
Schedule: T/Th 11:40 AM
Credits: 1.0
 IGA-304 Fall Mathias Risse
ID/Law and Legal Institutions in Development
Schedule: M 6:00 PM
Credits: 1.0
 API-461 Fall Frederick Schauer
Innovations in Democratic Governance: Solving Public Problems
Schedule: M/W 1:10 PM
Credits: 1.0
 PAL-218 Fall Archon Fung
International Capital Markets
Schedule: F 1:10 PM
Credits: 1.0
 ITF-100 Fall Alfred Schipke
International Childhood, Rights & Globalization
Schedule: M/W 1:10 PM
Credits: 1.0
 IGA-305 Fall Jacqueline Bhabha
The Recent Evolution of Foreign Policy: the Uses of History
Schedule: T/Th 1:10 PM
Credits: 1.0
 IGA-102 Fall Ernest May, Karine Walther
International Relations: Theory and Practice
Schedule: M/W 1:10 PM
Credits: 1.0
 IGA-101 Fall Stephen Walt
Introduction to Health Care Policy
Schedule: T 4:10 PM
Credits: 1.0
 HCP-100 Fall Sheila Burke, Richard Frank
Introduction to Negotiation Analysis
Schedule: M/W 10:10 AM
Credits: 1.0
 STM-221-A Fall Brian Mandell
Introduction to Negotiation Analysis
Schedule: M/W 1:10 PM
Credits: 1.0
 STM-221-B Fall Brian Mandell
Judgment and Decision Making
Schedule: M/W 2:40 PM
Credits: 1.0
 API-304 Fall Iris Bohnet, Jennifer Lerner
Leadership and 20th Century American Foreign Policy
Schedule: M 4:10 PM
Credits: 1.0
 IGA-301 Fall Joseph Nye
Leadership for a Networked World
Schedule: M/W 1:10 PM
Credits: 1.0
 STM-480 Fall Jerry Mechling
Leadership, Democracy and Conflict: The Politics of the Developing World
Schedule: M/W 4:10 PM
Credits: 1.0
 IGA-319 Fall Robert Rotberg
Major Issues in Federal Education Policy
Schedule: W 4:00 PM
Credits: 1.0
 HLE-312 Fall James Kim
Management, Finance, and Regulation of Public Infrastructure
Schedule: M/W 1:10 PM
Credits: 1.0
 BGP-256 Fall Henry Lee
Managing Bureaucracy: Creating the Passion-Driven Organization
Schedule: T 4:00 PM
Credits: 1.0
 STM-342 Fall Harry Spence
Markets and Market Failure
Schedule: M/W 8:40 AM
Credits: 1.0
 API-101-A Fall Erzo F.P. Luttmer
Markets and Market Failure
Schedule: M/W 8:40 AM
Credits: 1.0
 API-101-B Fall Jerry Marschke
Markets and Market Failure
Schedule: M/W 10:10 AM
Credits: 1.0
 API-101-C Fall Pinar Dogan
Markets and Market Failure
Schedule: M/W 10:10 AM
Credits: 1.0
 API-101-D Fall Daniel Hojman
Markets and Market Failure with Cases
Schedule: M/W 8:40 AM
Credits: 1.0
 API-105-A Fall Joseph Kalt, Erich Muehlegger
Markets and Market Failure with Cases
Schedule: M/W 10:10 AM
Credits: 1.0
 API-105-B Fall Jose Gomez-Ibanez
Mass Media, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy
Schedule: M/W 2:40 PM
Credits: 1.0
 PPP-306 Fall Matthew Baum
Microeconomic Theory I
Schedule: M/W 8:40 AM
Credits: 1.0
 API-111 Fall Christopher Avery
National Security Organization and Management
Schedule: M/W 11:40 AM
Credits: 1.0
 IGA-302 Fall John White
New Media and Democracy
Schedule: T/Th 11:40 AM
Credits: 1.0
 PPP-184 Fall Nolan Bowie
Planning and Environmental Law
Schedule: M/W 8:30 AM
Credits: 1.0
 HUT-263 Fall Brian Blaesser
Policymaking in Urban Settings
Schedule: T/Th 1:10 PM
Credits: 1.0
 HUT-100 Fall William Apgar
Poverty and Social Policy
Schedule: M/W 10:10 AM
Credits: 1.0
 HLE-201 Fall Kathryn Edin
Proseminar on Inequaliity and Social Policy I
Schedule: W 2:00 PM
Credits: 1.0
 HLE-511 Fall Jennifer Hochschild, Bruce Western
Proseminar on Inequality and Social Policy III
Schedule: M 2:00 PM
Credits: 1.0
 HLE-513 Fall William Julius Wilson
Public Finance in Theory and Practice
Schedule: T/Th 1:10 PM
Credits: 1.0
 PED-210 Fall Jay Rosengard
Public Private Partnerships
Schedule: T/Th 10:10 AM
Credits: 1.0
 BGP-236 Fall Alan Trager