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11.022[J] | Regulation of Chemicals, Radiation, and Biotechnology | Focuses on policy design and evaluation in the regulation of hazardous substances and processes. Includes risk assessment, industrial chemicals, pesticides, food contaminants, pharmaceuticals, radiation and radioactive wastes, product safety, workplace hazards, indoor air pollution, biotechnology, victims' compensation, and administrative law. Health and economic consequences of regulation, as well as its potential to spur technological change, are discussed for each regulatory regime. Students taking the graduate version are expected to explore the subject in greater depth. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 3-0-9 | IDS.060 or permission of instructor | 1.802[J], IDS.061[J] | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.024 | Modeling Pedestrian Activity in Cities | Investigates the interaction between pedestrian activity, urban form, and land-use patterns in relatively dense urban environments. Informed by recent literature on pedestrian mobility, behavior, and biases, subject takes a practical approach, using software tools and analysis methods to operationalize and model pedestrian activity. Uses simplified yet powerful and scalable network analysis methods that focus uniquely on pedestrians, rather than engaging in comprehensive travel demand modeling across all modes. Emphasizes not only modeling or predicting pedestrian activity in given built settings, but also analyzing and understanding how changes in the built environment — land use changes, density changes, and connectivity changes — can affect pedestrian activity. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 3-0-9 | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.025[J] | D-Lab: Development | Issues in international development, appropriate technology and project implementation addressed through lectures, case studies, guest speakers and laboratory exercises. Students form project teams to partner with community organizations in developing countries, and formulate plans for an optional IAP site visit. (Previous field sites include Ghana, Brazil, Honduras and India.) Recitation sections focus on specific project implementation, and include cultural, social, political, environmental and economic overviews of the target countries as well as an introduction to the local languages. Enrollment limited by lottery; must attend first class session. | true | Fall | Undergraduate | 3-2-7 | null | EC.701[J] | false | false | false | False | Social Sciences | False |
11.026[J] | Downtown | Seminar on downtown in US cities from the late 19th century to the late 20th. Emphasis on downtown as an idea, place, and cluster of interests, on the changing character of downtown, and on recent efforts to rebuild it. Considers subways, skyscrapers, highways, urban renewal, and retail centers. Focus on readings, discussions, and individual research projects. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 2-0-7 | null | 21H.321[J] | false | false | false | False | Humanities | False |
11.027 | City to City: Comparing, Researching, and Reflecting on Practice | Introduces students to practice through researching, writing, and working for and with nonprofits. Students work directly with nonprofits and community partners to help find solutions to real world problems; interview planners and other field experts, and write and present findings to nonprofit partners and community audiences. | false | Spring | Undergraduate | 3-0-9 | null | null | false | false | false | False | Social Sciences | False |
11.029[J] | Mobility Ventures: Driving Innovation in Transportation Systems | Explores technological, behavioral, policy, and systems-wide frameworks for innovation in transportation systems, complemented with case studies across the mobility spectrum, from autonomous vehicles to urban air mobility to last-mile sidewalk robots. Students interact with a series of guest lecturers from CEOs and other business and government executives who are actively reshaping the future of mobility. Interdisciplinary teams of students collaborate to deliver business plans for proposed mobility-focused startups with an emphasis on primary market research. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. Preference to juniors and seniors. | true | Fall | Undergraduate | 3-3-6 | null | 15.3791[J] | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.041 | Introduction to Housing, Community, and Economic Development | Provides a critical introduction to the shape and determinants of political, social, and economic inequality in America, with a focus on racial and economic justice. Explores the role of the city in visions of justice. Analyzes the historical, political, and institutional contexts of housing and community development policy in the US, including federalism, municipal fragmentation, and decentralized public financing. Introduces major dimensions in US housing policy, such as housing finance, public housing policy, and state and local housing affordability mechanisms. Reviews major themes in community economic development, including drivers of economic inequality, small business policy, employment policy, and cooperative economics. Expectations and evaluation criteria differ for students taking graduate version. | true | Fall | Undergraduate | 3-0-9 | null | null | false | false | false | False | Social Sciences | False |
11.045[J] | Power: Interpersonal, Organizational, and Global Dimensions | The study of power among individuals and within organizations, markets, and states. Using examples from anthropology and sociology alongside classical and contemporary social theory, explores the nature of dominant and subordinate relationships, types of legitimate authority, and practices of resistance. Examines how people are influenced in subtle ways by those around them, who makes controlling decisions in the family, how people get ahead at work, and whether democracies, in fact, reflect the will of the people. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 3-0-9 | null | 15.302[J], 17.045[J], 21A.127[J] | false | false | false | False | Social Sciences | False |
11.047[J] | Race, Place, and Modernity in the Americas (New) | Students travel to São Paulo for three weeks. Examines the relationship between race and place in the formation of modern Brazil and the US through comparative analysis and interdisciplinary study. In addition to participating in class discussions on literature, film, and visual art, students visit key cultural and historical sites; interact with archives and museum collections; and, most importantly, engage in dialogue with local activists, religious leaders, community organizers, and scholars. Focusing on the work of Black and Indigenous people, particularly women, places a strong emphasis on the ways in which art and cultural activism can have an impact on racial justice issues. Taught in English; no Portuguese needed. Contact Women's and Gender Studies about travel fee, possible funding opportunities, and other details. Enrollment limited to 20. Application required. | true | IAP | Undergraduate | 3-3-3 | null | 21L.592[J], 21W.781[J], WGS.247[J] | false | false | false | False | Elective | False |
11.067 | Land Use Law and Politics: Race, Place, and Law | Explores conceptions of spatial justice and introduces students to basic principles of US law and legal analysis, focused on property, land use, equal protection, civil rights, fair housing, and local government law, in order to examine who should control how land is used. Examines the rights of owners of land and the types of regulatory and market-based tools that are available to control land use, and discusses why and when government regulation, rather than private market ordering, might be necessary to control land use patterns. Explores basic principles of civil rights and anti-discrimination law and focuses on particular civil rights problems associated with the land use regulatory system, such as exclusionary zoning, residential segregation, the fair distribution of undesirable land uses, and gentrification. Introduces basic skills of statutory drafting and interpretation. Assignments differ for those taking the graduate version. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 3-0-9 | null | null | false | false | false | False | Social Sciences | False |
11.068 | Environmental Justice, Science, and Technology (New) | Introduces foundational principles of environmental justice and presents the history of the environmental justice movement and how the movement connects to research, including community engaged research. Explores how scientific and technological tools, such as earth observation technology or geographical information systems (GIS), can be used to better understand and address environmental justice issues. Analyzes how emerging engineering approaches to climate change and environment may affect environmental justice and injustice. Enables students to engage in group projects connected to local environmental justice issues. Aims to spur institutional conversation on how environmental justice and community-centered approaches can provide a framework for STEM education, research, design, and innovation. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 3-0-9 | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.074 | Cybersecurity Clinic | Provides an opportunity for MIT students to become certified in methods of assessing the vulnerability of public agencies (particularly agencies that manage critical urban infrastructure) to the risk of cyberattack. Certification involves completing an 8-hour, self-paced, online set of four modules during the first four weeks of the semester followed by a competency exam. Students who successfully complete the exam become certified. The certified students work in teams with client agencies in various cities around the United States. Through preparatory interactions with the agencies, and short on-site visits, teams prepare vulnerability assessments that client agencies can use to secure the technical assistance and financial support they need to manage the risks of cyberattack they are facing. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. Limited to 15. | true | Fall, Spring | Undergraduate | 2-4-6 | null | null | false | false | true | False | False | False |
11.085 | Technology and Society: Computational Models for Public Decision-Making (New) | This workshop builds on urban-related computational problems (involving, for example, network routing, Monte Carlo simulation, resource allocation, and recursion) to focus on real-world contexts and decision-making cases. Explores how problem framing can impact analytic formulations, and how analyses of social policies that impact citizens unevenly can be more sensitive to context and social equity considerations. Problem settings include access and control of local roads, mandatory insurance and building codes for coastal development, and locating essential public services. Fosters innovative problem-solving abilities by designing and testing alternative problem formulations, exercising Python programming skills, and introducing urban planning practices and social policy concepts. Limited to 25. | true | IAP | Undergraduate | 1-0-1 [P/D/F] | 6.100B, 16.C20, or permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.092 | Renewable Energy Facility Siting Clinic | Presents methods for resolving facility siting disputes, particularly those involving renewable energy. After completing four modules and a competency exam for MITx certification, students work in teams to help client communities in various cities around the United States. Through direct interactions with the proponents and opponents of facilities subject to local opposition, students complete a stakeholder assessment and offer joint fact-finding and collaborative problem-solving assistance. The political, legal, financial, and regulatory aspects of facility siting, particularly for renewable energy, are reviewed along with key infrastructure planning principles. Students taking the graduate version complete additional assignments. Limited to 15. | true | Fall, Spring | Undergraduate | 2-4-6 [P/D/F] | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.100 | Introduction to Computational Thinking in Cities | Highlights how computer science may inform and impact how cities are conceptualized, planned, designed, regulated, and managed. The first half of the class explores the history of computational approaches in urban planning between around 1950 and 2020. The second half attempts to connect the data science concepts learned in 6.100B to topics in city planning and design. Subject can count toward the 6-unit discovery-focused credit limit for first-year students. | true | Fall | Undergraduate | 1-0-2 [P/D/F] | None. Coreq: 6.100B | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.107 | Economic Development Planning and Policy | Introduces tools and techniques in economic development planning. Extensive use of data collection, analysis, and display techniques. Students build interpretive intuition skills through user experience design activities and develop a series of memos summarizing the results of their data analysis. These are aggregated into a final report, and include the tools developed over the semester. Students taking graduate version complete modified assignments focused on developing computer applications. | true | Fall | Undergraduate | 3-0-9 | null | null | false | false | false | False | Social Sciences | False |
11.111[J] | Leadership in Negotiation: Advanced Applications | Building on the skills and strategies honed in 11.011, explores advanced negotiation practice. Emphasizes an experiential skill-building approach, underpinned by cutting-edge cases and innovative research. Examines applications in high-stakes management, public policy, social entrepreneurship, international diplomacy, and scientific discovery. Strengthens collaborative decision-making, persuasion, and leadership skills by negotiating across different media and through personalized coaching, enhancing students' ability to proactively engage stakeholders, transform organizations, and inspire communities. Limited by lottery; consult class website for information and deadlines. | true | Fall | Undergraduate | 4-0-8 | 11.011 or permission of instructor | 17.381[J] | false | false | false | False | Social Sciences | False |
11.113 | The Economic Approach to Cities and Environmental Sustainability | Provides a systematic framework of the interplay (both tension and synergy) between urbanization and environmental sustainability from a global perspective. Enhances analytical reasoning and quantitative skills to assist evidence-based empirical study and policy design evaluation. Explores the causes and consequences of urban environmental quality dynamics, and provides econometric tools to quantify such relationships. Examines state-of-the-art research in this field by introducing empirical studies from both developing and developed countries (highlighting fast urbanization). Themes include urban production, households, transportation and form, as well as political economy and climate resilience. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 3-0-9 | 1.010, 14.30, 18.650, or permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | Social Sciences | False |
11.119 | NEET Seminar: Digital Cities | Seminar for students enrolled in the Digital Cities NEET thread. Focuses on topics around clean energy and sustainability in cities via guest lectures and research discussions. | true | Fall | Undergraduate | 1-0-2 [P/D/F] | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.122[J] | Law, Technology, and Public Policy | Examines how law, economics, and technological change shape public policy, and how law can sway technological change; how the legal system responds to environmental, safety, energy, social, and ethical problems; how law and markets interact to influence technological development; and how law can affect wealth distribution, employment, and social justice. Covers energy/climate change; genetic engineering; telecommunications and role of misinformation; industrial automation; effect of regulation on technological innovation; impacts of antitrust law on innovation and equity; pharmaceuticals; nanotechnology; cost/benefit analysis as a decision tool; public participation in governmental decisions affecting science and technology; corporate influence on technology and welfare; and law and economics as competing paradigms to encourage sustainability. Students taking graduate version explore subject in greater depth. | true | Fall | Undergraduate | 3-0-9 | null | IDS.066[J] | false | false | false | False | Social Sciences | False |
11.123 | Big Plans and Mega-Urban Landscapes | Explores the physical, ecological, technological, political, economic and cultural implications of big plans and mega-urban landscapes in a global context. Uses local and international case studies to understand the process of making major changes to urban landscape and city fabric, and to regional landscape systems. Includes lectures by leading practitioners. Assignments consider planning and design strategies across multiple scales and time frames. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 3-0-6 | null | null | false | false | false | False | Social Sciences | False |
11.124[J] | Introduction to Education: Looking Forward and Looking Back on Education | One of two introductory subjects on teaching and learning science and mathematics in a variety of K-12 settings. Topics include education and media, education reform, the history of education, simulations, games, and the digital divide. Students gain practical experience through weekly visits to schools, classroom discussions, selected readings, and activities to develop a critical and broad understanding of past and current forces that shape the goals and processes of education, and explores the challenges and opportunities of teaching. Students work collaboratively and individually on papers, projects, and in-class presentations. Limited to 25. | true | Fall | Undergraduate | 3-6-3 | null | CMS.586[J] | false | false | false | False | Social Sciences | CI-H |
11.125[J] | Introduction to Education: Understanding and Evaluating Education | One of two introductory subjects on teaching and learning science and mathematics in a variety of K-12 settings. Topics include student misconceptions, formative assessment, standards and standardized testing, multiple intelligences, and educational technology. Students gain practical experience through weekly visits to schools, classroom discussions, selected readings, and activities to develop a critical and broad understanding of past and current forces that shape the goals and processes of education, and explores the challenges and opportunities of teaching. Students work collaboratively and individually on papers, projects, and in-class presentations. Limited to 25. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 3-6-3 | null | CMS.587[J] | false | false | false | False | Social Sciences | CI-H |
11.127[J] | Design and Development of Games for Learning | Immerses students in the process of building and testing their own digital and board games in order to better understand how we learn from games. Explores the design and use of games in the classroom in addition to research and development issues associated with computer-based (desktop and handheld) and non-computer-based media. In developing their own games, students examine what and how people learn from them (including field testing of products), as well as how games can be implemented in educational settings. All levels of computer experience welcome. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 3-6-3 | null | CMS.590[J] | false | false | false | False | Humanities | False |
11.129[J] | Educational Theory and Practice I | Concentrates on core set of skills and knowledge necessary for teaching in secondary schools. Topics include classroom management, student behavior and motivation, curriculum design, educational reform, and the teaching profession. Classroom observation is a key component. Assignments include readings from educational literature, written reflections on classroom observations, practice teaching and constructing curriculum. The first of the three-course sequence necessary to complete the Teacher Education Program. Limited to 15; preference to juniors and seniors. | true | Fall | Undergraduate | 3-0-9 | None. Coreq: CMS.586 | CMS.591[J] | false | false | false | False | Social Sciences | False |
11.130[J] | Educational Theory and Practice II | Concentrates on the theory and psychology associated with student learning. Topics include educational theory, educational psychology, and theories of learning. Students assume responsibility for full-time teaching of two or more classes at their designated school. Class sessions focus on debriefing and problem-solving. Second of a three-course sequence necessary to complete the Teacher Education Program. | true | IAP | Undergraduate | 3-0-9 | CMS.591 | CMS.592[J] | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.131[J] | Educational Theory and Practice III | Students continue their IAP student teaching through mid March. Topics include educational psychology, theories of learning, and using technology and evaluating its effectiveness to enhance student learning. Assignments include readings from educational literature, written reflections on student teaching, presentations on class topics and creating a project that supports student learning at the school where the MIT student is teaching. This is the third of the three-course sequence necessary to complete the Teacher Education Program. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 3-0-9 | CMS.592 | CMS.593[J] | false | false | false | False | Social Sciences | False |
11.133[J] | Dilemmas in Biomedical Ethics: Playing God or Doing Good? | An introduction to the cross-cultural study of biomedical ethics. Examines moral foundations of the science and practice of western biomedicine through case studies of abortion, contraception, cloning, organ transplantation and other issues. Evaluates challenges that new medical technologies pose to the practice and availability of medical services around the globe, and to cross-cultural ideas of kinship and personhood. Discusses critiques of the biomedical tradition from anthropological, feminist, legal, religious, and cross-cultural theorists. | true | Fall | Undergraduate | 3-0-9 | null | 21A.302[J], WGS.271[J] | false | false | false | False | Social Sciences | False |
11.134[J] | Infections and Inequalities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Global Health | Examines case studies in infectious disease outbreaks to demonstrate how human health is a product of multiple determinants, such as biology, sociocultural and historical factors, politics, economic processes, and the environment. Analyzes how structural inequalities render certain populations vulnerable to illness and explores the moral and ethical dimensions of public health and clinical interventions to promote health. Limited to 25. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 3-0-9 | null | HST.431[J] | false | false | false | False | Social Sciences | False |
11.135 | Violence, Human Rights, and Justice | An examination of the problem of mass violence and oppression in the contemporary world, and of the concept of human rights as a defense against such abuse. Explores questions of cultural relativism, race, gender and ethnicity. Examines case studies from war crimes tribunals, truth commissions, anti-terrorist policies and other judicial attempts to redress state-sponsored wrongs. Considers whether the human rights framework effectively promotes the rule of law in modern societies. Students debate moral positions and address ideas of moral relativism. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 3-0-9 | null | null | false | false | false | False | Social Sciences | False |
11.136 | Global Mental Health | Provides skills to critically analyze issues of mental health in historical and cross-cultural contexts. Studies mental illness as a complex biopsychosocial experience embedded in particular political and economic frameworks. Examines the relationships among culture, gender, embodiment, and emotional distress; power inequalities and ideas of the "normal" and "abnormal;" and how such conceptions influence care-giving practices, whether in traditional or biomedical contexts. Evaluates how the disciplines of psychology, psychoanalysis, and psychiatry have developed in the West, and considers their influence on mental health interventions in global settings. Limited to 25. | true | Fall | Undergraduate | 3-0-9 | null | null | false | false | false | False | Social Sciences | False |
11.137 | Financing Economic Development and Housing | Studies financing tools and program models to support and promote local economic development and housing. Overview of public and private capital markets and financing sources helps illustrate market imperfections that constrain economic and housing development and increase race and class disparaties. Explores federal housing and economic development programs as well as state and local public finance tools. Covers policies and program models. Investigates public finance practice to better understand how these finance programs affect other municipal operations. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. Limited to 25. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 3-0-9 | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.138 | Crowd Sourced City: Civic Tech Prototyping | Investigates the use of social medial and digital technologies for planning and advocacy by working with actual planning and advocacy organizations to develop, implement, and evaluate prototype digital tools. Students use the development of their digital tools as a way to investigate new media technologies that can be used for planning. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. | true | Fall | Undergraduate | 3-0-9 | null | null | false | false | false | False | Social Sciences | False |
11.139 | The City in Film | Surveys important developments in urbanism from 1900 to the present, using film as a lens to explore and interpret aspects of the urban experience in the US and abroad. Topics include industrialization, demographics, diversity, the environment, and the relationship between the community and the individual. Films vary from year to year but always include a balance of classics from the history of film, an occasional experimental/avant-garde film, and a number of more recent, mainstream movies. Students taking undergraduate version complete writing assignments that focus on observation, analysis, and the essay, and give an oral presentation. Limited to 18. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 2-2-5 | null | null | false | false | false | False | Humanities | CI-H |
11.140 | Urbanization and Development | Examines developmental dynamics of rapidly urbanizing locales, with a special focus on the developing world. Case studies from India, China, Mexico, Brazil, and South Africa form the basis for discussion of social, spatial, political and economic changes in cities spurred by the decline of industry, the rise of services, and the proliferation of urban mega projects. Emphasizes the challenges of growing urban inequality, environmental risk, citizen displacement, insufficient housing, and the lack of effective institutions for metropolitan governance. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 3-0-9 | null | null | false | false | false | False | Social Sciences | False |
11.142 | Geography of the Global Economy | Analyzes implications of economic globalization for communities, regions, international businesses and economic development organizations. Uses spatial analysis techniques to model the role of energy resources in shaping international political economy. Investigates key drivers of human, physical, and social capital flows and their roles in modern human settlement systems. Surveys contemporary models of industrialization and places them in geographic context. Connects forces of change with their implications for the distribution of wealth and human well-being. Looks backward to understand pre-Covid conditions and then returns to the present to understand how a global pandemic changes the world. Class relies on current literature and explorations of sectors. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. | true | Fall, Spring | Undergraduate | 3-0-9 | null | null | false | false | false | False | Social Sciences | False |
11.143 | Research Methods in Global Health and Development | Provides training for students to critically analyze the relationship between "health" and "development." Draws upon the theory and methods of medical anthropology, social medicine, public health, and development to track how culture, history, and political economy influence health and disease in global communities. Students work in teams to formulate research questions, and collect and analyze qualitative data in clinical and community settings in the greater Boston area, in order to design effective development interventions aimed at reducing health disparities in the US and abroad. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 3-3-6 | null | null | false | false | false | False | Social Sciences | False |
11.144 | Project Appraisal in Developing Countries | Covers techniques of financial analysis of investment expenditures, as well as the economic and distributive appraisal of development projects. Critical analysis of these tools in the political economy of international development is discussed. Topics include appraisal's role in the project cycle, planning under conditions of uncertainty, constraints in data quality and the limits of rational analysis, and the coordination of an interdisciplinary appraisal team. Enrollment limited; preference to majors. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 3-0-9 | Permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.145 | International Housing Economics and Finance | Presents a theory of comparative differences in international housing outcomes. Introduces institutional differences in the ways housing expenditures are financed, and the economic determinants of housing outcomes, such as construction costs, land values, housing quality, and ownership rates. Analyzes the flow of funds to and from the different national housing finance sectors. Develops an understanding of the greater financial and macroeconomic implications of the mortgage credit sector, and how policies affect the ways housing asset fluctuations impact national economies. Considers the perspective of investors in international real estate markets and the risks and rewards involved. Draws on lessons from an international comparative approach, and applies them to economic and finance policies at the local, state/provincial, and federal levels within a country of choice. Meets with 11.355 when offered concurrently. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 3-0-6 | 14.01 | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.147 | Budgeting and Finance for the Public Sector | Examines globally relevant challenges of adequately and effectively attending to public sector responsibilities for basic services with limited resources. Particular attention to the contexts of fiscal crises and rapid population growth, as well as shrinkage, through an introduction to methods and processes of budgeting, accounting, and financial mobilization. Case studies and practice exercises explore revenue strategies, demonstrate fiscal analytical competencies, and familiarize students with pioneering examples of promising budget and accounting processes and innovative funding mobilization via taxation, capital markets, and other mechanisms (e.g., land-value capture). Students taking graduate version explore the subject in greater depth. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 3-0-9 | Permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | Social Sciences | False |
11.148 | Environmental Justice: Law and Policy | Introduces frameworks for analyzing and addressing inequalities in the distribution of environmental benefits and burdens, particularly by race and by class. Explores the foundations and principles of the environmental justice movement from the perspectives of social science, public policy, and law. Introduces basic principles of US constitutional and environmental law, with a focus on equal protection and civil rights. Applies environmental justice principles to contemporary issues in urban policy and planning, including effects of and responses to climate change and global heating. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. | true | Fall | Undergraduate | 3-0-9 | null | null | false | false | false | False | Social Sciences | False |
11.149 | Decarbonizing Urban Mobility | Focuses on measuring and reducing emissions from passenger transportation. After examining travel, energy, and climate conditions, students review existing approaches to transport decarbonization. Evaluates new mobility technologies through their potential to contribute to (or delay) a zero emission mobility system. Students consider the policy tools required to achieve approaches to achieve change. Frames past and future emission reductions using an approach based on the Kaya Identity, decomposing past (and potential future) emissions into their component pieces. Seeks to enable students to be intelligent evaluators of approaches to transportation decarbonization and equip them with the tools to develop and evaluate policy measures relevant to their local professional challenges. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 3-3-6 | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.150[J] | Metropolis: A Comparative History of New York City | Examines the evolution of New York City from 1607 to the present. Readings focus on the city's social and physical histories. Discussions compare New York's development to patterns in other cities. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 3-0-9 | null | 21H.220[J] | false | false | false | False | Humanities | False |
11.151[J] | Youth Political Participation | Surveys youth political participation in the US since the early 1800s. Investigates trends in youth political activism during specific historical periods, as well as what difference youth media production and technology use (e.g., radio, music, automobiles, ready-made clothing) made in determining the course of events. Explores what is truly new about "new media" and reviews lessons from history for present-day activists based on patterns of past failure and success. Some mandatory field trips may occur during class time. Limited to 40. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 3-0-9 | null | STS.080[J] | false | false | false | False | Humanities | False |
11.152[J] | The Ghetto: From Venice to Harlem | Provides an in-depth look at a modern institution of oppression: the ghetto. Uses literature to examine ghettoization over time and across a wide geographical area, from Jews in Medieval Europe to African-Americans and Latinos in the 20th-century United States. Also explores segregation and poverty in the urban "Third World." | true | Fall | Undergraduate | 3-0-9 | null | 21H.385[J] | false | false | false | False | Social Sciences | False |
11.153[J] | Shanghai and China's Modernization | Considers the history and function of Shanghai, from 1840 to the present, and its rise from provincial backwater to international metropolis. Examines its role as a primary point of economic, political, and social contact between China and the world, and the strong grip Shanghai holds on both the Chinese and foreign imagination. Students discuss the major events and figures of Shanghai, critique the classic historiography, and complete an independent project on Shanghai history. | true | Fall | Undergraduate | 2-0-10 | null | 21H.351[J] | false | false | false | False | Humanities | False |
11.154 | Big Data, Visualization, and Society | Data visualizations communicate the insights found in data to non-technical audiences. Students develop technical skills to work with big data to expose societal issues and communicate the insights. Focuses on different topics each year. After framing that topic, the first half of the subject focuses on learning to analyze the data with Python. The second half of the subject focuses on learning web-based data visualization tools (JavaScript and D3). Students learn data storytelling concepts and produce web-based data visualizations for their final projects. Throughout, students learn ethical data practices. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 3-0-9 | null | null | false | false | false | False | Social Sciences | False |
11.C35[J] | Interactive Data Visualization and Society | Covers the design, ethical, and technical skills for creating effective visualizations. Short assignments build familiarity with the data analysis and visualization design process. Weekly lab sessions present coding and technical skills. A final project provides experience working with real-world big data, provided by external partners, in order to expose and communicate insights about societal issues. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. Enrollment limited. Enrollment limited. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 3-4-8 | null | 6.C35[J], CMS.C35[J], IDS.C35[J] | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.155[J] | Data and Society | Introduces students to the social, political, and ethical aspects of data science work. Designed to create reflective practitioners who are able to think critically about how collecting, aggregating, and analyzing data are social processes and processes that affect people. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 3-0-9 | null | IDS.057[J], STS.005[J] | false | false | false | False | Humanities | False |
11.156 | Healthy Cities: Assessing Health Impacts of Policies and Plans | Examines the built, psychosocial, economic, and natural environment factors that affect health behaviors and outcomes, including population-level patterns of disease distribution and health disparities. Introduces tools designed to integrate public health considerations into policy-making and planning. Assignments provide students opportunities to develop extensive practical experience bringing a health lens to policy, budgeting, and/or planning debates. Emphasizes health equity and healthy cities, and explores the relationship between health equity and broader goals for social and racial justice. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. Limited to 30. | true | Fall | Undergraduate | 3-0-9 | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.157 | China's Growth: Political Economy, Business, and Urbanization | Examines different aspects of the growth of China, which has the second largest economy in the world. Studies the main drivers of Chinese economic growth and the forces behind the largest urbanization in human history. Discusses how to understand China's booming real estate market, and how Chinese firms operate to attain their success, whether through hard-working entrepreneurship or political connections with the government. Explores whether the top-down urban and industrial policy interventions improve efficiency or cause misallocation problems, and whether the Chinese political system in an enabler of Chinese growth or a potential impediment to the country's future growth prospects. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 3-0-3 | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.158 | Behavioral Science, AI, and Urban Mobility | Integrates behavioral science, artificial intelligence, and transportation technology to shape travel behavior, design mobility systems and business, and reform transportation policies. Introduces methods to sense travel behavior with new technology and measurements; nudge behavior through perception and preference shaping; design mobility systems and ventures that integrate autonomous vehicles, shared mobility, and public transit; and regulate travel with behavior-sensitive transport policies. Challenges students to pilot behavioral experiments and design creative mobility systems, business and policies. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. | true | Fall | Undergraduate | 3-0-9 | null | null | false | false | false | False | Social Sciences | False |
11.159 | Entrepreneurial Negotiation | Combines online weekly face-to-face negotiation exercises and in-person lectures designed to empower budding entrepreneurs with negotiation techniques to protect and increase the value of their ideas, deal with ego and build trust in relationships, and navigate entrepreneurial bargaining under constraints of economic uncertainty and complex technical considerations. Students must complete scheduled weekly assignments, including feedback memos to counterpart negotiators, and meet on campus with the instructor to discuss and reflect on their experiences with the course. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. | true | Fall | Undergraduate | 1-3-2 [P/D/F] | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.164[J] | Human Rights at Home and Abroad | Provides a rigorous and critical introduction to the history, foundation, structure, and operation of the human rights movement. Focuses on key ideas, actors, methods and sources, and critically evaluates the field. Addresses current debates in human rights, including the relationship with security, democracy, development and globalization, urbanization, equality (in housing and other economic and social rights; women's rights; ethnic, religious and racial discrimination; and policing/conflict), post-conflict rebuilding and transitional justice, and technology in human rights activism. No prior coursework needed, but work experience, or community service that demonstrates familiarity with global affairs or engagement with ethics and social justice issues, preferred. Students taking graduate version are expected to write a research paper. | false | Fall | Undergraduate | 2-0-10 | Permission of instructor | 17.391[J] | false | false | false | False | Social Sciences | False |
11.165 | Urban Energy Systems and Policy | Examines efforts in developing and advanced nations and regions. Examines key issues in the current and future development of urban energy systems, such as technology, use, behavior, regulation, climate change, and lack of access or energy poverty. Case studies on a diverse sampling of cities explore how prospective technologies and policies can be implemented. Includes intensive group research projects, discussion, and debate. Students taking the graduate version complete additional assignments. | true | Fall | Undergraduate | 3-0-9 | 14.01 or permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | Social Sciences | False |
11.166 | Law, Social Movements, and Public Policy: Comparative and International Experience | Studies the interaction between law, courts, and social movements in shaping domestic and global public policy. Examines how groups mobilize to use law to affect change and why they succeed and fail. Case studies explore the interplay between law, social movements, and public policy in current issues, such as gender, race, labor, trade, climate change/environment, and LGBTQ rights. Introduces theories of public policy, social movements, law and society, and transnational studies. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. Limited to 15. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 3-0-9 | Permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | Social Sciences | False |
11.167[J] | Global Energy: Politics, Markets, and Policy | Focuses on the ways economics and politics influence the fate of energy technologies, business models, and policies around the world. Extends fundamental concepts in the social sciences to case studies and simulations that illustrate how corporate, government, and individual decisions shape energy and environmental outcomes. In a final project, students apply the concepts in order to assess the prospects for an energy innovation to scale and advance sustainability goals in a particular regional market. Recommended prerequisite: 14.01. Meets with 15.219 when offered concurrently. Expectations and evaluation criteria differ for students taking graduate version; consult syllabus or instructor for specific details. Preference to juniors, seniors, and Energy Minors. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 3-0-9 | null | 14.47[J], 15.2191[J], 17.399[J] | false | false | false | False | Social Sciences | False |
11.169 | Global Climate Policy and Sustainability | Examines climate politics both nationally and globally. Addresses economic growth, environmental preservation, and social equity through the lens of sustainability. Uses various country and regional cases to analyze how sociopolitical, economic and environmental values shape climate policy. Students develop recommendations for making climate policy more effective and sustainable. Students taking the graduate version complete additional assignments. Limited to 25. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 3-0-9 | null | null | false | false | false | False | Social Sciences | False |
11.170 | Cities and Climate Change: Mitigation and Adaptation | Examines climate adaptation and mitigation responses at the city level. Discusses factors of greatest concern in adapting cities to climate change, including infrastructure; energy, food, and water systems; health; housing; and environmental justice. Various city and regional cases are used to analyze how cities are mobilizing to face climate change and integrate core considerations into urban planning. Working on independent case studies, students analyze how cities make urban planning decisions with respect to climate adaptation. In the process, students practice analytical skills to better understand how urban policies are made, and how they can be improved. Students develop recommendations for making climate adaptation more effective and sustainable at the city level. Assignment requirements differ for students completing the graduate version. Limited to 25. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 3-0-9 | null | null | false | false | false | False | Social Sciences | False |
11.171 | Indigenous Environmental Planning | Examines how Indigenous peoples' relationships to their homelands and local environments has been adversely affected by Western planning. Explores how these relationships have changed over time as American Indians, Alaska Natives, and other groups indigenous to North America and Hawai'i have adapted to new conditions, including exclusion from markets of exchange, overhunting/overfishing, dispossession, petrochemical development, conservation, mainstream environmentalism, and climate change. Seeks to understand current environmental challenges and their roots and discover potential solutions to address these challenges. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | 3-0-9 | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.173[J] | Infrastructure Design for Climate Change | In this team-oriented, project-based subject, students work to find technical solutions that could be implemented to mitigate the effects of natural hazards related to climate change, bearing in mind that any proposed measures must be appropriate in a given region's socio-political-economic context. Students are introduced to a variety of natural hazards and possible mitigation approaches as well as principles of design, including adaptable design and design for failure. Students select the problems they want to solve and develop their projects. During the term, officials and practicing engineers of Cambridge, Boston, Puerto Rico, and MIT Facilities describe their approaches. Student projects are documented in a written report and oral presentation. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. Enrollment limited; preference to juniors and seniors. | true | Fall | Undergraduate | 0-2-4 | Permission of instructor | 1.103[J] | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.188 | Introduction to Spatial Analysis and GIS Laboratory | An introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS), a tool for visualizing and analyzing spatial data. Explores how GIS can make maps, guide decisions, answer questions, and advocate for change. Class builds toward a project in which students critically apply GIS techniques to an area of interest. Students build data discovery, cartography, and spatial analysis skills while learning to reflect on their positionality within the research design process. Because maps and data are never neutral, the class incorporates discussions of power, ethics, and data throughout as part of a reflective practice. Instruction and practice in oral and written communication provided. | true | Fall, Spring | Undergraduate | 3-3-6 | null | null | true | false | false | False | False | False |
11.UAR[J] | Climate and Sustainability Undergraduate Advanced Research | Provides instruction in effective research, experiential projects, internships, and externships, including choosing and refining problems, surveying previous work and publications, industry best practices, design for robustness, technical presentation, authorship and collaboration, and ethics. Supporting content includes background and context pertaining to climate change and sustainability, as well as tools for sustainable design. Focus for project work includes research topics relevant to the MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium (MCSC). Students engage in extensive written and oral communication exercises, in the context of an approved advanced research project. A total of 12 units of credit is awarded for completion of the spring and subsequent fall term offerings. Application required; consult MCSC website for more information. | true | Fall, Spring | Undergraduate | 2-0-4 | Permission of instructor | 1.UAR[J], 3.UAR[J], 5.UAR[J], 12.UAR[J], 15.UAR[J], 22.UAR[J] | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.UR | Undergraduate Research | Undergraduate research opportunities in Urban Studies and Planning. For further information, consult the Departmental Coordinators. | true | Fall, IAP, Spring, Summer | Undergraduate | rranged [P/D/F] | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.URG | Undergraduate Research | Undergraduate research opportunities in Urban Studies and Planning. For further information, consult the Departmental Coordinators. | true | Fall, IAP, Spring, Summer | Undergraduate | rranged | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.THT[J] | Thesis Research Design Seminar | Designed for students writing a thesis in Urban Studies and Planning or Architecture. Develop research topics, review relevant research and scholarship, frame research questions and arguments, choose an appropriate methodology for analysis, and draft introductory and methodology sections. | true | Fall | Undergraduate | 3-0-9 | null | 4.THT[J] | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.THU | Undergraduate Thesis | Program of research leading to the writing of an SB thesis. To be arranged by the student under approved supervision. | true | Fall, IAP, Spring, Summer | Undergraduate | rranged | 11.THT | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.189-11.190 | Urban Fieldwork | Practical application of city and regional planning techniques to towns, cities, and regions, including problems of replanning, redevelopment, and renewal of existing communities. Includes internships, under staff supervision, in municipal and state agencies and departments. | true | Fall, Spring | Undergraduate | rranged [P/D/F] | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.191-11.192 | Independent Study | For undergraduates wishing to pursue further study in specialized areas of urban studies or city and regional planning not covered in regular subjects. | true | Fall, IAP, Spring | Undergraduate | rranged [P/D/F] | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.193-11.194 | Supervised Readings | Reading and discussion of topics in urban studies and planning. | true | Fall, Spring | Undergraduate | rranged [P/D/F] | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.S03 | Special Subject: Transportation Shaping Sustainable Urbanization: Connections with Behavior, Urban Economics and Planning | Explores changes in the built environment expected from transportation investments, and how they can be used to promote sustainable and equitable cities. Reflects on how notable characteristics of cities can be explained by their historical and current transportation features. Introduces theoretical basis and empirical evidence to analyze the urban transformation autonomous vehicles will bring and how shared mobility services affect travel behavior, and its implications from an urban planning perspective. Lectures interspersed with guest speakers and an optional field trip. Subject can count toward the 6-unit discovery-focused credit limit for first-year students. Licensed for Fall 2023 by the Committee on Curricula. Limited to 18. | true | Fall | Undergraduate | 2-0-1 [P/D/F] | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.S04 | Special Subject: Topics in Affordable Housing | Weekly seminar-style discussions on topics in affordable housing, including federal funding programs, homelessness prevention and shelters, local land use and zoning for affordability, innovative housing models/designs, fair housing laws, the history of public housing in the US, and international comparisons. Subject can count toward the 6-unit discovery-focused credit limit for first year students. | true | Fall | Undergraduate | 1-0-2 [P/D/F] | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.S187 | Special Subject: Urban Studies and Planning | For undergraduates wishing to pursue further study or fieldwork in specialized areas of urban studies or city and regional planning not covered in regular subjects of instruction. | true | Fall, Spring | Undergraduate | rranged [P/D/F] | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.S188 | Special Subject: Urban Studies and Planning | For undergraduates wishing to pursue further study or fieldwork in specialized areas of urban studies or city and regional planning not covered in regular subjects of instruction. | true | Fall, IAP | Undergraduate | rranged [P/D/F] | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.S189 | Special Subject: Urban Studies and Planning | For undergraduates wishing to pursue further study or fieldwork in specialized areas of urban studies or city and regional planning not covered in regular subjects of instruction. | true | Spring | Undergraduate | rranged [P/D/F] | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.S195 | Special Subject: Urban Studies and Planning | For undergraduates wishing to pursue further study or fieldwork in specialized areas of urban studies or city and regional planning not covered in regular subjects of instruction. | true | Fall, Spring | Undergraduate | rranged | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.S196-11.S199 | Special Subject: Urban Studies and Planning | For undergraduates wishing to pursue further study or fieldwork in specialized areas of urban studies or city and regional planning not covered in regular subjects of instruction. 11.S198 is graded P/D/F. | true | Fall | Undergraduate | rranged | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.200 | Gateway: Urban Studies and Planning 1 | Introduces the theory and practice of planning and urban studies through exploration of the history of the field, case studies, and criticisms of traditional practice. | true | Fall | Graduate | 4-1-7 | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.201 | Gateway: Urban Studies and Planning 2 | Builds on 11.200 by exploring in more detail contemporary planning tools and techniques, as well as case studies of planning and urban studies practice. | true | Spring | Graduate | 4-1-7 | 11.200 | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.202 | Planning Economics | Students use economic theory tools acquired in 11.203 to understand the mutual processes of individual action and structural constraint and investigate crises in search of opportunities for mitigation and reparation. Investigates a variety of structural crises from throughout the realms of planning, such as: capitalism, climate change, and (in)action; white supremacy, segregation, and gentrification; colonialism, informality, and infrastructure; autocentricity and other legacies of the built environment. | true | Spring | Graduate | 3-0-3 | 11.203 | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.203 | Microeconomics | Students develop a suite of tools from economic theory to understand the mutual processes of individual action and structural constraint. Students apply these tools to human interaction and social decision-making. Builds an understanding of producer theory from the collaborative possibilities and physical constraints that unfold as production is scaled up. Presents consumer theory as the process of individuals doing the best for themselves, their families, and their communities -- subject to the sociostructural constraints under which they operate. Considers alternative frameworks of social welfare, with a specific focus on marginalization and crisis, as well as common policy interventions and their implications under different constructions of welfare. | true | Spring | Graduate | 3-0-3 | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.204[J] | People and the Planet: Environmental Histories and Engineering | Explores historical and cultural aspects of complex environmental problems and engineering approaches to sustainable solutions. Introduces quantitative analyses and methodological tools to understand environmental issues that have human and natural components. Demonstrates concepts through a series of historical and cultural analyses of environmental challenges and their engineering responses. Builds writing, quantitative modeling, and analytical skills in assessing environmental systems problems and developing engineering solutions. Through environmental data gathering and analysis, students engage with the challenges and possibilities of engineering in complex, interacting systems, and investigate plausible, symbiotic, systems-oriented solutions. Students taking graduate version complete additional analysis of reading assignments and a more in-depth and longer final paper. | true | Spring | Graduate | 3-3-6 | null | IDS.524[J] | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.205 | Introduction to Spatial Analysis and GIS | An introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS): a tool for visualizing and analyzing data representing locations and their attributes. GIS is invaluable for planners, scholars, and professionals who shape cities and a political instrument with which activists advocate for change. Class includes exercises to make maps, query databases, and analyze spatial data. Because maps and data are never neutral, the class incorporates discussions of power, ethics, and data throughout as part of a reflective practice. Limited enrollment; preference to first-year MCP students. | true | Fall, Spring | Graduate | 2-2-2 | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.206 | Poverty and Economic Security | Explores the evolution of poverty and economic security in the US within a global context. Examines the impacts of recent economic restructuring and globalization. Reviews current debates about the fate of the middle class, sources of increasing inequality, and approaches to advancing economic opportunity and security. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. | false | Fall | Graduate | 3-0-9 | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.220 | Quantitative Reasoning and Statistical Methods for Planning I | Develops logical, empirically based arguments using statistical techniques and analytic methods. Covers elementary statistics, probability, and other types of quantitative reasoning useful for description, estimation, comparison, and explanation. Emphasizes the use and limitations of analytical techniques in planning practice. Restricted to MCP students. | true | Fall | Graduate | 3-0-3 | Permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.222 | Introduction to Critical Qualitative Methods | Introduces qualitative methods as an approach to critical inquiry in urban planning research and practice. Emphasizes the importance of historical context, place-specificity, and the experiences and views of individuals as ways of knowing relationships of power and privilege between people, in place, and over time. Explores a range of critical qualitative methods including those used in archival, interview, observational, visual, and case study analysis. | true | Fall | Graduate | 3-0-3 | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.228[J] | Collectives: New Forms of Sharing | Considers ways in which collaborative approaches to living can reshape architecture and the city. Students investigate historic and present spatial models and platforms (digital and physical) of collaboration and sharing. Explores how economic, political and social transformations, such as co-ownership, community-based exchange, digital collectives, and self-organization, can lead to new programs, typologies, designs, and new relationships between user, designer, and developer. Limited to 15. | true | Spring | Graduate | 3-0-9 | Permission of instructor | 4.229[J] | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.233 | Research Design for Policy Analysis and Planning | Develops skills in research design for policy analysis and planning. Emphasizes the logic of the research process and its constituent elements. Topics include philosophy of science, question formulation, hypothesis generation and theory construction, data collection techniques (e.g. experimental, survey, interview), ethical issues in research, and research proposal preparation. Limited to doctoral students in Course 11. | true | Fall | Graduate | 3-0-9 [P/D/F] | Permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.234 | Making Sense: Qualitative Methods for Designers and Planners | Surveys uses of qualitative methods and social theory in urban design and planning research and practice. Topics include observing environments, physical traces, and environmental behavior; asking questions; focused interviews; standardized questionnaires; use of written archival materials; use of visual materials, including photographs, new media, and maps; case studies; and comparative methods. Emphasizes use of each of these skills to collect and make sense of qualitative data in community and institutional settings. | true | Spring | Graduate | 3-0-9 | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.236 | Participatory Action Research (PAR) | Introduces students to participatory action research (PAR), an approach to research and inquiry that enables communities to examine and address consequential societal problems. Explores theoretical and practical questions at the heart of partnerships between applied social scientists and community partners. Focus includes the history of PAR and action research; debates regarding PAR as a form of applied social science; and practical, political, and ethical questions in the practice of PAR. Guides students through an iterative process for developing their own personal theories of practice. Covers co-designing and co-conducting research with community partners at various stages of the research process .Examines actual cases in which PAR-like methods have been used with greater or lesser success; and interaction with community members, organizations, and individuals who have been involved in PAR collaborations. | true | Fall | Graduate | 3-0-9 | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.238[J] | Ethics of Intervention | An historical and cross-cultural study of the logics and practices of intervention: the ways that individuals, institutions, and governments identify conditions of need or states of emergency within and across borders that require a response. Examines when a response is viewed as obligatory, when is it deemed unnecessary, and by whom; when the intercession is considered fulfilled; and the rationales or assumptions that are employed in assessing interventions. Theories of the state, globalization, and humanitarianism; power, policy, and institutions; gender, race, and ethnicity; and law, ethics, and morality are examined. | true | Fall | Graduate | 3-0-9 | Permission of instructor | 21A.409[J] | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.239 | The City in Film | Surveys important developments in urbanism from 1900 to the present, using film as a lens to explore and interpret aspects of the urban experience in the US and abroad. Topics include industrialization, demographics, diversity, the environment, and the relationship between the community and the individual. Films vary from year to year but always include a balance of classics from the history of film, an occasional experimental/avant-garde film, and a number of more recent, mainstream movies. Students taking undergraduate version complete writing assignments that focus on observation, analysis, and the essay, and give an oral presentation. | true | Spring | Graduate | 2-2-5 | Permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.240[J] | Walking the City | Students investigate how landscapes and cities shape them — and vice versa — by examining the literature of walking and the environments in which they move. Through extensive walking, students explore the city to analyze its design and varied histories, drawing on cartography, art, sociology, and memory to create fresh narratives. Students write architecture and city criticism, design "story maps," and are invited to walk as an art practice. Emphasis is on the relationship between the human body and freedom, or a lack thereof, and between pathways and the complex emotions that emerge from traversing them. Limited to 12. Preference to Course 4 and 11 graduate students who have completed at least two semesters. | true | Fall | Graduate | 2-0-10 | null | 4.242[J] | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.243 | Research Methods in Global Health and Development | Provides training for students to critically analyze the relationship between "health" and "development." Draws upon the theory and methods of medical anthropology, social medicine, public health, and development to track how culture, history, and political economy influence health and disease in global communities. Students work in teams to formulate research questions, and collect and analyze qualitative data in clinical and community settings in the greater Boston area, in order to design effective development interventions aimed at reducing health disparities in the US and abroad. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. | true | Spring | Graduate | 3-3-6 | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.244[J] | Race, History, and the Built Environment | Examines how the development of the built environment produces and reproduces conceptions of race - sociobiological theories of human difference. Using historical and cross-cultural cases, tracks the social and political lives of material objects, infrastructures, technologies, and architectures using projects of settler colonialism, nation-building, community development and planning, and in post-conflict and post-disaster settings. Analyzes social theories of race, place, space, and materiality; power, identity, and embodiment; and memory, death, and haunting. Explores how conceptions of belonging, citizenship, and exclusion are represented and designed spatially through analysis of examples, such as the appropriation of land for infrastructure programs, the erasure and commemoration of heritage in public spaces, and the use of the built environment to impose colonial ideologies. Limited to 14 students. | false | Fall | Graduate | 3-0-9 | null | STS.424[J] | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.245[J] | DesignX Entrepreneurship | Students in teams accepted to the MITdesignX accelerator begin work on their ventures in this intense two-week bootcamp. Participants identify the needs and problems that demonstrate the demand for their innovative technology, policy, products, and/or services. They research and investigate various markets and stakeholders pertinent to their ventures, and begin to test their ideas and thesis in real-world interviews and interactions. Subject presented in workshop format, giving teams the chance to jump-start their ventures together with a cohort of people working on ideas that span the realm of design, planning real estate, and the human environment. Registration limited to students accepted to the MITdesignX accelerator in the fall. | true | IAP | Graduate | 4-0-2 | Permission of instructor | 4.245[J] | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.246[J] | DesignX Accelerator | Students continue to work in their venture teams to advance innovative ideas, products, and services oriented to design, planning, and the human environment. Presented in a workshop format with supplementary lectures. Teams are matched with external mentors for additional support in business and product development. At the end of the term, teams pitch their ventures to an audience from across the school and MIT, investors, industry, and cities. Registration limited to students accepted to the MITdesignX accelerator in the fall. | true | Spring | Graduate | 2-4-6 | Permission of instructor | 4.246[J] | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.250 | Transportation Research Design | Seminar dissects ten transportation studies from head to toe to illustrate how research ideas are initiated, framed, analyzed, evidenced, written, presented, criticized, revised, extended, and published, quoted and applied. Students learn by mimicking and learn by doing, and design and execute their own transportation research. Limited to 20. | true | Fall, Spring | Graduate | 2-0-1 [P/D/F] | Permission of instructor | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.251 | Frontier of Transportation Research | Surveys the frontier of transportation research offered by 12 MIT faculty presenting their latest findings, ideas, and innovations. Students write weekly memos to reflect on these talks, make connections to their own research, and give short presentations. | true | Fall, Spring | Graduate | 1-0-2 [P/D/F] | null | null | false | false | false | False | False | False |
11.252[J] | Design and Development of Games for Learning | Immerses students in the process of building and testing their own digital and board games in order to better understand how we learn from games. Explores the design and use of games in the classroom in addition to research and development issues associated with computer-based (desktop and handheld) and non-computer-based media. In developing their own games, students examine what and how people learn from them (including field testing of products), as well as how games can be implemented in educational settings. All levels of computer experience welcome. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. | true | Spring | Graduate | 3-6-3 | null | CMS.863[J] | false | false | false | False | False | False |
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