All Heller Courses

Open only to students enrolled in the MA program in coexistence and conflict. Other students considered with permission of the instructor. May not be taken for credit by students who took COEX 210a in prior years.

This course addresses the current and emerging context of intercommunal conflict around the world and the varying and developing theoretical approaches to the emergence and resolution of such conflicts. Usually offered every year.

Instructor: Mari Fitzduff

Prerequisites: HS 250a and HS 246b.

Introduces the modern theory of corporate finance and the institutional background of financial instruments and markets. Considers ways to measure value. Explores alternative forms of financing and ways to analyze them. Considers the financing tools appropriate for for-profit and nonprofit organizations.

Instructor: Barry Friedman

Prerequisite: HS 210a. Open only to students enrolled in the MA program in coexistence and conflict. Other students considered with permission of the instructor. May not be taken for credit by students who took COEX 220a in prior years.

This course studies the utilization of a variety of multifaceted approaches to policy and practice in coexistence and conflict interventions, as well as the strategic design and evaluation of such interventions. Usually offered every year.

Instructor: Mari Fitzduff

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit. May not be repeated by students who have taken HS 259f with this topic in previous years.

The course will center on (a) discussing the intuition behind concepts in household economics and (b) the applied aspects of the concepts for practitioners of development. The course is purposefully not technical and is designed for students who have taken the introductory course to economics. The course will provide a theoretical and empirical introduction to the field of household economics as well as provide practical tools to do basic analysis of intra-household gender inequalities.

Instructor: Ricardo Godoy

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

The rapid growth of ecotourism is a welcome change in the global tourism industry. At its best, ecotourism aims to increase the sustainability of the travel and tour industry, and makes direct support of wildlife and habitat conservation an element of doing business. This course explores the sustainability of tourism and of ecotourism in particular. What distinguishes an ecotour from its better-known mass-tourism rivals? Are there clear examples of ecotourism benefiting conservation? Who are the ecotourists, and what are their motivations and aspirations? Are the impacts of an ecotour truly less harmful than those of mass tourism? How do certifiers evaluate tourism operations in terms of established “green” criteria, and which companies are winning awards for sustainability?

Instructor: Eric Olson

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit. May not be repeated by students who have taken HS 259f with this topic in previous years.

This course will review the connections between gender and macroeconomics before exploring main changes brought by globalization and neoliberal policies as they affect social policies, livelihoods, families and gender. Relying on recent critical scholarship, this course aims to provide a framework to understand the role of gender within development in times of neoliberal globalization, when deep transformation have altered the relations between the state, markets and civil society and the material and subjective contexts for gender identities and practices.

Instructor: Cristina Espinosa

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit. May not be repeated by students who have taken HS 259f with this topic in previous years.

This module introduces students to the field of gender and the environment, examining the relevance of gender for environmental conservation that includes social sustainability, and the different ways gender has been conceptualized and integrated within environmental conservation and within sustainable development interventions.

Instructor: Cristina Espinosa

Examines the critical role of fundraising and development in successful nonprofit organizations. Students learn to analyze, plan, and evaluate a comprehensive fundraising program and to create elements of a professional fundraising portfolio. Explores management and leadership issues associated with the rapidly changing field of development and philanthropy.

Instructor: David Whalen

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit. May not be repeated by students who have taken HS 259f with this topic in previous years.

This course will expose students to current debates about the causes and consequences of three dominant topics in development: income inequality, social capital, and empowerment. Through a combination of country case studies, this course will enhance appreciation of empirical analysis of the topics. In addition, students will be familiarized with technical aspects of how one measures income inequality, social capital, and empowerment in applied work.

Instructor: Ricardo Godoy

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Examines the relationship(s) and interaction(s) between conflict and the environment. Both social and ecological theoretical frameworks regarding this interaction will be explored. The course will focus on establishing a set of analytical tools that can form the basis for intervention in emerging conflicts. Usually offered every year.

Instructor: Mattjis Van Maasakkers

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Provides an introductory review of the core concepts and practical steps of design, monitoring and evaluation in the field of coexistence and peacebuilding. The course will stress participatory methods in monitoring and evaluation, in which multiple stakeholders are involved in the process of planning, collecting, interpreting, synthesizing, and using information. The course will feature case studies and actual DM&E plans and evaluation reports. Usually offered every year.

Instructor: Isabella Jean

Explores how entrepreneurship has become a driving force in the social enterprise sector, provides tools for developing and evaluating new ventures, and explores the blurring line between for-profit and nonprofit social initiatives. The course also teaches hands-on social venture business plan development tools, form assessing markets to developing financial and operating plans.

Instructor: Carole Carlson

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit. May not be repeated by students who have taken HS 259f with this topic in previous years.

This seminar will introduce Freire’s core beliefs as presented in selections from his oeuvre including a full reading of Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Each seminar session will proceed in two segments: as an exegesis of chapters of Pedagogy relating Freire’s written ideas to the social and historical context from which they emerged; and as a wide-ranging discussion of comparative poverty and social process. Students will consider the relevance of Freire’s ideas and methods to today's poor as well as to their own experiences of societal change.

Instructor: Laurence Simon

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Examines the mobilization of resources for the health system as a whole, and the funding of individual providers for health services in developing countries. Provides the tools for examining broad reforms as well as refinements of individual components of the health care system.

Instructor: Donald Shepard

Open only to students enrolled in the MA program in coexistence and conflict. Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit. May not be taken for credit by students who took COEX 230f in prior years.

Preparation for the research necessary for the required field project in the MA program in coexistence and conflict. Usually offered every year.

Instructor: Theodore Johnson

Provides an opportunity for MBA students to carry out a formal internship with a client organization under the supervision of a faculty advisor. The internship allows students to apply principles from the MBA curriculum for a client organization.

Instructor: Staff

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit. May be repeated once for credit.

Provides an opportunity for MBA students to carry out a formal internship with a client organization under the supervision of a faculty advisor. The internship allows students to apply principles from the MBA curriculum for a client organization.

Instructor: Staff

Corequisite: Concurrent registration with HS 299b. Yields half-course credit.

A series of sessions designed to provide students with the team building and consulting skills necessary to meet the team consulting projects client needs and provide them with tools that will be useful throughout their careers. Several sessions will enable teams to share their experiences with other teams and problem solve as a group.

Instructor: Lawrence Bailis and Carole Carlson

Begins with definitions of policy and how policy is made, from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Examines several frameworks for analyzing policy implementation and for planning implementation strategies. Several sessions will focus on the management skills and tools useful to planning and managing the implementation of policy change. Students will have the opportunity to bring conceptual knowledge and skills together in analysis of several case studies.

Instructor: Susan Holcombe

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

National Health Accounts (NHA) is a globally accepted framework and approach for measuring total national health expenditure. Provides an overview of the concepts and methodology of NHA. Students will understand the international classification systems used to categorize health expenditures, be able to construct NHA tables, and understand the uses to which NHA data can be put.

Instructor: Gary Gaumer or A.K. Nandakumar

Studies how global movements in dealing with health have shaped health systems, the emerging challenges developing countries are facing, and how these might affect health systems. Students will study the link between health and development, how health systems are organized, how health care is financed,and the role pf public and private sectors in providing health care, regulation, and consumer behavior.

Instructor: Gary Gaumer or A.K. Nandakumar

Provides a rigorous economic framework that addresses positive and normative issues in the economics of health in developing countries. Topics covered include: relationship between health outcomes and macroeconomic performance; microeconomics of health care and insurance markets, including demand for health care services, insurance, supply of physician services, and other medical services; normative analysis for health policy and projects, including market failure and public intervention; and emerging issues in international health in low- and middle-income countries.

Instructor: Gary Gaumer or A.K. Nandakumar

Open only to students enrolled in the MA program in coexistence and conflict. Other students considered with permission of the instructor. May not be taken for credit by students who took COEX 240a in prior years.

Addresses the theoretical and practical approaches to mediation and facilitation skills for people and organizations working in areas of intercommunal conflict. Usually offered every year.

Instructor: Theodore Johnson

Yields half-course credit.

Provides students with training and experience in critical reading for development purposes and in professional writing. Combining lectures, discussions, and classroom exercises in weekly class sessions, the course is based around regular written submissions on which students receive extensive feedback.

Instructor: Maria Green

Prerequisite: Open only to MA SID students. Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

This course is organized around three linked, logical, sequential topics that together make up the second-year project proposal: the development problem and its importance; what the evidence says about the topic; and the strategy or approach to answer the development question.

Instructor: Cristina Espinosa

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

This module considers religious identity as a factor in conflict etiology and coexistence strategies. Readings, discussions, and written assignments are designed to hone skills that will allow practitioners to integrate religious-identity factors into conflict analysis and peacebuilding agendas. Each class combines critical responses to (1) key conceptual readings and (2) religion-conflict-peacebuilding case studies, with (3) structured discussions of the religious values and identity issues that give rise to conflict. A final group case study project encourages participants to explore, in greater depth, religious-identity factors relevant to a particular country-based case of peace-making, from the perspectives of the conflict parties and the agents of intervention. Discussions, throughout, will use the empirical experience and knowledge of class participants as resources. Usually offered every year.

Instructor: Ellen Messer

Yields half-course credit.

Begins with the analysis of markets, and introduces the concept of market failure. Considers the theory of the firm, modifications necessary for mission-driven organizations, and special economic issues that arise for mission-driven organizations.

Instructor: Barry Friedman

Yields half-course credit.

Presents students with an introduction to the fundamentals of parametric statistics. Covers the essentials required for students to understand issues related to measurement and how to generate descriptive information and statistical analyses from these measurements. Focuses primarily on understanding the importance of summary measures along with a study of fundamental statistical distributions.

Instructor: Stephen Fournier

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Focuses on program evaluation techniques of interest to managers, including balanced scorecard methods, needs assessment, participatory evaluation methods, process/implementation analysis, impact analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and utilization-focused evaluation. These techniques are discussed in the context of building "learning organizations" that enable the organization and its managers to know if they are succeeding.

Instructor: Andrew Hahn

Prerequisite: HS 250a.

Develops students as educated consumers of financial information. Covers financial management problems encountered by today's human service professionals in a real-world perspective based on sound financial and accounting theory. Includes topics such as financial statement analysis, budget development and control, managing growth, cash flow management, and management controls.

Instructor: Thomas McLaughlin

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Allows students the opportunity to explore the management implications of "Knowledge Advancing Social Justice." Examines historical and contemporary thinkers, justice issues, and management activities. Students grapple with the daily management dilemmas faced by managers and change agents both inside and outside organizations.

Instructors: Sarita Bhalotra

Develops a fundamental understanding of financial accounting and reporting issues as they apply to nonprofit and for-profit organizations. Students will learn about the importance of fiscal responsibility and integrity in the efficient utilization of an organization's resources relative to organizational goals. Accounting practices that are unique to nonprofit organizations will be introduced, discussed and differentiated from those practices employed by for-profit entities. Emphasis will be placed on interpreting financial statements to understand how accounting information, in a variety of settings, can be utilized by decision makers.

Instructor: Brenda Anderson

May not be taken for credit by students who took COEX 250a in prior years.

This is an experiential learning course. How can music, theater, poetry, literature, and visual arts contribute to community development, coexistence, and nonviolent social change? In the aftermath of violence, how can artists help communities reconcile? Students explore these questions through interviews, case studies, and projects. Usually offered every year.

Instructor: Cynthia Cohen

Prerequisite: HS 250a or equivalent.

Provides general introduction to the concepts, problems, and issues related to managerial accounting. Managerial accounting predominantly addresses the internal use of economic information regarding the resources used in the process of producing goods and providing services. Fundamental aspects of cost behavior and cost accounting will be discussed, but always from the perspective of the manager who must make decisions rather than the accountant who prepares the information.

Instructor: Brenda Anderson

Provides students with the theoretical constructs and practical tools necessary to create and manage organizations strategically. Includes strategic process, organizational design, and development of planning tools and cycles. All students perform an applied strategic analysis for an actual organization.

Instructor: Thomas McLaughlin

Prerequisite: HS 285a or permission of the instructor. Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Provides a framework for understanding target audience behavior and where best to intervene to help create positive behavior change. At the heart of our learning experience is the social marketing planning process, which is a structured approach for developing and implementing a program for behavior change. We will examine the key social marketing concepts that include competition, determinants of behavior, barriers and benefits, marketing strategy and the 4Ps or “intervention mix”. Students will have the opportunity to evaluate past programs as well as develop social marketing strategies of their own.

Instructor: Anh-Dai Lu

Focuses on leadership and managing organizations. Uses cases on a variety of organizations to expose students to problems and to improve their effectiveness in analyzing, diagnosing, and leading people in organizations. Students learn organizational concepts, analytic frameworks, and models, and practice their leadership skills in class. Uses case discussions, simulations, role-playing, mini-lecturing, and experimental exercises. Provides an opportunity to develop leadership skills through group work and reflection.

Instructor: Jon Chilingerian

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

This course is geared towards students with limited experience in HIV/AIDS as a public policy issue. In the first sessions, students learn the key perspectives to frame the HIV/AIDS epidemic as a policy issue, including an economic perspective, a social impact perspective, and a rights perspective. The second half of the course reviews lessons from the international experience in responding to the epidemic. Attention is given to sector-based interventions and necessary coordination between sectors for specific interventions to be effective.

Instructor: Joan Kaufman

Considers how the management of human resources can help in achieving organizational excellence. Focuses on the development of concepts and strategies that can increase your effectiveness in developing policies and practices to enhance the value of people in the organizations served.

Instructor: Jody Hoffer Gittell

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

This course aims to provide the basic conceptual tool kit and develops basic macroeconomic concepts necessary to understand trends and their impact. It examines and critiques what is commonly called the "Washington consensus," the view advocating liberalization and the opening up of the economies of the developing world as the path to development. To do this, we look at the empirical record of the actual experience of some developing countries in the recent past.

Instructor: Kade Finnoff

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Focuses on the elasticity of the term "community building," some historical themes, and how a term originally focused mostly on neighborhood revival is now used in many other contexts, including building stronger ties among people in the workplace. With community building jargon increasingly entering into management and public policy literature, managers must understand the parameters of this "movement" and acquaint themselves with some of the skills and developments that people doing this work have found useful.

Instructor: Andrew Hahn

Develops in students an understanding of the nature, advantages, and limitations of negotiations as a conflict resolution tool. Provides a normative and practical framework for pursuing a negotiation strategy as a method of resolving disputes. Provides students with opportunities to apply this knowledge in a variety of simulated negotiation contexts. Finally, exposes students to feedback regarding their negotiation approaches via explicit instructor evaluation and via the impact of their actions on their teammates and opponents.

Instructor: Jeffrey Prottas

Prerequisite: HS 246b.

Explores how organizations deliver high-quality services while using resources efficiently. Students develop skills including quality assessment, process mapping, improving work processes through IT, productivity analysis, wait-time analysis, customization versus standardization of work processes, project management, and scheduling.

Instructor: Loredana Padurean

Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: household economics; culture, power, and development; masculinity and gender; HIV/AIDS as a public policy issue; gender and globalization; and theories of social change.

Instructor: Staff

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: household economics; culture, power, and development; masculinity and gender; HIV/AIDS as a public policy issue; gender and globalization; and theories of social change. Usually offered every year.

Instructor: Staff

The focus of this course is about the practice of giving away money. It is not a comprehensive course on philanthropy, but rather allows students to practice social justice philanthropy and craft their own structure for identifying projects where their philanthropy can make an impact on social policy or social welfare.

Instructor: Andrew Hahn

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit. May not be taken for credit by students who took COEX 260f in prior years.

Increases the knowledge and skills of students undertaking development and aid work in conflict situations. Explores how such work can address development needs, as well as the need to increase intercommunal equity, understanding, and cooperation. Usually offered every year.

Instructor: Theodore Johnson

There is now a firm consensus that climate change could undermine even the best of efforts to a solve a variety of development challenges including hunger and malnutrition, disease, poverty, degradation of soils and water supplies, and others. This course aims to provide development specialists with a solid grounding in this long-term but overarching threat.

Instructor: Jayson Funke and Eric Olson

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit. May not be taken for credit by students who took COEX 261f in prior years.

This seminar builds on the concepts and theories offered in the basic course. Students will master the skills of conflict mapping, strategic intervention, and analysis using case studies of current and past conflicts where development assistance was also required. Usually offered every second year.

Instructor: Theodore Johnson

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Students engage with constructs of cultural superiority, debate about modernization, and learn about what motivates individual and cultural change. Students are introduced to alternative theoretical approaches to culture and development and learn how to apply those theories to different historic contexts as well as contemporary situations.

Instructor: Kelley Ready

Prerequisite: HS297f or permission of the instructor. Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Builds on the introductory GIS course, further enabling students to develop technical skills in the use of ARCView GIS software; qualitative skills in data gathering, analysis, and presentation; and understanding of potential of GIS as a tool for planning and evaluating development projects. Includes a computer lab.

Instructor: Ravi Lakshmikanthan

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Introduces ecological principles that influence the sustainability of national and local development programs throughout the world.

Instructor: Eric Olson

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Covers basic principles of microeconomics, focusing on the supply and demand framework with applications and examples to developing countries.

Instructor: Staff

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Through a primer on law and legal institutions, examines the use of the legal order to solve problems of poverty, vulnerability, and environmental degradation in developing nations.

Instructor: Malcolm Russell-Einhorn

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Explores how international and national agencies define and measure food security and nutritional status and set goals for strategic interventions.

Instructor: Richard Lockwood

This course may not be taken for credit by students who have taken COEX 270a in prior years.

This seminar uncovers the myths and challenges of race and multiculturalism and explores various approaches that have addressed them. It examines future scenarios to help form a more constructive approach to coexistence that goes beyond those challenges. Usually offered every year.

Instructor: Theodore Johnson

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

A seminar, with a focus on reading, discussion, and student research rather than on lectures. What are the implications of a "rights-based approach" to health for policy makers, medical professionals, health-related industries, and patients? What roles do civil and political rights like participation, freedom of speech, and non-discrimination as well as the notion of a right to health itself, play in health policy-making and policy implementation? Each student is expected to draft and present a substantial seminar paper. Usually offered every semester.

Instructor: Maria Green

Provides a conceptual umbrella to all the coursework in the SID program. Introduces students to the major currents of thinking about development and sustainability. Topics include poverty, inequality, globalization, human rights, the environment, and the role of institutions. Students examine what is known about the drivers of development as well as the links among global and national policies, and actions for sustainable development. The course includes a practical group exercise where students identify and propose solutions to a critical development problem.

Instructor: Susan Holcombe

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Covers building and staffing large-scale, cost-effective microfinance institutions and explores strategies for partnerships with local NGOs and village-level organizations to expand outreach.

Instructor: Jeffrey Ashe

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Provides students with an overview of the processes by which individuals and groups operating at the national, state, and local levels in the United States can effectively shape social policy, focusing: a) on how knowledge is used to promote social justice, the barriers that face those who seek to use knowledge to change policy, and the kinds of strategies that have been and are likely to be effective in overcoming these barriers in the future b) the role and strategies of advocacy organization in promoting policy change that benefit those segments of society with relatively little economic or political power.

Instructor: Lawrence Bailis

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

A primer on major diseases and problems of health care in developing nations. Topics include descriptions of disease incidence and prevalence, including infectious, chronic, and mental disease; determinants of health, including culture and behavior; the role of nutrition, education, and reproductive trends and poverty; demographic transitions, including aging and urbanization; the structure and financing of health systems; and the globalization of health.

Instructor: Sarita Bhalotra

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Explores issues and methods of development project monitoring and evaluation, including economic, social, and environmental issues, and how these functions are critical to project management.

Instructor: Laura Roper or Bridget Snell

For students who wish to study in more depth analytical methods utilized in development planning. Issues and methods of project implementation are discussed, and, drawing on case studies, the course examines the complex interactions between beneficiary communities, social mobilization and leadership, participation and training, and other factors that affect accountability and achievement.

Instructor: Marion Howard or Laurence Simon

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Analyzes the role of government in the economy and the impact of public policy on the allocation and distribution of resources and development of social welfare in the United States. In this course, you will learn how to understand and predict the effects of public expenditures, taxes, and regulations. We will examine these issues at the federal, state, and local levels. The course will explore the political concerns around public finance decision-making and related issues of equality and social justice. This is a required course for MPP students and is open to Ph.D. students and others upon permission of instructor.

Instructor: Robert Kuttner

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Covers a broad range of operational issues related to the design, implementation, and evaluation of microfinance initiatives reflecting a range of methodologies and approaches.

Instructor: Jeffrey Ashe

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Introduces concepts and methods for using organizational program experience to strengthen internal management, program planning, and public policy. Examines the experience of noted NGOs.

Instructor: James Arena-DeRosa

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

A primer on the basic concepts and methods of formal environmental impact assessments and adaptations for community-led small projects.

Instructor: Eric Olson

Examines attitudes and beliefs about poverty, wealth, mobility, and inequality and their relationship to institutional practices and social policy. We will explore the forces that shape U.S. beliefs, attitudes, and opinions, how these views are expressed in the public sphere and policy discourse, and the processes by which attitudes are measured and inform policy decisions. Reading broadly from the social science literature, we will explore the legitimizing functions of beliefs about inequality and work together to develop strategies for challenging hierarchy enhancing perceptions and relationships.

Instructor: Heather Bullock

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Gender, as a social construct, is explored in diverse cultures and societies. Examines gender's major influence on the development process.

Instructor: Cristina Espinosa or Brenda McSweeney

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Examines recent concepts and methods for gender analysis as an integral factor in program planning across cultures.

Instructor: Staff

An overview of marketing with a focus on how to formulate marketing strategies and identify and evaluate strategy-based tactics in order to achieve organizational marketing goals. Topics include strategic market planning, market research and analysis; consumer behavior; market segmentation, targeting, and positioning; social marketing; and the marketing mix--product, price, distribution, promotion, and marketing communications.

Instructor: Grace Zimmerman

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Provides a broad introduction to international human rights laws, mechanisms, and practices, including special protections for vulnerable groups and the key debates underpinning the rights-based approach to development and poverty. Also covers the international and regional institutions that exist to protect human rights.

Instructor: Maria Green

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

The phenomenal growth in non-governmental organizations throughout the world in the past two decades has transformed the delivery of development assistance and relationships between the north and south. Examines the nature of civil society, types of and relationships among NGOs, and NGO relationships with the state, multilateral and bilateral organizations, and community organizations.

Instructor: Laurence Simon

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Examines the evolution of land reform theory and practice around the world, including the current model encouraged by the World Bank.

Instructor: Laurence Simon

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

A primer on demographic variables, including fertility, mortality, and migration, and their influence on economic growth, poverty, and the environment.

Instructor: Susan Holcombe

Open to Tufts/Heller MD/MBA students only.

Introduces economic approaches to managerial and policy decision making. Covers supply and demand, market structures, pricing and market failure, as well as useful tools such as optimization and game theory. Concepts are reinforced with case analyses and examples from the health and human services sectors. Some calculus required.

Instructor: Barry Friedman

Prerequisite: HS285f or permission of the instructor. Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

This course builds on HS 285f with a deeper exploration of human rights in practice. Topics covered include human rights and transnational corporations; the International Criminal Court and other forms of individual accountability for human rights violations; the rights to participation, transparency, and access to information in the context of development; the nature and role of political human rights in a development context; human rights advocacy and the integration of human rights indicators with development indicators; human rights in conflict situations; the role of human rights in UN development agencies; and finally critical responses to rights-based approaches.

Instructor: Maria Green

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Enhances skills in humanitarian work in conflict situations by looking at concrete practices and reflecting on fundamental issues involved. Gives a broad look at different aspects of work in conflict situations. The theory of the course is rooted in the analysis that there is not a relief-development continuum but rather different processes that go back and forth between each other. Aims to give students an overall framework for looking at humanitarian work in conflict situations by giving an overview of the issues and debates in development theory.

Instructor: Pierrette Quintiliani

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Explores the connections between religion and development from theoretical, activist (engaged religious), and practitioner (faith-based NGO) perspectives. Considers (1) basic social science perspectives on the connections of religious cosmology, beliefs, and practices to social and cultural identity, solidarity, and ideas about human dignity, social inequalities, and the desirability or inevitability of social change and (2) notions of religious obligations and the role of religion as a motivating force or barrier to social transformation and sustainable development. This module seeks to build a positive understanding of the potential contributions of religious forces, with attention to peace-building and economic-development activities.

Instructor: Ellen Messer

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Investigates major issues of natural resource management affecting the sustainability of development.

Instructor: Ricardo Godoy

Prerequisite: Two semesters as master's student in Coexistence and Conflict or permission of program director.

Offers students an opportunity to apply the theories and key themes covered in the core courses in a real-life setting. Requires completion of at least three months of a paid or unpaid internship or field project approved and monitored by a faculty adviser. The project could involve a research or consulting assignment or a structured internship in the fields of coexistence and conflict.

Instructor: Staff

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

A primer for non-specialists on GIS and its capabilities as a tool for planning and monitoring. Includes a computer lab.

Instructor: Ravi Lakshmikanthan

Instructor: Mari Fitzduff

A capstone educational experience for students nearing the end of the M.B.A. program. Working under the supervision of a faculty adviser, teams of three to five M.B.A. and Heller/Hornstein students provide management consulting services to nonprofit, community-based health and human services agencies.

Instructor: Lawrence Bailis and Carole Carlson

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Run as an NGO management workshop responding to issues and problems identified by students. Issues typically include mission statements, structure, governance, participation, and funding.

Instructor: Laurence Simon

Develops theoretical perspectives on social policy, social justice, and social change, and a framework for analyzing and developing social policies. Identifies major institutional systems that function in any society throughout human evolution and which are key variables of social policy and social change practice.

Instructor: David Gil

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Conservation biologists and economic development planners have often had conflicting priorities and means. The class reviews methods of achieving biodiversity conservation and community development through an integrated approach.

Instructor: Marion Howard

Explores the nature of oppression in contemporary and past human societies, and the dynamics and role of social movements in confronting oppression and pursuing social change toward human liberation. The seminar is based on the assumption that all types of oppression throughout social evolution have common origins and functions. Examines these common aspects, as well as specific manifestations, such as racism, sexism, social class discrimination, colonialism, etc.

Instructor: David Gil

Examines the development of social welfare over time by reviewing policy arguments within a historical context and using an analytic framework centered on eligibility, benefits, administration, financing, and behavioral incentives to assess perennial issues in social welfare and analyze contemporary challenges.

Instructor: Michael Doonan

This course may not be repeated for credit by students who have taken HS 303f in previous years.

Provides students with a sufficient background in legislative theory, methodology, and techniques to enable them to conceptualize how to translate policy into effectively implemented law and to assess bills purporting to resolve particular social problems.

Instructor: Ann Seidman

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

An introduction to survey design and applied principles of data analysis in development. Topics covered include: research design (hypothesis formulation, model building, experimental research design); data collection (principles of survey design, definition and measurement of variables, cross-sectional and panel surveys, focus groups and pilot tests of surveys); and data analysis (statistical and social significance, univariate and bivariate analysis, and multivariate analysis).

Instructor: Ricardo Godoy

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit. This course may not be repeated for credit by students who have taken HS 259f with this same topic in previous years.

This course seeks to expand the understanding of the relational nature of gender by focusing on the implications of incorporating men and masculinities in gender mainstreaming practices.

Instructor: Staff

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

An introduction to the basic principles of international law for non-lawyer professionals working in international development. Covers core terminology of international law that development practitioners are likely to encounter, explains how international agreements such as treaties are created and implemented, and examines how international disputes, on issues ranging from environmental laws to the use of force, are resolved. Also provides an overview, in an international law context, of the roles of international institutions such as the United Nations and the World Court and of private actors like corporations and NGOs.

Instructor: Maria Green

This course provides an overview of current practice and future issues in management of aging services and delivery systems taught by professionals currently active in the field. It covers the range of service organizations and programs for people who are aging, the challenges and issues faced by managers in the day-to-day operations of these services, and how they meet these challenges and develop successful solutions. The course discusses the policy challenges and range of program options available for providing services to elders.

Instructor: Sarita Bhalotra

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Young people (10-24 years of age) account for 29 percent of the population in low- and middle-income countries. Over 100 countries have a significant expansion in their youth populations and vulnerability in terms of literacy, employability, skill training, life skills, and more. Of special interest in this course are the subset of policies and programs that aim to connect young people to the economic and education mainstream. It is these programs that will be the special but not exclusive focus of this course.

Instructor: Andrew Hahn

Explores the meaning, sources, and dynamics of social-structural and interpersonal violence, and relations among these destructive phenomena. Traces the social, psychological, economic, political, and cultural dimensions of violence and counter-violence in everyday life, with special emphasis on links between the organization and quality of work in society and levels of violence. It also explores approaches to reducing and eventually eliminating violence in human relations from local to global levels.

Instructor: David Gil

Examines major current issues in health policy and global governance shaping our world in the 21st century. There is increasing recognition of the development threats from health problems – from emerging infectious diseases to the recognition that global climate change is contributing to new or re-emerging health threats. The recent WHO Commission on Social Determinants for Health outlined an ambitious agenda for research on health determinants, systems, and financing and new global institutions are promoting greater evidence-based research for health policy making that incorporate a wider array of inputs and stakeholders.

Instructor: Joan Kaufman

Provides an overview of populations, social policies, and programs in the United States that affect the well-being of children, youth and families. Human development theory as well as prominent policy and management themes are embedded throughout the course. These include defining and measuring meaningful outcomes for children, youth, and families and using knowledge to advance social justice on behalf of America's diverse populations. The objective of this course is to engage students in critical thinking, dialogue, and debate about the populations, policies, and programs in their chosen field. Provides essential information for understanding the problems, supports, and opportunities related to children, youth, and families in the United States and for considering the policies and programs that have been, or may be, developed to improve the well-being of these populations.

Instructors: Lorraine Klerman and Susan Curnan

Explores changes in the organization and design of work and the exchange of work products throughout the evolution of human societies, and the consequences of these changes for individual and social development. Facilitates insights into work as a universal, existential process, whose structure and dynamics were shaped and reshaped by individuals and societies throughout history as they interacted with one another and with natural environments in pursuit of survival and development, and as they gained knowledge of nature and enhanced their technological capacities and skills. Explores essential attributes of modes of work conducive to optimal human development and liberation.

Instructor: David Gil

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

This course is about the last forty years (1969-2009) of social justice and social policy in the American Gay Rights Movement. It is about the development of social justice and social policy in America that is inclusive of sexual orientation and gender identity. And, it is about policy development, and human behavior, in America that reflects the full civil, political, legal and moral equality of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people.

Instructor: Susan Curnan

Introduces students to the basic research literature on social stratification, social mobility, and inequality. The theme of this seminar is an analysis of rising inequality worldwide, placing the United States in this context. An examination of the sources for this phenomenon includes globalization, economic restructuring, public policy, and social mobility.

Instructor: Thomas Shapiro

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Participatory Action Research (PAR), with its inherent emphasis on equalizing power relationships between the researcher and the researched, emphasizes the importance of respecting the situated knowledge of research participants. It is largely based in Paulo Freire's pedagogical framework for liberatory education which seeks to help marginalized peoples to empower themselves through research and knowledge production for the purposes of political action.

Instructor: Tara Brown

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

This course, co-taught by a professor of biology and a professor of human rights, focuses on the issue of access to clean water and sanitation from a human rights perspective. It looks at issues of water -- both science and policy -- with a focus on the societal arrangements and governmental choices that impact on access to water at the household level. At the core of the class are the decision points and modes of decision-making with regard to water policy, which we examine both from a technical perspective -- to understand the factual issues -- and from a rights perspective, to understand the relevant international standards and how they apply, in a practical sense, at national levels.

Instructor: Maria Green and Eric Olson

Provides students with information about the health problems that children face from birth to early adulthood and the policies that have been developed to prevent or ameliorate those problems in the United States. Particular attention is paid to the development of federal policies, the agencies that implement them, and the legislation under which they operate. Explores the role of local health initiatives and of the private sector, including providers, advocacy groups, and other not-for-profit organizations.

Instructor: Lorraine Klerman

Prepares students to (1) thoroughly understand the rigorous conduct of research methods of public policy, with a particular emphasis on program evaluation and to (2) be sophisticated consumers of empirical of public policy research. A variety of class formats will be used throughout the semester including lectures, discussions, and seminars, depending upon the topic and readings.

Instructor: Susan Parish

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Improved health status at a population level is recognized as an economic, political, and social good for countries at all income levels. This seminar will provide an opportunity to learn about the history and evolving rationale behind health sector reform. It will identify methods and tools that are used to assess and evaluate health systems, including determining the causes of problems. It will provide students with the conceptual and technical tools to develop innovative solutions that can be implemented with an aim to improving health system performance and equity. Since global health sector reform entails consultation from experts, this module will also provide information about this process.

Instructor: Sarita Bhalotra

Draws on a number of social science disciplines and women's studies to explore the construction of public policies that shape the lives of children and families. It will focus on material from the United States and will use examples from other countries for comparative purposes. The course will explore some of the key components of family policy as they have developed in the U.S. and provide a critical examination of the ways in which "the state" may alternately facilitate, control and constrain women's choices about whether and when to have children, and the conditions surrounding the employment and care of children and other family members. It will further consider the current economic and political context and how families strategize to combine jobs and family care.

Instructor: Ann Bookman

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

This seminar is offered to both deepen student understanding of one of the great challenges facing our nation and many developing countries and to explore emerging and best practices related to policy, management and systems/program design to address those challenges and create sustainable conditions for preparing youth for college, work, and life.

Instructor: Susan Curnan

Students will demonstrate the ability to define and diagnose public policy situations, collect relevant information, perform logical analysis, develop alternative, and make compelling recommendations; and to organize and communicate information clearly to a variety of audiences through formats including verbal presentations, policy briefs, and statistical charts, graphs, and tables.

Instructor: Mary Brolin

Students who successfully complete this course will demonstrate an understanding of the following issues in regard to disability policy: 1) identify the principles, foundation and provisions of disability service programs in the United States; 2) understand specific current disability policies regarding financing, ethical, and legal issues related to civil rights, income transfers, education, employment and health care; 3) explain the interrelationships among disability policies at the federal, state, and local levels; 4) explain the intended and actual consequences of the major US disability policies; 5) discuss ethical issues in current disability policy, including individual and family rights, issues of distributive justice, and issues of power, discrimination, oppression, culture & race.

Instructor: Susan Parish

This course covers a wide range of social policy issues related to aging individuals and societies. It views social policy broadly to include public policies at the federal, state, and local levels; policies of private organizations; and informal policies of families, religions, and racial and ethnic groups. The course lays a base of the historical and ideological antecedents of current policies in aging and presents and critiques alternatives for the future. It also covers the process of policy formation, including how aging plays out in the political sphere. The orientation is primarily towards aging policy in the United States, but policy alternatives from other industrial countries will be introduced for comparative purposes. This course is appropriate for both Masters and PhD students.

Instructor: Walter Leutz

Introduces MBA students in health administration and management, to the legal issues that health care professionals confront in managing a health care organization. Begins with patient care (liability) issues and thereafter provides an overview of other health care delivery issues such as the legal structure of corporations, healthcare finance and managed care, intellectual property and healthcare entitlement programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. Students become familiar with the basic legal principles governing how health care institutions are operated and how legal doctrine are formulated. The course also familiarize students with the emerging ethical issues in healthcare management.

Instructor: Staff

Discusses the role of science and technology in health care settings. Through case studies of technology companies (pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, and information technology), the class examines how firms manage the creation, development, adoption, and spread of medical innovations in the context of a cost-constrained marketplace. The class uses current academic literature and newspaper articles to discuss how hospitals, insurers, and federal agencies can affect technological progress.

Instructor: Darren Zinner

Introduces techniques of economic analysis, mainly from microeconomics. These tools are applied to problems of management and social policy. Uses case studies and frequent exercises to develop application and quantitative skills.

Instructor: Ricardo Godoy

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Provides frameworks for thinking about social policy and its implications for managers. Examines policy in terms of the organizations that initiate and deliver policy. Looks at the tools of social policy, especially those associated with the welfare state, such as social insurance, social assistance, and a wide variety of social services. Explores the underlying economic, social, and demographic trends that can drive changes in social policy. Considers issues of process in designing policy, democratic accountability, rights, opportunities for minority interests, and advocacy.

Instructor: Barry Friedman

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

This course considers some of the challenges that will face social policy now and in the future. In many countries with developed welfare states, there are pressures for retrenchment, and some countries have already cut back on programs. But there remain many unmet needs. Plus, there is ongoing interest in policies to increase equality and social inclusion. This course is meant to challenge students to think about how to design policies to weave through these competing pressures.

Instructor: Barry Friedman

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

The goal of this course is to provide an introduction to research design and social scientific logic as applied to policy problems. The course is intended to provide social policy students with conceptual understandings of how contemporary social scientific research is developed and, as well, practical tools to enable students to evaluate data and analyses of policy issues. Course readings and assignments will include theoretical material about approaches to causal hypothesis testing and research design, as well as case-based discussions and projects that focus on particular social policy issues.

Instructor: Leonard Saxe

Introduces students to the field of Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E), including its purpose, design, methodologies for data collection and analysis, and utilization. In keeping with the practice orientation of the SID program, we will emphasize the contexts in which M&E is carried out, the challenges and pitfalls frequently confronted in these processes, and some “tricks of the trade” drawn from written materials and the experiences of the instructors and enrolled students.

Instructor: Ricardo Godoy, Laura Roper, Barry Shelley, and Bridget Snell

Open to Tufts/Heller MD/MBA students only.

An introduction to the real and complex problems of management and systems changes. Teams of three or four students work under the supervision of a faculty coordinator, physician executives, and other administrative personnel on a mutually agreed upon project designed to further the mission of the specific sponsoring health care industry organization within the time and resource constraints of the course.

Instructor: Carl Nelson

Building on the courses in Applied Regression Analysis, Econometrics, Research Methods, and concentration course work, this full semester course provides students in-depth and hands on experience using large national data sets to conduct policy analyses. The course will guide students through each step of the process of developing and carrying out a research project.

Instructor: Tatjana Meschede

Prerequisite: a recent course in microeconomics.

Applies economic analysis to problems of importance to social policy. The particular applications may vary from year to year, but may include such topics as unemployment and inflation, social security, and the economics of race and gender.

Instructor: Barry Friedman

Prerequisite: Open only to Ph.D. students who have completion of, or current enrollment in, a graduate-level statistics course.

Provides a basic foundation in social science research methods. Focuses on skills needed to understand and initiate policy-oriented social research. Theoeretical, as well as practical, issues involved in the interpretation and conduct of social research are considered. The perspective is multidisciplinary and emphasizes investigations of substantive health, education, and social welfare problems. Students have the opportunity to review and redesign research in their own area of interest.

Instructor: Christopher Tompkins and Jennifer Perloff

Open to Ph.D. students only.

Acquaints students with the theory and practice of qualitative research. Readings and discussions focus on epistemological and theoretical foundations of qualitative research, how to conduct qualitative research, and its relevance for social policy. Provides students with experience in direct observation, participant observation, and interviewing, as well as in writing field notes, memoing, and transcribing. Qualitative research from study design to analysis and presentation is approached as an iterative and interconnected process. Ethical issues are addressed, with emphasis on requirements for institutional review board applications for projects involving qualitative research methods. Students planning to go on to HS 411b typically prepare an IRB application for a project of their own design.

Instructor: Nina Kammerer

An applied course in multiple regression analysis. Emphasis placed on the assumptions underlying the regression model, how to test for violations, and corrections that can be made when violations are found.

Instructor: Stephen Fournier

Prerequisite: HS 404b.

Focuses on applications of regression analysis and extensions to areas where the standard assumptions do not hold. Introduces applications of logit and its extensions, probit, corrections for censoring and sample selection bias, and simultaneous equations. Each student designs and carries out a research project.

Instructor: Stephen Fournier and Barry Friedman

Prerequisite: HS 404b or equivalent.

Focuses on processes and techniques of survey research methods. Special attention is devoted to different modes of questionnaire design, development, and administration. Implementation issues considered include interviewing strategies and other data collection procedures, field supervision, code book development, and documentation data management. Data analysis issues include scale and index construction, reliability and validity assessments, and general analysis strategies.

Instructor: Leonard Saxe

Prerequisite: Completion of a graduate-level research methods course.

Provides participants with an understanding of the basic concepts of evaluation research and their application to a diverse set of social policy problems. Emphasizes methodological issues and their application to social interventions and the delivery of human service programs. Exemplars of the application of evaluation research strategies are drawn from specific social intervention problems in social services, mental health, education, criminal justice, and healthcare. Students also have a chance to design their own evaluation study.

Instructor: Leonard Saxe

Prerequisites: HS 404b and HS 405a.

Builds on the Econometrics course to further develop students' skills in using multivariate statistical techniques, particularly for time-series and longitudinal data. Based on examples from human service and health care research. Students read/critique papers using each technique studied, and learn to apply it in computer lab.

Instructor: Dominic Hodgkin

Prerequisite: HS 404b and HS 405a. Open only to Ph.D. students.

Designed to provide students with a series of formal exercises simulating the major steps in the dissertation process. Students gain competency in manipulating data from a large, complex data set; summarizing the methodology of and findings from previous studies; and synthesizing and communicating the results of data analysis--placing study objectives and results in the context of prior research.

Instructor: Grant Ritter

Prerequisite: HS 403b or permission of instructor.Open only to Ph.D. students.

Provides students with experience conducting qualitative research, with an emphasis on data analysis and presentation. Readings and discussions address study design, sampling, credibility, triangulation, note-taking, data storage, computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software, ethical issues, and the analysis and writing process. A series of exercises focuses on data analysis, including identifying themes, coding, and memoing. Each student completes a qualitative project, using data s/he collects or has permission to use, and presents work in progress.

Instructor: Nina Kammerer

Provides an overview of the use and abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. Examines the consequences of abuse from a societal perspective and reviews types of policy approaches to dealing with the problems associated with substance abuse. Specific topics include an overview of biological and clinical aspects, theories of addictive behavior, epidemiology, medical and economic consequences, prevention and education, and policy approaches including taxation and regulation.

Instructor: Constance Horgan

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Provides students an opportunity to explore the ethical dimensions of social-science research. Ethical considerations are an integral part of social science research because such research often involves the use of human participants from vulnerable populations. Although social science researchers are expected to have an understanding of the ethical issues associated with their discipline, few have the opportunity to develop this knowledge. In this course students examine different topics associated with research design, data collection, data interpretation, and publication of study findings.

Instructor: Sharon Reif

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Addresses the application of the technique of cost-effectiveness analysis to evaluate health and other types of programs in the United States and in developing countries. Presents the theoretical foundations and applications of cost-effectiveness analysis. Uses interactive discussions and computer exercises where students learn to perform cost-effectiveness analyses and apply the technique to a problem of their choice.

Instructor: Donald Shepard

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Provides students with the preliminary tools to conduct and critique case studies. Begins with an examination of the appropriateness, strengths, and weaknesses of this method. Threats to internal and external validity are examined along with techniques to properly collect and document data from multiple sources. Techniques are reviewed for case selection, data analysis, and study presentation. The final class is spent critiquing actual case studies.

Instructor: Jeffrey Prottas

Prerequisite: HS 422f or permission of the instructor. Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Provides students with advanced techniques to conduct or critically review cost-effective studies, both in the United States and internationally. Students learn how to present a research question, design a study, obtain and analyze relevant data, and analyze results.

Instructor: Donald Shepard

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Rapid technological change and increasing economic globalization have created both opportunities and challenges to countries as they try to balance the benefits of economic growth with the costs of dislocation associated with these changes. This seminar will examine the impact of these changes using tools from labor economics and the experiences of developing and developed economies.

Instructor: Lisa Lynch

Prerequisites: Open only to PhD students who have completed HS 401b and one semester of graduate-level statistics. Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

The goal of this course is to provide doctoral students in social policy with an understanding of the basic principles of survey research design, their application, and analysis. Survey research is increasingly important as a tool in social policy analysis and the course prepares students to design/manage survey research and to use the results of others’ surveys.

Instructor: Leonard Saxe

Open to all Ph.D. students and to a small number of master’s students by permission of the instructor.

The course begins with basic theories, models, and evolving concepts for sustainable human development and examines the contexts in which development takes place. It also looks at some of the issues constraining sustainable human development.

Instructor: Laurence Simon

Provides students with frameworks of use for the study of the implementation of public policies. Considers the implementation process in the United States from a broad perspective, ranging from the context of legislation and the role of courts to how the role of street-level bureaucrats can be studied. Political science, organizational theory, and sociological perspectives are used to develop frameworks for understanding the process through which public policy is realized and how it impacts institutions and individuals.

Instructor: Jeffrey Prottas

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

A conceptual and analytic framework of the field of quality of health care, which includes quality improvement and performance measurement; understanding of the contemporary research and policy initiatives that relate to quality of health care; and insights into the ways that quality relates to issues of provider payment, organization of health care facilities, and costs and access to health care. By the end of the module, students should have an understanding of the centrality of quality of care issues in contemporary health services research, health care policy, and management of health care organizations.

Instructor: Deborah Garnick

Prerequisite: HS 505f. Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Builds on HS 505f which is focused on the centrality of quality of care issues in contemporary health services research, health care policy, and management of healthcare organizations. The first module, offered as an elective every year, introduces basic concepts and offers an overview of the field.

Instructor: Deborah Garnick

Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.
Prerequisite: HS 513a or permission of instructor.

Examines the role of the states in the U.S. health care system. Provides an overview of state activities in health, including state responsibilities for managing health programs and institutions. Models to understand the nature of policy-making and politics in states are presented and discussed. Examines major state health programs such as Medicaid. Outlines and explores the policy and legislative processes. States' efforts to reform their healthcare systems are discussed with special attention to implementation issues, barriers, limits of state action, and prospects for the future of state health reform.

Instructor: Michael Doonan

Prerequisite: HS 513a or permission of instructor. Meets for one-half semester and yields half-course credit.

Provides an overview of the evolution and taxonomies of managed care, and describes some of its most significant organizational and operational characteristics. Specific areas of focus include its role in Medicaid and Medicare, as well as special strategies such as those adopted for behavioral health care. Draws upon health policy and management literature to inform a discussion about future directions for managed care.

Instructor: Sarita Bhalotra

For students who have learned how to manage in a health or human services policy environment and wish to know whether the public policies they are helping to implement are working. Reviews methods, tools, and strategies to help managers assess measurable impacts of implementation of policies and programs. Teaches students how to assess policies and to evaluate programs-what evaluation is, how to do it, and, most important, how to critically review studies done by others.

Instructor: Andrew Hahn

Managing human service systems and programs to benefit children, youth, and families in America today means managing people in a time of fiscal constraint and dramatic social, economic, and political change, and on the other hand, great organizational and civic innovation. Builds on the analytic tools students have begun to hone in the master's program and helps them learn how to apply these tools to effectively implement policies and programs in the not-for-profit sector.

Instructor: Susan Curnan

An overview of the U.S. health care system is followed by a critical analysis of the major issues and trends in the health care field. Concentrates on the activities of federal and state governments and the private sector. Also explores likely future issues affecting our health system. Of special concern is the issue of the large number of Americans with no or inadequate health insurance. A related problem is the rising cost of medical care, which results in increases in the number of uninsured.

Instructors: Stuart Altman and Stanley Wallack

Explores theoretical and empirical approaches to race/ethnicity and gender as factors in health and human services practices, programs, and policies in the United States. Begins by examining current data on racial/ethnic and gender differences in health, mental health, functional status, and lifestyle. Attention then turns to alternative accounts of the causes of these differences. Although primary focus is on patterns of race/ethnicity and gender differences in health outcomes and services that have received the most comprehensive attention, the course offers perspectives on research methods and analytic frameworks that can be applied to other issues.

Instructor: Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson

Introduces students to the concepts, theories, and practical problems of managing people in health care organizations. Case material is drawn from hospital, HMO, group practice, public health agency, and for-profit company settings. Students gain a better understanding of the range of strategic and operational problems faced by managers, some of the analytic tools to diagnose problems, and the role of leadership (and management) in improving performance.

Instructor: Jon Chilingerian

Prerequisite: an introductory Microeconomics course.

Economic models of demand, production, and markets for goods and services can be used to analyze the key resource allocation questions in health care. Applies economic models to questions of demand concerning the utilization and distribution of health care and to questions of supply, encompassing issues of cost, efficiency, and accessibility of care. The incentives and behavior of consumers and producers of health care are considered using these models.

Instructor: Christine Bishop

Examines current payment practices to health care providers, the problems with current methods, and possible modifications. Focuses only upon hospital care, physician services, and managed care. Covers the different ways that managed care organizations are structured. The payment and performance of managed care organizations and how performance is related to organizational strategies is included.

Instructor: Stanley Wallack

Focuses on refining the analytical skills useful to students for understanding the political and organizational factors influencing health care and health care policy. The readings and issues discussed are not a survey of current issues in health politics. Most readings were selected because they represent an innovative, interesting, or challenging piece of analysis. The goal of each class shall be to identify and critique the core arguments of the work, the conceptual categories and assumptions on which it is based, and the data presented in its support.

Instructor: Jeffrey Prottas

Provides students with background and tools to carry out economic analysis of individual and public decision-making with respect to life-cycle risks of disability and retirement, including long-term care services that compensate for functional disability. Students will compare and contrast issues and analysis for two groups: elders and working-aged persons with disabilities.

Instructor: Christine Bishop

One of the most important health policy issues facing the nation is how to finance and provide long-term care for persons with chronic illness and disabilities. Uses historical and political economy frameworks to analyze the origins of current long-term care policies and programs. Topics covered include homecare, institutional care, concepts of need, informal care, choice and autonomy, acute care connections, integration, private approaches, international comparisons, and reform options. Primary focus will be on the aged, but other populations with disabilities will be considered.

Instructor: Walter Leutz

Provides students with a base of knowledge about the policy arena and the politics of aging and an opportunity to explore selected policy issues in some depth. Focuses on a few areas that provide fertile ground for policy development and/or analysis, and has three components: (1) lectures covering background information; (2) discussions critically evaluating readings; and (3) student presentations. Projects and papers provide students opportunities to examine issues surrounding the design and implementation of particular policies, develop curriculum for particular topics, or undertake critiques of policies already in place.

Instructor: Staff

An introduction to organizational theory and behavior from a policy and management perspective. Examines a number of major perspectives on the nature and process of organization. The course objectives are: to develop an awareness of what organizational theory is and why it is important in providing analytical lenses to see (or ignore) phenomena which might be overlooked; to review how some theorists have analyzed organizations; to develop a critical attitude toward the literature; and to encourage the development of an integrative (and creative) point of view.

Instructors: Jon Chilingerian and Jody Hoffer Gittell

Students will examine framing in public policy in general, and its relationship to challenges faced by communities of color. Further, we will address the topics of race and gender in health and health care; education, welfare policy, immigration, housing, and other issues. Students will hone their skills in policy analysis, political advocacy, communication, coalition building and networking as they relate to the policy process. Class discussion, essays/case studies, and in-class assignments are used.

Instructor: Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson

Examines how social scientists and policymakers define "vulnerable" or "disadvantaged" population groups, how these constructions can shift or change over time, and how policies and programs address inequalities and serve the needs of diverse groups. We explore the causes, correlates, and consequences of inequalities across the lifespan, and consider how race, ethnicity, gender, disability, social class, sexual orientation, age, and their intersections shape lived experiences and well-being. The potential of social movements, institutional restructuring, and policy initiatives to reduce inequalities and promote inclusion, equality, and social justice are analyzed.  

Instructor: Staff

Examines approaches to policy analysis and assesses strength and limitations of various methods. Exposes students to a range of methods and theoretical frameworks for exploring and understanding contemporary social problems and policy challenges. Begins with an overview of the stages of policy process including policy formulation, rulemaking, and implementation. Policy analysis will be defined and a distinction made with policy research. The course also focuses on the criteria for evaluating policy options including efficiency, equity, security, and liberty. Ethics and the role of values in shaping analysis will be explored. Actual policy analysis is evaluated in the areas of children and family policy, health, and welfare policy. Students have the opportunity to write and present a policy analysis critique.

Instructors: Michael Doonan

The class conducts a thorough and rigorous examination of the central features, assumptions, and implications of asset-based policy, focusing on four central aspects of asset-based policy. Explores the analytic features of an asset perspective and determines whether such policies could make a significant difference. Reviews evidence regarding the impact of asset-based policies from demonstration projects just now becoming available. Also examines in detail the implications for social policy.

Instructor: Janet Boguslaw

Applies economic analysis to policy and research issues in the mental health and substance abuse sectors, including cost-effectiveness, managed care, benefit design, and adverse selection. Studies the impact of different approaches to financing treatment and paying providers in the public and private sectors.

Instructor: Dominic Hodgkin

Provides an overview of issues related to clinical prevention and treatment services for alcohol, tobacco, and other drug abuse. Examines the organization, delivery, and financing of abuse services. Specific topics include the structure of the treatment system, access to service, the process of treatment, and the effectiveness, cost, cost-effectiveness, and quality of treatment. Examines the impact of managed care on the way services are organized and delivered and on clinical outcome.

Instructor: Constance Horgan