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Technology and Politics, Fall 2025
This course looks at how technology shapes politics and debates around the governance of technology, ranging from historical examples such as the industrial revolution, atom bomb, green revolution, and printing press to contemporary examples such as the internet and artificial intelligence.
Politics of Poverty and Prosperity, Fall 2025
This course asks: why are some countries poor while others are prosperous? The course weighs competing explanations for this puzzle, highlighting the role of political factors and political institutions. The class is based on both lectures and data analysis labs.
AI for Social Science, Spring 2024
This course explores three topics: 1. How deep learning can be used to wrangle unstructured data (e.g. imagery, text) into datasets suitable for social science analysis. 2. Inference with deep learning: prediction, explainable AI, hypothesis-generation 3. Governance of AI. We go 0-100, from no prior knowledge to implementation of state of the art deep learning algorithms.
Political Economy, Spring 2023
This course provides a graduate-level introduction to the field of political economy, with a special emphasis on exploring examples of the latest designs used by political economists to credibly test theories.
Rural Politics, Fall 2022
This course examines the critical role that agriculture plays in shaping major phenomena studied by political scientists – from the development of modern nation-states to the emergence of democratic political institutions – taking a comparative as well as historical perspective