Teaching Assistant PPUA 5263 - GIS for Urban and Regional Planning (Fall 2024)
Prof. Fang Fang, Northeastern University
This course provides basic spatial analytic skills and introduces students to some of the urban social scientific and policy questions that have been answered with these methods. It covers introductory concepts and tools in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and database management. The course introduces students to the process of developing and writing an original policy-oriented spatial research project on a topic of their choosing.
Teaching Assistant PPUA 6502 - Economic Analysis for Policy and Planning (Spring 2024/Fall 2023)
Prof. Alicia Modestino & Prof. Ferdows Nasim, Northeastern University
This course introduces the fundamentals of macroeconomics and microeconomics as well as the role of key economic institutions, such as the Federal Reserve and engaged students in policy research, case studies on varying economic challenges, government’s role in a market economy and introduces methods of economic and policy analysis.
Case Study Facilitator and Community Partner-MGMT S-4189 Non-Profit Leadership and Community Engagement (Summar, 2024), Harvard University
Non-profit leadership and community engagement ideas and practices are needed now more than ever given increasing inequities. This course creates a container to develop twenty-first-century leadership skills, values, and habits. A collaborative, inclusive, and equitable approach is essential for sustainable, meaningful leadership and community engagement in local and global contexts. The core of this course is grappling with the complexities of community engagement projects rooted in belonging, equity, inclusion, and diversity principles and practices. This course also relies on facilitated dialogues, reflections, small group conversations, writing assignments, and student presentations. We create space for experiential, collaborative learning anchored by David Ehrlichman's Impact Networks, and articles and videos from the leadership and non-profit fields. At the heart of the course is a commitment to supporting students to become leaders of belonging, equity, inclusion, and diversity wherever they go and whomever they influence.
Teaching Assistant SPPUA 5225/5226 Open Classroom, Spring 2023
Prof. Ted Landsmark
Northeastern University
Achieving Sustainability and Environmental Resilience
Recent reports raise issues about slow progress in achieving sustainability, climate justice, and environmental resilience. This interdisciplinary lecture/workshop course includes case studies, quantitative and qualitative measurement tools, and research from scholars, practitioners, advocates, and data analysts to examine metrics for achieving progress in these areas, with a focus on water, heat, planning, policy, ethics, equity and climate racial justice. The course focuses on the challenges and opportunities associated with the use of sustainability rating systems and is offered in conjunction with partners including the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI). We will cover ISI sustainability rating system (ENVISION) credits, certification, and project audit requirements. The course is co-taught by public policy (Prof. Ted Landsmark) and engineering (Prof. Abdel Mustafa) faculty and Mohsin Khan (TA) is intended to assist in addressing issues of environmental justice, social equity, and the impacts of environmental interventions that may generate measurable social consequences. Presenters include faculty, community-based advocates, public officials, real estate and finance officials, and environmental policy organizations.
Teaching Assistant SPPUA 5225/5226 Open Classroom, Fall 2022,
Northeastern University
Environment and Justice in the Human Landscape
Social justice is an essential issue to address in the human landscape. This course explores the policies, practices, ethics, metrics, and outcomes related to achieving environmental justice, which is both an evolving field of racial equity study and policy-making, and a metaphor for pursuing racial and gender justice in many fields. Economic mitigation and social reparations will be considered. This weekly Wednesday evening presentation and discussion course is part of the Open Classroom series of Power to the People public offerings addressing approaches to pursuing social and racial equity in developing public policies in the United States and abroad. Presenters include faculty, community-based advocates, public officials, real estate and finance officials, and environmental policy organizations. The course is connected with the Boston Public Library Map Center’s exhibition, More or Less in Common: Environment and Justice in the Human Landscape, and to a one-day November 5th Dukakis Center/BPL conference on environmental justice.
The Policy Capstone is a semester-long course, where students in MPP/MUPP/MIRS and MPA complete their degree requirements by participating in a group capstone project in conjunction with and in service to a public or nonprofit sector partner in the United States. The course outcomes include:
Build and lead diverse and inclusive organizations and planning processes using skills of teamwork, project management, and cultural competence
Engage effectively and equitably with diverse stakeholders and communities using tools of oral and written communication, and public participation
Demonstrate advanced knowledge in a focus area within urban policy planning via report, presentation, proposal or exhibition as appropriate to the subject matter.
Visit Policy School site for Spring 2023 student-led research projects here.