IAPA Approved Electives
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Note - There are two ‘master’ lists of electives, one for students graduating in May ‘27 or earlier, and another for students graduating in May ’28 or later.
Elective Courses
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Elective Courses
IAPA Approved Electives
Spring 2026
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DEVELOPMENT | |
| ANTH 1225 | Gendering Migration and Diasporas |
| ECON 1110 | Intermediate Microeconomics |
| ECON 1210 | Intermediate Macroeconomics |
| ECON 1360 | Health Economics |
| ECON 1540 | International Trade |
| ECON 1550 | International Finance |
| ECON 1560 | Economic Growth |
| ENVS 1554 | Farm Planet: Hunger, Development, and the Future of Food and Agriculture |
| HIST 1969A | Israel-Palestine Lands and Peoples 1 |
| JUDS 1711 | History of the State of Israel: 1948 to the Present |
| MPA 2735 | Women in Nations |
| PHP 1100 | Comparative Health Care Systems |
| PHP 1725 | Rural Public Health |
| PHP 1730 | Climate Risks and Health Solutions |
| PHP 1810 | Community Engaged Research in public Health |
| PHP 1950 | Adolescent and Young Adult Health |
| POLS 1240 | Politics, Markets, and States in Developing Countries |
| POLS 1821V | Democracy and Inequality in American Cities |
POL & GOV | |
| BIOL 1530 | Emergency Medical Systems |
| CSCI 1800 | Cybersecurity and International Relations |
| CSCI 1805 | Computers, Freedom, and Privacy |
| ECON 1110 | Intermediate Microeconomics |
| ECON 1210 | Intermediate Macroeconomics |
| ECON 1310 | Labor Economics |
| ECON 1360 | Health Economics |
| ECON 1410 | Urban Economics |
| ECON 1430 | The Economics of Social Policy |
| ECON 1540 | International Trade |
| ECON 1550 | International Finance |
| ENVS 1207 | Eco-Entrepreneurship |
| ENVS 1547 | Finance and the Environment |
| ENVS 1823 | Climate, Media, Discourse, and Power |
| HIST 1969A | Israel-Palestine Lands and Peoples 1 |
| IAPA 1201E | Nonprofit Organizations (IAPA 1700E) |
| MPA 2735 | Women in Nations |
| PHP 1100 | Comparative Health Care Systems |
| PHP 1300 | Parenting Behaviors and Child Health |
| PHP 1551 | Substance Use Prevention, Treatment, and Policy |
| PHP 1610 | Tobacco, Disease and the Industry |
| PHP 1650 | Race, Racism, and Health |
| PHP 1681 | Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice |
| PHP 1725 | Rural Public Health |
| PHP 1730 | Climate Risks and Health Solutions |
| PHP 1810 | Community Engaged Research in public Health |
| PHP 1854 | The Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases |
| PHP 1950 | Adolescent and Young Adult Health |
| POLS 1100 | U.S. Congress |
| POLS 1310 | African American Politics |
| POLS 1315 | Diversity and US Minority Politics |
| POLS 1365 | 21st Century Social Movements |
| POLS 1460 | International Political Economy |
| POLS 1821N | Political Journalism |
| POLS 1821V | Democracy and Inequality in American Cities |
| POLS 1823I | Urban Politics and Policy |
| SOC 1871X | Comparative Urban Political Economy |
| URBN 1250 | The Political Foundations of the City |
SECURITY | |
| ANTH 1225 | Gendering Migration and Diasporas |
| CSCI 1800 | Cybersecurity and International Relations |
| CSCI 1805 | Computers, Freedom, and Privacy |
| ECON 1540 | International Trade |
| ENVS 1547 | Finance and the Environment |
| ENVS 1554 | Farm Planet: Hunger, Development, and the Future of Food and Agriculture |
| ENVS 1823 | Climate, Media, Discourse, and Power |
| HIST 1969A | Israel-Palestine Lands and Peoples 1 |
| JUDS 1711 | History of the State of Israel: 1948 to the Present |
| MPA 2735 | Women in Nations |
| AFRI 0090 | An Introduction to Africana Studies | DEV | ||
| AFRI 0670 | Global Black Radicalism | DEV | SEC | |
| AFRI 1075 | Providence Housing Ecosystem, Development, Displacement and Gentrification | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| AFRI 1085 | The Black Vote: A Critical Interrogation of a Concept | POL/GOV | ||
| AFRI 1090 | Black Freedom Struggle Since 1945 | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| AFRI 1100C | Racial Slavery and Empire in an Age of Global Capital | DEV | SEC | |
| AFRI 1170 | African American Women's History | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| AFRI 1270 | Slavery, Democracy, and Racial Violence in the Americas | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| AFRI 1360 | Africana Studies: Knowledge, Texts, and Methodology | DEV | ||
| AFRI 1920 | Health Inequality in Historical Perspective | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ANTH 0066D | Who Owns the Past? | DEV | ||
| ANTH 0100 | Introduction to Cultural Anthropology | DEV | ||
| ANTH 0300 | Culture and Health | POL/GOV | ||
| ANTH 0800 | Sound and Symbols: Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology | DEV | ||
| ANTH 1125 | Indigenous Archaeologies | DEV | ||
| ANTH 1150 | Middle East in Anthropological Perspective | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| ANTH 1225 | Gendering Migration and Diasporas | DEV | SEC | |
| ANTH 1242 | Bioethics and Culture | POL/GOV | ||
| ANTH 1300 | Anthropology of Addictions and Recovery | POL/GOV | ||
| ANTH 1301 | Anthropology of Homelessness | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ANTH 1310 | Global Health: Anthropological Perspectives | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| ANTH 1313 | Are We Really All in This Together? | DEV | ||
| ANTH 1315 | Race, Racialization, and Health | POL/GOV | ||
| ANTH 1320 | Anthropology and Development | DEV | ||
| ANTH 1350 | Anthropology of Epidemics | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| ANTH 1515 | Anthropology of Mental Health | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ANTH 1601 | Reimagining Climate Change | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| ANTH 1730 | Violence of the Past | SEC | ||
| ANTH 1911 | Gender and Sexuality in the Middle East | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ARCH 1538 | Heritage Under Fire | SEC | ||
| BIOL 1070 | Biotechnology and Global Health | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| BIOL 1530 | Emergency Medical Systems | POL/GOV | ||
| BIOL 1555 | Methods in Informatics and Data Science for Health | POL/GOV | ||
| CLPS 1250 | Human Factors | POL/GOV | ||
| CLPS 1271 | Cognition in the Classroom | POL/GOV | ||
| CLPS 1750 | Blame and Punishment | POL/GOV | ||
| CLPS 1770 | Stigma and Prejudice | POL/GOV | ||
| CSCI 1360 | Human Factors in Cybersecurity | SEC | ||
| CSCI 1800 | Cybersecurity and International Relations | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| CSCI 1805 | Computers, Freedom, and Privacy | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| CSCI 1850 | Cybersecurity Law and Policy | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| CSCI 1870 | Cybersecurity Ethics | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| CSCI 1951I | CS for Social Change | POL/GOV | ||
| CSCI 1953A | Accessible and Inclusive Cybersecurity and Policy | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| EAST 0650 | Language, Culture, and Society: Korea | DEV | ||
| EAST 1270 | China Through the Lens: History, Cinema, and Critical Discourse | DEV | ||
| ECON 0110 | Principles of Economics | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| ECON 1050 | Environmental Economics and Policy | POL/GOV | ||
| ECON 1070 | Race, Crime, and Punishment in America | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| ECON 1110 | Intermediate Microeconomics | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ECON 1130 | Intermediate Microeconomics (Mathematical) | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ECON 1170 | Welfare Economics and Social Choice Theory | POL/GOV | ||
| ECON 1200 | History of Economic Thought | POL/GOV | ||
| ECON 1210 | Intermediate Macroeconomics | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ECON 1255 | Unemployment: Models and Policies | POL/GOV | ||
| ECON 1301 | Economics of Education I | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ECON 1310 | Labor Economics | POL/GOV | ||
| ECON 1340 | Economics of Global Warming | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| ECON 1350 | Environmental Economics and Policy | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| ECON 1355 | Environmental Issues in Development Economics | DEV | ||
| ECON 1360 | Health Economics | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ECON 1370 | Race and Inequality in the United States | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ECON 1385 | Intergenerational Poverty in America | POL/GOV | ||
| ECON 1390 | Inequality of Income, Wealth, and Health in the United States | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ECON 1410 | Urban Economics | POL/GOV | ||
| ECON 1430 | The Economics of Social Policy | POL/GOV | ||
| ECON 1480 | Public Economics | POL/GOV | ||
| ECON 1487 | Translating Evidence Into Economic Policy | POL/GOV | ||
| ECON 1500 | Current Global Macroeconomic Challenges | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| ECON 1530 | Health, Hunger and the Household in Developing Countries | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ECON 1540 | International Trade | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| ECON 1550 | International Finance | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ECON 1560 | Economic Growth | DEV | ||
| ECON 1570 | The Economics of Latin Americans | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| ECON 1590 | The Economy of China Since 1949 | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| ECON 1630 | Mathematical Econometrics I | POL/GOV | ||
| EDUC 0100 | Controversies in Educational Inequality | POL/GOV | ||
| EDUC 0820 | Politics and Public Education | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| EDUC 0830 | Sociology of Education | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| EDUC 0835 | Comparative Education | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| EDUC 1190 | Family Engagement in Education | POL/GOV | ||
| EDUC 1225 | The American Teacher: How Policy Shapes the Profession | POL/GOV | ||
| EDUC 1300 | Schools as Sites of Social Welfare | POL/GOV | ||
| EDUC 1310 | Inside Higher Ed: Sex, Class, and Admissions | POL/GOV | ||
| EDUC 1320 | Turning Hope Into Results | POL/GOV | ||
| EDUC 1490 | Discipline and Punish: Historical Insights | POL/GOV | ||
| EDUC 1555 | Human Development and Education in East Asia | DEV | ||
| EDUC 1615 | Intro to Community-Based Participatory Research | POL/GOV | ||
| EDUC 1620 | Urban Schools in Historical Perspective | POL/GOV | ||
| EDUC 1670 | Juveniles for Justice: Youth Civic Engagement and Activism | POL/GOV | ||
| EDUC 1680 | Histories of Race and Education in the United States | POL/GOV | ||
| EDUC 1765 | Educational Policy and Program Evaluation in Low and Middle Income Countries | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ENGL 1180U | Testimony | SEC | ||
| ENGN 0020 | Transforming Society-Technology and Choices for the Future | POL/GOV | ||
| ENGN 1800 | The Social Impact of Emerging Tech | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| ENVS 0110 | Humans, Nature, and the Environment | DEV | ||
| ENVS 0490 | Environmental Science in a Changing World | DEV | ||
| ENVS 0705 | Equity and the Environment: Movements, Scholarship, Solutions | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ENVS 1207 | Eco-Entrepreneurship | POL/GOV | ||
| ENVS 1232 | Land Matters | DEV | ||
| ENVS 1247 | Clearing the Air: Environmental Studies of Pollution | POL/GOV | ||
| ENVS 1350 | Environmental Economics and Policy | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ENVS 1400 | Sustainable Design in the Built Environment | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ENVS 1545 | The Theory and Practice of Sustainable Investing | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ENVS 1547 | Finance and the Environment | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| ENVS 1552 | Science, Power and the Corruption of Environmental Health | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ENVS 1554 | Farm Planet: Hunger, Development, and the Future of Food and Agriculture | DEV | SEC | |
| ENVS 1555 | Urban Agriculture: The Importance of Localized Food Systems | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ENVS 1574 | Climate Policy Research: Organizations and Obstruction | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| ENVS 1580 | Environmental Stewardship and Resilience in Urban Systems | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ENVS 1615 | Climate Change, Human Rights, and the Policy Process | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ENVS 1823 | Climate, Media, Discourse, and Power | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| ENVS 1875 | The Nature of Cities | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ENVS 1925 | Energy Policy and Politics | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| ETHN 1200B | Contemporary Indigenous Education in North America | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ETHN 1750A | Immigrant Social Movements: Bridging Theory and Practice | POL/GOV | ||
| ETHN 1751F | Race in US Cities and Suburbs | POL/GOV | ||
| FREN 1410T | L'expérience des réfugiés: déplacements, migrations | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| HIST 0150C | Locked Up: A Global History of Prison and Captivity | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| HIST 0150D | Refugees: A Twentieth-Century History | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| HIST 0234 | Modern Latin America | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| HIST 0244 | Understanding the Middle East: 1800s to the Present | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| HIST 0252 | The American Civil War | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| HIST 0285A | Modern Genocide and Other Crimes against Humanity | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| HIST 0580M | The Age of Revolutions, 1760-1824 | DEV | ||
| HIST 1032 | South Africa: Apartheid and After | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| HIST 1080 | Humanitarianism and Conflict in Africa | DEV | SEC | |
| HIST 1081 | Environmental Justice and Injustice in African History | DEV | ||
| HIST 1120 | At China's Edges | DEV | ||
| HIST 1121 | The Modern Chinese Nation: An Idea and Its Limits | DEV | SEC | |
| HIST 1123 | Chinese Socialist Dreams | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| HIST 1240A | Politics of Violence in 20C Europe | SEC | ||
| HIST 1267 | The Global British Empire: 1600-Present | DEV | SEC | |
| HIST 1320 | Rebel Island: Cuba, 1492-Present | DEV | SEC | |
| HIST 1333 | The Mexican Revolution | DEV | SEC | |
| HIST 1457 | Understanding the Palestinians | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| HIST 1502 | The Early Republic | POL/GOV | ||
| HIST 1507 | American Politics and Culture Since 1945 | POL/GOV | ||
| HIST 1531 | Political Movements in 20th-Century America | POL/GOV | ||
| HIST 1533 | Cities and Inequality Since 1920: The United States | POL/GOV | ||
| HIST 1554 | American Empire Since 1890 | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| HIST 1573 | Energy and Power: An Environmental History of North America | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| HIST 1620 | Resisting Empire: Gandhi and the Making of Modern South Asia | DEV | ||
| HIST 1820B | The Environmental History of East Asia | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| HIST 1820C | Sovereignty and Ecology: Law, Land, and Environmental Change | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| HIST 1825J | History of Artificial Intelligence | POL/GOV | ||
| HIST 1952C | Latino Urban History | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| HIST 1954H | The City In Strife: Mapping Segregations, Inequality, Insurrection (also SOC 1954H) | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| HIST 1954K | Anti-Colonial geographies, temporalities, and Artisanal Formations | DEV | ||
| HIST 1956R | Antisemitism and Modern History | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| HIST 1967L | Politics and Culture Under the Brazilian Military Dictatorship, 1964-1985 | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| HIST 1968A | Approaches to the Middle East | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| HIST 1969A | Israel-Palestine Lands and Peoples 1 | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| HIST 1969C | Debates in Middle Eastern History | DEV | ||
| HIST 1972J | Racial Capitalism and US Liberal Empire | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| HIST 1974E | The Intellectual History of Imperialism | DEV | SEC | |
| HIST 1977I | Gender, Race, and Medicine in the Americas | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| HMAN 0800B | The Art of International Relations | SEC | ||
| HMAN 1977B | Foreign Policy Worlds | SEC | ||
| IAPA 1201B | Victory, Defeat, and Everything In-Between | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| IAPA 1201D | Social Entrepreneurship | POL/GOV | ||
| IAPA 1201E | Nonprofit Organizations | POL/GOV | ||
| IAPA 1201F | Gender and Sexuality in the Middle East | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| IAPA 1203 | History of American Intervention | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| IAPA 1205 | International Law | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| IAPA 1207 | The Politics of Developing Countries | DEV | SEC | |
| IAPA 1208 | Political Economy of China | POL/GOV | ||
| IAPA 1401A | Public Opinion Surveys | POL/GOV | ||
| IAPA 1402 | Beyond Sun, Sea and Sand (Contemporary Caribbean) | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| IAPA 1441 | Caribbean and Latin American Migration: Race, Gender, Community | DEV | ||
| IAPA 1555 | The Political Economy of Strategy | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| IAPA 1700 | Economics and Public Policy | POL/GOV | ||
| IAPA 1700E | Non Profit Organizations | POL/GOV | ||
| IAPA 2000 | Theory and Research in Development I | DEV | ||
| IAPA/UNIV 1207 | Eco-Entrepreneurship | POL/GOV | ||
| JUDS 1711 | History of the State of Israel: 1948 to the Present | DEV | SEC | |
| MPA 2231 | Activating Change for Climate and Sustainability | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| MPA 2735 | Women in Nations | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| PHIL 1560 | Philosophy of Law | POL/GOV | ||
| PHP 1070 | The Global Burden of Disease | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| PHP 1100 | Comparative Health Care Systems | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| PHP 1300 | Parenting Behaviors and Child Health | POL/GOV | ||
| PHP 1450 | Covid-19, Public Health, and Health Policy | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| PHP 1460 | Public Health in a Changing World: Law, Policy, and Justice | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| PHP 1550 | Substance Abuse and Vulnerability to Addiction | POL/GOV | ||
| PHP 1551 | Substance Use Prevention, Treatment, and Policy | POL/GOV | ||
| PHP 1580 | Pandemic Game Changers | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| PHP 1610 | Tobacco, Disease and the Industry | POL/GOV | ||
| PHP 1650 | Race, Racism, and Health | POL/GOV | ||
| PHP 1670 | Public Mental Health: A Framework for Studying and Preventing Mental Health Disorders | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| PHP 1680I | Pathology of Power: Disability, Health, and Community | POL/GOV | ||
| PHP 1680U | Intersectionality and Health Inequities | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| PHP 1681 | Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice | POL/GOV | ||
| PHP 1700 | Current Topics in Environmental Health | POL/GOV | ||
| PHP 1725 | Rural Public Health | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| PHP 1730 | Climate Risks and Health Solutions | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| PHP 1796 | The Historical Determinants of Public Health | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| PHP 1802S | Human Security and Humanitarian Response | SEC | ||
| PHP 1810 | Community Engaged Research in public Health | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| PHP 1821 | Incarceration, Disparities, and Health | POL/GOV | ||
| PHP 1854 | The Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases | POL/GOV | ||
| PHP 1920 | Social Determinants of Health | POL/GOV | ||
| PHP 1950 | Adolescent and Young Adult Health | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| POLS 0200 | Introduction to Comparative Politics | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| POLS 0400 | Introduction to International Politics | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| POLS 1010 | Topics in American Constitutional Law | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1065 | Participating American Publics | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1085 | Injustice | SEC | ||
| POLS 1090 | Polarized Politics | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1100 | U.S. Congress | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1120 | Campaigns and Elections | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1130 | The American Presidency | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1140 | Public Opinion and American Democracy | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1170 | Constitutional Law: Individual Rights | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1210 | Latin American Politics | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| POLS 1225 | The Politics of Nuclear Weapons | SEC | ||
| POLS 1240 | Politics, Markets, and States in Developing Countries | DEV | ||
| POLS 1250 | Capitalism, Democracy, and Geopolitics in Europe | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| POLS 1265 | Political Institutions of East Asian Democracies | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| POLS 1280 | Politics, Economy and Society in India | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| POLS 1290 | The Rise of China | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| POLS 1310 | African American Politics | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1315 | Diversity and US Minority Politics | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1325 | Political Organizations and Social Change in America | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1350 | Chinese Foreign Policy | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| POLS 1355 | Women in Politics | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| POLS 1365 | 21st Century Social Movements | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1390 | Global Governance | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| POLS 1400 | North Atlantic Politics After the Cold War | SEC | ||
| POLS 1420 | Money and Power in the International Political Economy | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1440 | Security, Governance and Development in Africa | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| POLS 1455 | Contemporary African Politics | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| POLS 1455 | Crime, Punishment, and Politics | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1460 | International Political Economy | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1500 | The International Law and Politics of Human Rights | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| POLS 1550 | War and Politics | SEC | ||
| POLS 1560 | American Foreign Policy | SEC | ||
| POLS 1820F | Black Protest: Theory and Praxis | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1820H | Contraband Capitalism: States and Illegal Global Markets | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| POLS 1820X | Democratic Erosion | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1821I | Issues in Democratic Theory | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1821N | Political Journalism | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1821S | Women and Politics | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1821V | Democracy and Inequality in American Cities | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| POLS 1822B | Foundations of Political Economy | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| POLS 1822G | The Political Economy of Hard Policy Problems | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1822I | Geopolitics of Oil and Energy | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| POLS 1822Q | Identity Politics in Global Perspective | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| POLS 1822U | War and Human Rights | SEC | ||
| POLS 1822W | Congressional Investigations | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| POLS 1823H | Public Opinion | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1823I | Urban Politics and Policy | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| POLS 1824C | Political Communication | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1824J | Culture, Identity, and Development | DEV | ||
| POLS 1824S | Politics of Migration | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| POLS 1824T | U.S.-China Relations | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| POLS 1825E | Health Care Politics and Policy | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| POLS 1825M | The Politics of Finance and Financial Crises | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| POLS 1825P | Politics of Ocean Governance | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| POLS 1825Q | Political Development, Democracy, and Integration in Europe | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| POLS 1825R | Environment, Migration, and Conflict in Contemporary European Politics | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| POLS 1825S | Latino Politics in the United States | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1825U | Ethics and International Affairs | SEC | ||
| POLS 1825V | The Legislative Process | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1826B | Political Economy of Development | DEV | ||
| RELS 0036 | Love and War in India | SEC | ||
| RELS 0090M | Islam, Violence and Media | SEC | ||
| RELS 0750 | Law and Religion | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| RELS 1610 | Sacred Sites: Law, Politics, Religion | DEV | SEC | |
| SAST 0140 | Food, Religion and Politics in South Asia | DEV | ||
| SAST 0750 | Understanding the Indian Economy | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| SOC 1040 | World Population Problems | POL/GOV | ||
| SOC 1116 | Criminal Courts and the Law in an Era of Mass Incarceration | POL/GOV | ||
| SOC 1128 | Migrants, Refugees, and the Mediterranean | DEV | SEC | |
| SOC 1155 | Borderlands | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| SOC 1270 | Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the Modern World | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| SOC 1330 | Remaking the City | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| SOC 1450 | Unstable Times: Migration, Identity, and Social Integration | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| SOC 1870X | Sociology of Health Research Seminar | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| SOC 1871O | Critical Race Theory | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| SOC 1871X | Comparative Urban Political Economy | POL/GOV | ||
| SOC 1872E | Global Sociology | DEV | ||
| SOC 1872V | Race and Wrongful Conviction in the United States | POL/GOV | ||
| SOC 1873D | Inequality of Infant Health | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| SOC 1873F | Feminist Perspectives in Criminal Justice | POL/GOV | ||
| SOC 1873G | The Geography of Urban Inequality | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| SOC 1874B | Work, Inequality, and Social Change | POL/GOV | ||
| SOC 1954H | The City In Strife: Mapping Segregations, Inequality, Insurrection (also HIST 1954H) | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| UNIV 1001 | The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Contested Narratives | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| UNIV 1111 | Systemic Racism and Modes of Resilience | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| URBN 0215 | Urban Life in the Global South | DEV | ||
| URBN 1250 | The Political Foundations of the City | POL/GOV | ||
| URBN 1251 | Municipal Money | POL/GOV | ||
| URBN 1260 | Housing in America | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| URBN 1270 | Urban Politics and Urban Public Policy | POL/GOV | ||
| URBN 1870D | Downtown Development | DEV | ||
| URBN 1870M | Urban Regimes in the American Republic | POL/GOV | ||
| URBN 1870T | Transportation: An Urban Planning Perspective | POL/GOV | ||
| URBN 1871G | Urban Asia: Beyond Tradition, Modernity, and Crisis | DEV | ||
| URBN 1943 | The Real Estate Development Process: An Entrepreneurial Lens | POL/GOV |
| AFRI 1075 | Providence Housing Ecosystem, Development, Displacement and Gentrification | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| AFRI 1170 | African American Women's History | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| AFRI 1270 | Slavery, Democracy, and Racial Violence in the Americas | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| ANTH 1125 | Indigenous Archaeologies | DEV | ||
| ANTH 1150 | Middle East in Anthropological Perspective | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| ANTH 1225 | Gendering Migration and Diasporas | DEV | SEC | |
| ANTH 1300 | Anthropology of Addictions and Recovery | POL/GOV | ||
| ANTH 1301 | Anthropology of Homelessness | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ANTH 1310 | Global Health: Anthropological Perspectives | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| ANTH 1313 | Are We Really All in This Together? Culture, Structure, and Health Disparities | DEV | ||
| ANTH 1320 | Anthropology and Development: Ethnographic Perspectives on Poverty and Progress | DEV | ||
| ANTH 1515 | Anthropology of Mental Health | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ANTH 1601 | Reimagining Climate Change | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| ANTH 1730 | Violence of the Past | SEC | ||
| BIOL 1070 | Biotechnology and Global Health | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| BIOL 1530 | Emergency Medical Systems | POL/GOV | ||
| CLPS 1250 | Human Factors | POL/GOV | ||
| CLPS 1750 | Blame and Punishment | POL/GOV | ||
| CSCI 1360 | Human Factors in Cybersecurity | SEC | ||
| CSCI 1800 | Cybersecurity and International Relations | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| CSCI 1805 | Computers, Freedom, and Privacy | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| CSCI 1850 | Cybersecurity Law and Policy | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| CSCI 1870 | Cybersecurity Ethics | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| CSCI 1951I | CS for Social Change | POL/GOV | ||
| CSCI 1953A | Accessible and Inclusive Cybersecurity and Policy | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| ECON 0110 | Principles of Economics | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ECON 1050 | Environmental Economics and Policy | POL/GOV | ||
| ECON 1070 | Race, Crime, and Punishment in America | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| ECON 1110 | Intermediate Microeconomics | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ECON 1210 | Intermediate Macroeconomics | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ECON 1310 | Labor Economics | POL/GOV | ||
| ECON 1340 | Economics of Global Warming | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| ECON 1350 | Environmental Economics and Policy | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| ECON 1355 | Environmental Issues in Development Economics | DEV | ||
| ECON 1360 | Health Economics | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ECON 1385 | Intergenerational Poverty in America | POL/GOV | ||
| ECON 1390 | Inequality of Income, Wealth, and Health in the United States | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ECON 1410 | Urban Economics | POL/GOV | ||
| ECON 1430 | The Economics of Social Policy | POL/GOV | ||
| ECON 1480 | Public Economics | POL/GOV | ||
| ECON 1487 | Translating Evidence Into Economic Policy | POL/GOV | ||
| ECON 1500 | Current Global Macroeconomic Challenges | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| ECON 1530 | Health, Hunger and the Household in Developing Countries | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ECON 1540 | International Trade | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| ECON 1550 | International Finance | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ECON 1560 | Economic Growth | DEV | ||
| ECON 1570 | The Economics of Latin Americans | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| ECON 1590 | The Economy of China Since 1949 | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| EDUC 1190 | Family Engagement in Education | POL/GOV | ||
| EDUC 1300 | Schools as Sites of Social Welfare | POL/GOV | ||
| EDUC 1310 | Inside Higher Ed: Sex, Class, and Admissions | POL/GOV | ||
| EDUC 1320 | Turning Hope Into Results | POL/GOV | ||
| EDUC 1555 | Human Development and Education in East Asia | DEV | ||
| EDUC 1615 | Intro to Community-Based Participatory Research | POL/GOV | ||
| EDUC 1620 | Urban Schools in Historical Perspective | POL/GOV | ||
| EDUC 1670 | Juveniles for Justice: Youth Civic Engagement and Activism | POL/GOV | ||
| EDUC 1680 | Histories of Race and Education in the United States | POL/GOV | ||
| EDUC 1765 | Educational Policy and Program Evaluation in Low and Middle Income Countries | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ENGN 1800 | The Social Impact of Emerging Tech | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| ENVS 1207 | Eco-Entrepreneurship | POL/GOV | ||
| ENVS 1232 | Land Matters | DEV | ||
| ENVS 1247 | Clearing the Air: Environmental Studies of Pollution | POL/GOV | ||
| ENVS 1350 | Environmental Economics and Policy | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ENVS 1400 | Sustainable Design in the Built Environment | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ENVS 1545 | The Theory and Practice of Sustainable Investing | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ENVS 1547 | Finance and the Environment | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| ENVS 1552 | Science, Power and the Corruption of Environmental Health | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ENVS 1554 | Farm Planet: Hunger, Development, and the Future of Food and Agriculture | DEV | SEC | |
| ENVS 1555 | Urban Agriculture: The Importance of Localized Food Systems | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ENVS 1574 | Climate Policy Research: Organizations and Obstruction | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| ENVS 1580 | Environmental Stewardship and Resilience in Urban Systems | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ENVS 1615 | Climate Change, Human Rights, and the Policy Process | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ENVS 1823 | Climate, Media, Discourse, and Power | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| ENVS 1875 | The Nature of Cities | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ENVS 1925 | Energy Policy and Politics | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| ETHN 1200B | Contemporary Indigenous Education in North America | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| ETHN 1750A | Immigrant Social Movements: Bridging Theory and Practice | POL/GOV | ||
| ETHN 1751F | Race in US Cities and Suburbs | POL/GOV | ||
| FREN 1410T | L'expérience des réfugiés: déplacements, migrations | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| HIST 1032 | South Africa: Apartheid and After | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| HIST 1080 | Humanitarianism and Conflict in Africa | DEV | SEC | |
| HIST 1081 | Environmental Justice and Injustice in African History | DEV | ||
| HIST 1120 | At China's Edges | DEV | ||
| HIST 1121 | The Modern Chinese Nation: An Idea and Its Limits | DEV | SEC | |
| HIST 1123 | Chinese Socialist Dreams | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| HIST 1457 | Understanding the Palestinians | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| HIST 1507 | American Politics and Culture Since 1945 | POL/GOV | ||
| HIST 1531 | Political Movements in 20th-Century America | POL/GOV | ||
| HIST 1533 | Cities and Inequality Since 1920: The United States | POL/GOV | ||
| HIST 1554 | American Empire Since 1890 | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| HIST 1573 | Energy and Power: An Environmental History of North America | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| HIST 1620 | Resisting Empire: Gandhi and the Making of Modern South Asia | DEV | ||
| HIST 1820B | The Environmental History of East Asia | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| HIST 1820C | Soverignty and Ecology: Law, Land, and Environmental Change | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| HIST 1825J | History of Artificial Intelligence | POL/GOV | ||
| HIST 1952C | Latino Urban History | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| HIST 1954H | The City In Strife: Mapping Segregations, Inequality, Insurrection (also SOC 1954H) | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| HIST 1954K | Anti-Colonial geographies, temporalities, and Artisanal Formations | DEV | ||
| HIST 1956R | Antisemitism and Modern History | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| HIST 1967L | Politics and Culture Under the Brazilian Military Dictatorship, 1964-1985 | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| HIST 1968A | Approaches to the Middle East | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| HIST 1969A | Israel-Palestine Lands and Peoples 1 | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| HIST 1972J | Racial Capitalism and US Liberal Empire | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| HIST 1974E | The Intellectual History of Imperialism | DEV | SEC | |
| HIST 1977I | Gender, Race, and Medicine in the Americas | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| HMAN 1977B | Foreign Policy Worlds | SEC | ||
| IAPA 1201B | Victory, Defeat, and Everything In-Between | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| IAPA 1201D | Social Entrepreneurship | POL/GOV | ||
| IAPA 1201E | Nonprofit Organizations | POL/GOV | ||
| IAPA 1201F | Gender and Sexuality in the Middle East | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| IAPA 1203 | History of American Intervention | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| IAPA 1205 | International Law | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| IAPA 1207 | The Politics of Developing Countries | DEV | SEC | |
| IAPA 1208 | Political Economy of China | POL/GOV | ||
| IAPA 1401 | Economic Development in Latin America | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| IAPA 1402 | Beyond Sun, Sea and Sand (Contemporary Caribbean) | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| IAPA 1441 (AFRI 1441) | Caribbean and Latin American Migration: Race, Gender, Community | DEV | ||
| IAPA 1555 (1204) | The Political Economy of Strategy | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| IAPA 2000 | Theory and Research in Development I | DEV | ||
| IAPA/UNIV 1207 | Eco-Entrepreneurship | POL/GOV | ||
| JUDS 1711 | History of the State of Israel: 1948 to the Present | DEV | SEC | |
| MPA 2231 | Activating Change for Climate and Sustainability | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| MPA 2735 | Women in Nations | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| PHP 1070 | The Global Burden of Disease | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| PHP 1100 | Comparative Health Care Systems | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| PHP 1300 | Parenting Behaviors and Child Health | POL/GOV | ||
| PHP 1450 | Covid-19, Public Health, and Health Policy | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| PHP 1460 | Public Health in a Changing World: Law, Policy, and Justice | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| PHP 1550 | Substance Abuse and Vulnerability to Addiction | POL/GOV | ||
| PHP 1551 | Substance Use Prevention, Treatment, and Policy | POL/GOV | ||
| PHP 1580 | Pandemic Game Changers | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| PHP 1610 | Tobacco, Disease and the Industry | POL/GOV | ||
| PHP 1650 | Race, Racism, and Health | POL/GOV | ||
| PHP 1670 | Public Mental Health: A Framework for Studying and Preventing Mental Health Disorders | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| PHP 1680I | Pathology of Power: Disability, Health, and Community | POL/GOV | ||
| PHP 1680U | Intersectionality and Health Inequities | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| PHP 1681 | Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice | POL/GOV | ||
| PHP 1700 | Current Topics in Environmental Health | POL/GOV | ||
| PHP 1725 | Rural Public Health | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| PHP 1730 | Climate Risks and Health Solutions | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| PHP 1796 | The Historical Determinants of Public Health | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| PHP 1802S | Human Security and Humanitarian Response | SEC | ||
| PHP 1810 | Community Engaged Research in public Health | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| PHP 1821 | Incarceration, Disparities, and Health | POL/GOV | ||
| PHP 1854 | The Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases | POL/GOV | ||
| PHP 1920 | Social Determinants of Health | POL/GOV | ||
| PHP 1950 | Adolescent and Young Adult Health | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| POLS 0400 | Introduction to International Politics | SEC | ||
| POLS 1010 | Topics in American Constitutional Law | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1065 | Participating American Publics | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1090 | Polarized Politics | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1100 | U.S. Congress | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1120 | Campaigns and Elections | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1130 | The American Presidency | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1140 | Public Opinion and American Democracy | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1210 | Latin American Politics | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| POLS 1225 | The Politics of Nuclear Weapons | SEC | ||
| POLS 1240 | Politics, Markets, and States in Developing Countries | DEV | ||
| POLS 1250 | Capitalism, Democracy, and Geopolitics in Europe | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| POLS 1280 | Politics, Economy and Society in India | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| POLS 1290 | The Rise of China | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| POLS 1310 | African American Politics | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1315 | Diversity and US Minority Politics | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1325 | Political Organizations and Social Change in America | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1350 | Chinese Foreign Policy | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| POLS 1355 | Women in Politics | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| POLS 1365 | 21st Century Social Movements | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1390 | Global Governance | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| POLS 1420 | Money and Power in the International Political Economy | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1440 | Security, Governance and Development in Africa | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| POLS 1455 | Contemporary African Politics | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| POLS 1455 | Crime, Punishment, and Politics | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1460 | International Political Economy | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1500 | The International Law and Politics of Human Rights | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| POLS 1550 | War and Politics | SEC | ||
| POLS 1560 | American Foreign Policy | SEC | ||
| POLS 1820F | Black Protest: Theory and Praxis | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1820H | Contraband Capitalism: States and Illegal Global Markets | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| POLS 1820X | Democratic Erosion | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1821N | Political Journalism | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1821S | Women and Politics | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1821V | Democracy and Inequality in American Cities | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| POLS 1822B | Foundations of Political Economy | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| POLS 1822G | The Political Economy of Hard Policy Problems | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1822I | Geopolitics of Oil and Energy | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| POLS 1822Q | Identity Politics in Global Perspective | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| POLS 1822U | War and Human Rights | SEC | ||
| POLS 1822W | Congressional Investigations | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| POLS 1823H | Public Opinion | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1823I | Urban Politics and Policy | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| POLS 1824J | Culture, Identity, and Development | DEV | ||
| POLS 1824S | Politics of Migration | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| POLS 1824T | U.S.-China Relations | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| POLS 1825E | Health Care Politics and Policy | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| POLS 1825M | The Politics of Finance and Financial Crises | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| POLS 1825P | Politics of Ocean Governance | POL/GOV | SEC | |
| POLS 1825R | Environment, Migration, and Conflict in Contemporary European Politics | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| POLS 1825S | Latino Politics in the United States | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1825T | Latino Politics in the United States | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1825U | Ethics and International Affairs | SEC | ||
| POLS 1825V | The Legislative Process | POL/GOV | ||
| POLS 1826B | Political Economy of Development | DEV | ||
| SOC 1116 | Criminal Courts and the Law in an Era of Mass Incarceration | POL/GOV | ||
| SOC 1128 | Migrants, Refugees, and the Mediterranean | DEV | SEC | |
| SOC 1155 | Borderlands | DEV | POL/GOV | SEC |
| SOC 1270 | Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the Modern World | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| SOC 1450 | Unstable Times: Migration, Identity, and Social Integration | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| SOC 1870X | Sociology of Health Research Seminar | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| SOC 1871X | Comparative Urban Political Economy | POL/GOV | ||
| SOC 1872E | Global Sociology | DEV | ||
| SOC 1872V | Race and Wrongful Conviction in the United States | POL/GOV | ||
| SOC 1873D | Inequality of Infant Health | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| SOC 1873G | The Geography of Urban Inequality | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| SOC 1874B | Work, Inequality, and Social Change | POL/GOV | ||
| SOC 1954H | The City In Strife: Mapping Segregations, Inequality, Insurrection (also HIST 1954H) | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| UNIV 1111 | Systemic Racism and Modes of Resilience | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| URBN 1250 | The Political Foundations of the City | POL/GOV | ||
| URBN 1251 | Municipal Money | POL/GOV | ||
| URBN 1260 | Housing in America | DEV | POL/GOV | |
| URBN 1270 | Urban Politics and Urban Public Policy | POL/GOV | ||
| URBN 1870D | Downtown Development | DEV | ||
| URBN 1870M | Urban Regimes in the American Republic | POL/GOV | ||
| URBN 1870T | Transportation: An Urban Planning Perspective | POL/GOV | ||
| URBN 1871G | Urban Asia: Beyond Tradition, Modernity, and Crisis | DEV | ||
| URBN 1943 | The Real Estate Development Process: An Entrepreuerial Lens | POL/GOV |
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