2020-2021 Extension Course Archive

AAAS E-119
Chocolate, Culture, and the Politics of Food

Carla D. Martin, PhD

Lecturer on African and African American Studies, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25963

Description
This course examines the sociohistorical legacy of chocolate, with a delicious emphasis on the eating and appreciation of the so-called food of the gods. Interdisciplinary course readings introduce the history of cacao cultivation, the present day state of the global chocolate industry, the diverse cultural constructions surrounding chocolate, and the implications for chocolate’s future of scientific study, international politics, alternative trade models, and the food movement. Assignments address pressing real-world questions related to chocolate consumption, social justice, responsible development, honesty and the politics of representation in production and marketing, hierarchies of quality, and myths of purity.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date:

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course African and African American Studies 119x. This course follows the Harvard College spring calendar and will meet during the Extension School spring break, March 14-20. See the syllabus for specific meeting dates.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25963/2021

ANTH E-1000
Pyramid Schemes: What Can Ancient Egyptian Civilization Teach Us?

Peter Der Manuelian, PhD

Barbara Bell Professor of Egyptology, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25007

Description
How much of your impression of the ancient world was put there by Hollywood, music videos, or orientalist musings out of the West? How accurate are these depictions? Does it matter? This course examines the quintessential example of the “exotic, mysterious ancient world”—ancient Egypt—to interrogate these questions. Who has used ancient Egypt as a construct, and to what purpose? Did you know that pyramids, mummies, King Tut, and Cleopatra represent just the (overhyped) tip of a very rich civilization that holds plenty of life lessons for today? Combine the ancient Egyptians’ explanations of the world’s natural forces with all the social complexity of human interaction and you have a fully formed society—about four millennia of accumulated experience! Can investigating the real ancient Egypt unpack our current misconceptions about the land of the pharaohs? Hardly morose, tomb-building zombies, the Egyptians embraced life in all its messy details. Piety and corruption, imperialism and isolationism, divinity and mortality all played significant roles in life along the Nile. What can we learn about the nature of politics and society in our time by seeing the parallels between the ancient past and today? We explore archaeology, modern Egyptomania, repatriation, new digital visualization technologies, and international politics. What was ancient Egyptian racism? What is archaeological racism? Who owns the past? Who needs it? We take excursions into Egyptian art, history, politics, religion, literature and language (hieroglyphs), plus examine the evolution of Egyptology as a discipline.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required online sections to be arranged.Start Date:

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course Gen Ed 1099. This course follows the Harvard College spring calendar and will meet during the Extension School spring break, March 14-20. See the syllabus for specific meeting dates.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 60 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25007/2021

ANTH E-1050
Moctezuma’s Mexico Then and Now: The Past as Present in North America

Davíd Carrasco, PhD

Neil L. Rudenstine Professor for the Study of Latin America, Harvard University

William L. Fash, PhD

Charles P. Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15416

Description
This course provides students with the opportunity to explore how pre-Hispanic and Colonial Mexican and Latina/o cultures provide vital context for understanding today’s changing world. The emphasis is on the mythical and social origins, glory days, and political collapse of the Aztec Empire and Maya civilizations as a pivot to the study of the sexual, religious, and racial interactions of the Great Encounter between Mesoamerica, Africa, Europe, and the independent nations of Mexico and the United States. The study of the archaeology, artistic media, cosmovision, capital cities, human sacrifice, and the religious devotions of ancient Mesoamerica illuminate the Day of the Dead and Virgin of Guadalupe phenomena today. Objects at the Peabody Museum are used to examine new concepts of race, nation, and the persistence of Moctezuma’s Mexico in Latino identities in the Mexico-US Borderlands. This course empowers students to evaluate the ways the US is changing and struggling to define itself in relation to Latin America and especially the migration of peoples, ideas, arts, music, and food from and through Mexico.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date:

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course Gen Ed 1148 starting September 2. See syllabus for details.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15416/2020

ANTH E-1062
Selling Paradise: Tourism and its Objects

Zoe Eddy, PhD

Lecturer on Anthropology, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16434

Description
From keychains and shot glasses to postcards and t-shirts, material souvenirs are an indelible part of the international tourism industry. While they are often overlooked in academic literature, these objects tell important stories about the people who make, buy, and sell them. Souvenirs are more than simple memories of a place: they are layered expressions of how people, both those local and non-local to a place, imagine a location. Souvenirs help reveal the complex networks of history and culture—including the processes of colonialism and exploitation—that determine contemporary life. This course is an anthropological investigation of tourism and material culture. Students consider a survey of material objects as manifestations of historical and cultural processes. In addition to anthropological theory and method, indigenous theory and postcolonial studies guide this course. Ultimately, this course explores what it means to make, sell, and buy objects that originate in tourism landscapes. Classes take a global cross-comparative approach to course themes. While there is a heavy focus on international examples, there is significant emphasis on objects produced by indigenous North American makers.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A social anthropology course, two anthropology courses, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16434/2020

ANTH E-1067
American Eating: Succotash, Spam, and Cultures of Food

Zoe Eddy, PhD

Lecturer on Anthropology, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26069

Description
American food is frequently dismissed as insignificant, jumbled, and boring; sometimes Americans are defined as having no food culture. However, an anthropological dive into the history of American food suggests otherwise: from California rolls and cobb salad to corn whiskey and clam chowder, American foodways are complex and endlessly exciting—not to mention well worthy of academic investigation. This course uses an anthropological lens to explore the culture and history of American food and eating. While this course focuses on the United States, discussions include Canada, Central America, and South America. We start with the Indigenous origins of American food; we then move through various historical and contemporary case studies. Themes include, but are not limited to, colonial food histories, Indigenous food sovereignty, Afroculinaria and its national importance, wartime eating and postwar changes, gender and labor, and ethnicity and the impact of immigrant foodways. Rather than an exhaustive survey of American foods, we focus on specific case studies that exemplify the richness of American food cultures. We ask a variety of questions, such as: how did the development of the American diner support twentieth century labor trends? What does the so-called “tiki boom” reveal about postwar anxieties and new American fantasies? Why is the fortune cookie exemplary of Asian-American communities’ resilience and resistance? How do grits, jambalaya, spam, hot chocolate, the poor man’s feast, turkey dinners, tropical cocktails, muktuk, and a “lox and a schmear” divulge the interwoven histories of American eating? As a group, we explore these everyday foods and consider them on a broader cultural scale.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: One course in the social sciences or a discipline relevant to the theme of the course; background in anthropology suggested.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26069/2021

ANTH E-1400
Quests for Wisdom: Religious, Moral, and Aesthetic Searches for the Art of Living in Perilous Times

Arthur Kleinman, MD

Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University, and Professor of Medical Anthropology and Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Davíd Carrasco, PhD

Neil L. Rudenstine Professor for the Study of Latin America, Harvard University

Stephanie A. Paulsell, PhD

Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies, Harvard Divinity School

Michael Puett, PhD

Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16428

Description
This is an experimental course taught from the perspectives of anthropology and religious studies that is intended to be transformative for students and teachers alike. Our goal is to develop, in collaboration with students, a pedagogy for fostering students’ personal quests for wisdom, through lectures and readings, through extensive conversation, and also through other experiences inside and outside of class, including dramaturgical experiences with film or theater, caregiving, and meditation. As teachers we are inspired by William James’s conception of knowledge in the university as a strategy needed to live a life of purpose and significance that also contributes to improving the world. In the words of Albert Camus, “Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.” Together, we engage with the problems of danger, uncertainty, failure, and suffering that led the founders of the social sciences and humanities to ask fundamental questions about meaning, imagination, aesthetics, social life, and subjective experience. These are the same existential questions that bring ordinary people all over the world, and throughout history, to question common sense reality in the face of catastrophes and the violence of everyday life. The many answers to these questions—wisdom that is found in religious, ethical, and aesthetic quests—are intended to furnish individuals with strategies to respond to potential and hope, pain and suffering; to promote healing; and to address concerns about salvation, redemption, or other kinds of moral-emotional transformation.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date:

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences course Anthropology 1400 starting September 2. See syllabus for details.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16428/2020

ANTH E-1660
Anthropology and Human Rights

Theodore Macdonald, Jr., PhD

Lecturer on Social Studies, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26048

Description
This course combines an introduction to the formal, theoretical, and normative structures of human rights with analyses of contemporary case studies. It illustrates several critical human rights issues, debates, and practices that demonstrate the increasing significance of ethnographic field methods and related interpretive analysis. Accepting that agreement on and realization of human rights often require negotiation and compromise, the course illustrates why, and suggests how, realization of many broadly-defined human rights requires specific contextualization.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 52 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26048/2021

ANTH E-1700
Race in the Americas

James P. Herron, PhD

Director of the Harvard Writing Project and Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University

January session | CRN 25917

Description
In 1903, W.E.B. DuBois wrote prophetically that “the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line.” More recently, anthropologists and historians have argued that the very idea of race—the notion that human beings can be exhaustively divided into enduring groups such as whites, blacks, or Indians—was first invented in the New World, in the Americas. But what are races? Does it mean the same thing to be white in Boston as it does in Bogotá? If blackness in Alabama is rooted in assumptions about essential biological nature, does the same go for Rio de Janeiro? Is race simply an illusion, a convenient mask for political domination and economic exploitation? Can we hope to abolish the concept of race altogether, or is its grip too tenacious, its appeal to the psyche too great? This course considers episodes in the development of racial categories in Latin and North America. Our aim is to arrive at an overall sense of the nature of race in social life by comparing the logic of racial practices at different times and places in the hemisphere.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays-Thursdays, 2-5 pm
Start Date: Jan. 4, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Final papers due Monday, February 8.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25917/2021

APMA E-115
Mathematical Modeling

Zhiming Kuang, PhD

Gordon McKay Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Science, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26062

Description
Mathematical models are ubiquitous, providing a quantitative framework for understanding, prediction, and decision making in nearly every aspect of life, ranging from the timing of traffic lights, to the control of the spread of disease, to resource management, to sports. They also play a fundamental role in all natural sciences and increasingly in the social sciences as well. This course provides an introduction to modeling through in-depth discussions of a series of examples, and hands-on exercises and projects that make use of a range of continuous and discrete mathematical tools.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date:

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course Applied Mathematics 115. This course follows the Harvard College spring calendar and will meet during the Extension School spring break, March 14-20. See the syllabus for specific meeting dates.

Prerequisites: MATH E-21a and MATH E-21b or permission of instructor. Knowledge of some programming language is helpful, but not necessary, as we introduce Matlab to those with no previous experience. Students must have Matlab installed on their computers. Students proficient in Python are welcome to use that language instead of Matlab.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26062/2021

APMA E-207
Advanced Scientific Computing: Stochastic Methods for Data Analysis, Inference, and Optimization

Weiwei Pan, PhD

Lecturer on Computational Science, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15810

Description
This course develops skills for computational research with a focus on stochastic approaches, emphasizing implementation and examples. Stochastic methods make it feasible to tackle very diverse problems when the solution space is too large to explore systematically, or when microscopic rules are known, but not the macroscopic behavior of a complex system. Methods are illustrated with examples from a wide variety of fields, like biology, finance, and physics.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date:

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences course Applied Mathematics 207.

Prerequisites: Calculus-based statistics, proficiency in Python programming.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15810/2020

ARAB E-1
Intensive Elementary Modern Standard Arabic I

Muhammad A. Habib, PhD

Preceptor in Arabic, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 13547

Description
This course is designed for students who have not previously studied Arabic and introduces the script, sounds, and basic grammar of the language. Emphasis is placed on developing proficiency in all four skills (reading, speaking, listening, and writing), as well as an understanding and appreciation of Arabic culture.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-13547/2020

ARAB E-2
Intensive Elementary Modern Standard Arabic II

Muhammad A. Habib, PhD

Preceptor in Arabic, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 23418

Description
This course is the continuation of ARAB E-1 and is designed to reinforce and build upon what has been covered during the first semester. This is a proficiency-based course; emphasis is placed on the development of reading, listening, speaking, and writing skills for the purpose of communicative goals. These technical aspects are acquired through the context of Arab cultures. By the end of this course, students are able to communicate about everyday situations, both verbally and in writing; understand the use of basic grammatical structures; acquire an understanding of fundamental cultural values, practices, and perspectives of native speakers of Arabic; develop productive listening skills; and enjoy using the language creatively.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: ARAB E-1 or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-23418/2021

ASTR E-8
The Emergence of Space and Time, Light and Matter: How Our Galaxy, Our Sun, and Our Earth Came to Be

Alessandro Massarotti, PhD

Associate Professor of Physics, Stonehill College and Associate of the Department of Astronomy, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16406

Description
From the birth of our universe, 14 billion years ago, the explosion of space into existence which led to the Big Bang, our knowledge is only recently beginning to give us more fundamental answers about our physical existence. In this course, we discuss how the expanding cosmos gave rise to galaxies, how stars are born and die, and how planets form. We explore black holes, neutron stars, and other mysterious states of matter. Students learn about the most recent developments in the field of astronomy, including the discovery of gravity waves coming from merging neutron stars and the first images from the huge black hole at the center of our galaxy. We look into the mystery of symmetry in the cosmic laws and explore the possible existence of portals between far away times and locations, wormholes. We delve into the near future of telescopic exploration, such as the Webb Telescope and many other upcoming space missions.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16406/2020

BIOS E-1A
Introduction to Molecular and Cellular Biology

Casey J. Roehrig, PhD

Senior Project Lead, HarvardX

Zofia Gajdos, PhD

Senior Project Lead, HarvardX

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 13096

Description
This introductory series focuses on the principles of cellular (BIOS E-1a) and organismal (BIOS E-1b) biology. BIOS E-1a topics include the molecular basis of life, energy and metabolism, and genetics. BIOS E-1b builds on the foundation established in BIOS E-1a and covers the origin of life and principles of evolution, and anatomy and physiology. Laboratory sections scheduled throughout the series allow students to reinforce concepts covered in lecture. The series fulfills current medical school requirements for one year of introductory biology.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm, or on demand.

Required laboratories, optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: High school mathematics, chemistry, and biology; although CHEM E-1a and CHEM E-1b, or their equivalents, are not required, they are strongly recommended.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-13096/2020

BIOS E-1B
Introduction to Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Casey J. Roehrig, PhD

Senior Project Lead, HarvardX

Joanne Matott, DPhil

Preceptor in Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

Katherine Zink, PhD

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 22957

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm, or on demand.

Required laboratories, optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: BIOS E-1a, or the equivalent.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-22957/2021

BIOS E-10
Introduction to Biochemistry

Robin Lynn Haynes, PhD

Principal Associate in Pathology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Roopali Roy, PhD

Instructor in Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14563

Description
This course provides an overview of the main aspects of biochemistry by relating molecular interactions to their effects on the organism as a whole, especially as related to human biology. The organization of macromolecules is addressed through a discussion of their hierarchical structure, and a study of their assembly into complexes responsible for specific biological processes. Topics addressing protein function include enzyme kinetics, the characterization of major metabolic pathways, and their interconnection into tightly regulated networks.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections for graduate-credit students, optional sections for undergraduate-credit students to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the 2019 course.

Prerequisites: Introductory biology and chemistry.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 200 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14563/2020

BIOS E-10
Introduction to Biochemistry

Robin Lynn Haynes, PhD

Principal Associate in Pathology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Roopali Roy, PhD

Instructor in Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24316

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections for graduate-credit students, optional sections for undergraduate-credit students to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the 2019 course.

Prerequisites: Introductory biology and chemistry.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24316/2021

BIOS E-12
Principles and Techniques of Molecular Biology

Alain Viel, PhD

Senior Lecturer on Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 22965

Description
Students gain in-depth knowledge of nucleic acid structure, molecular genetics, and the biochemistry of transcription and protein synthesis. Working from this foundation, students explore mechanisms of gene regulation in prokaryotes, eukaryotes, and viruses. The roles played by gene regulation and rearrangement in diseases are also examined. One large project comprises three linked laboratory exercises that introduce students to important recombinant DNA and protein expression techniques. Students learn about the construction of an expression plasmid and assays for normal promoter function.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional review sessions Tuesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: BIOS E-1a, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 58 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-22965/2021

BIOS E-14
Principles of Genetics

Frederick R. Bieber, PhD

Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 22962

Description
This is a general course in genetics providing a broad view of gene action from the molecular to the population levels, with emphasis on eukaryotes. Topics include bacterial and viral genetics, Mendelian genetics, mutation and DNA repair, forensic DNA technology, chromosome structure and function, genomics, and population and evolutionary genetics. The course also covers legal, ethical, and policy considerations for use of genetic technology.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:50-7:50 pm

Required sections Mondays, 8-9 pm.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MATH E-8, BIOS E-1a and BIOS E-1b, and CHEM E-1a and CHEM E-1b, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-22962/2021

BIOS E-16
Cell Biology

Colles Price, PhD

Research Fellow in Medicine, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School and Postdoctoral Scholar, Cancer Program, Broad Institute

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25918

Description
This course cultivates an understanding of eukaryotic cellular and subcellular structure, with close attention to structure/function relationships that govern cellular processes at the molecular level. We examine the differences between several eukaryotic model systems, including fission and budding yeast, slime mold, plants, and mammalian cells in culture. We further discuss the specific experimental techniques amenable to the study of cell biology in each system and how discoveries made using model organisms have influenced modern cell biology.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm

Required sections Wednesdays, 8-9 pm.Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: BIOS E-1a, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25918/2021

BIOS E-18
Evolution

Maria E. Miara, PhD

Assistant Professor of Biology, Brandeis University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14330

Description
Evolution is such a major tenet of modern biological theory that in 1973, evolutionary biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky penned that “nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.” This course provides a comprehensive introduction to evolutionary biology. Students are introduced to both short-term and long-term evolutionary processes and they explore the patterns that result from those processes. Topics covered include the history of evolutionary theory, evidence for evolution, the origin of life, the origin of animals and the Cambrian explosion, genetic evolution, natural selection, sexual selection, species and speciation, human evolution, and evolutionary issues in modern society.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: An introductory organismal biology course such as BIOS E-1b.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14330/2020

BIOS E-30
Epigenetics and Gene Regulation

Amy Tsurumi, PhD

Instructor in Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16171

Description
This course is designed to introduce students to the concept of epigenetics and the regulation of gene expression and heritable phenotypes without changes in the underlying DNA sequence. We examine molecular mechanisms involving DNA/RNA methylation, histone modifications, chromatin remodeling, non-coding RNAs and RNA editing, and learn about the key players that regulate these processes. Students apply their knowledge to understand the epigenetic basis of various developmental disorders, the natural aging process, environmental exposures, and relevant human diseases such as tumorigenesis, obesity, neurological disorders, and infections. Moreover, we cover molecular techniques and model organisms used commonly in epigenetics research.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 7:40-9:40 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections Mondays, 8-9 pm.Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: BIOS E-12, or the equivalent.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16171/2020

BIOS E-40
Introduction to Proteomics

Alain Viel, PhD

Senior Lecturer on Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 13099

Description
The completion of several genome projects, including the Human Genome Project, has further fostered a systems-based approach to biology. The goal is to determine how all the genes in a genome act and how their products interact to produce a functional organism. Proteomics seeks to identify and to characterize all the proteins synthesized in a cell or a tissue. Based on this information, one can then try to understand how individual proteins or protein collectives function within an organism. The first half of the course focuses on current methodology used to analyze and identify proteins. This includes protein electrophoresis, chromatography, mass spectrometry, and protein database analysis. The second half of the course focuses on case studies derived from the current scientific literature. This includes comparisons between healthy and diseased tissues, new approaches to analyze metabolic pathways, and the comprehensive analysis of protein-protein interactions in different cell types.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional review sessions, live or on demand, Thursdays, 7-9 pm.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: BIOS E-1a, or the equivalent; BIOS E-12 recommended.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-13099/2020

BIOS E-45
Introduction to Genomics

Arezou Ghazani, PhD

Director of Clinical Genomics, Brigham Genomic Medicine and Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26025

Description
This course provides an overview of the genome and genomic architecture, genomic variations, and regulatory mechanisms of the genome. The course topics include current and novel practices in genome interrogations, global copy number variation assessment, genome sequencing, and data analysis. This course cultivates an understanding of functional genomics and genomic malfunction, genome-wide association studies, and the new field of personal genomics along with discussions of social and ethical impacts resulting from advances in genomics.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 5:50-7:50 pm, or on demand.

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: BIOS E-1a and BIOS E-1b, CHEM E-1a and CHEM E-1b, or the equivalent.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26025/2021

BIOS E-50
Neurobiology

Laura Magnotti, PhD

Lecturer on Neuroscience, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 13097

Description
This course examines the structure and function of the mammalian nervous system by examining the molecules, cells, and circuits that are involved in directing our behavior. We explore how the nervous system is constructed during development, how it adapts with experience throughout life, how it functions in normal behavior, and how it can be disrupted by injury and disease.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm, or on demand.

Required sections (live participation required) for graduate-credit students Wednesdays 8-9 pm, optional sections for undergraduate-credit students to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Introductory biology, or permission of the instructor. For graduate-credit students, successful completion of BIOS E-200 or equivalent.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-13097/2020

BIOS E-52
The Neurobiology of Pain

Ryan W. Draft, PhD

Lecturer on Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15683

Description
This course explores the neurobiological systems and mechanisms underlying both acute and chronic pain. Topics include nociceptive and sensory systems, molecular basis and modulation of pain, neuroanatomy of peripheral and central pain circuits, pain pathologies, and pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments. The emphasis is on understanding basic neurobiological concepts underlying pain systems, and reading and discussing the primary scientific research in the field.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: BIOS E-1a, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15683/2020

BIOS E-55
Developmental Biology

Susanne Jakob, PhD

Project Manager for the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 22959

Description
Developmental biology studies the mechanisms involved in the development of complex organisms from the moment the egg is fertilized by a sperm. In many ways the basic understanding of developmental biology provides an invaluable foundation for other aspects of biology, as well as medicine, especially as many health issues can be related back to early developmental defects during embryogenesis. This course aims to provide a broad, comprehensive look at embryology with special emphasis on vertebrate models. We take a look at primary data that led to our current understanding of mechanisms involved in development and discuss classic experiments as well as more modern molecular and genetic approaches to answer questions in developmental biology. Over the length of the course we explore how the egg gets fertilized in the first place and subsequently travel the journey of the developing embryo: growing, forming organs, determining gender, making germ cells, and much more. We also talk about the role of embryonic and adult stem cells, the effects of the environment on development, and many more fascinating aspects of developmental biology.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: BIOS E-1a and BIOS E-1b, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-22959/2021

BIOS E-60
Immunology

Mihaela G. Gadjeva, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 23186

Description
How does the immune system work? What are the molecular and cellular components and pathways that protect an organism from infectious agents or cancer? This comprehensive course answers these questions as it explores the cells and molecules of the immune system. The topics discussed during the first half of the course cover the structure, function, and genetics of the molecules of the immune system, including antibodies, B- and T-cell receptors, major histocompatibility complex (MHC) proteins and cytokines; and processes of lymphocyte development and antigen presentation. During the second half of the course the lectures focus on how the individual components of the immune system work together to fight bacterial, fungal, or viral infections. In addition to introducing basic concepts of tumor immunity and immune system deficiencies, special emphasis is placed on a COVID-19 pandemic. Through discussion of clinical case studies, we understand what measures need to be taken to design therapies and vaccines. The course emphasizes the research and development opportunities for therapeutic intervention arising from recent advances in immunology (for example, the application of therapeutic antibodies and recombinant molecules such as CAR-T cell therapies as potential drug treatments). Upon completion of the course students have a sound understanding of the essential elements of the immune system, preparing them to engage further in this rapidly evolving field.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 5:10-7:10 pm, or on demand.

Required sections Tuesdays, 7:30-8:30 pm or Thursdays, 7:30-8:30 pm.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Background in biology, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology is helpful.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-23186/2021

BIOS E-63
COVID-19 Disease: Facts and Fiction

Mihaela G. Gadjeva, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

January session | CRN 25964

Description
Much is to be learned about the recent pandemic that has stalled our lives and has challenged science and medicine. This interactive, discussion-based course is designed to highlight the most recent developments in medicine, diagnostics, vaccine design, and epidemiology to combat COVID19. The course is organized and delivered by an immunologist with a research program in Infectious diseases. The course covers general mechanisms of anti-viral immunity and vaccinology, thereby facilitating greater understanding of how the challenges of the disease could be solved, what needs to be done, when and, potentially, how. We focus on cellular receptors for the SARS-CoV2 and molecular mechanisms of invasion of host responses. We discuss what can be done to interfere with these processes and understand the results from past and ongoing clinical trials and the importance of neutralizing antibodies and how their activities can be leveraged for therapies. Using real-life clinical cases, we make connections between disease manifestations, cellular responses, immunity, and infection; suggest therapies; and attempt to explain how a single virus can cause so many diverse pathologies.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays-Thursdays, 2-5 pm
Start Date: Jan. 4, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Immunology and cellular biology.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25964/2021

BIOS E-65C
Human Anatomy and Physiology I

Jennifer A. Carr, PhD

Lab Instructor, Salem State University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 13387

Description
This course is an introduction to human anatomy and physiology from an integrative perspective. Students learn the structure and function of the tissues, the skeletal system, the nervous system, the endocrine system, and muscle function from the level of the cell to the level of the organism.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 5:50-7:50 pm, or on demand.

Required sections and biweekly labs to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: BIOS E-1a and BIOS E-1b, algebra, introductory geometry.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-13387/2020

BIOS E-65D
Human Anatomy and Physiology II

Jennifer A. Carr, PhD

Lab Instructor, Salem State University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 23232

Description
This course is a continuation of BIOS E-65c. Students learn the structure and function of the cardiovascular system, the lymphatic system, the immune system, the respiratory system, the digestive system, the urogenital system, and the reproductive system from the level of the cell to the level of the organism.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 5:50-7:50 pm, or on demand.

Required sections and biweekly labs to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: BIOS E-1a, BIOS E-1b, BIOS E-65c, algebra, introductory geometry.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-23232/2021

BIOS E-67
Introduction to Pharmacology

Kate Ellen McDonnell-Dowling, PhD

Lecturer on Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16167

Description
It is often thought that studying pharmacology involves memorizing drug names and chemical pathways, but in reality this subject is built upon a few simple concepts. This course aims to cover these fundamental concepts of pharmacology including pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and toxicology. Learning materials are delivered online through HMX, a digital learning initiative from the faculty of Harvard Medical School. The HMX pharmacology course has been created by a highly skilled interdisciplinary team of Harvard Medical School educators and creative professionals. Using integrated multimedia elements and didactic visuals the HMX course focuses on bringing foundational concepts in pharmacology to life via real-world and clinical applications. Students also participate in a live component where they have the opportunity to dive deeper into these pharmacological concepts and work on problem-solving activities in weekly sessions with their instructor. In addition to receiving course credit, students have the opportunity to earn a certificate from Harvard Medical School. A certificate of achievement or a certificate of completion can be earned by those who attain certain thresholds within the course. Students registered in this course have access to the HMX pharmacology course. They should not enroll separately in the HMX course.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 5:10-7:10 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Introductory biology and biochemistry are strongly recommended.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16167/2020

BIOS E-69
Health Effects of Cannabis

Steven Raymond Boomhower, PhD

Associate Toxicologist, Gradient Corporation

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16412

Description
Cannabis and cannabinoid-based products are becoming increasingly available to use and consume. Whether available as an over-the-counter product (for example, cannabis edibles), nutritional supplement (for example, cannabidiol [CBD] oil), or as a Food and Drug Administration-approved medicine (for example, Epidiolex), the health effects of cannabis and cannabinoid-based products are only beginning to be understood. This course examines the most up-to-date science on the health effects (both therapeutic and potentially adverse) of cannabis in humans using principles from toxicology, epidemiology, and psychopharmacology. In the first unit, we examine the basics of cannabinoids, including pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, neurotransmission, and methodologies for evaluating the scientific evidence of health effects of cannabis. In the second unit, we examine the scientific evidence for select therapeutic effects of cannabis, including its use in medicine, chronic pain, mood disorders, and epilepsy. In the final unit, we examine emerging evidence related to adverse effects of cannabis, including potential effects on intelligence, respiratory disease from vaping, and psychosis.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: B or higher in BIOS E-1a, and a B or higher in an additional science class (preferably a course related to pharmacology, psychopharmacology, or epidemiology).

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16412/2020

BIOS E-70
Introduction to Epidemiology

Jennifer Fonda, PhD

Lecturer in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and Epidemiologist, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24809

Description
How can you design a study to evaluate the risk factors associated with the recent reversal in life expectancy in the United States? How do you assess the benefits and risks related to the recent cancer screening guidelines? This course introduces the basic principles and methods of epidemiology and demonstrates the applicability to public health and medicine. The goal of this course is to provide fundamental skills needed to begin to interpret and critically evaluate literature relevant to public health. Topics include measures of disease frequency and association, epidemiologic study designs, sources of bias and error, screening, and applications to public health.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Basic quantitative skills essential; familiarity with medical terminology helpful.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24809/2021

BIOS E-72
Infectious Diseases in a World of Changing Climate, Drug Resistance, and Vaccine Hesitancy

Narges Dorratoltaj, PhD

Principal Scientist and Manager, Life and Health Modeling, AIR Worldwide

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16122

Description
Despite the availability of control measures, infectious diseases are emerging and re-emerging. These outbreaks emphasize the importance of understanding the epidemiology of infectious diseases through qualitative and quantitative methods. This course introduces the basics of infectious disease epidemiology and modeling, disease surveillance methods, dynamics of transmission, and assessment of prevention and control measures. The epidemiology of different diseases based on route of transmission (food-borne, water-borne, vector-borne, or air-borne) along with common and recently emerged infectious diseases (COVID-19, influenza, malaria, Ebola, Zika, and antimicrobial resistance pathogens) are discussed. Finally, we explore some modeling techniques to understand the epidemiology and dynamics of infectious disease outbreaks to help public health officials make more informed decisions. We consider the political, demographic, and social changes that have an impact on public health.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 5:50-7:50 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: BIOS E-1a, MATH E-8, and MATH E-15, or the equivalent.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16122/2020

BIOS E-107
Introduction to Medical Neuroscience

Daniel L. Roe, PhD

Research Associate in Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24579

Description
This course presents students with an introduction to the major topics in neurological injury and disease. The student is introduced to the signs, symptoms, and underlying causes of a variety of conditions. Specific topics discussed include aneurysms, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, prosopagnosia, aphasia, contralateral neglect, neuropathy, meningioma, acoustic schwannoma, epidural and subdural hematoma, and pituitary tumor among others. Emphasis is on the neuroanatomical basis of injury and disease, and how this informs our understanding.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 7:40-9:40 pm

Required sections for graduate-credit students, optional sections for undergraduate-credit students to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Some background in basic biology is helpful.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24579/2021

BIOS E-110
Addiction Neuroscience: Substance Abuse and the Brain

Alan N. Francis, PhD

Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26056

Description
This course helps students understand the psychological effects of drugs and how drug actions can be understood in terms of effects on the brain. In addition to focusing on drug dependence and addiction, this course places considerable emphasis on drug treatments for various psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, parkinsonism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and Alzheimer’s disease. It also combines neurotransmitter-based approaches to the field with perspectives that emphasize specific drugs and distinct drug categories. Specifically, this course includes an overview of the history of psychopharmacology; the neuron, synaptic transmission, and neurotransmitters; pharmacokinetics, or how the body handles drugs; pharmacodynamics, or how drugs act; epidemiology and neurobiology of addiction; stimulants; hallucinogens; cannabinoids; opioids; antipsychotic drugs; and antidepressant drugs.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Prior coursework in neuroscience, neurobiology, and psychology is helpful.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26056/2021

BIOS E-116
Marine Biology

Aaron Hartmann, PhD

Research Associate, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16449

Description
This course explores the fundamentals of marine biology. Students learn about the complex lifestyles of organisms whose home spans three quarters of our planet. We take a process-driven approach, focusing first on the fundamentals: the interrelated processes of marine physiology, ecology, and evolution. What biological processes help organisms succeed in the marine environment? How do species traits vary throughout the different environments in the world’s oceans? How do gradual and rapid changes in the ocean environment alter the rules of life for marine species? As we build our understanding of these fundamentals throughout the course, we use them as lenses to view, disentangle, and understand larger patterns in the oceans. In particular, we focus on the diversity and distributions of biological functions, patterns of biodiversity, and the growing threats to marine life. Ultimately, students come away with a new understanding of the unique challenges and incredible opportunities that arise from life in saltwater.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16449/2020

BIOS E-117
Human Impact and the Marine Environment

Daniel Hoer, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15790

Description
As human population grows, our collective influence is becoming an almost ubiquitous feature in the natural world, and the marine environment is no exception. Presently, more than fifty percent of the global human population lives within 120 miles of a coastline, exerting tremendous pressure on marine environments. Using approachable primary literature as our guide, this course addresses the vast and diverse ecosystems within the global ocean to develop an understanding of oceanic processes and how they are impacted by human activity. We address a variety of human-induced stressors with the goal of understanding their source, how their effects manifest themselves, and how society can work to remove these stressors and correct their impacts.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: High school chemistry and biology recommended but not required.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15790/2020

BIOS E-118
Deep Sea Biology

Peter Girguis, PhD

Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

Jessica Mitchell, MSc

Doctoral Candidate, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

Corinna Breusing, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow, Biological Oceanography, University of Rhode Island

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25639

Description
The oceans contain 97 percent of the Earth’s water, and host the most disparate ecosystems on the planet. This course provides an introduction to deep sea ocean habitats, animals, and microorganisms. Emphasis is placed on the physiological adaptations of organisms to their environment, as well as the role of microorganisms in mediating ocean biogeochemical cycles.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25639/2021

BIOS E-123
Reproductive Biology: Physiological, Evolutionary, and Behavioral Aspects

Daniel Spratt, MD

Professor of Medicine, Maine Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25897

Description
This course undertakes a multidisciplinary exploration of reproductive function in humans, including physiology and evolution as well as the impact on behavior and society. Examples in other species ranging from seasonal reproductive physiology and behavior in deer to effects of testosterone on songbirds’ vocalizations and behavior help provide perspectives on the complex process of human reproduction and the intricacy of its regulation by hormones. The ability of humans to understand and manipulate the influence of these hormones has had an impact on our lives, healthcare system, and society. The impact on society ranges from significant advances in women’s health to passionate controversies on limiting reproduction to scandals involving androgen use in sports. The impact of androgens and estrogens on cognition and behavior is an evolving field in neuroscience, business, and politics.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Introductory biology or physiology or BIOS E-163.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25897/2021

BIOS E-129
Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology

Julie Park, PhD

Preceptor in Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25750

Description
We are entering a new era in which a fundamental understanding of developmental biology and regeneration will play a critical role. In this course, embryonic and adult stem cells in different organisms are examined in terms of their molecular, cellular, and potential therapeutic properties. Genetic reprogramming and cloning of animals are critically evaluated. Ethical and political considerations are also considered.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 3-5 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions on demand.

Prerequisites: BIOS E-1a and BIOS E-1b, or the equivalent; knowledge of cell, molecular, or developmental biology is recommended.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25750/2021

BIOS E-155
Medical Microbiology

Matthew Schaefers, PhD

Instructor in Anaesthesia and Research Associate, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Nikolaus Jilg, MD, PhD

Instructor in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Radwa Sharaf, PhD

Scientist I, Foundation Medicine

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24224

Description
This course introduces students to the microbial species that cause human disease. We cover bacteria, fungi, viruses, and protozoa, and discuss current topics including antibiotic resistance, public health threats, and the microbiome. There is no laboratory component to this course.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm

Required sections for graduate-credit students Wednesdays, 8-9 pm.Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Basic molecular and cellular biology (BIOS E-1a or equivalent).

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24224/2021

BIOS E-156
Vaccines for the New Millennium

Tomas Maira-Litran, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16302

Description
Immunization is considered one of the great success stories of modern medicine. Despite this remarkable achievement, new vaccines must be developed to address the health needs of the globalized twenty-first century world, which is characterized by an aging society, emerging infections, and poverty in low-income countries. The first part of the course reviews how vaccines work by mimicking a natural infection. We discuss current strategies and challenges for the development of vaccines against emerging infections and infectious diseases affecting undeveloped countries, elderly populations, patients with chronic diseases, and travelers. The course examines some of the revolutionary technologies used for vaccine development, including reverse vaccinology, conjugation, nucleic acid vaccines, synthetic vaccines, virus-like particles, next-generation technologies, and development and use of novel adjuvants. The course also covers vaccines of the future, currently under development, against a number of important emerging and re-emerging pathogens such as Coronavirus, Ebola, Zika, and HIV viruses. The second half of the course focuses on case studies derived from current scientific literature. Upon completion of the course students have a better understanding of how vaccines work, the need and priorities for future vaccines, and knowledge of the newest vaccine development technologies.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Background in biology, biochemistry, genetics, and/or molecular biology helpful.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16302/2020

BIOS E-162B
Human Pathophysiology II

Nancy Long Sieber, PhD

Adjunct Lecturer on Physiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16333

Description
This course focuses on the pathophysiology of the human nervous, endocrine, gastrointestinal, and reproductive systems. Common mechanisms of pathogenesis are examined, including injury, autoimmunity, and neoplasia. These systems are linked by our focused examination of several conditions as they affect the body as a whole. We focus on pain, stress, and spinal cord injuries, as well as the consequences of obesity. Please note that Human Pathophysiology I, offered in alternate years, is not a prerequisite for this course.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:10-7:10 pm

Optional sections Mondays, 7:10-8:10 pm.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A normal human or animal physiology course is recommended, but not required.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16333/2020

BIOS E-163
Human Endocrine Physiology

Daniel Spratt, MD

Professor of Medicine, Maine Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25898

Description
This course delves into the fascinating ways in which hormones influence the body’s development and function. Initial lectures describe the nature of different hormones and how they exert their actions. Subsequent lectures explore how hormones regulate body functions including growth and reproduction, thyroid and metabolism, calcium and bones, nutrition, and salt/fluid balance. Clinical examples from both health and disease as well as evolutionary and historical perspectives are used liberally to illustrate points. We also explore how this physiology can be used to understand and treat diverse medical disorders such as diabetes, infertility, abnormal sexual differentiation and puberty, and osteoporosis.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 7:20-9:20 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: BIOS E-1a and BIOS E-1b, or introductory physiology.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25898/2021

BIOS E-200
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Biology

Mihaela G. Gadjeva, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 13092

Description
This proseminar is designed to teach students many of the writing and analytical skills that are required to succeed in graduate-level courses in the biological sciences. The course is organized around discussion of hot topics derived from peer-reviewed published research in the fields of mucosal immunology and virology. We discuss the COVID-19 pandemic and attempt to understand disease pathogenesis, innate responses, and vaccine design. Through critical reading and presentation of research articles, students learn how to form questions that can be addressed experimentally and how to write a corresponding, testable hypothesis. This course also addresses the process of experimental design and current experimental methodologies in biology. Students are given multiple opportunities to hone their writing skills on several short writing assignments and a final writing project due at the end of the semester. Because skills learned in this course are useful in subsequent courses, it is the first course that prospective Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) candidates should take toward the degree (or the second, if they are completing the expository writing prerequisite). While not designed to be a thesis or capstone proposal course, this course does serve as a foundation for eventual work on the thesis or capstone. This is the required admission course for the ALM, biology. Students interested in the ALM, biotechnology, should see BIOT E-200.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. In addition, at the first class meeting students must complete a writing assignment that demonstrates their graduate-level reading comprehension and ability to write coherent, logical arguments. Molecular biology (BIOS E-12, or the equivalent) and EXPO E-42c are highly recommended. Some immunology knowledge would be beneficial.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-13092/2020

BIOS E-200
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Biology

Margaret A. Lynch, PhD

Director of Undergraduate-Faculty Research Partnerships, Brandeis University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 22950

Description
This proseminar is designed to teach students many of the writing and analytical skills that are required to succeed in graduate-level courses in the biological sciences. Through critical reading and presentation of research articles, students learn how to form questions that can be addressed experimentally and how to write a corresponding, testable hypothesis. This course also addresses the process of experimental design and current experimental methodologies in biology. Students are given multiple opportunities to hone their writing skills on several short writing assignments and a final writing project due at the end of the semester. Because skills learned in this course are useful in subsequent courses, it is the first course that prospective Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) candidates should take toward the degree (or the second, if they are completing the expository writing prerequisite). While not designed to be a thesis or capstone proposal course (students will complete the official proposal course later in their degree program), it does serve as a foundation for eventual work on the thesis or capstone. This is the required admission course for the Master of Liberal Arts, biology. Students interested in the Master of Liberal Arts, biotechnology, should see BIOT E-200.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-22950/2021

BIOS E-204
Developmental and Regenerative Biology

William J. Anderson, PhD

Senior Lecturer on Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14278

Description
The field of developmental biology provides insights on a most interesting question: how do all of the cells in our bodies arise from a single cell, the fertilized egg? This graduate seminar probes this question through critical analysis of the primary literature. Both classical as well as contemporary papers are scrutinized. We cover topics ranging from fertilization, organogenesis, patterning, regeneration, and aging, with a focus on humans whenever possible.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: One year of introductory biology (BIOS E-1a and BIOS E-1b, or equivalent); developmental biology (BIOS E-55) and/or stem cell biology (BIOS E-129) strongly recommended. Graduate proseminar (BIOS E-200) recommended but not required.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 19 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14278/2020

BIOS E-232
Neurobiology of Emotion and Psychiatric Illnesses

Sabina Berretta, MD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Stephanie Maddox, PhD

Instructor in Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 23451

Description
Investigations on the neural basis of emotion and pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders synergistically inform each other, and in recent years have led to a leap in our understanding of emotion processing in normal and pathological conditions. In this course, a working definition of emotion from a biological point of view serves as background to explore brain circuits involved in aspects of emotional processing and their integration with decision making and goal-directed behavior. Neural networks linking the cingulate gyrus, insula, and ventromedial and orbitofrontal cortices, hippocampus and subcortical regions such as the amygdala, limbic thalamus, and ventral striatum are discussed in light of their relevance to emotion processing and psychiatric disorders. Emerging concepts include the key role of biological value in emotion processing and the relationship between emotion and memory. Within this context, we discuss current knowledge on the pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders, with particular emphasis on clinical domains such as anxiety, psychosis, depression, autism spectrum disorders, and antisocial personality disorder. Finally, current knowledge on the neurobiology of emotion and psychiatric disorders is placed in the context of social interactions, focusing in particular on the intersection between justice and psychiatry.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: BIOS E-50, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-23451/2021

BIOS E-245
CRISPR-Gene Editing Applications for Healthcare and Biotechnology

Alain Viel, PhD

Senior Lecturer on Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25920

Description
CRISPR is a recent gene-editing technology providing an efficient, effective, and precise solution to genetic engineering with applications in the healthcare, biotechnology, and agriculture industries. CRISPR has a promising potential to transform diseases treatments, contribute to food security, or even aid biofuel production. Using real-world case studies, the course illustrates CRISPR’s potential to cure inherited genetic disorders, to treat infectious diseases such as HIV, and to advance the fight against cancer. When applicable, the impact and possibilities of the outcomes of CRISPR’s applications on the healthcare industry are discussed. The course also discusses the applications of CRISPR in the biotechnology industry and their roles in the development of disease-resistant cultivars, improving food yields, and allowing biofuels to become a viable alternative energy source.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: BIOS E-1a or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 19 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25920/2021

BIOS E-497
Crafting the Thesis Proposal in Biology and Biotechnology Tutorial

James R. Morris, MD, PhD

Professor of Biology, Brandeis University and Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25096

Description
This tutorial helps students develop an academically strong thesis proposal. During the semester, they map critical issues of project design such as scope, background, methodology, and expected outcomes. Students should not register for the tutorial unless they are ready to engage in the entire thesis process. Students are expected to begin the thesis project during the next semester or two after completing the tutorial.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $0
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The tutorial is not a course in the traditional sense. It is structured one-on-one advising with the instructor along with opportunities for interaction with other proposal writers. Students participate in an initial meeting with their instructor by phone or by video conference. Then, weekly work begins on the production of the various portions of the proposal document. As these materials are submitted, the instructor provides feedback to each student. The goal is to have a full draft of the proposal by the end of the semester.

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, biology or biotechnology. They must have completed eight courses toward the degree, including statistics, and be in good academic standing. Their prework, due between September 1 and November 1, must be approved before they are allowed to register for the tutorial. See the Guide to the ALM Thesis for biology or biotechnology for details. Candidates accepted to the 12-course thesis track register for graduate credit; those in the ten-course thesis track register for noncredit.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25096/2021

BIOS E-497
Crafting the Thesis Proposal in Biology and Biotechnology Tutorial

James R. Morris, MD, PhD

Professor of Biology, Brandeis University and Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15474

Description
This tutorial helps students develop an academically strong thesis proposal. During the semester, they map critical issues of project design such as scope, background, methodology, and expected outcomes. Students should not register for the proposal unless they are ready to engage in the entire thesis process. Students are expected to begin the thesis project during the next semester or two after completing the tutorial.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $0
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, biology or biotechnology. They must have completed eight courses toward the degree, including statistics, and be in good academic standing. Their prework, due between April 1 and June 1, must be approved before they are allowed to register for the tutorial. See the Guide to the ALM Thesis for biology or biotechnology for details. Candidates accepted to the 12-course thesis track register for graduate credit; those in the ten-course thesis track register for noncredit.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15474/2020

BIOT E-105
Bioinformatics: Fundamentals of Sequence Analysis

Michael Agostino, PhD

Senior Bioinformatics Analyst, Pfizer, Inc.

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16429

Description
With breakthroughs in biotechnology such as high-throughput and inexpensive DNA sequencing, we are collecting vast amounts of data that will be analyzed for years to come. The details of this data reveal basic information such as gene and protein structures, and may lead us to major discoveries like gene-disease associations. This course teaches the bioinformatics skills used in academic, biotech, and pharmaceutical laboratories for analyzing individual DNA and protein sequences. This is not a programming course. Classes consist of lecture and extensive hands-on work using mainstream web-based bioinformatics tools. Students learn how to evaluate data sources and choose the correct paths to solutions. Throughout the semester, interesting biological questions are addressed by analyzing sequences, searching databases, using sophisticated software, and interpreting results. Upon completion of the course, students have extensive skills with sequence analysis tools and are prepared for their own laboratory projects or bioinformatics software creation.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Fundamental knowledge of molecular biology (DNA, RNA, protein) and genomics required. More advanced knowledge a definite plus. No programming skills required.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16429/2020

BIOT E-105
Bioinformatics: Fundamentals of Sequence Analysis

Michael Agostino, PhD

Senior Bioinformatics Analyst, Pfizer, Inc.

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24434

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Fundamental knowledge of molecular biology (DNA, RNA, protein) and genomics required. More advanced knowledge a definite plus. No programming skills required.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24434/2021

BIOT E-120
Ethics and Trends in Biotechnology

Masha Fridkis-Hareli, PhD

President, ATR, LLC

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15456

Description
This is an introductory course that covers selected topics in science and technology as they relate to the development of therapies for different types of diseases. The goal of the course is to provide students with a solid understanding of the processes, trends, technologies, and ethical issues around animal use and healthcare decisions in the biopharmaceutical industry. The course covers the business of biotechnology, genetic engineering, drug development, translational research, diagnostics, therapies including precision medicine, and vaccines.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: BIOS E-1a, BIOS E-1b, BIOS E-12, or the equivalents.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 34 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15456/2020

BIOT E-120
Ethics and Trends in Biotechnology

Masha Fridkis-Hareli, PhD

President, ATR, LLC

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25195

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: BIOS E-1a, BIOS E-1b, BIOS E-12, or the equivalents.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 31 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25195/2021

BIOT E-140
RNA Biotechnology: The Emergence of RNA-based Drugs and RNA Therapeutics

Kaveh Daneshvar, PhD

Senior Scientist, Flagship Pioneering Venture Labs

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26039

Description
RNA molecules can store and transfer genetic information, as well as regulate cellular processes through enzymatic activity and their interaction with other biomolecules. In the past decade, advances in next-generation sequencing have revealed new classes of RNAs and the multiple layers of information and functions they carry. The newly discovered functions of different classes of RNA molecules and their roles in human development and disease have led to the emergence of RNA therapeutics. This course explores the intersection of modern basic and translational research on RNA biology along with the biotechnology industry’s drug development efforts around RNA therapeutics. The course offers a unique opportunity for students, researchers, and biotechnology innovators to expand their knowledge about the growing science of RNA therapeutics and to develop a deep understanding of RNA-focused drug development in the biotech industry. This course opens with an introduction to the RNA world, including evolutionary theories about biomolecules, fundamental concepts related to the structure and functions of RNAs, current classifications of RNA molecules, and modern tools and techniques for studying RNAs. The course then covers current classes of RNA molecules and their roles in normal biology and in disease. This course focuses on two classes of RNA therapeutics: drugs that target normal or abnormal RNA transcripts (for example, small molecules, siRNAs, and anti-sense RNAs) and RNA-editing systems; and drugs and vaccines composed of RNAs.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: BIOS E-12.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26039/2021

BIOT E-200
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Biotechnology and Bioengineering and Nanotechnology

Margaret A. Lynch, PhD

Director of Undergraduate-Faculty Research Partnerships, Brandeis University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 13645 | Section 1

Description
In this proseminar, we focus on science writing, data interpretation, and collaborative and independent experimental design. Students who successfully complete the course are those who demonstrate an ability to assess information from the primary scientific literature, a command of oral and written communication skills, and the ability to generate a logical progression of experiments to help validate or nullify their hypothesis. Reading materials include publications on scientific writing, experimental design, and peer-reviewed journal articles. Because skills learned in this course are useful in subsequent courses, it is the first course that prospective Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) candidates should take toward the degree (or the second, if they are completing the expository writing prerequisite). While not designed to be a thesis or capstone proposal course, this course does serve as a foundation for eventual work on the thesis or capstone. This is the required admission course for the ALM in biotechnology and bioengineering and nanotechnology. Students interested in the ALM in biology should enroll in BIOS E-200.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Instructors assume that students already have undergraduate degrees in an area of life, physical, or computer science, as well as professional scientific training. Scientists coming from a physical or computer science background should successfully complete BIOS E-1a and BIOS E-1b as well as BIOS E-12 or their equivalents before attempting to take BIOT E-200. EXPO E-42c is strongly recommended. Students must earn a satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-13645/2020

BIOT E-200
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Biotechnology and Bioengineering and Nanotechnology

Beth Zielinski-Habershaw, PhD

Coordinator of Training, Pharmaceutical Development Institute, University of Rhode Island

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14719 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14719/2020

BIOT E-200
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Biotechnology and Bioengineering and Nanotechnology

Elizabeth Wiltrout Leary, PhD

Graduate Program Manager, Tufts Medical Center

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 23457

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-23457/2021

BIOT E-220
Regulatory Aspects of Drug Development

Jonathon Parker, PhD

Head of Global Regulatory Science, Cerevel Therapeutics

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25749

Description
The course provides an overview of the prescription drug development process and regulatory considerations for this process, including over-the-counter drugs, small molecules, biologics, and gene therapy. It focuses on the phases of pharmaceutical development, aspects influencing the pharmaceutical industry, and the regulatory themes and healthcare concepts that shape the decisions having an impact on the entire process.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25749/2021

BIOT E-225
Biomedical Product Development

Sujata K. Bhatia, PhD, MD

Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15756

Description
This course examines the design and development of new therapeutic products. Students learn through case-based studies of product development for pharmaceuticals, biologics, medical devices, and combination therapies. The course describes the steps of biomedical product development, from conceptualization to design to manufacturing to regulatory approval and commercialization. The course discusses both technical and business factors that contribute to the success or failure of new biomedical products. Appropriate design of preclinical and clinical trials is also included. Students gain an appreciation for emerging technologies in stem cells, gene therapy, tissue regeneration, personalized medicine, and targeted therapies. Additionally, students learn about the special challenges presented by emerging biomedical technologies. By the end of the course, each student completes a project to propose a new biomedical device and identify the regulatory strategy, technical milestones, and business milestones for the new device.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Background in introductory biology and chemistry.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 39 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15756/2020

BIOT E-497
Crafting the Thesis Proposal in Biotechnology and Bioengineering and Nanotechnology Tutorial

Steven Denkin, PhD

Director and Research Advisor, Biotechnology, Harvard Extension School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25097

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $0
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, biotechnology or bioengineering and nanotechnology. They must have completed eight courses toward the degree, including the statistics requirement, and be in good academic standing. Their prework, due between September 1 and November 1, must be approved before they are allowed to register for the tutorial. See the Guide to the ALM Thesis for details. Candidates accepted to the 12-course thesis track register for graduate credit; those in the ten-course thesis track register for noncredit.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25097/2021

BIOT E-497
Crafting the Thesis Proposal in Biotechnology and Bioengineering and Nanotechnology Tutorial

Steven Denkin, PhD

Director and Research Advisor, Biotechnology, Harvard Extension School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15476

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $0
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, biotechnology or bioengineering and nanotechnology. They must have completed eight courses toward the degree, including statistics, and be in good academic standing. Their prework, due between April 1 and June 1, must be approved before they are allowed to register for the tutorial. See the Guide to the ALM Thesis for details. Candidates accepted to the 12-course thesis track register for graduate credit; those in the ten-course thesis track register for noncredit.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15476/2020

BIOT E-599
Biotechnology Capstone

Steven Denkin, PhD

Director and Research Advisor, Biotechnology, Harvard Extension School

Beth Zielinski-Habershaw, PhD

Coordinator of Training, Pharmaceutical Development Institute, University of Rhode Island

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25061

Description
This capstone course provides an opportunity for biotechnology professionals to create a business plan for a new biotechnology company, a ground-breaking drug, or an emerging technology such as a diagnostic or medical device. The biotech business plan includes background research on the idea and investigation of the following: market opportunity, market strategy, funding, intellectual property, patents, and management. In addition to the business plan report, each student writes his or her own executive summary. During the semester, students meet with industry experts to discuss best practices.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, biotechnology capstone track, who are in good academic standing with all other degree requirements complete, except for the capstone. They must have earned a B-minus or higher grade in MGMT E-5420 in the 2020 fall term and have submitted their draft business plans to steven_denkin@harvard.edu by December 1. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25061/2021

CELT E-10A
Introduction to Modern Irish

Kathryn Ann Chadbourne, PhD

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16334

Description
This course gives students with little or no Irish a firm grounding in the language. Equal emphasis is placed on speaking, writing, and reading. In addition to grammar and teaching texts, we use songs, proverbs, poems, and folktales to foster understanding of Irish language and culture.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Noncredit: $750
Undergraduate credit: $940
Graduate credit: $1450
Credits: 2

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16334/2020

CELT E-10B
Introduction to Modern Irish

Kathryn Ann Chadbourne, PhD

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25919

Description
In this course, students continue to improve their understanding of Irish language basics. We read and discuss more advanced selections of Irish prose, poetry, and some beautiful folktales from Donegal. A generous portion of class time is devoted to practicing conversational Irish in real-life situations. We learn more about Irish culture, including food, folklore, holidays, and proverbs.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Noncredit: $750
Undergraduate credit: $940
Graduate credit: $1450
Credits: 2

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: CELT E-10a or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25919/2021

CGRK E-1A
Beginning Ancient Greek

Keating Patrick Joseph McKeon, PhD

Visiting Fellow, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16467

Description
This course offers an introduction to the language of ancient Greece—one of the most profound, prolific, and controversial civilizations in the history of humanity. We study the Attic dialect of Greek: this is the form of the language used during the peak of the fifth-century BCE Athenian democracy, which appears in the writings and speeches of such famous cultural figures as the philosopher Plato, the orator Demosthenes, and the historian Thucydides. In this course, we begin to build the fundamental skills necessary to eventually read continuous ancient Greek texts by these authors, and many others, with the aid of a dictionary. To this end the course focuses on building a vocabulary base; mastering morphology and syntax; and introducing students to the rich and expansive cultural life of ancient Greece. Students gain access to some of the most original, thought-provoking, and erudite writers of all time, who happen also to be the bedrock of the Western canon. Ancient Greek is especially helpful to students of literature, history, linguistics, philosophy, theology, and medicine, and is essential for anyone seeking to better understand the outsize influence of ancient Greece on societies ranging from ancient Rome to our own.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Noncredit: $750
Undergraduate credit: $940
Credits: 2

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16467/2020

CGRK E-1B
Beginning Ancient Greek

Keating Patrick Joseph McKeon, PhD

Visiting Fellow, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26032

Description
This course is a continuation of CGRK E-1A. Students further develop their vocabulary base; continue to build their knowledge of grammar and syntax; improve their reading abilities; and better familiarize themselves with the ancient Greek world. Readings include adapted versions of several works by the comic playwright Aristophanes.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Noncredit: $750
Undergraduate credit: $940
Credits: 2

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: CGRK E-1A, or equivalent previous instruction in ancient Greek.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26032/2021

CGRK E-31
Homer’s Odyssey

Jeremy Rau, PhD

Professor of Linguistics and of the Classics, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26071

Description
Reading of selections of Homer’s Odyssey, with an introduction to Homeric language and meter and the history of the poem. The course also includes a survey of Homeric linguistics, including the compositional background of the poems, the effect of meter and composition on Homeric language, and the dialect makeup of Homeric language.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: CGRK E-1a and CGRK E-1b, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26071/2021

CGRK E-36
Archaic Greek Lyric Poetry

Jeremy Rau, PhD

Professor of Linguistics and of the Classics, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16346

Description
This course is an introduction to Archaic Greek lyric poetry, with readings from all major Archaic Greek lyric poets, from Archilochus to Pindar. Topics include the various genres, meters, performance contexts, and dialects of Archaic lyric.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: CGRK E-1a and CGRK E-1b or equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16346/2020

CHEM E-1A
General Chemistry I (Lecture and Lab)

Gregg Tucci, PhD

Senior Lecturer on Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University

Justin McCarty, MM

Head Teaching Fellow in General Chemistry, Harvard Division of Continuing Education

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 11918

Description
This course is an introduction to the structure and properties of atoms and molecules; chemical reactions and stoichiometry; quantum mechanics of light and particles, including the quantum structure of the periodic table; chemical bonding and photochemistry; coordination chemistry; properties of gases, liquids, and solutions; energy relationships in chemistry; and thermochemistry. This course includes a laboratory. Students should not register for CHEM E-1axl.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 6-9 pm

Required sections and laboratories to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Mathematics through high school algebra; considerable fluency in elementary mathematics. Previous study of chemistry is not required but is extremely helpful. Students with no previous background in chemistry should become acquainted with the material beforehand and be prepared to make extra efforts. A review of elementary algebra, particularly word problems, is highly recommended.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 340 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-11918/2020

CHEM E-1AX
General Chemistry I (Lecture)

Gregg Tucci, PhD

Senior Lecturer on Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University

Justin McCarty, MM

Head Teaching Fellow in General Chemistry, Harvard Division of Continuing Education

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14578

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1410
Credits: 3

Notes: Students must be available to take three two-hour examinations and a three-hour final examination, all administered online at 6 pm US Eastern Standard time. See syllabus for specific exam dates and details.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 100 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14578/2020

CHEM E-1AXL
General Chemistry I (Lab)

Justin McCarty, MM

Head Teaching Fellow in General Chemistry, Harvard Division of Continuing Education

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14587

Description
This laboratory class is only open to students who are concurrently enrolled in CHEM E-1ax or have previously taken CHEM E-1ax and earned a C-minus or higher grade. The course allows students to gain familiarity with laboratory techniques and apparatus, and to apply their knowledge of concepts from CHEM E-1ax in an actual laboratory situation. Prior to each lab, students read the lab experiment and complete a pre-laboratory report.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Saturdays, 10:15 am-12:30 pm

Labs meet roughly every other Saturday 10 am-12:30 pm. Specific schedule to be announced.Start Date: Sep. 5, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $470
Credits: 1

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Previous or concurrent enrollment in one semester of college-level general chemistry.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 100 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14587/2020

CHEM E-1B
General Chemistry II (Lecture and Lab)

Gregg Tucci, PhD

Senior Lecturer on Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University

Justin McCarty, MM

Head Teaching Fellow in General Chemistry, Harvard Division of Continuing Education

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 20020

Description
This course is a continuation of CHEM E-1a. Topics include thermodynamics and electrochemistry; rates and mechanisms of chemical reactions; phase transitions, structure, and bonding in solids; acids and bases; buffers and titrations; and environmental chemistry. This course includes a laboratory. Students should not register for CHEM E-1bxl.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 6-9 pm

Required sections and laboratories to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: CHEM E-1a with a grade of C or higher, or the equivalent. Students interested in taking CHEM E-1b without having taken CHEM E-1a should e-mail the instructors with a detailed syllabus and grade report from their previous general chemistry course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 340 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-20020/2021

CHEM E-1BX
General Chemistry II (Lecture)

Gregg Tucci, PhD

Senior Lecturer on Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University

Justin McCarty, MM

Head Teaching Fellow in General Chemistry, Harvard Division of Continuing Education

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24285

Description
This course is a continuation of CHEM E-1ax. Topics include thermodynamics and electrochemistry; rates and mechanisms of chemical reactions; phase transitions, structure, and bonding in solids; acids and bases; buffers and titrations; and environmental chemistry. See CHEM E-1bxl for the lab course.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1410
Credits: 3

Prerequisites: CHEM E-1ax with a grade of C or higher, or the equivalent. Students interested in taking CHEM E-1bx without having taken CHEM E-1ax should e-mail the instructors with a detailed syllabus and grade report from their previous general chemistry course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 100 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24285/2021

CHEM E-1BXL
General Chemistry II (Lab)

Justin McCarty, MM

Head Teaching Fellow in General Chemistry, Harvard Division of Continuing Education

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24307

Description
This laboratory course allows students to gain familiarity with laboratory techniques and apparatus, and to apply their knowledge of concepts from CHEM E-1bx in a laboratory situation. Prior to each lab, students read the lab experiment and complete a pre-laboratory report.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Saturdays, 10:15 am-12:30 pm

Labs meet roughly every other Saturday 10 am-12:30 pm. Specific schedule to be announced.Start Date: Jan. 30, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $470
Credits: 1

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Previous or concurrent enrollment in two semesters of college-level general chemistry.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 100 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24307/2021

CHEM E-17
Principles of Organic Chemistry

Sirinya Matchacheep, PhD

Lecturer on Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Director of Instructional Laboratory Programs, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15393

Description
This course is a one-semester introduction to organic chemistry, with an emphasis on structure and bonding, reaction mechanisms, stereochemistry, and chemical reactivity. Many of the major classes of organic compounds are covered, including alkenes, alkyl halides, alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, and carboxylic acid derivatives. Students who succeed in this course are well prepared for more advanced organic chemistry courses as well as the MCAT/DAT/GRE exams. This course does not include a lab; students who need an organic chemistry lab should enroll in CHEM E-17LAB.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 6-9 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1410
Credits: 3

Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions on demand. The recorded sessions are available within 24 hours of the lecture. Students are required to take three midterm examinations and a three-hour final examination, administered online, at 6 pm US Eastern Standard time on specific Thursdays. See syllabus for exam dates and details.

Prerequisites: CHEM E-1a and CHEM E-1b with grades of B-minus or higher, or equivalent preparation in general chemistry.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15393/2020

CHEM E-17LAB
Principles of Organic Chemistry: Laboratory

David W. Rose, BA

Undergraduate Chemistry Lab Coordinator, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16161 | Section 3

Description
This hands-on experimental laboratory course is intended to complement CHEM E-17. Practical applications of the reactions learned in a lecture—such as those of carbonyls, amines, and aromatic structures—are expanded upon in the laboratory. In addition to performing reactions, students are introduced to purification techniques and spectroscopic analysis. Laboratory procedures include acid-base extraction, distillation, chromatography, and quantitative multi-step synthesis.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Saturdays, 9 am-1 pm
Start Date: Sep. 5, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $470
Credits: 1

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: CHEM E-17 or equivalent (prior or concurrent). Prospective students who do not plan to concurrently enroll in CHEM E-17 should contact the course instructor to ensure that the necessary prerequisites are met.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 56 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16161/2020

CHEM E-17LAB
Principles of Organic Chemistry: Laboratory

David W. Rose, BA

Undergraduate Chemistry Lab Coordinator, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16162 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 6-10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $470
Credits: 1

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 56 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16162/2020

CHEM E-17LAB
Principles of Organic Chemistry: Laboratory

David W. Rose, BA

Undergraduate Chemistry Lab Coordinator, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16163 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 1:30-5:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $470
Credits: 1

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 56 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16163/2020

CHEM E-27
Organic Chemistry of Life

Sirinya Matchacheep, PhD

Lecturer on Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Director of Instructional Laboratory Programs, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25022

Description
This course is a second-semester organic chemistry course focusing on organic chemistry reactivity processes in living systems. Emphasis is placed on reaction mechanisms of enzymes, carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids, cofactors, natural products, and the organic chemistry and metabolism of drugs and druglike molecules. This course does not include a lab; students who need an organic chemistry lab should enroll in CHEM E-27LAB.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 5:50-7:50 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1410
Credits: 3

Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions on demand. The recorded sessions are available within 24 hours of the lecture. Students are required to take three midterm examinations and a final examination, administered online, at 6 pm US Eastern time on specific Thursdays. See syllabus for exam dates and details.

Prerequisites: CHEM E-17 or equivalent preparation in organic chemistry. Basic knowledge of biology can be helpful.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25022/2021

CHEM E-27LAB
Organic Chemistry of Life: Laboratory

David W. Rose, BA

Undergraduate Chemistry Lab Coordinator, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25722 | Section 3

Description
This hands-on experimental laboratory course is intended to complement CHEM E-27. Practical applications of the concepts learned in lecture—such as chirality, enzyme catalysis, and pharmacology—are expanded upon in the laboratory. Emphasis is placed on biomimetic synthesis, the chemistry of living systems, and biologically and environmentally friendly techniques.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Saturdays, 9 am-1 pm
Start Date: Jan. 30, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $470
Credits: 1

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Students must have taken one semester of organic chemistry lecture and one semester of organic chemistry laboratory. CHEM E-17LAB is recommended. If organic chemistry laboratory was taken at a different institution, students should contact the instructor to ensure that the necessary prerequisites are met. CHEM E-27 is recommended as a co-requisite.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 28 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25722/2021

CHEM E-27LAB
Organic Chemistry of Life: Laboratory

David W. Rose, BA

Undergraduate Chemistry Lab Coordinator, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25723 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 6-10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $470
Credits: 1

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 28 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25723/2021

CHEM E-27LAB
Organic Chemistry of Life: Laboratory

David W. Rose, BA

Undergraduate Chemistry Lab Coordinator, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25724 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 1:30-5:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $470
Credits: 1

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 28 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25724/2021

CHEM E-100
Organic Chemistry of Drug Synthesis and Action

Craig Masse, PhD

Vice President of Discovery Research, Ajax Therapeutics

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14210

Description
This course emphasizes the application of organic synthesis to the development of pharmaceutical targets at both the medicinal and process chemistry levels. It examines the macromolecular targets of some of the more popular types of pharmaceutical therapies that exist today using case histories of modern drug molecules for each topic.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: CHEM E-17 or equivalent preparation in organic chemistry.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14210/2020

CLAS E-116
The Ancient Greek Hero

Gregory Nagy, PhD

Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University

Kevin McGrath, PhD

Associate in South Asian Studies, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24099

Description
The readings, all in English translation, are the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey, seven tragedies (Aeschylus’ Oresteia trilogy, Sophocles’ two Oedipus dramas, and Euripides’ Hippolytus and The Bacchic Women), and two dialogues of Plato (the Apology and the Phaedo, both centering on the last days of Socrates); and from the dialogue On Heroes by an eminent thinker in the second sophistic movement, Philostratus. The contents are divided into 24 Hours, a term referring to the number of hour-long class meetings in an academic semester. All the texts are freely available on the multimedia interactive HeroesX website. This site also includes the Sourcebook (masterpieces of Greek literature with tools to track over 70 key concepts in ancient Greek civilization); The Ancient Greek Hero, a 600-page book which covers everything in the course; a full set of complex self-assessments; videos of textual close reading for each Hour; hundreds of video dialogues on the weekly focus texts and transcripts for all these videos plus audio files for every video; video clips from movies which we quote; images from vase painting; multimedia annotation tools to engage deeply with every focus text and image; and 24-hour access to discussion forums moderated by the Board of Readers and HeroesX participants from all over the world. When the course ends, students are invited to participate in Hour 25, a free, open-ended companion project hosted by Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies, with live video dialogues.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required online sections Thursdays, 5:30-6:45 pm.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. The recorded lectures are from the HarvardX course The Ancient Greek Hero.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24099/2021

CLAS E-116
The Ancient Greek Hero

Gregory Nagy, PhD

Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University

Kevin McGrath, PhD

Associate in South Asian Studies, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 13404

Class Meetings:
Online

Required online sections Thursdays, 5:30-6:45 pm.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. The recorded lectures are from the HarvardX course The Ancient Greek Hero.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-13404/2020

CREA E-23
Fiction Workshop: Story Origins

Gregory A. Harris, MFA

Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14251

Description
Does everyone have a story to tell? Why just one—why not 200? Or an infinite number? What if we could see the story in every human moment—and tell it with passion? This workshop focuses on story origins. We spend part of the semester learning new techniques to get stories started and new ways of looking at the very nature of storytelling. We read what different authors have to say about where stories come from, and what different journals seem to look for in stories. We consider a great volume of published fiction to see what makes a plot or character compelling. In the last six weeks of the term, we finish some of the stories we have started, and work on polishing them into completed, publishable works.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 3-5 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14251/2020

CREA E-24
Story Development

Shelley Evans, MFA

Screenwriter

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24510

Description
This workshop introduces the unique challenges of longform storytelling, and helps writers develop strategies for approaching long projects, either screenplays or novels. Many writers are drawn to the page by character or language or theme, but story is the scaffold on which movies and novels depend. Over the course of the semester, we learn to work creatively with the tasks of story building. We begin with ideas—where and how do we find them? What kinds of ideas can carry a story? How can you turn a wobbly idea into one that works? We then consider character—who does the story belong to? How do their desires, problems, and drives give the story its essential energy? Then we turn to story development and structure, the primary work of the course: how do you keep an idea alive for two-hundred pages, or two hours? What elements help a story build energy and momentum, and deliver us to a satisfying close? We explore these essential story energies using writing exercises, examples from film and literature, and the shared experience of working writers.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24510/2021

CREA E-25
Introduction to Fiction Writing

William J. Holinger, MA

Director, Secondary School Program, Harvard Summer School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 23177

Description
A workshop for writers with little or no experience in writing fiction. The class focuses on the elements of fiction: dialogue, voice, image, character, point of view, and structure. Students are asked to read and discuss fiction by major writers, to critique each other’s work, and to write and revise at least one short story. Requirements also include several short writing exercises.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-23177/2021

CREA E-45
Beginning Screenwriting

Susan Steinberg, PhD

Filmmaker, Writer

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 13975

Description
This is an intensive course that provides members with a command of basic screenwriting elements and creative methods. The course goal is to promote each member’s originality, voice, knowledge, and screenwriting technical skills, and to give scripts a written script structure and an act one of which they feel proud and can use to advance their work. Students are welcome to write an entire script, should they wish to—and some have. During the semester, students produce a completed treatment, script outline, and first act of a feature length screenplay. Those who wish to use the course to write an entire screenplay or to rewrite a screenplay may pursue these goals, but must notify the instructor and arrange a writing schedule. Students need not enter with a script concept. Ideas are developed in class. Each person is encouraged to develop a creative approach and method appropriate to his or her working style. Alternative narrative styles and methods are presented in class.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-13975/2020

CREA E-90
Fundamentals of Fiction

Christopher S. Mooney, MA

Author

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26063

Description
This intensive, immersive course is designed for graduate-credit students with strong writing skills and an interest in becoming fiction writers but little formal experience, students who would like to develop a solid foundation in story and scene structure before embarking on an advanced fiction writing course. The first part of the course focuses on a close analysis of plot and structure in several short stories and novels. Students then apply these techniques and methods to generate and shape their own ideas, build a solid narrative foundation, and use scene structure to craft a dramatic story. Using Janet Burroway’s Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft, students explore and learn the fundamentals of character, dialogue, showing versus telling, and point of view. By the end of the course, students complete a short story or the first chapter of a novel (about 15 to 20 pages of fiction), which is workshopped in class.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26063/2021

CREA E-100R
Advanced Fiction: Writing the Short Story

Lindsay Mitchell, MFA

Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14607 | Section 1

Description
This is an intensive workshop in the craft of writing short fiction for students who have read widely among past and contemporary masters of short fiction and who are accomplished in the elements of prose composition (mechanics, syntax, and structure). Students are expected to produce two new short stories (10 to 20 pages each) and to revise them during the term.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A beginning or intermediate fiction writing course or permission of the instructor. Students should bring a 10-page sample of their work to the first class.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14607/2020

CREA E-100R
Advanced Fiction: Writing the Short Story

William Weitzel, PhD

Lecturer on Expository Writing, New York University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 22613 | Section 3

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 11 am-1 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A beginning or intermediate fiction writing course or permission of the instructor. Students should bring a 10-page sample of their work to the first class.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-22613/2021

CREA E-100R
Advanced Fiction: Writing the Short Story

Christopher S. Mooney, MA

Author

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16221 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A beginning or intermediate fiction writing course or permission of the instructor. Students should bring a 10-page sample of their work to the first class.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16221/2020

CREA E-100R
Advanced Fiction: Writing the Short Story

William Weitzel, PhD

Lecturer on Expository Writing, New York University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15460 | Section 3

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 11 am-1 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A beginning or intermediate fiction writing course or permission of the instructor. Students should bring a 10-page sample of their work to the first class.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15460/2020

CREA E-100R
Advanced Fiction: Writing the Short Story

William Weitzel, PhD

Lecturer on Expository Writing, New York University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16486 | Section 4

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 11 am-1 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A beginning or intermediate fiction writing course or permission of the instructor. Students should bring a 10-page sample of their work to the first class.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16486/2020

CREA E-100R
Advanced Fiction: Writing the Short Story

Shubha Sunder, MFA

Instructor, GrubStreet

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25810 | Section 2

Description
In this course, students write and revise two short stories over the course of the semester. Class time is divided between workshop and discussion of literature. We look closely at various ways writers have, over the centuries, tackled the short story form. Writers whose work we read include V. S. Naipaul, Alice Munro, Leo Tolstoy, Edward P. Jones, Yiyun Li, James Baldwin, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ha Jin, and Donald Barthelme. We discuss those elements of craft, such as dialogue, scene, and narrative, that demand particular mastery in a short story, where the writer has limited space to execute, in the words of Flannery O’Connor, “a complete dramatic action.” And we talk about what it means to write a short story today as an engaged literary citizen. Students are expected to produce two new short stories (10 to 20 pages each) and to revise them during the term.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A beginning or intermediate fiction writing course or permission of the instructor. Students should bring a 10-page sample of their work to the first class.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25810/2021

CREA E-100R
Advanced Fiction: Writing the Short Story

Lindsay Mitchell, MFA

Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24317 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A beginning or intermediate fiction writing course or permission of the instructor. Students should bring a 10-page sample of their work to the first class.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24317/2021

CREA E-101R
Writing a Nonfiction Book

Deirdre Alanna Mask, JD

Writer

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16479 | Section 2

Description
This is a course for people who are embarked on a book-length work of nonfiction: biographers, memoirists, historians, journalists, science writers, and others who are writing for a non-specialist audience. Students should have a clearly formulated book idea or, ideally, be already working on a project. In the course we talk about voice, structure, audience, and how to pitch projects to agents and publishers. We also read samples from a wide variety of nonfiction books.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 3-5 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: At least one creative writing class; preferably beginning or advanced narrative (or creative) nonfiction.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16479/2020

CREA E-101R
Writing a Nonfiction Book

Christina Thompson, PhD

Editor, Harvard Review, Harvard College Library

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16305 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: At least one creative writing class; preferably beginning or advanced narrative (or creative) nonfiction.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16305/2020

CREA E-101R
Writing a Nonfiction Book

Christina Thompson, PhD

Editor, Harvard Review, Harvard College Library

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25084

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: At least one creative writing class; preferably beginning or advanced narrative (or creative) nonfiction.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25084/2021

CREA E-105R
Advanced Fiction: Writing the Novel

Elisabeth Sharp McKetta, PhD

Writer

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16475 | Section 2

Description
This is an advanced fiction-writing course. Class meetings run mainly as workshops: students respond to one another’s novel excerpts. We also discuss process, as well as elements of fiction that relate to the novel.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 2-4 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Students should have successfully completed other fiction-writing courses and begun writing a novel when the semester begins.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16475/2020

CREA E-105R
Advanced Fiction: Writing the Novel

William J. Holinger, MA

Director, Secondary School Program, Harvard Summer School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14016 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Students should have successfully completed other fiction-writing courses and begun writing a novel when the semester begins.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14016/2020

CREA E-107
Advanced Fiction: Writing Historical Fiction

Rachel Kadish, MA

MFA Creative Writing Faculty, Lesley University

January session | CRN 25999

Description
This is an intensive writing workshop for creative writing students interested in exploring the possibilities of historical fiction. Students write and revise original historical fiction, and discuss published works by authors including Toni Morrison, Geraldine Brooks, Jaroslav Hasek, Min Jin Lee, Colson Whitehead, Alice Munro, and Italo Calvino. In addition to considering fundamental craft elements such as character and plot, students design an approach to researching their chosen historical period. Through brief assignments and class discussions, they engage with issues such as the ethics of historical accuracy, the rendering of period dialogue, and the challenges of working with worldviews different from their own.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays-Thursdays, 11 am-3 pm
Start Date: Jan. 4, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Final papers due Monday, February 8.

Prerequisites: A beginning-level creative writing course or permission of the instructor. Students should come to the first class prepared with a one-paragraph description of a historical time period they would like to explore in fiction.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25999/2021

CREA E-114
Advanced Fiction: Writing Suspense Fiction

Christopher S. Mooney, MA

Author

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24772

Description
Learn how techniques used in suspense fiction—structure, pace, tension, and plot—can be applied to your own writing. In addition to studying the bestselling works of both commercial and literary writers of suspense, students complete weekly writing assignments and participate in writing workshops. Writing samples will also be read and critiqued by a literary agent.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: An introductory and/or intermediate fiction course or permission of the instructor. Students should bring to class either a work in progress or an idea for a novel or short story.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24772/2021

CREA E-118R
Advanced Creative Nonfiction

Deirdre Alanna Mask, JD

Writer

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26118

Description
This workshop is for students who want to stretch their abilities as writers. The goal of the course is to produce publishable short memoirs, essays, profiles, literary nonfiction, or any of the other subgenres often called creative nonfiction. We develop pitches for editors; gather material through interviews, research, and observation; and then organize and rewrite our pieces until readers won’t put them down. Although we deal strictly in facts, we use literary devices such as scene, plot, character, and voice. We draw inspiration from masters of the craft such as Susan Orlean, Jia Tolentino, David Foster Wallace, Virginia Woolf, Malcolm Gladwell, and Joan Didion.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 3-5 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A beginning writing course or permission of the instructor.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26118/2021

CREA E-118R
Advanced Creative Nonfiction

Kurt Pitzer, MFA

Author

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16366

Description
This workshop is for students who want to stretch their abilities as writers. The goal of the course is to produce publishable short memoirs, essays, profiles, literary nonfiction, or any of the other subgenres often called creative nonfiction. We develop pitches for editors; gather material through interviews, research, and observation; and then organize and rewrite our pieces until readers won’t put them down. Although we deal strictly in facts, we use literary devices such as scene, plot, character, and voice. We draw inspiration from masters of the craft such as Susan Orlean, Zadie Smith, David Foster Wallace, Virginia Woolf, and Ryszard Kapuscinski.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A beginning writing course or permission of the instructor.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16366/2020

CREA E-120R
Advanced Screenwriting

Bryan Delaney, MA

Playwright and Screenwriter

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 23827 | Section 1

Description
The course covers the most important aspects of the art and craft of writing for the screen. Topics covered include techniques for generating ideas, the drafting process, classical screenplay structure, conflict, characterization, dialogue, how to write visually, how to analyze your own work as a screenwriter, dealing with notes and feedback, scene structure, and rewriting. We also discuss elements of the business side of screenwriting, such as selling a script and working with agents, managers, producers, directors, and casting agents. Each student undertakes to write the first half of a feature-length screenplay (approximately 60 pages) by the end of the term. We focus more on what might be called the classical principles of screenwriting than on the more avant-garde approaches to the art. We study and discuss films from a range of genres—political thriller, western, romantic comedy, indie features, and Hollywood classics.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 3-5 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Students should come to class with an idea for a feature-length screenplay that they would like to write.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-23827/2021

CREA E-120R
Advanced Screenwriting

Wayne Wilson, MFA

Screenwriter

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26094 | Section 2

Description
In this advanced screenwriting workshop, students read scripts, watch films, and discuss the work of workshop members. During the course each student presents two 20- to 30-page acts from his or her screenplay for class discussion. The final project is a revision of one of these two workshop submissions.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: CREA E-45, or the equivalent, or permission of the instructor. Students should e-mail a sample of their own writing (ten pages or fewer) to Mr. Wilson before the first class.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26094/2021

CREA E-121
Advanced Fiction: Writing the Middle Grade and Young Adult Novel

Mary Sullivan Walsh, BA

Author and Freelance Editor

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16474 | Section 2

Description
This is an intensive workshop for writers interested in developing a middle grade or young adult novel. During each class meeting, we workshop chapters of students’ novels-in-progress, focusing on elements of craft (character, point of view, dialogue, and plot). In addition, by reading and analyzing sections of work by such exemplary novelists as Sherman Alexie, Angie Thomas, Lois Lowry, and Kwame Alexander, students learn to read like writers and to develop their own voices. Students are expected to have completed approximately 40 polished pages and a working synopsis of their novel by the end of the course.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 11 am-1 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A ten-page writing sample to be submitted to mlswalsh@gmail.com before classes begin.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16474/2020

CREA E-121
Advanced Fiction: Writing the Middle Grade and Young Adult Novel

Mary Sullivan Walsh, BA

Author and Freelance Editor

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25946 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A ten-page writing sample to be submitted to mlswalsh@gmail.com before classes begin.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25946/2021

CREA E-121
Advanced Fiction: Writing the Middle Grade and Young Adult Novel

Mary Sullivan Walsh, BA

Author and Freelance Editor

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15776 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A ten-page writing sample to be submitted to mlswalsh@gmail.com before classes begin.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15776/2020

CREA E-121
Advanced Fiction: Writing the Middle Grade and Young Adult Novel

Mary Sullivan Walsh, BA

Author and Freelance Editor

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26106 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 11 am-1 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A ten-page writing sample to be submitted to mlswalsh@gmail.com before classes begin.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26106/2021

CREA E-122
Advanced Fiction: Writing Fairy Tales

Katie Beth Kohn, MA

Doctoral Candidate, Visual and Environment Studies, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25809

Description
Fairy tales have inspired authors for centuries and we are still very much under their spell. In the first part of this course, we study fairy tales both classic and contemporary, including works by Helen Oyeyemi, Neil Gaiman, Margaret Atwood, and Kelly Link. In the second part, students workshop their own original prose fiction fairy tale, which may be a piece of short-form fiction or an excerpt from a longer work in progress. Throughout, we explore how fairy tales have encouraged authors to develop their own style and voice even as they seem to speak in a language all their own.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A beginning creative writing course or permission of the instructor.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25809/2021

CREA E-122
Advanced Fiction: Writing Fairy Tales

Katie Beth Kohn, MA

Doctoral Candidate, Visual and Environment Studies, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16365

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A beginning creative writing course or permission of the instructor.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16365/2020

CREA E-123
Advanced Fiction: Writing Environmental Fiction

William Weitzel, PhD

Lecturer on Expository Writing, New York University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25951

Description
This is an intensive course for advanced fiction writers who are passionate about the environment and interested in writing fiction about nature during a period of accelerating extinctions, habitat loss and fragmentation, and climate change. Together, we navigate the challenges of portraying other species with compassion and deep care; of balancing advocacy with narrative arc, pacing, and scene structure; and of seeing non-human agency and wilderness as opening up pathways into character and setting. We look closely at such threatened biomes as rainforest, desert, and ocean, and read work by authors who integrate nature into their writing in distinct ways, including Louise Erdrich, Eduardo Kohn, Terry Tempest Williams, Joy Williams, and Ann Pancake. Students are expected to produce two new short stories and to revise one of them for submission at the end of the term.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 11 am-1 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A beginning or intermediate fiction writing course or permission of the instructor. Students should bring a 10-page sample of their work to the first class.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25951/2021

CREA E-124
Writing for TV

Bryan Delaney, MA

Playwright and Screenwriter

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16367

Description
This course provides students with an introduction to the basics of writing for TV, including contemporary digital platforms such as Netflix and Amazon. Topics covered include an overview of the current TV landscape, half-hour comedy versus hour-long drama, writing a treatment/pitch bible for the show, writing a good pilot, episode structure, dramatic conflict, characterization, dialogue, working in a writers’ room, dealing with notes, and understanding the hierarchy. The course also focuses on the business side of writing for TV—pitching, dealing with agents and producers, and more. During the course students write a treatment/pitch bible for a new TV series and write one or two drafts of the pilot script.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 3-5 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Students should come to class with an idea for a TV series that they would like to write (drama or comedy).

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16367/2020

CREA E-125R
Advanced Playwriting

Joyce Van Dyke, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16423

Description
Students write and revise scenes, a 10-minute play, and a one-act play. Professional actors give a staged reading of students’ revised 10-minute plays later in the term. Class time is spent reading their work aloud, exploring a wide range of playwriting techniques and challenges, and discussing the assigned readings, which include modern classics and plays by contemporary professional playwrights.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: College level playwriting course or equivalent theater experience or permission of the instructor.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16423/2020

CREA E-126
Writing Horror

Katie Beth Kohn, MA

Doctoral Candidate, Visual and Environment Studies, Harvard University

January session | CRN 26043

Description
How do authors achieve the spine-tingling, bone-chilling, nightmare-inducing effects of great horror fiction? In addition to studying works of classic and contemporary horror, students in this course complete two works of short fiction before workshopping and presenting a final work. Throughout, we consider the diversity of the genre, from the gothic romanticism of Bram Stoker and Nathaniel Hawthorne to the paranoiac parables of Shirley Jackson and Ira Levin as well as the blockbuster works of Stephen King. We also pay considerable attention to emerging voices in the genre, studying selected works from Tananarive Due, Paul Tremblay, Carmen Maria Machado, Otessa Moshfegh, Emily Carroll, and Iain Reed. For final works, students are invited to workshop standalone works of short form fiction or selections from larger projects (novels, anthologies, scripts) provided these works are developed and drafted during the course.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays-Thursdays, 6-9 pm
Start Date: Jan. 4, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Final papers due Monday, February 8.

Prerequisites: A beginning-level creative writing course or permission of the instructor.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26043/2021

CREA E-127
Advanced TV Writing: The One-Hour Drama Pilot and Serialized Storytelling

Maria Bell, BA

President, Vitameatavegamin Productions

Marla Kanelos

Freelance Writer

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25400

Description
How do you keep viewers on the edge of their seats with serialized storytelling? This is the question we answer in this advanced course in television writing. This course explores the process of creating a one-hour drama from idea to pilot script and pitch document. We read scripts for—and watch—successful one-hour pilots and consider a range of topics including miniseries format versus traditional series, fact-based drama series versus fictional characters, storytelling for network versus cable and streaming, and plot- versus character-driven stories. We create a virtual writers’ room where we develop students’ ideas into series outlines and the script for a pilot, a calling card for any job in television.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A beginning-level creative writing course or permission of the instructor.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 16 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25400/2021

CREA E-128
Advanced Memoir: Mythic Structures

Elisabeth Sharp McKetta, PhD

Writer

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26042

Description
Both myth and memoir share a structure: somebody goes into the woods and comes out wiser about the ways of the world, emerging with an elixir (real or symbolic) to bring healing and hope. In sharing a memoir with readers, we share our lessons, the morals of our stories, the keys to our versions of happily ever after. Yet memoir writers often get stuck choosing which stories (from all of the stories we have lived) to include. In this course, we study myths and fairy tales, and write memoirs. We read short memoirs by writers who use these imaginary stories as a framework to examine their own lives, including bell hooks, Linda Grey Sexton, Alexander Chee, Michael Mejia, and others. Students borrow structure from the great pool of myth and fairy tale lore and then fill in their stories with the particulars of their human-sized lives. Using mythic structure to help shape ordinary life events helps writers to combine universal themes with their own true voice—a way to write our lives and make it matter. Students must craft new material for this course or develop new material for an existing project, such as a chapter in a longer memoir.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 2-4 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A beginning-level creative writing course or permission of the instructor.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26042/2021

CREA E-133
Advanced TV Writing: The Half-Hour Comedy

Bill Daly, BS

Writer and Producer

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26128

Description
In this intensive writing workshop, students read scripts, watch pilot episodes, and discuss a wide range of successful television comedies, analyzing style, substance, and cultural impact, from Will and Grace and The Golden Girls to some of today’s hit shows, such as Young Sheldon, Grownish, and Bob’s Burgers. Students develop their own show ideas—from log line to outline to completed draft of a pilot script—while providing constructive feedback on the work of other students in class.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A beginning writing course or permission of the instructor.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26128/2021

CREA E-151
Advanced Creative Nonfiction: The Narrative Voice

Kurt Pitzer, MFA

Author

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25947

Description
A strong narrative voice is essential to all compelling creative writing. This workshop, which focuses sharply on point of view, is for memoirists, essayists, and writers of creative nonfiction who wish to develop their own distinct narrative voices. Students are encouraged to experiment with narrative styles outside of their custom, and to use humor, digression, and other techniques to hook readers and editors. As we review each other’s work, we discuss how the selection of detail is an expression of the narrator’s psychology. What’s driving the telling of the story? What are the hidden narrative motivations that are keys to its theme? We draw inspiration from creative nonfiction masters such as Lia Purpura, Katherine Boo, Charles D’Ambrosio, Brent Staples, and Joan Didion.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A beginning-level creative writing course or permission of the instructor.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25947/2021

CREA E-152
Advanced Fiction: Fact to Fiction

David Justin Freed, ALM

Special Assistant Professor of Journalism and Media Communication, Colorado State University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25948

Description
From exercising a keen eye for detail to crafting clean, succinct prose, the skills required of a professional journalist can prove invaluable in writing fiction. This highly participatory course explores how learning to think like a news reporter, doggedly pursuing facts and truth, can help achieve authenticity and credibility when constructing creative short stories. Students write and hone their own short stories while studying the work of journalists whose news careers provided the foundation necessary to produce memorable, critically acclaimed fiction.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A beginning-level creative writing course or permission of the instructor.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25948/2021

CREA E-152
Advanced Fiction: Fact to Fiction

David Justin Freed, ALM

Special Assistant Professor of Journalism and Media Communication, Colorado State University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16306

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A beginning-level creative writing course or permission of the instructor.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16306/2020

CREA E-153
Advanced Nonfiction: Writing Biography

Maggie Doherty, PhD

Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25958

Description
The biography is one of the most popular and enduring genres of nonfiction writing. This course teaches students the skills needed to bring people to life through biographical writing. Students read excerpts from different types of biography—scholarly, popular, and experimental—as well as read about the process of writing biography. Students practice interviewing, learn about accessing archival resources, and work on aspects of prose and style that bring characters to life. Students work to complete one chapter of a biography in progress. By the end of the course, students have the skills to enhance all their nonfiction writing projects, making them more marketable to editors and agents and more engaging to readers.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A beginning writing course or permission of the instructor.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25958/2021

CREA E-156
The Art of the Pitch

Catherine Eaton, MFA

Director and Writer

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16176

Description
You have an idea, or you’ve created a brilliant piece of work: a novel, a screenplay, a concept for a TV series—maybe even a scripted nonfiction podcast. Now what? How do you convince others to jump on board to buy or create or collaborate or publish or produce your story? How do you move it out of your desk drawer or hard drive or imagination, and into the world? In this course, we break down the making of a pitch into its core elements—generating the idea, developing the story, and stress-testing the material—as we practice strategies for producing pitch materials and for pitching your project, in the room, to a live audience. Students write and revise three treatments: one for an established work, one for a work they’ve created, and one for an idea they have yet to develop. Students build one look book and one pitch deck and do three live pitches. Students develop an insider’s perspective on industry practices and etiquette, essential knowledge for anyone interested in the business of creation.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: An advanced creative writing course or the equivalent, or permission of the instructor.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16176/2020

CREA E-156
The Art of the Pitch

Catherine Eaton, MFA

Director and Writer

January session | CRN 25949

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays-Thursdays, 10 am-1 pm
Start Date: Jan. 4, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Final papers due Monday, February 8.

Prerequisites: An advanced creative writing course or the equivalent, or permission of the instructor.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25949/2021

CREA E-156
The Art of the Pitch

Catherine Eaton, MFA

Director and Writer

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25774

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: An advanced creative writing course or the equivalent, or permission of the instructor.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25774/2021

CREA E-158
Advanced Poetry Writing: Mastering the Craft

Collier Brown, PhD

Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25982

Description
Good poets pay attention to words. Great poets attend to sounds. How do you create levity, melancholy, suspense—just by working with vowels, consonants, and syllable stress? In this poetry workshop, we survey an array of poetic forms, from the ancient hemstitch of Beowulf to the recent sonnet cycles of John Murillo. We study meter, caesurae, line breaks, and all those subtle, but intentional, moves that enhance a poem’s affect and meaning. To immerse ourselves in the craft, we spend the first two or three weeks reading and discussing assigned poems, both historical and modern. For the remainder of the semester, we workshop one another’s poems. Workshops are done anonymously. Names are removed from the poems submitted in order to maintain focus on the poem itself rather than the poet. This course encourages poets to share in, and build upon, the rich history of their craft. It is also open to creative writers who, working outside of poetry, want to enhance their prose at the level of sound. We are in it, as Gerard Manley Hopkins put it, for “the achieve of, the mastery of the thing.”

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A beginning-level creative writing course or permission of the instructor.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25982/2021

CREA E-497
Crafting the Thesis Proposal in Creative Writing and Literature Tutorial

Collier Brown, PhD

Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25942

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $0
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, creative writing and literature. They must have completed eight courses toward the degree and be in good academic standing. Their prework, due between September 1 and November 1, must be approved before they are allowed to register for the tutorial. See the Guide to the ALM Thesis for details. Candidates accepted to the 12-course thesis track register for graduate credit; those in the ten-course thesis track register for noncredit.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25942/2021

CREA E-497
Crafting the Thesis Proposal in Creative Writing and Literature Tutorial

Talaya Adrienne Delaney, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Collier Brown, PhD

Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16360

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $0
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, creative writing and literature. They must have completed eight courses toward the degree and be in good academic standing. Their prework, due between April1 and June 1, must be approved before they are allowed to register for the tutorial. See the Guide to the ALM Thesis for details. Candidates accepted to the 12-course thesis track register for graduate credit; those in the ten-course thesis track register for noncredit.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16360/2020

CSCI E-1A
Understanding Technology

David J. Malan, PhD

Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15513

Description
This course is for students who don’t (yet) consider themselves computer persons. Designed for students who work with technology every day but don’t necessarily understand how it all works underneath the hood or how to solve problems when something goes wrong, this course fills in the gaps, empowering students to use and troubleshoot technology more effectively. Through lectures on hardware, the internet, multimedia, security, programming, and web development as well as through readings on current events, this course equips students for today’s technology and prepares them for tomorrow’s as well.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Credits: 4

Notes: This course is also available for noncredit as OpenCourseWare at cs50.edx.org/technology.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15513/2020

CSCI E-1B
Computer Science for Business Professionals

David J. Malan, PhD

Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25393

Description
This course is a variant of Harvard College’s introduction to computer science, CS50, designed especially for business professionals. Whereas CS50 itself takes a bottom-up approach, emphasizing mastery of low-level concepts and implementation details thereof, this course takes a top-down approach, emphasizing mastery of high-level concepts and design decisions related thereto. Ultimately this course empowers students to make technological decisions even if they are not technologists themselves. Topics include cloud computing, networking, privacy, scalability, security, and more, with an emphasis on web and mobile technologies. Students emerge from this course with first-hand appreciation of how it all works and all the more confident in the factors that should guide their decision making. This course is designed for managers, product managers, founders, and decision makers more generally.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course is also available for noncredit as OpenCourseWare at cs50.edx.org/business.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25393/2021

CSCI E-3
Introduction to Web Programming Using JavaScript

Laurence P. Bouthillier, MS

Executive Director, University of British Columbia Extended Learning

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15118

Description
This course provides an introduction to web development by way of the essential language and runtime environment that powers modern web interfaces. Through a series of examples and projects, students learn basic programming concepts while building an understanding of the power and complexities of JavaScript, which can perplex even experienced web developers. The course provides a solid foundation in computer programming in JavaScript: syntax and data structures, conditionals, objects, scope and closures, Ajax, the DOM, and event handling. Students gain an understanding of the popular libraries that power rich web applications such as jQuery, VueJS, and others. Upon completion, students are prepared to use JavaScript libraries in their projects, write their own or extend existing JavaScript libraries, and build rich web applications using these powerful tools. No computer programming experience is required, though exposure to basic HTML and CSS is helpful.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15118/2020

CSCI E-5A
Programming in R

Theodore Hatch Whitfield, ScD

Principal and Statistical Consultant, Biostatistics Solutions

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26057

Description
This course is an introduction to the R programming language, one of the most popular languages for modern data science. Intended for students with no previous coding experience, this course covers fundamental concepts such as variables, functions, flow of control, data structures, and data management. Special attention is focused on practical skills such as working with missing data, finding and repairing corrupted values, and summarizing variables. Visualization techniques are emphasized throughout the course, and students develop a repertoire of graphical tools such as histograms, scatterplots, line charts, bar plots, and stripcharts. Assignments are developed in the popular R notebook format, allowing for integration of code, output, and graphics, with an emphasis on robust and reproducible analysis.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Strong command of high-school precalculus mathematics. No prior programming experience is expected.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 100 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26057/2021

CSCI E-7
Introduction to Programming with Python

Jeff Parker, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15376

Description
Python is a language with a simple syntax, and a powerful set of libraries. It is an interpreted language, with a rich programming environment, including a robust debugger and profiler. While it is easy for beginners to learn, it is widely used in many scientific areas for data exploration. This course is an introduction to the Python programming language for students without prior programming experience. We cover data types and control flow, and introduce the analysis of program performance. The examples and problems used in this course are drawn from diverse areas such as text processing and simple graphics creation. Graduate-credit students implement a final project of their own design.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the 2018 and 2019 courses.

Prerequisites: Comfort with computers, text editors, and the command line.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 110 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15376/2020

CSCI E-7
Introduction to Computer Science with Python

Henry H. Leitner, PhD

Senior Lecturer on Computer Science, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25531

Description
This course is an introduction to computer science for students without prior programming experience. We explore problem-solving methods and algorithm development using the high-level programming languages Python and Scratch. Python is a language with a simple syntax, and a powerful set of libraries. While it is easy for beginners to learn, it is widely used in many scientific areas for data exploration. We cover data types and control flow, and introduce the analysis of program performance. The examples and problems used in this course are drawn from diverse areas such as text processing and simple graphics creation. We also examine theoretical and practical limitations related to unsolvable and intractable computational problems. Graduate-credit students implement a final project of their own design.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date:

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences course Computer Science 1. This course follows the Harvard College spring calendar and will meet during the Extension School spring break, March 14-20. See the syllabus for specific meeting dates.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25531/2021

CSCI E-8
Web GIS: Technologies and Applications

Pinde Fu, PhD

Team Lead and Senior GIS Application Developer, Professional Services Division, Esri, Inc.

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25121

Description
Web GIS, the combination of the web and geographic information systems (GIS), is a promising field. It has extended the power of GIS from local servers to the cloud, and put online maps and geospatial intelligence in the offices of millions and the hands of billions. This course aims to provide students with the essential knowledge needed for managing web GIS projects, teach students the latest geospatial cloud technologies needed for building modern web GIS applications, and inspire students with real world case studies. This course focuses on Esri’s geospatial cloud, the most widely used GIS platform in government and business information systems. Technologies taught in this course include cloud GIS (ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise), browser-based web apps (ArcGIS web app templates, Story Maps, Web AppBuilder, Experience Builder, and Operations Dashboard), mobile GIS apps (Collector, Survey123, QuickCapture, Explorer, Workforce, and Tracker), 3D web scenes, imagery services, and spatial analysis. Internet of things, big data analysis, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and machine learning are also discussed in the context of web GIS. Access to Harvard ArcGIS Online and other ArcGIS software is provided.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Basic experience with online maps or mobile maps.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25121/2021

CSCI E-10A
Introduction to Computer Science Using Java I

Henry H. Leitner, PhD

Senior Lecturer on Computer Science, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14289

Description
Intended for students with no previous programming background, this course introduces problem-solving methods and algorithm development using Java, one of the most popular high-level programming languages in the world. Students learn how to design, code, debug, and document programs using modern engineering techniques in a cloud-based Linux environment. Related topics include programming using iterative constructs, the basic aspects of arrays and recursion, string manipulation, parameter passing, information hiding and encapsulation using classes, and the functional decomposition of methods to enable object-oriented design. Some applications are chosen for their relevance to more advanced coursework in computer science while others involve nonscientific and business-related areas. Students can count two of the following three courses—CSCI E-10a, CSCI E-10b, and CSCI E-50—toward a degree. They may not count all three toward a degree.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14289/2020

CSCI E-10B
Introduction to Computer Science Using Java II

Henry H. Leitner, PhD

Senior Lecturer on Computer Science, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24027

Description
This course is a continuation of CSCI E-10a, with an emphasis on object-oriented programming using Java, one of the world’s most popular programming languages. We begin with the implementation of abstract data types using classes, focusing on encapsulation of procedures and data, inheritance hierarchies, and polymorphism across different object types. Other topics include string processing, multidimensional arrays, ArrayLists, Vectors, and linked lists; streams and file I/O; recursion; exception handling; threads and event-driven programming; and graphical user interface design using the Swing classes. The course concludes with an introduction to RISC machine architecture and aspects of compilers and operating systems. Programming exercises are conducted in a cloud-based Linux environment. Students can count two of the following three courses—CSCI E-10a, CSCI E-10b, and CSCI E-50—toward a degree. They may not count all three toward a degree.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: CSCI E-10a, or the equivalent experience in a high-level programming language such as C, C++, or Java.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24027/2021

CSCI E-11
The Frontiers of Computer Science: Big Data, the Internet of Things, and Cybersecurity

Brian Subirana, PhD

Director, Auto-ID Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15525

Description
In this course, we review use cases and challenges of three interrelated areas in artificial intelligence: big data, the internet of things (IoT), and cybersecurity. Students gain an overview of the possibilities and challenges of building complex information systems that take advantage of recent advances in these fields. The course is divided into three parts, each focused on research conducted by leading Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) experts in their fields. Students will gain an understanding of what is possible and what not today, as well as what are MIT researchers trying to make possible in the near future. The first part surveys state-of-the-art topics in big data: data collection (smartphones, sensors, and the web), data storage and processing (scalable relational databases, Hadoop, and Spark), extracting structured data from unstructured data, systems issues (exploiting multicore processors and security), analytics (machine learning, data compression, and efficient algorithms), visualization, and a range of applications. In this part students learn to distinguish big data (volume, velocity, and variety), learn where it comes from, and the key challenges in gathering and using it; determine how and where big data challenges arise in a number of domains, including social media, transportation, finance, and medicine; investigate multicore challenges and how to engineer around them; explore the relational model, SQL, and capabilities of new relational systems in terms of scalability and performance; understand the capabilities and pitfalls of NoSQL systems and how the NewSQL movement addresses these issues; and maximize the MapReduce programming model: its benefits, how it compares to relational systems, and new developments that improve its performance and robustness. The second part of the course looks at the IoT. While the promise of the IoT brings many new business prospects, it also presents significant challenges ranging from technology architectural choices to security concerns. This part of the course offers important insights into how to overcome these challenges and thrive in this exciting space. The concept of IoT has begun to make an impact in industries ranging from industrial systems to home automation to healthcare. MIT researchers continue to conduct ground-breaking research on topics that are presented ranging from radio frequency identification (RFID) to cloud technologies, from sensors to the world wide web. The third and final part of the course covers cybersecurity issues related to hardware, software, cryptography, and policy to make better, safer decisions. Topics include systems (secure architectures, network security, secure programming languages, and system verification); algorithmic solutions (public key cryptography, multi-party computation, secret sharing, distributing trust, and computing on encrypted data); public policy issues in cybersecurity; and case studies (BitLocker, web security, and mobile phone security).

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: An introductory computer science course (for example, CSCI E-3, CSCI E-7, or CSCI E-10a) plus familiarity with precalculus mathematics (MATH E-10 or the equivalent).

Enrollment limit: Limited to 200 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15525/2020

CSCI E-11
The Frontiers of Computer Science: Big Data, the Internet of Things, and Cybersecurity

Brian Subirana, PhD

Director, Auto-ID Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26067

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: An introductory computer science course (for example, CSCI E-3, CSCI E-7, or CSCI E-10a) plus familiarity with precalculus mathematics (MATH E-10 or the equivalent).

Enrollment limit: Limited to 200 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26067/2021

CSCI E-12
Fundamentals of Website Development

David P. Heitmeyer, AM

Director of Academic Platforms and Development, Harvard University Information Technology

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 21144

Description
This course provides a comprehensive overview of website development. Students explore the prevailing vocabulary, tools, and standards used in the field and learn how the various facets—including HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, multimedia, scripting languages, HTTP, clients, servers, and databases—function together in today’s web environment. The course provides a solid web development foundation, focusing on content and client-side (browser) components (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, multimedia), with an overview of the server-side technologies. In addition, software and services that are easily incorporated into a website (for example, maps, checkout, blogs, content management) are surveyed and discussed. Students produce an interactive website on the topic of their choice for the final project and leave the course prepared for more advanced and focused web development studies.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Basic familiarity working with computers, including file management.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-21144/2021

CSCI E-12
Fundamentals of Website Development

David P. Heitmeyer, AM

Director of Academic Platforms and Development, Harvard University Information Technology

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15078

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Basic familiarity working with computers, including file management.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15078/2020

CSCI E-14A
Building Interactive Web Applications for Data Analysis

Zona Kostic, PhD

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16444

Description
This course introduces students to essential aspects of data-driven web applications and covers techniques for creating custom solutions with the ML programming language. Python-based frameworks and visualization libraries are used to build fully functional project architectures for interactive exploratory data analysis. Students learn how to process data into a web application taking care of both front-end visual attractiveness and back-end functionality. Specifically, the course covers understanding the web and its components, working with supervised machine learning techniques and frameworks, designing of effective interactions and data visualizations, and working with relational and non-relational databases. Upon completion, project setups are deployed to the cloud infrastructure, leveraging the dynamic nature of data-intensive applications.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 3-5 pm, or on demand.

Required sections Tuesdays, 3-5 pm.Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Familiarity with Python programming language, basic data science concepts, and experience with front-end development. Some experience with data visualization is useful, but not required.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 48 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16444/2020

CSCI E-15
Web Server Frameworks with Laravel/PHP

Susan Buck, MPS

Web Programmer

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24574

Description
The needs of modern web applications vary greatly depending on the business/product the application is serving, but certain functionality is common to most applications. Such functionality includes registration/authentication, form processing and validation, routing, caching, database interfacing, and more. While this functionality can be built from scratch with any server-capable language (PHP, Python, Java), it is much more efficient to use a framework that provides this common functionality out of the box, allowing developers to focus on the specific business needs of their application. In this course, students learn about web application development using frameworks via the lens of the PHP-based framework Laravel. Along the way, we explore paradigms common to many web frameworks such as routing, controllers, models, views, and object-relational mapping. Over the course of the semester, we build stand-alone web applications and also look at how to build web services that can act as the backend to single-page applications built using tools such as Angular, React, Ember, or Vue.js.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: DGMD E-2 or equivalent foundation in programming. Students should also be comfortable with HTML/CSS and basic website publishing (CSCI E-12 or equivalent). For more information about the prerequisites, see http://hesweb.dev/e15/prereq.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 120 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24574/2021

CSCI E-19
Software Testing and Test-Driven Development

Aline Yurik, PhD

Director of Software Engineering and Quality Assurance, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16404

Description
In this course we review the traditional software testing techniques that are applicable to any software product, as well as learn techniques for behavior-driven development and testing. The agile development paradigm of test-driven development is discussed. We also discover how innovative companies are able to build testing and quality into every stage of the development process and deliver a multitude of releases with a relatively small testing organization. We practice test creation and testing techniques through discussions and assignments. An option to apply behavior-driven development and testing techniques with Cucumber framework is available in assignments. Use of testing in continuous delivery/continuous integration software delivery approach is explored. Concepts covered include test cycles, testing objectives, testing in the software development process, types of software errors, reporting and analyzing software errors, problem tracking systems, test case design, testing tools, test planning, test documentation, and managing a test group.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: CSCI E-10b, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16404/2020

CSCI E-20
Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science

Rebecca Nesson, PhD

Associate Senior Lecturer on Computer Science, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25177

Description
This course teaches all the math not taught in the traditional calculus/linear algebra sequence that is needed to take more advanced courses in theory of computation and/or algorithms. That is, it teaches discrete mathematics, logic, and basic probability, but does not teach calculus or linear algebra. It also gives a good introduction to reading mathematical notation and writing formal proofs. A principal objective of the course is to not just teach a set of mathematical topics, but also to prepare students to think mathematically and to read and write mathematics.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 7:20-9:20 pm

Optional sections Tuesdays, 7:20-8:20 pm.Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. The pre-recorded lectures are the same as those used in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences course Computer Science 20. This course follows the Harvard College spring calendar and will meet during the Extension School spring break, March 14-20. See syllabus for specific meeting dates.

Prerequisites: MATH E-10, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 81 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25177/2021

CSCI E-22
Data Structures

David G. Sullivan, PhD

Master Lecturer on Computer Science, Boston University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14309

Description
This course is a survey of fundamental data structures for information processing, including lists, stacks, queues, trees, and graphs. It explores the implementation of these data structures (both array-based and linked representations) and examines classic algorithms that use these structures for tasks such as sorting, searching, and text compression. The Java programming language is used to demonstrate the topics discussed; and key notions of object-oriented programming, including encapsulation and abstract data types, are emphasized.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: A good working knowledge of Java (CSCI E-10b, or the equivalent).

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14309/2020

CSCI E-23A
Introduction to Game Development

David J. Malan, PhD

Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, Harvard University

Colton T. Ogden

Technologist, Division of Continuing Education, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16214

Description
This course focuses on the development of 2D and 3D interactive games. Students explore the design of such childhood games as Super Mario Bros., Legend of Zelda, and Portal in a quest to understand how video games themselves are implemented. Via lectures and hands-on projects, the course explores principles of 2D and 3D graphics, animation, sound, and collision detection using frameworks like Unity and LÖVE 2D, as well as languages like Lua and C#. By course’s end, students have programmed several of their own games and gained a thorough understanding of the basics of game design and development.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course is also available for noncredit as OpenCourseWare at cs50.edx.org/games.

Prerequisites: CSCI E-7, CSCI E-10a, CSCI E-10b, CSCI E-50, CS50x, or prior programming experience in any language.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16214/2020

CSCI E-26
Introduction to C, Unix/Linux Programming, and Web Interfaces

Bruce Molay, AB

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14294

Description
Designed for students with some programming experience, this course provides a rigorous introduction to writing and using software tools in the Unix and GNU/Linux programming environments to build command-line and web-based programs. The course teaches students how to write C programs and Unix shell scripts, and how to create web interfaces to those programs. Topics include text processing, memory management, files and pipes, and processes and protocols. Students write programs to analyze data and generate reports, use shell scripts to combine tools into applications, and use HTML, CGI, and Ajax to provide web access to those applications and data.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: A working knowledge of a structured programming language such as C++, Java, JavaScript, or Python; a data structures course such as CSCI E-22.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14294/2020

CSCI E-28
Unix/Linux Systems Programming

Bruce Molay, AB

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24040

Description
As an introduction to the fundamental structure and services of the Unix and Linux operating systems, this course combines theory with programming at the system call level. Topics include files and directories, device control, terminal handling, processes and threads, signals, pipes, and sockets. Examples and exercises include directory management utilities, a shell, and a web server.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Solid knowledge of C or C++ at the level of CSCI E-26 and a data structures course such as CSCI E-22; some experience using Unix helpful.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24040/2021

CSCI E-29
Advanced Python for Data Science

Scott Gorlin, PhD

Senior Director, Office of Data Science, Liberty Mutual Insurance

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15872

Description
What lies beyond the Jupyter notebook? How can we elevate code from concept to production? What happens when scikit-learn isn’t enough? Will that last script die as a one-off or perform just as well for the next 10,000 inputs? The last decade has seen an amazing commoditization of cloud computing and scientific development tools that make it a truly glorious time to be a data scientist, yet the increasing ease-of-use can paradoxically hinder the development of more sophisticated tools if the scientist relies too heavily on magic and never opens the hood to explore how things really work. In this course, we explore the next level of fundamentals that make a difference for data science teams in real organizations using complex data. Key topics include formal collaboration techniques, testing, continuous integration and deployment, repeatable and intuitive workflows with directed graphs, recurring themes in practical algorithms, meta-programming and glue, performance optimization, and an emphasis on practical integration with tools in the broader data science ecosystem such as GitHub, Docker, Amazon Web Services, and Hadoop.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: CSCI E-7, CSCI E-50, or equivalent. Students should be operationally fluent in Python, including the use and design of functions and classes, and comfortable using standard numerical libraries such as NumPy, SciPy, and pandas. Additionally, familiarity with basic concepts in algorithm design (for example, time and memory complexity), machine learning (classification, regression, and clustering), and statistics is useful.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 180 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15872/2020

CSCI E-29
Advanced Python for Data Science

Scott Gorlin, PhD

Senior Director, Office of Data Science, Liberty Mutual Insurance

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25473

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Enrollment limit: Limited to 180 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25473/2021

CSCI E-31
Web Application Development using Node.js

Laurence P. Bouthillier, MS

Executive Director, University of British Columbia Extended Learning

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25038

Description
This course provides an introduction to web application development by way of JavaScript and the node.js environment. Students learn the basics of server-side web development using the MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, Angular/Angular 2, node.js). Using the MEAN stack, the course introduces students to models of software development that can apply to any web development environment, including the application server (node.js), Model View Controller (MVC) frameworks using Express.js, front-end frameworks (Angular), and databases (MongoDB). The course includes setting up a node.js environment, building web APIs and full-stack JavaScript applications using the MEAN stack, and following good application development practices. Experience with server-side application development is not required, though knowledge of client-side web development (HTML/CSS/JavaScript) is important.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Basic HTML/JavaScript. CSCI E-3 and CSCI E-12 are excellent preparations for this course.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25038/2021

CSCI E-33A
Web Programming with Python and JavaScript

David J. Malan, PhD

Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, Harvard University

Brian Paul Yu, AB

Senior Preceptor, Division of Continuing Education, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16215

Description
This course examines the design and implementation of web applications with Python, JavaScript, and SQL using frameworks like Django, Flask, and Bootstrap. Topics include database design, scalability, security, and user experience. Through hands-on projects, students learn to write and use APIs, create interactive user interfaces (UIs), and leverage cloud services like GitHub and Heroku. By semester’s end, students emerge with knowledge and experience in the principles, languages, and tools that empower them to design and deploy applications on the internet.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course is also available for noncredit as OpenCourseWare at cs50.edx.org/web.

Prerequisites: CSCI E-50, CS50x, or prior programming experience in any language.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16215/2020

CSCI E-33A
Web Programming with Python and JavaScript

David J. Malan, PhD

Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, Harvard University

Brian Paul Yu, AB

Senior Preceptor, Division of Continuing Education, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25184

Description
This course examines the design and implementation of web applications with Python, JavaScript, and SQL using frameworks like Django, React, and Bootstrap. Topics include database design, scalability, security, and user experience. Through hands-on projects, students learn to write and use APIs, create interactive user interfaces (UIs), and leverage cloud services like GitHub and Heroku. By semester’s end, students emerge with knowledge and experience in the principles, languages, and tools that empower them to design and deploy applications on the internet.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course is also available for noncredit as OpenCourseWare at cs50.edx.org/web.

Prerequisites: CSCI E-50, CS50x, or prior programming experience in any language.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25184/2021

CSCI E-34
User Experience Engineering

David S. Platt, ME

President, Rolling Thunder Computing, Inc.

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14557

Description
Success in today’s software marketplace requires an excellent user experience (UX). That’s why all developers, architects, and managers today need to understand the basic principles of UX, even if it’s not their primary job. In this course, we take an in-depth look at the foundations of an excellent UX in a platform-agnostic manner. We learn to ask and then answer the vital questions that everyone involved in software needs to consider when making every design decision; we learn to start with the user, not the toolkit. Who are our users and how do we represent them? What problems are these particular users trying to solve, and what would they consider the characteristics of a good solution? How should the user interaction flow, and how can we represent that with stories? How can we prototype and test different designs? How can we create programs to learn what users really do, instead of what they can remember doing or are willing to admit to doing? How can we measure how well we’ve succeeded? Rather than getting into the implementation of such elements, we focus on how one decides what to implement, and why, in order to make the user happier and more productive. For example, the web and other channels contain an enormous amount of information about how to program a color gradient or an animation. There is almost zero discussion anywhere about when to use a color gradient or animation and when not to, or why you should use them in this situation but not in that one. This course aims to correct that imbalance. Useful design tools, such as the Balsamiq mock-up editor, are discussed as they bear on specific covered topics. Tools aimed primarily at user experience implementation, such as Microsoft Expression Blend, are not covered.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 7:20-9:20 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: One year of computer science education (CSCI E-10a and CSCI-10b, or CSCI E-12 and CSCI E-15, or CSCI E-26), or equivalent software development experience. Familiarity with the client program development system of your choice. This can be any development tool with which you can complete the term project. See the project description in the syllabus.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14557/2020

CSCI E-39
Design Principles in React

Nicolas Javier Tejera Aguirre, ALM

Chief Technology Officer, Tolemi

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25069

Description
This course teaches students how to implement usable and understandable applications using ReactJS, including core concepts of design like typography, color theory, and visual hierarchy. The first weeks cover introduction to font families, color palettes, and design principles, and how to apply the right ones based on context. We then deep dive into ReactJS and build simple yet complete components, applying the acquired knowledge to produce user-friendly and proportionally designed objects. We finalize by building a small web-application leveraging existing component libraries and frameworks.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Proficiency in Javascript, HTML, and CSS.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25069/2021

CSCI E-40
Communication Protocols and Internet Architectures

Leonard Evenchik, SM

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14296

Description
Networks are now too large, complex, and diverse to be built on an ad hoc basis. This course provides a structured approach to the design, analysis, and implementation of networks and protocols. We study various protocols, including TCP/IP, WWW/HTTP, e-mail/SMTP, domain name system (DNS), multimedia protocols for voice and video, routing protocols (RIP, OSPF, and BGP), and the IEEE 802 LAN protocol suite. In each case, the protocol’s functions and the underlying reference model are discussed. LAN architecture and design, network security and encryption, and the design and analysis of both private networks and the internet are presented. The course discusses new areas of work, including real-time voice and video on the internet, quality of service (QoS), gigabit wireless networks, internet of things (IoT), software-defined networks (SDN), and network functions virtualization (NFV).

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections Tuesdays, 8-9 pm, or as arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Recorded lectures are from the 2019 course.

Prerequisites: Programming or networking experience; a basic understanding of the principles of communication protocols.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14296/2020

CSCI E-40
Communication Protocols and Internet Architectures

Leonard Evenchik, SM

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24033

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections Tuesdays, 8-9 pm, or as arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Recorded lectures are from the 2019 course.

Prerequisites: Programming or networking experience; a basic understanding of the principles of communication protocols.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24033/2021

CSCI E-43
How to Assess and Communicate Risk in Information Security

Derek Brink, MBA

Vice President and Research Fellow, Aberdeen Group

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24587

Description
In simple terms, risk is the likelihood of something bad taking place, and the resulting business impact if it does in fact occur. We often talk about the bad things that could happen—that is, the threats, vulnerabilities, and exploits, and the technologies that are used to defend against them—but these are not risks. Senior business leaders need their subject-matter experts in cyber security to advise them not about the technical details (the “what”), but about the risk (the “so what”), and about how an incremental investment in recommended security controls quantifiably reduces that risk. This course covers how to assess security risks, properly defined, how to use these risk assessments to make better-informed recommendations regarding what to do about them, and how to communicate these risks more effectively to business decision makers.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: CSCI E-45a, CSCI E-45b, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24587/2021

CSCI E-44
Cybersecurity Incident Response

Ric Messier, MS

Senior Information Security Consultant, FireEye Mandiant

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16462

Description
Data breaches are frequently in the news. One reason they show up in the news is that organizations are not prepared for incident response, wrongly believing incident response occurs after the bad guys have fully infiltrated their environment. Incident response done well is all in the preparation. This course takes an investigative approach to incident response done well through in-class discussions, getting perspectives from students who often have varying degrees of experience (even as outside observers). The course covers the entire range of incident response from preparation through investigation and recovery, with significant focus on preparation.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: CSCI E-45a or equivalent experience.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16462/2020

CSCI E-45A
The Cyber World: Hardware, Software, Networks, Security, and Management

Scott Bradner

Benoit Gaucherin, Maitrise

Senior Director of Information Technology, Campus Services, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14299

Description
Today we all live and work in a participatory cyberspace. Computers, the data networks that interconnect them, and the services available over the networks make up this cyberspace. As cyberspace invades almost all areas of modern day living, playing, and working, it is becoming more important that people understand its technical and political underpinnings and operations, as well as its capabilities, threats, and weaknesses. This is a companion course to CSCI E-45b. The goal of this pair of courses is to give students the tools they need to understand, use, and manage the technologies involved, as well as the ability to appreciate the legal, social, and political dynamics of this ever expanding universe and the interplay between the cyber and physical worlds. The pair of courses covers the essential elements of computing and the history, structure, operation, and governance of the internet. This course focuses on the fundamental workings of the digital world. From individual computing devices to the broader internet, students learn how each piece in this gigantic puzzle comes together to create the digital infrastructure that is the cyberspace of today and tomorrow. In addition, we explore the fundamental concepts, technologies, and issues associated with managing and securing cyberspace.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14299/2020

CSCI E-45B
The Cyber World: Governance, Threats, Conflict, Privacy, Identity, and Commerce

Scott Bradner

Benoit Gaucherin, Maitrise

Senior Director of Information Technology, Campus Services, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24037

Description
Today we all live and work in a participatory cyberspace. Computers, the data networks that interconnect them, and the services available over the networks make up this cyberspace. As cyberspace invades almost all areas of modern day living, playing, and working, it is becoming more important that people understand its technical and political underpinnings and operations, as well as its capabilities, threats, and weaknesses. This is a companion course to CSCI E-45a. The goal of this pair of courses is to give students the tools they need to understand, use, and manage the technologies involved, as well as the ability to appreciate the legal, social, and political dynamics of this ever expanding universe and the interplay between the cyber and physical worlds. The pair of courses covers the essential elements of computing and the history, structure, operation, and governance of the internet. This course explores the technical and legal aspects of the interactions and tensions between security, usability, privacy, and surveillance in a post NSA-revelation world. We also look at the technical and legal underpinnings that affect the use of cyberspace for businesses. Finally, we explore the rapidly changing dangers of cyberspace from viruses to state-sponsored cyber-conflict.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24037/2021

CSCI E-46
Applied Network Security

David Mark LaPorte, MS

Senior Director of Network Strategy and Services, Harvard University Information Technology

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24556

Description
This course provides a practical overview of network security and related topics. General threat classifications are discussed as they relate to the CIA triad: eavesdropping (confidentiality), man-in-the-middle (integrity), and denial-of-service (availability). Real-world attack incidents and implementations are used to tie concept to reality. Defensive technologies and techniques, including authentication/authorization, access control, segmentation, log/traffic monitoring, reputation-based security, and secure protocol (SSH, TLS, DNSSEC) usage are discussed and demonstrated. Hands-on labs and exercises are used to reinforce lectures and provide practical implementation experience.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 5:50-7:50 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: CSCI E-45a and CSCI E-45b, or equivalent. Familiarity with Linux and Windows operating systems, and an understanding of IP networking.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24556/2021

CSCI E-49
Cloud Security

Ramesh Nagappan, MS

Security Technologist, Amazon

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24557

Description
Cloud computing infrastructure has become a mainstay of the information technology industry, opening the possibility for on-demand, highly elastic, and infinite computer power with scalability and supporting the delivery of mission-critical secure enterprise applications and services. This course provides ground-up coverage on the high level concepts of cloud landscape, architectural principles, development techniques, design patterns, and real-world security best practices as applied to cloud service providers and consumers. It also addresses regulatory compliance requirements critical to design, implement, deliver, and manage secure cloud-based services. The course delves into the secure cloud-based application development processes that build on DevOps and DevSecOps processes, proactively identifying and mitigating risks with threat models, protection, and isolation of physical and logical infrastructures including computer storage (cloud-hosted virtualization, containerization using Docker and Kubernetes) and network topologies; comprehensive data protection with applied cryptography; end-to-end identity management and access control; monitoring, auditing, intrusion detection, and incident response processes; fraud detection (using machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques); and complying with industry and regulatory mandates. The course leverages cloud computing security guidelines set forth by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA), and Cloud Security Alliance (CSA).

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: One of the following courses: CSCI E-7, CSCI E-12, CSCI E-33a, CSCI E-45a, CSCI E-45b, CSCI E-46, CSCI E-90, CSCI E-94, or the equivalent. Additional web application development and/or systems administration knowledge will be very helpful.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24557/2021

CSCI E-50
Intensive Introduction to Computer Science

David J. Malan, PhD

Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24107

Description
This course is an intensive introduction to the intellectual enterprises of computer science and the art of programming. It teaches students how to think algorithmically and solve problems efficiently. Topics include abstraction, algorithms, data structures, encapsulation, resource management, security, software engineering, and web programming. Languages include C, Python, and SQL plus HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Problem sets are inspired by the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The course culminates in a final project. Students can count two of the following three courses—CSCI E-10a, CSCI E-10b, and CSCI E-50—toward a degree. They may not count all three toward a degree.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences course Computer Science 50 (CS50). This course is also available, for noncredit, as OpenCourseWare at cs50.edx.org.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24107/2021

CSCI E-50
Intensive Introduction to Computer Science

David J. Malan, PhD

Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14290

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14290/2020

CSCI E-51
Abstraction and Design in Computation

Stuart Shieber, PhD

James O. Welch, Jr. and Virginia B. Welch Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26029

Description
This course teaches fundamental concepts in the design of computer programs, emphasizing the crucial role of abstraction. The goal of the course is to give students insight into the difference between programming and programming well. The same problem can be solved in different ways, and the different solutions can vary along multiple dimensions including correctness, efficiency, readability, scalability, and elegance. To emphasize the differing approaches to expressing programming solutions, students learn to program in a variety of paradigms—including imperative (familiar from CSCI E-50 but seen here in a more elemental form), functional, and object-oriented. The elegant multi-paradigm programming language OCaml is the ideal language for manifesting these ideas. Important ideas from software engineering and models of computation inform these different views of programming. Students should come out of the course better programmers in any language, but also better computational thinkers, with a much broader range of tools at their disposal and ability to analyze the quality of programs.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections on Tuesdays and Thursdays, time to be arranged.Start Date:

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences course Computer Science 51. This course follows the Harvard College spring calendar and will meet during the Extension School spring break, March 14-20. See the syllabus for specific meeting dates.

Prerequisites: CSCI E-20 and CSCI E-50.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26029/2021

CSCI E-57
Java Enterprise Development with the Spring Framework

Vitaly Yurik, PhD

Instructor, Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Brandeis University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15354

Description
This course provides an in-depth, hands-on study of technological, design, and development approaches for enterprise-level software systems using the Java-based Spring 5 framework. Spring 5 framework enables creation of web and enterprise Java applications with the focus on high performance, scalability, testability, and reusability. The course examines core spring framework and its integration with other leading Java technologies, such as Hibernate, Java Persistence API (JPA 2), Java messaging service (JMS), REST web services, security, and testing. Concepts covered in the course include inversion of control/dependency injection, Spring aspect-oriented programming (AOP); data access with JDBC, Hibernate, and Java Persistence API; Spring transaction management; Spring model-view-controller framework; Spring security; Spring REST web services; Spring JMS; and Spring testing. Hands-on development projects provide opportunities to apply Spring framework technological capabilities to the creation of enterprise-level Java applications.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: At least one year of professional Java development.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15354/2020

CSCI E-59
Designing and Developing Relational and NoSQL Databases

Gregory Thomas Misicko, ALM

Engineering Manager, Veracode

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25690

Description
This course focuses on the design and development of database applications with an emphasis on sound database design. Database design is a business problem, not a data problem. To successfully design a database, the analyst needs to understand the information of the organization. This includes using all the data research and analysis techniques available, as well as searching inside their toolbox to select those tools that allow the analyst to understand the business the organization is in. Information is data within a particular context. Thus, if the person understands the information required by the organization, he/she will be able to organize the data in such a way that answers the questions required by the organization. Although governed by a number of rules and standards, database design is an art. Only practice allows an individual to learn what suits each particular need. This course covers database design, including how to select the best database for the task at hand. Relational databases and non-relational databases each have their strengths and weaknesses, and this course explains the different types and when to use, or not use, them.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Programming experience, such that learning a new language is not an obstacle. Sufficient hands-on experience with Unix/Linux and text editors.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25690/2021

CSCI E-61
Systems Programming and Machine Organization

Eddie Kohler, PhD

Microsoft Professor of Computer Science and Harvard College Professor, Harvard University

Minlan Yu, PhD

Associate Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 13836

Description
This course covers the fundamentals of computer systems programming. It provides a solid background in data representation, systems programming, operating systems, and machine organization and design. The course centers on C++ programming, with some assembly language. Topics include data representation, assembly and machine programming, storage hierarchy and caching, kernel programming and virtual memory, process management, and concurrency (including threads and networking).

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date:

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences course Computer Science 61.

Prerequisites: CSCI E-26, CSCI E-50, or some experience programming in C++ or C.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-13836/2020

CSCI E-63
Big Data Analytics

Zoran B. Djordjevic, PhD

Senior Enterprise Architect

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25759

Description
The emphasis of this course is on mastering the most important environments, procedures, and algorithms for processing of big data. The most important and efficient big data technology is Apache Spark, which has recently been upgraded to version 3. Students simultaneously learn most essential Spark application programming interfaces (APIs) and various computational, statistical, and machine-learning algorithms, which make up the backbone of big data processing. Spark is a result of the evolution of Hadoop and Map/Reduce with massive speedup and scalability improvements. The explosion of social media and the computerization of every aspect of social and economic activity results in the creation of large volumes of semi-structured data: web logs, videos, speech recordings, photographs, e-mails, Tweets, and similar data. In a parallel development, computers keep getting ever more powerful and storage ever cheaper. Today, with Spark 3, we can reliably and cheaply store huge volumes of data, efficiently analyze it, and extract business and socially relevant information. In this course, students learn to use Spark Core, Spark SQL, and Spark Streaming API. They learn how to organize data in massive Delta (data) Lakes and create massive data pipelines, using SQL and Spark in batch mode or in real-time streaming mode. Students learn how to analyze highly connected data using Neo4J and Spark GraphX, in-memory graph databases. Students acquire practical skills with Kafka, a highly scalable messaging system and learn to integrate Spark with NoSQL systems. Students conduct exercises in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and master the most important AWS services.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Fridays, 5:30-7:30 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections Saturdays, 12-1 pm.Start Date: Jan. 29, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Proficiency in Python is recommended. All assignments could be done in Java, Scala, or R. Some familiarity with Linux is helpful. Students need access to a computer with a 64-bit operating system and at least 8 GB of RAM (32 GB is highly recommended).

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25759/2021

CSCI E-63C
Elements of Data Science and Statistical Learning with R

Andrey Sivachenko, PhD

Senior Scientist II, Head of Bioinformatics, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics Lab

Victor A. Farutin, PhD

Associate Director, Momenta Pharmaceuticals

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15123

Description
One of the broad goals of data science is examining raw data with the purpose of identifying its structure and trends, and of deriving conclusions and hypotheses from it. In the modern world awash with data, data analytics is more important than ever to fields ranging from biomedical research, space and weather science, finance, business operations and production, to marketing and social media applications. This course introduces various statistical learning methods and their applications. The R programming language, a very popular and powerful platform for scientific and statistical analysis and visualization, is introduced and used throughout the course. We discuss the fundamentals of statistical testing and learning, and cover topics of linear and non-linear regression, clustering and classification, support vector machines, and decision trees. The datasets used in the examples are drawn from diverse domains such as finance, genomics, and customer sales and survey data.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 5:50-7:50 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Good programming skills, preferably in R or solid experience in other languages; good understanding of probability and statistics at the level of CSCI E-106 or STAT E-109. See the syllabus for the recommended pretest.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 200 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15123/2020

CSCI E-63C
Elements of Data Science and Statistical Learning with R

Andrey Sivachenko, PhD

Senior Scientist II, Head of Bioinformatics, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics Lab

Victor A. Farutin, PhD

Associate Director, Momenta Pharmaceuticals

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24748

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 5:50-7:50 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Enrollment limit: Limited to 200 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24748/2021

CSCI E-65G
Introduction to Mobile Application Development Using Swift and iOS

Ronald V. Simmons, MBA

Principal, Computecycles, LLC

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16445

Description
This course introduces the basics of contemporary mobile application development using Apple’s iOS technology as the development platform. The main requirement of the course is to build a functioning application in iOS. Each week covers a different aspect of development which is used in the final project. We begin with the major features of the Swift programming language and its standard library, along with basic use of the Xcode integrated development environment (IDE) for Swift development. Basic language features are covered lightly so that extensive discussion may be focused on differentiating features of the language including closures, optionals, the Swift type system (tuple/enum/struct/class/func), and generics. Special attention is paid to functional programming concepts such as map/reduce. Then we extend the programming model to incorporate aspects of functional reactive programming using Apple’s Combine platform. We complete the non-user interface (UI) portion of the course with an extended discussion of correct application architecture using a unidirectional dataflow model. Next we focus on Apple’s SwiftUI framework focusing on view composition, layout, event handling, and various graphics techniques. We complete the UI portion of the course with an extensive discussion of animation and fluid user interface design, making extensive use of Apple’s Preview technology. Frequent small assignments progress from basic programming to realistic application development with a focus on responsive device graphics and algorithms. Code design and architecture are emphasized.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: While this course is an introduction to mobile development, it is not an introductory programming course. Students need to have a working knowledge of at least one object-oriented programming language such as Java or C++; a semester-long course in data structures or the equivalent; a firm understanding of how to compile code, use libraries, and use a debugger; and the ability to use a source control tool such as Git. Students must have a Macintosh laptop running a current version of the operating system with the most recent version of Apple’s Xcode IDE installed. It is not possible to use a Windows or Linux computer because code written on those platforms cannot be deployed to either an iOS simulator or device.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 60 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16445/2020

CSCI E-66
Database Systems

David G. Sullivan, PhD

Master Lecturer on Computer Science, Boston University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24046

Description
This course covers the fundamental concepts of database systems. Topics include data models (ER, relational, and others); query languages (relational algebra, SQL, and others); implementation techniques of database management systems (index structures, concurrency control, recovery, and query processing); management of semistructured and complex data; distributed and noSQL databases.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: CSCI E-22, or the equivalent, and strong programming skills in Java.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24046/2021

CSCI E-67
Oracle Database Administration

Patrick McGowan, ALM

DevOps Manager, Harvard University Information Technology

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16131

Description
Students study the internal structure and organization of an Oracle database environment. The course presents a structured approach to planning, building, tuning, and monitoring an Oracle 19C database on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) instance. Students create an Oracle database, tablespaces, user accounts, views, indices, and other objects necessary to support an application. We also examine some of the issues involved when running a large number of databases within an environment and with running large databases. The course examines the AWS relational database service (RDS) platform and creates an RDS database.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: An understanding of the principles of a relational database model and a working knowledge of SQL.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16131/2020

CSCI E-71
Agile Software Development

Richard Kasperowski, ALB

Consultant

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16441

Description
This course is an immersive experience in agile software development. We study both the technical and cultural/social aspects of agile, including pair and mob programming, high performance teams with the core protocols, test-driven development (TDD), behavior-driven development, continuous delivery, refactoring, extreme programming, scrum, kanban, and agile project management.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: CSCI E-22 or the equivalent. Students must have a computer suitable for software development.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16441/2020

CSCI E-72
Introduction to 3D Computer Graphics

Michael Shah, MS

Graphics Engineer, Oblong Industries

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16452

Description
This course teaches the fundamentals of 3D computer graphics to learners who want to make games, 3D simulations, and have an interest in image processing. We use C++ and OpenGL to explore computer graphics programming and understand how to utilize the graphics processing unit (GPU). Additional guidance on using C++ and a refresher of linear algebra and its application in graphics is provided.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Sep. 4, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Previous experience with trigonometry and exposure to linear algebra.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16452/2020

CSCI E-79
The Art and Design of Information

Zona Kostic, PhD

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25487

Description
Complex data has been translated into many visual forms in order to facilitate understanding of its content. However, not every transformation turns out to be effective. To compose a visual message and improve information communication, design practice is needed. This course introduces the strategies of visual thinking as an efficient method to convey complex data. It covers the fundamentals of visual communication and applies graphics design principles in the context of diverse media. Information design overlaps with other areas such as graphic design, communication design, data visualization, human-computer interaction design, and instructional design. The course combines the best practices from these intersections while focusing on effectiveness and visual clarity.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 3-5 pm, or on demand.

Required sections Tuesdays, 3-5 pm.Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Familiarity with Adobe Illustrator and experience working with Java Script.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25487/2021

CSCI E-80
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Python

David J. Malan, PhD

Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, Harvard University

Brian Paul Yu, AB

Senior Preceptor, Division of Continuing Education, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16393

Description
This course explores the concepts and algorithms at the foundation of modern artificial intelligence, diving into the ideas that give rise to technologies like game-playing engines, handwriting recognition, and machine translation. Through hands-on projects, students gain exposure to the theory behind graph search algorithms, classification, optimization, reinforcement learning, and other topics in artificial intelligence and machine learning as they incorporate them into their own Python programs. By course’s end, students emerge with experience in libraries for machine learning as well as knowledge of artificial intelligence principles that enable them to design intelligent systems of their own.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: CSCI E-50, CS50x, or at least one year of experience with Python.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16393/2020

CSCI E-80
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Python

David J. Malan, PhD

Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, Harvard University

Brian Paul Yu, AB

Senior Preceptor, Division of Continuing Education, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25793

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: CSCI E-50, CS50x, or at least one year of experience with Python.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25793/2021

CSCI E-80A
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

Brian Subirana, PhD

Director, Auto-ID Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16439

Description
This course introduces artificial intelligence (AI) programming tools inspired by our understanding of the human brain. The course includes four programming assignments in Python covering the four units of the brain as proposed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Brain, Minds and Machines (CBMM): sensor stream, brain operating system, cognitive core, and symbolic compositional models. Collectively the four assignments introduce a set of tools and computer science concepts, with a focus on deep learning, spanning a basic skill set to program complete models able to perform AI tasks. Part of the assignments include comparing the deep learning tools implemented with other AI tools not based on neural networks. The focus of the assignments is to build models reproducing as closely as possible the complex cognitive tasks humans do naturally. Human intelligence can be characterized in a variety of ways and as part of the course, we review how various computer engineering applications may benefit from these different advances in modeling human intelligence. We discuss various integrative approaches aiming at combining experimental techniques in neuroscience and cognitive science, with computational modeling in order to elucidate the architecture of intelligence. The course provides background to understand some of the current limitations in our progress towards a general artificial intelligence machine.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Some basic computer skills to install and program with Python, for example CSCI E-7.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16439/2020

CSCI E-82
Advanced Machine Learning, Data Mining, and Artificial Intelligence

Peter Vaughan Henstock, PhD

Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Lead, Pfizer, Inc.

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15407

Description
The course is intended to combine the theory with the hands-on practice of solving modern industry problems with an emphasis on image processing and natural language processing. Topics include outlier detection, advanced clustering techniques, deep learning, dimensionality reduction methods, frequent item set mining, and recommender systems. Topics also considered include reinforcement learning, graph-based models, search optimization, and time series analysis. The course uses Python as the primary language, although later projects can include R and other languages. The course also introduces some industry standard tools to prepare students for artificial intelligence jobs.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 7:20-9:20 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: This course builds upon topics covered in CSCI E-63c and CSCI E-109a and CSCI E-109b with either CSCI E-63c or CSCI E-109a as a prerequisite. Students should be proficient in Python including Pandas and readily able to load, parse, and manipulate data. A course such as CSCI E-7 or a course on Python and machine learning would be useful.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 60 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15407/2020

CSCI E-83
Fundamentals of Data Science

Stephen Elston, PhD

Principal Consultant, Quantia Analytics LLC

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25990

Description
In this course students build a foundation for doing data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI). The course employs a combination of theory and hands-on experience using Python programming tools. The focus is on the foundational computational statistical analysis and visualization methods underpinning modern data science, machine learning, and AI. The hands-on component of the course uses the Python packages NumPy, pandas, seaborn, statsmodels, and PyMC3, along with selected other open source packages. This course provides an introduction to the basic concepts of data science; presents effective methods of data visualization and summary statistics to explore complex data; and reviews probability theory, with an emphasis on conditional probability as a foundation of modern computational statistical methods and AI. The course covers basic computational statistical inference employing three approaches: maximum likelihood frequentist, bootstrap frequentist, and Bayesian. There is an overview of the properties and behavior of the rich family of linear models, which are foundational to many machine learning and AI algorithms, and a focus on applying Bayesian models and inference to real-world problems. We explore models for time series data and (time permitting) spatial data. An independent project is required of all students registering for graduate credit.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Experience programming using the Python language, equivalent to CSCI E-7 or CSCI E-50, as there is a significant programming component to this course. Students should have successfully completed a course in applied probability and statistics, equivalent to STAT E-100 or STAT E-102. Knowledge of linear algebra, including eigenvalue-eigenvector decomposition. A high-speed internet connection for class participation and watching videos is required. A modern computer with at least 10 GB of free disk space, 8 GB of RAM, or an equivalent cloud VM, is required for labs and projects.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25990/2021

CSCI E-87
Big Data and Machine Learning in Healthcare Applications

Oleg Pianykh, PhD

Assistant Professor of Radiology and Director of Medical Analytics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16459

Description
While large volumes of digital healthcare data have been captured for decades, we are only starting to mine them for information that can significantly advance healthcare delivery and quality. Built from many practical experiences, this course teaches students how to apply big data analytics and machine learning to the most challenging problems found in modern hospitals. We cover several important areas—operational, clinical, and imaging—using hands-on examples and real problems. Students not only learn how to build efficient data models, but also how to implement them in different healthcare environments, avoiding the most common pitfalls and achieving meaningful results.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:10-7:10 pm

Required sections Thursdays, 7:10-8:10 pm.Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Basic understanding of statistics and machine learning. Programming in Python or Matlab is required for most homework assignments.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16459/2020

CSCI E-88
Principles of Big Data Processing

Marina Yu Popova, ALM

Engineer, NetApp, Inc.

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15417

Description
The goal of this course is to learn core principles of building highly distributed, highly available systems for processing large volumes of data with historical and near real-time querying capabilities. We cover the stages of data processing that are common to most real-world systems, including high-volume, high-speed data ingestion, historical and real-time metrics aggregation, unique counts, data de-duplication and reprocessing, storage options for different operations, and principles of distributed data indexing and search. We review approaches to solving common challenges of such systems and implement some of them. The focus of this course is on understanding the challenges and core principles of big data processing, not on specific frameworks or technologies used for implementation. We review a few notable technologies for each area with a deeper dive into a few select ones. The course is structured as a progression of topics covering the full, end-to-end data processing pipeline typical in real-world scenarios.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Students must be comfortable with intermediate programming in at least one language, preferably Java, Python, or Scala. Students should be comfortable with basic data structures, functions, and build and dependency management tools (Maven or Gradle for Java, virtualenv for Python). Familiarity with the basic multi-threading is helpful. Most of the examples in lectures are in Java and Python. Students should be comfortable with basic usage, package/software installations, and administration and troubleshooting on Unix-like systems (Linux, any flavor, MacOS). Students should be comfortable with cloud environments like Amazon web services (AWS) cloud and container frameworks like Docker (or VMware, VirtualBox). Their laptops should have 64-bit operating systems, and have at least eight central processing units (CPU) and 8G random-access memory (RAM). Students should complete the self-assessment assignment, available on the syllabus, to determine if they are ready to take the course. Courses such as CSCI E-7, CSCI E-10a, CSCI E-88a, and CSCI E-90, or equivalents, are also recommended.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15417/2020

CSCI E-88A
Introduction to Functional and Stream Programming for Big Data Systems

Marina Yu Popova, ALM

Engineer, NetApp, Inc.

Edward S. Sumitra, MS

Software Development Manager, Curriculum Associates

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25668

Description
This course is an introduction to the basic concepts of functional programming (FP) and its application to stream and distributed processing of large volumes of data. As the explosion of available social, internet of things (IoT), device, marketing, and other types of data continues at an ever increasing rate, it becomes paramount to be able to process and analyze this data in real time. In order to do that, highly scalable systems have to be designed and developed that are capable of performing data- and compute-intensive operations in a distributed manner over hundreds of physical servers. This course focuses on building the foundation of such systems, which are applications capable of processing data in a highly parallel fashion. In this course, students learn core functional programming concepts in Java and Scala, popular languages for building big data systems. Students learn design patterns, understand how they are used as a foundation of parallel and distributed programming, and learn how to apply them to stream processing of big data volumes. Students learn to write data processing pipelines using Kafka and Akka Streaming libraries and frameworks using the principles introduced in earlier lectures.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Basic experience with any programming language, preferably Java or Scala. Basic Unix and Unix-like system experience (as a user). Basic container (Docker) experience is helpful but not required. Students should complete the self-assessment, which is not graded, to determine whether they are ready to take this course.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25668/2021

CSCI E-88B
Computing for Big Data

Christine Choirat, PhD

Chief Innovation Officer, Swiss Data Science Center and Adjunct Lecturer on Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25760

Description
Big data is everywhere, from omics and health policy to environmental health. Every single aspect of the health sciences is being transformed. It is hard to navigate and critically assess tools and techniques in such a fast-moving big data panorama. This course gives a critical presentation of theoretical approaches and software implementations of tools to collect, store, and process data at scale. The goal is not just to learn recipes to manipulate big data, but to learn how to reason in terms of big data, from software design and tool selection to implementation, optimization, and maintenance.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the 2019 Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health course Biostatistics 262.

Prerequisites: STAT E-100 or equivalent. Some experience with a scripting language. R and Python are used for the problem sets and group projects.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 100 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25760/2021

CSCI E-89
Deep Learning

Zoran B. Djordjevic, PhD

Senior Enterprise Architect

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16392

Description
Deep learning is the primary technique for analysis and resolution of many issues in computer and natural sciences, linguistics, and engineering. We use deep learning for image classification and manipulation, speech recognition and synthesis, natural language translation, sound and music manipulation, self-driving cars, and many other activities. In this course students learn application program interfaces (APIs) for deep learning: TensorFlow 2.0, Keras, and PyTorch. TensorFlow is one of the most popular open source projects with one of the largest number of committers within the Apache family of APIs. Keras is a wrapper API that uses TensorFlow, CNTK, or Theano. Keras was developed with a focus on enabling fast experimentation. PyTorch is a very popular deep learning API developed by Facebook. We start with a review of the theoretical foundations of the neural networks approach to machine learning including backpropagation. However, the emphasis of the course is on practical applications of deep learning. We learn how to use TensorFlow 2.0, Keras, and PyTorch for the creation of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), recurrent neural networks (RNNs), long short-term memory networks (LSTMs), and generative adversarial networks (GANs).

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Fridays, 5:30-7:30 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections Saturdays, 12-1 pm.Start Date: Sep. 4, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Proficiency with Python. We assume no familiarity with Linux and introduce all essential Linux features and commands. No familiarity with Amazon Web Services or Google High Performance Cloud is assumed. Students need access to a computer with a 64-bit operating system and at least 8 GB of RAM. Note: 16 GB or more of RAM is strongly advised. Having a machine with NVIDIA card is a plus.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16392/2020

CSCI E-89B
Introduction to Natural Language Processing

Edward Kwartler, MBA

Vice President, Trusted Artificial Intelligence, DataRobot

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26012

Description
Natural language processing (NLP) and text mining are the art and science of extracting insights from large amounts of natural language. The course topics covered help students add natural language processing techniques to their research, business, and data science toolset. As a technical course with some machine learning elements, limited exposure to programming, graduate-level statistics and mathematical theory is needed, but the vast majority of the course content is focused on applying popular text mining methods. As a result, the target audience may also include qualitative researchers looking to add quantitative analysis to interviews, media, and other language-based field research.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of the R programming language. Basic statistical knowledge including graduate-level statistics.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26012/2021

CSCI E-89C
Deep Reinforcement Learning

Dmitry V. Kurochkin, PhD

Senior Research Analyst, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Office for Faculty Affairs, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25757

Description
This course introduces deep reinforcement learning (RL), one of the most modern techniques of machine learning. Deep RL has attracted the attention of many researchers and developers in recent years due to its wide range of applications in a variety of fields such as robotics, robotic surgery, pattern recognition, diagnosis based on medical image, treatment strategies in clinical decision making, personalized medical treatment, drug discovery, speech recognition, computer vision, and natural language processing. Deep RL is often seen as the third area of machine learning, in addition to supervised and unsupervised algorithms, in which learning of an agent occurs as a result of its own actions and interaction with the environment. Generally, such learning processes do not need to be guided externally, but it has been difficult until recently to use RL ideas practically. This course primarily focuses on problems that emerge in healthcare and life science applications.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Introductory probability and statistics, multivariate calculus equivalent to MATH E-21a, and proficiency in Python programming equivalent to CSCI E-7. We formulate value (cost) functions and perform optimization. Students are expected to be comfortable taking derivatives. Basic knowledge of probability theory (in particular, conditional probability distributions and conditional expectations) is necessary. Understanding matrix vector operations and notation is helpful but not required. All coding exercises are performed in Python. Students are required to take a short pretest at the beginning of the course. The pretest score does not count toward the final grade but helps you understand whether your background in calculus, probability theory, as well as command of coding positions you for success in this course.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25757/2021

CSCI E-90
Cloud Services, Infrastructure, and Computing

Gregory Thomas Misicko, ALM

Engineering Manager, Veracode

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15865

Description
Off-premise/cloud services, infrastructure, and computing have replaced in-house data centers across businesses of every size. Businesses rely on cloud services because of their extremely high efficiency, ease of setup, and their ability to scale with demand. It is essential for today’s engineers to understand how robust architectures can be implemented on a cloud platform, and to understand in depth which services and tools are available for them to use. This course is not a programming course, but it is expected that students can read and make basic modifications to the logic of an existing program. Java and Python are used.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Ability to read and write simple code in either Java or Python is required. Familiarity with basic Unix commands is a plus.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15865/2020

CSCI E-90B
Cloud of Serverless Services

Zoran B. Djordjevic, PhD

Senior Enterprise Architect

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26019

Description
Cloud computing is the mainstream of information technology. During the pandemic, cloud computing has enabled unobstructed flow of information and functioning of society. Thanks to the cloud, large parts of the world’s population can work from home and electronic commerce proceeds without interruption. The cloud provides highly elastic and scalable resources for delivery of enterprise applications and software as a service (SaaS). All technologically advanced companies migrated large portions of their information technology operations to the cloud, reaping huge financial and performance benefits. Serverless computing introduced by Amazon Web Service’s Lambda, Microsoft’s Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Platform’s cloud functions is a novel architectural approach to building cloud applications. Serverless computing enables creation of software applications in the cloud without manipulation of virtual machines or servers and without the burden of infrastructure management. Serverless computing frees software architects and developers from the constraints of scalability, availability, and performance. Serverless computing runs code only on-demand and on a per-request basis, scaling transparently with the number of requests. In this course, students learn how to create serverless functions and microservices and how to organize their own and vendor-provided cloud services into functioning applications. We examine and learn the most essential architectural patterns for creation of serverless functions and microservices and apply those in several important use cases.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 5:50-7:50 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Intermediate familiarity with one high level programming language such as Python, Java, C#, or JavaScript.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26019/2021

CSCI E-92
Principles of Operating Systems

James L. Frankel, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25900

Description
This course examines the role of operating systems: process synchronization and scheduling; memory management including virtual memory, swapping, paging, and segmentation; file management; protection and security; input/output techniques, buffering, and resource allocation; deadlock detection and avoidance; system modeling; performance measurement and evaluation; and operating system case studies. An extensive lab project is required of all students.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:40-10:15 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections Tuesdays, 6:30-7:30 pm.Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Knowledge of data structures and programming experience, such as CSCI E-22, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25900/2021

CSCI E-94
Fundamentals of Cloud Computing with Microsoft Azure

Joseph Ficara, ASEE

Lead Architect, The Predictive Index

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25152

Description
This course starts by introducing the student to the fundamentals of cloud computing and serverless computing. We contrast the challenges and benefits offered by cloud computing, serverless cloud computing, and traditional self-managed cloud and on-premises solutions. We cover the fundamental architecture and design patterns necessary to build highly available and scalable solutions using key Microsoft Azure platform as a service (PaaS) and serverless offerings. This course guides when to use one service over another based on performance, maintainability, complexity, and cost. Key services covered include Azure Application Services, Azure SQL, Azure API Management, Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps, Azure AD for authentication, Azure Storage, Azure Service Bus, Azure Cosmos DB document and graph, Azure Search, Microservices, Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure Cognitive Services. In addition to Azure services and guidance, the course covers how to implement processes to streamline development such as continuous integration, continuous deployment (CICD), and automated testing using Azure DevOps. Coverage would not be complete without examining the fundamentals necessary to make a system ready for users, including always-up architecture and deployment strategies, rollback strategies, A/B testing, testing in production, monitoring, alerting, performance tuning, snapshot debugging in production, and system health analysis using Application Insights and Azure Monitor.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Basic C#, C++, or Java development skills.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25152/2021

CSCI E-95
Compiler Design and Implementation

James L. Frankel, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16364

Description
This course is a study of the theory and practice required for the design and implementation of interpreters and compilers for programming languages. Coursework ranges from the abstract, such as categorization of grammars and languages, to the concrete, such as specific algorithms used in compilers and practical performance issues. Topics include lexical analysis, parsing, symbol table generation, type checking, error detection, code generation, optimization, and run-time support. Techniques for top-down and bottom-up parsing both with and without the use of automated tools are studied. Local and global optimization are covered. An extensive programming project is required of all students.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:40-10:15 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections Tuesdays, 6:30-7:30 pm.Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Knowledge of data structures and programming experience (CSCI E-22, or the equivalent) with an advanced algorithms course preferred, but not required (CSCI E-124, or the equivalent).

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16364/2020

CSCI E-96
Data Mining for Business

Edward Kwartler, MBA

Vice President, Trusted Artificial Intelligence, DataRobot

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25358

Description
This course introduces non-mathematical business professionals to data science principles widely used in today’s corporations. Quantitative methods affect many of today’s interactions for business leaders, students, and consumers. Emphasis is placed on practical uses and case studies utilizing data to inform business decisions rather than theoretical or complex mathematics. Case study topics include understanding customer demand, marketing, new market forecasting, revenue projections, and data mining to improve decisions. Learning goals include quantitative business application, basic programming, algorithm development, and process workflow. The course highlights methods that business leaders and data scientists have found to be the most useful. It introduces the basic concepts of R for data mining. This course is for students who want an introduction to how data science improves business outcomes.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.

Optional lab sessions Fridays, 10 am.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Since this course utilizes R throughout the semester students should complete the 4-hour free online course Introduction to R at DataCamp.com found here: https://www.datacamp.com/courses/free-introduction-to-r. Students who attend the on campus classes should bring a laptop with them.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25358/2021

CSCI E-96
Data Mining for Business

Edward Kwartler, MBA

Vice President, Trusted Artificial Intelligence, DataRobot

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15736

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.

Optional lab sessions Fridays, 10 am.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15736/2020

CSCI E-97
Software Design: Principles, Models, and Patterns

Eric Gieseke, ALM

Principal Software Engineer, Algorand

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15356

Description
This course approaches object-oriented software design from three perspectives: the software engineering principles that enable development of quality software, the modeling of software components using the Unified Modeling Language (UML), and the application of design patterns as a means of reusing design models that are accepted best practices. These patterns include both the original software patterns as well as more recent modularization patterns for software construction. There is at least one significant modeling exercise and a set of programming assignments that require the application of design principles and good programming technique. Students are expected to write a detailed description of the design for each of their programs, incorporating UML models as appropriate. Students implement their programs in the Java programming language. In addition, there is at least one significant assignment that requires designing and documenting a software subsystem without implementation.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm, or on demand.

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: CSCI E-22, or the equivalent, and proficiency in Java.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15356/2020

CSCI E-100
Science of Intelligence: Toward Artificial Intelligence

Brian Subirana, PhD

Director, Auto-ID Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26068

Description
The problem of intelligence—its nature, how it is produced by the brain, and how it could be replicated in machines—is a deep and fundamental problem that cuts across multiple scientific disciplines. Philosophers have studied intelligence for centuries, but it is only in the last several decades that developments in science and engineering have made questions such as these approachable: How does the mind process sensory information to produce intelligent behavior, and how can we design intelligent computer algorithms that behave similarly? What is the structure and form of human knowledge—how is it stored, represented, and organized? How do human minds arise through the processes of evolution, development, and learning? How are the domains of language, perception, social cognition, planning, and motor control combined and integrated? Are there common principles of learning, prediction, decision making, or planning that span across these domains? Through lectures by members of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines, this course explores recent progress in building and understanding a representation of the environment, which is rich enough to allow us to act on the world around us and to react to events that take place in it. Also, such a representation enables and reflects computations that detect objects and their interactions and interpret distances, relative order, and movement; it enables planning of saccades, navigation, grasping, and abstract scene understanding. The lectures include empirical studies in humans and primates using psychophysical, imaging, and physiological tools. We discuss an integrative approach, combining experimental techniques in neuroscience and cognitive science with computational modeling in order to elucidate the architecture of intelligence.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Most of the recorded lectures are from the 2018 Massachusetts Institute of Technology course 9.523/6.861.

Prerequisites: High school math and basic principles of programming (CSCI E-1a or CSCI E-10a or the equivalent).

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26068/2021

CSCI E-106
Data Modeling

Hakan Gogtas, PhD

Global Head of Model Risk Management, Internal Audit Group, American Express

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15765

Description
This course explores data modeling methodologies with the goal of understanding how to choose, apply, and interpret appropriate statistical designs and analyses for practical data problems. Topics covered include understanding the relationships in the data, theory and application of linear and non-linear regression models, model building steps, diagnostic of models, and remedial measures. Students can count one of the following three courses—CSCI E-106, STAT E-109, or STAT E-139 (offered previously)—toward a degree or certificate.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 7:20-9:20 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections Thursdays, 7:20-9:20 pm.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Proficiency in R programming, introductory probability and statistics, multivariate calculus equivalent to MATH E-21a, and linear algebra equivalent to MATH E-21b.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 90 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15765/2020

CSCI E-106
Data Modeling

Hakan Gogtas, PhD

Global Head of Model Risk Management, Internal Audit Group, American Express

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26017

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 7:20-9:20 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections Thursdays, 7:20-9:20 pm.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Proficiency in R programming, introductory probability and statistics, multivariate calculus equivalent to MATH E-21a, and linear algebra equivalent to MATH E-21b.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 90 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26017/2021

CSCI E-109A
Introduction to Data Science

Pavlos Protopapas, PhD

Scientific Program Director and Lecturer, Institute for Applied Computational Science, Harvard University

Kevin A. Rader, PhD

Senior Preceptor in Statistics, Harvard University

Christopher Tanner, PhD

Lecturer on Computational Science, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15178

Description
This course focuses on the analysis of messy, real life data to perform predictions using statistical and machine learning methods. Material covered integrates the five key facets of an investigation using data: data collection—data wrangling, cleaning, and sampling to get a suitable data set; data management—accessing data quickly and reliably; exploratory data analysis—generating hypotheses and building intuition; prediction or statistical learning; and communication—summarizing results through visualization, stories, and interpretable summaries. Students who have previously completed CSCI E-107 or CSCI E-109 may not count CSCI E-109a or CSCI E-109b toward a degree or certificate.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date:

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences course Computer Science 109a starting September 2. See syllabus for details.

Prerequisites: Programming knowledge at the level of CSCI E-50 or above, statistics knowledge at the level of STAT E-100 or above, and calculus (MATH E-15 or the equivalent) required. It is recommended that students have received a grade of B+ or better in these courses before enrolling in CSCI E-109a. Introductory probability is recommended.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 85 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15178/2020

CSCI E-109B
Advanced Topics in Data Science

Mark Glickman, PhD

Senior Lecturer on Statistics, Harvard University

Pavlos Protopapas, PhD

Scientific Program Director and Lecturer, Institute for Applied Computational Science, Harvard University

Christopher Tanner, PhD

Lecturer on Computational Science, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24801

Description
Building upon the material in CSCI E-109a, this course introduces advanced methods for data wrangling, data visualization, and statistical modeling and prediction. Topics include big data and database management, interactive visualizations, nonlinear statistical models, and deep learning. Students who have previously completed CSCI E-107 or CSCI E-109 may not count CSCI E-109a or CSCI E-109b toward a degree or certificate.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date:

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences course Computer Science 109b. This course follows the Harvard College spring calendar and will meet during the Extension School spring break, March 14-20. See the syllabus for specific meeting dates.

Prerequisites: A grade of B- or higher in CSCI E-109a. Students who have not completed CSCI E-109a should contact the instructors before registering.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 80 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24801/2021

CSCI E-115
Advanced Practical Data Science

Pavlos Protopapas, PhD

Scientific Program Director and Lecturer, Institute for Applied Computational Science, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16425

Description
In this course we explore advanced practical data science practices. The course is divided into three major topics, beginning with how to scale a model from a prototype (often in Jupyter notebooks) to the cloud. In this module, we cover virtual environments, containers, and virtual machines before learning about microservices and Kubernetes. Along the way, students are exposed to Dask. We move on to how to use existing models for transfer learning. Transfer learning is a machine learning method where a model developed for a task is reused as the starting point for a model on a second task. It is a popular approach in deep learning where pre-trained models are used as the starting point on computer vision and natural language processing tasks. This can be very important, given the vast compute and time resources required to develop neural network models on these problems and given the huge jumps in skill that these models can provide to related problems. In this part of the course we examine various pre-existing models and techniques in transfer learning. In the third part we introduce a number of intuitive visualization tools for investigating properties and diagnosing issues of models. We demonstrate a number of visualization tools ranging from the well-established (like saliency maps) to recent ones that have appeared in https://distill.pub.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date:

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences course Applied Computation 295 starting September 4. See syllabus for details.

Prerequisites: CSCI E-109b.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16425/2020

CSCI E-118
Introduction to Blockchain and Bitcoin

Nodari Gogoberidze, BS

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25478

Description
The bitcoin blockchain, a universal ledger where bitcoin transactions are recorded, is leading the cryptocurrency revolution. In parallel, the Ethereum blockchain, dubbed the “world’s computer,” offers a new paradigm for decentralized application development. This course introduces students to how the blockchain works, how transactions are stored in a tamper-proof and immutable fashion, and the mechanisms for achieving network consensus. Through practice with tools available for the Ethereum ecosystem, students write and deploy smart contracts to the blockchain, build decentralized applications, and develop an understanding of the underlying cryptographic principles. In addition, the broader societal implications of this nascent technology are discussed.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 7:20-9:20 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Previous experience programming in Python, or a basic course in programming such as CSCI E-50. Basic knowledge of cryptography helps, but is not required. Students will need computers with enough RAM to comfortably run a virtual machine running Ubuntu; 4 GB minimum, but 8 GB or more would be ideal.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 100 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25478/2021

CSCI E-121
Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science

Madhu Sudan, PhD

Gordan McKay Professor of Computer Science, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

Adam Hesterberg, PhD

Lecturer on Computer Science, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14302

Description
Computation occurs over a variety of substrates including silicon, neurons, DNA, the stock market, bee colonies, and many others. In this course we study the fundamental capabilities and limitations of computation, including the phenomenon of universality and the duality of code and data. We touch upon the following questions: Are there functions that cannot be computed? Are there true mathematical statements that can’t be proven? Are there encryption schemes that can’t be broken? Is randomness ever useful for computing? Can we use the quirks of quantum mechanics to speed up computation?

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date:

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences course Computer Science 121 starting September 3. See syllabus for details.

Prerequisites: CSCI E-20 or the equivalent.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14302/2020

CSCI E-124
Data Structures and Algorithms

Michael Mitzenmacher, PhD

Thomas J. Watson, Sr. Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University

Adam Hesterberg, PhD

Lecturer on Computer Science, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 21462

Description
This is a rigorous course on the design and analysis of efficient algorithms and their associated data structures. Algorithm design methods, graph algorithms, approximation algorithms, and randomized algorithms are covered.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date:

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences course Computer Science 124. This course follows the Harvard College spring calendar and will meet during the Extension School spring break, March 14-20. See the syllabus for specific meeting dates.

Prerequisites: CSCI E-22 or the equivalent, and some knowledge of discrete mathematics (CSCI E-20 or the equivalent).

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-21462/2021

CSCI E-171
Visualization

Hanspeter Pfister, PhD

An Wang Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16477 | Section 2

Description
The amount and complexity of information produced in science, engineering, business, and everyday human activity is increasing at staggering rates. The goal of this course is to expose students to visual representation methods and techniques that increase the understanding of complex data. Good visualizations not only present a visual interpretation of data, but do so by improving comprehension, communication, and decision making. In this course, students learn how the human visual system processes and perceives images, good design practices for visualization, tools for visualization of data from a variety of fields, and programming of interactive web-based visualizations using D3.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 4:30-6:30 pm

Required sections Monday, 9-10:15 am; 10:30-11:45 am; 4:30-5:45 pm, or 7-8:15 pm. Students select one or more of those times after registering.Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Students are expected to have programming experience (for example, CSCI E-50) and ideally some experience with web development.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16477/2020

CSCI E-171
Visualization

Hanspeter Pfister, PhD

An Wang Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16478 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 9-11 am

Required sections Monday, 9-10:15 am; 10:30-11:45 am; 4:30-5:45 pm, or 7-8:15 pm. Students select one or more of those times after registering.Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Students are expected to have programming experience (for example, CSCI E-50) and ideally some experience with web development.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16478/2020

CSCI E-207
Systems Development for Computational Science

David Sondak, PhD

Lecturer on Computational Science, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16447

Description
This is an applications course highlighting the use of software engineering and computer science in solving scientific problems. Students learn the fundamentals of developing scientific software systems including abstract thinking, the handling of data, and assessment of computational approaches, all in the context of good software engineering practices.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date:

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences course Computer Science 107/Applied Computation 207 starting September 3. See syllabus for details.

Prerequisites: Programming knowledge in Python at the level of CSCI E-7 or CSCI E-50 (or above). Besides this, students should have interest or investment in scientific computing.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16447/2020

CSCI E-210
Algorithms at the End of the Wire

Michael Mitzenmacher, PhD

Thomas J. Watson, Sr. Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16335

Description
This is an advanced, rigorous course on algorithms focusing on networks, data transmission, and search engines. We learn the science that led to the founding of Google and the science behind standard compression tools. This course also covers topics in coding and data streams.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date:

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences course Computer Science 222 starting September 3. See syllabus for details.

Prerequisites: CSCI E-124, or the equivalent, is very helpful.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16335/2020

CSCI E-497
Crafting the Thesis Proposal in Software Engineering Tutorial

Hongming Wang, PhD

Senior Research Advisor, Information Technology, Harvard Extension School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25104

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $0
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, software engineering or digital media design. They must have completed the design patterns requirement (if they are in software engineering), eight courses toward the degree, and be in good academic standing. Their prework, due between September 1 and November 1, must be approved before they are allowed to register for the tutorial. See the Guide to the ALM Thesis for details. Candidates accepted to the 12-course thesis track register for the tutorial for graduate credit; those in the ten-course thesis track register for noncredit.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25104/2021

CSCI E-497
Crafting the Thesis Proposal in Software Engineering Tutorial

Hongming Wang, PhD

Senior Research Advisor, Information Technology, Harvard Extension School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15484

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $0
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, software engineering or digital media design. They must have completed the design patterns requirement (if they are in software engineering), eight courses toward the degree, and be in good academic standing. Their prework, due between April 1 and June 1, must be approved before they are allowed to register for the tutorial. See the Guide to the ALM Thesis for details. Candidates accepted to the 12-course thesis track register for the tutorial for graduate credit; those in the ten-course thesis track register for noncredit.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15484/2020

CSCI E-597
Data Science Precapstone

Hongming Wang, PhD

Senior Research Advisor, Information Technology, Harvard Extension School

January session | CRN 25390

Description
This course helps students develop an academically strong capstone proposal. It is mandatory for candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, data science, who wish to register for CSCI E-599a in the spring. It prepares students to explore interdisciplinary research topics from a variety of industries and areas. Through workshops and collaborating with experts from different disciplines, students identify research topics, apply the appropriate data science methods, and use data to advance innovative solutions. Students receive guidance and advising to work effectively in teams, refine project proposals, and build the domain knowledge necessary in their selected area. By the end of the course, each team submits a detailed research proposal, including project rationale, methods, and expected outcomes, which they intend to execute during CSCI E-599a.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays-Thursdays, 3-6 pm
Start Date: Jan. 4, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, data science, who are in good academic standing. They must be in the process of completing all the degree requirements so that they can enroll in CSCI E-599a in the spring. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25390/2021

CSCI E-599
Software Engineering Capstone

Eric Gieseke, ALM

Principal Software Engineer, Algorand

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25901 | Section 1

Description
This course examines how current software engineering methods approach structuring and managing software projects, from requirements gathering to production release. Formal methods in software engineering have a long history, from the older waterfall method to the current agile methods. Students collaborate in small teams to define an architectural model and a project plan, and then implement a system while practicing techniques in software engineering. They present to the Extension School’s Master of Liberal Arts, software engineering faculty committee based on the course project. The early programming assignments are in Java.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:50-7:50 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates for the Master of Liberal Arts, software engineering capstone track who are in good academic standing and have completed nine courses in the concentration, including CSCI E-97, and have proficiency in Java. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 24 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25901/2021

CSCI E-599
Software Engineering Capstone

Peter Vaughan Henstock, PhD

Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Lead, Pfizer, Inc.

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24531 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 7:20-9:20 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates for the Master of Liberal Arts, software engineering capstone track who are in good academic standing and have completed nine courses in the concentration, including CSCI E-97. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 23 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24531/2021

CSCI E-599A
Data Science Capstone

Hongming Wang, PhD

Senior Research Advisor, Information Technology, Harvard Extension School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25391

Description
This course is the culmination of the Master of Liberal Arts, data science where students execute their research proposal from CSCI E-597. It gives students the opportunity to collaborate with industry, government, or academic partners to investigate a real-world research topic using their data science skills. At the completion of the capstone, students are able to demonstrate their ability to think critically about data, communicate with diverse audiences, and advance innovation in ways that benefit society.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Students must be degree candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, data science, who are in good academic standing and have earned a B– or higher in CSCI E-597. This course should be their last course. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25391/2021

CSCI E-599A
Data Science Capstone

Stephen Elston, PhD

Principal Consultant, Quantia Analytics LLC

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16091

Description
This course is the culmination of the Master of Liberal Arts, data science, where students execute their research proposal from CSCI S-597. It gives students the opportunity to collaborate on a complex research topic using their data science skills. At the completion of the capstone, students are able to demonstrate their ability to think critically about data, communicate with diverse audiences, and advance innovation in ways that benefit society.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Students must be degree candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, data science, who are in good academic standing and have earned a B– or higher in CSCI S-597. This course should be their last course. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16091/2020

DEVP E-102
Proseminar: Critical Analysis of Global Development Systems

Joshua Ellsworth, MS

Adjunct Lecturer, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16433

Description
Understanding the interrelated environmental, social, and economic dynamics within global development contexts and then identifying barriers to achieving positive change are formidable challenges. Practitioners and policymakers must be able to assess the limitations of their own perspectives, learn from those living and working directly with “wicked” problems, and evaluate information from a wide range of sources including randomized control trials (RCTs), field observations, and established and emerging participatory tools and methods. To catalyze positive impact at the project, program, or policy level, practitioners must grasp technical aspects of global development as well as the softer skills of leadership, listening, self-reflection, and how to balance competing demands from multiple stakeholders with differing levels of power. Global development practitioners need to develop both the mindset and the skill set to analyze complex sociopolitical contexts, work with diverse actors to identify specific problems and opportunities, create practicable solutions, and lead others to achieve objectives. Through lectures, in-class exercises, and team projects, this course focuses on developing, in an integrated manner, the analytic skills to assess qualitative and quantitative data, and the creative thinking and planning skills to identify and innovate solutions to tough challenges. It covers systems and problem analysis, theory of change mapping, participatory design, and tools for effective teamwork.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. EXPO E-42b is strongly recommended. Experience manipulating data and algebraic equations on spreadsheets is helpful.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16433/2020

DEVP E-102
Proseminar: Critical Analysis of Global Development Systems

Joshua Ellsworth, MS

Adjunct Lecturer, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25998

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25998/2021

DEVP E-110
Foundations of Sustainable Development

Thomas P. Gloria, PhD

Director, Sustainability, Harvard Extension School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16389

Description
The broad goal of this course is to introduce students to the foundations of key sectoral and thematic knowledge for important challenges to sustainable development, including food and nutritional security, social service delivery, energy policy, water resource management, urbanization, infrastructure, human rights, biodiversity, adaption to climate change, mitigating greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), sustainable business, ethics, governance, and education. Through a global classroom, lectures are attended virtually with academic partners of the Global Association from around the world. The course consists of weekly live broadcasts featuring international experts. Broadcasts are facilitated and recorded live by Lehigh University and available for asynchronous viewing; however, live participation is encouraged. Topics presented in the broadcasts are discussed during weekly web conference sessions.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:50-7:50 pm

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 75 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16389/2020

DEVP E-598
Global Development Practice Precapstone Tutorial

William O’Brien, MBA, JD

Professor of Practice, School of Management, Clark University, Associate Professor of Practice, Graduate School of Management, Clark University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16391

Description
This tutorial entails guided prework to set the foundation for academically strong capstones. It is mandatory for candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, global development practice, who wish to register for DEVP E-599 in spring 2021. The tutorial begins with a mandatory webinar covering critical design issues necessary to develop a successful development plan. Students are responsible for identifying and engaging with a client and determining the scope and deliverables of their capstone projects prior to the start of DEVP E-599.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $0

Notes: This noncredit tutorial involves e-mail, phone, and/or web conference one-on-one advising sessions with the instructor with the goal of producing an approved capstone proposal by the end of the semester.

Prerequisites: Students must be in their penultimate semester as candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, global development practice. They must be in good academic standing and in the process of completing all the requirements except the capstone. Students submit the prework to ALMcapstones@extension.harvard.edu between July 18 and August 1. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course. To obtain prework instructions, visit the capstone website.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16391/2020

DEVP E-598
Global Development Practice Precapstone Tutorial

William O’Brien, MBA, JD

Professor of Practice, School of Management, Clark University, Associate Professor of Practice, Graduate School of Management, Clark University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25973

Description
This tutorial entails guided prework to set the foundation for academically strong capstones. It is mandatory for candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, global development practice, who wish to register for DEVP S-599 in summer 2021. The tutorial begins with a mandatory webinar covering critical design issues necessary to develop a successful development plan. Students are responsible for identifying and engaging with a client and determining the scope and deliverables of their capstone projects prior to the start of DEVP S-599.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $0

Prerequisites: Students must be in their penultimate semester as candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, global development practice. They must be in good academic standing and in the process of completing all the requirements except the capstone. Students submit the prework to ALMcapstones@extension.harvard.edu between November 7, 2020 and January 2, 2021. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course. To obtain prework instructions, visit the capstone website.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25973/2021

DEVP E-599
Global Development Practice Capstone

Judith Irene Rodriguez, MA

Research Associate, Zofnass Program for Sustainable Infrastructure, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25972

Description
This course is a capstone designed for students earning a Master of Liberal Arts, global development practice. The course approach is learner-centered, whereby students create a development plan for a client by applying skills and knowledge gained from their graduate school experience. This course builds upon the student’s guided prework completed in DEVP E-598. The course deliverables include a detailed actionable and measurable plan, as well as a presentation to be given to the class and to client stakeholders. Appropriate clients may include communities, corporations, nongovernment organizations (NGOs), governmental agencies, schools, universities, and hospitals. Students work with a client with one or more stakeholders to develop and deliver a customized development plan focused on one or more of these areas: community development, human rights, labor practices, education, environmental sustainability, and fair operating practices. Listings of prior projects may be viewed at the Global Development Practice Capstone website.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Along with the web-conference meetings, it includes an intensive—and mandatory—online weekend meeting. The course begins via web conference during the first week of the term and continues to meet throughout the term. Please see the course website or syllabus for the specific two-hour course meeting dates.

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, global development practice. Students must be in good academic standing, in their final course, and have successfully completed DEVP E-598 in the 2020 fall term. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25972/2021

DGMD E-1
Digital Media: From Ideas to Designs and Prototypes

Bakhtiar Mikhak, PhD

Co-Founder, Media Modifications, Ltd.

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16151

Description
This is a practical design course on perspectives, tools, and methods for going from an idea for a product or service powered by a mobile and/or web application to an interactive design prototype ready for handoff to a development team. We begin with creating detailed personas and stories that capture why and for whom the product or service is developed. We then translate those personas and stories into storyboards that illustrate the application’s experiential flow in real-world contexts in terms of concrete visual and interaction design elements. We develop a component-based design system for creating interactive prototypes with live data. Our focus is on designing novel user experiences and leveraging third-party user interface kits to give our prototypes a professional look and feel. We create prototypes with a visual design tool that also allows creating and enhancing components with code for imagining and realizing even richer interactions and experience flows. Technologies used in this course include Gatsby, Adobe XD, Framer X, React, Github, Visual Studio Code, and Netlify.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 8:10-10:10 pm

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16151/2020

DGMD E-2
Web Programming for Beginners with PHP

Susan Buck, MPS

Web Programmer

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16121

Description
This course introduces students to the fundamentals of programming via the lens of web development using PHP. We start by learning about basic programming paradigms such as data types, variables, conditionals, loops, functions, classes, and more. Next, we apply these concepts to build simple web applications that involve form processing and basic database interaction. In addition to coding, students are also introduced to universal programming tools such as command line, Git version control, and server management. Emphasis is also placed on troubleshooting strategies and technical communication. While we primarily work with PHP, we address how the concepts we’re working with apply to other web-capable programming languages such as Python, JavaScript, Ruby, and Java. Additionally, we take a broad look at numerous tools and frameworks used on the web (WordPress, Drupal, Node.js, Laravel, Angular, React, and Vue.js) and learn about when and how each tool is most appropriate. By looking at the field as a whole, students leave this course with a big picture understanding of the many technologies used on the web, so that they can make informed decisions on what courses to take next and what tools to use in their next project.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: See https://hesweb.dev/e2/prereq.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16121/2020

DGMD E-5
Exploring Digital Media

Daniel P. Coffey, ALM

Staff Cloud Solutions Engineer, Dolby Laboratories

Ian C. Sexton, MA

Technologist in Production, Harvard Division of Continuing Education

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24583

Description
This is a practical, introductory course that gives a fast-paced overview of a broad range of topics related to contemporary media. The course aims to equip students with an understanding of the basics of exposure and composition which are vital for the closely related fields of digital photography and digital cinematography. Topics also include fundamental lighting techniques, video technology, video production processes with practical exercises in each stage of the workflow, audio production, and more. Beyond traditional digital media, the course also addresses the fundamentals of computer-based digital media design through software (via web development). Given the power of modern personal computers, all course topics apply to both professional production environments and personal media projects alike. By the end of the course, students can expect to understand common production workflows for a wide array of digital media including digital photography, video production, audio recording, and web design.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the 2019 course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24583/2021

DGMD E-9
Fundamentals of Digital Photography

Leonie Marinovich, BA

Documentary Photographer

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16307

Description
This course is aimed at students wishing to master the fundamentals of photography. It gives students the opportunity to learn photography using their digital camera (DSLR or mirrorless) and acquire the skills to use manual settings and use the different shooting modes available on their cameras. Topics covered in this class include the fundamentals of exposure, composition, lighting, editing techniques, color correction, delivery for print and digital media, metadata creation, and digital workflow management. We study classical art that has heavily influenced photography in the way that images are composed and lighted. The course is helpful to students who wish to explore digital photography as a way to document their field work and other work in progress and enhance their visual literacy, enabling them to assess images and other visual media. Students are taught Lightroom to manage their digital archives and learn to use editing techniques to enhance their images. Coursework is structured along two main components: technical mastery and aesthetic development. During the semester students are first taught the technical skills which they then apply in practical exercises to consolidate those skills. Upon completion of this course, students are expected to have mastered their camera and their images should look more polished.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:20-9:20 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Students don’t need to have prior experience as a photographer, but an interest in visual aesthetics is strongly recommended. Students need to have a digital camera (DSLR or mirrorless) with the ability to manually control aperture, shutter speed, and ISO. Students need a computer with Lightroom Classic CC installed. Photoshop is not required. Along with a computer, students need an external hard drive and memory card for their camera.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16307/2020

DGMD E-10
Advanced Digital Photography

Gregory S. Marinovich, BS

Master Lecturer, Journalism, Boston University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25615

Description
This course explores storytelling through the genres of photojournalism, documentary, and art photography. We dig into the technical foundations and techniques of digital photography with the goals of enabling students to further control their work and experiment in new ways and to develop a deeper and broader understanding of photographic technique. The course investigates cutting edge technology in photography, as well as the variety of formats available. The course constantly refers to the software tools we use to ensure reliable workflow and archive management. It addresses advanced color management as well as the science of converting images from color to black and white. Through lectures, hands-on assignments, and critiques, students expand their understanding of digital photography while exploring their creativity to broaden the possibilities and improve the quality of their photographs. Storytelling with photography dominates; the goal of the course is for each student to produce a body of work or a photographic essay. The art of editing their own work is a key learning goal. We dive into portraiture outside of the studio, shooting stories involving people and discussing how to get the picture when everyone does not want you to. For the art aspect, this is a bridging course between “accidental” art while doing documentary work and “art for art’s sake.” We look at various types of photography that are defined, or self-defined, as art.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 7:20-9:20 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Students should have an intermediate to advanced knowledge of photography. Students need access to a camera where they can control aperture, shutter speed, and ISO. Students need access to the internet and a computer with software like Adobe Lightroom to tone and edit images. Please note that Photoshop is not an editing tool, it is a retouching tool.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 60 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25615/2021

DGMD E-11
Digital Media: From Prototypes to Products and Services

Bakhtiar Mikhak, PhD

Co-Founder, Media Modifications, Ltd.

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25712

Description
This is a practical course on the tools and practices for going from an interactive design prototype for a mobile or web application to a functional demo that can be tested with the intended audience. Starting with a prototype built in Framer X with only design components, we show how to extend the underlying design system with code components for creating richer user experiences. In the first half of the course, we build a fully functioning demo of the application front-end with these components and learn how to leverage third-party services that abstract server-side processes and database actions as reusable application programming interfaces (APIs). The second half of the course may be dedicated either to testing and refining new features for the demo or to preparing a version of the application for launch as a product or service. In the former case, the work on final deliverables may focus on iterative refinements to interaction and interface design or integration with third-party services for working with cloud storage, live data, and real-time interactivity. In the latter case, the work would necessarily focus on deployment and scaling. Technologies used in this course include Gatsby, React, Framer X, Adobe XD, Flutter, Dart, Github, Visual Studio Code, and Netlify.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 8:10-10:10 pm

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: DGMD E-1.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25712/2021

DGMD E-12
Introduction to Creative Exploration on the Web

Alexander Robert McWhinnie, ALM

Product Team Lead, Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation, University of Minnesota

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24790

Description
Are you a visual thinker, an aspiring designer, digital media student, or artistic professional looking to build more immersive, interactive, and expressive content for the web? Are you completely new to programming and eager to experience a more visual approach? Perhaps you’re someone who has struggled with the algorithms, data structures, and technical complexity of a more conventional computer science class, but still wants to learn to code for the web? If so, welcome to this course. It focuses on a highly interactive, audiovisual approach to programming. Using the easy to understand language syntax of the P5JS JavaScript library, we create digital sketches that provide immediate visual feedback to the web page. With each lesson, students build skills and tackle increasingly complex creative challenges. By semester’s end, students leave with enough programming knowledge to create their own data visualizations, natural systems, games, media mashups, or artistic expressions on the web. They are also well prepared to continue on to more advanced programming courses.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: CSCI E-12 or DGMD E-20, or permission of the instructor.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24790/2021

DGMD E-17
Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, Drones, and Artificial Intelligence

Jose Luis Ramirez Herran, ALM

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26008

Description
Practical advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) are ushering in a new era of digital automation. In the next 10-15 years, drones, driverless vehicles, and AI will be used to transport goods, send packages, perform agricultural tasks, and transport people in an efficient and safe way. In this course, students learn the algorithms that underlie an autonomous vehicle’s understanding of itself and the world around it. Students learn how a car can use unreliable sensor data to make accurate predictions of its location in the world. In autonomous navigation, simultaneous localization and mapping is the computational problem of constructing or updating a map of an unknown environment while keeping track of an agent’s location. Students learn how to use these algorithm and other ones that help determine the quickest route between two points, finding optimal trajectories that come from the search and control algorithms, using the most popular and powerful programming platforms and libraries.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 7:40-9:40 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Willingness to build things step-by-step and persistence when the things you have just created do not yet work as you expected and you need to trouble shoot them. Basic experience writing and debugging code, and looking up documentation. Familiarity with basic linear algebra and geometry.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 60 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26008/2021

DGMD E-20
Modern and Mobile Front-End Web Design I

Jennifer A. Kramer, MS

Lecturer on Web Technologies, Harvard Extension School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14283

Description
This course dives deeply into HTML5 and cascading style sheets (CSS), so students can better understand their power and flexibility in designing web pages. Students learn about advanced selectors, including general and adjacent sibling selectors, attribute selectors, pseudoselectors, pseudoelements, and CSS specificity and the cascade. Methods for layout are covered extensively, including positioning, Flexbox, and CSS Grid. Students also build their own layout grids, explore media queries, and understand proper responsive image management. The course explores CSS animation and its use in user interfaces, including transforms, transitions, filters, animation, and scalable vector graphics (SVG). Units on accessibility and forms are included.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: CSCI E-12 or permission of the instructor.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14283/2020

DGMD E-23
Planning Successful Websites and Applications

Jennifer A. Kramer, MS

Lecturer on Web Technologies, Harvard Extension School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16308

Description
With all the coding courses available online, it’s not hard to learn the technical tools and languages needed to build a website or application. However, what is less clear is how to go about the process—what information belongs in the product, for whom does the product exist, and how should the product be organized are just a few of the questions that still need to be answered before coding can begin. In this course, students learn to plan and design a website or application, including choosing a target audience, defining site goals and reconciling these with user and business goals, establishing a brand and a tone of voice, and designing a page architecture. By the end of the course, students are able to plan and design a website or application, so when they are ready to code, they have a clear specification for the final product. This course is not a coding course—it focuses on the other aspects of web and application creation.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16308/2020

DGMD E-25
Creating Websites with Content Management Systems

Jennifer A. Kramer, MS

Lecturer on Web Technologies, Harvard Extension School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24048

Description
Content management systems (CMS) allow easy updates to websites so that every visit to a site is engaging, informative, and meaningful. Using WordPress, students explore the fundamentals of planning dynamic websites, CMS database management, developing CSS-controlled site templates, integration of meaningful content, e-commerce, learning management systems, customizing content types and fields, and marketing strategies for websites. The course is project-based; students build several sites over the term to increase their confidence in planning and executing websites.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: CSCI-E-12 required, DGMD E-20 recommended, or permission of the instructor.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24048/2021

DGMD E-26
WordPress Programming

Lisa DiOrio, MS

Owner and Lead Developer, Fembot Creative

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16168

Description
This hands-on course helps students gain an understanding of how to utilize the WordPress platform to create customized solutions providing rich user experiences, e-commerce, and mobile friendly websites. WordPress is a free, open source content management system (CMS) powering over 30 percent of all websites. Students hone programming skills by customizing the WordPress environment. Course topics include programming in PHP, relational databases, SQL and MySQL, programming WordPress theme files, adding custom code to a WordPress site, plugin development, programmatically querying the WordPress relational database, programming WordPress shortcodes, mobile friendly considerations, and site migration and maintenance. Project assignments facilitate practice with individual concepts culminating in a comprehensive final project to create a complete website.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: A working knowledge of web technologies; HTML, CSS, and Javascript. Familiarity with basic programming concepts including functions and conditionals. Experience working with a website in WordPress is recommended, but not required.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16168/2020

DGMD E-27
Modern and Mobile Front-End Web Design II

Jennifer A. Kramer, MS

Lecturer on Web Technologies, Harvard Extension School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24269

Description
With HTML and cascading style sheets (CSS) mastered, this course features a comprehensive exploration of responsive design. Students explore Sass, a CSS preprocessing language that combines logic and variables with CSS to create dynamic styling. Students understand responsive design 2.0, combining Sass, the CSS data structures CSS Calc and CSS custom properties, plus Flexbox and Grid, to create new flexible layouts with less code. Students also examine a traditional responsive design framework incorporating Sass, like UIkit, and they compare and contrast the approaches in using an off-the-shelf responsive design framework as compared with a custom framework. The course culminates with students coding their own responsive design framework, including documentation and examples.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: DGMD E- 20, or permission of the instructor.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24269/2021

DGMD E-28
Single-Page Applications and Interfaces with Vue.js

Susan Buck, MPS

Web Programmer

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25694

Description
In this course, students learn how to build reactive, single-page applications and interfaces for the web using Vue.js, an open-source JavaScript framework. What is a single-page application (SPA)? In a traditional website, much of the processing is done on the server, where content is loaded and then delivered to the browser for rendering. For example, imagine a site like Wikipedia: you click a link and are led to a page where the content is loaded and displayed. If you click on another link, the same process happens again, reloading all the content you see in the browser. We categorize this approach as a multiple-page application with new content delivered via a new page request for every action. Now compare this experience to using a more robust web application like Gmail where the actions we take (for example, applying a label to a message) create an almost immediate response in the browser, changing just the content relevant to the action we took. This latter approach falls under the umbrella of a single-page application because the majority of the experience happens within a single page, without the need to entirely reload the page from the server. Single-page applications are built with HTML/CSS and powered by JavaScript-based SPA frameworks such React, Angular, Ember, or Vue.js. In this course, students learn about SPA development via the lens of Vue.js, but we also take a broad look at SPA frameworks to understand the aspects common to each, such as data-binding, components, templates, and routing. By comparing and contrasting the various framework options, students can make informed decisions about which tool or framework is most appropriate for their next project or area of study.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: JavaScript and/or a strong foundation in programming. Comfort with HTML/CSS (CSCI E-12 or equivalent). For more information about the prerequisites, see https://hesweb.dev/e28/prereq.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25694/2021

DGMD E-28
Single-Page Applications and Interfaces with Vue.js

Susan Buck, MPS

Web Programmer

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16126

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16126/2020

DGMD E-30
Introduction to Media Production

Nicholas J. Manley, MFA

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14285

Description
This course is a complete movie-making academy in fifteen weeks. Guided by the instructor, students learn the basics of single-camera video production, field audio recording, and lighting for documentary and narrative film. Students learn how to light an interview like a pro, make the most of their equipment in the field, and break down any script into manageable pieces ready for shooting. Applying these techniques, students produce a short documentary or narrative film project on their own, and edit and deliver that movie using Adobe Premiere. We screen and critique students’ work as it evolves and refine methods for strengthening stories by looking at successful movies that have cracked the code. This course is designed for anyone who wants a crash course in producing quality video on a shoestring budget, and for storytellers who want to translate their ideas into compelling videos of any kind.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Students must have access to a DSLR or equivalent camera (1080p video), a tripod, an audio recording device, and access to video editing software. In this course we use Adobe Premiere CC.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14285/2020

DGMD E-35
Video Editing and Digital Design

Allyson Sherlock, MFA

Affiliated Faculty in Visual and Media Arts, Emerson College

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15362

Description
The ability of the film editor to shape a story is one of the most exciting and rewarding parts of the filmmaking process. This course serves as an introduction to the art of video post-production. We explore the theory and practice of various editing styles in order to gain a better understanding of how stories are most effectively constructed in the editing room. Through demonstrations and hands-on experience, students learn advanced editing techniques with an in-depth examination of Adobe Premiere. To further enhance projects, students create animated motion graphics using Adobe After Effects and learn how to enhance their audio recordings with Adobe Audition. Strong emphasis is placed on post-production techniques that improve the sound and image quality of the videos. Footage is provided for all exercises and projects, and students are given the option to shoot new material for their final projects if desired.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Previous editing experience preferred but not required.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 29 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15362/2020

DGMD E-35
Video Editing and Digital Design

Allyson Sherlock, MFA

Affiliated Faculty in Visual and Media Arts, Emerson College

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24026

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Previous editing experience preferred but not required.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 23 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24026/2021

DGMD E-37
Introduction to Motion Graphics and Story Visualization

Jason Wiser, MFA

Creative Director, Yaya Play Games

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16169

Description
How do we share a concept before the real counterpart has been created? How do we visualize a new piece of software, a business model, or a story dynamically? Motion graphics allows us to design enormously engaging visual experiences to communicate complex ideas. This course explores principles of visual narrative development to help students create well edited stories and effects.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm

Required sections Wednesdays, 9:20-10 pmStart Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16169/2020

DGMD E-40
Producing Educational Video

Marlon Kuzmick, MA

Director of the Learning Lab, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26020

Description
With the advent of massive open online courses (MOOCs), Khan Academy, and the flipped classroom, educators are experimenting with video as never before. This course prepares students to create dynamic, pedagogically sound video for these and other platforms by familiarizing them not only with relevant video production tools and techniques, but also with approaches to video grounded in the scholarship of teaching and learning.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Saturdays, 11 am-1 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 30, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: All demonstrations are performed in Final Cut Pro X and Motion, so students need access to these tools. Students do not need any previous familiarity with these products. Each student also needs access to a video camera.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26020/2021

DGMD E-41
Universal Design

Christina Inge, MS

CEO and Founder, thoughtlight

Marah Rosenberg, ALM

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16420

Description
Inclusive design is becoming more critical as companies realize their potential markets are more diverse than ever. With 80 million Americans living with a temporary or permanent disability, technologies must be designed for users with different visual, auditory, and other requirements. In this course, we learn the foundations of universal design for digital media. We start by using persona-driven user experience questions, including who, exactly, are we serving? And how? And is design really enough, or do we need to be more inclusive in all digital media management functions, from research and development to marketing? (The answer is yes!) In this course, we present a toolkit for universal and inclusive design. We come away with roadmaps that references Ronald Mace’s framework for universal design.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:50-7:50 pm

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16420/2020

DGMD E-42
Making the Short Film: Innovations and Practices for the Digital Age

Allyson Sherlock, MFA

Affiliated Faculty in Visual and Media Arts, Emerson College

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14730

Description
Short films are an exciting and ever-evolving form of storytelling in the digital age. This course explores the strong tradition short films have in our culture, as well as the new and innovative techniques filmmakers are currently using to tell and distribute their stories. In this course, students devote the entire semester to the creation and completion of one short film, narrative or documentary, with the intent of festival submission and/or online release. Students work in a collaborative atmosphere with classmates and the instructor to refine scripts and treatments, plan productions, and create the final film. Students may work individually or partner in a collaborative team. Either way, the class serves as a support system for each student, offering advice, critiques, and resources so that each member of the class is an integral part of a fully realized short. In addition to supporting traditional filmmaking approaches, innovative storytelling techniques are strongly welcomed and supported. These can include interactive online documentaries, hybrid approaches (blending fiction and nonfiction), webisode pilots, and experimental techniques. Additionally, the course demystifies the online distribution process and the film festival circuit, exploring the many avenues filmmakers can take to get their work shown to a wider audience.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Comfort with a video editing program and with using a video camera.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 22 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14730/2020

DGMD E-45
Introduction to 3D Animation and Virtual Reality

Jason Wiser, MFA

Creative Director, Yaya Play Games

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25799

Description
This course introduces students to the fundamentals of 3D modeling, surfacing, and animation. Students learn to model and texture objects, compose and light scenes, animate, and render as movies, learning techniques applicable to work in video games, architectural and medical visualization, television and feature films.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm

Required sections Wednesdays, 6:30-7:30 pm.Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Online students must have the following software, hardware, operating systems, and peripherals. For software: Autodesk Maya, Unity, Adobe Photoshop and After Effects (see syllabus for details). For hardware: 4 GB of RAM (8-16GB recommended), 64-bit Intel or AMD multi-core processor, a webcam, a microphone (headset recommended), and 15 GB of free hard-drive space for installing programs. For operating systems, one of the following: Apple Mac OS X 10.8.5, 10.9.x, or 10.10.x; or Microsoft Windows 7 (SP1), Windows 8, Windows 8.1, or Windows 10. Please note, the new OSX Catalina is not yet supported by Autodesk. If your machine runs OSX Catalina (released October 2019), you are encouraged to roll back to a previous OSX to be able to use the course programs. For peripherals: a three-button mouse (a two-button mouse will not work with Maya) and a Google cardboard headset; a digital drawing tablet/pen, such as a Wacom Intuos, is recommended.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25799/2021

DGMD E-50
Introduction to Visual Communication Design

Athir Mahmud, PhD

Consultant

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24839

Description
This course introduces students to a practice-based, hands-on approach to visual communication design. Students learn about vector and raster graphics, how to design with specific audiences in mind, and how to edit their own photographs using some of the most commonly used photo editing software in the visual design industry. Topics also include the elements and principles of design, color theory, visual perception theories, typography, symbols, brand identity, logos, and information design. Connections to current and historical contexts of the graphic arts are woven throughout the course. Students also share their work and learn to take part in design critiques and discussions, as both designers and peers.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24839/2021

DGMD E-50
Introduction to Visual Communication Design

Athir Mahmud, PhD

Consultant

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15157

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15157/2020

DGMD E-53
Designing Stories for the Web

Jennifer A. Kramer, MS

Lecturer on Web Technologies, Harvard Extension School

Martha Nichols, MA

Editor in Chief, Talking Writing

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25399

Description
In the digital realm, web designers, bloggers, journalists, and content producers of all kinds need to engage readers in new ways. In this team-taught course, a web designer and a journalist join forces to highlight the crucial connection between form and content. Students alternate writing assignments (personal stories and how-to pieces) with designing their text on WordPress. They learn to revise content so that it is both meaningful and eye-catching, trying out listicles, slide carousels, and embedded tweets or video. In the process, they learn marketable skills as digital writers and content designers, producing personal portfolios or other websites. They also get a chance to have work published in a class magazine.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Experience with journalism, blogging, or other forms of nonfiction writing is helpful but not required. While students don’t need to know WordPress, other content management systems, or HTML to take this course, comfort with technology and a willingness to think creatively about technological problems is a plus.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25399/2021

DGMD E-55
Designing Educational Media

Kerry Foley, EdM

Manager of Course Design, Division of Continuing Education, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16405

Description
In a society saturated with media and technology, what makes a great learning tool stand out among the rest? This course explores the many types of informal and formal educational media being developed for children, K-12, higher education, adult learners, and workplace training, and examines the cognitive processes that drive the learning. Together we explore theoretical models for learning and teaching, fundamentals of user experience, and techniques for effective product development as they relate to the creation of educational media. Over the course of the semester, students evaluate existing educational media, participate in design challenges, and design a prototype for an educational media product of their own. No prior experience in educational technology is necessary for the course, but a willingness to explore new technologies is a must.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 33 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16405/2020

DGMD E-55
Designing Educational Media

Kerry Foley, EdM

Manager of Course Design, Division of Continuing Education, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26054

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26054/2021

DGMD E-60
Designing Online Courses

Karina Lin-Murphy, EdM

Manager of Faculty Development, Division of Continuing Education, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24538

Description
In this course, students explore the fundamental elements of online course design and how to be practitioners of instructional design in a world where online learning is constantly changing. Students examine and establish the qualities of a good online course through the lenses of foundational learning theories, design-thinking principles, and the practical realities of course design. Over the course of the semester, students create and workshop an online learning project of their choice. Course topics include working with subject matter experts, creating student connection, translating face-to-face learning experiences, selecting online learning tools, designing assessments, and evaluating course success.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: DGMD E-55, EDUC E-103, EDUC E-111, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 39 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24538/2021

DGMD E-598
Digital Media Design Precapstone Tutorial

Hongming Wang, PhD

Senior Research Advisor, Information Technology, Harvard Extension School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15706

Description
This tutorial helps students develop an academically strong capstone proposal. It is mandatory for candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, digital media design, who wish to register for the DGMD E-599 Digital Media Design Capstone in the 2021 spring term. The tutorial guides students to identify a topic from a variety of industries and communities, review the literature, formulate a research question, and develop appropriate methods to answer the question. Successful completion of the tutorial ensures that their project is fully operational by the start of next semester’s capstone course.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $0

Prerequisites: Students must be in their penultimate semester as candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, digital media design. They must be in good academic standing and in the process of completing all the requirements except the capstone. Students submit their prework to ALMcapstones@extension.harvard.edu between July 18 and August 1. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course. To obtain prework instructions, visit the capstone website.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15706/2020

DGMD E-599
Capstone Design Studio

Jose Luis Ramirez Herran, ALM

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15752 | Section 2

Description
This capstone course is designed for students whose research projects focus on wearable devices or web development with a focus on back-end design or plug-in development. Students apply knowledge and skills obtained in the program to design a significant individual project in a collaborative environment. At the end of the semester, they make a formal oral presentation to their peers and visiting faculty.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Students must be degree candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, digital media design who are in good academic standing, in their final course, and have successfully completed DGMD S-598. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15752/2020

DGMD E-599
Capstone Design Studio

Jennifer A. Kramer, MS

Lecturer on Web Technologies, Harvard Extension School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14731 | Section 1

Description
This capstone course is designed for students whose research projects focus on web development with a focus on front-end design. Students apply knowledge and skills obtained in the program to design a significant individual project in a collaborative environment. At the end of the semester, they make a formal oral presentation to their peers and visiting faculty.

Class Meetings:
Online

This course includes a mandatory capstone presentation session to be held via web conference on December 5, 9 am-4 pm. Students must be present for the entire session.Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14731/2020

DGMD E-599
Capstone Design Studio

Allyson Sherlock, MFA

Affiliated Faculty in Visual and Media Arts, Emerson College

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24247 | Section 2

Description
This capstone course is designed for students whose research projects focus on video production and web development with a focus on front-end design. Students apply knowledge and skills obtained in the program to design a significant individual project in a collaborative environment. At the end of the semester, they make a formal oral presentation to their peers and visiting faculty.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Students must be degree candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, digital media design who are in good academic standing, in their final course, and have successfully completed DGMD E-598. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24247/2021

DGMD E-599
Capstone Design Studio

Jose Luis Ramirez Herran, ALM

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25332 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Students must be degree candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, digital media design who are in good academic standing, in their final course, and have successfully completed DGMD E-598. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25332/2021

DRAM E-10
Introduction to Acting

Karen MacDonald, BFA

Lecturer on Theater, Dance, and Media, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 20544

Description
Through individual and group exercises, monologues, improvisations, and scene studies, this workshop—eclectic in method—helps students develop their acting potential and sharpen their performing skills. Students are expected to write two performance journals after attending professional theatrical performances. Previous theater study is not required.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-20544/2021

DRAM E-10
Introduction to Acting

Remo Airaldi, AB

Lecturer on Theater, Dance, and Media, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 12954

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-12954/2020

DRAM E-12
Acting Shakespeare

Remo Airaldi, AB

Lecturer on Theater, Dance, and Media, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24418

Description
This course is an intensive study of Shakespeare’s dramatic works from the point of view of the actor. It is important to remember that Shakespeare’s verse dramas were written to be performed and that only when they are approached this way—as playable, theatrical texts—do they have their maximum impact. Through text analysis, scene study, vocal work, and acting exercises we attempt to find, not only the meaning, but the music and theatrical power of Shakespeare’s words. We spend a great deal of class time discussing blank verse and the different techniques for speaking it out loud and work to develop the end-of-line breath support needed to perform this language. We also study such topics as scansion, phrasing, word emphasis, antithesis, and imagery.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24418/2021

DRAM E-20
Advanced Acting

Marcus Stern, MFA

Head of Directing and Lecturer on Theater, Dance, and Media, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 23479

Description
This course is focused on helping actors achieve more believable performances. The course is centered on scene study and audition techniques. The focus is on learning about and refining a practical acting process that can be tailored for each individual actor. This process can effectively be used for acting in film, television, and on stage. The class includes voice work for the actor, as well as instruction on audition technique, and helping actors understand what audition material might work best for them.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Audition. Registered students must bring a contemporary two-minute monologue to the first class. The instructor will determine who is in the class after the first day of audition monologues.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 16 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-23479/2021

DRAM E-21
Improvisational Acting

John Kuntz, MA

Lecturer on Theater, Dance, and Media, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14811

Description
This course is designed not only for students of the theater, but also for those with an interest in politics and debate, public speaking, trial law, and education, as well as a broad range of other careers. Students explore various improvisational techniques that fuse intellect, imagination, voice, and body.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:40-9:40 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14811/2020

DRAM E-24B
The History and Practice of Musical Theater: Decades of Protest through Song

Pamela J. Murray, MusM

Performing Faculty, Boston College and Middlesex School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26026

Description
This performance course for all levels of singers focuses on vocal technique, acting of a song, and the study of Broadway musicals from all eras. We focus on shows that highlight social justice issues that are current today, musicals that in many cases were ahead of their time in presenting these issues and at times quite controversial. Students learn a piece from this repertoire, working on both vocal and theatrical aspects and digging deeply into the text. We also analyze the accompaniment by listening to the orchestration and discovering clues given by the composer regarding story, character, and subtext. There are listening and written assignments as we study the different eras and styles, and class discussion regarding the socio-political nature of each show and the impact it had on society. The final consists of a paper and presentation based on each student’s research of the song and show, including a polished performance/video of the song.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:50-7:50 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Willingness to sing in front of class.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26026/2021

DRAM E-45
Directing for the Screen

Catherine Eaton, MFA

Director and Writer

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16403

Description
Have you ever wanted to explore film directing, but haven’t known where to begin? In this course, students learn the core elements of directing fiction films, including everything from pre-production, to learning where to put the camera, to working with actors. Students learn how to break down scripts to find and develop a strong directorial point of view (POV) and gain the tools to create an intelligent shot-list and shot-diagram. The course covers various methods to work with and direct actors, and how to identify crew positions and learn how to assemble a crew. Additionally, we cover things like how to prepare for a shoot, expectations on set, and how to protect your creative process throughout the experience of making a fiction film. Sessions include presentations, discussions, scene analysis from various films (looking at camera set-ups, objectives, and directorial POV), interactive exercises, a case study, and shooting and presenting scenes to the class. Please note: this course does not cover the technical use of film cameras, lighting, or audio equipment. Scene exercises may be shot on whatever video camera each student has access to, such as a smartphone or other device, as equipment cannot be provided.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 11 am-1 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: In order to complete certain course exercises, all students must have use of a cell phone or other camera equipment that shoots video (most modern cell phones fulfill this remit). Students must also have access to simple editing software. Examples are iMovie, Windows Movie Maker, or Openshot (which can be downloaded for free), among others. Editing requirements are very simple, so experience with the software should not be a barrier. If you have any questions or concerns about these requirements, please contact the instructor.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16403/2020

DRAM E-145
Vocal Production

Ashleigh Reade, MFA

Assistant Professor of Theater, Boston Conservatory at Berklee

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15770

Description
This is a practical, experiential, and studio-based course designed for students who wish to explore voice, speech, and text analysis for theater, film, TV, or public speaking. Actors, business professionals, singers, or anyone desiring greater mastery of the voice benefit from the course. Emphasis is placed on helping each speaker find his or her own voice through developing personal specificity, precision, and storytelling ability. Students develop a deeper awareness of their physical and vocal habits; learn how to healthfully and sustainably use their voice; and learn tools to create variety and dynamics when speaking. Class activities include solo and partner exercises to enhance awareness of the body and muscles used for voice and speech, one-on-one in-class coaching of text and song, and discussion of assigned readings on voice, speech, and performance. Prior singing, acting, or speech experience is not required.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15770/2020

ECON E-10A
Principles of Economics

Bruce D. Watson, MA

Master Lecturer in Economics, Boston University and Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 10062

Description
This course provides an introduction to current economic issues and to basic economic principles and methods. Economics is not primarily a set of answers, but rather a method of reasoning. By the end of the course, students are able to use the framework they have learned to form their own judgments about the major economic problems faced by the United States and other countries.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: High school algebra recommended.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-10062/2020

ECON E-10A
Principles of Economics

Stacey Gelsheimer, PhD

Lecturer on Economics, Boston University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25979 | Section 1

Description
This course provides an introduction to current economic issues and to basic economic principles and methods. The economist John Maynard Keynes wrote that, “the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood.” Economics is not primarily a set of answers, but rather a method of reasoning. By the end of the semester, students are able to use the analysis practiced in the course to form their own judgments about many of the major economic problems faced by the United States and other countries. In the first part of the semester, we focus on microeconomics, which is the study of the interaction of people and firms in markets. Since we live in a market economy, this study helps students to understand how American society organizes its economic affairs. We examine how the forces of supply and demand operate in the markets for goods and services. Students learn powerful tools that enable them to understand a great deal about the economy and how it works. Using these tools, we develop a framework to evaluate social policies. Trade—always a controversial subject—is analyzed, along with measures, such as tariffs, designed to restrict trade. Theories concerning firm behavior are then examined—how companies decide how much to produce, and the profits which result. During the second half of the semester, we focus on macroeconomics, the study of the economy as a whole. We study economic growth and development, business cycles, and the impact of both monetary and fiscal policy on inflation, unemployment, interest rates, investment, the exchange rate, and international trade.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: A working knowledge of elementary algebra and geometry is required.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25979/2021

ECON E-10A
Principles of Economics

Rand Ghayad, PhD

Economic Advisor

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25236 | Section 2

Description
The course deals with basic economic principles that help us understand the process of decision making by individuals and societies. We analyze the fundamental economic activities of production, distribution, exchange, and consumption at both the micro and macro level. Besides developing an understanding of the functioning of a free market system, we also critically examine the controversies that surround the use of public policies for the greater common good.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A working knowledge of elementary algebra and geometry is required. Students registering in this course for graduate credit are also required to have some basic knowledge of calculus, preferably a college-level course in calculus.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25236/2021

ECON E-1005
Foundations of Real-World Economics

John Komlos, PhD

Professor of Economics, Emeritus, University of Munich

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24060

Description
The course discusses complex economic processes in straightforward terms so that they can be understood without the use of mathematics. The focus is on real-world applications of economics in contrast to academic blackboard economics, which relies excessively on assumptions, theorizing, and abstract models of the economy. We apply the concepts we learn to contemporary controversial topics such as minimum wage legislation, the function of unions, and why the free market overcharges for health care. We explore why Noble Prize winning economists such as Paul Krugman and Joe Stiglitz are so critical of the current economic situation for its dizzying inequality, its endemic underemployment, humongous trade and government deficits, stagnating wages, and lack of inclusive growth that is unable to provide a decent life for so many millions of its citizens. Mainstream economists do not have the answers to the challenges of globalization and technological unemployment because they are unable to think creatively about new institutional structures that would enable us to transition to a full-employment, high quality-of-life economy. In contrast, this course weaves ideas from psychology, sociology, and political science into a common-sense economic perspective in order to explore these issues. We also discuss the achievements of Nobel Prize winning economists Robert Shiller, Daniel Kahneman, and Richard Thaler in the fields of behavioral economics and behavioral finance. The course includes concepts from both microeconomics and macroeconomics.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Saturdays, 10 am-noon
Start Date: Jan. 30, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 32 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24060/2021

ECON E-1010
Microeconomic Theory

Zinnia Mukherjee, PhD

Associate Professor of Economics, Simmons College

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16157 | Section 2

Description
This course presents the basic analytical tools of microeconomics. We start by looking at the decision making of individual consumers and ask how these decisions can be optimized or improved. Next, we look at the ways firms make and coordinate their decisions under varying market structures, including perfect competition and monopoly. Then we look at strategic behavior in imperfectly competitive markets, making use of concepts from game theory such as Nash equilibrium. Finally, we take up topics including bargaining theory, information economics, environmental externalities, and public goods.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 7:40-9:40 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. ECON E-10a, or the equivalent; MATH E-8, or the equivalent understanding of introductory college-level algebra.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 100 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16157/2020

ECON E-1010
Microeconomic Theory

Zinnia Mukherjee, PhD

Associate Professor of Economics, Simmons College

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25934 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 7:40-9:40 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Enrollment limit: Limited to 100 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25934/2021

ECON E-1010
Microeconomic Theory

Dorian Klein, MBA

Marion Laboure, PhD

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25526 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm, or on demand.

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Enrollment limit: Limited to 250 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25526/2021

ECON E-1010
Microeconomic Theory

Dorian Klein, MBA

Marion Laboure, PhD

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16098 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm, or on demand.

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Enrollment limit: Limited to 250 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16098/2020

ECON E-1010
Microeconomic Theory

Bruce D. Watson, MA

Master Lecturer in Economics, Boston University and Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 23285 | Section 3

Description
This course presents the basic analytical tools of microeconomics. We start by looking at the decision making of individual consumers, including decisions made in situations involving uncertainty. Next, we look at the ways firms make their decisions under varying market structures, including perfect competition and monopoly. Then we look at strategic behavior in imperfectly competitive markets, making use of concepts from game theory such as Nash equilibrium. Finally, we take up topics involving information economics and the economics of environmental externalities.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-23285/2021

ECON E-1012
Macroeconomic Theory

Christopher Foote, PhD

Professor of the Practice of Economics, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25156

Description
This course examines theories and evidence on economic growth and business cycles. It covers determination of gross domestic product, investment, consumption, employment, and unemployment. It also covers analysis of interest rates, wage rates, and inflation. Finally, it examines the roles of fiscal and monetary policies. At the end of this course, students have a better understanding of how the economy works and how different macroeconomic policies affect people’s lives. The business-cycle component of the course focuses on the United States, but the course also explores the large differences in living standards around the world.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date:

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course Economics 1010b. This course follows the Harvard College spring calendar and will meet during the Extension School spring break, March 14-20. See the syllabus for specific meeting dates.

Prerequisites: Most people who take intermediate economics have already taken a principles of macroeconomics course. However, in this intermediate course all important concepts are defined as they are presented, so it is possible to do well even if this is your first formal training in macroeconomics. No specific mathematics course is required and calculus is rarely used. However, very basic knowledge of calculus at the level of MATH E-15 is assumed. Students should also be comfortable performing basic algebraic calculations.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25156/2021

ECON E-1017
Financing Community and Economic Development

James Carras, MPA

Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25617

Description
This course provides an understanding of financing mechanisms, tools, policies, and programs available to community and economic development professionals. The course focuses on access and availability of capital, both public and private, for businesses and real estate development projects that have an impact particularly on low opportunity communities. The course covers how capital markets operate and are structured; challenges for community economic development professionals to access those markets, business, and real estate financing fundamentals; public development finance tools including Opportunity Zone Funds, New Market Tax Credits and Community Development Financial Institutions; and capital access strategies such as Community Reinvestment Act research and advocacy. The course also addresses sustainable development and the role of development finance and impact investing. We explore the relationship between local community economic development, environmental sustainability, cultural vitality, and trends in the regional and national economies. Specifically, we focus on how to make community and economic investments that yield development outcomes that contribute to economic, environmental, and cultural vitality. This approach extends a triple bottom line approach that seeks to benefit profits, people, and the planet.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 55 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25617/2021

ECON E-1035
Behavioral Economics and Decision Making

David S. McIntosh, MBA

Founder, Creative Business Breakthroughs

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25670

Description
In this course we study how people actually make decisions, what rationality lies behind seemingly irrational behavior, and how decision making can be influenced. Building on economic principles useful in understanding business and consumer decision making, we study forces that prevent efficient and rational outcomes from occurring, as well as tools for influencing decisions.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:50-7:50 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Introductory economics (ECON E-10a or equivalent) required.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25670/2021

ECON E-1035
Behavioral Economics and Decision Making

David S. McIntosh, MBA

Founder, Creative Business Breakthroughs

Jon A. Fay, AB

Managing Partner, Wilson Alan LLC

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15713

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Introductory economics (ECON E-10a or equivalent) required.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15713/2020

ECON E-1040
Strategy, Conflict, and Cooperation

Robert Neugeboren, PhD

Lecturer on Economics, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 21946

Description
This course is an introduction to the strategic way of thinking and a primer on the mathematical theory of games. Students learn about game theory through a combination of analytical techniques and a series of in-class and take-home exercises. Applications are drawn from economics and other social sciences. Topics include the prisoner’s dilemma and the arms race, the minimax theorem, Nash equilibrium, bargaining, subgame perfection, and the evolution of cooperation.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm

Required sections Thursdays, time to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MATH E-8, or the equivalent or satisfactory placement test score.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-21946/2021

ECON E-1040
Strategy, Conflict, and Cooperation

Robert Neugeboren, PhD

Lecturer on Economics, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16069

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm

Required sections Thursdays, time to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MATH E-8, or the equivalent or satisfactory placement test score.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16069/2020

ECON E-1057
Game Theory and Social Behavior

Erez Yoeli, PhD

Lecturer on Economics, Harvard University and Research Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management

Moshe Hoffman, PhD

Visiting Lecturer on Economics, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16090

Description
Game theory is the formal toolkit for analyzing situations in which payoffs depend not only on your actions (say, which TV series you watch), but also that of others (whether your friends are watching the same show). You’ve probably already heard of some famous games, like the prisoner’s dilemma and the costly signaling game. This course teaches students to solve games like these, and more, using tools like Nash equilibrium, subgame perfection, Bayesian Nash equilibrium, and the one-shot deviation principle. Game theory has traditionally been applied to understand the behavior of highly deliberate agents, like heads of state, firms in an oligopoly, or participants in an auction. However, we apply game theory to social behavior typically considered the realm of psychologists and philosophers, such as why we speak indirectly, in what sense beauty is socially constructed, and where our moral intuitions come from.

Class Meetings:
Online

Sections are not required, but are recommended for students without the necessary math background.Start Date:

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course Economics 1057 starting September 3. See syllabus for details.

Prerequisites: We make frequent use of probability theory (Bayes’s Rule, conditional probabilities), set theory notation, and proofs. Students without a background in these tools have historically found some of the later problem sets to be challenging. Not sure if this class is for you? Take our self-assessment, then see how your answers compare with ours. STAT E-100 and MATH E-10 recommended.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 60 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16090/2020

ECON E-1317
The Economics of Emerging Markets: Asia and Eastern Europe

Bruno S. Sergi, PhD

Professor of International Economics, University of Messina and Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24054

Description
This course covers, with an emphasis on both theory and empirics, the promises and realities of the emerging economies in Asia and Eastern Europe, focusing on some of the most appealing economic stories, including China, India, Russia, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia. The potentials of booming markets, fast-developing local consumer markets, abundant supply of labor, and the rising middle class have been the major characteristics of many emerging markets, which have attracted the attention and capital from the rest of the world. However, upon closer examination, we find the landscape is fraught under the impact of shifting global geopolitical dynamics, with an ongoing slowdown across some of the world’s major emerging markets and complex social, economic, and financial systemic risks. The course places specific emphasis on the emerging markets’ economics, finance, banking, technology advances, trade, demographic challenges, and their economic relations with the latest macro trends. The learning objective is for students to gain an understanding of the current dynamics and the past development stories of the emerging market nations.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: ECON S-10a, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 38 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24054/2021

ECON E-1500
The Economics of Financial Markets

Mark Tomass, PhD

Independent Scholar

January session | CRN 23271

Description
This course studies the money market, the bond market, the foreign exchange market, the stock market, and the derivatives market. It provides the analytical skills necessary to understand forces that determine prices of financial and real assets. It also develops a system of tools to show how interest rates, prices of bonds, international capital flows, and exchange rates are simultaneously determined. Finally, it demonstrates how firms use financial derivatives, such as futures, options, and swaps to hedge against risk.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays-Thursdays, 6-9 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 4, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: ECON E-10a, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-23271/2021

ECON E-1533
Monetary Policy After the Financial Crisis

Dorian Klein, MBA

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25996

Description
This course closely examines the path of public policy, whether fiscal stimulus plans or the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy, through the nuts and bolts of—and from the viewpoint of—the capital markets. When the Fed or the European Central Bank announces a monthly $85 billion securities buying program, how exactly does this money flow through the markets? When the government bails out a major bank, how does this action affect the bank, its competitors, the markets, future perceptions, the economy at large? How can central banks affect the economy in an environment of zero and even negative interest rates? Should regulation influence the behavior of firms or individuals? Using the 2008 financial crisis and policy responses thereto as a backdrop, we explore how (and whether) the new capital markets created over the past thirty years as a result of greatly increased financial innovation, globalization, and communication are distorting the economic effect of traditional government monetary and/or fiscal influence. The role of important constituents (commercial and investment banks, exchanges, regulators, hedge funds, government interventions) are reviewed and evaluated for both past performance and future relevance. The course addresses important current topics in both economics and public policy, such as too big to fail, moral hazard, globalization of markets, currency unions, liquidity traps, efficiency of markets, the role of credit rating agencies, shadow banking, regulation of derivatives and hedge funds, Glass-Steagall, and the Volcker Rule.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:40-9:40 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: ECON E-10a and basic algebra.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25996/2021

ECON E-1600
Economics of Business

Robert E. Wayland, MA

President, R.E. Wayland and Associates

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 23096

Description
This course introduces economic concepts that are fundamental to understanding many of the issues faced by business firms. These include the economic perspective on the nature, scale, and organization of the firm; the role of information and transactions costs in internal and external markets; principal-agent theory; contracting and the firm’s relationships with customers and suppliers. Students may not take both ECON E-1600 and ECON S-1615 for degree or certificate credit.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. ECON E-10a, or the equivalent, and MATH E-8 or satisfactory placement test score; MATH E-15 recommended.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-23096/2021

ECON E-1600
Economics of Business

Robert E. Wayland, MA

President, R.E. Wayland and Associates

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 13399

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 7:40-9:40 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. ECON E-10a, or the equivalent, and MATH E-8 or satisfactory placement test score; MATH E-15 recommended.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-13399/2020

ECON E-1625
Economic Strategy and Competitiveness

Mark Esposito, DBA

Professor of Business and Economics, Hult International Business School and Fellow, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25336

Description
With the developments of the world economy becoming ever more unpredictable, there is not only a need for executives to have a good idea what is happening around us right now—they need to also think about how the future could unfold, strategically. Even though this course is by no account claiming to be a crystal ball, it seeks to help executives and professionals gain a clearer understanding of the latest economic, social, and technological affairs happening around us. It is intended to build economic strategic thinking, grounded on competitiveness studies and social progress.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Coursework in economics.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25336/2021

ECON E-1661
Environmental Economics

Carlos Alberto Vargas, PhD

Partner, Turnstone Environmental Planning

Jennifer Clifford, PhD

Lecturer in Economics, University of Massachusetts Boston and Partner, Turnstone Environmental Planning

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15509

Description
The course is designed as a broad survey covering the most critical topics in environmental economics today. Economics, the science of how scarce resources are allocated, is at the core of many of our most challenging environmental issues, and therefore vitally important. In a world of increasing scarcity and competing demands, economic analysis can guide public policy to efficient utilization of resources. Market failures are the cause of many of our most serious environmental problems, but can be remedied with economic tools. Getting prices to reflect true costs, providing productive incentive structures, and explicitly valuing environmental amenities are the primary goals.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15509/2020

ECON E-1700
Urban Policy

James Carras, MPA

Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15079

Description
This course reviews development policy making in urban areas, focusing on differing economic, demographic, institutional, and political settings. Course topics include a critical analysis of the continuing viability of cities in the context of current economic and demographic dynamics, fiscal stress, governance, economic development, poverty and race, drugs, homelessness, federal urban policy, and survival strategies for declining cities. The course considers economic development, social equity, and job growth in the context of metropolitan regions, and addresses federal, state, and local government strategies for expanding community economic development and affordable housing opportunities. Of special concern is the continuing spatial and racial isolation and concentration of low-income populations, especially minority populations, residing in urban communities including older, industrial cities. The course examines how market forces and pressures affect the availability of affordable housing, exacerbate the impacts of gentrification, and inhibit the availability of capital for affordable housing and economic development. It also examines how issues around growing housing affordability problems, the changing structure of capital markets, the reduction of low-skilled jobs in central city locations, and racial discrimination combine to limit housing and employment opportunities.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Courses in sociology, political science, urban planning, architecture, public policy, and economics are helpful but not required.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 47 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15079/2020

ECON E-1780
Disrupting Economics: New Metrics for a Sustainable Future

Peter Marber, PhD

Chief Investment Officer for Emerging Markets, Aperture Investors and Senior Lecturer on Finance, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16377

Description
Protests over government policies have become more commonplace in both advanced and emerging countries around the world. Angry citizens complain about a wide range issues including inequality, privacy, democracy, immigration, trade, job security, health care, and climate change. Are governments really failing to deliver what societies need and citizens want? Perhaps the answer lies in the way success is measured. Amid globalization and the rise of the digital economy, traditional economic measures like gross domestic product (GDP), unemployment, and stock market performance may be leaving governments and citizens with a distorted worldview—and a shaky foundation for policy decisions. This course investigates limitations of conventional yardsticks used for assessing national output, employment, inflation, productivity, and trade, among other key metrics, and asks what components of a successful society we fail to measure at all. Public policies based on inaccurate or incomplete data are likely to have unintended consequences leading to financial meltdowns, environmental degradation, economic inequality, and pandemics, among others negative externalities. Moreover, failing to fully account for true costs can skew individual, corporate, and governmental behavior towards short-termism versus sustainability. As a response, many scholars—from economists to sociologists—are formulating new metrics and new philosophies to address such concerns and to utilize the unprecedented amount of data now available for analysis. Some of the questions this course seeks to explore include: how did GDP universally come to anchor government policies in the twentieth century? What are the limitations of GDP amid a globalizing and digitizing economy? How is unemployment, inflation, and productivity calculated? Will robots and computers completely replace human work? What are sustainability and resilience and how can they be measured? How should we judge a private company’s success? What are social enterprises, socially responsible investing, and their performance metrics? Are there other progress measures that can better guide countries and companies? This course hopes to inspire social entrepreneurs to develop innovative, superior, and sustainable approaches to economics and finance that make the world better for all.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16377/2020

ECON E-1825A
The Minimum Wage Debate

Jane P. Katz, AM

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24424

Description
This course explores the debate about the minimum wage from all points of view. What is the history of the minimum wage in the US? Who is affected? Does the minimum wage reduce employment of low wage workers, as some argue? Does it have a significant impact on their incomes? Should the federal government raise the minimum wage? Abolish it? Leave it to the states? Why do some firms pay entry-level workers more than the minimum wage while other firms in the same industry do not? Students review the arguments and evidence on the minimum wage, investigate what economists have learned about its impact, understand why firms might choose to pay more than the minimum wage, review and evaluate current proposals to raise the minimum wage, and explore some of the philosophical and ethical issues raised about labor markets, income inequality, and the particular issues for low income workers.

Class Meetings:
2-credit half-term online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Mar. 22, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $940
Graduate credit: $1450
Credits: 2

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. This course meets for a half term, March 22-May 15.

Prerequisites: ECON E-10a, or the equivalent. Familiarity with basic concepts and diagrams in microeconomics (demand, supply, and equilibrium; elasticity; price controls, perfect and imperfect competition; and the demand for labor). Students should also be comfortable reading and interpreting sophisticated graphs and tables.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24424/2021

ECON E-1826
Universal Basic Income

Jane P. Katz, AM

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15697

Description
Decades of stagnant wage growth and increased job insecurity—and worries about the impact of automation on jobs—have focused attention across the political spectrum on policies that provide a basic yearly income guarantee. Most commonly called universal basic income (UBI), these policies typically provide all citizens a guaranteed yearly cash payment, regardless of their work status and level of income. While in the US proposals of this type date at least as far back as Thomas Paine, they have mostly lived on the political margins. But the surprise emergence of 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang and the forced shutdown of economic activity during the COVID-19 pandemic have brought the discussion into the mainstream. This course takes a broad view of UBI and explores both the philosophical and economic issues that arise when formulating and implementing a UBI policy. What goals can be achieved with a UBI and what would constitute a fair policy? What are the pros and cons of offering assistance in the form of cash versus programs that provide specific goods and services? What does past research tell us about the impact of UBI on recipients? Will recipients work and save less, as some fear; or invest in additional education, as others suggest? Would they be more adventurous and entrepreneurial? Better able to care for children and aging parents? How might the specifics of a UBI proposal vary depending on a country’s technology and infrastructure? Students develop a framework for evaluating and comparing several specific existing UBI proposals and propose and argue for their own UBI policy or an alternative. They consider questions such as how much will the program cost and who should pay for it? Should the benefit be the same for everyone, regardless of circumstance? Should it supplement or replace existing programs? Will their proposal reduce poverty and/or income inequality? Is UBI the best way to achieve these goals?

Class Meetings:
2-credit half-term online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Oct. 22, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $940
Graduate credit: $1450
Credits: 2

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. This course meets for a half term, October 19-December 19.

Prerequisites: ECON E-10a or equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15697/2020

ECON E-1920
Capital Markets and Investments

Faris Saah, MS

Founder and Managing Partner, Quansoo Partners

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25654

Description
Students are exposed to the framework of modern portfolio theory and investment analysis with which they can critically evaluate alternatives relating to investing in financial securities and construct portfolios with desired risk/return characteristics. The course examines capital markets and fundamental models used in securities analysis and portfolio management. Topics include financial instruments, the organization of securities markets and trading, modern portfolio theory, asset pricing models, market efficiency, behavioral finance and technical analysis, bond valuation and the management of bond portfolios, valuation of equities, active versus passive investing, the role of derivative securities in investing, and performance evaluation.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: MGMT E-2000, or the equivalent course or experience; a course or courses in quantitative methods such as basic statistics or college algebra.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 80 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25654/2021

ECON E-1920
Capital Markets and Investments

Bruce D. Watson, MA

Master Lecturer in Economics, Boston University and Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14510

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: MGMT E-2000, or the equivalent course or experience; a course or courses in quantitative methods such as basic statistics or college algebra.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14510/2020

ECON E-1925
Emerging Markets: Investment Theories and Practice

Peter Marber, PhD

Chief Investment Officer for Emerging Markets, Aperture Investors and Senior Lecturer on Finance, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16376

Description
Globalization is no longer an academic theory; it is a reality that affects all of our lives. From the foods we eat to the goods we buy, the ubiquity of developing countries from Latin America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and former Soviet Union—those frequently referred to as emerging markets—intensifies daily. Yet beyond the well-documented commercial and cultural impacts of globalization, there are strong but less visible trends toward greater global financial and investment integration. What makes emerging financial markets different from those in the US, Europe, or Japan? What are the benefits of adding these markets to a traditional investment portfolio? How do policies shape these markets? Why invest in certain countries versus others? Within a country, which asset class should we invest in? How do hedge funds approach these markets vs. traditional investors? How has the global credit crisis that began in 2007 altered the trajectories of developing and industrialized countries? From the practical perspective of a US institutional investor, this course is geared to help answer these questions. Students develop greater abilities to analyze global macro trends and country fundamentals, master portfolio construction concepts, and implement practical investment strategies.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of finance and a modest competency with Microsoft Excel and/or a financial calculator. Prior course work or work experience in finance would also be useful.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16376/2020

ECON E-1944
History of Financial Crises 1637-2020

John Komlos, PhD

Professor of Economics, Emeritus, University of Munich

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16396

Description
The goal of this course is to discuss the 383-year-history of financial crisis through the Great Meltdown of 2008 and continuing to the present pandemic catastrophe. We ascertain recurring historical patterns of financial bubbles from tulips to bitcoins without, however, overlooking critical differences. If history repeats itself, why can’t we avoid making the same mistakes repeatedly? The great meltdown happened at a time when most mainstream macroeconomists (including Nobel-Prize-winner Robert Lucas, as well as none other than the former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke) were emphasizing that they had business cycles under control. They, along with most of their colleagues, were dead wrong, because they disregarded the warning signs and used the inadequate economic models to assess the situation. The historical evidence enables us to gain a more thorough understanding of global finance which influences our lives to such a great extent. Our primary aim is not to concentrate on facts, theorems, or numbers, but rather to see the big picture in a multi-disciplinary long-run perspective integrating the knowledge gained from the work of such Nobel-Prize-winning behavioral economists as Robert Shiller, Richard Thaler, and Daniel Kahneman. We also assess our current economic situation, including the fallout from the bailout of Wall Street that failed to pay adequate attention to the problems faced by the everyman on Main Street. The course ends with the analysis of the current economic crisis in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Students gain an understanding of how we arrived at such a dangerous point in the nation’s history.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Saturdays, 10 am-noon
Start Date: Sep. 5, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16396/2020

EDUC E-103
Introduction to Instructional Design

Stacie Cassat Green, MEd

Principal, 64 Crayons

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25190

Description
Behind every good learning tool—be it a website, application, webinar, online course, workshop, or interactive museum exhibit—is the work of an instructional designer. Instructional design is a creative process that uses learning theories and frameworks, project planning, content expertise, communication, writing, and technology to architect experiences for today’s learners. The best instructional designers are agile and adaptable; they can quickly synthesize unfamiliar content, evaluate new technologies, and develop learning solutions that best meet the needs of a diverse audience. In this course, students work together to produce learning experiences using today’s media and technologies. The gap between theory and practice is an issue in many fields. By using a project-based approach, we work to close that gap by learning about instructional design theories and frameworks while developing a series of products; students submit a project every two weeks. This course is helpful for those professionals who work directly or indirectly to support and improve learning in their organizations, or those lifelong learners who want to better understand how to use technology to manage their own learning.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The orientation to the course opens January 11. See course syllabus for details.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 24 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25190/2021

EDUC E-103
Introduction to Instructional Design

Stacie Cassat Green, MEd

Principal, 64 Crayons

Denise M. Snyder, ALM

Director of Learning Technologies and Environments, Union College

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14021

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The orientation to the course opens August 17. See course syllabus for details.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 60 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14021/2020

EDUC E-111
Empowering Adult Online Learning: Exploring Theory and Best Practices

Kimberlee Round, PhD

Program Chair, Instructional Design and Learning Technology, Western Governors University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14804

Description
How do adults learn most effectively online? The online learning environment differs from traditional on-ground approaches and relies heavily on active collaborative techniques to help learners construct knowledge and build community, but why? This course focuses on designing instruction for the unique needs of adult online learners, critically examining related learning theories, instructional design practices, and online teaching strategies. Students examine dynamics that lead to online learning success, developing an appreciation for how adult learning theory informs effective instruction. In addition, as students collaboratively develop online lessons, they utilize design thinking, a framework leveraged by many highly innovative organizations today. In this case, students learn their way into inventive instructional solutions by analyzing adult online learner traits, acquiring interviewing techniques to identify desired learning outcomes, ideating and rapidly creating prototypes, pivoting as brainstorming leads to alternative approaches, and ultimately developing effective learner-centered activities and assessment strategies. Design thinking challenges the designer to develop empathy for stakeholders—in this case, the adult learner. Given a foundation in adult online learning theory, students conduct an empathetic exploration of best practices in designing instruction and online facilitation, comparing and contrasting these approaches, as well as examining quality rubrics published by organizations such as Quality Matters and the Online Learning Consortium. This course is of particular interest to those professionals who contribute to online teaching and learning outcomes in higher education or corporate settings.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 41 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14804/2020

EDUC E-113
Instructional Design Studio

Stacie Cassat Green, MEd

Principal, 64 Crayons

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24800

Description
In this course, students use a design thinking methodology to design and develop an authentic learning product or experience. Each student prepares a product, such as a course or workshop, social learning community, website, or software application. Using rapid prototyping, students present several iterations of their designs to the class, participate in peer critiques, and continually improve their products over the semester. As instructional designers work in a team, each student contributes to, and benefits from, a class consulting bank. They use their skills to help others and to gain currency that they can exchange for help on their own projects. Students also explore additional instructional design frameworks and learning theories to improve fluency and flexible thinking in the field.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 3-5 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: DGMD E-55, EDUC E-103, EDUC E-111, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 23 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24800/2021

EDUC E-115
Adult Learning Theories

Cindy Joyce, MA

Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Pillar Search and Human Resources Consulting

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16407

Description
Learning opportunities for adults are often modeled after our classes in grade school and high school. However, adults learn much differently from children, and their motivation to learn is vastly different as well. This course explores adult learning theory and practice, how to engage the adult learner, and how to provide learning opportunities that both motivate and challenge. Human resources practitioners, leaders, and trainers alike benefit from this course.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Experience in organizational behavior, human resources management, or nonprofit human resources management.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16407/2020

ENGL E-101
Whose English? The Diverse History of the English Language

Daniel Donoghue, PhD

John P. Marquand Professor of English, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16349

Description
From its obscure origins, over its long history, and with today’s global reach, the English language has meant many things to the people who use it. It also prompts many questions. Why is pronunciation at odds with spelling? What happened to “thou”? What did Shakespeare sound like? How do we know? Why the love/hate relationship with grammar scolds? What about the future of English as a world language? Knowing the fascinating backstory of the language will give you more confidence as a writer; it also sharpens your skills as a reader as you see things you never noticed before. A final promise: geeking out will equip you to win countless arguments with friends, roommates, and family.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date:

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course English 101 starting September 4. See syllabus for details.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16349/2020

ENGL E-110A
Arrivals: British Literature from 700 to 1700

Daniel Donoghue, PhD

John P. Marquand Professor of English, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16430

Description
An introduction to major works in English literature from Beowulf up to the eighteenth century, the course explores various ways that new identities are created through the cultural forces that shape poets, genres, and groups. The syllabus is organized around genres or modes rather than chronology, although we always keep historical context in mind. Major works include Beowulf, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Milton’s Paradise Lost, Spenser’s Faerie Queen, and Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave—to name a few. We explore the genres of romance, epic, lyric, and prose fiction, and drama.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date:

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course English 40 starting September 3. See syllabus for details.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16430/2020

ENGL E-159
Reading James Joyce’s Ulysses

Theoharis C. Theoharis, PhD

Associate Scholar, Comparative Literature, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16315

Description
James Joyce’s Ulysses is the most admired novel of the twentieth century in English. In this course, we try to see why that is true by reading the book closely, chapter by chapter, looking at how Joyce made one story on one day in Dublin the universal story of how humane men and women prevail over the violence bent on destroying them. We pay special attention to how Joyce elaborately combined detailed realistic story lines and characters with symbolism, allusion, references, and off-kilter comparisons, such as the book’s title, which names an obscure and peaceful man after a notoriously sly and vindictive one, Ulysses.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16315/2020

ENGL E-163A
North and South: The Plays of Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams

Sue Weaver Schopf, PhD

Distinguished Service Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16460

Description
This course focuses on the plays of Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams—the most important American playwrights of the second half of the twentieth century. Miller has been referred to as America’s Shakespeare and the conscience of the American theater; Williams as the spokesman for the lonely outsider and the explorer of the dark places in the soul. Rooted in the industrial north, Miller’s realistic plays would appear to have little in common with Williams’ expressionistic dramas, which seem thoroughly southern. Yet early in his career, Miller recognized in Williams’ plays the same theatrical goals he sought to achieve and credited A Streetcar Named Desire with licensing the playwright to “speak at full throat.” What kinds of social and psychological truths do these writers explore? How do their plays constitute a critique of post-World War II America with its ambivalent attitudes towards money, success, sexuality, and nonconformity? We explore the similarities and differences between these two great writers and consider their achievement as technical innovators. By reading some of their recorded conversations and published essays, we also learn how Miller and Williams felt about fame, the function of drama in the modern world, the critical reviews they received, the filmed adaptations of their works, and—of course—each other.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: EXPO E-25 or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16460/2020

ENGL E-166
The Twentieth-Century American Novel

Peter Becker, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25903

Description
In this course we read several landmark novels and examples of short fiction. We begin at a time in which many writers left for Europe to leave behind a country they considered provincial while others immigrated to the United States as a refuge. We examine how these continued exchanges across the Atlantic and the experiences of the World Wars and the Holocaust affected and reshaped the rich American novelistic traditions. Proceeding largely in chronological order, the sequence of readings is divided thematically. The readings cluster around the way in which traditional American settings and literary forms interact with and adapt to national and transatlantic historical change. These changes are readily reflected in the novels of immigration, the Lost Generation, and the World Wars, but they also make themselves felt subtly in the way American writers think about the suburb, a direct result of World War II, negotiate the relationship between individualism and the shaping influence of family legacies, and try to grapple with the lasting effects of slavery.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the 2017 course.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25903/2021

ENGL E-182A
Poetry in America: From the Mayflower through Emerson

Elisa New, PhD

Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, Harvard University

Gillian Osborne, PhD

Senior Curriculum Specialist, Poetry in America

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15383

Description
This course covers American poetry in cultural context through the year 1850. The course begins with Puritan poets, some orthodox, some rebel spirits, who wrote and lived in early New England. Focusing on Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, and Michael Wigglesworth, among others, we explore the interplay between mortal and immortal, Europe and wilderness, solitude and sociality in English North America. The second part of the course spans the poetry of America’s early years, directly before and after the creation of the Republic. We examine the creation of a national identity through the lens of an emerging national literature, focusing on such poets as Phillis Wheatley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allen Poe, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, among others. Distinguished guest discussants include writer Michael Pollan, economist Larry Summers, Vice President Al Gore, Mayor Tom Menino, and others.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1000
Undergraduate credit: $1000
Graduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course is offered in partnership with the Poetry in America (PiA) initiative. Teachers may apply for Poetry in America scholarships.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15383/2020

ENGL E-182H
Poetry in America: Whitman and Dickinson

Elisa New, PhD

Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, Harvard University

Jesse Benjamin Raber, PhD

Visiting Lecturer on English, University of Illinois at Chicago

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16375

Description
This course focuses on the poetry of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, two influential and iconic American poets of the nineteenth century. First, we encounter Walt Whitman, a quintessentially American writer whose work continues to bear heavily upon the American poetic tradition. We explore Whitman’s relationship to the city, the self, and the body through his life and poetry. Then, we turn to Emily Dickinson, one of America’s most distinctive and prolific poets. While Dickinson wrote nearly 2,000 poems during her lifetime, she chose never to publish, opting instead to revisit and revise her works throughout her lifetime. Keeping this dynamic of self-revision in mind, we consider a number of Dickinson’s poems concerned with nature, art, the self, and darkness. We travel to the Dickinson Collection at Harvard’s Houghton Library, and to Amherst, Massachusetts, paying a visit to the house in which the poet lived and wrote until her death in 1886.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1000
Undergraduate credit: $1000
Graduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course is offered in partnership with the Poetry in America initiative. Teachers may apply for Poetry in America scholarships.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16375/2020

ENGL E-182M
Poetry in America: From the Civil War through Modernism

Elisa New, PhD

Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, Harvard University

Jesse Benjamin Raber, PhD

Visiting Lecturer on English, University of Illinois at Chicago

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25016

Description
This course spans a critical era in American literature, beginning with antebellum and Civil War poetry, entering the twentieth century, and traversing the transformative modernist era. This course begins with the poetry of the American Civil War and the series of major events and social movements that followed it including Reconstruction, the Jim Crow Era, and Manifest Destiny. Encountering such poets as Herman Melville, Julia Ward Howe, Walt Whitman, Edward Arlington Robinson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, Francis Ellen Watkins Harper, Emma Lazarus, and W.E.B. DuBois, we examine the language of patriotism, pride, violence, loss, and memory inspired by the nation’s greatest conflict. As we enter the twentieth century, we encounter modernism, a movement that spanned the decades from the 1910s to the mid-1940s, and whose poetry marked a clear break from past traditions and past forms. We read such poets as Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Langston Hughes, William Carlos Williams, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Claude McKay, Dorothy Parker, and Wallace Stevens. We study how these poets employed the language of rejection and revolution, of making and remaking, of artistic appropriation and cultural emancipation. Traveling to the homes and workplaces of Robert Frost and Wallace Stevens; to the Poetry Foundation in Chicago, where the institution of American modernism was born; and even exploring the River Thames in the London of Eliot’s The Waste Land, we see the sites that witnessed and cultivated the rise of American modernism.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1000
Undergraduate credit: $1000
Graduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course is offered in partnership with the Poetry in America (PiA) initiative. Teachers may apply for Poetry in America scholarships.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25016/2021

ENGL E-183A
Seeing Nature: American Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century

Collier Brown, PhD

Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16410

Description
In American literature, nature has been a point of ideological dispute: a frontier to be protected and subdued, a wilderness to be cultivated and feared. For every hopeful Johnny Appleseed, there’s been a Young Goodman Brown, losing his faith to the forest’s demonic orgies. In this course, we study the origins of American literature’s contentious relationship to nature. We survey Puritan homilies, naturalist field writings, slave narratives, transcendental philosophies, Native American lore, romantic reveries, realist fictions, and early modern American anxieties about nature. Along the way, we encounter works by Jonathan Edwards, William Bartram, Susan Fenimore Cooper, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Black Elk, Frederick Douglass, Rebecca Harding Davis, Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, Willa Cather, Jean Toomer, Jack London, and others.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 26 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16410/2020

ENGL E-183B
Modern Environmental Nonfiction

Collier Brown, PhD

Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25983

Description
In this course, students survey important American contributions to twentieth- and twenty-first-century American environmental nonfiction. From the founding of the National Park Service (1916) to the first Earth Day (1970) and onward to America’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement in 2017, we consider the diverse ways in which modern Americans have grappled with environmental issues. Our readings include writers like Mary Austin, Aldo Leopold, Annie Dillard, Wendell Berry, Leslie Marmon Silko, Rebecca Solnit, and Lauret Savoy.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25983/2021

ENGL E-184
The Graphic Novel

Emmy Waldman, PhD

Visiting Fellow, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26041

Description
This course examines the word-and-image form of comics as a powerful and sophisticated story-telling medium. Focusing on the American tradition, we consider the transmigrations of this medium from the newspaper funny pages to the center of a censorship craze that swept the nation in the 1950s; and chart how comics went underground, simmering over in transgressive, taboo-breaking publications, before (re)emerging into the mainstream with new cultural cachet and expanded horizons. Now in our own day, this low cultural form which was once either neglected or denigrated can be found winking from best-seller lists and college syllabi. Comics have become an acclaimed medium of autobiographical narratives that take up the subjects of mental health and trauma, as well as organs of activism, education, and protest. In this course, we become conversant with the basic visual vocabulary and grammar of comics and explore the adjacencies between comics and such neighboring forms as prose, poetry, visual art, film, and architecture. We ask, what do comics do that other forms will not or cannot? Canvassing comics history from foundational works to contemporary new directions, including the movements of graphic reportage and graphic medicine, we read criticism by comics scholars and the cartoonists themselves. We also explore making our own comics.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26041/2021

ENGL E-207
The Culture of Capitalism

Martin Puchner, PhD

Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16442

Description
The course asks how cultural products, including literature, theater, and film have captured the spirit of capitalism—fueling its fantasies, contemplating its effects, and chronicling its crises. More than just an economic system, capitalism created new habits of life and mind as well as new values, forged and distilled by new forms of art. Core readings by Franklin, O’Neill, Rand, Miller, and Mamet and background readings by Smith, Marx, Taylor, Weber, Keynes, and Schumpeter.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the 2013 Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course Culture and Belief 56.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16442/2020

ENGL E-213
The Scientist Meets the Monster: From Frankenstein to Einstein

Sue Weaver Schopf, PhD

Distinguished Service Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

January session | CRN 26050

Description
When does science go too far? What are (or should be) its limitations? The scientist in literature is often represented as mad because of his willingness to go to any length to advance the cause of science—and never more so than when experiments have unintended consequences or escape the scientist’s control. This fear of science and the scientist becomes a serious literary preoccupation during the nineteenth century, when experiments in electricity, reanimation, chemistry, surgery, vivisection, the use of new technologies, and the implications of Darwinism were being widely discussed and their morality questioned. With the birth of the nuclear age in the twentieth century, public anxiety about science and its uses only intensified. This course examines five works that dramatize the dilemma of the scientist when confronting the monstrosities he creates or those over which science appears to be powerless: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), H. G. Wells’ The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), and C. P. Snow’s The New Men (1954). We investigate the medical and scientific backgrounds of these works, the controversies they precipitated, and the authors’ unusual storytelling techniques. On some occasions, we may consider the filmed versions of these works and how they have contributed to the image of the scientist in the popular imagination.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays-Thursdays, 2-5 pm
Start Date: Jan. 4, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Final papers due Monday, February 8.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26050/2021

ENGL E-221
Asian American Literature: Asian American Action

Patricia Chu, PhD

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25931

Description
This interdisciplinary course examines Asian American literature alongside political and historical readings about how Asian Americans have taken action as artists, activists, workers, politicians, and criminals. We consider issues including gender and sexuality, immigration history/the American Dream, ethnic and class conflicts within Asian America, the problem of authenticity, the effects of America’s wars in Asia, the particular stereotypes associated with Asian Americans, and Asian American positions in relation to other American minorities.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25931/2021

ENGL E-243
The American Road Narrative

David J. Alworth, PhD

Visiting Professor of English, Stony Brook University, and Research Associate, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School and Associate, English, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26052

Description
This course examines the American road narrative, beginning with Jack Kerouac’s On the Road (1957) and extending to Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive (2019). Pairing key literary texts with reviews, essays, scholarship, journalism, and other media, we consider how the road narrative engages with historical circumstances and with social, ethical, and political themes. Students have the option to complete a creative final project, for example, an original road narrative or film adaptation of a novel.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26052/2021

ENGL E-244
Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man in Cultural Context

Alex Corey, PhD

Lecturer on History and Literature, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26027

Description
In this course, we closely read Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man in its historical, literary, and cultural contexts. Published in 1952, Invisible Man is one of the most influential novels of the twentieth century and a crucial contribution to the African American—and thus, the American—literary tradition. It is densely packed with references to American and European literature, traditions of African American music making and storytelling, and the political climate of the United States at the midcentury. By the end of the semester, students understand how Invisible Man engages with and departs from these contexts, gaining a deep appreciation of how novels generate meaning in the process. Along with Invisible Man, reading and listening may include other works by Ellison, James Baldwin, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Louis Armstrong, T.S. Eliot, W.E.B. Du Bois, Richard Wright, Lionel Trilling, Antonin Dvorak, Mahalia Jackson, and Zora Neale Hurston, along with a selection of contemporary scholarship on Invisible Man.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 19 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26027/2021

ENGL E-248
Race, Gender, and Sexuality in American Popular Music

Alex Corey, PhD

Lecturer on History and Literature, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15868

Description
This course examines the relationship between popular music and the relations of power that organize life in the United States. Attending to a range of music from the past 50 years, we explore how music responds to and influences understandings of social difference. Musicians we study may include Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke, Johnny Cash, Janelle Monáe, Madonna, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, Prince, and Hole. We also read a wide array of scholarship in the fields of pop music studies, African American studies, gender and sexuality studies, and American cultural studies. The following questions guide our inquiry: how do lyrics interact with music’s sonic qualities to tell stories in sound? How does pop music raise questions about identity, power, and storytelling? How might pop music communicate social protest and enact social change? How does the music industry’s structure shape the public’s interaction with pop music?

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 19 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15868/2020

ENGL E-254
American Modernism

David J. Alworth, PhD

Visiting Professor of English, Stony Brook University, and Research Associate, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School and Associate, English, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16312

Description
This introductory-level college course examines the literature and culture of American modernism (1880s-1920s). Emphasizing the genre of the novel, we attend to major works by Henry James, Gertrude Stein, T. S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Jean Toomer. Lectures explore the dynamic relationship between literature and history—including the history of visual art, technology, media, politics, and ideas. Special attention is given to the relationship between innovative literary practices and themes such as migration, urban versus rural experience, war and its aftermath, work and leisure, the rise of consumer capitalism, vision and visuality, and the shifting pressures of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and class during the modern era. Students who complete this course gain a broad knowledge of American modernism, and attain the fundamental skills necessary to succeed in college-level courses in literature, culture, arts, and humanities. While lectures guide the readings, assignments help students refine their abilities in critical thinking, close reading, and analytical writing.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 2-4 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16312/2020

ENGL E-256
The Contemporary Comic Novel

Theoharis C. Theoharis, PhD

Associate Scholar, Comparative Literature, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25927

Description
Sanctioned scorn, absurdity, glee, happy endings, success of dubious ventures, new results from old causes—these are some of the pleasures comedy offers. The novels in this course—A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, White Noise by Don DeLillo, On Beauty by Zadie Smith, and Swamplandia! by Karen Russell, offer all these abundantly, as well as breaches of decorum and extravagant situations, not to mention wit. We look into how these novels play with some important norms that traditionally safeguard the moral value of fiction—plausible action and likeable characters chiefly—to discover how comedy illicitly makes wrong things right, in a way readers approve of and admire.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25927/2021

ENGL E-300
Poetry in America for Teachers: The City from Whitman to Hip Hop

Elisa New, PhD

Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, Harvard University

Jesse Benjamin Raber, PhD

Visiting Lecturer on English, University of Illinois at Chicago

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26075

Description
In this course, we consider those American poets whose themes, forms, and voices have given expression to visions of the city since 1850. Beginning with Walt Whitman, the great poet of nineteenth-century New York, we explore the diverse and ever-changing environment of the modern city—from Chicago to London, from San Francisco to Detroit—through the eyes of such poets as Carl Sandburg, Emma Lazarus, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes, Marianne Moore, Frank O’Hara, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Hayden, and Robert Pinsky, as well as contemporary hip hop and spoken word artists. This course introduces content and techniques intended to help students and educators learn how to read texts of increasing complexity. Readings and activities were chosen and designed with the Common Core English Language Arts (ELA) standards in grades six through 12 in mind. Enrollment is not limited to teachers. Students with an interest in education, or with the poets and poems covered in this course, are welcome to enroll.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1000
Undergraduate credit: $1000
Graduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course is offered in partnership with the Poetry in America (PiA) initiative. The course is also offered in partnership with the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). Teachers enrolled for noncredit who are interested in professional development can earn certificates of participation for 90 professional development hours from HGSE’s Professional Education. Teachers may apply for Poetry in America scholarships.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26075/2021

ENGL E-305
Poetry in America for Teachers: Earth, Sea, Sky

Elisa New, PhD

Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, Harvard University

Gillian Osborne, PhD

Senior Curriculum Specialist, Poetry in America

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25479

Description
This course is designed specifically for secondary school educators interested in deepening their expertise as readers and teachers of literature. In the course, we consider the evolving relationship of American poets to the environment from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Emily Dickinson, whose poems on the landscape of rural Massachusetts from the 1850s to 1880s drew from the science and the incipient environmental movements of that century, is a touchstone for the course. But her sparse lyrics are only one of the poetic technologies of looking at, caring for, and mourning the destruction of, the natural world that we explore together: from haiku, to African American poems of exploitative agrarianism and fantastical gardening, to poems that expand the scope of nature from the vast and inhuman to the birdcalls echoing in urban backyards. Through field trips, classroom visits, and conversations with ecologists, scientists, gardeners, farmers and other guest interpreters, this course familiarizes students with a variety of canonical and contemporary American poets: Robert Frost, Jean Toomer, Lorine Niedecker, Gary Snyder, A.R. Ammons, Robinson Jeffers, Juliana Spahr, Ross Gay, and more.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1000
Undergraduate credit: $1000
Graduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25479/2021

ENGL E-597
Focused Study on English Literature in a Critical Context

Peter Becker, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15775

Description
Students learn to develop well-supported arguments of their own about literary texts and to set their arguments into the context of what other critics have written. The course introduces debates about the history of the discipline, the canon, genre, and the roles of race, ethnicity, and gender. Students read a group of related texts by different authors and critical essays analyzing these texts from a variety of theoretical approaches. We engage with these theoretical and critical debates by focusing on fiction written in response to the historical events of slavery and the Holocaust and their lasting impact on subsequent generations: how can writers represent what may be considered unspeakable? Written from the 1980s on, the historical fiction we examine in this course rejects earlier forms of the historical novel and self-consciously addresses the creative and aesthetic aspects of storytelling: how do we arrive at knowledge about the past? What is the role of memory? What is trauma? And how does it affect the subsequent generations? What is the role of visual representations such as drawings and photography in fiction? By engaging with these texts and the debates surrounding them, students also examine hallmark features of realist, modernist, and postmodern fiction. Authors include Cynthia Ozick, Toni Morrison, W.G. Sebald, Jonathan Safran Foer, Edward Jones, and Junot Díaz. By the end of the course, students have produced an essay that takes the form of a journal article. While this course is open to all students who have met the prerequisite it is mandatory for candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, English capstone track, who wish to register for ENGL E-599 in the 2021 spring term. Enrollment in ENGL E-599 requires that all other degree requirements are complete, except for the capstone.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: B or higher grade in HUMA E-100.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15775/2020

ENGL E-599
English Literature in a Critical Context Capstone

Peter Becker, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25383

Description
In this course, students learn to develop well-supported arguments about a topic of their choosing and to place them into the context of what other critics have written. Students produce an essay in the form of a journal article with the guidance of their instructor and classmates. The course is devoted to researching primary and secondary sources and completing intermediate steps such as writing a research proposal, compiling an annotated bibliography, presenting the research, and completing a draft and a polished research paper. The course is divided into four stages. In the beginning, students have to deepen their knowledge of their topic of interest, examining scholarly articles in the field of literature. They practice orienting themselves in academic scholarship by learning how to identify scholarly arguments in monographs and articles of their interest, using book reviews, and navigating Harvard’s online library system. In the second part of the course, students move from a broadly defined topic of interest to a specific research question. They identify the major scholarship and determine the primary source(s) relevant to their research question. This second part culminates in the submission and presentation of a research proposal and an annotated bibliography. The third part is devoted to textual analysis of the primary sources and developing the argument, leading to the completion of a full draft of the research essay. During the final stage of the semester students read each other’s drafts and subsequently revise their own by integrating critical comments provided by their instructor and classmates.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Students must be degree candidates in the Master of Liberals Arts, English capstone track who are in good academic standing and have completed all other degree requirements, except for the capstone, including earning a B– or higher grade in ENGL E-597 in the 2020 fall term. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25383/2021

ENSC E-110
Applied Design Thinking for Scientists and Engineers

Anas Chalah, PhD

Assistant Dean for Teaching and Learning, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

January session | CRN 25995

Description
Design thinking is widely considered to be an essential skill for twenty-first century leaders and innovative thinkers. Engineering programs should graduate engineers who can design effectively to meet social and environmental needs. However, the role and perception of design across a wide range of educational disciplines has improved markedly in recent years. One of the defining characteristics of design thinking is that there is rarely a single correct answer to a complex problem. Design thinking is an iterative and interdisciplinary collaborative process toward crafting acceptable solutions. This course enables students to exercise and practice different thinking styles, including divergent, convergent, critical, analytical, and integrative. It guides students through the different steps of the design thinking process, starting with empathy, into problem definition, ideation, prototyping, building, measurement, and analysis. On the technical side, this course focuses on teaching systems and system controls to emphasize the importance of interdisciplinary collaborations in solving complex challenges. As some students want to bring forward their innovative ideas to the commercialization stage, the course aims to support their aspirations by including aspects of innovation and entrepreneurship in some of the course’s hands-on projects.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays-Thursdays, 6-9 pm
Start Date: Jan. 4, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 60 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25995/2021

ENSC E-123
Laboratory Electronics: Digital Circuit Design

Oliver Saunders Wilder, PhD

Research Affiliate, MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25768

Description
This course covers digital design, emphasizing microprocessors and microcontrollers as well as programmable logic devices, and provides an understanding of the fundamentals of computer circuitry. After examining analog-digital interfacing issues, students build a microcomputer from the chip level. They apply this computer first to assigned tasks and later to individual projects. The student’s microcomputer is based on an 8051-derivative microcontroller, chosen because it allows an easy transition, after the course is completed, from the course’s pedagogically-useful transparent design (using external buses and memory) to practical single-chip implementations. Each meeting includes a laboratory session.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:50-7:50 pm

Required laboratory sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: High school algebra and some familiarity with analog electronics.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 22 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25768/2021

ENSC E-132
Tissue Engineering for Clinical Applications

Sujata K. Bhatia, PhD, MD

Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25367

Description
Tissue engineering is now recognized as a way to lessen the global disease burden: novel methods for pancreatic islet regeneration can address diabetes; autologous cells for heart muscle regeneration can address coronary artery disease; and nerve regeneration technologies can be used to treat stroke. This course describes strategies of tissue engineering, and focuses on the diseases tissue engineering can address. Each lecture identifies a specific disease (coronary artery disease, stroke, diabetes) and describes tissue-engineered scaffolds that can alleviate the disease. Students learn the underlying pathology of the disease, understand the latest advances in tissue engineering for treating the disease, and discuss prospective research areas for novel biomaterials to modify the disease process. In addition, students gain an appreciation of clinical trials of tissue-engineered scaffolds, as well as commercialization of tissue engineering.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Introductory biology and chemistry.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25367/2021

ENSC E-150
Introduction to Nanobiotechnology: Concepts and Applications

Anas Chalah, PhD

Assistant Dean for Teaching and Learning, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 12806

Description
Nanobiotechnology is a new frontier for biology with important applications in medicine. It bridges areas in physics, chemistry, and biology and is a testament to the new areas of interdisciplinary science that are becoming dominant in the twenty-first century. This course provides perspective for students and researchers who are interested in nanoscale physical and biological systems and their applications in medicine. It introduces concepts in nanomaterials and their use with biocomponents to synthesize and address larger systems. Applications include systems for visualization, labeling, drug delivery, and cancer research. Technological impact of nanoscale systems, synthesis, and characterizations of nanoscale materials are discussed.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Introductory courses in chemistry, physics, and biology; an introductory course in nanoscale science would be helpful.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-12806/2020

ENSC E-165
Engineering of Nanostructures for Targeted Drug Delivery

Anas Chalah, PhD

Assistant Dean for Teaching and Learning, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 23245

Description
This course describes the emerging role of nanostructures in drug development activities. It covers the most current nanotechniques applied by the pharmaceutical industry to engineer shuttling mechanisms for delivering previously failed drug molecules. Throughout the course, students learn the basic principles of drug likeness, the rule of five for drug design, and the effect of these principles on excluding a wide range of chemical structures. The course focuses on methods of nanostructures’ surface functionalization, immobilization, engineering of stealth nanovehicles for cellular delivery, as well as the use of quantum dots for nuclear and cytoplasmic visualization. Examples of FDA-approved nanodrugs in addition to nanoformulations at the pre-clinical and clinical stages are discussed.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Basic background in chemistry, biochemistry, and biology highly recommended.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-23245/2021

ENVR E-101
Introduction to Sustainability and Environmental Management

Thomas P. Gloria, PhD

Director, Sustainability, Harvard Extension School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 11925

Description
This course surveys the scientific principles of sustainability and environmental management practices, with attention to system dynamics perspectives; sustainability—concerns, definitions, and indicators; quality of life—values and worldview; knowledge and models; ecological systems; human populations and behavior; energy fundamentals; agro-food systems; renewable resources; nonrenewable resources; and transitions to a sustainable economy. This course is an introduction to the very broad fields of sustainability and environmental management, and is fundamentally transdisciplinary. Foundational principles of sustainability are covered along with emerging topics of human health, air and water pollution, water resources, eco-system health, energy and climate change, social justice, biodiversity, and regulatory strategies for risk assessment and environmental management.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions on demand. The recorded sessions are available within 24 hours of the lecture.

Prerequisites: High school biology and chemistry.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-11925/2020

ENVR E-101
Introduction to Sustainability and Environmental Management

Thomas P. Gloria, PhD

Director, Sustainability, Harvard Extension School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25505

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: High school biology and chemistry.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25505/2021

ENVR E-102
Design of Renewable Energy Projects

Ramon Sanchez, ScD

Research Associate, Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 21783

Description
This course helps develop the skills to design, fund, and implement renewable energy projects in the United States and around the world. It is aimed at anyone who would like to understand the relationship between energy and the environment, but is particularly helpful for energy developers and current or future professionals in the practice of renewable energy. Students learn the basics of how to design photovoltaic, wind, biomass, geothermal, small-hydro, waste water to energy, solid waste to energy, and other large scale sustainable energy operations. Students also learn about the best global practices for engaging rural and indigenous communities in renewable energy projects while maximizing economic development and social equity. They learn how to deal with other important issues like negotiating land rights for renewable energy projects, how to encourage public utilities and private corporations to sign long-term agreements for purchasing renewable energies, how to prepare project proposals for international financial institutions and private investors who fund these projects, how to estimate the basic health and environmental benefits derived from proposed renewable energy projects, how to monetize health effects of renewable energy projects, and how to quantify the social benefits of such projects in the community.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 7:40-9:40 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: High school math and science.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-21783/2021

ENVR E-103
The Challenge of Human Induced Climate Change: Transitioning to a Post Fossil Fuel Future

Michael B. McElroy, PhD

Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies, Harvard University

Shaojie Song, PhD

Research Associate in Environmental Science and Engineering, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25709

Description
Human induced climate change has the potential to alter the function of natural ecosystems and the lives of people on a global scale. The prospect lies not in the distant future but is imminent. Our choice is either to act immediately to change the nature of our global energy system (abandon our dependence on fossil fuels) or accept the consequences (included among which are increased incidence of violent storms, fires, floods and droughts, changes in the spatial distribution and properties of critical ecosystems, and rising sea levels). The course is designed to provide students with an understanding of relevant physical, technical and social factors including a historical perspective. In the latter half of the course, we engage students in an interactive dialogue on possible responses recognizing explicitly differences in motivations for different constituencies—for developed as distinct from developing economies, for example. We plan to explore options for a zero carbon future energy system including the challenges involved in implementing the necessary transition. If we fail to abandon our dependence on fossil fuels—and the time scale over which we must do so to realize even the minimal objectives outlined in the recent Paris climate accord is as brief as a couple of decades or even less—might we need to explore possibilities for geoengineering, for purposeful intervention in the global climate system? Arguments for and against such options are discussed and debated. We expect students to be actively involved in exploring, researching and debating responses to any and all of these interrelated issues.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date:

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course Gen Ed 1137. This course follows the Harvard College spring calendar and will meet during the Extension School spring break, March 14-20. See the syllabus for specific meeting dates.

Prerequisites: High school algebra and trigonometry.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25709/2021

ENVR E-103A
The Law and Policy of Climate Change: Influencing Decision Makers

Aladdine Dory Joroff, JD

Lecturer on Law, Staff Attorney and Senior Clinical Instructor, Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic, Harvard Law School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25789

Description
Empirical data demonstrate that the climate is changing and that these changes could produce increasingly serious consequences over the course of this century. This course explores the legal framework in which adaptation actions occur and the policy tools available to regulators. We explore several climate change adaptation measures in-depth to provide a window into the relationship between legal and policy strategies at the federal, state, and municipal levels, including how these relationships create opportunities and obstacles to climate change adaptation. Students strategize how to develop and implement legally defensible adaptation measures that are supported by stakeholders, including drafting implementation and supporting documents. The course begins with a brief introduction to climate change and its projected impacts, and then reviews the legal framework of climate change law, including the evolution of climate change related laws in the United States and related litigation. This analysis focuses on the federal level, but also considers the separate authority of states and municipalities to take action. Massachusetts and Cambridge are the primary case studies for the course. Substantive issues that are addressed include administrative law and the relationship between congressional statutes and agency regulations; the structure of the federal Clean Air Act and history of air regulation in the United States; federalism, particularly the relationship between federal, state, and municipal governments in regulating air pollution; and the judicial review processes. The course applies this legal framework to an in-depth review of specific climate change adaptation issues, such as strategies for managing development in flood-prone areas. In this context, the course examines a range of legal and policy tools. At the federal level, for instance, we consider the implications of federal maps that designate flood risk areas without considering projected impacts of climate change and incentives created by federally-subsidized flood insurance. The course then considers strategies for improving regulation and removing obstacles to adaptation measures, including through state and local actions, such as revised building codes and zoning laws. We review the process that municipalities often follow in climate change adaptation planning, with a focus on the technical and legal challenges that communities need help addressing. Through this analysis students learn about substantive legal issues, such as preemption and takings law, procedural aspects of rulemakings, and opportunities for public involvement in policy and regulatory development. In addition to learning about the substantive legal issues covered in the course, students develop or practice legal research skills associated with researching statutes and regulations and interpreting judicial decisions. Students also gain experience with activities relevant to designing and implementing adaptation strategies by writing comments on regulations, drafting statutory or regulatory language, and writing corporate climate change statements.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Enrollment limit: Limited to 60 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25789/2021

ENVR E-104
Confronting Climate Change

Daniel Schrag, PhD

Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology and Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, Harvard University

Thomas Andrew Laakso, PhD

Research Associate, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16388

Description
This course considers the challenge of climate change and what to do about it. Students are introduced to the basic science of climate change, including the radiation budget of the Earth, the carbon cycle, and the physics and chemistry of the oceans and atmosphere. We look at reconstructions of climate change through Earth history to provide a context for thinking about present and future changes. We take a critical look at climate models used to predict climate change in the future and discuss their strengths and weaknesses, evaluating which forecasts of climate change impacts are robust, and which are more speculative. We spend particular time discussing sea level rise and extreme weather (including hurricanes, heat waves, and floods). We look at the complex interactions between climate and human society, including climate impacts on agriculture and the relationship between climate change, migration, and conflict. We also discuss strategies for adapting to climate change impacts and the implications of those strategies for sub-national and international equity. The second half of the course considers what to do about climate change. First, we review the recent history of greenhouse gas emissions, as well as various national and international efforts to limit them in the future. We discuss reducing carbon emissions using forestry, agriculture, and land use, and then focus on how to transform the world’s energy system to eliminate CO2 emissions. We conclude by examining different strategies for accelerating changes in our energy systems to limit greenhouse gas emissions. The course emphasizes the scientific and technological aspects of climate change (including the clean energy transition), but in the context of current issues in public policy, business, design, and public health.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions on demand. The recorded sessions are available within 24 hours of the lecture. The short videos are the same as those used in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course Gen Ed 1094.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16388/2020

ENVR E-105
Fundamentals of Organizational Sustainability

Robert B. Pojasek, PhD

Managing Partner, Pojasek and Associates

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 21808

Description
An organization’s sustainability fundamentals are presented in the form of an open source international high-level structure. Instead of stand-alone activities by the sustainability group, environmental stewardship, social well-being, and shared value with external stakeholders, all of the activities are integrated into a plan-do-check-act (PDCA) management structure that makes sustainability part of what every employee and manager does every day. Students create a virtual organization to develop a new topic each week in this course.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-21808/2021

ENVR E-110
Sustainable Ocean Environments

George D. Buckley, MS

Consultant

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 21784

Description
This course explores the diversity of marine life and habitats in the world’s oceans, investigating human impacts upon them. The course examines sustainable management practices and the role of governments, regulations, and citizen science. Topics include the ecology and management of bays, salt marshes and mangroves, seaweeds, coastal habitats, coral reefs, deep seas, marine fisheries and aquaculture, marine biodeterioration, blue technology, coastal resilience, and the impacts of development, pollution, and tourism.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 7:40-9:40 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: High school biology.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-21784/2021

ENVR E-116
The Carbon Economy: Calculating, Managing, and Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Richard Goode, MBA

Managing Director, Ernst and Young

Marlon Robert Banta, ALM

Senior Manager of Product Definition, DS SolidWorks Corporation

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 23508

Description
The global economy is undergoing a fundamental transformation to low-carbon technologies from electric vehicles becoming mainstream and large-scale solar, wind, and even battery installations. Many countries and companies understand that this fourth industrial revolution will change everything, and face risks as well as opportunities. Some countries are establishing policies that decarbonize their economy to avoid the worst effects of a 2 degrees Celsius rise in temperatures. Organizations should start to develop and implement a 2 degrees Celsius strategy by clearly understanding their exposure to climate-related risks and identifying best practices for adapting to new carbon regulation, along with transforming their businesses by deploying sustainable energy practices. Understanding greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, including how to calculate them and the importance of reporting them publicly, is vital to understanding how to identify sources of emission and how to reduce them. This course teaches students how to measure, report, and reduce GHG emissions with an eye toward understanding the roles that energy choices and usage play in reducing emissions.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:50-7:50 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 75 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-23508/2021

ENVR E-116A
Measuring and Mitigating Indirect Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Michael Macrae, PhD

Energy Analytics Manager, Campus Services, Harvard University

Richard Goode, MBA

Managing Director, Ernst and Young

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16165

Description
This course allows students to investigate the best approaches to measuring and mitigating indirect greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. These emissions include all indirect GHG emissions that occur in a value chain, and therefore outside the direct control of a typical organization. Supply chain emissions frequently are the largest overall source of an organization’s GHG emissions, and are becoming an increasingly relevant topic as more and more companies outsource manufacturing, logistics, and other key functions to third parties. Waste, water use, and greenhouse gas emissions are still incurred in bringing products and services to consumers, but they are often not fully accounted for. Proper accounting for these emissions that are known contributors to climate change is coming under increasing scrutiny. Students investigate how to gather data from disparate sources, how to calculate or estimate emissions, and how the procurement of supplies, services, and travel can be managed to mitigate or even reduce indirect emissions. The course also investigates indirect emissions reduction efforts that are underway at several leading Fortune 500 companies as well as universities, municipalities, and government agencies.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: ENVR E-116 is encouraged but not necessary.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16165/2020

ENVR E-117
Sustainability Leadership for the Twenty-First Century

Leith Sharp, MEd

Director, Executive Education for Sustainability Leadership, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

John D. Spengler, PhD

Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 13543

Description
This course is designed to empower and prepare anyone who is willing to join in the collective effort to steer our society toward a just and sustainable future for all. It aims to inspire and enable students to lead effective change toward achieving sustainability, as defined by the UN Sustainability Development Goals, in a variety of organizational contexts (education, business, government, nonprofit, church, and community). The course explores what change leadership for sustainability is, guiding students to advance related capabilities, competencies, and strategies. The personal, social, organizational, and infrastructural dimensions of change leadership for sustainability are all addressed. Interdependencies between finance, politics, relationships, cognitive processes, capacity building, and technology are discussed. Woven into this journey of heart and mind are key insights from a range of sustainability change agent case stories: biomimicry, indigenous ways of knowing, corporate CEO leadership research, and selected course readings, as well as, and perhaps most importantly, the felt experience of the students themselves. Students leave the course with a deeper experiential knowledge of change. In a world lacking adequate political, judicial, and media leadership, we can and must take leadership where we work and live, transforming our organizations, fueling change at all levels of society.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:40-9:40 pm

Required sections Wednesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-13543/2020

ENVR E-118
Environmental Management of International Tourism Development

Megan Epler Wood, MS

Director, International Sustainable Tourism Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16112

Description
This course lays out the significance of the international tourism industry, which represents approximately 10.4 percent of the global economy. It provides students with an understanding of how the tourism business operates, primarily focusing on mainstream tourism, its supply chains, and how each sector of the business approaches environmental management. The course looks at the growth of tourism as an industry, how digital sales and marketing are transforming the sector, and its part in the rapid globalization of world economies. It discusses the industry’s particular impacts on emerging economies, its role in employment generation and economic development, and the current status of the global dialog on green tourism growth. Speakers from business and government reflect on the management of sustainability for tourism. Students learn how the industry is presently managing air, energy, water, waste water, solid waste, sprawl, and ecosystem impacts, and how new systems for environmental management can be deployed at the business and destination level. Each week a different sector of the industry is covered, including hotels, tour operators, air carriers, airports, and transport. Special attention is given to the impacts of climate change on the tourism industry, as well as on issues of carbon management of the different sectors of the industry. A set of environmental and carbon assessment tools and methodologies is presented. Students learn how governments presently manage tourism, discuss how governance is changing, and review prospects for further reform and consider innovative new systems for management of growth. Lectures address COVID-19 impacts on sectors of the industry and the destinations covered. In addition, the course provides an overview of the pandemic’s effects on the economic, social, and environmental conditions being faced by tourism-related businesses, government authorities, and local society in key destinations worldwide.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16112/2020

ENVR E-118B
Sustainable Tourism, Regional Planning, and Geodesign

Megan Epler Wood, MS

Director, International Sustainable Tourism Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Stephen M. Ervin, PhD

Lecturer on Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Vicente Javier Moles Moles, PhD

Advisor to the International Sustainable Tourism Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25068

Description
This course introduces the basic principles of tourism master planning, enabling students to learn how communities, governments, business, and civil society can take a more inclusive and sustainable approach to planning tourism destinations worldwide. Students learn to present quantitative and qualitative economic, sociocultural, and environmental data to determine the best management of vital natural and social resources, and to build scenarios that include the impacts of climate change, including approaches to mitigation and adaptation, over the next 20-30 years. A live interactive session is held using interactive geodesign methods to address key decisions in the process of design for tourism growth. Students participate in applying digital tools and analyses to a specific case. Each student generates scenarios and learns how to manage these scenarios through new approaches to governance.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm, or on demand.

This course includes a mandatory online meeting to be held via web conference on Saturday, April 10 from 9:30 am to 3 pm. Students must be present for the entire meeting. Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Basic familiarity with spreadsheet software required. Course work in GIS from such organizations as ESRI or ISMT E-150 would enhance the course experience. However, the course is designed for all levels, and allows students to move through the course according to their own capacity. Individuals who are working on tourism planning are encouraged to bring their existing planning documents to the course for review.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25068/2021

ENVR E-119
Green Buildings, Urban Resilience, and Sustainability in Communities

Grey Lee, MPA

Manager, Corporate Sponsorship, International Living Future Institute

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16111

Description
How can real estate and buildings be used to address climate risk and other challenges to our communities? The greening of buildings has grown exponentially over the past decade, but is it enough to sustain our communities in the dynamic times ahead? Can urban resilience be implemented fast enough to prevent widespread disruptions caused by climate change? The built environment of our communities creates energy and material utilization patterns and subsequent ecological effects. Climate change challenges existing buildings and infrastructure which has led to new policies and professional responses. Building design and location are a critical determinant of wellness, comfort, and productivity for occupants. How do we measure our effects on social outcomes, ecology, or health? This course introduces students to the principles of sustainability and resilience in our communities with a focus on how systems dynamics can be articulated and then managed. We use the framework of social equity and basic environment, social, and governance (ESG) metrics to explore how urban design and policy can embrace priorities for human well-being. Students become familiar with international standards for sustainable design, operations, and management of buildings more favorable to the integrity of communities such as US Green Building Council’s LEED certifications, passive house, WELL Building Standard, the Living Building Challenge, and other concepts related to sustainable design. We ensure hands-on engagement with local policy protocols and meet practitioners who have participated in the advancement of best practice in sustainability and resilience.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16111/2020

ENVR E-119D
Zero Energy and Passive Buildings

Paul Ormond, MS

Efficiency Engineer, Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24776

Description
Zero energy buildings, also known as net zero energy buildings, are buildings (or a community of buildings) which produce with on-site renewables the same, or more, amount of energy as they consume on an annual basis. Typically, a zero energy building consists of a highly efficient building with a rooftop, or site-mounted, photovoltaic system. Increasingly, designers are turning to passive house building strategies to deliver highly efficient buildings for their zero energy projects. Zero energy and passive house are very scalable from single family homes to large commercial buildings, to districts or communities of buildings. Once the realm of the most ambitious building owners willing to take significant financial and design risks, now zero energy and passive house buildings cost the same as conventional construction. In the next few decades, it is possible that a large portion of new and retrofit construction could be zero energy or passive house, either by code or by economics. This course provides a comprehensive exploration of zero energy and passive house buildings, including building energy dynamics, renewable system fundamentals, energy economics, passive architecture, energy budgets, site and source energy, policy, codes, financing, and incentive structures. Case studies are used to demonstrate feasibility, key concepts, and lessons learned. The course also explores the benefits and challenges that zero energy imposes on the energy grid, as well as the value zero energy and passive building can have in advancing security, resilience, and survivability.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 7:40-9:40 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24776/2021

ENVR E-119E
Sustainable Infrastructure: Learning from Practice

Cristina Contreras Casado, ALM

Research Associate, Zofnass Program for Sustainable Infrastructure, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Judith Irene Rodriguez, MA

Research Associate, Zofnass Program for Sustainable Infrastructure, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25775

Description
Sustainable infrastructure (SI) has been recognized as the central pillar of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Sustainable infrastructure strives to enhance access to basic services, promote environmental sustainability, and support inclusive growth through its endeavor to meet the sustainable development goals (SDGs) while looking for pathways to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, as reported by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This course introduces students to the current landscape of sustainability assessment tools and explores the benefits that sustainable projects bring to public and private entities, to local communities, and to the planet in general. We ask the following key questions: what is sustainable infrastructure? What are the main features of a sustainable project? How do these features overlap or differ from the SDGs? How can infrastructure and urban development projects align with both SI practices and the SDGs? To answer these questions, we use real-world case studies. Considering the mandate of the 2030 agenda—”leave no one behind”—specific attention is given to how different stakeholders participate in the process.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25775/2021

ENVR E-119G
Sustainable Cities

Julio Lumbreras, PhD

Visiting Scientist, Exposure, Epidemiology, and Risk Program, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15759

Description
More than half of the world’s population (54 percent according to the World Health Organization) live in urban areas, and this share is expected to grow in the future (65 percent by 2050 according to the United Nations). However, urban life is currently far from sustainable due to inequality, poverty, poor air quality, high risk of natural disasters and climate change, and lack of access to energy, water, and waste treatment. Faced with these challenges, member countries of the United Nations adopted in 2015 an agenda for 2030, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), with one of these goals focused on “making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.” Therefore, the future of urban societies, and thus of most of the world’s population, depends on our ability to design, build, and run cities in a sustainable manner. This course aims at contributing to this goal by surveying the scientific principles of sustainability at the urban level, exploring cities and their metabolism as systems of systems. It covers the main challenges that cities of every size are facing: governance, inclusive urban economic development, national/regional development planning, safety, citizen participation, risk and vulnerability reduction, air quality, resource efficiency, and access to universal basic services, housing, and infrastructures. By paying attention to the contextual factors in which these challenges play out for different types of cities, students not only gain a general understanding of the key dimensions of urban sustainability, but they also learn tools to further analyze and tackle urban sustainability challenges. Some of the tools presented are life cycle assessment, social impact assessment, cost-benefit analysis, multi-criteria decision making, air quality modeling, and urban indicators.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 5:50-7:50 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15759/2020

ENVR E-125
Creating, Implementing, and Improving Corporate Environmental, Social, and Governance Reporting

Kevin Hagen, MBA

Vice President, Environmental, Social, and Governmental Strategy, Iron Mountain

Kevin Wilhelm, MBA

Chief Executive Officer, Sustainable Business Consulting

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16436

Description
Transparency and accountability are the cornerstones of a corporate sustainability environmental, social, and governance (ESG) program. But how do you implement a reporting program that meets the ever increasing demands of investors and other stakeholders while creating the most value for the business? From global reporting initiative (GRI) to carbon disclosure project (CDP), task force on climate-related financial disclosures (TCFD), sustainability accounting standards board (SASB) and more, this course unravels the alphabet soup of corporate reporting frameworks and guidelines. Offering practical steps and process to help company executives, functional managers, and corporate responsibility leaders’ design, implement, or accelerate an ESG reporting program. The course work is grounded with case studies and leverages the real world experience of guest speakers and the instructors.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A firm understanding of change management in the business setting, climate change, and other environmental issues.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16436/2020

ENVR E-129
From Farm to Fork: Food, Sustainability, and the Global Environment

Gary Adamkiewicz, PhD

Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Exposure Disparities, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16336

Description
In this course, we explore the development of our modern food production and distribution system and its effects on our environment and planet. We critically review published studies and other assessments that evaluate the environmental and social impact of food-related products and processes. We cover such topics as agricultural and food policy, industrialization and factory farming, the interrelationship between climate change and food production, water quality and scarcity, the role of technology in food production, and other relevant topics. We apply life cycle assessment concepts, appropriate sustainability criteria, and benchmarking to current questions surrounding our global food system, and incorporate observations from the developed and developing world. The course emphasizes the methodologies and skills needed to critically assess the sustainability of various food products and practices.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: ENVR E-101, or the equivalent.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16336/2020

ENVR E-129A
Local to Global Agroecology: Immersions from Field to Fork

Richard Wetzler, PhD

Research Advisor, Sustainability, Harvard Extension School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16158

Description
By 2050, feeding more than nine billion people will require increasing world grain production beyond seventy percent according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). According to World Food Prize winner Professor Gebisa Ejita, this will require learning “to produce as much food in the next four decades as we have since the beginning of civilization.” Prospects for a sustainable resolution provide the chief focus of this course, from local to international scales of land use. Questions include to what extent can we minimize agricultural expansion that further depletes wild lands and their associated biodiversity? What are the prospects for scaling up organic, regenerative, and other sustainable crop and rangeland practices? How might increased food security and sovereignty be achieved without diminishing long-term crop viability and human, environmental, and economic well-being? A remote-sensed mapping workshop, predictive modeling, and impact assessment by student teams provides further tools for gauging sustainable harvests. Students gain familiarity with major institutions driving—and re-imagining—global agricultural development. Transcending individual disciplines, this course also draws upon research and practices at the confluences of biology, agronomy, hydrology, and sustainability science; anthropology, international development, and ecological economics; and technology and natural resource policy.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Course work in biology and environmental studies. High school biology and chemistry.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16158/2020

ENVR E-129C
The Role of Soil Health in Creating Sustainable Food Systems

Emily Lynn Holleran, ALM

Instructor, Arizona State University School of Sustainability

Helen D. Silver, JD

Principal, Silver Sustainability Strategies

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25791

Description
Ninety-five percent of the world’s food is grown in topsoil, but current farming techniques are eroding this soil and stripping it of essential minerals, microbes, and nutrients needed to support human and planetary health. The United Nations has stated that if soil degradation continues, we may only have 60 years of farming left. Loss of topsoil through agricultural practices is a major contributor to water and air quality degradation and biodiversity loss. Replenishing degraded soils may be a critical element in battling burgeoning health crises such as micronutrient deficiencies, obesity, and related diseases. Increasing soil health will also be a critical response to combating and adapting to the climate crisis. Though strong market, political, and social forces perpetuate the status quo, policymakers, agricultural producers, and the general public are taking note and developing, examining, and implementing a wide array of interventions to reverse soil degradation. This course explores the global food system from food production to disposal from the premise that agricultural soil health must underlie any sustainable food system that supports public and planetary health and social equity. We address the current state of agricultural soil health globally and the current and future effects on public and planetary health, including effects on water, air, climate, and nutrition, and social and economic equity. We explore whether adopting sustainable agricultural practices that support and enhance soil health can feed the growing global population while simultaneously buttressing achievement of the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Finally, we examine the key interventions put forth to support agricultural soil health, including direct farmer education and subsidies, social movements such as food sovereignty, labeling requirements, corporate initiatives, consumer education, and increased organic waste recycling.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25791/2021

ENVR E-135B
Sustainable Business in the Twenty-First Century

Matthew Gardner, PhD

Managing Partner, Sustainserv, Inc.

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25745

Description
This course explores corporate sustainability through a collaboration with Harvard Business School Online. Leveraging HBS Online materials, including videos and case studies, we explore a variety of critical questions about how corporations are key actors in the drive towards a sustainable world. The course is organized around three modules from the HBS Online course Sustainable Business Strategy. These three modules (the business case for change, driving change at scale, and purpose driven systemic change) are expanded upon with guest speakers, real world case studies, and in-depth discussions. Each week students analyze examples from companies in a variety of industries to show how sustainability is integrated into their business models and to explore what opportunities still exist for companies to improve. The course uses case studies from publicly traded companies, augmented by links to various forms of information for students to compare and contrast throughout the semester. Information is presented from academic research, white papers published by respected scholars and experts, and the actual disclosures of major multinational companies. Sustainability officers and other sustainability professionals serve as guest speakers throughout the semester. The case method is used to provide a participative and realistic forum that enables students to learn about sustainability while also developing the skills to use the information. In addition to receiving course credit, students who successfully complete this course for undergraduate or graduate credit can earn a certificate of completion from Harvard Business School Online.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25745/2021

ENVR E-137
Sustainable Manufacturing and Technologies

Ramon Sanchez, ScD

Research Associate, Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14010

Description
This course provides a set of tools and skills to identify, evaluate, and improve the sustainability of supply chain operations. It enables students to understand core concepts of industrial and commercial activities so that they are able to design sustainable manufacturing and service operations. Students learn to define green warehousing and distribution activities, plan retrofits and capital investments in current and future productive operations to save energy, select green materials for new products, manage efficient new product introductions by designing sustainable factory operations, and learn how to use continuous improvement techniques and value stream mapping to reduce waste and environmental impacts while reducing costs.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: High school math.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14010/2020

ENVR E-137A
Sustainable Supply Chain

Bonnie Nixon, MEd

Strategic Advisor

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26007

Description
This course uses project-based learning to examine how to integrate environmentally, socially, and financially viable practices into an organization’s complete product and/or services lifecycle, from product design and development to material selection, including raw material extraction or agricultural production, manufacturing, packaging, transportation, and end of life.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26007/2021

ENVR E-138
Introduction to Sustainable Finance and Investments

Carlos Alberto Vargas, PhD

Partner, Turnstone Environmental Planning

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24806

Description
Sustainable finance is a main topic on the international agenda. Financial decisions worldwide are increasingly influenced by the scarcity of resources, the search for profits through efficiency, and climate change. We observe an increasing investment appetite for green bonds. Investment funds and asset managers worldwide search for innovative products that increase profitability but also create environmental and social value. This course studies finance and sustainability as integrated subjects beginning with an introduction of financial and investment principles and moving through financial analysis, financing, and valuation. The course covers diverse aspects of sustainable investments and offers tools for effective financial valuation and risk assessment.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 52 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24806/2021

ENVR E-140
Fundamentals of Ecology for Sustainable Ecosystems

Mark Leighton, PhD

Associate Director and Senior Research Advisor, Sustainability, Harvard Extension School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 12779

Description
Conserving and managing biodiversity and ecosystem services in diverse landscapes across the globe is a major sustainability challenge of this century. Solutions critically rest on fundamental concepts and principles in ecology. This course adopts an unusual, holistic approach by embedding understanding and integration of these principles through a series of ecosystem case studies focused on desert, savanna and mountain ecosystems, wetlands and other aquatic systems, boreal, temperate, and tropical forests, and agroecosystems. These ecosystems exemplify different challenges, but similar ecological processes at work for successful management, whether the goal is protection of natural systems and biodiversity, ecological restoration, or maintaining ecosystem services in agricultural and other human-dominated landscapes. Through this approach, the fundamental topics covered in typical ecology courses are exemplified. The historical, evolutionary, and ecological processes determining the distribution of ecosystems, habitats, and species are introduced. Evolutionary processes responsible for the adaptations of individuals are examined to understand the diversity of species and their features. Ecological processes of competition, predation, disease, and mutualism help explain the functioning of biological communities and larger ecosystems. Among other activities, teams of students conduct background research on specific ecosystem sites to understand the ecological, economic, sociocultural, and multistakeholder context of sustainability challenges and integrated solutions.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-12779/2020

ENVR E-143
Evaluating Sustainable Food Systems and other Enterprises in Rural Areas

Mark Leighton, PhD

Associate Director and Senior Research Advisor, Sustainability, Harvard Extension School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25371

Description
Globally, metropolitan areas have prospered economically while rural areas have been left behind. The course focuses on sustainability opportunities and enterprises in these rural landscapes. Emphasis is on the benefits of small-scale organic farm enterprises, typically with diverse production systems, common historically and now resurgent in the farm to table and local food movements as alternatives to industrial agriculture. Although of global relevance, the course focuses on comparisons between New England and Tuscany. In both these regions, ecological and economic sustainability challenges in the rural landscape include producing food and forest products for niche markets, managing watersheds, conserving biodiversity, and other environmental services, such as carbon sequestration, and diversifying income streams with ecotourism and agritourism. Optimizing this mix of functions while minimizing greenhouse gas emissions and other forms of pollution addresses sustainability goals. We discuss readings on models and analysis of sustainable food production systems, including organic, permaculture, and forest farming systems. Assignments, readings, and student team exercises develop skills in evaluating research in innovative farming, and in cost-benefit analysis (CBA), with spreadsheet modeling of annual production integrated with financial analysis of small-scale enterprises.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: No previous courses are required; however, ENVR E-129, ENVR E-129a, ENVR S-129b, ENVR E-129c, ENVR E-140, and ENVR E-210 are relevant sustainability courses providing background. Familiarity with Excel spreadsheets is helpful, but not required, as students will develop these skills in the course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25371/2021

ENVR E-149
Conservation Biology

Aaron Hartmann, PhD

Research Associate, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26016

Description
Preserving and recovering populations, communities, and ecosystems is the core goal of conservation biology. But achieving this goal requires much more than an understanding of biology. It requires that we evaluate humanity’s place in nature through numerous lenses, including those seemingly far afield from the natural world. This course integrates evolutionary and ecological theory into resource management, economics, sociology, business, psychology, and law to explore conservation strategies, the value of ecosystem services, evidence-based management, and the challenges of decision making under conflicting interests. As this list underscores, conservation biology is inherently interdisciplinary, and this means that each student’s training and perspective is integral as we build a comprehensive understanding of this complex discipline.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26016/2021

ENVR E-151
Life Cycle and Supply Chain Sustainability Assessment

Gregory A. Norris, PhD

Director, Sustainability and Health Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise (SHINE), Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 13749

Description
The field of industrial ecology includes advanced tools and methods to assist practitioners seeking to redesign and realign industrial systems and activities to be more ecologically and socially sound. Central within the field of industrial ecology is life cycle assessment (LCA), which involves systems analysis of the full range of environmental impacts, product life cycles, and supply chains. More recently, social impacts are also being addressed in life cycles and supply chains, leading to the definition of life cycle sustainability assessment. This course enables participants to develop a hands-on, in-depth understanding of the frameworks, principles, tools, and applications of life cycle assessment. As part of the course, students learn to use and apply professional software tools and databases that address both social and environmental impacts in global supply chains. We also review the state of life cycle practice and current initiatives involving companies, governments, and NGOs. We ground the entire course on the goal of making human activities, from the personal to the global, truly sustainable.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 7:40-9:40 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: College math, and/or chemistry are helpful, but students have thrived in this class without that background.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-13749/2020

ENVR E-154
Sustainable Product Design and the Innovation Ecosystem

Ramon Sanchez, ScD

Research Associate, Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14518

Description
This course is for anyone who would like to learn how to design and launch a new product with the smallest environmental footprint. Students acquire many tools and skills in the course: how to do market intelligence (technological benchmarking and reverse engineering), how to incorporate real sustainability into new products (and identify green washing), how to use structured tools to enhance creativity and innovation to conceive and develop new products, how to design and implement a new product introduction process, how to do and implement the design of experiments to select the most robust features for products, how to write and submit a patent application to decrease legal costs, how to protect copyrights and trademarks, how to fund intellectual property by using funds from business incubators and accelerators, how to select the right materials and processes to minimize the product’s environmental impacts (using green chemistry principles, sustainable sourcing of components, and sustainable certification for raw materials to promote conservation), how to reduce energy use by new products, how to build and test prototypes in an inexpensive way, and how to reduce the environmental impacts of packaging and transportation. Students also learn the basic components of an innovation ecosystem and how high technology hubs such as Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York work.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 8:10-10:10 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: High school math.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14518/2020

ENVR E-158B
Circular Economy

Carrie S. Snyder, MBA

Consultant

Brian J. Bauer, ALM

Director of Circular Economy and Alliances, Algramo

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24785

Description
Today, economic growth is primarily contingent on increased resource consumption. In this linear economic approach, organizations harvest or extract materials, use them to create products, and then sell those products to consumers who generally incinerate or send to landfill the materials that no longer serve their original purpose. As the population grows and the negative environmental impact of resource extraction continues, this “take, make, waste” model is quickly reaching its limits. The circular economy, by contrast, is one that is “restorative and regenerative by design, and aims to keep products, components, and materials at their highest utility and value at all times” (Ellen MacArthur Foundation, 2013). The circular economy philosophy is an emerging field of study, promoting a systemic, cross-disciplinary approach. This course explores how these various disciplines come together to promote a sustainable economic model.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 75 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24785/2021

ENVR E-158D
Waste Management Practices

Nihar Mohanty, PhD

Environmental Analyst, Office of Research and Standards, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26034

Description
Waste materials are an often unavoidable by-product of most human activity. Rapid economic growth, urbanization, and increasing population have resulted in an increase in resource consumption, and consequent generation of large amounts of waste. This course provides an overview of current waste and resource management practices and reevaluates the need for better waste management practices in society. Waste management scenarios and technologies are explored for both developed and developing countries, and concepts such as circular economy, cradle-to-cradle, urban mining, and upcycling are discussed as part of an integrated waste management approach. Methods for assessing waste management scenarios for sustainability are discussed.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: High school math, chemistry, and biology.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26034/2021

ENVR E-158E
Sustainable Fashion

Kelly A. Burton, ALM

Chief Executive Officer, Kate Black & Co.

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26051

Description
The global fashion and apparel industry has changed dramatically in the last 20 years to become an industry that today produces between six and ten percent of the world’s greenhouse gases. This course explores the historical, social, and environmental aspects of the global fashion industry and the current tools and methodologies available to improve it. It enables students to understand the connection between sustainable development and the apparel industry; think critically about both the common and less discussed aspects of the apparel industry, including consumption, durability, and sustainable design; appreciate the complexities of the economic impacts of externalities both positive and negative on the industry; and explore the social and environmental impacts and the tools available to monitor and measure positive impact.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26051/2021

ENVR E-161A
Land Conservation Practice in the United States in the Context of a Changing World

Henry Tepper, MA

Conservation Consultant

Frank Lowenstein, MS

Deputy Director and Chief Conservation Officer, New England Forestry Foundation

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16337

Description
This course focuses on the role of land conservation in advancing sustainability. It focuses on the applied tools and strategies used to identify and protect land in the United States and now increasingly applied around the world. The course details the extraordinary growth and success of public and private land conservation in the United States. We delve into the origins of land conservation and its development in the context of the broader environmental movement in the United States. We discuss land protection in the United States after European settlement, focusing first on the creation of public parks, forests, and nature preserves, including landmark actions to protect emblematic landscapes like the Boston Common, Yellowstone and Yosemite National Parks, and the Adirondack Forest Preserve. We place these efforts in the context of the changing cultural and economic trends of the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, and also consider them from the perspective of the different land use approaches among the indigenous populations of the Americas. Our focus then shifts to what has become one of the best-kept secrets in conservation: the dramatic growth, scale, and practicality of private land conservation. We discuss the range of practice of land trusts in the US, including public-private conservation partnerships. We pay special attention to the building blocks of private and public land conservation, including financial incentives; practical and flexible legal agreements and instruments; financing mechanisms; entities to facilitate these projects, including land trusts; protection criteria; community values; and the growing importance of climate change issues in land protection. We address the role of land conservation in inner-city, urban, and other marginalized communities, and explore how issues of diversity, justice, and inclusion are changing the composition of the land conservation community and consequently its focus. We address the issue of climate change and its effects on cross-class and intergenerational equity, as well as techniques for incorporating climate issues into land conservation practice.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 5:50-7:50 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16337/2020

ENVR E-165
Human Health and Global Environmental Change

Aaron Bernstein, MD

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School and Interim Director, Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Jonathan Buonocore, ScD

Research Scientist, Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26079

Description
Human activity is changing the atmosphere and altering terrestrial and marine ecosystems on a global scale. Evidence is mounting that these changes may already be having serious effects on human health, and there is growing concern that in coming decades the effects could be catastrophic. This course was developed because to understand the prospects for health in this century requires an understanding of the relationship between humans and the global environment. It provides an overview of climate change and biodiversity loss, two key examples of global environmental change, and the potential consequences for human health. It also explores solutions to these problems and the challenges inherent in realizing those solutions.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date:

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets for an intensive half semester from March 22 through May 15. The recorded lectures are from the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health course Environmental Health 278-02.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26079/2021

ENVR E-166
Water Resources Policy and Watershed Management

Scott Horsley, MA

Water Resources Consultant

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14545

Description
This course presents a comprehensive approach to water resources management by integrating environmental science (geology, soils, hydrology) and policy (planning and regulatory analysis). It is intended for both students with and without technical backgrounds. We use numerous case studies from the instructor’s experience as a consultant to the US Environmental Protection Agency, state and local governments, industry, and nongovernmental organizations. The course examines groundwater, lake, riverine, wetland, and coastal management issues at the local, state, tribal, regional, national, and international levels and relies heavily on practical case studies. We focus on an integrated water management approach that links drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater management—seeking opportunities to keep water local and for re-use, balancing hydrologic budgets, and minimizing costs in the face of climate change. A broad range of water resource management strategies is examined including structural/nonstructural, regulatory/nonregulatory, and prevention/restoration approaches. Smart growth and low impact development techniques are presented as effective growth management and climate adaptation techniques. Incentive-based management strategies are presented to modify behaviors and to optimize public participation. Green infrastructure is presented as an innovative and alternative approach to conventional grey technologies and includes shellfish aquaculture, bioretention, reforestation of riparian buffers, ecotoilets, and wetlands restoration.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 3-5 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14545/2020

ENVR E-166A
Wetland Science and Policy

Jennifer Cole, PhD

Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts, Massachusetts College of Art and Design

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25943

Description
This course is intended for students interested in geological, hydrologic, biological, and social sciences with an specific focus on wetland environments and resources. In this course, students gain an interdisciplinary overview of physicochemical, biological, and cultural aspects of wetlands. We cover definitions, classification systems, origins, and natural processes of wetland environments. We discuss wetlands across the globe, including in boreal, temperate, and tropical climates. We investigate hydrology, soils, and vegetation and their relationship to ecosystem processes, societal values, and management. We examine human use, modification, exploitation, jurisdictional delineation, and management options, along with legal and political aspects of wetlands. This is a broad course, encompassing forestry, coastal management, energy, climate change, agriculture, history, and ecosystem succession, in addition to the areas listed above.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25943/2021

ENVR E-178
Socio-ecological Systems and Sustainability

Katherine von Stackelberg, ScD

Research Scientist, Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25370

Description
Even as we recognize that human well-being depends on the natural environment, we are experiencing unprecedented environmental challenges largely as a consequence of unsustainable interactions with nature. We are increasingly putting our well-being at risk through the unintended environmental consequences of modern life. Industrialization at the expense of natural resources, energy- and pollution-intensive food production, and an economic system that fails to account for natural capital are just a few examples of how we are failing to work effectively within a socio-ecological system. In this course we explore the evidence for the ways in which the natural environment supports well-being, including identifying actionable strategies for sustainability that explicitly recognize the coupled human-natural system and challenging conventional disciplinary norms by integrating the social and natural sciences. We explore themes related to the essentiality of biodiversity to ecosystem services, working with nature, biophilic design, permaculture and multifunctional agricultural landscapes, and collaborative decision making.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 3-5 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25370/2021

ENVR E-180
Practical Sustainability for Small Organizations

Scott Curtis Stenger, ALM

Lieutenant Colonel, United States Air Force

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15758

Description
This course communicates to students the knowledge they need to carry out sustainability actions in their organizations. Background information on sustainability is used to provide students with a clear understanding of climate change. The course has a focus topic of the week such as lighting, water usage, recycling, solar power, wind power, hydroelectric power, green buildings, government resources to assist in sustainability, sustainable office materials, and sustainable supply chains. Students learn about specific practices and products a small organization can adopt to make specific changes in line with that week’s topic to become more sustainable.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 7:40-9:40 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15758/2020

ENVR E-190
Urban Agriculture

Zachary Bostwick Nowak, PhD

Lecturer on History, Harvard University

January session | CRN 25667

Description
What do gardens in cities do for people? Urban agriculture is a catch-all term that covers community gardens, vegetable plots at prisons, didactically-minded gardens in schoolyards, gardens planted illegally on vacant lots, high-tech hydroponic companies, and farmers’ markets. Students develop knowledge about how these spaces differ across variables like legality, goals, and actors. Students in this course learn about how growing food in Global North cities has a long past. We debate whether urban agriculture is an excellent way for city dwellers to reduce hunger and assert their control over urban space, or whether it’s just another subtle manifestation of neoliberalism. A core goal of this course, above and beyond the content, is to develop research skills in multiple disciplines that will be useful for other courses.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays-Thursdays, 9 am-noon
Start Date: Jan. 4, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25667/2021

ENVR E-210
Proseminar: Critical Analysis of Environmental Systems

Mark Leighton, PhD

Associate Director and Senior Research Advisor, Sustainability, Harvard Extension School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 23614

Description
Understanding the dynamics of complex ecological and environmental systems and designing policies to promote their sustainability is a formidable challenge. Both the practitioner and policymaker must be able to evaluate scientific research, recognizing fundamental pitfalls in research design and data interpretation. Moreover, most important environmental problems involve interactions among variables as dynamic systems, so forecasting the impacts of potential environmental changes or policy interventions is critical. To develop these skills, students conduct practical exercises illustrating a range of modeling techniques, including statistical analysis of ecological and environmental data, and system dynamics modeling. Computer simulation modeling ranges across diverse issues in sustainability science, such as climate change, human population dynamics, population viability analysis of endangered species, and economic appraisal of projects that have an impact on natural resources. The course also focuses on developing skills in scientific writing, critiquing primary research literature, and communicating about environmental science. Quantitative techniques are taught at an introductory level; some data analysis and simulation modeling is conducted using Excel spreadsheets.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections Mondays, 8:10-10:10 pm.Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. EXPO E-42c is strongly recommended. Experience manipulating data and algebraic equations on spreadsheets is helpful.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 100 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-23614/2021

ENVR E-210
Proseminar: Critical Analysis of Environmental Systems

Mark Leighton, PhD

Associate Director and Senior Research Advisor, Sustainability, Harvard Extension School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 13757

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections Mondays, 8:10-10:10 pm.Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. EXPO E-42c is strongly recommended. Experience manipulating data and algebraic equations on spreadsheets is helpful.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 100 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-13757/2020

ENVR E-496
Crafting the Thesis Proposal in Sustainability

Mark Leighton, PhD

Associate Director and Senior Research Advisor, Sustainability, Harvard Extension School

January session | CRN 25105

Description
This course helps students develop critical thinking, scholarly writing skills, and research abilities while developing their individual thesis proposals. Class meetings feature lectures and discussions on different scientific approaches, group discussions, and intensive, constructive discussion of proposed student thesis research projects and proposals, from definition of research goals and hypotheses through research design and expected data analysis and presentation. The option to develop a thesis proposal early in the degree program allows students opportunities for an extended period of data collection and analysis, required for many types of significant research problems in the field, and earlier identification of relevant courses while completing degree requirements. Students are encouraged to contact their research advisor soon after admission to the program, or at any point before prework is due to discuss possible thesis topics and should not register for this course unless they are ready to engage in the entire thesis process. They should consider if this is the right time to start independent research, as the goal of the course is to move from crafting the thesis proposal to thesis registration with no extended breaks. Students should begin the thesis project during the next semester or two after completing this course.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays-Thursdays, 3-6 pm
Start Date: Jan. 4, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Final papers due Monday, February 8.

Prerequisites: Students must be admitted degree candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, sustainability. Students in the 12-course thesis track must have completed eight courses toward the degree and fulfilled their research methods requirement. Students in the ten-course thesis track must have completed six courses toward the degree and SSCI E-490 is recommended. Students submit their prework by October 1 to thesis_prework@extension.harvard.edu. Prework must be approved by the research advisor and generally requires one or more revisions. Once approved, permission to register will be sent via email from the ALM Advising Office between October 15 and December 13. Students should review the webinar to prepare them for taking the course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25105/2021

ENVR E-598
Sustainability Precapstone Tutorial

Mark Leighton, PhD

Associate Director and Senior Research Advisor, Sustainability, Harvard Extension School

Richard Wetzler, PhD

Research Advisor, Sustainability, Harvard Extension School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15667

Description
This tutorial entails guided prework to set the foundation for academically strong capstones. It is mandatory for candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, sustainability, who wish to enroll in ENVR E-599 in spring 2021. The tutorial provides an essential ramp to the capstone course, mapping critical issues of research design (scope, methodology, metrics for evaluating impact, and bench-marking) and allows the capstone course to begin with projects fully operational.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $0

Prerequisites: Students must be in their penultimate semester as candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, sustainability. They must be in good academic standing and in the process of completing all the requirements except the capstone. Students submit the prework to ALMcapstones@extension.harvard.edu between July 18 and August 1. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course. To obtain prework instructions, visit the capstone website.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15667/2020

ENVR E-598
Sustainability Precapstone Tutorial

Mark Leighton, PhD

Associate Director and Senior Research Advisor, Sustainability, Harvard Extension School

Richard Wetzler, PhD

Research Advisor, Sustainability, Harvard Extension School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25198

Description
This tutorial entails guided prework to set the foundation for academically strong capstones. It is mandatory for candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, sustainability, who wish to enroll in ENVR S-599 in summer 2021. The tutorial provides an essential ramp to the capstone course, mapping critical issues of research design (scope, methodology, metrics for evaluating impact, and bench-marking) and allows the capstone course to begin with projects fully operational.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $0

Prerequisites: Students must be in their penultimate semester as candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, sustainability. They must be in good academic standing and in the process of completing all the requirements except the capstone. Students submit the prework to ALMcapstones@extension.harvard.edu between November 7 and January 2. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course. To obtain prework instructions, visit the capstone website.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25198/2021

ENVR E-598A
Consulting for Sustainability Solutions Precapstone Tutorial

William O’Brien, MBA, JD

Professor of Practice, School of Management, Clark University, Associate Professor of Practice, Graduate School of Management, Clark University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25620

Description
This tutorial entails guided prework to set the foundation for academically strong capstones. It is mandatory for candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, sustainability, who wish to enroll in ENVR S-599a in summer 2021. The tutorial begins with a mandatory webinar and covers critical issues in designing a sustainability action plan (SAP).

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $0

Prerequisites: Students must be in their penultimate semester as candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, sustainability. They must be in good academic standing and in the process of completing all the requirements except the capstone. Students submit the prework to ALMcapstones@extension.harvard.edu between November 7 and January 2. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course. To obtain prework instructions, visit the capstone website.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25620/2021

ENVR E-598A
Consulting for Sustainability Solutions Precapstone Tutorial

William O’Brien, MBA, JD

Professor of Practice, School of Management, Clark University, Associate Professor of Practice, Graduate School of Management, Clark University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16036

Description
This tutorial entails guided prework to set the foundation for academically strong capstones. It is mandatory for candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, sustainability, who wish to enroll in ENVR E-599a in spring 2021. The tutorial begins with a mandatory webinar and covers critical issues in designing a sustainability action plan (SAP).

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $0

Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16036/2020

ENVR E-599
Independent Research Capstone

Richard Wetzler, PhD

Research Advisor, Sustainability, Harvard Extension School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14598

Description
This course offers students the overview, direction, and support for completing an individual capstone project, creatively engaging their professional and personal interests. It catalyzes the thinking, designing, implementing, and dissemination essential to successful research. Participants are guided in the processes of heuristic question formulation, hypothesis testing, data collection and analysis, writing, and oral presentation through four approaches. Starting with their preliminary proposals and needs assessments, students meet individually with the instructor during the term, ensuring research is on track and benefitting from available literature, experts, and other resources. Lectures and discussions explore challenges and opportunities in project scoping, boundary delineation, stakeholder inclusion, impact assessment, and sampling design; logical consistency, lateral thinking, case study analysis; prototyping, benchmarking, and bet hedging; effective writing, editing, graphic presentation, and information search; and public presentation and network-building. In recurring workshops, participants present their work-in-progress for constructive input from the class. At semester’s end, the professional community is invited to an online symposium anchored by students’ research presentations. A web-archive of resulting video-recorded and written capstones serves sustainability professionals globally. Listings of prior projects may be viewed at the Independent Research Capstone website.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm

This course includes a required online symposium on Saturday, December 5, 12:30-6:30 pm. Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Along with the web-conference meetings, it includes an intensive—and mandatory— online weekend meeting. The course begins via web conference during the first week of the term and continues to meet throughout the term. Please see the course website or syllabus for the specific two-hour course meeting dates.

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, sustainability program pursuing the independent research capstone track who are in good academic standing, in their final course, and have successfully completed ENVR S-598 in the 2020 summer term. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14598/2020

ENVR E-599
Independent Research Capstone

Richard Wetzler, PhD

Research Advisor, Sustainability, Harvard Extension School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24009

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm

This course includes a required online symposium on Saturday, May 1, 12:30-6:30 pm. Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Along with the web-conference meetings, it includes an intensive—and mandatory— online weekend meeting. The course begins via web conference during the first week of the term and continues to meet throughout the term. Please see the course website or syllabus for the specific two-hour course meeting dates.

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, sustainability program who are pursuing the independent research capstone track, in good academic standing, in their final course, and have successfully completed ENVR E-598 in the 2020 fall term. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24009/2021

ENVR E-599A
Consulting for Sustainability Solutions Capstone

William O’Brien, MBA, JD

Professor of Practice, School of Management, Clark University, Associate Professor of Practice, Graduate School of Management, Clark University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24425

Description
This course is a capstone for students earning a Master of Liberal Arts, sustainability degree. Course deliverables include a detailed actionable/measurable sustainability action plan (SAP) as well as a presentation to be given to the class and to client stakeholders. Appropriate clients may include communities, corporations, nongovernment organizations (NGOs), governmental agencies, schools, universities, and hospitals. Students work with a client to develop and deliver a customized SAP focused on reduction of operating costs, minimization of the environmental footprint, brand differentiation and improvement of environmental sustainability practices. Class time is devoted to addressing client requirements and developing actionable solutions. Listings of prior projects may be viewed at the Consulting with Clients for Sustainability Solutions Capstone website.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, sustainability program who are pursuing the consulting capstone track. Students must be in good academic standing, in their final course, and have successfully completed ENVR E-598a in the 2020 fall term. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24425/2021

ENVR E-599A
Consulting for Sustainability Solutions Capstone

William O’Brien, MBA, JD

Professor of Practice, School of Management, Clark University, Associate Professor of Practice, Graduate School of Management, Clark University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14533

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, sustainability program who are pursuing the consulting capstone track. Students must be in good standing, in their final course, and have successfully completed ENVR S-598a in the 2020 summer term. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14533/2020

EXPO E-5
Fundamentals of Grammar

Virginia Maurer, MA

Senior Associate, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 13175 | Section 1

Description
This course is a review of the elements of grammar. We examine sentence structure, correct verb forms, case of pronouns, agreement, punctuation, and restrictive and nonrestrictive (that/which) clauses. Along the way, we learn something of the power and the pleasure of controlling grammar to make our words work for us exactly as we want them to. Short readings illustrate the basic elements—and the beauties—of grammar and style. Short writing assignments offer students opportunities to practice the lessons of the course.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-13175/2020

EXPO E-5
Fundamentals of Grammar

Naomi Stephen, MPhil

Consultant

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14497 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14497/2020

EXPO E-5
Fundamentals of Grammar

Jerusha Achterberg, MPH

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24511

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24511/2021

EXPO E-15
Fundamentals of Academic Writing

Judith A. Murciano, MA

Associate Director and Director of Fellowships, Bernard Koteen Office of Public Interest Advising, Harvard Law School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15120 | Section 5

Description
This course is designed for students seeking preparation for EXPO E-25 and for others wanting to review such basics of academic argument as thesis, evidence, and structure. Short writing assignments help students develop the skills essential for producing well-reasoned and substantiated academic essays. Students also learn strategies for reading and analyzing difficult texts.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15120/2020

EXPO E-15
Fundamentals of Academic Writing

Steven Wandler, PhD

Writing Intensive Program Director, St. Catherine University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14356 | Section 11

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14356/2020

EXPO E-15
Fundamentals of Academic Writing

Elisabeth Sharp McKetta, PhD

Writer

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15912 | Section 4

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 11 am-1 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15912/2020

EXPO E-15
Fundamentals of Academic Writing

Randy S. Rosenthal, MTS

Editor

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15916 | Section 6

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15916/2020

EXPO E-15
Fundamentals of Academic Writing

Matthew Davis, PhD

Associate Professor of English, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15944 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15944/2020

EXPO E-15
Fundamentals of Academic Writing

Elisabeth Sharp McKetta, PhD

Writer

January session | CRN 23882

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays-Thursdays, noon-3 pm
Start Date: Jan. 4, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Final papers due Monday, February 8.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-23882/2021

EXPO E-15
Fundamentals of Academic Writing

Naomi Stephen, MPhil

Consultant

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25165 | Section 8

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25165/2021

EXPO E-15
Fundamentals of Academic Writing

Janet Sylvester, PhD

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25169 | Section 9

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25169/2021

EXPO E-15
Fundamentals of Academic Writing

Heidi Hendricks, ALM

Coordinator, Harvard Library Preservation Services, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24941 | Section 4

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24941/2021

EXPO E-15
Fundamentals of Academic Writing

Matthew Davis, PhD

Associate Professor of English, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25971 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25971/2021

EXPO E-15
Fundamentals of Academic Writing

Christina Rarden Grenier, MA

Director of the Writing Center, Pingree School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15228 | Section 3

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15228/2020

EXPO E-15
Fundamentals of Academic Writing

Steven Wandler, PhD

Writing Intensive Program Director, St. Catherine University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16519 | Section 12

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16519/2020

EXPO E-15
Fundamentals of Academic Writing

Allyson K. Boggess, MFA

Admissions Advisor, Harvard Extension School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 23434 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-23434/2021

EXPO E-15
Fundamentals of Academic Writing

Randy S. Rosenthal, MTS

Editor

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16528 | Section 13

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16528/2020

EXPO E-15
Fundamentals of Academic Writing

Randy S. Rosenthal, MTS

Editor

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25243 | Section 7

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25243/2021

EXPO E-15
Fundamentals of Academic Writing

Steven Wandler, PhD

Writing Intensive Program Director, St. Catherine University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 23715 | Section 10

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-23715/2021

EXPO E-15
Fundamentals of Academic Writing

Christina Rarden Grenier, MA

Director of the Writing Center, Pingree School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25251 | Section 3

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25251/2021

EXPO E-15
Fundamentals of Academic Writing

Judith A. Murciano, MA

Associate Director and Director of Fellowships, Bernard Koteen Office of Public Interest Advising, Harvard Law School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24744 | Section 6

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24744/2021

EXPO E-15
Fundamentals of Academic Writing

Elisabeth Sharp McKetta, PhD

Writer

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25518 | Section 5

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 11 am-1 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25518/2021

EXPO E-15
Fundamentals of Academic Writing

Anthony B. Cashman III, PhD

Director of the Office of Distinguished Fellowships and Graduate Studies, College of the Holy Cross

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25777 | Section 11

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25777/2021

EXPO E-15
Fundamentals of Academic Writing

Sarah E. Case, PhD

Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15542 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15542/2020

EXPO E-15
Fundamentals of Academic Writing

Paul A. Thur, MA

Director of the Writing Center, College of General Studies, Boston University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 13498 | Section 10

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-13498/2020

EXPO E-15
Fundamentals of Academic Writing

Susan Soroka, PhD

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15802 | Section 7

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 2-4 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15802/2020

EXPO E-15
Fundamentals of Academic Writing

Janet Sylvester, PhD

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15549 | Section 8

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15549/2020

EXPO E-15
Fundamentals of Academic Writing

Rebecca Summerhays, PhD

Visiting Lecturer in the Writing Program, Wellesley College

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26086 | Section 12

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 3-5 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26086/2021

EXPO E-15
Fundamentals of Academic Writing

Janet Sylvester, PhD

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16368 | Section 9

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16368/2020

EXPO E-25
Academic Writing and Critical Reading

Margaret C. Rennix, PhD

Academic Coach, Academic Resource Center, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16132 | Section 8

Description
This course introduces students to the demands and conventions of academic reading and writing. It focuses on analyzing texts, building effective arguments, and using evidence and secondary source material. Instruction on the stages of the writing process, from prewriting exercises through rough drafts and revisions, forms a key part of the curriculum. Students applying to the undergraduate program at the Extension School must complete this course, but it is open to any student interested in gaining an understanding of academic writing.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16132/2020

EXPO E-25
Academic Writing and Critical Reading

Tad Davies, PhD

Head Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26120 | Section 14

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Fridays, 3-5 pm
Start Date: Jan. 29, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26120/2021

EXPO E-25
Academic Writing and Critical Reading

Lisa A. Gulesserian, PhD

Lecturer on Armenian Language and Culture, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16142 | Section 5

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16142/2020

EXPO E-25
Academic Writing and Critical Reading

John J. Kaag, PhD

Professor of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Lowell and Miller Scholar, Santa Fe Institute

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24080 | Section 7

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24080/2021

EXPO E-25
Academic Writing and Critical Reading

Paul A. Thur, MA

Director of the Writing Center, College of General Studies, Boston University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 22801 | Section 12

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-22801/2021

EXPO E-25
Academic Writing and Critical Reading

Tad Davies, PhD

Head Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University

January session | CRN 24338

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays-Thursdays, 1-4 pm
Start Date: Jan. 4, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Final papers due Monday, February 8.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24338/2021

EXPO E-25
Academic Writing and Critical Reading

Sarah Ahrens, PhD

Freelance Writer

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15124 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15124/2020

EXPO E-25
Academic Writing and Critical Reading

Greta Pane, PhD

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16152 | Section 7

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 3-5 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16152/2020

EXPO E-25
Academic Writing and Critical Reading

Jerusha Achterberg, MPH

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 13337 | Section 11

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-13337/2020

EXPO E-25
Academic Writing and Critical Reading

Geraldine A. Grimm, PhD

Lecturer in German, Harvard Divinity School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14620 | Section 4

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Fridays, 3-5 pm
Start Date: Sep. 4, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14620/2020

EXPO E-25
Academic Writing and Critical Reading

Brian T. Fobi, JD

Technical Advisor, NurseGrid Executive

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24355 | Section 4

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24355/2021

EXPO E-25
Academic Writing and Critical Reading

Jeffrey Robert Wilson, PhD

Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15401 | Section 10

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15401/2020

EXPO E-25
Academic Writing and Critical Reading

Joan Feinberg, MA

Editor

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25386 | Section 3

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25386/2021

EXPO E-25
Academic Writing and Critical Reading

Margaret C. Rennix, PhD

Academic Coach, Academic Resource Center, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25398 | Section 10

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25398/2021

EXPO E-25
Academic Writing and Critical Reading

Greta Pane, PhD

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25403 | Section 9

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 3-5 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25403/2021

EXPO E-25
Academic Writing and Critical Reading

Sarah Ahrens, PhD

Freelance Writer

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15935 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 11 am-1 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15935/2020

EXPO E-25
Academic Writing and Critical Reading

Cynthia F. C. Hill, PhD

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25686 | Section 6

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25686/2021

EXPO E-25
Academic Writing and Critical Reading

Jerusha Achterberg, MPH

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16471 | Section 12

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16471/2020

EXPO E-25
Academic Writing and Critical Reading

John J. Kaag, PhD

Professor of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Lowell and Miller Scholar, Santa Fe Institute

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16220 | Section 6

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16220/2020

EXPO E-25
Academic Writing and Critical Reading

Michael Ortiz, AM

Doctoral Candidate in American Studies, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16476 | Section 13

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16476/2020

EXPO E-25
Academic Writing and Critical Reading

Greta Pane, PhD

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16529 | Section 14

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16529/2020

EXPO E-25
Academic Writing and Critical Reading

Geraldine A. Grimm, PhD

Lecturer in German, Harvard Divinity School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25252 | Section 5

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Fridays, 3-5 pm
Start Date: Jan. 29, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25252/2021

EXPO E-25
Academic Writing and Critical Reading

Brian T. Fobi, JD

Technical Advisor, NurseGrid Executive

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16038 | Section 3

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 3-5 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16038/2020

EXPO E-25
Academic Writing and Critical Reading

Sarah Ahrens, PhD

Freelance Writer

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24751 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24751/2021

EXPO E-25
Academic Writing and Critical Reading

Jerusha Achterberg, MPH

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25778 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25778/2021

EXPO E-25
Academic Writing and Critical Reading

Thomas A. Underwood, PhD

Master Lecturer, College of Arts and Sciences Writing Program, Boston University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 13492 | Section 9

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-13492/2020

EXPO E-25
Academic Writing and Critical Reading

Daniel Blank, PhD

Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26038 | Section 13

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26038/2021

EXPO E-25
Academic Writing and Critical Reading

Janet Sylvester, PhD

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24515 | Section 11

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24515/2021

EXPO E-34
Business Rhetoric

Steven Wandler, PhD

Writing Intensive Program Director, St. Catherine University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25089 | Section 10

Description
This course helps business professionals improve their writing so that they are better equipped to accomplish their educational and professional goals. Students practice some of the essential forms of business writing, including e-mail messages, cover letters, memoranda, proposals, and presentations. Through frequent writing assignments of various kinds and regular feedback from the instructor and from peer reviewers, students learn to construct clear and precise sentences, develop coherent paragraphs, organize documents effectively, and use sources responsibly.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25089/2021

EXPO E-34
Business Rhetoric

Randy S. Rosenthal, MTS

Editor

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16133 | Section 8

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16133/2020

EXPO E-34
Business Rhetoric

Jennifer Ann Doody, ALM

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14087 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14087/2020

EXPO E-34
Business Rhetoric

Franklin J. Schwarzer, JD

Attorney, Schlesinger and Buchbinder, LLP

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25402 | Section 9

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25402/2021

EXPO E-34
Business Rhetoric

Jennifer Ann Doody, ALM

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24648 | Section 3

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24648/2021

EXPO E-34
Business Rhetoric

Jennifer Ann Doody, ALM

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25682 | Section 5

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25682/2021

EXPO E-34
Business Rhetoric

Sarah E. Case, PhD

Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25171 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25171/2021

EXPO E-34
Business Rhetoric

Cynthia F. C. Hill, PhD

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16222 | Section 5

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16222/2020

EXPO E-34
Business Rhetoric

Randy S. Rosenthal, MTS

Editor

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25954 | Section 7

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25954/2021

EXPO E-34
Business Rhetoric

Jennifer Ann Doody, ALM

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15462 | Section 3

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15462/2020

EXPO E-34
Business Rhetoric

Virginia Maurer, MA

Senior Associate, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 23922 | Section 6

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-23922/2021

EXPO E-34
Business Rhetoric

Steven Wandler, PhD

Writing Intensive Program Director, St. Catherine University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15226 | Section 10

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15226/2020

EXPO E-34
Business Rhetoric

Marlon Kuzmick, MA

Director of the Learning Lab, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 13976 | Section 6

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-13976/2020

EXPO E-34
Business Rhetoric

Thomas Akbari, MA

Lecturer in English, Northeastern University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 23719 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-23719/2021

EXPO E-34
Business Rhetoric

Virginia Maurer, MA

Senior Associate, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15784 | Section 7

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15784/2020

EXPO E-34
Business Rhetoric

Cynthia F. C. Hill, PhD

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25267 | Section 4

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25267/2021

EXPO E-34
Business Rhetoric

Franklin J. Schwarzer, JD

Attorney, Schlesinger and Buchbinder, LLP

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15544 | Section 9

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15544/2020

EXPO E-34
Business Rhetoric

Joan Feinberg, MA

Editor

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15546 | Section 4

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15546/2020

EXPO E-34
Business Rhetoric

Randy S. Rosenthal, MTS

Editor

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25570 | Section 8

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25570/2021

EXPO E-34
Business Rhetoric

Thomas Akbari, MA

Lecturer in English, Northeastern University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14577 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14577/2020

EXPO E-42A
Writing in the Humanities

Peter Becker, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15143

Description
This course is designed for students who wish to build upon the skills developed in EXPO E-25 in order to produce more advanced research and writing in the humanities. The course is also appropriate for students who wish to review their research and writing skills before embarking on a proseminar at Extension or graduate study elsewhere. Students are introduced to the work of writing in the humanities via focused study in the field of literature. During the first part of the semester, students read and write about literary texts; during the second part of the semester, students develop their own independent research project in a humanities field of their choosing. This project involves developing a viable research question; finding, analyzing, and interpreting resources; and developing and refining an original argument in a final paper.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15143/2020

EXPO E-42A
Writing in the Humanities

Peter Becker, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25910

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25910/2021

EXPO E-42A
Writing in the Humanities

Patricia M. Bellanca, PhD

Head Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University

January session | CRN 25736

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays-Thursdays, noon-3 pm
Start Date: Jan. 4, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Final papers due Monday, February 8.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25736/2021

EXPO E-42B
Writing in the Social Sciences

Ariane Liazos, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15918 | Section 2

Description
This course is designed for students who wish to build upon the skills developed in EXPO E-25 in order to produce more advanced research and writing in the social sciences. The course is also appropriate for students who wish to review their research and writing skills before embarking on a proseminar at Extension or graduate study elsewhere. Students are introduced to the various social science disciplines and their approaches, while also learning how to become critical consumers of social science research. Students develop their own independent research project in the social science field of their choosing. This project lasts the entire semester and involves developing a viable research question; learning how to find, analyze, and interpret resources appropriately; and, finally, developing and refining an original argument in a final paper.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15918/2020

EXPO E-42B
Writing in the Social Sciences

Ramyar D. Rossoukh, PhD

Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16473 | Section 3

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16473/2020

EXPO E-42B
Writing in the Social Sciences

Ramyar D. Rossoukh, PhD

Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25959 | Section 3

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 3-5 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25959/2021

EXPO E-42B
Writing in the Social Sciences

Ariane Liazos, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

January session | CRN 25711

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays-Thursdays, 9 am-noon
Start Date: Jan. 4, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Final papers due Monday, February 8.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25711/2021

EXPO E-42B
Writing in the Social Sciences

Briana J. Smith, PhD

Lecturer on History and Literature, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16526 | Section 4

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 3-5 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16526/2020

EXPO E-42B
Writing in the Social Sciences

Janling Fu, AM

Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15782 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15782/2020

EXPO E-42B
Writing in the Social Sciences

Michael Ortiz, AM

Doctoral Candidate in American Studies, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24022 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24022/2021

EXPO E-42B
Writing in the Social Sciences

Evander Lewis Price, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Religion and the Human, Indiana University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26084 | Section 4

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26084/2021

EXPO E-42B
Writing in the Social Sciences

Janling Fu, AM

Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24826 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24826/2021

EXPO E-42B
Writing in the Social Sciences

Thomas A. Underwood, PhD

Master Lecturer, College of Arts and Sciences Writing Program, Boston University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26109 | Section 5

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26109/2021

EXPO E-42C
Writing in the Sciences

Cynthia F. C. Hill, PhD

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15518 | Section 2

Description
This course provides instruction in writing for students considering careers or advanced study in the natural, computational, or applied sciences. Through critical reading of key examples of the genres of scientific literature, students study how scientific texts address an audience, make claims, invoke prior claims, deploy key terms, and engage quantitative and visual evidence. The course’s workshop approach fosters skills in revision, peer review, and research into the scientific literature. The course offers writing strategies for successful communication in the field, including concise sentences, coherent paragraphs, and well-ordered documents. Projects include an academic research paper on a topic of a student’s choice in a form common to most scientific disciplines. The course is also appropriate for students who wish to review their research and writing skills before embarking on a proseminar at Extension or graduate study elsewhere.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15518/2020

EXPO E-42C
Writing in the Sciences

Thomas Akbari, MA

Lecturer in English, Northeastern University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14538 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14538/2020

EXPO E-42C
Writing in the Sciences

Cynthia F. C. Hill, PhD

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26092 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26092/2021

EXPO E-42C
Writing in the Sciences

Thomas Akbari, MA

Lecturer in English, Northeastern University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24821 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24821/2021

EXPO E-90
Principles of Legal Writing

Franklin J. Schwarzer, JD

Attorney, Schlesinger and Buchbinder, LLP

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25955

Description
No matter who you are, or what your background is, you will one day have to encounter legal writing. This course is designed for students interested in law school and those interested in improving their technical and analytical writing skills. Students are expected to draft and edit a variety of legal writings through exposure to litigation pleadings, transactional documents, and journalistic and academic articles regarding legal issues. The goal of the course is to teach students how to read, analyze, and write effectively about the law. Students also learn how to brief a case, how to read a statute, the basics of legal citation, and major schools of legal reasoning and analysis. There are many different kinds of legal writing. Any given day, an attorney may need to draft a complaint to initiate a lawsuit, an indemnity provision in a lease, an opinion letter to advise a client of the legal risks inherent in a particular course of action, or an appellate brief arguing why a judge should agree with a contested interpretation of the law. Each of these tasks requires writing that is clear, concise, and convincing. Each also requires slightly different approaches to writing. Ultimately though, whatever the task, good legal writing should never be legalese.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25955/2021

EXPO E-90
Principles of Legal Writing

Franklin J. Schwarzer, JD

Attorney, Schlesinger and Buchbinder, LLP

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15801

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15801/2020

FREN E-1
Intensive Elementary French I

Kimberlee Anne Campbell, PhD

Consultant

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16457 | Section 2

Description
Students learn basic French grammar, vocabulary, and conversational skills. This course features one-to-one conversations with the instructor, and small-group discussions with other students. Assessment is by portfolio and conversations with the instructor.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm

Required half-hour conversation sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 29 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16457/2020

FREN E-1
Intensive Elementary French I

Wayne Ishikawa, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 13545 | Section 1

Description
An introduction to oral and written French for students with little or no background in the language, this course encourages students to communicate with each other and the instructor in simple language using role-play and other interpersonal activities. Grammar includes present and near future tenses, and the compound past.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, Thursdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-13545/2020

FREN E-1A
Elementary French I

Anne Taieb, MA

Lecturer in French, Tufts University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15360

Description
This course is an introduction to French with an emphasis on communication though various interactive activities and role-playing. Students practice all four activities (listening, speaking, reading, and writing). At the end of the semester, students are able to understand and use familiar everyday expressions, to introduce themselves and others, and to ask and answer questions about their daily activities.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Noncredit: $750
Undergraduate credit: $940
Credits: 2

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15360/2020

FREN E-1B
Elementary French I

Anne Taieb, MA

Lecturer in French, Tufts University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25004

Description
This course develops the basic communicative skills of listening, reading, and writing with an emphasis on speaking the language. Students improve their conversational French though various interactive activities. They are introduced to French and Francophone culture.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Noncredit: $750
Undergraduate credit: $940
Credits: 2

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: FREN E-1a, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25004/2021

FREN E-2
Intensive Elementary French II

Wayne Ishikawa, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 23396 | Section 1

Description
This course emphasizes oral and written communication using language structures that include the imperfect, future, and conditional tenses and the subjunctive mood. Students communicate using role-play and other interpersonal activities. They also read short pieces on modern French culture and write compositions on topics of personal interest.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, Thursdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: FREN E-1b, FREN E-1, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-23396/2021

FREN E-2
Intensive Elementary French II

Kimberlee Anne Campbell, PhD

Consultant

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26022 | Section 2

Description
Students continue to develop their communication skills, building on the materials from FREN E-1. This course features one-to-one conversations with the instructor, and small-group discussions with other students. Assessment is by portfolio and conversations with the instructor.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm

Required half-hour conversation sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: FREN E-1b, FREN E-1, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 29 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26022/2021

GERM E-1
Intensive Elementary German I

Ruth Sondermann, MBA

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 11066

Description
This is an intensive elementary German language class in which we focus on acquiring the four basic skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Materials such as videos, current material from newspapers, poems, music, and excerpts from children’s books supplement the E-text book.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-11066/2020

GERM E-2
Intensive Elementary German II

Ruth Sondermann, MBA

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 20126

Description
This course is a continuation of GERM E-1. Students continue developing their communicative skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Class work moves from guided exercises that cultivate the student’s ability to apply correct grammar and syntax to more creative and independent uses of the German language. The course makes extensive use of technology (computer programs, the internet, e-mail, videos) to promote and enhance students’ comprehension of the German language, its speakers, and its culture.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: GERM E-1, or permission of the instructor.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-20126/2021

GOVT E-20
Introduction to Comparative Politics

George Soroka, PhD

Lecturer on Government, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26047

Description
This course is designed to offer an introduction to major concepts and theories in comparative politics, as well as to familiarize students with the basic tools of comparative analysis. During our time together, we ask and attempt to answer questions such as when do revolutions occur? Why are some countries democratic while others are not? What is the interplay between culture and politics? How do economic factors influence political development? To what extent are political processes the result of individual volition versus larger structural forces? In doing so, we examine cases from around the globe and across time. The objective of this course is two-fold: to provide students with a theoretical grounding through which to understand the political world we inhabit, as well as to introduce the academic field of comparative politics, along with its empirical expectations and modes of argumentation.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26047/2021

GOVT E-30
American Government—A New Perspective

Paul E. Peterson, PhD

Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and Director, Program on Education Policy and Governance, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24833

Description
This course examines how American democracy and government work. Although the course serves as an introduction to American government, it also shows how well established institutions have been altered by modern politics, and it introduces students to key ideas in political science. We place particular emphasis on the increasingly significant role that electoral pressures and the permanent campaign play in the workings of American government.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are the same as those given in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course Government 30.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24833/2021

GOVT E-40
International Conflict and Cooperation

Dustin Tingley, PhD

Professor of Government, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15054

Description
This course is an introduction to the analysis of the causes and character of international conflict and cooperation. Theories of international relations are presented and then applied to contemporary and historical cases. The course begins with a foundational review of the different levels at which states interact and the primary theoretical paradigms in the field. It then addresses how states achieve cooperation in the face of international anarchy, a question that has attracted the attention of scholars since Thucydides. The course next addresses basic bargaining theory, which uses insights from economics to explore how bargaining breakdowns, commitment problems, and incomplete information can lead to war. Thereafter we examine three popular topics in contemporary international relations research: the roles that psychology, leaders, and domestic politics play in explaining international conflict and cooperation. We also explore the sources and effects of international institutions such as the United Nations and World Trade Organization. We spend a week studying terrorism, a problem of particular significance in the modern world. We also look at trade, foreign aid, international development, and climate change. We conclude with international law and an exploration of the future of international relations.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15054/2020

GOVT E-40
International Conflict and Cooperation

Dustin Tingley, PhD

Professor of Government, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24799

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24799/2021

GOVT E-94
Deliberative Justice: The Theory and Practice of Good Citizenship

Sergio Imparato, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16401

Description
The course is an introduction to the theory, methods, and practice of deliberative moral reasoning. Students learn how to effectively identify and analyze ethical dilemmas relevant to their communities, how to constructively engage in civic debates, and how to present persuasive moral arguments in public settings. Class meetings feature presentations that address the students’ topics of interest, discussions on methods of moral deliberation, and assignments that bolster written and oral communication. Emphasis is placed on the development of the written and rhetorical skills needed to advance moral arguments of a political nature. Examples include issues of social, political, and economic inequalities, environment, healthcare, and biomedical issues, migration, civic membership, and issues of privacy, technology, and dignity of work.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16401/2020

GOVT E-594
Deliberative Justice Precapstone: The Theory and Practice of Good Citizenship

Sergio Imparato, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16373

Description
The course is an introduction to the theory, methods, and practice of deliberative moral reasoning. Students learn how to effectively identify and analyze ethical dilemmas relevant to their communities, how to constructively engage in civic debates, and how to present persuasive moral arguments in public settings. Class meetings feature presentations that address the students’ topics of interest, discussions on methods of moral deliberation, and assignments that bolster written and oral communication. Emphasis is placed on the development of the written and rhetorical skills needed to advance moral arguments of a political nature. Examples include issues of social, political, and economic inequalities; environment, healthcare and biomedical issues; migration, civic membership, and issues of privacy; technology; and dignity of work.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, government or international relations, who are in good academic standing and intend to enroll in GOVT E-599c for the 2021 spring term. GOVT E-599c registration requires that all other degree requirements are complete, except for the capstone. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16373/2020

GOVT E-595
Policy Writing and Analysis Precapstone

Sparsha Saha, PhD

Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16184 | Section 2

Description
The aim of the course is to provide students with the critical and analytical skills to evaluate, design, and write a policy paper. A policy paper is a scholarly work that analyzes a relevant policy issue and provides evidence-based, actionable recommendations. Emphasis is placed on the identification of policy problems, the use of methodological tools to analyze them, and the design and presentation of potential solutions. Class meetings feature presentations of policy papers that address the students’ topics of interest, discussions of research strategies employed by policy analysts, and assignments that bolster written and oral communication. Students learn about all aspects of policy paper design, including the identification of relevant data sources, techniques for analysis, and the proper method of presenting policy paper findings. Examples of policy paper topics include migration and refugee policies, social and economic inequality issues, environmental and sustainability issues, gender equality and gender-based violence issues, cyberwarfare strategies, counterterrorism strategies, and issues of international security and nuclear proliferation.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, government or international relations, who are in good academic standing and intend to enroll in Dr. Saha’s GOVT E-599 for the 2021 spring term. GOVT E-599 registration requires that all other degree requirements are complete, except for the capstone. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 12 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16184/2020

GOVT E-595
Policy Writing and Analysis Precapstone

Michael David Miner, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15493 | Section 1

Description
This course prepares students for advanced study, writing, and research in policy analysis. Lectures and class activities prioritize diagnosis and communication of problems followed by the development of methodological policy prescriptions. Topical readings encompass the foreign and domestic spectrum including historical case studies to illustrate dynamics in motion. Coursework stresses tangible skills to better evaluate, design, and write policy papers. A policy paper is a scholarly work that analyzes a relevant issue and provides evidence-based, actionable recommendations for decision-makers and organizational leaders. Emphasis is placed on the identification of policy challenges, the use of methodological tools to analyze them, and the design and presentation of potential solutions. This course further explores public policy including a comprehensive review of processes that drive and inform decision making at the local, state, federal, and international levels. Students are provided ample writing and research opportunities to explore issues of personal and professional interest in the production of a high-quality policy paper. Assignments include practical tools and skills most frequently used in policy settings such as memos and briefings, but also longer analytical papers and presentations.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, government or international relations, who are in good academic standing and intend to enroll in Dr. Miner’s GOVT E-599 for the 2021 spring term. GOVT E-599 registration requires that all other degree requirements are complete, except for the capstone. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15493/2020

GOVT E-596
Bridges to JustPeace

Diane L. Moore, PhD

Lecturer on Religion, Conflict, and Peace, Harvard Divinity School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15492 | Section 1

Description
Contrary to popular assumption, many US citizens who find themselves on opposite sides of current political and ideological debates have more in common than is readily apparent. In this course we pursue three main objectives: to uncover and examine the sources of the growing economic disparities and extreme social fragmentation that the 2016 presidential election revealed; to inspire empathy for the perceived other through narrative, literature, and the arts; and to construct strategies for creative coalition building in local and national contexts. Our explorations focus on case studies that include climate change, white poverty, and Black Lives Matter. Other case study options are chosen by student interest. Possibilities include elder care, LGBTQ rights, immigration, religious freedom, and reproductive rights. Though the course focuses on the United States, we examine parallels in other parts of the globe. Final projects involve planning a coalition building action or activity.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 23 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15492/2020

GOVT E-596
Bridges to JustPeace

Diane L. Moore, PhD

Lecturer on Religion, Conflict, and Peace, Harvard Divinity School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15527 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 23 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15527/2020

GOVT E-597
National Security Writing and Analysis Precapstone

Derek Reveron, PhD

Lecturer in Extension and Faculty Affiliate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, and Professor of National Security Affairs, Naval War College

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16317

Description
This course prepares students for advanced study, writing, and research in national security. This course explores the national security system and policy processes that drive and inform decision making. Readings span current affairs and historical cases to illustrate dynamics of strategic decision making. Assignments include the development of practical tools and skills most frequently used in national security settings such as memos, briefings, and working group presentations. There is individual and in-class group work that simulates the experience of real-world practitioners working in national security from the front lines of the military, intelligence community, and civilian workforce to top level decision making inside the White House.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, government or international relations, who are in good academic standing and intend to enroll in GOVT E-599b for the 2021 spring term. GOVT E-599b registration requires that all other degree requirements are complete, except for the capstone. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16317/2020

GOVT E-599
Policy Analysis Capstone

Michael David Miner, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25115 | Section 1

Description
This course offers candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, government or international relations, the opportunity to apply the knowledge acquired in GOVT E-595 to conduct independent policy analysis, write a comprehensive paper, and brief a professional audience. In consultation with the instructor, students select a concrete policy problem, conduct autonomous research to analyze the topic in detail, and provide a set of actionable recommendations for consideration by an outside panel of experts. Throughout the semester students receive feedback from their peers, instructors, and staff to aid project development. Class meetings include the creation of writing schedules, discussions focused on policy analysis methodology, and peer-review analysis of student projects. As time permits special guests are invited to share insights on policy related issues. Students are provided ample writing and research opportunities to explore topics of personal and professional interest in the production of high-quality policy papers worthy of publication outside of the course. Projects are team oriented reflecting a real-world approach seen at the local, state, federal, and international levels on policy matters foreign and domestic. Emphasis is placed on the identification of potential target audiences, such as governmental agencies, nongovernment organizations (NGOs), policymakers, and practitioners. The capstone project culminates with a formal presentation of projects to a panel of policy experts and includes detailed feedback and consideration of the arguments, ideas, and recommendations.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, government or international relations capstone track who are in good academic standing. They must have completed all other degree requirements, except for the capstone, including the research methods and data analysis requirement and a B-minus or higher grade in Dr. Miner’s GOVT E-595 in the 2020 fall term. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25115/2021

GOVT E-599
Policy Analysis Capstone

Sparsha Saha, PhD

Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25762 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, government or international relations capstone track who are in good academic standing. They must have completed all other degree requirements, except for the capstone, including the research methods and data analysis requirement and a B-minus or higher grade in Dr. Saha’s GOVT E-595 in the 2020 fall term. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 12 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25762/2021

GOVT E-599A
Social Justice Capstone: Bridges to JustPeace

Diane L. Moore, PhD

Lecturer on Religion, Conflict, and Peace, Harvard Divinity School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25071

Description
In this course, candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, government or religion, further develop and implement the coalition building proposal they constructed for their final project in GOVT E-596. Projects require a sound theoretical foundation in conflict transformation, a developed method for assessment, and a clear plan for a project that a significant portion of which can be implemented and evaluated within the confines of the semester.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, government or religion capstone track who are in good academic standing. They must have completed all other degree requirements except for the capstone, including the research methods and data analysis requirement (government candidates) and a B-minus or higher grade in GOVT E-596 in the 2020 fall term. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25071/2021

GOVT E-599B
National Security Analysis Capstone

Derek Reveron, PhD

Lecturer in Extension and Faculty Affiliate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, and Professor of National Security Affairs, Naval War College

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25112

Description
This course provides candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, government or international relations, an opportunity to complete a policy research project on behalf of a US national security organization. The students frame a problem for analysis, complete a group in-depth research project, and present their findings to senior representatives from a government organization. Students work in small groups to address the question: What challenges do gray zone conflicts pose to the United States? Individually, students write strategic options memos to address pressing national security challenges.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, government or international relations capstone track who are in good academic standing. They must have completed all other degree requirements, except for the capstone, including the research methods and data analysis requirement and a B-minus or higher grade in GOVT E-597 in the 2020 fall term. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25112/2021

GOVT E-599C
Deliberative Justice Capstone

Sergio Imparato, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25957

Description
This course allows students to apply the knowledge acquired in GOVT E-594 to produce a capstone essay. In consultation with the instructor, students work in groups to identify ethical conflicts that affect their communities and work towards the development of an argumentative essay. Throughout the semester, students receive feedback both from their peers and the instructor to aid in the development of their group projects. Class meetings include the development of writing schedules, discussions focused on moral reasoning methodology, and peer-review analysis of student projects. The capstone culminates with a formal presentation of the students’ argument to a local town hall meeting.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, government or international relations capstone track who are in good academic standing. They must have completed all other degree requirements, except for the capstone, including the research methods and data analysis requirement and a B-minus or higher grade in GOVT E-594 in the 2020 fall term. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25957/2021

GOVT E-1005
Data Analysis for the Social Sciences

Matthew Blackwell, PhD

Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16339

Description
This course introduces students to techniques used for data analysis in the social sciences. Students learn to think systematically about research design and causality, how to measure the quantities we care about, and how to understand and quantify uncertainty. Students learn methods—including statistical computing in R—that enable them to execute their research plans. This course is highly recommended for those planning to write an ALM thesis or complete a capstone.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date:

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course Government 51.

Prerequisites: High school algebra is required. Some previous experience with statistics or statistical computing is helpful, but not required.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16339/2020

GOVT E-1007
Cyberpolitics

Ruxandra Paul, PhD

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Amherst College

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24791

Description
This seminar examines how the digital age has transformed politics around the world, in democratic and authoritarian contexts. Information and communication technologies change how state, society, and market actors interact, and affect the balance of power between political systems and their challengers. Social media facilitates information sharing and collective action with monitorial citizenship on the rise. Technology creates new access points and vulnerabilities; development entails security threats. The course includes four modules: e-democracy (participation, elections and campaigns, social capital and civil society, and public opinion and polarization); online revolutions (resistance, repression, mobilization, authoritarian resilience, censorship, and surveillance); security (cyberwar, new threats, and radicalization); and beyond state boundaries (cooperation, migration, transnational hacktivism, new business models, and cryptocurrencies).

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Some prior background in social sciences (political science, sociology, legal studies) is an advantage. A keen interest in topics related to politics and technology is a must.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24791/2021

GOVT E-1008
Global Ethnic Politics

Gloria Ayee, PhD

Lecturer on Government, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25700

Description
This seminar provides a comparative, global analysis of race and ethnicity, and is designed to help students understand the history, dynamics, and salience of ethnic inequality and political cleavage. Issues under consideration include definitions of race and ethnicity, colonization, nationhood, the politics and political history of indigenous peoples, the history and persistence of white supremacy, multiculturalism, legacies of slavery, ethnic political mobilization, panethnicity, diasporas and transnationalism, migration, ethnic cleansing and genocide, contemporary racial stratification, causes of ethnic conflict and violence, and responses to ethnic conflict.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25700/2021

GOVT E-1020
Res Publica: A History of Representative Government

Daniel Carpenter, PhD

Allie S. Freed Professor of Government, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16385

Description
“A republic, if you can keep it.” So did Benjamin Franklin characterize his hopes for American government. What did Franklin and others mean by republic, and why did he and so many others worry that it might be something hard to hold onto? This course provides the theoretical basis and historical evolution of republics so that students can understand the American system of a democratic republic, now spread widely around the planet even as it is considered under threat. Students read Alexander Hamilton alongside Thomas Jefferson, Niccolo Machiavelli alongside Baron de Montesquieu, and Angelina Grimké alongside Frederick Douglass. We consider systems of governance in Republican Rome, medieval Europe, early modern England and France, Native American nations, and the United States. The thinkers and founders we read thought long and hard about what freedom is, how to balance executive and legislative power, and why republics and democracies can be unstable. As a democratic republic, the United States places great faith in the capacity of voters to choose their rulers, who in turn make most of our policies. Is this faith misplaced? What is the role for virtue in a republic, and what is virtue? How does inequality undermine republican stability, and what might be done about it?

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date:

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Many of the lectures are from the 2018 Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course. Others are new, and being recorded this fall.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16385/2020

GOVT E-1035
Money, Markets, and Morals

Michael J. Sandel, PhD

Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25941

Description
What should be the role of money and markets in our society? Are there some things that money should not be able to buy? Should people be permitted to buy sex, votes, babies, citizenship, or college admission? What about buying and selling the right to pollute, procreate, immigrate, discriminate, or to hunt endangered species? Should we use markets to govern health care, education, privacy, or criminal law? The course considers what moral limits, if any, the law should impose on market exchanges. Drawing upon classical philosophical works and contemporary moral and political controversies, we attempt to determine what goods and social practices should not be up for sale.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the video series for the Institute of New Economic Thinking.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25941/2021

GOVT E-1037
Pandemic Ethics

Sergio Imparato, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16358

Description
This course investigates the ethical dilemmas that arise during global pandemics. Is it morally legitimate to stockpile essential protective material (such as masks and gloves) in times of shortage? If faced with a shortage of beds, how should hospitals prioritize patients in need of medical care? Should hospitals publicly share medical information regarding their sick patients? Should technology and communication companies conduct extensive surveillance to reduce contagion? In a pandemic, should social isolation be voluntary or mandated by the government? We explore these questions through an intensive set of moral debates on the social, political, economic, and technological dimensions of a global healthcare crisis.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 5:10-7:10 pm, or on demand.

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16358/2020

GOVT E-1041
History of Human Rights and US Foreign Policy

Debbie Sharnak, PhD

Assistant Professor of History and International Studies, Rowan University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15760

Description
This course examines US national security issues through the prism of human rights, exploring how humanitarian concerns became woven into the fabric of traditional security studies and how this does or does not affect current policy. We survey the most important literature and debates concerning the concepts of human rights and the US national interest. We also use case studies to explore the intersection of human rights, economic aims, strategic concerns, and peace building. In addition, we test the consistency of US guiding principles, the influence of non-state actors on policy formation, and the strength of the international human rights regime. Ultimately, the course challenges assumptions about how human rights first arose as a global phenomenon and assesses the conflicted legacy of human rights in US foreign policy over the last several decades and in current policy.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 33 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15760/2020

GOVT E-1045
Justice

Michael J. Sandel, PhD

Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16357

Description
This course explores critical analysis of classical and contemporary theories of justice, including discussion of present-day applications. Topics include affirmative action, income distribution, same-sex marriage, the role of markets, debates about rights (human rights and property rights), arguments for and against equality, and dilemmas of loyalty in public and private life. The course invites learners to subject their own views on these controversies to critical examination. The principal readings for the course are texts by Aristotle, John Locke, Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, and John Rawls. Other assigned readings include writings by contemporary philosophers, court cases, and articles about political controversies that raise philosophical questions.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the HarvardX course.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16357/2020

GOVT E-1048
Human Rights and International Politics

Mathias Risse, PhD

Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Administration, Harvard Kennedy School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 23673

Description
This seminar is an introduction to human rights and the role they have come to play in international politics. The goal is to provide basic human rights literacy and to put students in a position to debate questions about human rights and dilemmas that arise about them.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 19 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-23673/2021

GOVT E-1054
Transitional Justice and the Politics of Truth Commissions

Gloria Ayee, PhD

Lecturer on Government, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16146

Description
Scholars, policymakers, and political leaders have long debated appropriate responses to severe human rights violations that occur during periods of civil conflict, war, and genocide. This seminar introduces students to interdisciplinary studies in transitional justice and post-conflict reconciliation by focusing on the work of truth and reconciliation commissions. Students examine key concepts and theoretical perspectives that are central to the field of transitional justice. Drawing on cases such as South Africa, Chile, Peru, Kenya, Liberia, Nepal, Panama, and Canada, the course critically examines how truth commissions are used to provide accountability for human rights abuses carried out by the state.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16146/2020

GOVT E-1071
Politics of Religion in Liberal Democracies

George Soroka, PhD

Lecturer on Government, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16314

Description
The secularization thesis argues that as societies modernize religion becomes a less important facet of life. However, the evidence for a decline in religion’s contemporary political salience is extremely equivocal. Indeed, multiple indicators suggest religious belief and belonging are currently experiencing a political resurgence across the globe, and even among the developed countries of the world partisan fault lines often appear to be drawn along religious dimensions. Why might this be the case today, when by the middle of the twentieth century many social scientists were convinced that the influence of faith over the public square would fade into obscurity and irrelevance? This course begins by examining the broad contours of the role religion has played in shaping political processes and how they have changed (or not) in recent decades, then applies these insights to analyze religion’s present-day influence on political realities in the United States (frequently considered exceptional in its religiosity) and Europe (widely held to be a secularized continent). Our purpose in doing so is to assess the degree to which religion affects public life in comparative context. The course concludes by considering what the implications are for democratic governance when religion stakes an overtly political claim. Students are provided with the tools to think critically about religion’s role in politics and the tensions accompanying it in liberal, pluralistic societies.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16314/2020

GOVT E-1111
Political Corruption

Jeeyang Rhee Baum, PhD

Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15794

Description
This course provides a comparative analysis of political corruption in rich and poor countries around the world. Why do countries vary in the extent of corruption they experience and with what consequences? This course explores this question using empirical data, as well as related issues. For example, how and why do public officials abuse the public trust and engage in illegal actions while in office? Why is corruption so prevalent in poor countries? Does political corruption decline with economic development? What do politicians gain from political corruption? Under what conditions do countries adopt anti-corruption strategies and how effective have they been? We examine case studies including Afghanistan, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Italy, Nigeria, South Korea, and the US.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 47 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15794/2020

GOVT E-1113
Democracy’s Century: Democratic Transitions in Comparative Perspective

George Soroka, PhD

Lecturer on Government, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16313

Description
This course addresses the question of tough transitions. Democracy has come to many different lands in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries, but its record of success once there has been remarkably variable. Consequently, we ask two interrelated questions, drawing upon both theoretical literature and case studies: what conditions are propitious or deleterious for democratic consolidation? And, in the latter instance, are there ways of overcoming less than ideal starting points? Posing these questions requires distinguishing between the process of democratization and the outcome of a stable, well-functioning democratic regime. In doing so, we examine problematic cases, historic and contemporary, where democracy has survived and thrived despite the initial odds (India, Germany). We also look at democratic reversals, where hopes of competitive elections and representative governance have been thwarted (Russia). The point of doing so is to have students think critically about democratic theory and regime change in order to assess events such as the Arab Spring and evaluate what factors are unfavorable to democracy (and why), as well as whether these might be overcome through institutional design or other means.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 19 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16313/2020

GOVT E-1313
Race, Film, and American Politics

Gloria Ayee, PhD

Lecturer on Government, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25677

Description
This course examines the multifaceted ways in which racial and ethnic identity has been represented in American film. Drawing on political science, sociology, anthropology, and film and media studies, we assess the ways in which the mainstream media in the United States—focusing primarily on the Hollywood film industry—has portrayed different population groups and shaped our understanding of what it means to be American. The course addresses issues of social stratification, and considers the intersection of identity and politics by analyzing historical shifts in cinematic representation in the United States.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date:

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Science course Government 1313. This course follows the Harvard College spring calendar and will meet during the Extension School spring break, March 14-20. See the syllabus for specific meeting dates.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25677/2021

GOVT E-1353
Leadership and Politics

John Paul Rollert, JD

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

George Jacob Wendt, JD

Consultant

January session | CRN 24062

Description
American politics, in general, and presidential campaigns, in particular, hold many lessons for leading for-profit and not-for-profit start-up ventures. Capital must be raised; a large, diverse team must be organized and deployed; and a brand must be developed and sold. The hours are long, the pressure is incredibly intense, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. Succeed, and you’re on your way to a plumb job in Washington, DC. Fail, and you’re left looking for a job. Accordingly, popular politics provides remarkable lessons in compelling leadership and successful management. This course aims to harvest them by way of an analysis of recent presidential campaigns and contemporary politics. Though emphasis is placed on American politics, lessons may be applied across the public and private sectors. Our readings are drawn from history, literature, philosophy, business, and politics, and in addition to lectures and discussion, the course also features guest speakers from business, journalism, and politics.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays-Thursdays, 2-5 pm

Required sections Wednesdays, 6-7 pm.Start Date: Jan. 4, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24062/2021

GOVT E-1355
American Elections and Party Power

Daniel Epstein, PhD

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16386

Description
Presidential and Congressional elections have enormous consequences. Political parties are the institutional actors that contest and win almost every state and federal election. The present and past development of the US party system and how the parties have contested elections is the focus of this course, especially the parties—changing ideologies, personalities, and geographic variation over time, up through and including the elections of 2020. Students learn about theoretical views of political parties, the electoral rules that produce party incentives and structures, and key moments in the development of the US political party system. We also focus on the 2020 election campaign, including not only the presidential contest, but also House and Senate races.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: GOVT E-30 recommended.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16386/2020

GOVT E-1356
American Presidential Elections

Jon Rogowski, PhD

Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16464

Description
This course studies presidential elections in historical and contemporary perspectives. It examines the development of presidential nominating procedures, the effectiveness of presidential campaigns, and the structural and individual-level factors that shape election outcomes, and links these topics to the 2020 presidential election. The course concludes by discussing the implications of presidential elections for American democracy and considering proposals for reform.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date:

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course Government 1516 starting September 3. See syllabus for details.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16464/2020

GOVT E-1368
Saving Schools: History, Politics, and Policy in US Education

Paul E. Peterson, PhD

Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and Director, Program on Education Policy and Governance, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26015

Description
The first part of this course seeks to explore how a school system, once the envy of the world, stumbled so that, in 2012, the performance in math, science, and reading of US students at age 15 fell below that of students in a majority of the world’s industrialized nations. Examining the history and politics of US education, we identify the personalities and historical forces—progressivism, racial desegregation, legalization, and collective bargaining—that shaped and re-shaped US school politics and policy. Subsequent sections of the course seek answers to a second question: What are the best ways of lifting the performance of American schools to a higher level? To explore these questions, we look at ideas and proposals of those who want to save our schools—either by reforming the teaching profession, holding schools accountable, or giving families more school choices. By speaking with reform proponents and independent experts, we capture the intensity of the current debate. In the end, we do not find any silver bullets that can magically lift schools to a new level of performance, but we do pinpoint the pluses and minuses of many new approaches to saving schools under consideration today.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the HarvardX course.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26015/2021

GOVT E-1530
Presidential Power and National Security Policy

Carlos E. Diaz Rosillo, PhD

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16362

Description
This course studies the origins and evolution of presidential power in the United States and explores how the powers of the President (both formal and informal) give the President actual power, or influence, over the conduct of national security policy. It examines the most prominent theories, scholarly debates, and public controversies about presidential power in the United States. It provides an overview of the different instruments of power available to the President and explores how different actors (such as the White House, the departments and agencies, the Congress, and the courts) have approached the use of those instruments. It looks at how the executive branch has structured and institutionalized different decision-making processes over time and made organizational arrangements to facilitate control over the foreign policy-making process, and it analyzes how effective those efforts have been in providing effective presidential leadership in the formulation and implementation of national security policy.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16362/2020

GOVT E-1540
Politics of the American Presidency

Jon Rogowski, PhD

Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25905

Description
The president of the United States is at the center of the American political system and is the focus of great national (and international) attention. This course examines the foundation of the office of the presidency and the sources of presidential power; the evolution of the presidency and the current structure of the office; the way presidential candidates campaign for the White House; the ways in which presidents organize and manage the executive branch; the manner in which they make decisions to shape domestic, economic, and foreign policy; and the relationship of the presidency to other institutions and political actors, such as Congress, the courts, political parties, interest groups, the media, and the public. The course explores the strategic choices available to modern American presidents in their efforts to augment the power of the presidency and provide active leadership to the political system. In addition to providing students with an overview of the American political system from the unique vantage point of the president, the course gives them the opportunity to study one of the most exciting, relevant, and at times controversial, political institutions in the world.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date:

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course Government 1539. This course follows the Harvard College spring calendar and will meet during the Extension School spring break, March 14-20. See the syllabus for specific meeting dates.

Prerequisites: Basic familiarity with the American system of government is helpful.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25905/2021

GOVT E-1555
Race in a Polarized America

Jennifer L. Hochschild, PhD

Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25137

Description
How do we manage issues of race, ethnicity, and immigration in a polarized political era? What role did race play in the election of President Trump, after eight years of the presidency of Barack Obama? How can we be good citizens of the world when Americans have such mixed views and take such mixed actions in engaging with racial hierarchy, identity, or interaction? This course addresses these questions by examining policy disputes around issues such as incarceration and policing, free speech, the role of biology in ancestry and medical care, electoral politics, activism, and movement across borders. We examine class, nationality, and gender differences within and across groups, and how group boundaries are made stronger or weaker. We consider how to reduce unproductive polarization, and how we can promote a better America even, or especially, when we do not agree on just what better entails. Course readings range from public speeches and interviews to works in political science, sociology, economics, and genomic science. Students learn how and where the United States has progressed in promoting group equality and fairness, as well as where it has not or has even moved backwards. Students end the course with a deeper understanding of the core American paradox of the persistence of group hierarchy in a country dedicated to democracy, equality, and liberty, and what people can do to resolve that paradox.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date:

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course Gen Ed 1052. This course follows the Harvard College spring calendar and will meet during the Extension School spring break, March 14-20. See the syllabus for specific meeting dates.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25137/2021

GOVT E-1585
The Polarization of American Politics: What Has Happened, Why, and Why Does it Matter?

Todd Washburn, PhD

Senior Assistant Provost for International Affairs, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16085

Description
Scholars, journalists, and the American public broadly agree that political divisions in the United States today are deep and growing. The two major parties seem to have grown more cohesive and more distant from each other, and their supporters view each other with suspicion and growing hostility. Many Americans and many observers of American politics sense that polarization has made governance more difficult and less effective, and a growing chorus of scholars argues that deep polarization can undermine democracy itself. What is the evidence to prove or refute the belief that polarization is on the rise? If polarization is real, what are the main hypothesized causes? What role does human psychology play in driving polarization? Does polarization endanger democracy itself? And what, if anything, can we do about it?

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16085/2020

GOVT E-1726
Intelligence and International Security

Michael David Miner, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26077

Description
This course explores the opaque world of intelligence and international security. The course begins with a survey of disciplines and methods of analysis before reviewing intelligence requirements as a component in policy processes that drive and inform decision making within the national security system. We consider various intelligence related topics including espionage, covert action, politicalization, counterintelligence, public oversight, intelligence failure, and reform. The course strikes a balance between contemporary issues and the storied histories of intelligence systems around the world. Though predominantly focused on the United States, the course also considers intelligence activities in the United Kingdom, Russia, China, and elsewhere. Students grapple with historical and hypothetical problem sets based on real-world scenarios to develop assessment capabilities. Required readings and assignments draw on classic and influential work in addition to declassified documents which illuminate the historical narrative in a tangible way. The course concludes with reflections on how past experience informs current perspectives and might elucidate future intelligence requirements to better anticipate and understand the changing world.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:40-9:40 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26077/2021

GOVT E-1726
Intelligence and International Security

Michael David Miner, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16120

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 8:10-10:10 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16120/2020

GOVT E-1733
Grand Strategy and National Security

Joan Johnson-Freese, PhD

Professor of National Security Affairs, Naval War College

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 13819

Description
This course examines the theoretical underpinnings of grand strategy as related to national security. While US national security and national security policy provide the focus for course material, the fundamental considerations are discussed as being applicable by/to any country. The intent of the course is to provide students with a working knowledge of the key theoretical frameworks of practitioner-focused national security studies, and the related terminology lexicon.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:10-7:10 pm

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-13819/2020

GOVT E-1743
Cyberspace and International Security

Derek Reveron, PhD

Lecturer in Extension and Faculty Affiliate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, and Professor of National Security Affairs, Naval War College

Michael David Miner, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25629

Description
In a very short time, individuals and companies have harnessed cyberspace to create new industries, a vibrant social space, and a new economic sphere that are intertwined with our everyday lives. At the same time, individuals, subnational groups, and governments are using cyberspace to advance interests through malicious activity. Terrorists recruit, train, and target through the internet, hackers steal data, and intelligence services conduct espionage. Still, the vast majority of cyberspace is a civilian space used by individuals, businesses, and governments for legitimate purposes. This course examines current and future threats to cyberspace, studies various approaches to advance and defend national interests, and contrasts the US approach with European, Russian, and Chinese approaches in cyberspace.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 3-5 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25629/2021

GOVT E-1743A
Cyber Attack Meets Cyber Policy

Derek Reveron, PhD

Lecturer in Extension and Faculty Affiliate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, and Professor of National Security Affairs, Naval War College

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16345

Description
In this course, students wrestle with the challenges of different cyber futures. Students are cast as key members of the US national security community to discuss cyber vulnerabilities, current US cyber policy, and the challenges associated with recovering from a major cyber attack.

Class Meetings:
2-credit half-term online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $940
Graduate credit: $1450
Credits: 2

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. This course meets for a half term, August 31-October 17.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16345/2020

GOVT E-1744
Women, Peace, and Security

Joan Johnson-Freese, PhD

Professor of National Security Affairs, Naval War College

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24686

Description
This course examines the increasingly recognized role of women in global peace and security affairs, as recognized by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325. Through politics, the military, nongovernmental, and grass roots organizations, women are involved in conflict prevention, peace building, development, and war. Consideration is given to various perspectives on why gender empowerment has proven difficult, the demonstrated consequences of not including women in security affairs, and what might be expected in the future.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24686/2021

GOVT E-1750
International Organization

Don Babai, PhD

Associate, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 20927

Description
Can states work out cooperative solutions to problems of human injustice and environmental degradation? What is the record of the United Nations in conflict management? What has been the impact of World Bank programs on the alleviation of poverty? Why are the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization regarded as necessities by some and as obstacles by others? These are some of the questions addressed in an exploration of the potentials and limitations of international organizations in the world system.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-20927/2021

GOVT E-1752
The Governance and International Politics of World Regions

Timothy J. Colton, PhD

Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16338

Description
This course explores analytical approaches to understanding multi-country neighborhoods defined by physical proximity. It examines and compares patterns of boundary setting, conflict, and cooperation at the regional level. We debate the question of whether we are in transit to a world of regions where geography and regionality are foundational to the whole international system. The majority of sessions delve in depth into the experience of one particular region, for example Europe, post-Soviet Eurasia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, or sub-Saharan Africa.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 21 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16338/2020

GOVT E-1764
Korean Politics and Security

Terence Roehrig, PhD

Professor of National Security Affairs, Naval War College

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25992

Description
Despite the end of the cold war, the Korean peninsula has remained a legacy of that conflict. The peninsula continues to be a serious concern for peace and stability in the region, but the past two years has raised the possibility of change through increased levels of diplomacy that have been unprecedented and unexpected. However, the denuclearization effort has now stalled. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is one of the last surviving communist states with a faltering economy that struggles to feed its people. North Korea maintains a large conventional military force, hundreds of ballistic missiles, and a stockpile of chemical and biological weapons. Since 2006, it has conducted six nuclear weapons tests with a growing capability to reach the continental United States with a nuclear-tipped missile. Since his father’s passing in December 2011, Kim Jong-un has consolidated his power and the regime appears stable with little likelihood of collapse. Across the demilitarized zone, South Korea has developed into a thriving global economy ranking 11th in the world. The Republic of Korea (ROK) is the sixth largest US trade partner and a world leader in the production of semiconductors, cell phones, automobiles, electronics, ships, and nuclear energy technology. Since 1953, the United States and South Korea have maintained a formal security alliance, and the peninsula remains home to 28,500 US troops. Developments in Korea have an important impact on the region and the world, making knowledge of the Koreas and their challenges vital. The talk of war has receded but many questions remain about the possibility of denuclearizing North Korea and the future of peace and stability on the peninsula. This course explores the history, politics, economics, and security of North and South Korea and their role in the larger context of Asia.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 5:10-7:10 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25992/2021

GOVT E-1780
International Political Economy

Jeffry A. Frieden, PhD

Stanfield Professor of International Peace, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25929

Description
This course analyzes the intersection of politics and economics in the international arena. It focuses on international trade, investment and monetary policies, and financial relations. Discussion of developed, developing, and formerly centrally planned nations is included.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date:

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course Government 1780. This course follows the Harvard College spring calendar and will meet during the Extension School spring break, March 14-20. See the syllabus for specific meeting dates.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25929/2021

GOVT E-1796A
Future Foreign Policy and Defense Strategy

Derek Reveron, PhD

Lecturer in Extension and Faculty Affiliate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, and Professor of National Security Affairs, Naval War College

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25904

Description
Students use their experience wrestling with the most pressing national security challenges to inform how the US government should be positioned to advance and defend national interests. Students are cast as key participants in the interagency process to debate the salience of national security challenges, discuss the ways those challenges have an impact on US national security, and outline future directions for US foreign policy.

Class Meetings:
2-credit half-term online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $940
Graduate credit: $1450
Credits: 2

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. This course meets for a half term, January 25-March 13.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25904/2021

GOVT E-1799
The Situation Room: a National Security Council Exercise

Michael David Miner, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26010

Description
This active learning course simulates the working experience of the United States National Security Council (NSC). Students role-play an individual member of the NSC: a statutory participant of the Principals Committee (PC), Deputies Committee (DC), or an ad hoc member from across government. These roles are assigned after two initial classes that focus on the history and responsibilities of the NSC. In classes thereafter, students are required to work in teams and subunits grappling with real-world problems under the impetus of time as a hypothetical, yet realistic crisis scenario unfolds from the third class through the end of the course. Breakout sessions require the production of key documents, memorandum, briefing content, and the development of policy options. PC meetings require briefing the President of the United States (POTUS) on potential courses of action along with updates concerning policy development. DC meetings foster tough discussion and appreciation for the various departments, agencies, and outcomes of large bureaucracies zeroed in on complex problems. Policy discussion examines precedent, produces realistic assessments, and sparks creativity in solving challenges many deem unsolvable. Consideration for decision making, policy implementation, and communication highlight known and underappreciated organizational dynamics. Required readings, dedicated lecture time, and special guests illuminate national security history in a tangible way that unpacks the challenges of planning and managing a crisis unfolding in near real-time.

Class Meetings:
2-credit half-term online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Mar. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $940
Graduate credit: $1450
Credits: 2

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. This course meets for a half term, March 22-May 15.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26010/2021

GOVT E-1830
Introduction to Public International Law

Houchang E. Chehabi, PhD

Professor of International Relations and History, Boston University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14316

Description
This course introduces students of international relations to the main concepts of public international law. Topics include the state, treaties, peaceful conflict resolution, the law of the sea, human rights, and the law of international organizations.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14316/2020

GOVT E-1880
Popular Culture and US Foreign Policy During the Cold War

Thomas M. Nichols, PhD

University Professor of National Security Affairs, Naval War College and Adjunct Professor, Air Force School of Strategic Force Studies

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 23609

Description
This course examines the cold war through the prism of popular culture: books, music, literature, motion pictures, and television. The goal is to understand how culture expressed the major concerns of the American public at various points in the cold war, and what effects those concerns had on the making of American foreign policy. Students examine various media from the 1945-1991 period, and examine the interplay between popular culture and policymaking during the long confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. Topics include subversion, the nuclear arms race and nuclear war, the national security state, and patriotism.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: A course in international relations is helpful.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-23609/2021

GOVT E-1886
Nuclear Weapons and International Security

Thomas M. Nichols, PhD

University Professor of National Security Affairs, Naval War College and Adjunct Professor, Air Force School of Strategic Force Studies

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14188

Description
This course examines the role of nuclear weapons in US and international security. In addition to familiarizing students with the types and effects of nuclear arms, the course considers several topics, including the history and future of nuclear strategy, the control and reduction of nuclear weapons, and the dilemmas of nuclear proliferation. The course is about the politics of nuclear weapons and does not require any specialized technical background.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14188/2020

GOVT E-1889
Evolution of Deterrence Theory

Nikolas Gvosdev, DPhil

Professor of National Security Affairs, Naval War College

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16443

Description
Deterrence is the use of threats to convince an adversary from taking an action and is part of a larger concept of coercion. Throughout history, deterrence has been used by people and states to manage conflict. The formal development of deterrence theory came about after World War II to find ways to think about and utilize nuclear weapons. Deterrence theory has evolved considerably and scholars continue to probe difficult questions that remain unanswered regarding deterrence. This course examines the foundational concepts of deterrence theory and how that theory has evolved over the years. In addition, we consider the application of deterrence to international security through case studies in the cold war and post-cold war years. Finally, we assess current nuclear arsenals and strategy along with the role deterrence continues to play in the future of nuclear weapons, as well as application of deterrence theory to non-nuclear strategic weapons (including cyber and economic tools).

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: HIST E-1960 is helpful but not required.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16443/2020

GOVT E-1897
American Foreign Policy

Sergio Imparato, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25945

Description
This course offers a general introduction to the history, traditions, and theories of US foreign policy. The course is divided into three parts. First, we draw on the foundational ideas in American political thought to introduce major foreign policy traditions throughout US history. Second, we examine key theoretical debates in international relations to ask if and how they affect American foreign policy making. Third, we focus on the domestic and geopolitical implications that set limitations to, and opportunities for, the US abroad. Some of the questions we ask throughout the semester are: how is national interest defined and how has it evolved? How does presidential leadership shape American foreign relations? What is the role of public opinion in US foreign policy? How does the rise of China affect American power in the international arena? Emphasis is placed on the main international issues faced by the United States since the end of the cold war, such as terrorism, nuclear proliferation, international cooperation, and global governance.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 5:10-7:10 pm, or on demand.

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25945/2021

GOVT E-1961
National Security Policy in the Middle East

Charles Freilich, PhD

Adjunct Associate Professor, Political Science, Columbia University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16318

Description
At the crossroads of three continents, the Middle East is home to many diverse peoples, with ancient and proud cultures, in varying stages of political and socio-economic development, often times in conflict. Now in a state of historic flux, the Arab Spring and subsequent upheaval, including the domestic conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Libya, have transformed the Middle Eastern landscape, with great consequence for the national security of the countries of the region and their foreign relations. The primary source of the world’s energy resources, the Middle East also remains the locus of the terror—weapons of mass destruction, fundamentalist nexus—which continues to pose a significant threat to both regional and international security. This course surveys the national security challenges facing the region’s primary players (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, Israel, the Palestinians and Turkey, and Jordan) and how the convolutions of recent years have affected them. Unlike many Middle East courses, which focus on US policy in the region, this course concentrates on the regional players’ perceptions of the threats and opportunities they face and on the strategies they have adopted to deal with them. It thus provides an essential vantage point for all those interested in gaining a deeper understanding of a region, which stands at the center of many of the foreign policy issues of our era. The course is designed for those with a general interest in the Middle East, especially those interested in national security issues, and students of comparative politics and future practitioners, with an interest in real world international relations and national security.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16318/2020

GOVT E-1978
The Politics and Ideology of Post-Revolutionary Iran

Payam Mohseni, PhD

Lecturer on Government and Director of the Project on Shi’ism and Global Affairs, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15170

Description
The significance of Iran in Middle Eastern and global affairs is now more important than ever. From its internal domestic politics to its role across the region in Syria and Iraq, the political trajectory of Iran is critical for the future of peace and conflict in the Middle East. To contextualize and understand these processes, this course examines the intricacies of Iranian politics since the 1979 revolution. It explores a broad range of topics including the causes of the Iranian revolution; the institutional architecture of the Iranian political system; competitive factional dynamics within the ruling elite; Iranian foreign policy, Iran-US relations, and the implications of and for the nuclear agreement; and, contemporary Shi’a political ideology.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 19 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15170/2020

GOVT E-1979
Shi’a Islam and Politics in the Middle East

Payam Mohseni, PhD

Lecturer on Government and Director of the Project on Shi’ism and Global Affairs, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University

Mohammad Sagha, MA

Doctoral Candidate, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago and Associate, Project on Shi’ism and Global Affairs, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25019

Description
From the conflict in Yemen pitting the Shi’a Houthis against a Saudi-led coalition, to the civil war in Syria and the Shi’a majority militia-led fight against the remnants of ISIS in Iraq, dominant media narratives portray conflict in today’s Middle East as part of a proxy battle between Iran and Saudi Arabia rooted in an ancient dispute within the Muslim world between the Shi’a and Sunni sects of Islam. In this rendering, primordial hatreds are driving religious wars and civil conflict with Iran, at the heart of the so-called Shi’a crescent, and Saudi Arabia, the stalwart of true Sunni identity. However, such simplistic thinking masks over a more complex understanding of the changes occurring in today’s Middle East and prevents accurately differentiating between distinct yet overlapping factors such as actual substantive theological and intellectual differences between Shi’a and Sunni Islam, state competition (that is, between Iran and Saudi Arabia), and historical legacies of empire and state building in the Middle East. This course addresses such dominant narratives and challenges conventional understandings of the interplay between religion and politics in the Middle East and how sectarianism, Shi’a Islam, and geopolitical conflict can be more properly understood from a rigorous analytical perspective and focuses on the foundations and varieties of modern Shi’a political thought; religious clerical institutions; Shi’a political parties and militias in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen; and Iran’s Islamic revolution, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), and the Basij paramilitary organization.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 19 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25019/2021

HARC E-171
Manet and Degas in Paris: Friends, Rivals, Modernist Masters

Mary Crawford-Volk, PhD

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16322

Description
Édouard Manet (1821-1883) and Edgar Degas (1834-1917) met at the Louvre in 1861 near a Velazquez portrait both had come to copy. Friends, rivals, and highly conspicuous members of the artistic avant-garde in Paris, their connection lasted until Manet’s death in 1883 and continued to affect Degas later. Their art addressed similar subjects in Parisian life but differed sharply in their expression, and at times they diverged completely. Manet’s Dejeuner sur l’Herbe has no equivalent in Degas, for example, and Degas’ world of the ballet remains his alone. Their relation to French impressionism and attitudes toward women also differed. This course assesses their respective achievements by examining these and other themes, and also look at the posthumous reputation each has acquired.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16322/2020

HARC E-178
Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form

Alex Krieger, MCPUD

Research Professor in Practice of Urban Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26064

Description
This course presents an interpretive look at the American city in terms of changing attitudes toward urban life. City and suburb are experienced as the product of design and planning decisions informed by cultural and economic forces, and in relationship to utopian and pragmatic efforts to reinterpret urban traditions in search of contemporary alternatives. Topics include persistent ideals such as the single-family home, attitudes toward public and private space, the rise of suburbs and suburban sprawl, cycles of disinvestment and renewed interest in urban centers, and impacts of mobility and technology on settlement patterns.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required weekly sections to be arranged. In addition, live discussion sections will be scheduled throughout the term. See course syllabus for details.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the 2020 Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course Gen Ed 1003.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26064/2021

HARC E-179
Understanding Architecture

Mark R. Johnson, MArch

Lecturer in Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24591

Description
How does one understand a work of architecture? We can look to the humanities to help answer this question. For example, identifying a poem’s characteristics—its form, rhyme, meter, imagery and so forth—can enrich one’s understanding of the poet’s artistic intent and the meaning ascribed to the work today. What are the analogous methods for understanding a work of architecture? Through first-hand observations students in this course learn how to analyze a work of architecture. We visit the most significant buildings on the Harvard campus, many of which are among the most important in the world. This is supplemented with review of historic architectural drawings from the Harvard University Archives.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24591/2021

HARC E-198
Photography and Ecology

Makeda Best, PhD

Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography, Harvard Art Museums, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16343

Description
Integrating art history, research-based artistic production, theory, science, and environmental studies, the aim of this course is to critically and actively explore the historic and contemporary interplay between photography and environmental history; technology, pollution, waste, and destruction; the shifting composition, structure, and function of landscape; cultural constructions of nature and environmental perceptions; environmental justice; histories of conservation; land use; politics and policy; and, the role of photography in responding to how humans interpret, create, and have an impact on land patterns and processes.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16343/2020

HARC E-207
Matisse: Painting that Transcends Reality

Mary Crawford-Volk, PhD

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25911

Description
French painter Henri Matisse (1869-1954), born a northerner, chose to live in the south of France for most of his career. From his bold 1906 Paris debut with the important painting Le Bonheur de Vivre (The Joy of Life) to lyrically distilled cut-paper works from his last years, Matisse made his subjects transcend daily life and express a sensuality—of line, color, shape, and space—that existed in an ethereal realm, beyond ordinary experience. His painting became a means of celebrating beauty and visual splendor as never before. Asked for an opinion of his friend’s achievement after his death, Picasso replied, “In the end, there was only Matisse.” This course examines major moments in Matisse’s art that demonstrate how correct this judgment was.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25911/2021

HIST E-10A
World History I: The Dawn of Civilization

Donald Ostrowski, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16319

Description
This course surveys the evidence for and views about world history to AD 200. Topics covered include theories of cosmic beginnings and of life; early Africa and ideas about human origins; material and agricultural development and diffusion in Eurasia, the ancient kingdoms of Egypt and Nubia; Mesopotamian, Harappan, Oxus, and Western Hemispheric civilizations; the beginnings of Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism; the unification of China; the Bible as historical source; foundations of ancient Greek thought and culture; the Roman Republic; and the origins of Judaism and Christianity.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16319/2020

HIST E-597
Social Reform Movements in America Precapstone

Stephen Shoemaker, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15772

Description
This course inherently espouses an interdisciplinary approach. We consider the multi-century narrative of social reform movements in the United States by emphasizing the materials and methods used in government, history, and religion. Topics include abolition, suffrage, temperance, the New Deal, civil rights, and Great Society initiatives of the 1960s. While together studying the primary sources relevant to the weekly topics, students assemble their own topics and produce an analysis of the literature relevant to their research topic.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Students must be capstone track candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, government, history, or religion, who are in good academic standing and intend to enroll in HIST E-599 as their final course in spring 2021. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15772/2020

HIST E-599
Social Reform Movements in America Capstone

Stephen Shoemaker, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25381

Description
This course continues the work done in HIST E-597. The course shifts to a workshop model, where presentations are given each week by students as they work toward the production of a substantive scholarly article. The article must incorporate all the elements required by academic peer-reviewed journals. Students make presentations on argument, their theory component, scholarly context, and genres of evidence. In this workshop context, students also engage in review of each other’s writing. At the end of course, each student delivers a professional quality article suitable for submission to a scholarly journal in their respective field.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Students must be capstone track candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, government, history, or religion, who are in good academic standing and have completed all other degree requirements, except for the capstone, including earning a grade of B– or higher grade in HIST E-597 in the 2020 fall term. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25381/2021

HIST E-1020
Pandemics in History

Erez Manela, PhD

Professor of History, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26061

Description
Pandemics have shaped human societies since the dawn of time. In this course, we explore the impact of different outbreaks of pandemic disease on history, with a focus on the last two hundred years. Our central questions are: How have human responses to disease outbreaks been shaped by political, social, and cultural contexts? And how have pandemics in turn reshaped politics, societies, and cultures in their wake?

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 19 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26061/2021

HIST E-1028
Racial Capitalism and the Coming of the Civil War

Walter Johnson, PhD

Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16075

Description
This course surveys the history of racial capitalism in the United States between the Louisiana Purchase and the Civil War. The course tells the story of how the welter of social and cultural tendencies and tensions that characterized the first half of the nineteenth century in the United States was channeled into a war between two regions, the North and the South. The course is expansive in its framing of the Civil War era and broad in its treatment of the international dimensions of US history. By seeking to place the central event of the century in a history of diplomacy and warfare that also included the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the illegal invasions of Cuba and Nicaragua in the 1850s, and the effort to re-open the Atlantic slave trade on the eve of the Civil War, it attempts to illuminate the imperial causes and consequences of this domestic conflict. And by embedding the conflict over slavery in the United States in the histories of the Haitian Revolution, the Louisiana Purchase, Indian removal, the Atlantic cotton economy, and the hemispheric history of antislavery, it seeks to call into question the nationalist and regionalist framing of the event which has dominated most mainstream accounts.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the 2019 Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course History 1028.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16075/2020

HIST E-1156
Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789

Tamar Herzog, PhD

Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American History and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16361

Description
This course is an introductory survey of early modern European history, from the fifteenth to the late eighteenth century. Organized chronologically and thematically, it examines developments from the late Middle Ages to the Age of Revolutions, including the passage from feudalism to urban institutions, the Renaissance, European Expansion overseas, the Protestant and the Catholic Reformations, the Scientific Revolution, the Rise of Absolutism, slavery, the Enlightenment, and revolutions. Meetings alternate between lecture and discussion of primary sources (available in English translation).

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date:

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course History 1155 starting September 4. See syllabus for details.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16361/2020

HIST E-1440
The Crown: Analyzing British History from Edward VII to Elizabeth II through Television and Film

Maura A. Henry, PhD

Professor of History, Holyoke Community College

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25991

Description
How did Britain go from sitting atop the world’s greatest Empire in 1901 to Brexit in 2020? Using the monarchy as our lens, we analyze Britain’s tumultuous twentieth and twenty-first centuries with a focus on two World Wars, imperial and economic decline, modern transformations and social upheaval, as well as abdication and various royal scandals. Films and television series to be screened include: Downton Abbey, The King’s Speech, The Crown, and The Queen, among others.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25991/2021

HIST E-1465
The United States and World Order since 1900

Erez Manela, PhD

Professor of History, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16359

Description
Since the turn of the twentieth century, as the United States became a major economic and military power, Americans have tried to mold and manage international order. In this course, we explore and assess these efforts through the rise of US overseas expansion, two world wars, the Cold War, and into the twenty-first century.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date:

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course History 1465 starting September 4. See syllabus for details.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16359/2020

HIST E-1570
German History: 1848-1949

Alison Frank Johnson, PhD

Professor of History and Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16450

Description
This course covers the history of German-speaking Europe from the revolutions of 1848 through the postwar division of West Germany, East Germany, and Austria. The main focus is political and social history. Themes include war, revolution, genocide, nationalism, liberalism, racism, anti-semitism, gender, and intellectual and cultural highlights.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:20-9:20 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16450/2020

HIST E-1571
Everyday Life in Cold War Berlin

Briana J. Smith, PhD

Lecturer on History and Literature, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26055

Description
In this course, we examine the history of Berlin from the rubble years after World War II through the aftermath of German unification in the 1990s from the perspective of the history of everyday life. Our discussion of diaries, primary source documents, literature, films, art, and music produced in divided Berlin reveals how the divided city shaped individual lives and subjectivities, and how individual Berliners shaped the history of cold war Berlin.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 3-5 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26055/2021

HIST E-1574
Vienna 1900

Alison Frank Johnson, PhD

Professor of History and Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26018

Description
Vienna—the capital of the Habsburg Empire until 1918, and thereafter the capital of the Republic of Austria—has been at the heart of European culture from the seventeenth century to our own. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it was the political, social, and cultural center of the largest continental European empire in modern history and one of the birthplaces of European modernism. It was home to political theorist Theodor Herzl, to peace activist Bertha von Suttner, and to a young Adolf Hitler; to psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein; to writers Joseph Roth and Arthur Schnitzler; to artists Gustav Klimt and Oskar Kokoschka; and to composers Johann Strauss, Gustav Mahler, and Arnold Schoenberg. Speakers of the monarchy’s dozen different languages lived peacefully next to one another while their political representatives battled vociferously in parliament. The course explores Vienna from many angles. Architecture, psychoanalysis, and literature all have their place, but so, too, do the politics of multiculturalism and of nationalism, of patriotism and of social protest. Our examination focuses on the period starting in the 1880s and continuing through the First World War to the collapse of the dynasty and the end of the Habsburg Empire.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 19 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26018/2021

HIST E-1605
Literary History of New England

Robert J. Allison, PhD

Professor of History, Suffolk University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26004

Description
We survey New England’s literary landscape—why has this region produced so much classic as well as popular American fiction and poetry? Are there consistent themes from the seventeenth-century to the present? We examine some of the best-known American writers whose New England roots have sustained their literary lives, for good or ill, and think about the nature of this region in the creation of American literature and culture.

Class Meetings:
2-credit half-term online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $940
Graduate credit: $1450
Credits: 2

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. This course meets for a half term, January 25-March 13.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26004/2021

HIST E-1606
The Early American Republic

Robert J. Allison, PhD

Professor of History, Suffolk University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25907

Description
We examine the history of the United States from the ratification of the US Constitution in 1788 to the sectional crisis of 1850. Topics include the establishment of the federal government and of the party system; relations between Native Americans and the US; wars with France, Algiers, Tripoli, Britain, and Mexico; the development of the American economy; and the expansion of slavery.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25907/2021

HIST E-1651
The American Constitution since the Civil War

Robert J. Allison, PhD

Professor of History, Suffolk University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16320

Description
This course explores changes in the American Constitutional system since the Civil War. Topics include due process and national citizenship; the growth and expansion of federal power; the evolution of segregation; the New Deal; the return of civil rights; the expansion of individual rights; the role of courts and states in the federal system.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16320/2020

HIST E-1673
Migration and Labor in United States History

Mark Sanchez, PhD

Lecturer on History and Literature, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26024

Description
This course focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century histories of labor and migration in the context of United States history, as a way to examine the roots and routes of immigration discourse in the US today. Together, we examine works that discuss labor and migration through race, gender, class, and nation. We also engage in a methodological conversation, seeking to locate the possibilities and perils in migration and labor history offered by methods including oral history, social history, and cultural history. In drawing attention to the circulation of people, ideas, and objects, this course ultimately explores the proportional importance of the United States in world history. Our conversations focus both on the imperial and international histories that conditioned many forms of labor migration as well as the ways that immigrant communities engaged and contested these histories of power.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 19 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26024/2021

HIST E-1680
Riots, Strikes, and Conspiracies in American History

Andrew Joseph Pope, PhD

Lecturer on History and Literature, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16465

Description
The course examines the history of riots, strikes, and conspiracies in America from the 1600s to the present. This course uses readings and discussions to focus on a series of short-term events that shed light on American politics, culture, and social organization. It emphasizes finding ways to make sense of these complicated, highly traumatic events, and on using them to understand larger processes of change in American history. While race has been an important element to every riot, strike, and conspiracy in American history, most of these events represented overlapping interests of race, gender, class, and even sexuality. As such, we consider events that occurred in a variety of circumstances. The present conditions of poverty, policing, and protest always inform our starting point when we engage the readings. A central thesis of this course is that the present is best understood through a deliberate examination of the past.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:50-7:50 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16465/2020

HIST E-1682
White Rage: Progress and Backlash in American History

Andrew Joseph Pope, PhD

Lecturer on History and Literature, Harvard University

Ingrid Overacker, PhD

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26060

Description
This course examines how people struggled to achieve the full-promise of freedom throughout American history. The organizing theme of this course is the cycle of progress and retrenchment, of revolutions and counter-revolutions, that has come to define American life. The course begins with enslaved people’s struggles for freedom, and the white planters who created a form of representative government to maintain the institution. From there, we proceed chronologically through American history to the present, exploring changing notions of community, strategies used to gain freedom, and the range of violent responses that groups seeking liberation encountered. Our readings include a play by Suzan Lori-Parks, manifestos by white power advocates, George Schuyler’s novel Black No More, essays by Toni Morrison, political speeches, and oral history interviews with formerly enslaved people and migrant workers, among many other historical and literary sources. While race has been an important element to every debate about political representation in American history, most debates represented overlapping interests of race, gender, class, and even sexuality. As such, we take up each issue throughout the semester.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:50-7:50 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26060/2021

HIST E-1775
New Worlds and American Borderlands: Histories, Cultures, Identities

Davíd Carrasco, PhD

Neil L. Rudenstine Professor for the Study of Latin America, Harvard University

Octavio Carrasco, PhD

Instructor, Continuing Education, Bellevue College

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26066

Description
This course establishes a broad understanding of American history as a dynamic, contested, and creative cultural encounter of Indigenous-Afro-Eurasian cultures and people. The borderlands and new worlds framework reflects a historical process, a geographic reality, and a focusing lens through which to think about the present with special attention to the role of political-religio-cultural dynamics. We take seriously the different narratives and perspectives involved in the colonization of parts of the Caribbean, Mexico, Guatemala, and a significant segment of what is now US territory so we can begin to grapple with the contested present. Many cities, states, and counties are still marked by Indigenous and Spanish names, while the old world continues to be manifested in architecture and culture. The history of the US is an ever-evolving struggle and blend of the ideology and religious sensibilities of the peoples dwelling in and shaping this contested space. Drawing from the history of religions, anthropology, American, and ethnic studies scholarship, we draw on historical accounts, autobiographies, art, and music to illuminate the human identities, symbols, and the social complexity of rural spaces and urban sites in the various borderlands including Mexico City, El Paso, New York, New Orleans, and Santa Fe, and their implications for today. We view the films Chulas Fronteras, Alambrista and the soon to be released Song for Cesar about the music, teatro campesino, and labor struggles of the United Farm Workers. We come to better understand the many meanings of living in the contemporary world through the influences of these borderlands’ histories and peoples.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 3-5 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26066/2021

HIST E-1825
Power and Civilization: China

William C. Kirby, PhD

T.M. Chang Professor of China Studies, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, and Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor

Peter K. Bol, PhD

Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16074

Description
Modern China presents a dual image: a society transforming itself through economic development and infrastructure investment that aspires to global leadership; and the world’s largest and oldest bureaucratic state, with multiple traditions in its cultural, economic, and political life. The modern society and state that is emerging in China bears the indelible imprint of China’s historical experience, of its patterns of philosophy and religion, and of its social and political thought. These themes are discussed in order to understand China in the twenty-first century and as a great world civilization that developed along lines different from those of the Mediterranean. The course introduces online features to make the riches of Harvard’s visual collections and the expertise of its faculty more accessible to Extension School students.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arrangedStart Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the HarvardX course.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16074/2020

HIST E-1827
The United States and China: Opium War to the Present

Erez Manela, PhD

Professor of History, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16340

Description
This seminar focuses on the history of Sino-American relations and interactions since the Opium War (1840s). It examines these relations through the lens of major events such as the Boxer intervention, the first and second world wars, the Korean and Vietnam wars, the Mao-Nixon rapprochement, and the post-Mao transformations. Central themes include trade, diplomacy, conflict, mutual perceptions, cultural influences, and migration.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 19 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16340/2020

HIST E-1831
The United States and China

William C. Kirby, PhD

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26074

Description
This course examines the world’s most consequential bilateral relationship. It studies why engagements between the United States and China are vital to global security, commerce, and governance and tracks the evolution of global leadership over the past two centuries. In 1820, China was home to the largest economy and arguably the most sophisticated polity on earth. In 1920, China was weakened and divided as the Unites States began its rise to the status of a great power. In 2020, a resurgent China challenges the global leadership of the United States. Over these centuries, each country has been shaped by their relations with the other. The course argues that we are all stakeholders in this relationship and will see our lives indelibly affected by the ups and downs, opportunities and dangers of US-China relations.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date:

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course Gen Ed 1068. This course follows the Harvard College spring calendar and will meet during the Extension School spring break, March 14-20. See syllabus for details.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 60 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26074/2021

HIST E-1842
East Asian Environments: China, Japan, Korea

Ian Miller, PhD

Professor of History, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25798

Description
The future is not what it used to be. Nowhere is this more evident than in the natural world, where climate change and fading biodiversity, energy anxieties, and environmental disasters have undermined the bedrock of history: the assumption of a stable continuity between past, present, and future. This courses visits East Asia—China, Japan, and the Koreas, vibrant economies and agents of historical change—to explore the transformation of the environment in modern times. We analyze nuclear power plants and cruise rivers, explore some of the world’s most lethal landscapes and debate public policy as we define Asia’s role in the global environmental future. This is a course on East Asia’s modern environmental history. The course is centered on three modules, each focused on a key site or event: China’s Three Gorges Dam; Japan’s “triple disaster” of March 11, 2011 (earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crisis); and Korea’s demilitarized zone (DMZ), a de facto nature preserve that also defines a fraught political border.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date:

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course History 1610. This course follows the Harvard College spring calendar and will meet during the Extension School spring break, March 14-20. See the syllabus for specific meeting dates.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25798/2021

HIST E-1851
Japan in Asia and the World

Andrew Gordon, PhD

Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University

David Howell, PhD

Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History and Professor of History, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25967

Description
From the emergence of a court-centered state 1,500 years ago to a warrior-dominated society centuries later, Japan’s premodern past fascinates people around the world. The people, institutions, and ideas behind these traditions—and the close connection of developments in Japan to those in Asia—are the focus of the first half of the course. The second half of the course turns to Japan’s modern era and one of the more striking transformations in world history. We examine the tumultuous changes that occurred in a constant global dialogue from the mid-1880s through the present and explore how people in Japan have dealt with the dilemmas of modernity that challenge us all.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date:

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course History 1023. This course follows the Harvard College spring calendar and will meet during the Extension School spring break, March 14-20. See the syllabus for specific meeting dates.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25967/2021

HIST E-1852
Modern Japan: Empires and Aftermaths

Andrew Gordon, PhD

Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16422

Description
This course examines Japan in the twentieth-century world, first its rise and fall as an empire, then its integration into an American dominated world order. We look at political, social, economic, and cultural aspects of the Japanese experience of modernity from the late nineteenth-century through World War II. We then turn to the rise and fall of Japan’s world-beating economy, and the great social and cultural transformations of the postwar decades. The course offers historical context for contemporary issues ranging from economic crisis and inequality to tension with Asian neighbors.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date:

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course History 1623 starting September 4. See syllabus for details.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16422/2020

HIST E-1943
From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock: Native America in the Twentieth Century

Christopher Clements, PhD

Lecturer on History and Literature, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15740

Description
Using the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre and the 2016-17 water protector movement on Standing Rock Sioux land as bookends, this course examines the history of Native American political struggle in the twentieth century. We adopt broad definitions of “political” and “struggle” as we grapple with the history of people whose continued presence in a settler colonial landscape constitutes a form of political struggle in its own right. Along those lines, we investigate a broad range of issues, most of which have garnered far less attention than Wounded Knee and Standing Rock. In addition to its focus on key aspects of modern indigenous politics—sovereignty, self-determination, decolonization, anti-racism, gender equality, and land claims, to name a few—we also consider broader conceptual questions. What, for example, is the relationship between indigeneity and modernity? Does the twentieth century mark a distinct break from the first four hundred years of Native-settler history? How does settler colonialism intersect with other forms of oppression? And, why have events like Wounded Knee II and Standing Rock gained support from wider, non-indigenous publics while issues like police brutality against Native people and the ongoing crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women have not?

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Familiarity with twentieth-century US history is helpful.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 19 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15740/2020

HIST E-1960
The History of the Cold War

Nikolas Gvosdev, DPhil

Professor of National Security Affairs, Naval War College

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24927

Description
The cold war was the crucible by which the United States was transformed into a global superpower and laid the basis for the national security state. The ideological and geopolitical competition between the US and the Soviet Union shaped the global and regional makeup of the modern world and its legacies continue to influence global politics in the twenty-first century. This course charts the origins of the cold war, provides an overview of the ideological and geopolitical drivers of the conflict, examines how the cold war was played out in Europe, East Asia, the Middle East, and the third world, assesses its impact as a driver for the development of both conventional and nuclear forces, and charts the mechanisms that developed in Washington and Moscow for managing the cold war. The course concludes with charting how the cold war wound down and the legacies it has left for the twenty-first century.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24927/2021

HSCI E-152
Technology and Modern Medicine: From the Stethoscope to Nanotechnology

Yvan Craig Prkachin, PhD

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16454

Description
From the French Revolution to COVID-19, modern medicine has been defined by the development and implementation of new technologies. What have been the effects of these new technologies on our bodies, and on the practice of medicine? This course integrates insights from the history of medicine and the history of technology more generally, and addresses a number of important questions: how do we decide which medical technologies to pursue and which to ignore? How have we balanced technological progress with a concern for those who are sick now, and for the economics of health care? How and why have medical technologies shaped, and been shaped by, broader cultural change? And, ultimately, how can we use history to develop good judgment about the relationship between technology, medicine, and health? Topics examined include the rise of clinical medicine in early nineteenth-century France and its use of new diagnostic technologies; visual technologies and diagnosis; microscope technology and the emergence of bacteriology; technologies of management and the rise of the modern hospital; the x-ray and the emergence of new visualization technologies; the technologies of nursing and other healthcare professions; antibiotics, drugs, and the technologies of mass-production; technology and disease identity; technology, gender, and sexuality; technology, race, and genetic medicine; contraception, obstetrics and the technologies of reproduction; digital technologies and the computerization of medical records; implantation, prosthesis, and technologies of the body; and ventilators, diagnostic testing, and the technological dimensions of COVID-19 crisis. Throughout the course, we pay particular attention to the way in which medical technologies have interacted with social categories such as race, class, gender, and nationality, as well as to the unique relationship between American medicine and the world of high technology.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16454/2020

HUMA E-50A
Introduction to the Classics of Western Thought I

Jay M. Harris, PhD

Harry Austryn Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16341

Description
This course is an introduction to the classic texts of Western political, moral, and religious thought. Readings include selections from the Bible, Plato’s Republic, Aristotle’s Politics, Augustine’s City of God, and Machiavelli’s Prince.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm, or on demand.

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16341/2020

HUMA E-50B
Introduction to the Classics of Western Thought II

Jay M. Harris, PhD

Harry Austryn Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25921

Description
This course is an introduction to the classic texts of Western political, moral, and religious thought. Readings include selections from Jean Jacques Rousseau’s Social Contract, Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, and the works of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Sigmund Freud.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25921/2021

HUMA E-100
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Dramatic Arts, English, and Religion

Stephen Shoemaker, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 12944 | Section 2

Description
This proseminar focuses on the research, writing, critical and analytical skills necessary to produce a successful graduate-level research project in the humanities. Attention is paid to the development of competency in close-reading and to the strategies of textual analysis. Because skills learned in this course are useful in subsequent courses, it is the first course that prospective Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) candidates should take toward the degree (or the second, if they are completing the expository writing prerequisite). While not designed to be a thesis or capstone proposal course, this course does serve as a foundation for eventual work on the thesis or capstone.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. EXPO E-42a is strongly recommended. In addition, at the first class meeting, students must complete a writing assignment that demonstrates their graduate-level reading comprehension and ability to write coherent, logical arguments.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-12944/2020

HUMA E-100
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Dramatic Arts, English, and Religion

Stephen Shoemaker, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25780 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. EXPO E-42a is strongly recommended. In addition, at the first class meeting, students must complete a writing assignment that demonstrates their graduate-level reading comprehension and ability to write coherent, logical arguments.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25780/2021

HUMA E-100
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Dramatic Arts, English, and Religion

Peter Becker, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16311 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. EXPO E-42a is strongly recommended. In addition, at the first class meeting, students must complete a writing assignment that demonstrates their graduate-level reading comprehension and ability to write coherent, logical arguments.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16311/2020

HUMA E-100
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Dramatic Arts, English, and Religion

Ryan Napier, PhD

Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26093 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. EXPO E-42a is strongly recommended. In addition, at the first class meeting, students must complete a writing assignment that demonstrates their graduate-level reading comprehension and ability to write coherent, logical arguments.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26093/2021

HUMA E-101
Proseminar: Elements of the Writer’s Craft

Katie Beth Kohn, MA

Doctoral Candidate, Visual and Environment Studies, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15911 | Section 2

Description
This is an intensive course in the craft and analysis of prose from a writer’s perspective. Francine Prose, in her book Reading Like a Writer, observes that historically “writers learned by reading the work of their predecessors.” In other words, we cannot write well if we do not know how to read well. The focus of this course is to teach prose writers how to read well. Students explore the potential and possibilities of different approaches to writing, and, by the end of the course, apply their close reading to their own fiction and nonfiction. The goal of this course is to build a deep understanding of key elements of craft through close reading and textual analysis of the work of master prose writers. We analyze the work of these writers, discussing how they employ structure, character, setting, dialogue, point of view, and other aspects of craft. Students write critically and creatively, both in class and out of class, about the works under discussion and about possible applications to their own creative writing. Students examine the conscious choices about craft that published writers make in order to fully realize a piece of writing.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. EXPO E-42a is strongly recommended. Students in this course are expected to have a firm command of grammar, syntax, and prose composition, and to have read widely.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15911/2020

HUMA E-101
Proseminar: Elements of the Writer’s Craft

Bryan Delaney, MA

Playwright and Screenwriter

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25168 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. EXPO E-42a is strongly recommended. Students in this course are expected to have a firm command of grammar, syntax, and prose composition, and to have read widely.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25168/2021

HUMA E-101
Proseminar: Elements of the Writer’s Craft

Elisabeth Sharp McKetta, PhD

Writer

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15449 | Section 3

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 11 am-1 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. EXPO E-42a is strongly recommended. Students in this course are expected to have a firm command of grammar, syntax, and prose composition, and to have read widely.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15449/2020

HUMA E-101
Proseminar: Elements of the Writer’s Craft

Bryan Delaney, MA

Playwright and Screenwriter

January session | CRN 25950

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays-Thursdays, 3-6 pm
Start Date: Jan. 4, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Final papers due Monday, February 8.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. The last day to take the test of critical reading and writing skills for this section is December 3. EXPO E-42a is strongly recommended. Students in this course are expected to have a firm command of grammar, syntax, and prose composition, and to have read widely.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25950/2021

HUMA E-101
Proseminar: Elements of the Writer’s Craft

Bryan Delaney, MA

Playwright and Screenwriter

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15538 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. EXPO E-42a is strongly recommended. Students in this course are expected to have a firm command of grammar, syntax, and prose composition, and to have read widely.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15538/2020

HUMA E-101
Proseminar: Elements of the Writer’s Craft

Katie Beth Kohn, MA

Doctoral Candidate, Visual and Environment Studies, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25574 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. EXPO E-42a is strongly recommended. Students in this course are expected to have a firm command of grammar, syntax, and prose composition, and to have read widely.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25574/2021

HUMA E-101
Proseminar: Elements of the Writer’s Craft

Elisabeth Sharp McKetta, PhD

Writer

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25074 | Section 3

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 11 am-1 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. EXPO E-42a is strongly recommended. Students in this course are expected to have a firm command of grammar, syntax, and prose composition, and to have read widely.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25074/2021

HUMA E-103
Sea Monsters Throughout the Ages: Fables, Films, and Facts

Peter Girguis, PhD

Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16415

Description
There have always been tales of sea monsters. For as long as we humans have ventured into the ocean, our imaginations have conjured images of serpents, krakens, leviathans, and other creatures, all of whom seem bent on the destruction of those who dare set foot into the sea. Humankind’s conviction that sea monsters are real is so powerful that even today rumors abound of sea monsters lurking in the depths. Indeed, every major religion—eastern and western—features sea monsters. Are these declarations true? Do giants roam the deep sea? Did the explorers of centuries ago see creatures from their small wooden boats that we do not see today? During this course we explore sea monsters through a social, spiritual, literary, and scientific lens. We study the sea monsters that flourish on ancient maps to understand the minds of sixteenth century scholars. We examine the bodies of real sea monsters, and consider the world in which such grotesque creatures might evolve. We read tales of creatures from classic and contemporary literature. Most importantly, we develop a better understanding of how humans perceive the world, and how our consciousness can simultaneously embrace our wildest dreams and cower from our greatest fears. Sea monsters, both real and imagined, tell us much about life in the deep sea, and even more about humankind.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 27 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16415/2020

HUMA E-104
Texts in Transition

Ann Blair, PhD

Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Harvard University

Leah Whittington, PhD

Professor of English, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16384

Description
We live in a moment of rapid changes in the ways we communicate. As our writing becomes ever more digital—and paradoxically both more ephemeral and more durable—the attitudes and tools we have for preserving our culture seem more complex and fluid. This course studies how written language—text—travels through time and across media. We ask questions including, how good are texts for capturing, transmitting, and preserving human experience? How have texts come down to us from the distant past? How do we ensure that what we write today will survive into the future? As we investigate contemporary approaches to cultural preservation, we consider how pre-modern European cultures transmitted and transformed texts, and created institutions that we still rely on today, including museums, libraries, and archives. Each week students observe or apply methods of preservation, restoration, destruction, translation, and transmission in an attempt to preserve a personal artifact. We also read works of literature that reflect on questions of durability, ephemerality, and written memory. Students work through weekly assignments toward a final project focused on studying, curating, and preserving a textual source of their choice.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date:

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course Gen Ed 1034 starting September 1. See syllabus for details.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16384/2020

HUMA E-106
Black Visuality in the Digital Age

Jonathan Square, PhD

Writer

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16173

Description
One of the defining characteristics of the African diaspora is that its members are visually marked as othered. Digital storytelling of the black experience necessitates the visual, as opposed to the haptic (what can be touched and felt) or the audial (what is heard). Vision is, thus, a mechanism by which to understand and fully unpack the meaning of blackness. This course covers memes and mimetic communication, digital blackface, black Twitter, Worldstar Hip Hop, hair and makeup tutorials on YouTube, racist Snapchat filters, algorithmic biases, and Beyoncé and Solange’s visual albums, among other topics. The course includes the work of scholars such as André L. Brock, Simone Browne, Elizabeth Alexander, and Charlton McIlwain, among others.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16173/2020

HUMA E-107
Disease, Illness, and Health through Literature

Karen Thornber, PhD

Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16381

Description
Inevitably, over the course of our lives, most of us develop a health condition that requires medical care. We are also likely to be called on to provide care for others, whether loved ones or, for those in healthcare professions, strangers. How can we best prepare ourselves to be effective partners, whether we are the caregivers or care recipients? Or both at the same time? Engaging with a diverse range of memoirs, creative nonfiction, life writing, and novels from five continents by physicians, patients (including physician-patients), and concerned citizens, this course helps students interrogate what it means to promote healing and well-being in their personal and professional lives. Readings by creative writers, activists, intellectuals, and medical professionals help us think about how we can more effectively address health crises such as COVID-19 and other pandemics, HIV/AIDS, cancer, traumatic brain injury (TBI), and Alzheimer’s disease, and how we should confront end-of-life decisions and care, including the controversies surrounding physician-assisted dying. Through texts such as Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal, Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air, Anne Fadiman’s When the Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Nawal El-Saadawi’s Memoirs of a Woman Doctor, and Yan Lianke’s Dream of Ding Village, and both historical and contemporary writings on pandemics, we reflect on different ways in which to become a strong advocate for practices and policies that reduce suffering and promote healing. Students may not receive degree credit for both this course and COMP S-120.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date:

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course Gen Ed 1078 starting September 3. See syllabus for details.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16381/2020

HUMA E-109
Plague Years: Pandemic Disease in the Ancient Greek and Roman World

Keating Patrick Joseph McKeon, PhD

Visiting Fellow, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16468

Description
The bane of sickness—and the quest for a cure—have been recurring features of the human experience across millennia. As the world continues to grapple with a global pandemic, this course considers the diverse reception of contagious disease in the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. We explore a range of literary and historical sources to better understand the characteristics of plague and pandemic in classical antiquity, surveying the major outbreaks represented by the fifth-century BCE Athenian plague and the second-century CE Antonine plague, as well as discrete manifestations of disease in poetic treatments spanning the work of Sophocles, Lucretius, Virgil, and Ovid. Throughout the term, we have frequent recourse to the same questions arising from the current moment: how do individuals respond to the sudden prospect of contagion and illness? Which measures do they find most effective for safeguarding health, and to what lengths will they go in securing them? How do societies contend with pandemic disease and accompanying mass panic? Can democratic norms be maintained in the face of the existential fear engendered by plague? Students are invited to think creatively in assessing points of evolution and continuity in the persistent reality of illness.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16468/2020

HUMA E-109
Plague Years: Pandemic Disease in the Ancient Greek and Roman World

Keating Patrick Joseph McKeon, PhD

Visiting Fellow, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26080

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26080/2021

HUMA E-110
Masterpieces of World Literature

Martin Puchner, PhD

Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature, Harvard University

David Damrosch, PhD

Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26011

Description
This course surveys world literature from the Epic of Gilgamesh to the present, with an emphasis on different cultures and writing traditions. Produced by HarvardX, the course is based not on lectures but on a more vivid dialogue format between instructors Martin Puchner and David Damrosch. The course also includes travel footage from Istanbul and Troy to Jaipur and Weimar and interviews with authors, such as Orhan Pamuk, and other experts.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the HarvardX course.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26011/2021

HUMA E-118A
Music and Literature: Genius, Inspiration, and Madness

John T. Hamilton, PhD

William R. Kenan Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25932

Description
The course focuses on the history of interaction between literature and music in the European tradition from antiquity to modernity. Great works are studied closely within their historical and biographical contexts, with particular attention paid to the themes and depictions of genius, inspiration, and madness.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25932/2021

HUMA E-220
Frida Kahlo’s Mexico: Women, Arts, and Revolution

María Luisa Parra, PhD

Senior Preceptor in Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15094

Description
This course revolves around the short, creative life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, one of the most prominent figures in art history, as a window to the cultural and political revolution that shaped Mexico’s identity in the twentieth century and continues to influence Latinos today. Through Frida’s life and artwork, we see how two international influences in Mexico’s cultural and political life—Soviet politics and French surrealism—merged with national agendas that sought to redefine Mexico’s identity through the integration of their indigenous heritage. The result was a time of booming creativity in the arts, radical expansion of educational and political agendas, as well as a redefinition of women’s identity, sexuality, and the Mexican family. We trace her romantic and artistic relationship with Diego Rivera and explore her impact on the intensely creative social circle that included composer Carlos Chávez, photographers Lola Álvarez Bravo and Manual Álvarez Bravo as well as Tina Modotiti.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15094/2020

HUMA E-225
Complacency, Convenience, and Flatness in the Digital Age

John T. Hamilton, PhD

William R. Kenan Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16351

Description
Digitization has had many consequential effects in our personal, social, and political lives. How might we understand these effects? How might we distinguish between the beneficial and the detrimental? If the digital age has flattened the world, what are the limits of convenience and how might we evade the pitfalls of complacency? The course considers these and related questions through a careful review of literary texts and artworks, alongside social, political, and philosophical critiques.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16351/2020

HUMA E-497
Crafting the Thesis Proposal in Dramatic Arts, English, and Religion Tutorial

Richard Joseph Martin, PhD

Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25098

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $0
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, dramatic arts, English, or religion. They must have completed eight courses toward the degree and be in good academic standing. Their prework, due between September 1 and November 1, must be approved before they are allowed to register for the tutorial. See the Guide to the ALM Thesis for details. Candidates accepted to the 12-course thesis track register for graduate credit; those in the ten-course thesis track register for noncredit.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25098/2021

HUMA E-497
Crafting the Thesis Proposal in Dramatic Arts, English, and Religion Tutorial

Tad Davies, PhD

Head Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15477

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $0
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, dramatic arts, English, or religion. They must have completed eight courses toward the degree and be in good academic standing. Their prework, due between April 1 and June 1, must be approved before they are allowed to register for the tutorial. See the Guide to the ALM Thesis for details. Candidates accepted to the 12-course thesis track register for graduate credit; those in the ten-course thesis track register for noncredit.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15477/2020

ISMT E-102
Case Studies in Enterprise Architecture

Zoya Kinstler, PhD

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25653

Description
Digital business places high demands on competency in enterprise architecture. Any business software application designed today becomes part of an enterprise ecosystem with architectural demands of interoperability, extensibility, scalability, security, and data integrity. This course offers case studies examining how today’s companies are implementing large-scale software platforms and transforming their business models using modern digital technologies such as internet-of-things (IoT), machine learning, blockchain, and robotic automation. The course covers essential concepts of enterprise architecture through business case studies and design exercises. Concepts covered include architecture frameworks, business requirements, system migration, and project roadmaps.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: At least two courses towards the Master of Liberal Arts, software engineering or information managment systems, or a working experience with software systems in business settings.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25653/2021

ISMT E-111
Advertising Analytics and Real-Time Technology

Justin E. Fortier, MBA

Principal Data Scientist, ViralGains

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25797

Description
This course provides a detailed overview of today’s digital advertising technology industry. Students learn the ecosystem, common goals, success metrics, and key national and local competitors that define the industry. Key terms, such as real-time bidding and walled gardens, are introduced. Topics include the use of data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence as advertising technology optimization tools, and the challenges that recent legislation protecting consumer data present to advertising technology firms.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Students need laptops loaded with Jupyter notebooks and Python 3.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25797/2021

ISMT E-117
Text Analytics and Natural Language Processing

Richard E. Joltes, ALM

Senior Content Analytics Architect, US Department of Transportation

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16099

Description
This course introduces students to the tools, techniques, and opportunities for performing text analytics using a variety of tools. We examine options such as Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK), Babelfy, Scikit-learn, and the WordNet dictionary along with fully featured applications such as IBM’s Watson Explorer analytics platform. If time permits, Stanford University’s DeepDive tool may be explored as well. Course work involves using the selected tools to analyze groups of texts for insights such as sentiment, such as how a consumer or client feels about a product or experience; metadata—if we can reliably identify phone numbers, credit card numbers, model numbers, or other specific elements, and named entity recognition—searching for personal names, locations, and other specific entities. Significant time is spent early in the course discussing basic linguistic concepts such as the various “-nym” forms (such as meronyms, mesonyms, troponyms, and synonyms), stemming, lemmatization, parts of speech, word sense disambiguation, and other areas relevant to search systems and text analysis. A solid understanding of the Python language is required; no remedial instruction in language fundamentals is offered. Students are expected to have the necessary skills to deliver assignments via the course Linux server; submissions cannot be made using Jupyter notebooks or other means.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A background in programming, preferably Python or a closely related object-oriented language, and an understanding of how to use a text editor, as opposed to a word processor (like MS Office or OpenOffice). Prior experience programming in a Linux environment via command line tools or an integrated development environment (IDE). Students need access to a Linux programming environment with Python, Scikit-learn, and NLTK along with associated libraries installed.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16099/2020

ISMT E-136
Time Series Analysis with Python

Dmitry V. Kurochkin, PhD

Senior Research Analyst, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Office for Faculty Affairs, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16180

Description
Time series data (for example, closing prices of an exchange-traded fund, maximum yearly temperatures, monthly PC sales, or daily numbers of visitors) arise whenever correlations of adjacent observations in time cannot be ignored. This course covers modern methods for time series analysis and forecasting. In addition to mathematical foundations of time series, students get hands-on experience building predictive models in cases of both stationary and non-stationary time series. Topics covered in the course include autocorrelation and partial autocorrelation, Fourier analysis, stationarity, time series decomposition, autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) process and the Box-Jenkins methodology, generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH) model, and long short-term memory (LSTM), a special type of recurrent neural networks (RNN) which has demonstrated to be superior to classical time series models in many applications.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Introductory probability and statistics, multivariate calculus equivalent to MATH E-21a, and proficiency in Python programming equivalent to CSCI E-7. Familiarity with deep neural networks is helpful but not required. All coding exercises are performed in Python. Students are required to take a short pretest at the beginning of the course. The pretest score does not count toward the final grade but helps students understand whether their background in calculus, probability theory, as well as command of coding positions them for success in this course.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16180/2020

ISMT E-150
Introduction to GIS

Jeff Blossom, MS

GIS Service Manager, Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 12917

Description
This course introduces the concepts and components of a geographic information system (GIS). It also teaches the essential skills of spatial data management, analysis, and visualization through the use of the ArcGIS software package. Upon completion of this course, students understand the fundamental concepts of a GIS including spatial data models, spatial analysis, and cartographic principles. They also gain hands-on training in spatial data collection, editing, transformation, and mapping, as well as spatial analysis operations such as location-based query, address geocoding, terrain and watershed analysis, spatial interpolation, best site selection, least cost path delineation, and a number of other GIS modeling techniques. GIS technology has broad applications in the natural and social sciences, humanities, environmental studies, engineering, and management. Examples include wildlife habitat study, urban and regional planning, contagious disease monitoring, agriculture and forestry, environmental quality assessment, emergency management, transportation planning, and consumer and competitor analysis. This course introduces a few selected cases of GIS application in different disciplines.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 7:20-9:20 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Familiarity with Word documents, spreadsheets, and browsing the Internet.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-12917/2020

ISMT E-158
Remote Sensing Data and Applications

Magaly Koch, PhD

Research Associate Professor, Center for Remote Sensing, Boston University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16059

Description
This course introduces students to remote sensing data, methods and tools used for the study of global environmental change. The growing concern about human impact on the environment has led to the development of new observation and analysis tools to tackle and monitor types, magnitudes, and rates of environmental changes. Timely observations by Earth observation (EO) satellite systems and improved mapping and analysis tools are enabling a better understanding of the environmental interactions that underlie our Earth systems, which is critical for developing sustainable solutions. This course enables students to search and use satellite imagery in the context of a number of disciplines including environmental studies, ecology, geology, hydrology, disaster assessment and management, and public health. Students learn the fundamentals of the EO systems and the tools (geo-portals, web-based tools, and open-source software) to observe, monitor, and assess the changes occurring on or near the Earth’s surface. Hands-on activities explore human and physical dimensions of environmental change, environmental conservation and management, and disaster detection and mitigation. Students search and analyze global spatial data portals made available by various agencies and organizations (such as the United States Geological Survey, NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the European Space Agency, and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency). Potential topics covered in case studies and exercises include land use and cover change (urban sprawl, deforestation, and irrigated agriculture); extreme weather events (floods, droughts, wildfires, typhoons, and hurricanes); human and ecological health (aerosol and air pollution, wetland and forest health); food security and environmental sustainability (agriculture and water resources); and disaster assessment and management.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm, or on demand.

Required sections Thursdays, time to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of statistics or permission of the instructor.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16059/2020

ISMT E-182
Strategic Information Systems

William Waas, MBA

Adjunct Lecturer, School of Professional Studies, Northwestern University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25088

Description
This course examines current issues, themes, and research related to the strategic use of information systems in organizations. It focuses on the use of information and information technology for competitive advantage in businesses, organizations, and nonprofits. It explores the impact of an innovative environment on the design and implementation of strategic systems and explores the concept of strategic alignment between the business and information technology. It examines in detail the use of portfolio management in selecting information technology projects that provide real strategic value to the company. It explores the issue of deriving real value out of information technology investments and discusses the development of meaningful benchmarks. Also included are in-depth discussions regarding the impact of IT security and government regulations on the organization.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25088/2021

ISMT E-185
Technology Leadership

James Farley, MS

Distinguished Enterprise Architect, Salesforce

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24435

Description
This course takes students through a series of topics and case studies related to the facets of technology leadership. We first explore the various contexts, motivations, and paths that evoke leadership in technology. The course then progresses through a series of case studies and exercises in critical knowledge areas and skills required of technology leaders.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 7:40-9:40 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Students must have held, or currently hold, a role developing and/or applying technology in some form. Software technology (software developer, web developer, architect) is one option, but a technologist from other fields (biotechnology, mechanical engineering) also meets the prerequisite. Students need to be experienced practitioners in their fields. Ideally they’ve had several years’ experience creating and applying technology in their field and have both depth (practical technical expertise) and breadth (experience with a number of different contexts/business domains).

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24435/2021

ISMT E-189
Information Technology Finance and Communications

William Waas, MBA

Adjunct Lecturer, School of Professional Studies, Northwestern University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15435

Description
Many information technology (IT) organizations lack the formal policies and procedures required to understand the true cost of providing IT services. IT managers and executives must communicate complex information and initiatives that improve productivity, cost management, and competitive advantage. To support better consideration of the factors driving technology decisions and formal cost recovery methodologies, the IT professional must present data and strategies to both other IT professionals and lay people without an IT background—to executives, management, and staff within their organizations and to outside vendors and suppliers. Often, IT professionals must work and communicate productively in teams. This course focuses on the processes that make it possible to fairly allocate costs for IT services and gain information for assessing options, managing consumption, and perceiving the true value of IT; and the means of conveying information to ensure understanding and gain the cooperation of key partners in initiating positive IT financial initiatives.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15435/2020

ISMT E-599
Capstone Seminar in Digital Enterprise

Zoya Kinstler, PhD

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24470

Description
This interactive fast-paced seminar focuses on digital technologies as tools for achieving business goals. A digital enterprise is defined as an organization whose business model and operating platform are driven by information technology (IT). Through readings and case studies, we learn how companies transform their products and systems by implementing digital technologies: cloud services, mobile and social platforms, data analytics, and internet-of-things communications. Then we roll up our sleeves and build a capstone project, architecting an IT solution for a realistic business scenario. The following concepts are covered: enterprise architecture, software systems, business processes, service orientation, system integration, and project implementation framework.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:20-9:20 pm

Required sections Mondays 6:20-7:20 pmStart Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates for the Master of Liberal Arts, information management systems, who are in good academic standing and have completed at least nine courses toward the degree, including all the core degree requirements. Courses on project management and business writing, such as EXPO E-34, as well as ISMT E-102 or the equivalent, would be helpful. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24470/2021

ISMT E-599
Capstone Seminar in Digital Enterprise

Zoya Kinstler, PhD

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14790

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:20-9:20 pm

Required sections Mondays, 6:20-7:20 pm.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14790/2020

ISMT E-599A
Capstone Seminar in Information Management

Richard E. Joltes, ALM

Senior Content Analytics Architect, US Department of Transportation

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24506

Description
The management and utilization of digital assets, especially those containing large amounts of unstructured text, represent an ongoing and rapidly growing challenge for all types of enterprises. In many cases, a large amount of textual content is created and stored on a daily basis, only to languish unused in forgotten archives until discarded or forgotten. In the intervening storage period, this content consumes valuable storage space and other resources that may be better utilized for other purposes, while producing no tangible benefit. Given the rapid growth of such content (EMC, a major player in storage, recently estimated that 40 trillion gigabytes of data [40 zettabytes] will have accumulated around the world by the end of 2020), what steps should enterprises take in order to manage and capitalize on it? Is it possible to glean useful, actionable insights from unstructured text, while not wreaking havoc on already strained IT budgets? How should projects intended to utilize this content be organized, and what objectives and success metrics should be established? Even more importantly, how can organizations plan for the future in the face of burgeoning, almost exponential growth in content and complexity? This course discusses approaches to these problems. We first cover the backdrop of today’s storage nightmare and how it has evolved over time, then proceed to an assessment of the current state of unstructured content management. Using this background material, students then extrapolate on existing trends and needs for an organization (real or fictional), ultimately producing both short and long term plans of some duration (say, three to five years) for the organization’s management and utilization of unstructured content.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates for the Master of Liberal Arts, information management systems, who are in good academic standing and have completed at least nine courses toward the degree, including all the core degree requirements. Courses on project management and business writing, such as EXPO E-34 as well as ISMT E-189 or the equivalent would be helpful. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24506/2021

ITAL E-1
Intensive Elementary Italian I

Antonio Di Sanzo, PhD

Instructor, Arlington High School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14477

Description
Conducted in Italian, this course is designed for beginners with no knowledge of Italian. The aim of the course is to develop oral expression, listening comprehension, reading, and writing skills. Class time is devoted to paired, group, and cultural activities.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14477/2020

ITAL E-2
Intensive Elementary Italian II

Antonio Di Sanzo, PhD

Instructor, Arlington High School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25529

Description
This course is conducted in Italian. Aural-oral skills and conversational patterns are further developed through in-class paired and group activities and discussion of current events.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: ITAL E-1, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25529/2021

JAPA E-1
Elementary Japanese

Ikue Shingu, MA

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16324

Description
This course is designed for people with little or no background in Japanese. It covers Lessons 1-6 of volume one of the textbook Genki. Students develop basic conversational skills as well as basic reading and writing skills necessary for situations in daily life.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16324/2020

JAPA E-2
Elementary Japanese II

Ikue Shingu, MA

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25912

Description
This course aims to further develop a basic foundation in modern Japanese, leading to proficiency in the four language skills of speaking, listening, reading, and writing. It covers Lessons 7-12 of volume one of the textbook Genki.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: JAPA E-1, or permission of the instructor.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25912/2021

JOUR E-50
Basic Journalism in the Digital Age

Al Powell, ALM

Senior Science Writer, Harvard Gazette

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 12549

Description
This course equips students with an understanding of the principles and practices of journalism: how to recognize good stories, gather facts through skillful interviewing and research, develop sources, craft welcoming leads and satisfying endings, and create news and feature articles that inform and engage readers. The course emphasizes the time-honored skills of reporting and writing, which provide the foundation of journalism in any age, and which are of particular value in an era when journalism’s ability to uncover and convey the truth is under assault.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A college-level writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-12549/2020

JOUR E-100
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Journalism

Sallie Martin Sharp, PhD

Journalist

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 12584 | Section 2

Description
This graduate proseminar introduces students to the fundamentals and practices of journalism at the graduate level—research, interviewing, reporting, and writing—by exposing them to a variety of reporting assignments. Students learn how to construct a lead as well as how to structure a story. They experience the difference between a feature story and a news story by having to write them both.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-12584/2020

JOUR E-100
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Journalism

June Carolyn Erlick, MSJ

Publications Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and Editor-in-Chief, ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15913 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15913/2020

JOUR E-100
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Journalism

Sallie Martin Sharp, PhD

Journalist

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24499 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24499/2021

JOUR E-105
Essentials of Editing

Christina Thompson, PhD

Editor, Harvard Review, Harvard College Library

Jane A. Rosenzweig, MFA

Director of the Writing Center and Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26005

Description
This course offers an overview of editing theory and practice for journalists and others in writing professions. Topics to be covered include line editing, copyediting, common syntactic and grammatical pitfalls, word choice, paragraph structure, clarity, and concision. The emphasis is on learning to identify and correct errors that commonly appear in professional writing. Students may not receive degree credit for this course if they have previously completed EXPO E-160 or EXPO E-170.

Class Meetings:
2-credit half-term online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 3-5 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $940
Graduate credit: $1450
Credits: 2

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. This course meets for a half term, January 25-March 13.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26005/2021

JOUR E-110
The Constitution and the Media

Allan A. Ryan, JD

Director of Intellectual Property, Harvard Business School Publishing

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 22424

Description
This course examines the concept of freedom of the press— the basis for it and the restrictions on it —in the United States. We begin by examining the concept of free speech and free press as used in the First Amendment of the US Constitution, and trace its historical development to the present. We discuss the ways the Supreme Court has addressed three contentious press issues: the conflict between disclosure and national security (for example, the Pentagon Papers case); the defamation of public figures in news reporting (New York Times Co. v. Sullivan); and reporters’ shield laws and the limits of the journalist’s privilege to keep sources confidential. We also examine the constitutional basis for governmental regulation of broadcast content, and the interplay (or tension) between cyberspace and freedom of the press (for example, the 2011 Wikileaks controversy).

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-22424/2021

JOUR E-130
Coronavirus and the News

Matthew Karolian, BS

General Manager, Boston.com, Boston Globe Media

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16424

Description
This course is an intensive look at how news organizations reacted to the COVID-19 global pandemic. We spend our time examining how reporters handled the crisis in the first weeks and months, how organizations reconfigured themselves to adapt to working remotely or in challenging conditions, and how the business landscape changed dramatically, leading to mass layoffs and furloughs. The course is joined by a number of guest speakers from The Boston Globe, STAT News, and others.

Class Meetings:
2-credit half-term online (live) web conference
Mondays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Oct. 19, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $940
Graduate credit: $1450
Credits: 2

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. This course meets for a half term, October 19-December 19.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16424/2020

JOUR E-137
Feature Writing

Kurt Pitzer, MFA

Author

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16160

Description
Feature writing is a fundamental journalistic approach to telling a story, and its rules have changed through the years from long-form to a variety of lengths, elements, and platforms. In this intensive workshop, students develop ideas for stories and explore approaches for composing effective stories. Students also learn strategies for interacting with editors, interviewees, and others on the path to publication. This course also features guest lecturers (editors and writers) from the professional practice of journalism. Class time is focused on these elements as well as critical discussion of student work and analysis of published material in print and online.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: At least one previous journalism course or one to three years journalism experience and command of AP style.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16160/2020

JOUR E-137
Feature Writing

Jeremy C. Fox, ALM

Correspondent, The Boston Globe

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25721 | Section 2

Description
Feature stories give newspapers and magazines their dynamism and flavor. Students in this workshop explore feature writing techniques and philosophies, including slice-of-life, interview, profile, and analysis and insight. Students write every week for critique by class members, with the goal of publishing stories.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: An introductory journalism course, some journalism experience, or permission of the instructor.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25721/2021

JOUR E-137
Feature Writing

Michael F. Fitzgerald, AB

Articles Editor, The Boston Globe

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26013 | Section 1

Description
Features exist in all forms of media; in a newspaper, features are any element that is not news. In a magazine, features form the heart of the publication, sometimes called the features well. These stories are often the most engaging stories that journalists write, and in all types of journalism, features allow for the most diverse approach to storytelling. They let journalists, and readers, go beyond the daily news cycle, experiment with new modes of story-telling, use their own voice, and provide our best opportunities to tell compelling tales. Writing a memorable feature combines in-depth, even immersive reporting with writing techniques common to fiction. In this course, we engage in a variety of feature writing styles and approaches, among them slice-of-life, social media features, a profile, and trend pieces.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: An introductory journalism course, some journalism experience, or permission of the instructor.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26013/2021

JOUR E-137A
Feature Writing: First-Person Stories and Essays

Martha Nichols, MA

Editor in Chief, Talking Writing

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16421

Description
Nonfiction stories written with an “I” now encompass everything from news features to personal essays. This course covers the craft of feature writing with an emphasis on first-person reportage and storytelling. We begin the semester with short personal features and direct reporting, move on to how-to and trend stories, and end with personal essays. Students participate in weekly live web conferences that include in-class writing exercises and explore work by diverse nonfiction authors. Special emphasis is placed on developing observation skills, fact-checking, and attribution for the digital age. Offered for students who plan to pursue journalism, the course includes lots of writing, practice pitching ideas to editors, and reporting.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16421/2020

JOUR E-140A
News Reporting for the Web, Print, and Other Platforms

Jamieson Lesko, BS

Journalist

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25394

Description
In this changing media landscape, a journalist has no choice but to become a jack of all trades and to develop capabilities to be able to work on various media platforms. This fast-paced course teaches students to master the fundamentals of news writing and reporting for a variety of media. Students learn to think, observe, and ask questions like career journalists while developing the skills needed to shift seamlessly from writing for traditional news publications to updating web sites or tweeting. The course stresses accuracy and fact-checking as well as the importance of reporting a balanced story.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Basic journalism course or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25394/2021

JOUR E-140A
News Reporting for the Web, Print, and Other Platforms

Sallie Martin Sharp, PhD

Journalist

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15467

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Basic journalism course or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15467/2020

JOUR E-142A
The Art and Craft of Interviewing

Al Powell, ALM

Senior Science Writer, Harvard Gazette

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25962

Description
This course on interviewing is intended to help beginning journalists, bloggers, social media professionals, and public relations professionals conceive, set up, and execute interviews that provide the foundation for an engaging and informative article, blog post, podcast, or video feature. The course includes a review of effective interviews, such as Katie Couric’s 2008 interview with then-vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, which altered how Palin was viewed by the public, and the work of famed radio journalist Studs Terkel, whose ability to extract and portray ordinary people’s stories led to his being awarded the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. The course covers interview preparation, source selection, conduct of the interview itself, and how to make the highest and best use of the material that sources provide. We also discuss what can go wrong in an interview, how to ask hard questions, when to go off the record, and the ins and outs of difficult interviews. The course expands upon our examination of classic examples with a discussion of interview techniques, exercises to gain effectiveness, and real-world reporting experiences, from which students produce print, audio, or video stories.

Class Meetings:
2-credit half-term online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $940
Graduate credit: $1450
Credits: 2

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. This course meets for a half term, January 25-March 13.

Prerequisites: A college-level writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25962/2021

JOUR E-146
Foreign Correspondence

Jamieson Lesko, BS

Journalist

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16371

Description
This course equips the modern-day foreign correspondent with skills to face a wide spectrum of coverage challenges ranging from breaking news to in-depth features across multiple platforms. We examine best practices for print, broadcast, and digital realms from story ideation through final publication. Field preparation and research methods, persuasive pitching tactics, source building, and interview styles are developed. Situational and self awareness are emphasized in order to prime students for their regular writing assignments, which focus on both their current community and foreign countries of choice. Weekly real-world foreign coverage from reputable sources including the New York Times, The Atlantic, and the BBC is analyzed in terms of cross-platform approaches, contextual richness, decision making, attribution, objectivity, and stylistic variations.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Basic journalism course or permission of the instructor.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16371/2020

JOUR E-161
Podcasting

Nneka N. Faison, MS

Executive Producer, WCVB-TV

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25683

Description
One in four Americans over the age of 12 listens to podcasts, a 200 percent increase in just the last decade. Growth is expected to continue. In a time when videos and articles are getting shorter, why are audio podcasts (averaging 45 minutes in length) becoming more popular? This course explores the power of podcasting and why seemingly everyone—businesses, news organizations, and yes, universities—wants to podcast. The first few weeks of the course focuses on exploring the main podcast categories: talk radio style, interview, narrative, and daily news podcasts. Students then learn podcasting business basics, from advertising to analytics. Along the way, students come up with their own podcast idea, analyze the potential success of their podcast, learn basic audio production and, by the end of the course, walk away with the first few episodes of a podcast.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 11 am-1 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Basic journalism course or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25683/2021

JOUR E-170
Writing About Food

Alison Arnett, BS

Freelance Writer and Editor

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25739

Description
This course approaches food writing primarily from a news reporting perspective. With so much changing in the world of food—the explosion of farmer’s markets, artisan cheesemakers, microbreweries, and changes in how we look at food through the lenses of health, the environment, animal welfare, nutrition, and home cooking—stories are waiting to be told. Even if students don’t see themselves as news reporters or journalists, they can be storytellers about the role of food in our world today. Assignments include interviewing personalities, food travel and culture writing, restaurant food critiques, recipe and technique writing, and how to structure pitches to editors. Assigned readings include tips on how to find stories, conduct interviews, and organize collected information into a coherent story. We also read and critique several examples of published food writing. Finally, occasional guest speakers provide career examples and information on changes in media coverage of food.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Basic journalism course or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25739/2021

JOUR E-173
Video Storytelling for Social Media

Nneka N. Faison, MS

Executive Producer, WCVB-TV

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15800

Description
Social media video accounts for eighty percent of all online activity according to leading technology company Cisco. News organizations, companies, nonprofits, and individuals have an unprecedented ability to get their messages out to larger audiences than ever before. However, most videos fail to adequately engage online audiences with short attention spans. This course teaches students to break through the noise and create engaging social media videos of thirty seconds to four minutes that are both informative and entertaining. Students learn journalism and video storytelling techniques including writing video copy and conducting interviews, as well as basic video shooting and editing.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 11 am-1 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Basic journalism course or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15800/2020

JOUR E-174
The Art of the Book Review

Maggie Doherty, PhD

Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16370

Description
Many aspiring writers get their first byline by writing a book review. Many successful writers continue to write book reviews throughout their careers. This course prepares students to excel at this genre of writing with the goal of having a book review pitch accepted for publication by the end of the course. We discuss the different types of book reviews, from the evaluative review to the round-up review to the review-essay. Students learn how to pitch a book review, how to read a book for the purposes of reviewing it, and how to conduct the outside research necessary for writing a strong review. Course readings include book reviews from a range of publications—the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the London Review of Books, among others—to show the different approaches to book reviewing. Guest speakers provide students with insight into how to launch a career as a reviewer and how to use book reviews to develop other writing projects.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16370/2020

JOUR E-175
Photojournalism

Samantha K. Appleton, BA

Freelance Photojournalist

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25725

Description
This course is an introduction to photojournalism for students and professionals. Through weekly photo assignments and critiques, students learn to look critically at images, make photographs that are both creative and rich in content, and produce a body of work through the editing and sequencing of images. The course touches on the historic role of photography through the essential work of photographers like Dorothea Lange, Yoichi Okamoto, and James Nachtwey, but focuses on the process of creating a lasting photograph. By the end of the course, students have a portfolio of images and basic strategies for working in the industry.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A basic understanding of photography. This course spends only a small amount of time on technical issues.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25725/2021

JOUR E-182
Audience Engagement: Journalism in the Age of Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Apple

Matthew Karolian, BS

General Manager, Boston.com, Boston Globe Media

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26001

Description
A thorough and rigorous examination and analysis of how large online players such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Apple have changed the landscape of news, media, and publishing. As a class, we learn through a mix of reading assignments, weekly written reading responses, group discussions, and guest speakers. The course culminates with a series of tabletop exercises designed to test students’ ability to execute concepts in a simulated environment.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Basic journalism course or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26001/2021

JOUR E-183
Mobile Journalism

Selymar Colon, MS

Journalist

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16458

Description
According to a recent estimate by Newzoo, three and a half billion people around the world own mobile phones, so more of us than ever before have in our hands a powerful tool for capturing and reporting the news. But do we know how to use that tool effectively? How can newsrooms and freelancers leverage mobile journalism to tell compelling multi-platform stories? In this course, students develop the skills required for making the most of their mobile devices. We review basic video shooting, interviewing, and editing skills. Then we take a deep dive into the process of producing, editing, and publishing a video on a mobile device. Students learn to identify the best format and social media platforms for their stories; to assess and authenticate user-generated content; and to connect and collaborate with an audience. The final project for the course is a substantial video story and/or photo essay produced and shot by students on their mobile devices and a brief pitch that helps each student find an audience for the work.

Class Meetings:
2-credit half-term online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $940
Graduate credit: $1450
Credits: 2

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. This course meets for a half term, August 31-October 17.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16458/2020

JOUR E-185
How Latin America Works

June Carolyn Erlick, MSJ

Publications Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and Editor-in-Chief, ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25952

Description
This course helps students interested in careers in journalism, communications, or public policy learn the structure, role, and function of media in Latin America. Students learn about Latin American journalism—its strong nonfiction narrative culture, the role of investigative reporting in the region, and the complicated issues of reporter safety and freedom of the press—through reading work by Latin American journalists and through reporting and writing of their own. Over the course of the semester, students produce a profile, news story, feature story, opinion piece, and a longer narrative or investigative piece—all on subjects based in, or related to, Latin America.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: The course is conducted in English and all assignments are written in English, but a working knowledge of Spanish is required because it is necessary for journalists who hope to report from and on people and issues related to the region.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25952/2021

JOUR E-599
Journalism Capstone Project

June Carolyn Erlick, MSJ

Publications Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and Editor-in-Chief, ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 23092

Description
The capstone is the culmination of the student’s work in the Master of Liberal Arts, journalism program and consists of a series of substantial stories completed in one semester. The capstone generally consists of three to five related pieces, text or multi-media based, in different styles. Text-based projects are generally about 5,000 words; the parameters of projects in other media are determined by the student and the project director together, and are based on the requirements of the story. Past capstone directors have included Boston Globe editors and reporters, former fellows from the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, and other professionals in the field.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, journalism, in good standing with a minimum of 36 credits completed. They submit a capstone proposal by October 1. See the journalism capstone website.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-23092/2021

JOUR E-599
Journalism Capstone Project

June Carolyn Erlick, MSJ

Publications Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and Editor-in-Chief, ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 13272

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-13272/2020

LATI E-1A
Latin for Beginners

Ivy Livingston, PhD

Preceptor in Ancient Greek and Classical Latin, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14239

Description
This course is a first step in reading Latin, which was the language not only of ancient Rome, but also of science, culture, and more in Europe until the early modern era and is still in use today. The course focuses on Classical Latin (as it would have been written, for example, by Julius Caesar), but engages with a variety of texts including inscriptions and graffiti. Ancient texts are supplemented with modern ones to help develop not only fluency in reading continuous narratives but also the cultural knowledge that is necessary to understand Latin literature.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Noncredit: $750
Undergraduate credit: $940
Credits: 2

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 28 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14239/2020

LATI E-1B
Latin for Beginners

Ivy Livingston, PhD

Preceptor in Ancient Greek and Classical Latin, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25493

Description
This course continues to develop reading ability in Latin, building on the skills learned in LATI E-1a. Readings include inscriptions and short texts mainly from the classical period (such as the poetry of Martial), as well as longer mythological stories written for learners.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Noncredit: $750
Undergraduate credit: $940
Credits: 2

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: LATI E-1a or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25493/2021

LATI E-43C
Cicero, Pro Caelio

Richard F. Thomas, PhD

George Martin Lane Professor of the Classics, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16326

Description
In this course, students read Cicero’s Pro Caelio, with attention to Cicero’s use of rhetoric, law court strategies, and literary execution.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: One year of college Latin or equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16326/2020

LSTU E-112
Firearms Law and the Second Amendment

Elisabeth Ryan, JD

Director of Compliance, Ascend, LLC.

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25915

Description
Federal and state gun laws are vast, complex, and often misunderstood. Second Amendment jurisprudence, which was almost nonexistent until the twenty-first century, continues to evolve rapidly after the landmark Supreme Court cases of Heller and McDonald, which affirmed the constitutional right to private firearms and extended that right to constrain state action. This course examines the historical and continuing development of the constitutional right to keep and bear arms, the intricacies of state firearms laws and regulations, and the ever-present policy issues that surround gun control and public safety.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Basic understanding of the American legal system is preferred, but not required.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25915/2021

LSTU E-113
International Human Rights Law

Diana Buttu, MBA, JD

Lawyer

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24451

Description
This course is an introduction to international human rights law. This course looks at the relationship between human rights and international action. By examining various international mechanisms and cases, students are able to critically assess the efficacy of the international human rights law system. Throughout this course we examine topical issues in international human rights law.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 3-5 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24451/2021

LSTU E-123
Migration and Human Rights

Jacqueline Bhabha, JD

Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School, and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15712

Description
Migration is a central moral issue of our time and its impacts will alter our world throughout this century. It affects the lives of millions, unsettles established governments, creates sharply polarizing policy dilemmas, and posits far-reaching administrative, economic, and political challenges. This course focuses on distress migration, including refugee flight and other forms of forced displacement, evaluated through the lens of human rights. It addresses the multifaceted drivers of this complex phenomenon, including armed conflict, environmental stress and climate change, global inequality, demographic pressures, and increasing globalization. Migration actors from a range of field sites contribute; some attend in person, others skype into the classroom conversation to create a more global classroom discussion and to enhance project-based learning. The course considers historical precedents to the current refugee and migration crisis, using case studies of massive past population displacements (for example, the Greek-Turkish population exchange post World War I, partition of British India and Palestine peri/post World War II) as instructive guides for contemporary problems. The course raises ethical and philosophical issues related to the duties owed to outsiders to probe the moral, religious, and political underpinnings of current approaches. It introduces students to the international and regional legal framework governing refugee protection and migration more broadly. It engages with the multiple risks migrants face before, during, and after their journeys and with current policy developments at the municipal, national, regional, and international level, including the ongoing efforts of the United Nations to craft two new Global Compacts on Refugees and on Migration. Finally, the course enables students to apply legal and other approaches to the analysis of migration challenges. The material for this is a range of contemporary case studies, including refugee situations in the Mediterranean and sub-Saharan Africa, conflict-fueled migration, as well as migration flows arising from environmental displacement in the Middle East, disaster-fueled migration in Asia, irregular migration in the Americas, and seasonal internal migration in Asia involving bonded labor.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date:

Noncredit: $750
Undergraduate credit: $940
Graduate credit: $1450
Credits: 2

Notes: This course meets for a half term, August 31-October 17. The recorded lectures are from the 2019 Harvard Kennedy School course International and Global Affairs 355M.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15712/2020

LSTU E-132
Disability, Law, and Medicine

Michael Stein, PhD, JD

Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25702

Description
This course is an introduction to bioethical questions raised in the context of health care provision to people with disabilities. Students are encouraged to think critically, openly, ethically, rationally, and collegially about often difficult, delicate, and controversial topics involving issues of medical ethics, autonomy, dignity, civil and human rights, stigma, personal integrity, culture, public health, and informed consent, among others, as expressed through interactive discussion, a research project, application of case studies, and role playing. The instructor draws from the fields of disability studies, bioethics, medicine, law, social science, and history. The first half of the course introduces some core theoretical questions in the study of disability and bioethics. The second half of the course analyzes how theories apply across case studies and vary between particular patients. Students leave with a social science, legal, bioethical, medical, and cultural immersion into the study of disability and the normative issues arising in the lives of persons with disabilities. Also provided are a practical set of concerns to orient students as they interact with healthcare systems throughout their lives, whether as patients, physicians, policy makers, lawyers, advocates, or caregivers.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 46 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25702/2021

LSTU E-138
Criminology and Justice: An Exploration of Crime, Courts, and Sentencing

Michael Livingood, MS

Federal Law Enforcement Official

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25781

Description
Substance addiction, mental health, youth, and poverty. How do these elements influence criminal behavior? How are criminal justice systems responding to such issues? What causes people to commit crime, and why do people choose to commit specific types of crime? This course explores the most challenging issues facing the criminal justice system today and in the future. The course consists of an examination of theories related to crime causation, crime typologies, and special considerations such as substance addiction, mental health, youth, and poverty. Facilitated in part by a reading of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, students are given the unique opportunity to synthesize their learning to create pre-sentence reports, which are used in modern-day courts to inform sentencing decisions. Students gain a deep appreciation of the challenges courts and judges face in assessing criminal behavior. Students are challenged to consider the changing landscape of criminal justice and how rehabilitation and alternative sentencing can and will play a vital role in the future of our court systems. This course is not limited to those who work in the field of criminal justice or the courts and would benefit students from a variety of disciplines.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25781/2021

LSTU E-145
Censorship: Legal, Ethical, and Policy Issues

Ellsworth Lapham Fersch, PhD, JD

Lecturer on Psychology, Harvard Medical School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15495

Description
This course explores how America’s legal and social systems cope with moral ambiguity and controversial ethical questions. It analyzes major cases concerning attempted or actual censorship of sexually explicit, religiously proscribed, and politically volatile written and visual materials. The course examines original documents as well as the commentaries, arguments, and actions about them. The course evaluates accompanying ethical, social, and policy implications and assesses various approaches to fundamental ethical dilemmas and the impact of law in contemporary society.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15495/2020

MATH E-3
Quantitative Reasoning: Practical Math

Graeme D. Bird, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 20389

Description
This course reviews basic arithmetical procedures and their use in everyday mathematics. It also includes an introduction to basic statistics covering such topics as the interpretation of numerical data, graph reading, hypothesis testing, and simple linear regression. No previous knowledge of these tools is assumed. Recommendations for calculators are made during the first class.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: A willingness to (re)discover math, appreciate its practical uses, and enjoy its patterns and beauty.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-20389/2021

MATH E-3
Quantitative Reasoning: Practical Math

Graeme D. Bird, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 12500

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1000
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: A willingness to (re)discover math, appreciate its practical uses, and enjoy its patterns and beauty.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-12500/2020

MATH E-4
Mathematical Modeling with Spreadsheets

Eric Connally, BA

Software Engineer, Illustrative Mathematics

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16456

Description
Mathematical modeling uses a variety of mathematical tools to represent and explain a wide range of real world situations. Modeling involves the use of algebraic expressions, graphs, and statistics to represent critical elements of complicated systems. When done well, it can provide a powerful method for understanding such systems as well as to predict future behavior of these systems. In this course we employ the highly versatile structure of spreadsheets to explore and develop a wide range of mathematical models involving topics from finance, biology, and physics, among others. This course builds on the basic arithmetical, algebraic, and graphing skills developed in MATH E-3 and is intended for students who want develop more applied mathematical skills, expand their expertise in the use of spreadsheets, or enroll in MATH E-8 in the future.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 7:20-9:20 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MATH E-3 or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16456/2020

MATH E-6
Mathematics and the Greeks

Graeme D. Bird, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 23689

Description
In this course we seek to understand how the ancient Greeks thought about mathematics by focusing on three activities: finding solutions and proofs for simple numerical problems, drawing geometrical constructions using compasses and straightedge, and reading brief historical abstracts by and about early Greek mathematicians. Students also learn the Greek alphabet to enable them to read a few common mathematical terms. Graduate-credit students either write a research paper on some aspect of Greek mathematics, or prepare a series of lesson plans showing how a section of the course material could be taught in high schools.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: High school algebra or MATH E-8.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-23689/2021

MATH E-8
College Algebra

David Abbruzzese, Jr., BSEE

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 20393

Description
This course reviews arithmetic and covers algebraic expressions and equations; their manipulation and use in problem solving; word problems; and an introduction to inequalities, absolute values, and graphing. This course features some of the same topics as MATH E-10, but at a slower pace and more introductory level. In addition, it does not cover trigonometry and sinusoidal functions, which are discussed in depth in MATH E-10.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: A satisfactory placement test score.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-20393/2021

MATH E-10
Precalculus

David Arias, EdD

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 12572

Description
An intensive course for students with superior algebra skills who want to enroll in MATH E-15 the following term. During the semester, linear, quadratic, exponential, logarithmic, trigonometric, polynomial, and rational functions are discussed. Requires the use of a graphing calculator. Students enrolling for graduate credit participate in weekly pedagogical seminars designed for current and future K-12 teachers.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 5:10-7:10 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections for all students Wednesdays, 7:40-8:40 pm, required weekly seminars for graduate-credit students to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: A satisfactory placement test score.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-12572/2020

MATH E-10
Precalculus

David Arias, EdD

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 22379

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections for all students Tuesdays, 7:40-8:40 pm, required weekly seminars for graduate-credit students to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: A satisfactory placement test score.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-22379/2021

MATH E-15
Calculus 1

Eric C. Towne, AB

Curriculum Advisor, Advanced Placement Calculus, The College Board

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 20399

Description
This is a complete course in first-semester calculus. Topics include the meaning, use, and interpretation of the derivative; techniques of differentiation; applications to curve sketching and optimization in a variety of disciplines; the definite integral and some applications; and the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. Students enrolling for graduate credit participate in weekly pedagogical seminars designed for current and future K-12 teachers.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections for all students Thursdays, 8-9 pm; required weekly seminars for graduate-credit students to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: MATH E-10, or the equivalent, or satisfactory placement test score.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-20399/2021

MATH E-15
Calculus 1

Eric C. Towne, AB

Curriculum Advisor, Advanced Placement Calculus, The College Board

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 10436

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections for all students Thursdays, 8-9 pm; required weekly seminars for graduate-credit students to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: MATH E-10, or the equivalent, or satisfactory placement test score.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-10436/2020

MATH E-16
Calculus 2 with Series and Differential Equations

Srdjan Divac, MA

Lecturer on Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 20395

Description
This course covers integration, differential equations, and Taylor series with applications. It covers most of the topics in a second-semester calculus course with the emphasis on applications as well as graphical and numerical work. The use of a graphing calculator with the capability of computing (approximating) definite integrals is required. Students enrolling for graduate credit participate in weekly pedagogical seminars designed for current and future K-12 teachers.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections Wednesdays, 6-7:30 pm, for all students; required weekly seminars for graduate-credit students to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the 2019 course.

Prerequisites: MATH E-15, or the equivalent—in other words, an excellent working knowledge of first-semester calculus, including the trigonometric and logarithmic functions, or satisfactory placement test score.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-20395/2021

MATH E-16
Calculus 2 with Series and Differential Equations

Srdjan Divac, MA

Lecturer on Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 10437

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections Wednesdays, 6-7:30 pm, for all students; required weekly seminars for graduate-credit students to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the 2019 course.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-10437/2020

MATH E-21A
Multivariable Calculus

Robert Winters, PhD

Lecturer in Mathematics, Concourse, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 11648

Description
This course covers the following topics: calculus of functions of several variables; vectors and vector-valued functions; parameterized curves and surfaces; vector fields; partial derivatives and gradients; optimization; method of Lagrange multipliers; integration over regions in R² and R³; integration over curves and surfaces; Green’s theorem, Stokes’s theorem, Divergence theorem.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: MATH E-16, or the equivalent; placement test is recommended.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-11648/2020

MATH E-21B
Linear Algebra

Robert Winters, PhD

Lecturer in Mathematics, Concourse, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 21474

Description
This course covers the following topics: solving systems of linear equations; matrices and linear transformations; image and kernel of a linear transformation; matrices and coordinates relative to different bases; determinants; eigenvalues and eigenvectors; discrete and continuous dynamical systems; least-squares approximation; applications, differential equations, and function spaces.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: MATH E-16, or the equivalent; some familiarity with vectors; general familiarity with matrix-capable calculators or mathematical software; placement test is recommended but not required.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-21474/2021

MATH E-21C
Ordinary Differential Equations

Robert Winters, PhD

Lecturer in Mathematics, Concourse, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16432

Description
This course covers ordinary differential equations (ODEs); continuous models; analytic, graphical, and numerical solutions; input-response formulation of linear ODEs; systems of first-order ODEs and matrix exponentials; and nonlinear systems and phase-plane analysis.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: One variable calculus; some familiarity with multivariable calculus, linear algebra, and complex numbers.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16432/2020

MATH E-23A
Linear Algebra and Real Analysis I

Paul G. Bamberg, DPhil

Senior Lecturer on Mathematics, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15176

Description
This course is an integrated treatment of linear algebra, real analysis and multivariable differential calculus, with an introduction to manifolds. Students are introduced to higher-level mathematics and proof-writing, with a requirement to learn twenty-six important proofs.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the fall 2015 Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course Mathematics 23a.

Prerequisites: A grade of A in MATH E-16, or the equivalent. Some experience with multivariable calculus and linear algebra is not necessary, but preferred.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 200 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15176/2020

MATH E-23B
Linear Algebra and Real Analysis II

Paul G. Bamberg, DPhil

Senior Lecturer on Mathematics, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25125

Description
This course covers Riemann and Lebesgue integration in n dimensions, differential forms, determinants, and Stokes’s theorem. Students are required to learn twenty important proofs. It is designed for students with a strong interest in pure mathematics or physics. Students whose primary interest is in computer science, statistics, or data science will probably find MATH E-23c a more appropriate alternative. Students may not receive degree credit for both MATH E-23b and MATH E-23c.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the 2016 Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course Mathematics 23b.

Prerequisites: MATH E-23a, or the equivalent.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25125/2021

MATH E-23C
Mathematics for Computation and Data Science

Paul G. Bamberg, DPhil

Senior Lecturer on Mathematics, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25129

Description
Topics in discrete mathematics, real analysis, linear algebra, and integral calculus, chosen for their relevance to computer science, probability, statistics, and data science. Foundations of probability, vector spaces and their applications, applications of infinite series and integration to statistical problems. Includes an introduction to statistical and graphical tools in the R scripting language. Students may not receive degree credit for both MATH E-23c and MATH E-23b.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date:

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the 2020 Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course Mathematics 23c. This course follows the Harvard College spring calendar and will meet during the Extension School spring break, March 14-20. See the syllabus for specific meeting dates.

Prerequisites: Linear algebra, solid single-variable calculus, and introductory multivariable differential calculus. MATH E-23a would be more than sufficient.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 80 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25129/2021

MATH E-151
Classic Mathematics with a Modern User Interface

Paul G. Bamberg, DPhil

Senior Lecturer on Mathematics, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16435

Description
The course presents a variety of topics from linear algebra, abstract algebra, and geometry that lend themselves to an interesting visual display: for example, groups, finite fields, graph theory, finite, Euclidean, and spherical geometry. Students implement key mathematical ideas in R, build an application in R Shiny Dashboard that can be deployed to the internet, and use their software to devise conjectures that they can then prove as theorems.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Solid command of precalculus mathematics. A course in linear algebra is useful but not required. Programming ability in some language (Python, Java, C/C++) is essential, but no prior knowledge of R, HTML, or client-server programming is assumed.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 80 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16435/2020

MATH E-156
Mathematical Statistics

Dmitry V. Kurochkin, PhD

Senior Research Analyst, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Office for Faculty Affairs, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16470

Description
This course is an introduction to mathematical statistics and data analysis. It starts by introducing central concepts of probability theory (events, probability measure, random variables, distributions, joint distributions, and conditional distributions) and then moves on to the development of mathematical foundations of statistical inference. Topics covered in the course include random variables, expectations, parameter estimation (method of moments, method of maximum likelihood, and Bayesian approach), properties of point estimators (bias, variance, consistency, and efficiency), confidence intervals, hypotheses testing, likelihood ratio test, data summary methods, and introduction to linear regression. A class of distributions, including chi-squared, t, and F distributions, the distributions derived from normal that occur in many applications of hypothesis testing and statistical inference, are introduced.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 7:40-9:40 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: MATH E-15 or equivalent. No prior knowledge of probability is assumed. Students are required to take a short pretest at the beginning of the course. The pretest score does not count toward the final grade but helps students understand whether their background in calculus positions them for success in this course.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16470/2020

MATH E-216
Real Analysis, Convexity, and Optimization

Grant Andrew Murray, MA

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26065

Description
This course develops the theory of convex sets, normed infinite-dimensional vector spaces, and convex functionals and applies it as a unifying principle to a variety of optimization problems such as resource allocation, production planning, and optimal control. Topics include Hilbert space, dual spaces, the Hahn-Banach theorem, the Riesz representation theorem, calculus of variations, and Fenchel duality. Students are expected to understand and invent proofs of theorems in real and functional analysis.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections Tuesdays, 8-10 pm or Wednesdays, 10 am-noon.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the 2015 Faculty of Arts and Sciences course Mathematics 116.

Prerequisites: MATH E-21a and MATH E-21b, MATH E-23a, or the equivalent, plus at least one other more advanced course in mathematics. Students need to know linear algebra and multivariable calculus and be comfortable with proofs.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26065/2021

MATH E-300
Mathematical Foundations for Teaching Secondary School Math

Carolyn Gardner-Thomas, PhD

Assistant Director, Mathematics for Teaching Program, Harvard Extension School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25477

Description
Why do students have such a difficult time with basic math concepts such as working with fractions and negative numbers? It could be because arithmetic is significantly more complex than we initially suspect. For instance, the symbol ½ has at least four different interpretations, and students need to be able to quickly figure out which interpretation will be of most use for solving a particular problem. This course was created for middle and high school mathematics teachers to give them a chance to explore the inner workings of fundamental mathematical concepts involved in arithmetic as well as the basis for working with a variety of number systems. The course deconstructs basic math concepts that many people often take for granted, but yet which can continue to give students difficulties throughout their school years. The course emphasizes mathematical reasoning rather than memorizing facts and formulas. In addition to the mathematical content, we also discuss how different methods of teaching affect students differently and we explore a variety of activities and games that teachers can bring to their own classrooms to enhance their students’ understanding and enjoyment of mathematics.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 4:30-6:30 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Familiarity with K-12 mathematics.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25477/2021

MATH E-300
Mathematical Foundations for Teaching Secondary School Math

Andrew Engelward, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 13787

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Familiarity with K-12 mathematics.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-13787/2020

MATH E-301
Elementary Number Theory

David Arias, EdD

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26003

Description
Number theory can be used to find the greatest common divisor, determine whether a number is prime, and solve Diophantine equations. With the improvement of computer technology, number theory also helps us to protect private information by encrypting it as it travels through the internet. During the course, we discuss mathematical induction, division and Euclidean algorithms, the Diophantine equation ax + by = c, the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, prime numbers and their distribution, the Goldbach conjecture, congruences, the Chinese remainder theorem, Fermat’s theorem, Wilson’s theorem, Euler’s theorem, and cryptography. Additional topics may include number-theoretic functions, primitive roots, and the quadratic reciprocity law.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 5:10-7:10 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: MATH E-8.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26003/2021

MATH E-302
Math for Teaching Geometry

Carolyn Gardner-Thomas, PhD

Assistant Director, Mathematics for Teaching Program, Harvard Extension School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25779

Description
Geometry is about symmetry, shape, and space. This course emphasizes mathematical reasoning and the role of mathematical discourse in geometry classrooms. Our explorations begin with the classic work on geometry, Euclid’s The Elements. We study straightedge and compass constructions; investigate golden rectangles, constructible numbers, and geometry in higher dimensions; and work to more modern topics such as tessellations and Pick’s Theorem.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 4:30-6:30 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Knowledge of number systems, algebra, and other standard precalculus mathematics. Experience teaching geometry would be useful, but not essential.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25779/2021

MATH E-304
Inquiries into Probability and Statistics

Aubrey Clayton, PhD

Director of Enterprise Risk Solutions Research, Moody’s Analytics

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15472

Description
We use the language of probability and chance all the time, in settings ranging from the lofty to the mundane: from weather forecasts to political polls, medical diagnoses, sports gambling, economics, Powerball lotteries, evaluation of legal evidence, game shows, and sophisticated machine learning algorithms. And yet it is difficult to pin down exactly what we mean when we talk about probability. Without a clear idea of what probability is, students of statistics inevitably struggle when faced with real-world problems requiring probabilistic reasoning, particularly in the biological or social sciences. To clear things up, we survey the history of disagreement about the nature of probability and then consider a new definition of probability as an extension of logic. This applies to all situations of reasoning with incomplete information, which unifies the various opposing interpretations and puts probability on a solid foundation. We then use this logical framework to develop quantitative tools that apply to many practical examples, and we show how probability can help us navigate an uncertain world. Finally, we tour through the standard statistical methods to show where they get things right and where their results are necessarily illogical.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: High school mathematics including precalculus.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15472/2020

MATH E-320
Teaching Mathematics with a Historical Perspective

Oliver Knill, PhD

Preceptor in Mathematics, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25678

Description
The difficulty of both learning and teaching math is evident in its history. The struggle of early research mathematicians who developed and formalized a topic parallels the struggle of students and teachers in the modern classroom. Students learning about the concept of limits and series undergo a similar process as the pioneers of calculus did when they developed the subject. Archimedes, Zeno, Cavalieri, Newton, Leibniz, and Cauchy had to find or invent structure. This struggle goes on today, as new flavors of calculus are developed and studied. Each week, this course considers a different math subject and gives an overview as well as discusses some core results in that area.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Single variable calculus is helpful.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25678/2021

MATH E-345
Math Teacher Leadership

Carolyn Gardner-Thomas, PhD

Assistant Director, Mathematics for Teaching Program, Harvard Extension School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16409

Description
This course supports math teacher leadership knowledge and skills through investigations of practice, reflections, design, and implementation of programs oriented to address dynamic contextual school situations. Using research-based frameworks for teacher leadership development that promote collaborative and system-based approaches for timely, relevant, data-informed, and sustainable mathematics education improvement, we explore strategies aimed at driving school improvement efforts in mathematics teaching, learning, and school culture. The course is designed for math teachers and administrators interested in formal and informal coaching and mentoring of math teachers, the design and facilitation of professional development experiences for math teachers, and transformational leadership in mathematics education.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 4:30-6:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Knowledge of number systems, algebra, and other standard precalculus mathematics. A minimum of three years of teaching mathematics is assumed.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16409/2020

MATH E-497
Crafting the Thesis Proposal in Mathematics for Teaching Tutorial

Carolyn Gardner-Thomas, PhD

Assistant Director, Mathematics for Teaching Program, Harvard Extension School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15479

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $0
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The tutorial is not a course in the traditional sense. It is structured one-on-one advising with the instructor along with opportunities for interaction with other proposal writers. Students participate in an initial meeting with their instructor by phone or video conference. Then, weekly work begins on the production of the various portions of the proposal document. As these materials are submitted, the instructor provides feedback to each student. The goal is to have a full draft of the proposal by the end of the semester.

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, mathematics for teaching. They must have completed eight courses toward the degree, including successful completion of MATH E-15, and be in good academic standing. Their prework, due between April 1 and June 1, must be approved before they are allowed to register for the tutorial. See the Guide to the ALM Thesis for details. Candidates accepted to the 12-course thesis track register for graduate credit; those in the ten-course thesis track register for noncredit.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15479/2020

MATH E-599
Teaching Projects: Math for Teaching Capstone Course

Carolyn Gardner-Thomas, PhD

Assistant Director, Mathematics for Teaching Program, Harvard Extension School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16408

Description
This course is intended to give current and aspiring secondary math teachers an opportunity to become engaged in a variety of teaching-related projects. In the first part of the course, participants are given a chance to research a current topic in mathematics education through use of journal articles, giving a presentation of their findings to the math for teaching community. In the second part, participants are asked to investigate how use of a particular technology can be used to enhance classroom math lessons. In addition, everyone gets a chance to participate in an alternative math teaching experiment.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 4:30-6:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, mathematics for teaching capstone track who are in good academic standing and in their final semester of the program. They must have successfully completed MATH E-15, or have prior approval of the instructor. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16408/2020

MATH E-599
Teaching Projects: Math for Teaching Capstone Course

Andrew Engelward, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 22946

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-22946/2021

MGMT E-10
HBS CORe: Business Analytics, Economics for Managers, and Financial Accounting

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24586

Description

The Credential of Readiness (CORe program) is a primer on the fundamentals of business offered through Harvard Business School Online. Developed and taught by Harvard Business School faculty, this course covers business analytics, economics for managers, and financial accounting—the essentials to contribute to business discussions and decision making. The business analytics portion is taught by Janice Hammond and introduces quantitative methods used to analyze data and make better management decisions. The economics for managers portion is taught by Bharat Anand and applies fundamental economic principles to business decisions, covering customer demand, supplier cost, pricing, markets, and differentiation. The financial accounting portion is taught by V.G. Narayanan and teaches key accounting concepts and principles to illuminate financial statements and unlock critical insights into business performance and potential.

All learning materials and instructor and participant interaction take place within the online HBS Online learning environment. Although the professors do not have direct real-time interaction with students, they have developed short video lectures, cases, exercises, and other interactive learning elements to create a highly engaging educational experience. Participants typically learn as much (if not more) from thoughtful participation and from peers in this active learning ecosystem as they do from faculty content. Students registered in CORe will be required to keep up with the course material during the Harvard Extension School’s Spring Break, March 14-20. For more information see HBS Online’s CORe webpage. Students who have previously enrolled in HBS Online’s Financial Accounting, MGMT E-10 (or MGMT S-10), HBS Online’s CORe, or the HBS Online section of MGMT E-1000 (or MGMT S-1000), and were still enrolled after the 100% refund deadline are not eligible to enroll in MGMT E-10.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date:

Undergraduate credit: $3760
Credits: 8

Notes:

This course is graded pass/fail with grades of high honors, honors, pass, or fail. Extension of time (EXT) grades are not available. Harvard University’s Tuition Assistance Plan (TAP) cannot be used. Certain other scholarships and waivers are also excluded. Admission, registration, refund, make-up exam, and grading policies are determined by the HBS Online CORe administration and have precedence over corresponding Extension School policies.

Last day to apply: January 4, 2021
Last day to register: January 7
Course start date: January 12
Last day to drop for 100% tuition refund, minus the HBS Online $100 nonrefundable enrollment fee: January 13
Last day to withdraw for WD grade: February 24

Prerequisites: To register for this course, students must apply to and be admitted by HBS Online for the January 12 cohort. Apply now. If accepted, registration transactions must all be done on the HBS Online website; they cannot be done in Extension School online services. For more information, contact hbsonlinesupport@hbs.edu. After registering with HBS Online, students receiving financial aid or any other type of financial assistance (for example, consortium agreements) should contact the Extension School Student Financial Services office at studentfinance@extension.harvard.edu.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24586/2021

MGMT E-10
HBS CORe: Business Analytics, Economics for Managers, and Financial Accounting

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15074

Description

All learning materials and instructor and participant interaction take place within the online HBS Online learning environment. Although the professors do not have direct real-time interaction with students, they have developed short video lectures, cases, exercises, and other interactive learning elements to create a highly engaging educational experience. Participants typically learn as much (if not more) from thoughtful participation and from peers in this active learning ecosystem as they do from faculty content. For more information see HBS Online’s CORe webpage. Students who have previously enrolled in HBS Online’s Financial Accounting, MGMT E-10 (or MGMT S-10), HBS Online’s CORe, or the HBS Online section of MGMT E-1000 (or MGMT S-1000), and were still enrolled after the 100% refund deadline are not eligible to enroll in MGMT E-10.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date:

Undergraduate credit: $3760
Credits: 8

Notes:

Last day to apply: August 31
Last day to register: September 3
Course start date: September 9
Last day to drop for 100% tuition refund, minus the HBS Online $100 nonrefundable enrollment fee: September 10
Last day to withdraw for WD grade: October 21

Prerequisites: To register for this course, students must apply to and be admitted by HBS Online for the September 9 cohort. Apply now. If accepted, registration transactions must all be done on the HBS Online website; they cannot be done in Extension School online services. For more information, contact hbsonlinesupport@hbs.edu. After registering with HBS Online, students receiving financial aid or any other type of financial assistance (for example, consortium agreements) should contact the Extension School Student Financial Services office at studentfinance@extension.harvard.edu.

MGMT E-104
Quantitative Methods for Economics and Finance

Sudhakar Raju, PhD

Professor of Finance, Rockhurst University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26002

Description
This course is a rigorous introduction to quantitative methods for students intending to study economics, finance, accounting, marketing, and management science. Examples are drawn from these areas. Topics covered include probability distributions, statistical inference, multiple linear regression, logistic regression, optimization, and machine learning. This course focuses on applications illustrating concepts with datasets. The statistical programming language, R, is completely integrated into the course. Prior background in R is not required. After completing this course, students can apply quantitative techniques to analyze problems in areas such as economics, finance, accounting and marketing; understand and apply statistical concepts to real world problems; understand and apply machine learning techniques like logistic regression; and use R as an analytical tool. Students may count one of the following courses toward a degree or certificate, but not more than one: MGMT E-104, STAT E-100, STAT E-101 (offered previously), STAT E-102, or STAT E-104.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: High school algebra and familiarity with Excel. Prior courses in economics or finance recommended.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26002/2021

MGMT E-597
Precapstone in Management: Entrepreneurship in Action

Henrik Totterman, DSc

Professor of Practice, Entrepreneurship and Management, Hult International Business School and CEO and President, LEADX3M LLC

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25671

Description
This course is a comprehensive introduction to the underlying dynamics of entrepreneurial business. It is mandatory for capstone track candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, management who wish to register for MGMT S-599 in the 2021 Harvard Summer School. The course is focused on flexibility, innovation, resource management, and responsiveness when starting and operating high growth potential ventures, which are required skills when taking the capstone course.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Students must be capstone track candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, management. They must be in good academic standing and have completed the seven core courses and half the residency requirement. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25671/2021

MGMT E-1000
Financial Accounting Principles

V. G. Narayanan, PhD

Thomas D. Casserly, Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15877 | Section 2

Description
Be it a Fortune 500 company, a startup, or a nonprofit, having a solid understanding of financial accounting principles is essential for making critical business decisions. Offered in collaboration with Harvard Business School Online, a digital learning initiative from the faculty at Harvard Business School, this pre-recorded online course covers concepts such as profit and revenue, assets and liabilities, and students learn how to prepare and analyze financial statements. The course covers important accounting principles, such as how to record transactions using journal entries; how to post transactions to accounts; and how to prepare a trial balance, balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement. Other topics covered include analyzing financial statements, and forecasting and valuation. Students emerge with a deeper understanding of the financial accounting methodology and its application in a number of business scenarios. Learning materials and interaction take place primarily within the HBS Online learning environment. Although the professor does not have direct real-time interaction with students, he has developed short video lectures, cases, exercises, and other interactive learning elements to create a highly engaging educational experience. Participants typically learn as much (if not more) from thoughtful participation and from peers in this active learning ecosystem as they do from faculty content. Students who have previously enrolled in HBS Online’s Financial Accounting, MGMT E-10 (or MGMT S-10), HBS Online’s CORe, or the HBS Online section of MGMT E-1000 (or MGMT S-1000), and were still enrolled after the 100 percent refund deadline are not eligible to enroll in this section of MGMT E-1000. They will be dropped from the course. Students may not count this course toward the HBS Online noncredit CORe or the HBS Online Financial Accounting Certificate.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections Tuesdays, 7:30-9 pm, Wednesdays, 4-5:30 pm, Wednesdays, 6:30-8 pm, or Thursdays, 7:30-9 pm. Sections meet via live web conference roughly every other week, starting the first week of classes. Students sign up for sections (first come, first served) on the Canvas course website. See course syllabus for details.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes:

Registration for this section of MGMT E-1000 ends on August 27 for all students.

Last day to register: August 27
Last day to make credit status changes or drop for 100% tuition refund: September 8
Last day to drop for 50% tuition refund: September 15
Last day to withdraw for WD grade: November 20

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15877/2020

MGMT E-1000
Financial Accounting Principles

Andrew Azer, MS

Assurance Manager, CohnReznick

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16426 | Section 1

Description
This course introduces the generally accepted principles that govern an entity’s financial accounting system and the income statement and balance sheet that are the principal end products of the system. Students learn how accounting information is used to evaluate the performance and financial status of an organization, both by managers within the organization and by shareholders, lenders, and other outside parties. Students who have completed MGMT E-10 may not count this course toward the ALB degree.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 5:10-7:10 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16426/2020

MGMT E-1000
Financial Accounting Principles

James F. White, MS

Assistant Vice President for Finance and Controller, Berklee College of Music

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25413 | Section 2

Description
This course introduces the basic concepts and standards underlying financial accounting systems including generally accepted accounting principles that govern an entity’s financial accounting system and the income statement and balance sheet that are the principal end products of the system. Several important concepts are studied in detail, including revenue recognition, expense recognition, cash flows, profitability, inventory, long-lived assets, present value, and long term liabilities. The course emphasizes the construction of the basic financial accounting statements—the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement—as well as their interpretation. Students learn how accounting information is used to evaluate the performance and financial status of an organization, both by managers within the organization and by shareholders, lenders, and other outside parties. Students who have completed MGMT E-10 may not count this course toward the ALB degree.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Enrollment limit: Limited to 300 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25413/2021

MGMT E-1000
Financial Accounting Principles

V. G. Narayanan, PhD

Thomas D. Casserly, Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25179 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections Tuesdays, 5:30-7 pm, Tuesdays, 7-8:30 pm, Wednesdays, 4-5:30 pm, Wednesdays, 6-7:30 pm, or Wednesdays, 7-8:30 pm. Sections meet via live web conference roughly every other week, starting the first week of classes. Students sign up for sections (first come, first served) on the Canvas course website. See course syllabus for details.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes:

Registration for this section of MGMT E-1000 ends on January 21 for all students.

Last day to register: January 21
Last day to make credit status changes or drop for 100% tuition refund: January 31
Last day to drop for 50% tuition refund: February 7
Last day to withdraw for WD grade: April 23

Enrollment limit: Limited to 999 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25179/2021

MGMT E-1100
Intermediate Accounting

Vijay Sampath, DBA

Assistant Professor of Accounting, Taxation and Law, Silberman College of Business, Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16397

Description
This course builds on the fundamentals of financial accounting and reporting that students learn in an introductory financial accounting course. Students learn about the preparation and interpretation of an entity’s financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, accounting for complex business transactions, and techniques to evaluate firm performance. Topics include income statement, individual components of assets and liabilities, stockholders’ equity, statement of cash flows, revenue recognition, and accounting changes. Real-life case studies are used to evaluate firm performance.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MGMT E-1000 with a grade of C or higher, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16397/2020

MGMT E-1300
Nonprofit and Governmental Accounting

James F. White, MS

Assistant Vice President for Finance and Controller, Berklee College of Music

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 13384

Description
This course introduces the fundamentals of accounting and finance associated with governmental and nonprofit organizations. It emphasizes the issues related to fund accounting including general and special revenue funds, debt service funds, capital project funds, internal service funds, and enterprise and fiduciary funds. It emphasizes the issues related to net asset accounting including unrestricted net assets and restricted net assets (temporarily and permanently restricted). A detailed review of the complete preparation of financial statements for both governmental and nonprofit organizations is a core concept in the course. There is a review of the concepts associated with long-term debt and fixed-asset accounting, planning and control of cash and temporary investments, budgeting and budgetary control, management control and financial reporting, strategic planning, program analysis, measurement of output, reporting on performance, external auditing cost determination, and tax levies.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: MGMT E-1000 helpful but not required.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 80 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-13384/2020

MGMT E-1500
Cost Accounting

James F. White, MS

Assistant Vice President for Finance and Controller, Berklee College of Music

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24502

Description
This course examines the concepts and procedures underlying the development of a cost accounting system for managerial decisions, cost control, and performance reporting. Cost accounting can have a direct impact on product pricing, managing a growing business, generating a bottom-line profit and creating value for the company and its customers. Traditional cost accounting and new cost accounting management models are explored and contrasted. There is particular emphasis on management systems, which play a proactive role in planning, managing, and reducing costs. Topics include cost measurement and cost control; cost-volume-profit analysis; job costing; activity-based costing; tools for planning and control; master budgeting and responsibility accounting; flexible budgeting and variance analysis; management control systems; inventory costing, management, and capacity analysis; cost information for decision making; relevant information; pricing decisions; cost management; strategic profitability analysis; cost allocation and revenues; measurement and control of overhead costs; and revenues and sales variances.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MGMT E-1000, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24502/2021

MGMT E-1600
Managerial Accounting

Ned Gandevani, MBA, PhD

Senior Investment Specialist, WestPark Capital Investment Banking

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16398

Description
This course introduces the basic principles, methods, and challenges of modern managerial accounting. It covers traditional topics such as job-order costing, cost-volume-profit analysis, budgeting and variance analysis, profitability analysis, relevant costs for decision making, and cost-plus pricing, as well as emerging topics such as activity-based cost (ABC) accounting. The material is examined from the perspective of students preparing to use management accounting information as managers, to support decision making such as pricing, product mix, sourcing, and technology decisions, and short- and long-term planning; and to measure, evaluate, and reward performance. This course emphasizes the relationships between accounting techniques and other organizational activities, such as strategy and motivation.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: MGMT E-1000, or the equivalent.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16398/2020

MGMT E-1600
Managerial Accounting

Andrew Azer, MS

Assurance Manager, CohnReznick

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25980

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 7:40-9:40 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: MGMT E-1000, or the equivalent.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25980/2021

MGMT E-2000
Principles of Finance

Bruce D. Watson, MA

Master Lecturer in Economics, Boston University and Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 13407 | Section 2

Description
This course provides an introductory survey of the field of finance. It examines the agents, instruments, and institutions that make up the financial system of the modern economy, such as bonds, the stock market, derivatives, and the money market. Along the way, standard concepts and tools of financial analysis are introduced: present discounted value, option value, and the efficient markets hypothesis. Recent developments in the field—in particular, the application of psychology to financial markets (called behavioral finance)—are also discussed. The course is designed to equip students with the tools they need to make their own financial decisions with greater skill and confidence. Specifically, we see how insights from academic finance can inform and improve students’ own investing decisions.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: High school algebra.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-13407/2020

MGMT E-2000
Principles of Finance

Bruce D. Watson, MA

Master Lecturer in Economics, Boston University and Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 23258

Description
This course provides an introductory survey of the field of finance. It examines the agents, instruments and institutions that make up the financial system of the modern economy, such as bonds, the stock market, derivatives, and the money market. Along the way, standard concepts and tools of financial analysis are introduced: present discounted value, option value, and the efficient markets hypothesis. Recent developments in the field—in particular, the application of psychology to financial markets (called behavioral finance)—are also discussed. The course is designed to equip students with the tools they need to make their own financial decisions with greater skill and confidence. Specifically, we see how insights from academic finance can inform and improve students’ own investing decisions.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the fall 2019 course.

Prerequisites: High school algebra.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-23258/2021

MGMT E-2000
Principles of Finance

Gregory Sabin, DBA

Senior Lecturer on Accounting, Questrom School of Business, Boston University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16378 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: High school algebra.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16378/2020

MGMT E-2020
Managerial Finance

C. Bulent Aybar, PhD

Professor of International Finance, Southern New Hampshire University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16043

Description
The objective of the course is to provide the student with the basic analytical tools required to make value-creating financial decisions. The student is provided with an introduction to theoretical foundations and practical applications in financial decision making. Topics covered in the course include analysis of financial and operating performance, assessment of financial health, financial planning, working capital and growth management, the time value of money, risk-return trade off, valuation of financial and real assets, investment, funding, and distribution decisions in the context of nonfinancial firms.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:40-9:40 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MGMT E-2000 or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16043/2020

MGMT E-2035
Principles of Real Estate

Teo Nicolais, AB

President, Nicolais, LLC

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24792

Description
This course offers practical, real-world knowledge for investing in real estate. It’s designed both for those pursuing an active career in the industry as well as individuals interested in building wealth through passive real estate holdings. You learn what really drives land values. You explore how market forces shape your city and where to look for future growth. You practice spotting investment opportunities in the lifecycles of properties, neighborhoods, and cities. You study the four phases of the 18-year cycle which shape the real estate investment landscape. You receive hands-on training building financial models, analyzing cash flows, and measuring investment returns. Finally, you learn how entrepreneurs raise capital through debt and equity partnerships and explore strategies for successful investing. No prior real estate background is required.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24792/2021

MGMT E-2035
Principles of Real Estate

Teo Nicolais, AB

President, Nicolais, LLC

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14821

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14821/2020

MGMT E-2037
Real Estate Finance and Investment

Teo Nicolais, AB

President, Nicolais, LLC

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15718

Description
This course presents a toolkit for maximizing investment returns. Students closely examine the four sources of real estate returns (cash flow, appreciation, loan amortization, and tax advantages) which have an impact on their investment strategy. They develop an investment scorecard for scrutinizing new investment opportunities. They practice a rigorous, rational approach to deciding when to hold, sell, refinance, or renovate a property. They study strategies for raising capital from investors and work through examples of successful partnership structures. Finally, students learn how to efficiently manage a growing portfolio of cash-flowing assets.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: MGMT E-2035 is strongly recommended.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15718/2020

MGMT E-2037
Real Estate Finance and Investment

Teo Nicolais, AB

President, Nicolais, LLC

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24505

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: MGMT E-2035 is strongly recommended.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24505/2021

MGMT E-2600
Financial Statement Analysis

James F. White, MS

Assistant Vice President for Finance and Controller, Berklee College of Music

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15437 | Section 2

Description
This course is designed to prepare students to interpret and analyze financial statements for tasks such as credit and security analyses, lending and investment decisions, and other decisions that rely on financial data. This course explores in greater depth financial reporting from the perspective of financial statement users. Students develop a sufficient understanding of the concepts and recording procedures and therefore are able to interpret various disclosures in an informed manner. Students learn to compare companies financially, understand cash flow, and grasp basic profitability issues and risk analysis concepts. Ultimately, students who complete this course develop a more efficient and effective approach to researching, interpreting, and analyzing financial statements.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: MGMT E-1000 and MGMT E-2000, or the equivalent required; MGMT E-1600 and MGMT E-2020 helpful.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 80 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15437/2020

MGMT E-2600
Financial Statement Analysis

Andrew Azer, MS

Assurance Manager, CohnReznick

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15719 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MGMT E-1000 and MGMT E-2000, or the equivalent required; MGMT E-1600 and MGMT E-2020 helpful.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 43 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15719/2020

MGMT E-2600
Financial Statement Analysis

Khaled Barazi, MBA

Vice President of Finance, McCue Corporation

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25065 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MGMT E-1000 and MGMT E-2000, or the equivalent required; MGMT E-1600 and MGMT E-2020 helpful.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25065/2021

MGMT E-2600
Financial Statement Analysis

Ned Gandevani, MBA, PhD

Senior Investment Specialist, WestPark Capital Investment Banking

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25337 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: MGMT E-1000 and MGMT E-2000, or the equivalent required; MGMT E-1600 and MGMT E-2020 helpful.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25337/2021

MGMT E-2620
Business Analysis and Valuation

Ned Gandevani, MBA, PhD

Senior Investment Specialist, WestPark Capital Investment Banking

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25659 | Section 2

Description
Financial statements are important sources of insight as to the financial health, prospects, and value of a company. But just how accurate are these reports? Is management’s view trustworthy or biased? What are the warnings? This course introduces a framework for the analysis of financial statements and financial plans, with particular focus on their usefulness in valuing and financing companies and evaluating corporate and management performance.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: MGMT E-1000, and either MGMT E-2020 or MGMT E-2700, or the equivalents.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25659/2021

MGMT E-2620
Business Analysis and Valuation

Surjit Tinaikar, PhD

Associate Professor of Accounting, College of Management, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16352

Description
Financial statements are widely used to evaluate the past financial performance and forecast the future financial performance of publicly traded firms. This course introduces a framework for the analysis of financial statements, with particular focus on valuation and evaluating corporate and management performance. By carefully reviewing financial statements, students are able to forecast pro forma financial statements and determine the value of a firm.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: MGMT E-1000, and either MGMT E-2020 or MGMT E-2700, or the equivalents.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16352/2020

MGMT E-2620
Business Analysis and Valuation

Brian Dies, MS

Principal, Hoffman Alvary

Christopher Debaere, MBA

Principal, Hoffman Alvary & Company, LLC

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25338 | Section 1

Description
This course provides a survey of business valuation methods, tools, and techniques. Focus is placed on core valuation approaches including the income method based on discounted cash flows and the market method using comparable companies. More advanced topics include valuing minority interests, privately held companies, high-risk ventures, and intangible assets.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MGMT E-1000, and either MGMT E-2020 or MGMT E-2700, or the equivalents.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25338/2021

MGMT E-2700
Corporate Finance

Faris Saah, MS

Founder and Managing Partner, Quansoo Partners

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15721 | Section 2

Description
The goal of this course is to develop skills for making corporate investment and financing decisions. Topics include discounted cash flow and other valuation techniques; risk and return; capital asset pricing model; corporate capital structure and financial policy; capital budgeting; mergers and acquisitions; and investment and financing decisions in the international context, including exchange rate/interest rate risk analysis. Students may not count both MGMT E-2700 and MGMT E-2710 for degree or certificate credit.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MGMT E-1000, or MGMT E-2000, or the equivalent is helpful.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 37 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15721/2020

MGMT E-2700
Corporate Finance

Bruce D. Watson, MA

Master Lecturer in Economics, Boston University and Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 23462

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: MGMT E-1000, or MGMT E-2000, or the equivalent is helpful.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-23462/2021

MGMT E-2700
Corporate Finance

Ned Gandevani, MBA, PhD

Senior Investment Specialist, WestPark Capital Investment Banking

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14293 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: MGMT E-1000, or MGMT E-2000, or the equivalent is helpful.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14293/2020

MGMT E-2710
International Corporate Finance

C. Bulent Aybar, PhD

Professor of International Finance, Southern New Hampshire University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25352

Description
In a rapidly evolving and increasingly complex global economy, most key financial decisions such as investments in operations, procurement of capital, distributions to capital providers, mergers and acquisitions, and risk management all have inevitably international dimensions. This course analyzes corporate financial decisions from an international perspective, incorporating global differences in economic, political, and institutional environments. The course is designed to help students develop a strategic understanding of the key financial decisions faced by corporations today by putting these decisions in a global context. By the end of the course, students are equipped with analytical tools of varying complexity and gain a firm grounding on institutional realities that empower them to make sound financial management decisions in a complex international environment. Students may not count both MGMT E-2700 and MGMT E-2710 for degree or certificate credit.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:40-9:40 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MGMT E-2020, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25352/2021

MGMT E-2720
Mergers, Acquisitions, and Restructurings

Dorian Klein, MBA

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15425

Description
The course focuses on the design, analysis, and implementation of financial strategies aimed at repositioning and revitalizing companies faced with major competitive or environmental challenges, problems, and opportunities. The course helps students to understand how to create corporate value by restructuring a company or by combining businesses. After reviewing valuation methods based on strategic, ratio, and financial forecasting analysis, we analyze cases of the different solutions, including leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations, corporate downsizing programs, mergers and acquisitions, corporate spinoffs, divestitures, and joint ventures and alliances. Emphasis is given to contemporary expectations and requirements of good governance, based on the roles corporations play in society, and the timing and principles of merger integration. The course is supplemented by guest speakers including investment buyers and sellers as well as valuation experts.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:50-7:50 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MGMT E-1000 and MGMT E-2000, or the equivalent; business analysis and valuation helpful but not required.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 54 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15425/2020

MGMT E-2720
Mergers, Acquisitions, and Restructurings

Viktoria Dalko, PhD

Professor of Finance, Hult International Business School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25935

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MGMT E-1000 and MGMT E-2000, or the equivalent; business analysis and valuation helpful but not required.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25935/2021

MGMT E-2720
Mergers, Acquisitions, and Restructurings

Viktoria Dalko, PhD

Professor of Finance, Hult International Business School

January session | CRN 25743

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays-Thursdays, 2-5 pm
Start Date: Jan. 4, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MGMT E-1000 and MGMT E-2000, or the equivalent; business analysis and valuation helpful but not required.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25743/2021

MGMT E-2740
Investment Theory and Applications

Faris Saah, MS

Founder and Managing Partner, Quansoo Partners

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16213

Description
The course covers the theoretical and practical applications of investments. The topics covered include portfolio and diversification theory, short-term investments, long-term investments, investment banking, security trading, measuring portfolio performance, international investing, and mutual funds.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MGMT E-2020 recommended, but not required.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 44 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16213/2020

MGMT E-2740
Investment Theory and Applications

Ned Gandevani, MBA, PhD

Senior Investment Specialist, WestPark Capital Investment Banking

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25339

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: MGMT E-2020 recommended, but not required.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25339/2021

MGMT E-2750
Alternative Investment Management

Faris Saah, MS

Founder and Managing Partner, Quansoo Partners

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25718

Description
Product innovation in the asset management industry has led to a proliferation of alternative funds and investment strategies, many of which are in nontraditional, often illiquid, asset classes. This course provides a comprehensive understanding of alternative investments, how to evaluate them (risks and returns), and the role they play in portfolio diversification. The course covers many prevalent strategies including private credit, private equity, structured credit, real assets, and hedge funds. Students form teams of investment analysts tasked with evaluating an alternative investment opportunity for the chief investment officer of a university endowment fund.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MGMT E-2000, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25718/2021

MGMT E-2770
Tools for Stock Market Success

Leonard Kopelman, JD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16453

Description
This course examines different approaches for optimal investing in the stock market for professional and personal use. Students gain confidence in effective investing and develop important skills, including developing their own risk profile, learning how to value a public company, understanding key ratios, evaluating economic indicators, dealing with volatility and momentum, and analyzing factors affecting the price of shares. Students become familiar with the tools of the trade, including but not limited to inverted yield curve, dollar cost averages, short selling, options, puts and calls, preferred stock, warrants, dividend reinvestment plans (DRIP), closed-end funds, spinoffs, socially responsible investing, exchange-traded funds (ETF), hedge funds, alpha and beta stocks, various indices, ex-dividend date, moving averages, volatility index (VIX), robo-advisors, reverse split, initial public offerings (IPO), book value, margin calls, straddles, 10K and 10Q reports, and the January effect. Students learn how to design and implement a strategic, diversified portfolio. In addition, they learn to understand the tax aspects of investing and how to rebalance by harvesting gains and losses. The goal is for students to be able to properly analyze the stock market in general, and make informed decisions about choosing appropriate stocks and when to buy and/or sell them.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MGMT E-1000 or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 41 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16453/2020

MGMT E-2780
Active Portfolio Management

Steve Ng, MBA

Associate Professor of Practice, Finance, Graduate School of Management, Clark University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16115

Description
This course introduces students to the portfolio management process. Students actively manage a stock portfolio as a team and are responsible for identifying stock ideas, managing portfolio risk, and monitoring performance. Students learn how to conduct stock research, generate investment ideas, and present their investment thesis to the class. We cover asset valuation methods, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), benchmarking, capital markets, risk control, investment policy statement, and investment strategies. This course simulates being on a real portfolio management team. Students learn how to prepare client quality material and present financial information. The course uses real time market information provided by leading investment firms.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MGMT E-2700 or MGMT E-2740, or good finance and investment background.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16115/2020

MGMT E-2784
Hedge Funds: History, Strategies, and Practice

Peter Marber, PhD

Chief Investment Officer for Emerging Markets, Aperture Investors and Senior Lecturer on Finance, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25960

Description
While beating the markets was long thought to be impossible, hedge funds have seemingly challenged many financial theories, cracked the mysteries of Wall Street, and made fortunes in the process. They are also one of the fastest growing and least understood areas in the asset management industry. What exactly are hedge funds? How has the sector developed? What do hedge fund managers strive to capture and how do they do it? What are the major hedge fund strategies and their mechanics? What are their hidden risks and unique limitations? How important are hedge funds to investors, regulators, and the public? From both a theoretical and practical perspective, this course is geared to help answer these questions. It surveys the hedge fund industry from its origins in the 1940s and explores hedge fund strategies including long/short, event-driven, market neutral, relative value, dedicated short-bias, convertible arbitrage, emerging markets, fixed income arbitrage, global macro, managed futures, and multi-sector investing. Students develop an understanding of how hedge fund managers—as well as hedge fund investors—think, operate, and invest. The course tracks a live multi-sector hedge fund portfolio throughout the semester and analyzes current events and price action.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: The course requires a basic knowledge of finance and modest competency in MS Excel. Prior coursework or work experience in finance would also be useful.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25960/2021

MGMT E-3010
Leadership Communications

Michelle Ehrenreich, MBA

Founding Partner, Acuity Partners

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 13584

Description
Students learn how to communicate clearly and persuasively, in a way that inspires action. They learn how to tailor communications to different audiences, apply the principles of logical reasoning in structuring communications, connect authentically with their audience through their unique leadership style, and create compelling, high-impact presentations and communications. Classes are often spent on hands-on exercises, and offer ample opportunity for discussion and feedback.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-13584/2020

MGMT E-3010
Leadership Communications

Michelle Ehrenreich, MBA

Founding Partner, Acuity Partners

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24058

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24058/2021

MGMT E-3012
The Art of Communication

Mimi Goss, PhD

President, Mimi Goss Communications

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25976

Description
Today’s leaders must convey their messages concisely, confidently, and memorably. This course is for students to strengthen their public speaking and writing skills, and their authentic voices as professionals. We explore speechwriting, public speaking in victory and crisis, communicating from values, and working with social media and the news media. How can you make every communication a dialogue? How can you advance your goals and those of your listeners? How does speaking from the best of yourself give you confidence? How do you distill a message into one memorable sentence that captures your listeners’ attention, moves your ideas forward, focuses the problem, and helps you achieve your goals? The course emphasizes weekly practical assignments. The goal of the course is for students to create final projects based on their specific interests and useful in their professional lives.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25976/2021

MGMT E-3038
Public Relations in Business and Entrepreneurship

Frank White, MPhil

Communications Consultant

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15426

Description
This course examines the rapidly changing field of public relations as a sub-field of communications. Students learn about the history of public relations and its evolution in the digital age. We also cover the nonprofit counterpart to public relations, known as public affairs. Specific aspects of the profession are considered, such as crisis communications, strategic communications planning, and media relations.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15426/2020

MGMT E-3300
Development Communications

Frank White, MPhil

Communications Consultant

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25660

Description
This course explores the rapidly evolving world of fundraising communications, including case statements, annual fund appeals, proposals, and research. In addition to print communications, the course considers other media used to deliver development messages, including social media and other technologies, including artificial intelligence.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25660/2021

MGMT E-3310
Grant Proposal Writing

George T. Kosar, PhD

Assistant Vice President for Institutional Partnerships, Office of Advancement, Georgetown University and Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 13610

Description
This project-based course covers the complete process of grant proposal development: identification of an achievable and fundable project, research and assessment of viable funding sources, funder relations, proposal writing, budget development, preparation of a full proposal package for submission, and post-award or rejection follow-up with funders. The course emphasizes grants to private, community, and corporate foundations. Students gain an understanding of the nonprofit philanthropic environment and become familiar with tools and resources available to assist them as they seek funds for their projects, institutions, or causes.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Students must have a specific project or a fairly well-developed idea that they build upon as the basis for their coursework and final grant proposal. This project or idea cannot be for a for-profit business. Solid writing skills and experience or coursework in nonprofit sector/management highly recommended.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-13610/2020

MGMT E-3500
Enterprise Social Media and Organizational Collaboration

Aline Yurik, PhD

Director of Software Engineering and Quality Assurance, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25079

Description
This course focuses on the use of enterprise social media and collaboration technology available to today’s organizations. Organizations in today’s world are increasingly distributed and include remote members and global locations. Organizations are also tapping the power of social media networks to engage with customers, build brand and product awareness, and collaborate and innovate with their customers, partners, and employees. Social media and collaboration technologies provide immediate communication and exchange of information that replaces or supplements the traditional internal and external communication methods. We examine the principles that allow organizations to engage successfully in e-collaboration. We analyze external and internal uses of social media networks for organizations, including refocusing of business strategies and operational processes to incorporate social media communication. We review and access tools that allow team members to communicate with each directly. We also review the tools that allow delayed communication where the members do not all have to be present at the same time, such as enterprise social media networks and team collaboration tools. Effective tools for broadcasting information internally and externally are also discussed.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25079/2021

MGMT E-4000
Organizational Behavior

Carmine P. Gibaldi, EdD

Professor of Management, Entrepreneurship, and Organizational Behavior, St. John’s University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26121 | Section 7

Description
This course deals with human behavior in a variety of organizations. Conceptual frameworks, case discussions, and skill-oriented activities are applied to each topic. Topics include communications, motivation, group dynamics, leadership, power, and organizational design and development. Class sessions and assignments are intended to help participants acquire the skills that managers need to improve organizational relationships and performance.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26121/2021

MGMT E-4000
Organizational Behavior

Jennifer Kay Stine, PhD

Vice President, Academic Leadership Group

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14367 | Section 4

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 3-5 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 55 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14367/2020

MGMT E-4000
Organizational Behavior

Robert T. Anthony, MBA

Professor of Management, Hult International Business School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25661 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25661/2021

MGMT E-4000
Organizational Behavior

Carmine P. Gibaldi, EdD

Professor of Management, Entrepreneurship, and Organizational Behavior, St. John’s University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16484 | Section 5

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16484/2020

MGMT E-4000
Organizational Behavior

Paul Green, DBA

Assistant Professor of Management, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15733 | Section 3

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 65 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15733/2020

MGMT E-4000
Organizational Behavior

Ashley Prisant, MBA, PhD

President, Square Peg Solutions

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24454 | Section 4

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24454/2021

MGMT E-4000
Organizational Behavior

Lee G. Bolman, PhD

Professor and Marion Bloch/Missouri Chair in Leadership Emeritus, Bloch School of Management, University of Missouri – Kansas City

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14515 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14515/2020

MGMT E-4000
Organizational Behavior

Ellen Harris, EdM

Director, Thompson Island Outward Bound Professional and Coach, Harvard Business School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 23220 | Section 3

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-23220/2021

MGMT E-4000
Organizational Behavior

Lee G. Bolman, PhD

Professor and Marion Bloch/Missouri Chair in Leadership Emeritus, Bloch School of Management, University of Missouri – Kansas City

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25539 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25539/2021

MGMT E-4000
Organizational Behavior

Paul Green, DBA

Assistant Professor of Management, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26053 | Section 5

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 63 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26053/2021

MGMT E-4000
Organizational Behavior

Carmine P. Gibaldi, EdD

Professor of Management, Entrepreneurship, and Organizational Behavior, St. John’s University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 13813 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-13813/2020

MGMT E-4000
Organizational Behavior

Paul Green, DBA

Assistant Professor of Management, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26107 | Section 6

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 63 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26107/2021

MGMT E-4030
Leading through Change

Harold V. Langlois, PhD

President, CMS Associates

Kathrine Suzanne Livingston, MEd

Managing Partner, CMS Associates

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 23860

Description
This course is designed to be an introduction to the challenges of adapting to the rapidly changing conditions that we all face as our workplace becomes more automated, as our assumptions surrounding our skills sets become outdated, and as new additions to the decision-making process—such as big data—increases the need to cope with exponential complexity. This approach to understanding what it means to adapt and to remain flexible extends to almost every profession. To a future practitioner it’s creating a mindset that supports diversity of viewpoints by remaining open to new ways of thinking in order to facilitate creativity and innovation. From a macro-perspective, students are made aware of alternative ways of framing change initiatives either as incremental or transformational events within an organization. From this viewpoint they are then able to search for appropriate strategies designed to optimize present and future resources. Over the years management theory has evolved from adopting best practices as a prescriptive approach to solving problems to one that incorporates the latest research in mindfulness as a method for slowing down the process, creating a brief moment of stability, deconstructing the issues, and generating multiple alternatives that address present concerns. A learning experience of this type poses many interesting philosophical perspectives and provides a foundation for better understanding the complex decision-making matrices that drive most organizational dynamics.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 60 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-23860/2021

MGMT E-4100
Managing Yourself and Leading Others

Margaret C. Andrews, MS

Managing Director, Higher Ed Associates

Dayna J. Catropa, EdM

Consultant

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15413 | Section 1

Description
Managing others may not be complex, but it is certainly not easy. Simple, straightforward management principles can often be deceptively difficult to implement. This course teaches the fundamentals of management from different angles—managing oneself, managing organizational life, and managing others (managing upward, downward, and sideways). Using a variety of readings, written assignments, in-class exercises, and case discussions, the class focuses on understanding individual strengths, preferences, and blindspots—our own and others’—and working with other people to advance career goals and organizational objectives. Management requires judgment and students should expect to grapple with ambiguous situations that do not have simple solutions.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15413/2020

MGMT E-4100
Managing Yourself and Leading Others

Margaret C. Andrews, MS

Managing Director, Higher Ed Associates

Dayna J. Catropa, EdM

Consultant

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16513 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16513/2020

MGMT E-4105
Leading with Authenticity and Purpose

Ayse Yemiscigil, PhD

Research Affiliate, Human Flourishing Program, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16431

Description
Why is it important to develop self-awareness? How can we gain clarity about our purpose in life and at work? This course teaches authenticity and uses case discussions and personal/peer development exercises. It is increasingly important for people to have a clear idea of who they are and their purpose in life in order to navigate their work-life and become confident and inspiring leaders. Authenticity is about the true self; having clarity about and acting based on one’s deepest interests, values, and motivations. This course first introduces students to concepts and themes related to authenticity. It covers cutting-edge scientific evidence on the development of self and identity, motivation, and well-being. Second, the course presents real-world cases of authentic living and leading. Drawing on the experiences of prominent leaders, these cases enable students to learn from practical examples. Finally, students apply what they have learned from the course to their personal development through in-depth self-exploration. Students are also given the chance to use peer coaching. The course aims to promote skills and capabilities for students to understand and develop authenticity in themselves and others.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16431/2020

MGMT E-4105
Leading with Emotional Intelligence

Margaret C. Andrews, MS

Managing Director, Higher Ed Associates

Dayna J. Catropa, EdM

Consultant

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25961

Description
Emotional intelligence (EI)—the ability to recognize and positively manage emotions in yourself and others—is a powerful component of effective leadership. Understanding and developing EI helps us understand ourselves, build and maintain strong personal and professional relationships, and effectively lead others. Going beyond the basics of emotional intelligence, we concentrate on skills to build and maintain trust, become more resilient, manage difficult interactions, enhance team performance, respond to stress and pressure more effectively, and lead for long-term results. Students improve their understanding of themselves and others, and learn how to better work with and through others to achieve organizational objectives. Throughout the course, we use a variety of readings, discussions, reflective exercises, activities, and a 360-degree emotional intelligence assessment to understand emotional intelligence, learn how to make emotions work for you rather than against you, create an environment that fosters EI, and expand leadership capacity.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MGMT E-4100 would be helpful.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25961/2021

MGMT E-4140
Gender, Leadership, and Management

Patricia H. Deyton, MSW

Professor of Practice of Management, and Senior Associate of the Center for Gender in Organizations, Simmons University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24485

Description
This course, which is equally important for women and men, examines leadership and management from a gender-based perspective. Issues covered include leadership styles and their impact, understanding of power, conflict management, ethical decision making, workplace stereotypes, impact on policy making, differences in communication, and approaches to teamwork.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24485/2021

MGMT E-4160
Creating and Leading Team Dynamics

Harold V. Langlois, PhD

President, CMS Associates

Kathrine Suzanne Livingston, MEd

Managing Partner, CMS Associates

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 13375

Description
In today’s complex organizational environments, working within a team format, whether in a leadership role or as an active participant, requires a different set of skills than going it alone. This course focuses on the role of coaching as an executive function and the challenges of developing an effective communication style. Creativity, conflict resolution, and facilitating innovation are some of the major themes. Other topics explore building a climate of accountability and establishing conditions that lead to high performance. The course is highly interactive with practice-based exercises intended to build students’ skills as effective, contributing team members.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-13375/2020

MGMT E-4178
Optimizing Leadership

Ashley Prisant, MBA, PhD

President, Square Peg Solutions

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15107

Description
Leadership takes many forms, and the challenges that the inexperienced new manager and highly tasked frontline manager faces can be considered significant to the individuals. Topics include communication, motivation, perception, personality, difficult employees, career engagement, change management, traits and characteristics, and talent management. Conceptual frameworks, case discussions, and skill-oriented activities are applied to each topic. Class sessions and assignments are intended to help participants acquire the skills that new and frontline managers need to improve leadership skills, team relationships, and performance.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: At least one to three years of job experience plus experience in influencing others—either past or present—are recommended.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15107/2020

MGMT E-4185
Leadership Perspectives

John F. Korn, PhD

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25728

Description
This course explores various models of leadership that have been developed from both a theoretical and practical perspective. The learning objectives of this course are primarily twofold: First, students gain an understanding of the major leadership theories. For each model studied, students are expected to understand the theoretical basis of the model, the strengths and weaknesses of said model, and how to apply the model to practical situations in business and other settings. Second, students explore their personal leadership style through a series of written assignments and classroom activities. These activities enable the student to reflect on how they view leadership as both a subordinate and as a leader. As a result of enrolling in this class, students develop a well-rounded understanding of leadership concepts for use in their own leadership opportunities. Students may not count both GOVT E-1354 (offered previously) and MGMT E-4185 for degree credit.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25728/2021

MGMT E-4189
Nonprofit Leadership and Community Engagement

Madeline Dupre McNeely, MEd

Principal and Founder, Conditioning Leaders

Harry Harding, ALM

Vice President of Innovation and Strategic Partnerships, Children’s Services of Roxbury

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14789

Description
This course focuses on developing twenty-first century leadership skills, values, and habits. A collaborative, inclusive, and equitable approach is essential for sustained, meaningful leadership and community engagement in both local and global contexts. Leaders provide the best possible outcomes when they collaborate at the person, role, and system levels. Students learn how to leverage the wisdom and resources of multiple perspectives and constituencies and to inspire others to act on and align with organizationally espoused and practiced values. Students expand their ability to address and negotiate leadership challenges that arise when stakeholders come together to plan, make decisions, and take action in nonprofit, organizational, and community settings. Students also reflect on their current leadership habits and have a chance to practice new leadership habits through applying course content to self-designed approved organizational or community projects. The course creates an experiential learning community that calls for students to stretch themselves in the emotional, intellectual, and civic domains of their lives.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14789/2020

MGMT E-4190
Case Studies in Leadership Through Literature and Film

Raymond F. Comeau, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 23635

Description
Today’s business leaders must possess so many qualities and deal with such challenging situations that no group of academic studies can account for them all. This course is based on the premise that case studies using the creative vehicles of literature and film can help managers understand the modern complexities of leadership. It focuses on the qualities, subtleties, ambiguities, and dilemmas of leadership as they appear in in the eyes of some of the keenest observers of human nature, namely, creative artists. Students are asked to share their personal management experiences as they relate to the readings. When appropriate, references to academic studies and theories of leadership are also made. Included are films dealing with Howard Hughes (The Aviator) and Gandhi (Gandhi), and the following works of literature: Antigone (Sophocles), Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), Billy Budd (Melville), In the Penal Colony (Kafka), The Guest (Camus), A Doll’s House (Ibsen), Things Fall Apart (Achebe), and The Age of Innocence (Wharton).

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: An interest in literature and the flexibility to apply concepts gleaned from the readings to practical situations faced by managers.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 16 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-23635/2021

MGMT E-4225
Negotiation and Organizational Conflict Resolution

Maurie Kelly, PhD

Director of Informatics, Institutes of Energy and the Environment, and Instructor of Risk Management, Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24082 | Section 2

Description
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the concept and types of negotiation. It is designed for students who wish to manage individual and organizational conflict and negotiations more effectively based on the premise that those in management positions engage in some form of negotiation daily. Students discuss the meaning, types, and different strategies of negotiation with an emphasis on an integrative, collaborative, win-win negotiation approach. A variety of topics are discussed including, but not limited to, workplace conflict, strategies for diagnosing, alternative dispute resolution, emotional elements in approaching negotiation and conflict resolution, psychological subprocesses, social contexts, individual differences, multiparty situations, and dealing with impasses. Students learn theories of interpersonal and organizational conflict and its resolution as applied to personal, corporate, historical, and political contexts. The course brings out the significance of leadership in approaching and managing a negotiation situation and organizational conflict resolution.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 38 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24082/2021

MGMT E-4225
Negotiation and Organizational Conflict Resolution

Diana Buttu, MBA, JD

Lawyer

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15130 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 3-5 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15130/2020

MGMT E-4225
Negotiation and Organizational Conflict Resolution

Maurie Kelly, PhD

Director of Informatics, Institutes of Energy and the Environment, and Instructor of Risk Management, Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16525 | Section 4

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16525/2020

MGMT E-4225
Negotiation and Organizational Conflict Resolution

Paula Gutlove, MD

Deputy Director, Institute for Resource and Security Studies, Simmons University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14248 | Section 3

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm

Optional sections to be arranged,Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14248/2020

MGMT E-4225
Negotiation and Organizational Conflict Resolution

Diane Frey, PhD

Lecturer, Labor and Employment Studies, College of Business, San Francisco State University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16044 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 42 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16044/2020

MGMT E-4225
Negotiation and Organizational Conflict Resolution

Diana Buttu, MBA, JD

Lawyer

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24760 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 3-5 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24760/2021

MGMT E-4225
Negotiation and Organizational Conflict Resolution

Paula Gutlove, MD

Deputy Director, Institute for Resource and Security Studies, Simmons University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26081 | Section 3

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26081/2021

MGMT E-4230
Advanced Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Strategies: Mastering the Science and Art

Maurie Kelly, PhD

Director of Informatics, Institutes of Energy and the Environment, and Instructor of Risk Management, Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24814

Description
We all have had experiences where we find ourselves in the company of a master negotiator. You most likely can name someone you admire, someone whose abilities you wish you had. These individuals seem to know how to turn a hopeless situation into an amazing agreement. You may think they were born that way but this is rarely true. In order to be a master negotiator, you must be a master of both the science and the art. You need to have a deep understanding of the basics as well as keen insight into when to create and when to claim value, how to structure a negotiation, and how to address barriers. You should be able to be a master architect in designing your negotiation, long before you ever get to the table. It is imperative that you understand how to bring in new elements, partners, and processes that make up your negotiation campaign. Finally, the proof of your mastery of the science and your entrée into the art is when you are faced with a truly complex situation and understand how to put the science of strategy and experience into action. Becoming a master negotiator requires a solid foundation in negotiation concepts; the ability to structure and execute complex negotiations strategically; experience, but an ongoing desire to learn and grow; expertise in set up and design, agility and flexibility; empathy, sensitivity, and creativity; multidimensional thinking and planning; crisis leadership skills; system 2 thinking; and constant mindful practice. This highly interactive course delves into the strategic system 2 thinking and planning that drive success in multiple arenas including multiparty negotiations, international coalitions, and multiphase situations. We explore impossible situations, deadlocked conflicts, and interpersonal, organizational, and international disputes and learn the skills required to address these scenarios. You develop more sophisticated negotiating skills, learn how to avoid the most serious pitfalls, and emerge prepared to conduct a wider range of complex negotiations and resolve conflicts with confidence.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MGMT E-4225, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24814/2021

MGMT E-4240
Human Resource Management

Michael K. Thomas, EdD

President and Chief Executive Officer, New England Board of Higher Education

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 13365

Description
Human resource (HR) management can be defined as the effective use of human resources in an organization through the management of people-related activities. It is a central and strategic organizational activity of increasing complexity and importance. This introductory survey course covers the range of HR activities all managers need to understand: strategic HR, legal issues, staffing, recruitment and selection, performance management, training, compensation, labor relations, and technical support systems. Through interactive lectures and cases, students become familiar with the basic principles and techniques of human resource management. The course takes a practical view that integrates the contributions of the behavioral sciences with the technical aspects of implementing the HR function in the real world.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Enrollment limit: Limited to 80 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-13365/2020

MGMT E-4240
Human Resource Management

Michael K. Thomas, EdD

President and Chief Executive Officer, New England Board of Higher Education

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 23214

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Enrollment limit: Limited to 80 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-23214/2021

MGMT E-4241
Nonprofit Human Resource Management

Cindy Joyce, MA

Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Pillar Search and Human Resources Consulting

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25940

Description
This course provides an introduction to the practices, policies, and theories related to nonprofit human resource management. Whether you are now or plan to be an HR practitioner or a leader for an organization, museum, school, or foundation, this course prepares you with the knowledge and skills needed to manage human capital in a nonprofit setting.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25940/2021

MGMT E-4252
People Analytics: Managing Human Capital

Paul Green, DBA

Assistant Professor of Management, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16427

Description
People analytics is different from many traditional human resources practices. People analytics incorporates a data-driven approach to managing people at work. Those working in people analytics strive to bring data and sophisticated analysis to bear on people-related issues, such as recruiting, performance evaluation, leadership, hiring and promotion, job and team design, and compensation. Together, these can help achieve organizational strategic goals, rather than simply serving as administrative support functions. There is growing evidence that leveraging human capital improves firm performance (revenue, stock price, customer satisfaction, retention, and safety) and sustains competitive advantage. Unfortunately, many managers continue to engage in practices that reflect outdated knowledge and beliefs, leading to dysfunctional outcomes that can be very costly.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16427/2020

MGMT E-4255
People-Focused Organizations

Jennifer Kay Stine, PhD

Vice President, Academic Leadership Group

Julie Wilson, EdM

Co-Founder and President, Academic Leadership Group

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16390

Description
Ensuring employees have the mindsets and capabilities needed to thrive in the face of rapid change is increasingly a leadership priority. In this course we explore the benefits and challenges of a people-first strategy and take a deep look at the tools leaders in human resources are using today to transform their organizations. Through readings, written assignments, in-class exercises, and case studies, we explore the future of work, coaching for high performance, workforce development, leadership development, cultures that support learning and change, preparing for the future of work, and assessing for growth and impact. Students gain hands-on experience with strengths coaching.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 11 am-1 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 39 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16390/2020

MGMT E-4310
Creativity and Innovation

John Dobson, DBA

Associate Professor of the Practice, Graduate School of Management, Clark University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15430

Description
This course is designed to develop knowledge, skills, and abilities to effectively use design thinking to make better sense of problems and come up with more effective solutions. This course uses divergent and convergent thinking so that students can refine their problem solving skills. Through the use of parallel thinking students learn how to listen, work together, and come up with better solutions.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15430/2020

MGMT E-4310
Creativity and Innovation

Margaret C. Andrews, MS

Managing Director, Higher Ed Associates

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25687

Description
Creativity is serious business. Whether in the business, not-for-profit, or public sector, organizations increasingly need people who understand the creative process, know how to manage creative professionals, and can develop an organizational climate that fosters innovation. This course focuses on creativity and innovation, examining the interplay between creativity, organizational processes and systems, and successful innovation. Throughout the course we explore tools and techniques for fostering individual and group creativity, management practices that foster (or inhibit) innovation, methods for developing and evaluating ideas for new products and services, and the business models to execute these ideas, and principles and practices for leading innovation. Using a variety of readings, case examples, discussions, experiential exercises, and a challenging team project, students explore and apply the principles of creativity and innovation.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25687/2021

MGMT E-4400
Diversity and Inclusion Management

Tracie Denise Jones, MEd

Director of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16379

Description
As workplaces become increasingly diverse, both opportunities and challenges arise. People must constantly interact with peers, managers, and customers with different backgrounds, experiences, and identities. When used effectively, these differences can not only improve performance and creativity, but they can also lead to greater employee and customer engagement, satisfaction, and inclusion. This course is designed to help employees and managers navigate diverse work settings more effectively and provide them with the tools to deepen their understanding of the differences around them, overcome barriers to creating inclusion, manage and communicate with people from different backgrounds, and identify and implement approaches for managing diversity.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16379/2020

MGMT E-4500
Work and Well-Being

Jeff Steiner, BA

Doctoral Candidate, Organizational Behavior, Harvard Business School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25926

Description
This course draws from multiple disciplines to examine the complex relationship between human labor and human flourishing. Topics include the history and evolution of work; the future of work; the measurement of well-being at work and in life; the modern employee engagement crisis; similarities and differences across countries and work contexts; the role of individuals, managers, organizations, and policy-makers in improving well-being outcomes; and the role of individuals in managing their own work and careers in pursuit of the good life.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25926/2021

MGMT E-5000
Strategic Management

Kenneth Baylor, DBA

Principal, Advanced Leadership Solutions, LLC

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25344 | Section 1

Description
To succeed in the future, managers must develop the resources and capabilities needed to gain and sustain advantage in competitive markets both traditional and emerging. The way in which organizations attempt to develop such competitive advantage constitutes the essence of their strategy. This course introduces the concept of strategic management through case analyses, and considers the basic direction and goals of an organization, the environment (social, political, technological, economic, and global factors), industry and market structure, and organizational strengths and weaknesses. The emphasis is on the development and successful implementation of strategy in different types of firms across industries.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Course work in accounting and two other functional areas.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25344/2021

MGMT E-5000
Strategic Management

Greg Miller, PhD

President and Chief Executive Officer, CrossCom LLC

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25345 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Course work in accounting and two other functional areas.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25345/2021

MGMT E-5000
Strategic Management

Mohsin Habib, PhD

Associate Professor of Management, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15110 | Section 3

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Course work in accounting and two other functional areas.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15110/2020

MGMT E-5000
Strategic Management

Henrik Totterman, DSc

Professor of Practice, Entrepreneurship and Management, Hult International Business School and CEO and President, LEADX3M LLC

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14619 | Section 7

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Course work in accounting and two other functional areas.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14619/2020

MGMT E-5000
Strategic Management

Areen Shahbari, MBA

Consultant

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24351 | Section 4

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 8:10-10:10 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Course work in accounting and two other functional areas.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24351/2021

MGMT E-5000
Strategic Management

Kenneth Baylor, DBA

Principal, Advanced Leadership Solutions, LLC

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 13351 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Course work in accounting and two other functional areas.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-13351/2020

MGMT E-5000
Strategic Management

Mohsin Habib, PhD

Associate Professor of Management, University of Massachusetts, Boston

January session | CRN 23354

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays-Thursdays, 1-4 pm
Start Date: Jan. 4, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Course work in accounting and two other functional areas.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-23354/2021

MGMT E-5000
Strategic Management

Sharon A. Mertz, PhD

Principal, Red Salt Advisory, LLC

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16205 | Section 4

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Course work in accounting and two other functional areas.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16205/2020

MGMT E-5000
Strategic Management

Areen Shahbari, MBA

Consultant

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15722 | Section 6

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 8:10-10:10 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Course work in accounting and two other functional areas.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15722/2020

MGMT E-5000
Strategic Management

Shawn O’Connor, MBA

Consultant

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15507 | Section 5

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Course work in accounting and two other functional areas.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 55 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15507/2020

MGMT E-5000
Strategic Management

Shawn O’Connor, MBA

Consultant

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25796 | Section 3

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Course work in accounting and two other functional areas.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 41 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25796/2021

MGMT E-5000
Strategic Management

Edward Barrows, DBA

Managing Director, Duke Corporate Education

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16328 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Course work in accounting and two other functional areas.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16328/2020

MGMT E-5000
Strategic Management

Shawn O’Connor, MBA

Consultant

January session | CRN 26088

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays-Thursdays, 7:30-10:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 4, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Course work in accounting and two other functional areas.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26088/2021

MGMT E-5002
Business Strategy in the Real World

Daniel C. Deneffe, PhD

Professor, Hult International Business School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24183

Description
This course is about how to develop, tailor, and apply decision-making frameworks to real-world strategy problems. It complements standard strategy courses in a number of important ways. Whereas standard strategy courses typically provide conceptual approaches to formulate strategies to establish sustainable competitive advantage, we focus on short- to medium-term margin improvement. The majority of the course content focuses on hands-on tools and frameworks that help strategic and marketing managers formulate strategy to obtain short- to medium-term advantages rather than long-term competitive advantage. In standard strategy courses a number of theoretically sound frameworks of analysis are introduced. This course builds on them, but focuses on questions such as: which framework is relevant for what problem? What are the key operational steps to approach a strategy problem (such as entry into a market), and how does one tailor them to the specific company and industry situation? In standard strategy case-based courses, students typically learn to provide strategic solutions from given case information, whereas a real-world strategy problem often has a blank sheet as a starting point. This course addresses the following questions: how do we gather the right information to address a strategic issue, given real-world informational constraints? How do we process that information for improved decision making?

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: ECON E-1010 or an equivalent microeconomics/managerial economics course is required. Basic accounting course is highly recommended.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24183/2021

MGMT E-5005
Corporate Strategy

Eric H. Chung, MBA

Director, National Grid

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24503

Description
This course deals with understanding the values of managing multiple lines of businesses under the ownership of one corporate umbrella (that is, a diversified firm). The goal is to anticipate the problems in managing a firm’s diverse businesses, and in appraising its likely performance in the future. The detection, development, and deployment of resources across diverse businesses play a key role in corporate strategy formulation. Limits to firm growth are recognized, specifying boundary conditions of corporate strategy. Business portfolio techniques are applied as necessary analytical tools to define strategic business units, to determine their corporate development roles, to allocate resources among them, and to influence their development. Mergers and acquisitions and decision making are also covered as critical issues in corporate strategy.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24503/2021

MGMT E-5012
The Art and Practice of Systems Thinking

Mark Esposito, DBA

Professor of Business and Economics, Hult International Business School and Fellow, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25052

Description
How we explore the challenges we face is often framed by the approaches and strategies we use to examine them. This course in systems thinking assesses system behaviors by examining the entire system—including human, political, community, resource, environmental, and social processes—to get a holistic view into how organizations and individuals often look at the world, assess problems, and invent solutions. And since the way systems are designed determines outcomes, we also look at the intended and unintended consequences of various actions. Using nonlinear thinking to complement our typical linear way of thinking can lead to deeper insight into problems and potential solutions, which is the focus of this course. Students may not take both MGMT E-5012 and MGMT E-5013 for degree or certificate credit.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 43 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25052/2021

MGMT E-5015
Applied Corporate Responsibility

Charles Bradford Allen, PhD

Professor of Marketing, Plymouth State University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15748

Description
This course examines the role of corporate responsibility as a strategy to improve products, profits, and brand equity. The idea of corporations as simply wealth-creating organizations with no obligations to the environment is no longer acceptable. Globalization and increased transparency of corporate operations have revealed significant variations in how organizations attempt to balance the pursuit of profits and good corporate citizenship. Expectations for measurable progress of corporate environmental programs addressing natural resources, pollution controls, monitoring ethical supply chains, and expanded training of employees are growing globally. Stakeholder expectations have accelerated the need to monetize these initiatives. However, the lack of standardized methodology and metrics has resulted in confusion within many industries, hindering progress. Tracking sustainability progress within organizations has often revealed tremendous opportunities for growth.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 3-5 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15748/2020

MGMT E-5020
Management of Technology: The Global AI Economy

Mark Esposito, DBA

Professor of Business and Economics, Hult International Business School and Fellow, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16380

Description
Artificial intelligence (AI) has captured the attention of businesspeople, scientists, and engineers worldwide. Across industries, leaders are seeking ways to create value through machine learning and other frontier technologies. Companies like Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Alibaba have made commercial strides into AI—from smart bots to facial recognition to semantic analysis. Others like GE and Siemens are dedicating a large share of research and development resources to the AI-fueled industrial internet. If framed correctly, the opportunities for smart applications abound. For example, there is potential to mitigate climate change via autonomous transportation, or develop better preventative healthcare through predictive modeling. This course is designed to teach the management and application of artificial intelligence in the global business world. This course covers frontier technologies’ implications, applications, and opportunities in both public and private sectors. Students also learn to determine when to pursue new technologies and how to implement them for organizational purposes.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16380/2020

MGMT E-5030
Project Management

Shannon Pettiford, MS

IT Program Director, Boston Consulting Group

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16400 | Section 1

Description
This is an overview of the fundamentals of project management, with an emphasis on the tools, techniques, and processes involved. The course provides an overview of the project management process, focusing on its lifecycle, project definition, scope, planning, and project monitoring. The purpose of this course is to provide students with a basic exposure to the tasks and challenges facing project managers, that is, those people responsible for the vital function of managing complex projects across multiple functions in a global environment. Successful project managers have the abilities and skills to simultaneously manage their teams, schedules, risks, and resources, and deliver a successful outcome. The objective of the course is to learn the skills and tools of the project management discipline, with a practical hands-on and real-world approach. Not to be underestimated is the challenge of managing without influence, a key skill for project managers to gain the support of resources not directly under their management control. Most organizations are matrix managed, which means that resources are shared and temporary. The project manager must be able to use resources efficiently to achieve the goals and objectives required for a successful outcome, on time, on spec, and on budget.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Experience working in a company or nonprofit is advisable.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16400/2020

MGMT E-5030
Project Management

David A. Shore, PhD

Adjunct Professor of Organizational Development, Business School, University of Monterrey, Mexico

Deb Cote, MA

Senior Director, Strategic Planning and Performance, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Partners Healthcare

January session | CRN 23361

Description
This course guides students through the fundamental project management concepts, practices, and behavioral characteristics needed to successfully launch, lead, and realize benefits from projects in profit and nonprofit organizations. Effective project managers possess the skills necessary to manage teams, schedules, risks, budgets, scope, and stakeholders to produce a desired outcome. Students analyze the impact of organizational change management theory and explore project management with a practical, hands-on approach through case studies, team assignments, and individual contributions. A key and often overlooked challenge for project managers is the ability to manage without direct influence, gaining the support of stakeholders and access to resources not directly under their control. Special attention is given to critical success factors required to overcoming resistance to change. The course simulates a project in its project team framework, group accountability, and schedule deadlines.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays-Thursdays, 2-5 pm
Start Date: Jan. 4, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Experience working in a company or nonprofit is advisable.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-23361/2021

MGMT E-5030
Project Management

Eric Pool, EdD

IT Lead and Assistant Professor of Healthcare Administration, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16047 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Experience working in a company or nonprofit is advisable.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16047/2020

MGMT E-5030
Project Management

Paul Tumolo, MBA

Managing Director, Edusult

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24504 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Experience working in a company or nonprofit is advisable.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24504/2021

MGMT E-5030
Project Management

Timothy Mills, MS

Consultant

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25804 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Experience working in a company or nonprofit is advisable.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25804/2021

MGMT E-5042
Agile Project Management

Timothy Mills, MS

Consultant

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16137

Description
In today’s dynamic global environment more organizations are adopting agile principles in an attempt to optimize project delivery and efficiency. In this course, students learn the fundamentals of agile project management (APM) through the scrum methodology. Moreover, students contrast agile and waterfall, learn where APM is most applicable and useful, and assess how agile is leveraged to implement projects quicker and focus on customers requirements. In this course, students learn effective project management skills to help them lead agile project teams, enable their teams to deliver what their customers want faster and with better quality than traditional project management methods. Students may not take both ISMT E-101 (offered previously) and MGMT E-5042 for degree or certificate credit.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16137/2020

MGMT E-5042
Agile Project Management

Lisa Sieverts, MBA

Owner, Facilitated Change

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25688 | Section 2

Description
In this course, students learn the agile project management framework with an emphasis on the product owner’s role. With organizational strategy as the foundation, students learn how to develop the product vision and the product roadmap, identify user roles, and write user stories. Additional topics include agile culture, ethics, project selection, chartering, scrum, kanban, team development, release planning, value assignment, retrospectives, and risk management. Students learn by doing, using their own projects for most activities. This course is appropriate for all students, regardless of whether they have prior agile or project management experience. Students who bring agile experience to the course have the opportunity to deepen their skills and practice agile facilitation techniques. Students should check with the instructor if they have any questions about whether this course is right for them. Students may not take both ISMT E-101 (offered previously) and MGMT E-5042 for degree or certificate credit.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25688/2021

MGMT E-5042
Agile Project Management

Shannon Pettiford, MS

IT Program Director, Boston Consulting Group

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25977 | Section 1

Description
In today’s dynamic global environment more organizations are adopting agile techniques and methodologies to increase project delivery, realize benefits sooner, and reduce overhead. In this course, students contrast agile and waterfall project management methodologies, learn where agile project management is most applicable and useful, and assess how agile is leveraged to implement projects quicker and focus on customers’ changing requirements. Students also learn effective project management skills to help them lead agile project teams and enable their teams to effectively deliver complex projects. Agile project management practices are discussed in detail, including self-organizing teams, critical agile project management roles, project requirements planning through sprint planning, agile-specific project tracking, tools for defining and measuring project progress, and current trends in iterative project management techniques. Students simulate agile project management techniques and best practices in both group and individual assignments. The content of this course is aligned with the global standards of the Project Management Institute (PMI).

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25977/2021

MGMT E-5060
Operations Management

Paul Tumolo, MBA

Managing Director, Edusult

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16104

Description
The operational function lies at the heart of every organization, whether for profit or nonprofit, whether manufacturing or service. All organizations take some inputs and transform them into outputs for consumption by customers. The operational function focuses on this transformation process. It examines how value is added to a product or service. This course covers the design, planning, execution, control, and improvement of operational systems in organizations with a special focus on the strategic role of the operational function in helping the organization achieve its mission.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16104/2020

MGMT E-5070
Data as a Second Language

Alexander Chisholm, MBA

Head of Analytics, QS Intelligence Unit

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25081

Description
The business world has been transformed by data. With more information available than ever before, the ability to generate, understand, and make connections with data is now an essential skill for everyone. This course is an applied introduction to data science and is designed for people who want to increase their confidence with numbers. Through real-world examples, we explore core concepts such as descriptive statistics, basic modeling, and data visualization. Using open-source data tools, students learn how to gather data, interpret results, and clearly communicate findings. Each discussion helps improve their data literacy so that they can confidently position new ideas and build consensus through evidence-based insights.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 2-4 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: This course is for business professionals who want to increase their confidence in understanding, exploring, and using data. It is not an advanced data analytics course and there are no formal prerequisites. However, a basic understanding of algebra and spreadsheets such as Excel is beneficial.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25081/2021

MGMT E-5080
Modeling for Strategic Decisions

Eric H. Chung, MBA

Director, National Grid

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16110

Description
The ability to model a business problem efficiently and effectively is a critical skill for success across a wide range of business sectors and functions. This is a hands-on course in developing analytical models to drive robust strategic decision making given situational complexity and an uncertain future. This course is not an Excel training course; rather, we use Excel and its modules as a tool to implement the decision models we develop. As a result, the course places a heavy emphasis on framing, problem structuring, decision analysis concepts, scenario development, and sensitivity analysis. Students develop modeling skills using problems in corporate strategy, competitive strategy, corporate finance, investments, marketing, and other relevant business areas.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Concepts covered in MGMT E-2700, MGMT E-2740, MGMT E-5005, MGMT E-5006, and MGMT E-6000 or the equivalent would be helpful. Because we leverage the discounted cash flow method of evaluating strategic decisions, a working knowledge of Excel spreadsheets and formulas is assumed. Familiarity with basic probability concepts is also recommended. In addition, because there are group presentations and written assignments, business communication skill at the level of EXPO E-34 is required.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16110/2020

MGMT E-5090
Crisis Management and Emergency Preparedness

Arnold M. Howitt, PhD

Faculty Co-Director, Program on Crisis Leadership; Senior Advisor, Roy and Lila Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation; and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16353

Description
As the world’s struggles with COVID-19 show, crises challenge individuals and organizations to respond creatively to high-stakes and novel circumstances. Today not only traditional emergency responders (police, firefighters, and emergency medical teams) must be ready for crises, but also private and nonprofit organizations, as well as a wider spectrum of public sector responders (for example, public health, transportation, and public works). Through study of cases of a range of actual crises and of conceptual frameworks for understanding the dynamics of crises, this course takes a managerial perspective on crisis management and emergency preparedness. It focuses both on what responders must do during the critical period of crisis response and on how organizations can prepare themselves for high performance in these situations. It examines how individuals and groups make decisions in crises, identifies the skills and management systems crises demand, considers the differences between managing routine emergencies and crises, and asks how organizations can effectively prepare for crises in advance.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16353/2020

MGMT E-5100
Essentials of Management

Carmine P. Gibaldi, EdD

Professor of Management, Entrepreneurship, and Organizational Behavior, St. John’s University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24767

Description
This course introduces the important aspects of managing a business in a global environment. It addresses decision making in connection with communications, marketing, human relations, managing people, corporate social responsibility and managerial ethics, issues affecting efficiency, and it provides the framework for making sound decisions among competing strategic priorities and objectives. Students weigh the risks and rewards of different types of management decisions while acquiring varied business skills.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 49 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24767/2021

MGMT E-5310
Leading and Managing Nonprofit Organizations

Patricia H. Deyton, MSW

Professor of Practice of Management, and Senior Associate of the Center for Gender in Organizations, Simmons University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 13357

Description
This course provides an introduction to the major issues and challenges leaders and managers face in increasing nonprofit organizational effectiveness. Topics include mission statements, ethics and leadership, managerial and financial controls, building organizational capacity, fundraising and revenue generation, marketing and the external environment, volunteer management, governance and boards of directors, evaluation of operations and programs, and sustainability.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Experience working or volunteering in a nonprofit organization strongly preferred but not required.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-13357/2020

MGMT E-5320
Higher Education Management

G. Timothy Bowman, MBA

Executive Dean for Administration and Finance, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 23211

Description
This is a survey course of leadership responsibilities and opportunities within higher education. Topics include governance, accreditation, institutional research, finance, facilities, fundraising, human resources, student life, recruitment and retention, leadership, and future trends. Students leave the course with an understanding of the overarching issues facing the leadership and administration of colleges and universities.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-23211/2021

MGMT E-5330
Principles and Practices of Fundraising

George T. Kosar, PhD

Assistant Vice President for Institutional Partnerships, Office of Advancement, Georgetown University and Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25938

Description
This course provides an introduction to the field of nonprofit fundraising, also called development or advancement. It is designed for nonprofit executives and managers who are unfamiliar with development, professionals wishing to transition into the nonprofit sector, individuals seeking to get a start in the fundraising field, and others. It covers annual giving, major gifts, planned giving, corporate and foundation fundraising, events, and crowdfunding. Topics include case statements, boards, capital campaigns, ethics, donor motivations, fundraising anxieties, volunteers, stewardship, and how to make an ask. While some attention is paid to international fundraising, the overwhelming emphasis of this course is on development practices for nonprofit organizations in the United States.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25938/2021

MGMT E-5330
Principles and Practices of Fundraising

Frank White, MPhil

Communications Consultant

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 13439

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 60 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-13439/2020

MGMT E-5408
Breakthrough Innovation with Blockchain Technology

William L. Wellman, MS

Founder, Personated Reality Solutions

Paul Quigley, MBA

Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, WYoFi.com

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25067

Description
Breakthrough innovation that fundamentally transforms society, business, and government has historically been enabled by general purpose technologies (GPT) that disrupt/transform industries, societies, and daily living. The second industrial revolution was enabled by two GPTs: electricity and the internal combustion engine. The third industrial revolution was also enabled by two GPTs: computers and the internet. The fourth industrial revolution has already begun with blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) as two of the enabling technologies. Other promising technologies include the internet of things (IoT), robotics, nanotechnology, 3D printing, and quantum computing. Blockchain supports all of these technologies by increasing trust through security and reducing cost. This course explores blockchain technologies in combination with AI and other technologies in the transformation of business across several economic sectors including supply chain, fintech, healthcare, and energy. The course explores how the exchange of value between trading partners is being transformed. Use cases exploring the innovative uses of these technologies and the value they are generating are explored. Students complete a project using blockchain and AI technologies to solve a problem and potentially disrupt an industry with a breakthrough innovation.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25067/2021

MGMT E-5420
Entrepreneurship and Innovation

James C. Fitchett, MA

Chief Scientist and Co-Founder, Voda.ai

William L. Wellman, MS

Founder, Personated Reality Solutions

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 13355 | Section 1

Description
Innovation, globalization, and digitalization are transforming every industry. This course focuses on creating new businesses, new markets, and effectiveness through innovation, entrepreneurship, and digital capabilities. Entire industries are threatened by disruptors like Uber, Airbnb and blockchain: outsiders with new, less expensive solutions for customers. Apple, Amazon, Skype, and digital currencies have created uncontested markets, delivered higher value, redefined channels, and secured competitive advantages. Blockchain is capable of transforming virtually every industry. Entrepreneurs and existing firms are compelled to create innovative environments, products, processes, services, and new business models. Incremental improvements are not enough. We examine successful strategies, business models, frameworks, funding options, barriers, and risks for introducing breakthrough products and services. Topics include business model innovation, design thinking, lean thinking, organizational learning, agility, blockchain, and fundraising. While this course is open to all students, it is mandatory for candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, biotechnology capstone track, who wish to register for BIOT E-599 in the 2021 spring term. Enrollment in BIOT E-599 requires that all other degree requirements are complete, except for the capstone. Biotechnology students need to submit a draft of their MGMT E-5420 business plans to steven_denkin@harvard.edu by December 1 to ensure that their projects align with capstone learning goals.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-13355/2020

MGMT E-5420
Entrepreneurship and Innovation

James C. Fitchett, MA

Chief Scientist and Co-Founder, Voda.ai

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16524 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16524/2020

MGMT E-5420
Entrepreneurship and Innovation

James C. Fitchett, MA

Chief Scientist and Co-Founder, Voda.ai

William L. Wellman, MS

Founder, Personated Reality Solutions

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25031

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 47 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25031/2021

MGMT E-5425
Design Thinking

Tessa Tzeitel Forshaw, MA

Executive Designer, People Rocket and Doctoral Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Richard Lee Cox Braden, BSEE

Lecturer in Management, Stanford University Graduate School of Business

Meredith Caldwell, MBA

Strategic Vision Architect, People Rocket

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25045

Description
The world is changing at an unprecedented pace and ambiguity is everywhere. Design thinking, innovation, agile, and many other approaches to problem solving have never been more important. But often these methods are only accessible to an exclusive club of people who are certified in a methodology and allowed to practice design and innovation. In this course, we believe in radical access to design and innovation. We believe that for design and innovation to change the world for the better it has to be inclusive, human centered, and accessible to everyone everywhere. In this course, students learn how to become innovation(ish), and leverage the foundational mindsets and abilities of design thinking and innovation to make change in their lives, organizations, and the world. Students hone their ability to learn from others, find unexpected insights, tell world changing stories, and generate innovative ideas through ongoing collaborative course work.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25045/2021

MGMT E-5445
Eco-entrepreneurship

Alice Nichols, MEd

Principal, Integrated Strategies International

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16046

Description
This course introduces the concepts and practices of sustainable development, clean technology, and energy management. These areas are explored from a global perspective as they affect current and future opportunities and challenges related to the design, development, and commercialization of sustainable products, services, technologies, and new business models. The course explores the nature of the triple bottom line—the simultaneous delivery of economic, social, and environmental value—and teaches students to apply models, tools, best practices, and frameworks to incorporate social and environmental dimensions into the identification and ethical exploitation of business opportunities. The course design enables future entrepreneurs to identify specific green opportunities, develop a business plan, and provide guidance on how to secure funding and put plans into operation. The course also addresses some of the National Science Foundations I-Corps process for anyone interested or eligible for NSF program funding.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16046/2020

MGMT E-5472
Strategic Business Insight

Jon A. Fay, AB

Managing Partner, Wilson Alan LLC

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25978

Description
This intensive course focuses on giving students a robust set of analytical frameworks and tools for understanding how businesses create and sustain value. The course focuses on key strategic questions. What are the elements of a business model and how do they fit together? What financial footprints do different types of business models generate? What drives market adoption and purchase patterns, and what are the implications for investment and monetization decisions? What are the key structural, operational, and economic drivers of costs? What are the different patterns of competition and ways of building competitive advantage? How can leaders design an organizational operating system that aligns with strategy? How can a winning strategy be disrupted? Drawing on both classic and current case examples, this course is intensely interactive, with an emphasis on team-based case analysis.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MGMT E-1000, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25978/2021

MGMT E-5625
Sustainability and International Business: Challenges, Opportunities, and Strategies

Maurie Kelly, PhD

Director of Informatics, Institutes of Energy and the Environment, and Instructor of Risk Management, Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14484

Description
Sustainability in international business is more than simply adopting sustainable practices—it has the potential to help companies gain competitive advantage. This course is designed to be highly interactive. We use articles, cases, group simulations, and videos to support learning and engage students. Students also have a chance to interact with each other through decision-making exercises, simulations, and group discussions. The course explores the global business environment in the context of sustainability. It focuses on the meaning of sustainable development in relation to for-profit global corporations, the effect of sustainability on global corporate development strategies, and how corporations interact with nations across the globe positively and negatively. We examine the sustainability issues faced by different regions of the world such as Africa, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Topics covered include corporate social responsibility, sustainability and strategic leadership, chemical and environmental pollution impacts, fast fashion and the apparel industry, labor rights and child labor, climate change impacts and opportunities, supply chains, renewable energy, food systems, and the role of consumers in sustainability. Companies examined include Walmart, Interface, UPS, Exxon, Patagonia, Ikea, Google, Unilever, Heineken, Nestlé, H&M, Adidas, and DuPont. Countries discussed include Brazil, Costa Rica, Nigeria, South Africa, Haiti, China, Singapore, Germany, Sweden, and the US.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14484/2020

MGMT E-5700
Management Consulting

Mukul Kumar, PhD

Chief Innovation Officer, Hult International Business School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25029

Description
This course offers an in-depth view of the management consulting industry. Topics include the structure, conduct, and performance of the management consulting industry; firms in the industry and their competitive strategies; key strategic and organizational issues facing these firms; ideas, tools, and frameworks that these firms have put into practice; problem-solving, communication, and client relation skills that are necessary for success in the industry; management consulting careers; and ethical issues facing management consultants. Conceptual material is illustrated and applied to the real world through rigorous class discussion of business cases, examples, group and individual exercises, and students’ own business and consulting experiences. The course emphasizes hands-on practice and real-time feedback—simulating an actual consulting engagement.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 3-5 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25029/2021

MGMT E-5700
Management Consulting

Shawn O’Connor, MBA

Consultant

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16107

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 53 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16107/2020

MGMT E-5750
The Art and Science of Decision Making

Robert S. Duboff, JD

CEO, HawkPartners, LLC

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25136

Description
This course helps students become aware of the factors that really influence decision outcomes. Using cases, readings about the latest scientific research, and discussions, students get both practical and academic insights. They should become better at making decisions and much better at understanding and influencing how others decide.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25136/2021

MGMT E-5805
Real Estate Enterprise Management

Teo Nicolais, AB

President, Nicolais, LLC

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25944

Description
Explored through the lens of what Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus William Poorvu calls “the purest and most enjoyable form of entrepreneurship you can find on the planet,” this course takes students through a series of in-depth, practical decision-making situations for starting, growing, and managing a successful enterprise. Students step into the shoes of a first-time investor and learn the nuts and bolts of getting a project off the ground. Students examine operational issues such as setting benchmarks, aligning incentives, and dealing with delays and cost-overruns. Students grapple with developing a business plan, bringing key partners into their business, and working with a board of directors. Students practice key negotiation skills essential for any business. Students train for managing a crisis using disciplined communication, initiative, strategic thinking, and diplomacy in situations where every second counts. Finally, students examine a business leader’s most difficult challenge: managing the transition between what their company is today and what it needs to be in the future.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 7:40-9:40 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: MGMT E-2035 and MGMT E-2037 strongly recommended.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25944/2021

MGMT E-6000
Marketing Management

Michael Grandinetti, MBA

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25348 | Section 1

Description
In this comprehensive and practical introduction to marketing management, students improve their ability to make effective marketing decisions, including assessing marketing opportunities and developing marketing strategies and implementation plans. Course topics include market-oriented strategic planning, marketing research and information systems, buyer behavior, target market selection, competitive positioning, product and service planning and management, pricing, distribution, and integrated communications—including advertising, public relations, internet marketing, social media, direct marketing, and sales promotions. Through a combination of interactive discussions, cases, practical examples, individual assignments, and a group project, the course applies marketing topics to consumer and business-to-business products, services, and nonprofit organizations. Students gain significant experience in communicating and defending their marketing recommendations and building on the ideas of others.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25348/2021

MGMT E-6000
Marketing Management

Patricia Hambrick, MBA

Senior Lecturer, Marketing, Questrom School of Business, Boston University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25349 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25349/2021

MGMT E-6000
Marketing Management

John L. Teopaco, DBA

Part-time Faculty, Carroll School of Management, Boston College

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15446 | Section 4

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15446/2020

MGMT E-6000
Marketing Management

Nicholas Nugent, Jr., PhD

Professor of Business and Economics, Florida Southern College

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15200 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15200/2020

MGMT E-6000
Marketing Management

Marcus Collins, MBA

Lecturer of Marketing, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15726 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15726/2020

MGMT E-6000
Marketing Management

Areen Shahbari, MBA

Consultant

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15727 | Section 3

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15727/2020

MGMT E-6000
Marketing Management

Patricia Hambrick, MBA

Senior Lecturer, Marketing, Questrom School of Business, Boston University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16518 | Section 5

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16518/2020

MGMT E-6000
Marketing Management

Shawn O’Connor, MBA

Consultant

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25786 | Section 4

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 53 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25786/2021

MGMT E-6000
Marketing Management

Scott Mantie, PhD

Assistant Professor of Marketing, College of Business Administration, Plymouth State University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24308 | Section 3

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 52 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24308/2021

MGMT E-6040
International Marketing

Nicholas Nugent, Sr., PhD

Charles Bradford Allen, PhD

Professor of Marketing, Plymouth State University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24252

Description
This course explores the development of international marketing programs from the determination of objectives and methods of organization through the execution of research, advertising, distribution, and production activities. Students examine the international similarities and differences in marketing functions as related to the cultural, economic, political, social, and physical dimensions of the environment. Students also consider the changes in marketing systems and the adoption of marketing philosophies and practices to fill conditions in different countries.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MGMT E-6000, MGMT E-6615, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24252/2021

MGMT E-6100
Branding Strategy

Linda Berkeley, PhD

President, LEB Enterprises

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14481

Description
This course helps students understand the value of a brand in a marketing and business environment, and how to build, manage, and protect a brand. Specific areas covered include what a brand is and why it matters, how a brand creates value, ways to measure and understand the value of a brand, managing new and established brands, extending a brand through licensing, and the role of consumer research and consumer insight in managing a brand. The course also explores how digital and social media have created both new opportunities and new risks for brands.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MGMT E-6000 or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14481/2020

MGMT E-6100
Branding Strategy

Thomas Murphy, MBA

Associate Professor of Practice, Graduate School of Management, Clark University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24567

Description
This course covers the principles and practices of brand management. The course content focuses on applied strategies and tactics used by marketers to build and reinforce successful global brands for products, services, and corporate social responsibility.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Fridays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 29, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MGMT E-6000, MGMT E-6615, or one year of experience in a management, marketing, or consulting role in a company or nonprofit organization.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24567/2021

MGMT E-6200
Organizational and Consumer Behavior

Nicole Abi-Esber, AM

Doctoral Candidate in Organizational Behavior, Harvard Business School

Jimin Nam, BS

Doctoral Candidate, Harvard Business School

Emily Prinsloo, MPhil

Doctoral Candidate, Harvard Business School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16448

Description
This course is designed to introduce students to the evolving field of behavioral science, with a specific focus on employee and consumer behavior. We explore people’s behavior across a number of domains—from the cognitive biases that impact our daily decisions, to the ways in which we’re influenced by our peers and the social environment, to the nudges governments can enact to shape our behavior. This course draws from research in behavioral economics, social psychology, and academic marketing, and is intended to broadly survey the field of consumer behavior. Our primary hope is that this course can be fun—like a great dinner party conversation that lasts for 15 full weeks. Because we are studying human behavior, we should all have a lot to contribute, both from our own personal experiences, as well as from the content of the materials we read each week. We use a mix of texts, including academic papers and mainstream book chapters, but we presume no incoming knowledge of psychology or academic research whatsoever. Students learn the basics of reading a scientific paper, gain the tools to become discerning readers of social science research, and develop new perspectives for thinking about the wild ways we civilized humans behave.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MGMT E-6000, MGMT E-6615, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16448/2020

MGMT E-6600
Strategic Brand Marketing

John L. Teopaco, DBA

Part-time Faculty, Carroll School of Management, Boston College

David A. Shore, PhD

Adjunct Professor of Organizational Development, Business School, University of Monterrey, Mexico

January session | CRN 24272

Description
This course focuses on three core marketing strategies: positioning, branding, and building trust. In today’s market, almost any product or service can be transformed into a commodity quickly as competitors copy successful products. Students learn how to analyze the competition, and then position and brand products or services in the marketplace to prevent them from being turned into commodities. Case examples are used to illustrate theory as well as how to build, manage, and measure brands. By the conclusion of the course, participants understand the key variables to a successful branding campaign and have a blueprint to use for their own campaigns.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays-Thursdays, 10 am-1 pm
Start Date: Jan. 4, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MGMT E-6000, MGMT E-6615, or permission of the instructors.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24272/2021

MGMT E-6605
Luxury Marketing

Sandrine Crener, PhD

Portfolio Director, Executive Education, Harvard Business School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16108

Description
This course is an introduction to the marketing of luxury goods and services. The luxury industry is unlike any other; it is an inspiring and fascinating world that involves a diverse group of competitors. On the supply side, it encompasses a broad range of sectors—from hotels to real estate, yachts to private jets, fashion to jewelry, and pits small independent businesses against established multinational conglomerates. On the market side, luxury consumers are extremely demanding and sophisticated; luxury goods and services must not only be of exceptional quality but also provide a complex set of functional, social, and emotional benefits to consumers. The course explores the origin, history, and evolution of luxury and gives an overview of the global luxury industry including markets, major players, and trends. Then it highlights the specificities of marketing in the luxury sector. Luxury brands are an entirely different proposition and require a very specific approach to brand management and marketing. They notably have to manage a number of inherent paradoxes and tensions. We discuss differences in mass versus luxury marketing approaches. The course also focuses on examining the main challenges with which luxury brands are currently confronted.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MGMT E-6000, MGMT E-6615, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16108/2020

MGMT E-6610
Marketing Social Change

Kristian Merenda, MBA

Lecturer, Questrom School of Business, Boston University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24491

Description
This course is for current and future business leaders, entrepreneurs and executives, as they navigate an operating environment that increasingly emphasizes the simultaneous creation of business and social value. It provides students with an in-depth understanding of how marketing principles can be applied to create short-term and lasting social change. Students explore dimensions of product brand-based, corporate, and nonprofit purpose-led marketing and learn to analyze and develop successful marketing and organizational strategies that deliver mutual benefits for business and society. Areas of study include cause-related marketing, cause branding, nonprofit branding, social movements, strategic philanthropy, corporate social responsibility, and shared value.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MGMT E-6000, MGMT E-6615, or the equivalent; three to five years of related work experience.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24491/2021

MGMT E-6615
Digital Marketing: Foundations and Framework for Success

Greg O’Brien, DBA

Founder/President, Rockport Advisors

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25665

Description
Marketing has become digital marketing, with digital ads (as a function of all advertising spending) growing at roughly 15-20 percent annually, and recently having taken over traditional advertising (broadcast television and radio) when measured by ad spend. This course teaches students the foundation elements of digital marketing and advertising—from media mix and channels to techniques, economics, and measurement. We review key performance metrics for digital marketing channels including paid search, organic search, e-mail, social, and display. We review techniques and tools for optimizing digital marketing spend across various channels and products.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MGMT E-6000, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 60 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25665/2021

MGMT E-6615
Digital Marketing: Foundations and Framework for Success

Greg O’Brien, DBA

Founder/President, Rockport Advisors

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15485

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MGMT E-6000, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15485/2020

MGMT E-6630
Sustainability Marketing and Branding

Thomas Murphy, MBA

Associate Professor of Practice, Graduate School of Management, Clark University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15433

Description
This course develops the knowledge and skills necessary to successfully market sustainable products and services. At the end of the course students are able to understand the key elements of developing a successful marketing strategy and branding approach for a sustainable market offering. The course also reviews global trends and issues that influence sustainable product success.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Fridays, 3-5 pm
Start Date: Sep. 4, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MGMT E-6615 or the equivalent. Introductory marketing or management course or one year of work experience in a business-to-business, business-to-consumer, or nonprofit organization.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15433/2020

MGMT E-6650
Digital Media and Advertising Strategy

Britt Teravainen, BA

Director of Marketing Technology, Boathouse Group, Inc.

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25933

Description
Gone are the days when marketers could rely on having a captive audience. With the proliferation of digital media, consumers have more choices than ever. Marketers must remain nimble as the opportunities to reach consumers digitally evolve and expand. The course provides a landscape overview of the latest digital media advertising strategies and opportunities across a changing technology landscape. From strategy formulation to tactical implementation, students learn how and when to leverage digital media to achieve a variety of specific marketing goals. Additionally, the course provides a detailed overview of the latest trends in this space including consumer behavior, formats, and technology across media, web, content, and social platforms. Participants complete the course with a comprehensive knowledge of how to use digital advertising to reach the right person at the right time with the right message on the right digital platform.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MGMT E-6000, MGMT E-6615, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25933/2021

MGMT E-6655
Social Media Management

Jemalyn A. Griffin, MA

Assistant Professor of Practice, Advertising and Public Relations, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25666

Description
This course offers an in-depth exploration of social media theories and management practices. Students start with understanding prominent theories applied in social media practice and then apply these theories in conducting social media research, executing a social media content analysis, and developing a strategic social media management plan for a real-world organization. They have the opportunity to scrutinize a wide variety of social media tactics, paying particular attention to the unique managerial functions of each. More importantly, students learn the mechanism of social influence and how social media trends are changing the way information flows in our society so that they comfortably utilize and effectively leverage emerging social media in the future. In this course, students are able to apply social media management skills and knowledge of social media channels to conduct a social media analysis. In addition, students discuss the use of social media in crises, gain an understanding of setting social media policy, and review ethical and privacy issues surrounding social media marketing. Due to the ever evolving nature of social media, real-time case studies, current trends, and relevant articles are integrated throughout the course and in some cases, supplement or change course assignments.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MGMT E-6000, MGMT E-6615, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 38 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25666/2021

MGMT E-6655
Social Media Management

Marcus Collins, MBA

Lecturer of Marketing, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14528

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MGMT E-6000, MGMT E-6615, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 38 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14528/2020

MGMT E-6670
Fundamentals of Search Engine Marketing

Christina Inge, MS

CEO and Founder, thoughtlight

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16438

Description
As search engine marketing plays a larger role in business communications than ever before, marketers and developers increasingly need to understand how to optimize websites to be found on search engines, mobile devices, and voice assistants. In this hands-on course, we explore both the theory and practice of search marketing. Students learn about how search engines work, the ways in which websites can be found, and the role of content in search marketing. Covering both search marketing and search advertising, this course provides managers with the high-level strategies they need to ensure the sites they own are findable on the web. This course also features hands-on, practical labs in which students develop a search strategy to ensure a brand’s prominence in the age of ambient findability—the permanent interconnectedness of consumers via a wide range of wearable devices, voice assistants, and more traditional online consumer behavior. This course covers both organic search engine optimization (SEO) and search-based advertising such as pay-per-click (PPC) to provide complete coverage of the topic.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MGMT E-6000 or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16438/2020

MGMT E-6700
Marketing Research

Andrew M. Blum, MBA

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14839

Description
As an introductory course in marketing research, this course is designed to provide a basic understanding of the research methodology and its implementation in marketing. After completing this course, every student should be able to apply appropriate research methods to practical marketing issues. To achieve this goal, the course focuses on proceeding from management problems, to research questions, through research design and data collection, to data analysis and research report. Students have the opportunity to conduct their own original research and present their results. This is a learning-by-doing course that closely simulates how marketing research agencies and corporations execute and utilize marketing research.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MGMT E-6000, or MGMT E-6615, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14839/2020

MGMT E-6750
Marketing Analytics: Fundamental Data-Driven Marketing

Christina Inge, MS

CEO and Founder, thoughtlight

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24774

Description
This course introduces marketing analytics, including web analytics and data modeling. As big data moves into the mainstream, marketers are seeing the opportunity to make the profession more scientific and numbers-driven than ever before. Marketing analytics is one of the largest areas of marketing today. In addition, with measurement at the center of every marketing campaign, marketers have the opportunity to prove the return on investment of their programs with unprecedented accuracy. Yet, this wealth of data can be overwhelming. Every channel has its own metrics, every demographic group’s behavior can be mined for targeting information. What are the numbers that matter? And what are they really telling us? How can we best leverage big data and marketing analytics to optimize results? This course explores the growing role of data in marketing. Taking a two-fold approach, the course focuses on the data of marketing. Students learn how to use the two main categories of data available to marketers: internal, or what is called marketing analytics; and external, or big data. In this course, students learn web analytics fundamentals, creating data dashboards, and predictive analytics. This is a purely data-driven course; it does not teach programming. Using real-world examples and practical exercises, the course allows students to understand the interactions between both kinds of data, and how best to use analytics to improve marketing outcomes, demonstrate return on investment to the C-suite, and create increasingly effective marketing campaigns.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:50-7:50 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MGMT E-6000, MGMT E-6615, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24774/2021

MGMT E-6800
Professional Selling and Sales Management

John Westman, MA, MBA

Executive Vice President, Novellus Inc.

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24321

Description
Would you like to improve your persuasion skills? Would you like to know what makes successful sales people effective? This course demystifies professional selling and helps students improve their persuasion and selling effectiveness. We can all benefit from improving our selling skills. A survey of 7,000 professionals revealed that 40 percent of their time was spent on selling; this included all functional areas, not just sales people. The survey also revealed that healthcare and education professionals sell or persuade continually. Students learn about the sales process, the buying process, relationship selling, prospecting, sales call planning, communication, negotiating, and closing sales as well as how to motivate, compensate, and train sales people.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 3-5 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MGMT E-6000, MGMT E-6615, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24321/2021

MUSE E-100
Introduction to Museum Studies

Katherine Burton Jones, MA

Director, Museum Studies, Harvard Extension School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 10207

Description
All museums share responsibility for preserving and interpreting our cultural and natural heritage for the benefit of the public and society. However, museums are more than the collections they house and the exhibits and programs they present. Each museum is a complex network of individuals whose common goal is to create knowledge and to share information and experiences with others. This course provides a broad introduction to the museum world. Students gain an understanding of the museum and the challenges and responsibilities that museums and their staff members encounter. After discussing what a museum is, the various types of museums, and their roles in the community, we introduce current and emerging issues in museums in a number of areas including governance, management of collections, fundraising, and museum jobs and responsibilities.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-10207/2020

MUSE E-102
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Research in Museum Studies

Cynthia A. Fowler, PhD

Professor of Art, Emmanuel College

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16172 | Section 2

Description
In this proseminar, students develop the skills necessary to engage in graduate-level research in the field of museum studies. Students read classic scholarly texts in museum studies and complete short assignments designed to hone their academic writing skills including critical reading, textual analysis, and argument development. Students also write a 10-page research essay that reflects a particular area of interest within the field of museum studies. Throughout the semester we consider the theory that informs museum practice. In particular, we examine how museums can powerfully mediate encounters with the collective past and reflect the politics of race, class, and gender as well as individual, communal, and national identities. Because skills learned in this course are useful in subsequent courses, it is the first course that prospective Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) candidates should take toward the degree (or the second, if they are completing the expository writing prerequisite). While not designed to be a capstone proposal course, this course does serve as a foundation for eventual work on the capstone.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. MUSE E-100 and EXPO E-42a recommended.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16172/2020

MUSE E-102
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Research in Museum Studies

Eleanor M. Hight, PhD

Professor of Art History and Humanities, Emerita, University of New Hampshire

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25244 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25244/2021

MUSE E-102
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Research in Museum Studies

Christina Kim Becker, PhD

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25503 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 16 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25503/2021

MUSE E-102
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Research in Museum Studies

Christina Kim Becker, PhD

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14775 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14775/2020

MUSE E-102
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Research in Museum Studies

Cynthia A. Fowler, PhD

Professor of Art, Emmanuel College

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26082 | Section 3

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26082/2021

MUSE E-105
Managing the Twenty-First Century Museum

Laura B. Roberts, MBA

Principal, Roberts Consulting

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15408

Description
The building blocks of museum management are relatively constant, but sustainability requires adaptation to a dynamic environment. We examine the fundamental management issues through the lens of change. How can we become more inclusive institutions? How must our relationships with audiences change to embrace expectations of shared authority and participation? What leadership qualities are needed in the twenty-first century? How will the millennial generation of workers reshape a profession created by baby boomers? How has the culture of accountability and venture philanthropy changed our case for support?

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MUSE E-100, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15408/2020

MUSE E-106
The Business of Museums

Lawrence Scott Motz, MBA

Consultant

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25501

Description
Museums, in addition to being repositories for scholarly, educational, and cultural stewardship functions, are businesses, and the astute museum professional benefits from understanding how they operate and how they are structured. This course teaches the basic business of museums, large and small, and provides instruction so that museum professionals can operate in the most efficient manner possible. The course is designed to be enlightening to current or prospective staff in all functional areas within a museum, as every department contributes to operations either directly or indirectly. Though there are discussions that introduce basic financial concepts, this is not a finance course. Rather, this course provides history, theory, and practical management considerations for museums operating in today’s environment.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25501/2021

MUSE E-109
Exhibit Design Through Storytelling

Peter Sollogub, MA

Associate Principal, Cambridge Seven Associates

James Cortina, BS

Principal, Cortina Productions

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26073

Description
Exhibitions give the public its first look at the museum. The majority are designed with extreme care so that the messages of the museum can be conveyed to the range of visitors who view them. They encapsulate the stories kept within the objects, works of art, and artifacts that are part of the museum’s collection. Visitors make their own meaning from what is on view along with the didactic materials. While a museum’s collection may be at the heart of the organization, the exhibition provides the context for them through story-telling, visual engagement, and, often, emotional responses. This course approaches exhibit design through storytelling combined with site and location to deliver exhibit experience. The course uses collaborative process, creative communication, and problem solving. It approaches the design experience by asking “why not?” rather than “why?”. Students collaborate in groups through a workshop format to develop and deliver the exhibit design. Beginning with spirit and metaphor, the exhibit experience and message are realized in a built to scale exhibit model. Material characteristics, build ability, technology, and the arts are incorporated into the actual exhibit delivery. The course also introduces the disciplines of architecture, freehand drawing, graphics, industrial design, and construction into the design process.

Class Meetings:
2-credit half-term online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $1450
Credits: 2

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. This course meets for a half term, January 25-March 13.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26073/2021

MUSE E-110
Museum Exhibition Content Development

Shelley N. Monaghan, CMS

Consultant

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15158

Description
All exhibitions start with a key concept that informs all decisions. This course explores the issues and processes involved in the development of that concept, and the planning of exhibition content in a variety of museum settings. Topics include the development of exhibition themes and educational goals, visitor engagement, intellectual and physical accessibility, universal design, working with designers, and exhibit evaluation methods. The course encourages students to acquire creative communication and problem-solving skills.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15158/2020

MUSE E-115
Collections Management: Issues and Solutions

Arlene Veronica Alvarez, MPA

Consultant

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16086

Description
The course investigates the wide variety of issues encountered during museum collection management activities. These activities not only affect collections care, but also curation, research, exhibits, and educational projects. Case studies of specific challenges and solutions are discussed. Topics include acquisitions, cataloging, documentation, digitizing, storage, disaster planning, and museum-wide strategies for successful collection management.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16086/2020

MUSE E-121A
Museum Education: Gallery Teaching in the Art Museum

Patricia Mary Morchel, ALM

Doctoral Candidate and Adjunct Instructor, Program in Art and Art Education, Teachers College, Columbia University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25766

Description
This course examines the history of teaching in the art museum and what gallery teaching in the art museum encompasses today. We explore how museum educators facilitate engaging, active learning experiences with works of art that are meaningful to viewers. The course explores a variety of visitor-centered teaching practices, including careful looking, discussion, questioning, visual thinking strategies, and a range of other interactive approaches for gallery activities involving writing, drawing, collage, writing, music, and movement. We analyze the role of information, personal and cultural contexts, and considering emotions in gallery teaching. Students deepen their own ability to engage with works of art themselves and also learn how to use gallery teaching practices to facilitate meaningful learning experiences with works of art that inspire and educate others.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25766/2021

MUSE E-126
Museum Evaluation and Audience Research

Christina Smiraglia, EdD

Research Analyst, Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Lynn Baum, MEd

Principal, Turtle Peak Consulting

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16402

Description
Research and evaluation are critical for museums and similar institutions, especially in an age of data-driven decisions and public accountability. Organizations cannot learn and improve in any systematic way without some means of assessment. Museum professionals in nearly any position find themselves required to conduct evaluations for their institution or oversee contracted researchers. This course provides students with a general understanding of the entire research process from the development of guiding research questions to the final reporting. The course is appropriate for emerging and experienced professionals, especially those interested in education, exhibitions, marketing, and development in museums and related organizations, who may be involved in the design, oversight, implementation, or consumption of research and evaluation. Students work in groups to evaluate actual online informal learning experiences and may need to recruit local people to participate in the study.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MUSE E-100 or equivalent museum experience is strongly recommended.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 16 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16402/2020

MUSE E-130
Museums and Technology

Katherine Burton Jones, MA

Director, Museum Studies, Harvard Extension School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 23583

Description
The internet has changed the way nonprofits deliver information to constituents and the general public. In this course, we explore the ways in which nonprofits use the web and social media to deliver programmatic content as well as how the web and social media are used in marketing, public relations, and fundraising. We also take a look at the back-of-house systems that these organizations rely on for their information infrastructure, providing an in-depth look at the use of databases and websites to further the organization’s mission.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Some knowledge of computer systems, especially in the nonprofit sector.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-23583/2021

MUSE E-135
The Future of Historic House Museums

Abby Battis, ALM

Associate Director for Collections, Historic Beverly

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25975

Description
The changing attitudes in historic interpretation along with challenges facing historic house museums today, such as shifting demographics, funding, maintenance, and technology have contributed to declining attendance and waning interest in historic house museums around the world. This course examines the traditional methods for historic house museum sustainability, including collections care and exhibit design, and explores feasible and reinvented methods for reinterpreting the historic house museum in order to maintain its relevance in a changing society.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Museum experience is a plus.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25975/2021

MUSE E-136
Rights and Reproductions for Museums

Cynthia Mackey, MA

Associate Registrar for Rights and Reproductions, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16081

Description
In addition to caring for the physical objects in the collection, a museum must also oversee the reproduction of these objects in various mediums as books, exhibition catalogs, and films. This not only involves photographing the objects, but also how to responsibly reproduce the object given the object’s copyright status and other considerations, such as right of privacy and cultural sensitivities. This course provides a basic overview of intellectual property, with a focus on copyright and how it applies to museums. Students learn how to determine the copyright status of an object, how to obtain copyright permission, and what to do when an object’s copyright status is unknown. The course also reviews the various industry guidelines for fair use. Beyond copyright, the course focuses on additional aspects of rights and reproductions that museums encounter. This involves learning how to process image requests, creating permission forms, and learning the importance of researcher and visitor photo policies. Students learn how to manage photo and film shoots involving objects. Lastly, the course covers other considerations for reproducing material responsibly such as right of privacy or right of publicity.

Class Meetings:
2-credit half-term online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $1450
Credits: 2

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. This course meets for a half term, August 31-October 17.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16081/2020

MUSE E-138
Museums Experience Design and Digital Technologies

Edward Rodley, MA

Consultant

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16395

Description
In an increasingly media-rich, experience driven society where competition for time and attention is at an all-time high, the challenges of designing compelling museum experiences are many and varied. How to make new kinds of museum experiences that speak to twenty-first century audiences is not well explored, aside from frequent media articles touting the benefits of some new technology as disrupting, reinventing, or ruining the museum experience.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: MUSE E-130 and some knowledge of computer systems, especially in the nonprofit sector.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16395/2020

MUSE E-141
Close Looking: Pedagogies in Practice

Jennifer Thum, PhD

Assistant Director of Academic Engagement and Assistant Research Curator, Harvard Art Museums

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25751

Description
The average museum visitor spends less than 30 seconds looking at a work of art. However, research shows that there are many benefits to slowing down, looking closely, and making room for deeper engagement. What are those benefits? How does one even begin to look closely? And how can we convince audiences of the power of slowing down? This course takes advantage of the diverse, world-class collections at the Harvard Art Museums to teach the principles of close looking, while taking a critical approach to this form of museum pedagogy. We read key scholarship in order to build a solid foundation for discussing and employing close-looking approaches, and then experience and assess the methods we learn about for ourselves. We explore what close looking can look like for various types of audience and imagine creative ways to engage viewers longer and more deeply. Course activities include close looking alone and in groups, informal drawing and writing exercises, active discussions, and group presentations.

Class Meetings:
2-credit half-term online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $940
Graduate credit: $1450
Credits: 2

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. This course meets for a half term, January 25-March 13.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25751/2021

MUSE E-142
The Body in the Art Museum

David Odo, DPhil

Director of Academic and Public Programs, Division Head, and Research Curator, Harvard Art Museums

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15730

Description
Artists have always engaged with the body, but how are we to engage with their work in the context of the art museum? This course takes advantage of the world-class collections at the Harvard Art Museums to consider artistic approaches to the body as both subject and object. We take a critical approach to understanding how works of art related to the body are curated, exploring broad issues in critical museology and actively examining how the body has been conceptualized, contextualized, represented, and materialized in works of art across media, time, space, and culture. The format of this course involves close looking, sketching, active discussions, critical viewing, and participant presentations.

Class Meetings:
2-credit half-term online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $940
Graduate credit: $1450
Credits: 2

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. This course meets for a half term, August 31-October 17.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15730/2020

MUSE E-152
Museums and Material Culture

Reed A. Gochberg, PhD

Lecturer on History and Literature, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16329

Description
How can museums tell more inclusive histories through objects? In this course, we explore how material culture can illuminate the lives of people often left out of the archive or historical record. From clothing and accessories to food and toys, objects—and the institutions that collect them—provide a material record of how political, economic, and social events shaped the lives of ordinary people. By examining how objects were made, used, and collected, we explore how they open up possibilities for interpreting familiar subjects in new ways and developing inclusive programs. Throughout the semester, we practice methods for analyzing objects, understanding them in the context of museums, and incorporating them into exhibitions and programs. We consider objects alongside advertisements, archival records, and other primary sources in order to explore strategies for interpretation, curatorial interventions, and public programs. We also consider the history of museums and their collecting practices in relation to contemporary scholarship and cultural debates about decolonization, repatriation, and ownership. Readings and assignments include scholarship by James Delbourgo, Amy Lonetree, Christine DeLucia; works and exhibitions by Fred Wilson, Kara Walker, and Wendy Red Star; and individual research and writing assignments such as op-ed essays, exhibition proposals, and lesson plans.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16329/2020

MUSE E-154
Take Back the Museum

Jonathan Square, PhD

Writer

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26076

Description
The course examines exhibitions that highlight the work of artists and designers who have been historically silenced or omitted from dominant narratives. The course is structured around the analysis of examples of pioneering exhibitions mounted in the past decade, or to be mounted in the near future. Case studies include Inspiring Beauty: 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair, Willi Smith: Street Couture, Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today, and Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now, among others. Through these case studies, the course explores how these curatorial projects have countered institutional erasures. Geared towards students invested in the intersection of museum studies and curatorial justice, the course examines how exhibitions are critical to address issues of visibility and invisibility.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26076/2021

MUSE E-160
Museums and Questions of Cultural Property: What’s Loot, What’s Not?

Joseph A. Greene, PhD

Deputy Director and Curator of the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16321

Description
This course considers questions surrounding the role of museums in defining, displaying, and defending cultural property. For the purposes of the course, cultural property is understood to include portable art objects and artifacts as well as fixed monuments and sites. Through a series of case studies it examines in turn such issues as ownership, stewardship, and repatriation; looting, illicit trade, and the cultural property marketplace; and the protection of cultural property in the face both of armed conflict and peacetime economic development. It also explores the relationships between material cultural property and contemporary and historical human identities at the national, regional, and local scale, especially as these identities are portrayed in museums. Though not devoted in depth to matters of cultural property law or museum law, the course takes into account the wide range of national laws, international conventions, and treaties that pertain to cultural property. The course has a decided focus on the Mediterranean and Middle East, with excursions into relevant parallel cases in Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16321/2020

MUSE E-165
Museum Registration: Systems and Strategies

Kara L. Schneiderman, MA

Director of Collections, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25625

Description
Registrars wear many hats in the museum world. They are organizers, risk managers, and problem solvers as they tackle the many legal and managerial challenges faced by today’s museums. In this course, students delve into the numerous facets of museum registration systems and the role of the registrar in museum management and administration. Modules focus both on policy development and procedural solutions, including collections management and ethics policies, acquisitions and accessioning, deaccessioning, loans, records management, provenance research, federal laws, risk management, and rights and reproductions. Procedures such as condition reporting, object numbering and labeling, packing and shipping, and managing traveling exhibitions are also covered. Through lectures, case studies, and readings, students learn about the administrative, legal, and practical concerns of museum registration within the context of professional standards and best practices for the museum field.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 31 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25625/2021

MUSE E-166
The Role of the Arts and Humanities in Documenting and Dealing with Climate Change

Sarah Sutton, MS

Principal, Sustainable Museums

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25772

Description
Scientists are not the only ones who uncover, document, and explain the environmental impacts of climate change. Paintings and photographs, archaeological and architectural records, oral histories and indigenous ways of knowing show and tell us how the environment and climate have changed, how humans have caused and responded to that change, and how we can respond today. This course challenges students to use arts and humanities resources to examine the anthropocene. The readings include essays about archaeology and architecture, art and culture in Scotland, England, Iceland, Greenland, and the United States. The assignments build students’ ability to recognize and use arts and humanities resources in the climate discussion, and to implement a program, research project, or exhibit using the arts and humanities. There is no prior environmental or museum knowledge required; interest in both, however, is critical. Easy access to a museum collection for research—electronic or in-person—is also critical.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Completion of MUSE S-132 is helpful.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25772/2021

MUSE E-175
Developing Museum Theater

Janelle D. Mills, ALM

Associate Director, MBA Student and Academic Services, Harvard Business School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25987

Description
Museum theater plays an important role in engaging audiences and helping create emotional connections between visitors and museum objects. Theater can be effective in increasing both curiosity and understanding. However, museum theater is difficult to do well and is often considered a luxury when museums face budget decisions. This course explores the history of museum theater and takes a critical look at what is being produced today. It offers a collaborative approach for museum and theater professionals to develop skills and processes to enhance visitor experiences in a museum or tour environment. Students challenge current paradigms and explore new ideas for delivering sustainable museum theater to an ever-changing audience. The course also examines practical concerns such as actor safety and the additional museum staff resources required to run a museum theater program. Students work in groups to develop a museum theater script and production plan.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25987/2021

MUSE E-598
Museum Studies Precapstone Tutorial

Katherine Burton Jones, MA

Director, Museum Studies, Harvard Extension School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15676

Description
This tutorial helps students develop an academically strong capstone proposal. It is mandatory for candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, museum studies, who wish to register for MUSE E-599 for spring 2021. The tutorial provides an essential foundation for capstone courses, mapping critical issues of project design (scope and background, methodology, and expected outcomes) and allows the capstone courses to begin with projects fully operational.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $0

Prerequisites: Students must be in their penultimate semester as candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, museum studies. They must be in good academic standing and in the process of completing all the requirements except the capstone. Students submit the prework to ALMcapstones@extension.harvard.edu between July 18 and August 1. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course. To obtain prework instructions, visit the capstone website.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15676/2020

MUSE E-599
Capstone Projects in Museum Studies

Katherine Burton Jones, MA

Director, Museum Studies, Harvard Extension School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14868 | Section 1

Description
This course provides students with the opportunity to complete a capstone project related to their professional interests. Capstone projects can include an analysis of a compelling and hotly debated issue within the field of museum studies or, perhaps, creation of a final product that can be used as demonstration of expertise to future or current employers, such as a museum education curriculum, multimedia design, or exhibit.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, museum studies who are in good academic standing, in their final course, and who have successfully completed MUSE S-598 in the 2020 summer term. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 12 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14868/2020

MUSE E-599
Capstone Projects in Museum Studies

Katherine Burton Jones, MA

Director, Museum Studies, Harvard Extension School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15742 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Enrollment limit: Limited to 12 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15742/2020

MUSE E-599
Capstone Projects in Museum Studies

Katherine Burton Jones, MA

Director, Museum Studies, Harvard Extension School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26046 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, museum studies who are in good academic standing, in their final course, and who have successfully completed MUSE E-598 in the 2020 fall term. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26046/2021

MUSE E-599
Capstone Projects in Museum Studies

Katherine Burton Jones, MA

Director, Museum Studies, Harvard Extension School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24273 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, museum studies who are in good academic standing, in their final course, and who have successfully completed MUSE E-598 in the 2020 fall term. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24273/2021

MUSI E-190R
Technomusicology

Wayne G. Marshall, PhD

Assistant Professor of Music History, Berklee College of Music

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25695

Description
This course uses hands-on media production, in the form of audio and video art, to examine the interplay between music and technology since the dawn of sound reproduction, especially in the digital age. Embracing such technologies ourselves, we employ popular, powerful music software (Ableton Live) to explore new techniques and idioms for storytelling by composing a series of études. Readings, discussions, and projects focus on several significant forms and their histories, including soundscapes, mashups, supercuts, and DJ-style mixes. Students develop a fluency in the history of sound studies while cultivating competencies in audio and video editing, sampling and arranging, mixing and remixing, and, in framing their projects, descriptive and poetic forms of writing.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 7:20-9:20 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25695/2021

NUTR E-105
Food and Nutrition in Health and Well-Being

Rachele Pojednic, PhD

Assistant Professor of Nutrition, Simmons University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14784

Description
Students examine evidence-based relationships between nutrition and the promotion of long-term health and well-being. They become familiar with food-related policy and recommendations, including the US dietary guidelines, FDA food labels, and evidence-based nutrition programs, and gain practical skills to make healthful dietary choices. Moreover, students learn health promotion strategies to help influence other people’s food choices and apply these strategies to specific modifiable chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease. After successful completion of this course, students are able to identify the fundamentals of a healthy eating pattern; recognize associations between dietary behaviors and non-communicable diseases and identify evidence-based dietary interventions for those diseases; understand barriers to healthful eating, including cultural, environmental, and social; utilize validated tools to encourage healthful food choices; provide practical advice to improve dietary behaviors; and become adept at accessing evidence-based resources to maintain the most up-to-date knowledge, skills, and tools to promote good nutrition.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 3-5 pm, or on demand.

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Enrollment limit: Limited to 100 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14784/2020

PHIL E-4
Introduction to Philosophy

Benjamin Roth, PhD

Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15501

Description
What is happiness? Should we fear death? Does ethics depend on god’s existence? Do we have free will? What should we do when we think a law is immoral? This course introduces students to Western philosophy through fundamental questions about how we should live. Beginning with Plato’s account of his teacher Socrates’ trial and execution for impiety in ancient Athens, we read central historical thinkers such as Aristotle, Augustine, Montaigne, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Thoreau, Nietzsche, Sartre, Beauvoir, and King, Jr., as well as a number of influential contemporary philosophers who show why these questions remain pressing today.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15501/2020

PHIL E-100
Introduction to Logic

Eli Hirsch, PhD

Charles Goldman Professor of Philosophy, Brandeis University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 20195

Description
A study of the most basic forms of reasoning and their linguistic expressions, this course provides an introduction to the traditional theory of syllogism, contemporary symbolic logic, the nature of scientific reasoning, and the relationship between logic and language.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-20195/2021

PHIL E-101
Saints, Heretics and Atheists: An Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion

Jeffrey McDonough, PhD

Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25530

Description
Does God exist? What is the nature of evil and where does it come from? Are humans free? Responsible? Immortal? Does it matter? This course explores foundational questions in the philosophy of religion through the study of classic works by Plato, Augustine, Al-Ghazali, Aquinas, Pascal, Spinoza, Hume, Nietzsche, and James. Students have the opportunity to reexamine their own views and assumptions about religion in the company of great thinkers of the past.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the 2019 Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course Culture and Belief 31.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25530/2021

PHIL E-102
Power and Responsibility: Doing Philosophy with Superheroes

Christopher Robichaud, PhD

Senior Lecturer in Ethics and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24689

Description
Pow! Bang! Kaboom! Superhero stories, first arriving on the scene in the late 1930s, are now among the most popular forms of global entertainment. From Superman’s embrace of truth, justice, and the American way to Wonder Woman’s efforts at promoting peace rather than war, from Spider-Man’s personal struggles at balancing his romantic life with his crime fighting exploits to the X-Men’s social struggles with combating prejudice and antagonism, the world has turned its attention to these colorful and larger-than-life narratives, which first emerged in comic books and radio shows but now are also widely found in film, television, and video games. This course leverages the enthusiasm over superheroes to introduce students to core areas of philosophy—metaphysics and epistemology, social and political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of mind, and more. By directly engaging these fantastic narratives, it demonstrates that behind the four-colored panels are stories and characters of depth and complexity, affording us many opportunities to learn important and substantive philosophical ideas in a fresh and exciting way.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24689/2021

PHIL E-105
The Meaning of Life

Mathias Risse, PhD

Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Administration, Harvard Kennedy School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25966

Description
Many of us have good reasons for doing this or that, making this decision rather than that, choosing this path over another. There is often a point to these choices that we can identify, and sometimes have thought hard about. But is there a point to life as a whole? That is the question about the meaning of life. Though the question is notoriously hard to make precise, one way or another it has animated much literature and art, and also much philosophy. Some philosophers have provided very disheartening answers to the questions of whether life has meaning: life is suffering, and then it ends; life is absurd, and never gains any meaning; life is all about creating hell for each other, and we cannot escape. But other philosophers have provided more uplifting answers. Both kinds of answers deserve serious scrutiny. Such scrutiny should be of interest to anybody who wishes to make reflection on her/his life as a whole part of her/his education. After reviewing a number of pessimistic and more optimistic approaches to the meaning of life we also turn to the subject of death. We all will die eventually. We normally encounter death among family and friends before we have to deal with our own. These themes too are the subject of philosophical reflection. The course finishes with a discussion of an important set of lectures on the topics of this course by a contemporary philosopher. This course is quite wide-ranging, and will integrate historical figures and references to art and literature as appropriate. But its main focus is on contributions by relatively recent thinkers in the Anglo-American analytical tradition of philosophy. The methodology of this course is philosophical. Some of the topics may touch you quite personally, and you should take this into account before enrolling.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 7:40-9:40 pm, or on demand.

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: None, but prior exposure to philosophy is a plus.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25966/2021

PHIL E-109
Buddhist Philosophy

Parimal G. Patil, PhD

Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16095

Description
Indian Buddhism has inspired philosophers for almost 2500 years. Yet, relative to Euro-American philosophy, Buddhist philosophy has received little attention. In this course, we explore the rich traditions of Indian Buddhist philosophy. More specifically, we discuss topics in Buddhist epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, philosophy of action, and philosophy of mind. We pay particular attention to the arguments that Buddhist philosophers used to defend their views and respond to their critics. In addition to understanding these arguments in their historical contexts, we ask what we can learn from them today and, when relevant, investigate how they are being used in contemporary philosophy.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the 2019 course.

Prerequisites: Previous coursework in philosophy would be helpful.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16095/2020

PHIL E-112
Topics in Philosophy of Religion: Death, Happiness, and Immortality

Parimal G. Patil, PhD

Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16383

Description
Death is inevitable, or is it? Is immortality desirable? What is happiness? Is it something we can seek? Is it the same as well-being? Is religion relevant to any of this? This course explores these questions by drawing on the work of contemporary philosophers. We carefully consider their views, debate their conclusions, and uncover the surprising range of philosophical issues on which they depend.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Previous coursework in philosophy is recommended.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16383/2020

PHIL E-113
Buddhist Philosophers and their Critics: Mind, Matter, and Meditation

Parimal G. Patil, PhD

Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25968

Description
Buddhist theories in epistemology, metaphysics, and mind were contested by a broad range of philosophers, both Buddhist and non-Buddhist. In this course, we discuss rival views on the epistemology of perception, the metaphysics of momentariness, and the nature of consciousness. In addition to understanding these arguments in their historical contexts, we ask what we can learn from them today and, when relevant, investigate how they are being used in contemporary philosophy.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 8:10-10:10 pm, or on demand.

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Previous coursework in philosophy.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25968/2021

PHIL E-124
Camus, Sartre, Beauvoir, and Current Social Debates

Raymond F. Comeau, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16455

Description
The writings of Albert Camus (1913-1960), Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), and Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), representative of French existentialism, have made a lasting impact, resonating today in a number of issues that still cause lively debate, among them anti-semitism, epidemics, terrorism, suicide, feminism, capital punishment, authoritarianism, and ageism. Just as important, these writers are artists and masters of thought and expression. We study their creative works aesthetically and follow their thinking closely as they develop such concepts as freedom, revolt, justice, individual responsibility, authenticity, committed writing and action, and the appeal to the conscience. Among works to be studied by Camus are The Myth of Sisyphus, The Guest, Reflections on the Guillotine, The Plague, and The Fall; by Sartre, Existentialism and Human Emotions, No Exit, Anti-Semite and Jew, and What is Literature?; and by Beauvoir, The Second Sex and The Coming of Age. They are truly writers of our times. Some works are read in their entirety, some in excerpts. All of the works are available on the internet. Students write reflection papers and, following the lead of these writers, they practice committed writing applied to current social arenas.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16455/2020

PHIL E-160
Philosophical Foundations for Economic Justice

Joanne Baldine, PhD

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26021

Description
This course examines philosophical foundations of three fundamentally different economic systems: capitalism, socialism/egalitarianism, and the welfare state. Through a selection of readings we think critically about the prospects for economic justice introduced by each economic perspective. The main questions focus on what features an economic system and a society ought to have in order to be economically just, whether economic growth produces corresponding levels of well-being, and what sorts of claims the different classical economic systems advance in the name of economic justice. In addition, we critically examine opportunities for and obstacles to economic justice under current conditions of a global pandemic, political polarization, and the ensuing economic fallout. At all times we consider responsibilities of fairness, moral culpability, the requirements of a good life, the grounding of claims for a good life, the problem of poverty, and the ways in which economic systems materially and culturally set conditions for a productive, fair, and just life for all members of the global community.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 2-4 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26021/2021

PHIL E-162
Economic Justice

Mathias Risse, PhD

Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Administration, Harvard Kennedy School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16382

Description
Capitalism organizes society around individual pursuits of material gain. Capitalism seems to have won the great ideological struggle with other ways of organizing society. But there is much discontent. The Occupy Movement made clear that even Americans now care about excessive inequality, and many worry about the future in an increasingly economically divided society where access to technology richly rewards some to the exclusion of many others. Capitalism is also closely associated with what is arguably the biggest policy problem of the twenty-first century, climate change. So how can we justify capitalism? And what are feasible alternative ways of organizing society? This class begins with an assessment of the current crisis and explores a range of influential arguments for capitalism. Then we turn to socialist/communist approaches focusing on some of the more influential writings of Karl Marx. Finally, we explore the liberal egalitarianism of John Rawls. The debate about capitalism and its alternatives (and about what capitalism might learn from those) addresses the central political and social concerns of our times. This class offers an in-depth encounter with the major positions in that debate and thereby prepares students to participate in that debate in an informed way. While the first three lectures explore the current predicament and focus on social-scientific readings, the methodological outlook of the class is philosophical. Nonetheless, our concern is always with questions that shape political agendas now and in the foreseeable future.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm, or on demand.

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16382/2020

PHIL E-167
Biomedical Ethics

Eli Hirsch, PhD

Charles Goldman Professor of Philosophy, Brandeis University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 11907

Description
This course introduces the basic concepts and theories of ethics and applies them to some of the most widely discussed issues of the day. Students examine ethical issues that arise in a biomedical context, such as euthanasia, eugenics, reproductive control, lying to patients, and the right to health care.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-11907/2020

PHYS E-1AX
Physics I (Lecture): Mechanics, Elasticity, Fluids, and Diffusion

Anna M. Klales, PhD

Physics Instructional Lab Specialist, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14586

Description
This course is an introduction to classical mechanics, with special emphasis on the motion in fluids of biological objects, from proteins to people. Topics covered include momentum and energy conservation, kinematics, Newton’s laws of motion, oscillations, elasticity, fluids, random walks, and diffusion. Examples and problem set questions are drawn from the life sciences and medicine. This course does not include a lab; students who need a physics lab should enroll concurrently in PHYS E-1axl.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1410
Credits: 3

Notes: Recorded lectures are from the fall 2019 course.

Prerequisites: Students should have a firm foundation in algebra, geometry, and trigonometry. Although we discuss some elementary concepts of calculus in class, we do not expect students to use calculus on homework or examinations.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14586/2020

PHYS E-1AXL
Physics I (Lab): Mechanics, Elasticity, Fluids, and Diffusion

Allen Robert Crockett, ALB

Research Assistant IV (non-Lab), Faculty of Arts and Sciences Science Division, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14592 | Section 4

Description
A hands-on lab course intended to complement PHYS E-1ax. Students work in small groups of two to three to complete six experiments over the course of the term. Experiments include aspects of measurement and uncertainty, force and momentum, simple harmonic oscillators, fluid mechanics, and diffusion.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 2-5 pm

Labs meet roughly every other Thursday, 2-5 pm. Specific schedule to be announced.Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $470
Credits: 1

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment in PHYS E-1ax, or prior completion of a comparable course in physics (mechanics).

Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14592/2020

PHYS E-1AXL
Physics I (Lab): Mechanics, Elasticity, Fluids, and Diffusion

Allen Robert Crockett, ALB

Research Assistant IV (non-Lab), Faculty of Arts and Sciences Science Division, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14593 | Section 5

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 6-9 pm

Labs meet roughly every other Thursday, 6-9 pm. Specific schedule to be announced.Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $470
Credits: 1

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment in PHYS E-1ax, or prior completion of a comparable course in physics (mechanics).

Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14593/2020

PHYS E-1AXL
Physics I (Lab): Mechanics, Elasticity, Fluids, and Diffusion

Allen Robert Crockett, ALB

Research Assistant IV (non-Lab), Faculty of Arts and Sciences Science Division, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14594 | Section 6

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Saturdays, 9 am-noon

Labs meet roughly every other Saturday 9 am-noon. Specific schedule to be announced.Start Date: Sep. 5, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $470
Credits: 1

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment in PHYS E-1ax, or prior completion of a comparable course in physics (mechanics).

Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14594/2020

PHYS E-1AXL
Physics I (Lab): Mechanics, Elasticity, Fluids, and Diffusion

Allen Robert Crockett, ALB

Research Assistant IV (non-Lab), Faculty of Arts and Sciences Science Division, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14589 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 6-9 pm

Labs meet roughly every other Monday, 6-9 pm. Specific schedule to be announced.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $470
Credits: 1

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment in PHYS E-1ax, or prior completion of a comparable course in physics (mechanics).

Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14589/2020

PHYS E-1AXL
Physics I (Lab): Mechanics, Elasticity, Fluids, and Diffusion

Allen Robert Crockett, ALB

Research Assistant IV (non-Lab), Faculty of Arts and Sciences Science Division, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14590 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 2-5 pm

Labs meet roughly every other Tuesday, 2-5 pm. Specific schedule to be announced.Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $470
Credits: 1

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment in PHYS E-1ax, or prior completion of a comparable course in physics (mechanics).

Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14590/2020

PHYS E-1AXL
Physics I (Lab): Mechanics, Elasticity, Fluids, and Diffusion

Allen Robert Crockett, ALB

Research Assistant IV (non-Lab), Faculty of Arts and Sciences Science Division, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14591 | Section 3

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 6-9 pm

Labs meet roughly every other Wednesday, 6-9 pm. Specific schedule to be announced.Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $470
Credits: 1

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment in PHYS E-1ax, or prior completion of a comparable course in physics (mechanics).

Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14591/2020

PHYS E-1BX
Physics II (Lecture): Electromagnetism, Circuits, Waves, Optics

Kelly Miller, PhD

Senior Preceptor in Applied Physics, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24293

Description
This course is an introduction to electromagnetism, circuits, waves, optics, and sound. Topics covered include electric and magnetic fields, electrical potential, analog and digital circuits, wave propagation in various media, microscopy, sound, and hearing. Many questions and examples are drawn from the life sciences and medicine. This course does not include a lab; students who need a physics lab should enroll concurrently in PHYS E-1bxl.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1410
Credits: 3

Notes: The lectures are from the spring 2019 course.

Prerequisites: PHYS E-1ax, or equivalent preparation in physics (mechanics).

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24293/2021

PHYS E-1BXL
Physics II (Lab): Electromagnetism, Circuits, Waves, and Optics

Allen Robert Crockett, ALB

Research Assistant IV (non-Lab), Faculty of Arts and Sciences Science Division, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24300 | Section 1

Description
This hands-on experimental course is intended to complement PHYS E-1bx. Laboratory experiments include aspects of electric and magnetic fields, analog and digital circuits, wave phenomena, and optics.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 6-9 pm

Labs meet roughly every other Monday, 6-9 pm. See syllabus for specific meeting dates.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $470
Credits: 1

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment in PHYS E-1bx, or prior completion of a comparable course in physics (electricity and magnetism).

Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24300/2021

PHYS E-1BXL
Physics II (Lab): Electromagnetism, Circuits, Waves, and Optics

Allen Robert Crockett, ALB

Research Assistant IV (non-Lab), Faculty of Arts and Sciences Science Division, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24301 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 2-5 pm

Labs meet roughly every other Tuesday, 2-5 pm. See syllabus for specific meeting dates.Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $470
Credits: 1

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment in PHYS E-1bx, or prior completion of a comparable course in physics (electricity and magnetism).

Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24301/2021

PHYS E-1BXL
Physics II (Lab): Electromagnetism, Circuits, Waves, and Optics

Allen Robert Crockett, ALB

Research Assistant IV (non-Lab), Faculty of Arts and Sciences Science Division, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24302 | Section 3

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 6-9 pm

Labs meet roughly every other Wednesday 6-9 pm. See syllabus for specific meeting dates.Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $470
Credits: 1

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment in PHYS E-1bx, or prior completion of a comparable course in physics (electricity and magnetism).

Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24302/2021

PHYS E-1BXL
Physics II (Lab): Electromagnetism, Circuits, Waves, and Optics

Allen Robert Crockett, ALB

Research Assistant IV (non-Lab), Faculty of Arts and Sciences Science Division, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24303 | Section 4

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 2-5 pm

Labs meet roughly every other Thursday, 2-5 pm. See syllabus for specific meeting dates.Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $470
Credits: 1

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment in PHYS E-1bx, or prior completion of a comparable course in physics (electricity and magnetism).

Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24303/2021

PHYS E-1BXL
Physics II (Lab): Electromagnetism, Circuits, Waves, and Optics

Allen Robert Crockett, ALB

Research Assistant IV (non-Lab), Faculty of Arts and Sciences Science Division, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24304 | Section 5

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 6-9 pm

Labs meet roughly every other Thursday, 6-9 pm. See syllabus for specific meeting dates.Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $470
Credits: 1

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment in PHYS E-1bx, or prior completion of a comparable course in physics (electricity and magnetism).

Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24304/2021

PHYS E-1BXL
Physics II (Lab): Electromagnetism, Circuits, Waves, and Optics

Allen Robert Crockett, ALB

Research Assistant IV (non-Lab), Faculty of Arts and Sciences Science Division, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24305 | Section 6

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Saturdays, 9 am-noon

Labs meet roughly every other Saturday, 9 am-noon. See syllabus for specific meeting dates.Start Date: Jan. 30, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $470
Credits: 1

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment in PHYS E-1bx, or prior completion of a comparable course in physics (electricity and magnetism).

Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24305/2021

PHYS E-1LAB
Intensive Laboratory for Physics I and II

Bryan R. Janson, BS

January session | CRN 25323

Description
This intensive hands-on experimental course is meant to complement PHYS E-1ax and PHYS E-1bx. Students complete laboratory experiments equivalent to those covered in PHYS E-1axl and PHYS E-1bxl. Experiments include aspects of measurement, force and motion, fluids and diffusion, electric and magnetic fields, circuits, waves, and optics.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays-Fridays, 10 am-6 pm
Start Date: Jan. 11, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $940
Credits: 2

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. This lab meets January 11-15.

Prerequisites: PHYS E-1ax, or equivalent preparation in physics (mechanics). Experience with electricity, magnetism, waves, and optics is recommended, but not assumed.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 36 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25323/2021

PHYS E-123A
Laboratory Electronics: Analog Circuit Design

Oliver Saunders Wilder, PhD

Research Affiliate, MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16418

Description
This course forms the analog half of a two-semester sequence that provides a lab-intensive survey of electronics (the digital half of this sequence is ENSC E-123). The course introduces analog electronics, with little mathematical or physical analysis and much opportunity to design and build circuits. The treatment moves quickly from fundamentals (for example, passive circuits made with resistors, capacitors) to designs with transistors and then gives most of its attention to the design of circuits using operational amplifiers: circuits such as integrators, amplifiers, oscillators, filters, and a servo loop. Students apply amplitude and frequency modulation in both transmission and reception. Each meeting includes a lab session.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:50-7:50 pm

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: High school algebra; some knowledge of elementary electrical concepts is helpful but not essential.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 22 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16418/2020

PSYC E-15
Introduction to Psychology

Todd Farchione, PhD

Research Associate Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Boston University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 23862

Description
This course is a broad introduction to the field of psychology. Students explore the key figures, diverse theoretical perspectives, and research findings that have shaped some of the major areas of contemporary psychology. This course also examines the research methods used by psychologists across these areas to study the origins and variations in human behavior.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-23862/2021

PSYC E-15
Introduction to Psychology

Todd Farchione, PhD

Research Associate Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Boston University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 10232

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-10232/2020

PSYC E-497
Crafting the Thesis Proposal in Psychology Tutorial

Dante Spetter, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25102 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $0
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, psychology. They must have completed eight courses toward the degree and be in good academic standing. Their prework, due between September 1 and November 1, must be approved before they are allowed to register for the tutorial. See the Guide to the ALM Thesis for details. Candidates accepted to the 12-course thesis track register for graduate credit; those in the ten-course thesis track register for noncredit.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25102/2021

PSYC E-497
Crafting the Thesis Proposal in Psychology Tutorial

Adrienne Tierney, EdD

Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16148 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $0
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, psychology. They must have completed eight courses toward the degree and be in good academic standing. Their prework, due between April 1 and June 1, must be approved before they are allowed to register for the tutorial. See the Guide to the ALM Thesis for details. Candidates accepted to the 12-course thesis track register for graduate credit; those in the ten-course thesis track register for noncredit.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16148/2020

PSYC E-497
Crafting the Thesis Proposal in Psychology Tutorial

Adrienne Tierney, EdD

Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25707 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $0
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25707/2021

PSYC E-497
Crafting the Thesis Proposal in Psychology Tutorial

Dante Spetter, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15482 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $0
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, psychology. They must have completed eight courses toward the degree and be in good academic standing. Their prework, due between April 1 and June 1, must be approved before they are allowed to register for the tutorial. See the Guide to the ALM Thesis for details. Candidates accepted to the 12-course thesis track register for graduate credit; those in the ten-course thesis track register for noncredit.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15482/2020

PSYC E-597
Theory and Research in Human Development Precapstone

Julia Hayden Galindo, EdD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16185 | Section 1

Description
This course exposes students to a broad range of literature on various topics in human development. Readings provide a foundational understanding of the fundamental elements of human development scholarship including theories of development, language, emotion, reasoning, conceptual development, learning, motivation, and social cognition. Each week, the class examines a different topic, drawing on conceptual frameworks and review articles as well as empirical research. Students cultivate an understanding of concepts from contemporary psychology and cognitive sciences research and their relevance to specific decisions related to development and learning. The course features student presentations of weekly readings as well as written assignments for students to develop their individualized research interests. The final paper of the semester is a written proposal for the capstone project (which includes a literature review, rationale, and stakes).

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Students must be capstone track candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, psychology, who are in good academic standing and intend to enroll in PSYC E-599 as their final course in the 2021 spring term. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16185/2020

PSYC E-597
Theory and Research in Human Development Precapstone

Julia Hayden Galindo, EdD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15774 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15774/2020

PSYC E-597B
Identity Precapstone: Theory and Research

Richard Joseph Martin, PhD

Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16394

Description
This course exposes students to a broad range of scholarly literature on various topics in the social scientific study of identity, such as class, gender, race, religion, and sexuality. Readings draw on a variety of methodological approaches, and students are expected to critically consume qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods research. Students thus cultivate an understanding of psychological approaches and their relevance to solving real-world problems related to identity, building toward a capstone project in applied research. The course requires a midterm essay, as well as a draft, revision, and oral presentation of a written proposal for the capstone project in PSYC E-599b (which includes a problem statement, literature review, identification of sites and stakeholders, and project rationale).

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Students must be capstone track candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, psychology, who are in good academic standing and intend to enroll in PSYC E-599b as their final course in the 2021 spring term. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16394/2020

PSYC E-599
Bridging Science and Practice in Human Development Capstone

Julia Hayden Galindo, EdD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25382 | Section 2

Description
This course builds upon the foundation in human development established in PSYC E-597 by creating a capstone project that bridges research and practice. The project includes two components: the project prototype and the report. The prototype is the specific product designed according to developmental and learning principles and the report presents the scientific justification of the prototype by explaining the design choices according to the relevant literature. Prototypes can take two different forms. First, they can apply research to practices in order to facilitate learning or behavioral change (for example, curricular materials for an educational program for adolescents to stop smoking, materials for professional development workshops on teamwork). Second, they may communicate scholarship to specific audiences who would benefit from knowing the information (for example, a publishable article or a website explaining current research on emotion function or reasoning about risk for parents and teachers). Projects build on specific interests of each student and are developed in consultation with the instructor. These specialized projects allow the students to seek a practical application in a narrow sub-field of human development, while simultaneously becoming conversant in the diverse range of topics covered in PSYC E-597. The capstone project culminates with a formal presentation of the students’ projects.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Students must be capstone track candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, psychology, who are in good academic standing and have completed all other degree requirements, except for the capstone, including earning a B– or higher grade in PSYC E-597 in the 2020 fall term. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25382/2021

PSYC E-599
Bridging Science and Practice in Human Development Capstone

Julia Hayden Galindo, EdD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25763 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25763/2021

PSYC E-599B
Identity Capstone: Bridging Research and Practice

Richard Joseph Martin, PhD

Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25974

Description
This course builds upon the foundation established in PSYC E-597b by creating a capstone project that bridges research and practice. The project includes two components: the project prototype and the academic report. The prototype is the specific product designed to address the real-world problem identified in the fall semester proposal. Prototypes can take two different forms. First, they can apply research to design a project in order to solve or address a real-world problem experienced by stakeholders. Second, they may communicate scholarship to specific audiences who would benefit from knowing the information (for example, a publishable article or a website explaining current research to non-academic stakeholders). Projects build on specific interests of each student and are developed in consultation with the instructor. These specialized projects allow students to seek a practical application of existing research on identity, while developing their skills designing research-based practice and engaging stakeholders. The capstone project culminates with a formal presentation of the students’ projects.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Students must be capstone track candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, psychology, who are in good academic standing and have completed all other degree requirements, except for the capstone, including earning a grade of B– or higher in PSYC E-597b in the 2020 fall term. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25974/2021

PSYC E-1014
The Psychology of Trauma and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

Sarah Erb Kleiman, PhD

Clinical Psychologist

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24509

Description
This course explores the psychological impact of trauma from many different sources, including military combat, accidents and life-threatening events, interpersonal violence and sexual assaults, natural disasters, and childhood physical and sexual abuse. Our emphasis is on the psychological theories used to explain and treat symptoms associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). While discussing PTSD, we cover diagnostic methods, research on prevalence and policy issues, comorbid psychological and medical diagnoses, and social correlates. In addition to exploring the challenges associated with PTSD, we discuss mechanisms of positive change following a traumatic event, such as post-traumatic growth. Lectures on course topics are designed to be as interactive as possible by utilizing multimedia, in-class activities, small group discussions, and reflection assignments.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: PSYC E-15 or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 27 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24509/2021

PSYC E-1018
Psychological Resilience

Shelley H. Carson, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

January session | CRN 25649

Description
This course covers the field of resilience research, including an examination of evidence-based cognitive, emotional, interpersonal, and self-care skills that have been demonstrated to reduce risk of major psychological disorders, such as major depression and anxiety disorders, in the face of adversity.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays-Thursdays, 1-4 pm
Start Date: Jan. 4, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 48 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25649/2021

PSYC E-1019
Stress, Coping, and Resilience

Evan Kleiman, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15365

Description
Everyone experiences stress, but stress does not affect everyone the same way. This course explores how stress affects individuals and the process by which individuals cope with stress. The goal of this course is to give an in-depth understanding of the theoretical and empirical work on stress (negative life events, psychological and physiological stress), coping, and resilience. The course is taught from the perspective of clinical psychology and positive psychology and covers factors like social support, self-efficacy, optimism, and gratitude. Major focus is given to the study of resilience to stress and related topics (depression, anxiety, self-injury) through the lens of positive psychology. The course includes assignments that allow students to experience first-hand how positive psychological interventions work.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15365/2020

PSYC E-1019
Stress, Coping, and Resilience

Evan Kleiman, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25196

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 34 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25196/2021

PSYC E-1036
The Science of Physical Activity for Health and Well-Being

Rachele Pojednic, PhD

Assistant Professor of Nutrition, Simmons University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24268

Description
Exercise is medicine and fundamental to good health. Given the current epidemic of disease related to sedentary behavior, it is imperative to train future healthcare providers to understand the relationship between physical activity and health. There is also a need to educate healthcare professionals on the benefits of prescribing exercise to their patients. While the benefits of exercise are widely known, healthcare practitioners, including health and wellness coaches, do not always have the necessary training to counsel their patients on how to incorporate exercise and physical activity into their daily routines.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 3-5 pm, or on demand.

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Enrollment limit: Limited to 100 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24268/2021

PSYC E-1037
Introduction to Lifestyle Medicine

Elizabeth Frates, MD

Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spaulding Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School

January session | CRN 26035

Description
Lifestyle medicine is the science and application of healthy lifestyles as interventions for the prevention and treatment of lifestyle-related diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, stroke, obesity, some neurological conditions, and some cancers. It is the evidence-based specialty bridging the science of physical activity, nutrition, stress management and resilience, sleep hygiene, and other healthy habits to individuals through clinical practice in healthcare. Lifestyle interventions include exercise prescriptions, nutrition prescriptions, stress management and resilience, smoking cessation programs, sleep evaluations, identifying and encouraging social connections, harnessing individuals’ strengths, and using positive emotions such as gratitude and laughter as medicine to empower individuals to reach their optimal state of health and wellbeing. Starting with Hippocrates and ending with modern medicine, we explore how trends and guidelines in lifestyle choices by individuals and clinicians have shaped and altered the health of the population. This course brings evidence-based knowledge and practical strategies to those professionals aspiring to instill healthful lifestyle behaviors in themselves as well as in their patients, clients, family, and friends.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays-Thursdays, 11 am-2 pm
Start Date: Jan. 4, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26035/2021

PSYC E-1050
Introduction to Social Psychology

Holly Parker, PhD

Lecturer on Psychology, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 13822

Description
This course provides an overview of the major concepts and questions in the field of social psychology. Students have the opportunity to discuss and think critically about a variety of exciting issues, such as the impact of social perceptions on individual behavior, factors that influence how people see themselves, romantic relationships, aggression, and the act of helping others.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the 2019 course.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-13822/2020

PSYC E-1092
The Neurobiology of Sex Differences: Implications for Mental Illness

Lisa Maeng, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Wheaton College

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16413

Description
It is no mystery that men and women are biologically and behaviorally different, but the way these differences impact mental health has often gone unrecognized. Sex and gender have both been increasingly identified as significant factors in disease prevalence, expression of symptoms, and responses to treatment. As such, it is critical that we understand the influence of sex differences and the consequences of adopting a “one size fits all” approach to health care. Unfortunately, this understanding has historically been difficult, if not impossible, to achieve because most of the knowledge we have in this area is based on research conducted exclusively in males. This disproportionate focus on male data is slowly beginning to change, but there are still those who doubt whether the presence/impact of sex differences is significant enough to warrant further investigation. In this course, we explore this debate, focusing on the neurobiology, methodology, significant findings, and future implications of research on sex differences.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16413/2020

PSYC E-1240
Abnormal Psychology

Shelley H. Carson, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 10236

Description
We examine a variety of mental disorders from several different theoretical perspectives. We focus on diagnostic issues, epidemiology, causes, gender differences, and treatments of each disorder.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm, or on demand.

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: PSYC E-15, or the equivalent.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-10236/2020

PSYC E-1247
The Psychology of Self-Harm

Kelly Zuromski, PhD

Research Associate, Psychology, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15764

Description
Why do people harm themselves? In this course, we seek answers to this complex question that has been the focus of scholarly inquiry by philosophers and scientists alike for centuries. We explore past and current models for understanding behavior that is harmful to the self, with a major focus on self-injury and suicidal behavior. We also examine other forms of potentially self-destructive behavior such as alcohol and substance use and eating disorders, and explore the overlap between these behaviors. We consider the classification, etiology, assessment, and treatment of such behavior from psychological, developmental, and biological perspectives. The objectives of this course are to provide students with an understanding of how and why self-harm occurs by examining past and current theoretical models; to provide a practical understanding of how such behavior is assessed and studied in current, cutting-edge research; to provide an understanding of how to intervene and prevent these behaviors, both at the individual and societal levels; and to stimulate integrated thinking, dialogue, and real-world application of topics related to the psychology of self-harm.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Introductory and abnormal psychology.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15764/2020

PSYC E-1356
Evolutionary Psychology

Max Krasnow, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychology, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16077

Description
Evolutionary psychology is the application of principles from evolutionary biology to the study of human behavior. In this course, we explore the underlying theories in evolutionary psychology and how they have been applied to topics covering the range of human experience, including cooperation, mating, friendship, aggression, warfare, collective action, kinship, parenting, social learning, dietary choice, spatial cognition, reasoning, emotions, morality, personality and individual differences, predator avoidance, hazard management, culture, and more.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Fridays, 5-7 pm
Start Date: Sep. 4, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. In addition to the live web conference, each week there is a module of online and self-paced assignments (including readings, lecture videos, activities, and a quiz) to prepare students for the live web conference session. The online modules are the same as those from the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course Psychology 1305.

Prerequisites: PSYC E-15, or the equivalent; PSYC E-1050 or PSYC E-1240 recommended.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16077/2020

PSYC E-1410
Introduction to Psychopharmacology

Steven Raymond Boomhower, PhD

Associate Toxicologist, Gradient Corporation

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25776

Description
Human interaction with drugs permeates our society. Alcohol, cigarettes and electronic cigarettes, heroin, and marijuana—all of these chemicals act on the brain and alter an individual’s behavior. Psychopharmacology and behavioral pharmacology is the study of drugs’ effects on behavior and is a growing interdisciplinary field in psychology. This course is designed as an introduction to the methods of psychopharmacology, both in humans and nonhumans. We survey a wide variety of drug classes, select drugs, basic concepts in pharmacology, behavioral methodology, clinical applications, and drug effects on the nervous system. This course is meant to emphasize both historical and classical studies in the field of psychopharmacology as well as topical developments relevant to present day issues related to drugs, addiction, and human behavior.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: PSYC E-15 or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25776/2021

PSYC E-1415
Dopamine

Simon Barak Caine, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25153 | Section 1

Description
A Parkinson’s victim regains control of her body with l-dopa. A schizophrenic man paralyzed by fear and hallucinations is freed from a mental institution by clozapine. A meth addict lies, cheats, and steals, ending up emaciated and dead. Miracles and monstrosities, all related to a single molecule—dopamine. The overall goal of this seminar is to focus on a single subject, a single chemical neurotransmitter, and remain on that topic to proceed through three phases of study, as follows. First, to orient students to tools from multiple traditional disciplines: synaptic mechanisms of neurotransmission, neuropharmacology, behavioral pharmacology, neuroanatomy, and psychiatry. Second, to elicit interest and curiosity through examples of specific and important disease states: Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia, and drug addiction. Third, to gain a historical perspective by reviewing articles of recent years. The main discipline presented in this course is pharmacology, specifically, in vivo pharmacology and more specifically, behavioral pharmacology in humans. Pharmacology has played and continues to play a key role in the history of neuroscience, in many applications of clinical medicine, and in the relationships among mind, brain, and behavior.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: No science background is necessary, however an inclination for scientific material, and prior introductory coursework in neurobiology, neurosciences, physiological psychology, medical sciences, systems physiology, or biology is helpful.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 21 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25153/2021

PSYC E-1415
Dopamine

Simon Barak Caine, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26091 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 3-5 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26091/2021

PSYC E-1440
Sleep and Mental Health

Edward Franz Pace-Schott, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16052

Description
The scientific study of sleep is an area of research that is both highly diverse and among the most interdisciplinary and unifying of topics in psychology and neuroscience. In the past several decades, exciting new discoveries on the neurobiology of sleep have been facilitated by technologies such as functional neuroimaging and molecular genetics. Nonetheless, sleep remains mysterious and controversial and, remarkably, there still is no generally agreed upon function for this behavioral state that occupies one third of our lives. Importantly, sleep science exemplifies the translational approach in biomedical science whereby human and animal research together continually advance the field of sleep medicine. Following an overview on the physiology and behavioral neuroscience of sleep, students choose a topic related to the effects of sleep on mental health to research in depth, to present to the class, and to discuss in a term paper. Topics might include the characteristic abnormalities in sleep occurring in mood, anxiety, psychotic, addictive, autism spectrum, or neurodegenerative disorders. Such changes are increasingly seen as bidirectional, with sleep disturbances contributing to the waking symptoms of these mental disorders. Other topics might focus on the contribution of primary sleep disorders to psychiatric and neurological illness such as the linkage between sleep apnea and depression, circadian rhythm disorders in bipolar illness, insomnia as a risk factor for mood and anxiety disorders, or contribution of nocturnal seizures to neurodevelopmental disorders. Still other topics may focus on the contribution of normal sleep to emotional regulation, memory consolidation, and human performance factors. For those with more neuroscientific interests, topics might include neuroimaging of cognitive functioning following sleep deprivation or the growing interest in trafficking and disposal of abnormal proteins during sleep having a potential role in neurodegenerative illness.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: An introductory psychology course (such as PSYC E-15).

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16052/2020

PSYC E-1475
Culinary Psychology: How the Mind and Body Work Together to Maximize the Enjoyment of Healthy Eating

Elizabeth Frates, MD

Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spaulding Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School

Stelios Kiosses, MS

Psychotherapist and Lead Psychologist, Edison Education and Research Collaborator, Computational Psychopathology Research Group, University of Oxford

Neil Rippington, MA

Consultant and Author

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26058

Description
This course teaches the basics of the psychology of eating and cooking, with an emphasis on how our minds have an impact on our taste and appetite for food. Healthy thinking and lifestyle patterns are an integral part of nutrition. Exercise, sleep, friendships, attitude, and alcohol have a significant impact on what food we consume and when we consume it. We explore the importance of our senses for the perception and enjoyment of food. We review cultural and historical aspects of food such as aphrodisiacs, processed foods, and the use of cutlery.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 11 am-1 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 53 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26058/2021

PSYC E-1501
Industrial-Organizational Psychology

Adam Smith, PhD

Associate Consultant, Kincentric/Spencer Stuart

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15679

Description
How would you choose the ideal worker out of 400 applicants? Is it possible to predict employee motivation? Are virtual teams more effective than in-person teams? Questions like these can be answered through the help of industrial and organizational (I/O) psychology, which is the application of psychological theories and principles to the workplace. Examining decades of research from psychology, sociology, management, and statistics, we discuss a wide range of theories and practices which have had an impact on I/O psychology applications. We also focus on how organizations currently use I/O principles in everyday scenarios and evaluate practical examples of how the field continues to influence talent management. Examined through the scientist-practitioner lens, course material covers both theoretical and real-world applications and addresses the gap between the two. Course topics include job/worker analysis, organizational research methods, employee selection, motivation, attitudes, health and stress, leadership, and a variety of other content areas.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 5:50-7:50 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: PSYC E-15, or the equivalent.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15679/2020

PSYC E-1501
Industrial-Organizational Psychology

Jack Demick, PhD

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25788

Description
Traditionally, industrial psychology and organizational psychology have been distinguished from one another on the basis of respective content areas. Industrial psychology (often called personnel psychology) is the scientific study of the efficient management of an industrial labor force and particularly the difficulties encountered by workers in a mechanized environment. Industrial psychology typically encompasses areas of inquiry such as worker recruitment, selection, classification, compensation, performance appraisals, and training. Organizational psychology is the scientific study of individual and group behavior in formal organizational settings. A major assumption is that the essence of an organization is patterned human behavior. When behavior is patterned, some structure is imposed on individuals. This structure characteristically comes in the form of roles (normative standards governing behavior) and a guiding set of values; an organization cannot exist when people just do their own thing without any awareness of the behavior of others. Organizational psychology characteristically involves the study of socialization, motivation, occupational stress, leadership, group performance, and organizational development.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 5:50-7:50 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: PSYC E-15, or the equivalent.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25788/2021

PSYC E-1502
Psychometric Theory and Assessment

Jack Demick, PhD

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16130

Description
This lecture course discusses principles of and issues in psychometrics, the branch of psychology concerned with the quantification and measurement of mental attributes, behavior, and performance as well as with the design, analysis, and improvement of the tests used in such measurement. It provides basic knowledge including varying definitions of psychometrics and the standardized tests currently employed in the field and the principles and practices of test construction (for example, classical versus contemporary theory). It also conveys applied knowledge through the examination of the theories and measurement of intelligence and of personality, the two most widely researched constructs within psychometrics. Finally, it highlights current controversies in the field (for example, Flynn effect, cognitive versus emotional intelligence, issues associated with computerized testing, and uses and misuses of psychometric tests).

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: PSYC E-15, or the equivalent.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16130/2020

PSYC E-1503
The Psychology of Close Relationships

Holly Parker, PhD

Lecturer on Psychology, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14319

Description
This course is an exploration of the psychology of close human relationships. We learn about intimate (romantic) relationships and friendships, and the ways in which these two kinds of relationships interact. Other kinds of close relationships (family and work relationships, for example) are integrated into the course, and although they are extremely valuable relationships in their own right, they are addressed secondarily to romantic relationships and friendships for the purposes of this course. Examples of topics include the biological bases of attraction and love, relationship formation and dissolution, relational interaction patterns, relationship satisfaction, and the social context of relationships (the influence of others). Students have an opportunity to explore relationships through readings in the popular press, but ultimately a scholarly, critical examination of the scientific literature serves as the foundation of our learning throughout the course. Students find that the literature contains unexpected findings that can change the way they look at relationships, both from academic and applied, real-life perspectives.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. The recorded lectures are from the 2019 course.

Prerequisites: PSYC E-15, or the equivalent.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14319/2020

PSYC E-1506
Influence: The Psychology of Groups and Networks

Olivia Kang, PhD

Research Fellow, Psychology, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16327

Description
We are an intensely social species. We have vast and complex social networks, connect with strangers for common goals, and gain a sense of identity through our in-group. Understanding the human mind therefore means understanding how we influence and are influenced by the larger social web around us. In this course, we examine social psychological research that reveals how groups work—how they can make us smarter or dumber, how we form (productive) friendships and organizational teams, and how our broader social networks shape us, transmitting everything from democracy to disease.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: An introduction to psychology course is helpful but not required.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16327/2020

PSYC E-1507
Psychology of Diversity

Mona S. Weissmark, PhD

Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and President and Founder, GWG Book Enterprises, LLC

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15447

Description
The United States is becoming increasingly diverse and the world increasingly globalized. The central focus of the course is on the links between diversity and psychological processes at individual, interpersonal, and international levels. We consider several basic questions, including: What is diversity? How do race, nationality, and religion influence individuals? What impact does diversity have on cross-group relationships? How is diversity related to people’s perceptions of fairness and justice? What is the relevance of people’s perceptions of fairness and justice to social problems and social change? Does respect for diversity promote peace and positive change? Much research has addressed these questions, and we closely examine the evidence that has emerged so far.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Previous coursework in psychology is helpful but not required.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 46 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15447/2020

PSYC E-1508
Motivation

Roberta Wegner, PsyD

Adjunct Lecturer on Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25117

Description
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the concept of motivation. It is designed to help students understand what motivation is, how it relates to needs, cognitions, emotions, and behaviors. It also covers how to assess and intervene to help people achieve goals effectively. Students learn the different types of motivation, what shapes it, how to assess and measure it, how to make a theoretical formulation on where people are in their readiness for change, how to foster motivation (through intervention such as motivational interviewing), and how to promote motivation on an individual and systems level. This course is led by a practicing clinical psychologist and the semester is viewed through the lens of application. Students walk away understanding what to look for, how to ask questions and asses, how to formulate an understanding of an individual’s motivation to change, what tools to use, and how to think about motivation on an individual and systems level. Theory of change is touched upon as well.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 11 am-1 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25117/2021

PSYC E-1508
Motivation

Jack Demick, PhD

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16416

Description
This course surveys the field of motivation. This field entails the scientific examination of motives, traditionally defined as internal forces or influences within the organism having two purposes, namely, to activate and arouse the organism to an optimal level of functioning and to direct the organism’s behavior toward the attainment of a goal. Often described colloquially as the study of why we do the things we do, this line of inquiry has become increasingly important in recent years as it speaks to the decisive question of what people fundamentally want or desire in life. For some time now, psychologists have proposed different theories of motivation, which may be classified with respect to whether the theory posits natural forces (drives, needs, and desires) versus some form of rationality (meaningfulness and self-identity) as energizing, directing, or sustaining behavior and whether the theory focuses on content (what motivates) versus process (how motivation takes place). Further, much scientific research has documented the numerous and varied forces or influences on motivation at all levels, that is, biological, psychological, and sociocultural. For example, at the biological level, researchers have uncovered the neuroscience of motivation (mesolimbic dopaminergic pathways). At the psychological level, determinants of motivation have been shown to involve all aspects of experience, namely, cognition (goal setting, mindsets, and control beliefs), affect (emotions arise from progress or hindrance in goal pursuit), and valuation (personality and values influence motivation via the processes of goal content and goal striving). At the sociocultural level, the relations between inner social needs (affiliation and dominance) and motivation have been explored for some time now and more recently sociocultural theory has expanded the conceptualization of motivation to include external factors such as culturally-based knowledge and social interaction as potential motivators. Finally, given that motives have been shown to differ in strength depending on the person and on the situation, diversity, and contextual considerations have more recently been integrated into the field.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:50-7:50 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16416/2020

PSYC E-1520
Psychology of Willpower

Rebecca Fortgang, PhD

Posdoctoral Fellow, Psychology, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16417

Description
It’s two in the morning. Will you finally write that paper, or will you give up and go to sleep? You are not the only person who faces dilemmas like these. Self-control is challenging, and everyone struggles with it. How do we find the willpower to do the things we will be happy about tomorrow, and stay away from things we regret? This course brings together insights from psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience, and behavioral economics to identify how we can break old habits and forge new ones, resist temptation, and pursue goals. Students learn about the science of self-control and put empirically-supported strategies to the test in their own lives.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: PSYC E-15 or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16417/2020

PSYC E-1557
Self and Identity

Alexandra Sedlovskaya, PhD

Assistant Director, C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard Business School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25118

Description
Our sense of who we are permeates every aspect of our life. This course explores how we develop a sense of self; how we navigate multiple identities, some of which may be conflicting or socially devalued; and how these identities affect—both consciously and unconsciously—our thoughts, motives, feelings, and behavior. Students engage with classical theories and contemporary research to gain insight into psychological perspectives on self and identity.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Thursdays, 5:50-7:50 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25118/2021

PSYC E-1586
Confronting Bias in the Self and Others

Joseph Vitriol, PhD

Senior Researcher and Lecturer in Political Science, Stony Brook University

January session | CRN 25675

Description
Most people reject hostile expressions of prejudice and are motivated to reduce bias in their judgment and behavior, but many groups continue to be marginalized and discriminated against in modern society. Targets of prejudice often experience interpersonal and institutional discrimination that undermines their psychological well-being and economic mobility. In this course, we critically examine the psychological processes that underpin conscious and unconscious forms of prejudice and stereotyping. We examine the effectiveness of various interventions for reducing bias, considering how and why many people fight back rather than self-improve when confronted with evidence of their own bias or that of others in society. Together we work to develop a scientific understanding of how modern forms of prejudice and discrimination operate in human relations and how to confront biases in the self and others.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays-Thursdays, 6-9 pm
Start Date: Jan. 4, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25675/2021

PSYC E-1605
The Brain in Psychology I: The Neuroanatomical Basis of Psychological Function

William Milberg, PhD

Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14011

Description
This course reviews contemporary neuroscience and neuroanatomy relevant to understanding higher psychological functions. It combines lectures and laboratory methods to help students gain understanding of the topology and connectivity of cortical structures. Students learn how anatomy as viewed through neuroimaging techniques is related to actual brain tissue and the methods through which inferences about the relationship between neural structure and function are made.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14011/2020

PSYC E-1609
Neuroscience of Learning: An Introduction to Mind, Brain, Health, and Education

Tracey Noel Tokuhama-Espinosa, PhD

Educational Researcher

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25122

Description
This course provides an overview of the neuroscience of learning through mind, brain, health, and education science (MBHE), or the intersection of psychology, cognitive neuroscience, health, and education. Fundamental biological, psychological, social, and environmental factors are introduced with an emphasis on critical functions related to learning and achievement across settings, age groups and concepts, such as epigenetics, sensitive periods, and neuroplasticity. In addition, factors that facilitate and roadblocks that inhibit optimization of learning are explored as we discuss key cognitive constructs (language, attention, memory, executive functions, and affect/emotions) with special attention to comparative cultural influences on neurocognitive processes. These studies are directly applied by students who complete the semester research project, which is conducted in an area of personal interest.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 11 am-1 pm

Required sections for graduate-credit students, optional sections for undergraduate-credit students to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 60 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25122/2021

PSYC E-1610
The Brain in Psychology II

William Milberg, PhD

Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 23820

Description
This seminar is an introduction to the neuropsychological aspects of cognition, personality, and social behavior. Students are introduced to the intellectual underpinnings, assumptions, and methods used in contemporary neuropsychological research and learn how these apply to the classical problems of psychology. As part of the course, students present and analyze recent literature in cognitive and behavioral neuroscience and neuropsychology.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: PSYC E-1605, or the equivalent recommended.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 20 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-23820/2021

PSYC E-1612
Brain Health and Performance

Stephanie Peabody, PsyD

Founding Director, Brain Health Initiative

Shelley H. Carson, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Heidi Hanna, PhD

Consultant, Synergy Brain Fitness

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25703

Description
The brain plays a critical role in every area of an individual’s life, from learning, working, and playing, to personality, aptitude, and memory. The profound implications of lifelong neurogenesis (creation of new neurons), lifelong neuroplasticity (rewiring the brain through experience), and cognitive reserve (delaying the onset of degenerative symptoms via a brain health lifestyle) are too often taken for granted in our culture. It is not just about eating blueberries, taking a walk, or doing a daily puzzle. What we do at every stage of life has an impact on our brain performance. This course offers core information on the brain, brain health, performance, and optimal functioning, as well as practical ways to promote brain-healthy living to prevent injury, diseases, and other brain health problems for individuals and communities. Topics include brain anatomy and function (including plasticity and neurogenesis); common myths about the brain and brain health; the brain and brain body connection; and how to protect and promote the developing, maturing, and aging brain (for example, physical activity, nutrition, sleep, social engagement, how positive and negative thoughts affect brain functioning, stress resilience, and cognitive stimulation). Throughout the semester, students are introduced to and have the opportunity to experience evidence-based brain health and performance assessments, protocols, and tools to optimize brain health and enhance brain performance.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 11 am-1 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 50 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25703/2021

PSYC E-1615
Learning and Development: Understanding Students with Special Needs Across the Lifespan

Dante Spetter, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16055

Description
Public schools in the United States are required to educate all children in the least restrictive environment. Universities must make all aspects of their curriculum accessible to any student who meets the institution’s admissions requirements. This means that educational systems are tasked with understanding the range of needs students may have and developing a plan to educate an increasingly diverse population. However, how these needs are met vary between primary and secondary schools and higher education settings. This course provides an overview of various types of students with special needs, including students with physical disabilities (sensory issues, mobility issues, and chronic health conditions), mental health challenges (anxiety, depression, and major mental disorder), neurological or behavioral disorders (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder), and students with specific learning disabilities. The emphasis of the course is on the core characteristics of these conditions and how these characteristics create challenges for students and for educators. The course is helpful to educators working with students at all levels, physicians and allied health professionals or students preparing for careers in these fields (psychology, physical therapy, nursing, occupational therapy, and speech pathology), parents of children with special needs, and people interested in careers in special education advocacy, guidance counseling, college counseling, and university disability services.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: At least one course in human development or education, or experience as an educator.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16055/2020

PSYC E-1620
Brain and Behavior in the Extremes

Vladimir Ivkovic, PhD

Instructor in Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16124

Description
What happens to the human brain and behavior when we are exposed to isolated, confined, and extreme environments? Examples include spaceflight; high altitude flights or mountaineering; submersed or underwater activities; and polar, desert, or jungle exploration. In addition to these classical extreme environments, the COVID-19 pandemic placed a large portion of the worlds population in an extreme environment defined by social and physical isolation/confinement, movement and travel restrictions, disruption of personal and professional activities, and novel health risks and behavioral adjustments. This course covers the effects of extreme environmental exposures on major physiologic systems and the resulting neurophysiologic and neurobehavioral performance and (re)adaptation. These topics are augmented by contemporary findings from research studies conducted in operational environments and discussed in the context of history, experimental methods, and research paradigms used in extreme environmental physiology and translational neuroscience. We also review current studies emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss them in the context of transition from every day to a new normal extreme environment, including physiologic, behavioral, and social adaptations. Theoretical concepts and research findings are evaluated relative to their utility in developing functional countermeasures for extreme human habitation as well as methods for clinical treatment of related medical conditions in the general population. As such, this course may be particularly interesting to students pursuing careers in translational neuroscience, psychology, extreme physiology/medicine, and human performance in extreme environments. This course features expert guest lecturers (for example, NASA astronauts and researchers, Antarctic expeditionary physicians, and underwater explorers) and demonstrations of unique experimental methodologies and equipment used in isolated, confined, and extreme environments.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Prospective students would benefit from completing introductory-level courses in psychology and human physiology prior to taking this course.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16124/2020

PSYC E-1704
Creativity Research: Eccentrics, Geniuses, and Harvard Students

Shelley H. Carson, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15403

Description
Human creativity is essential to our ability to survive and thrive as a species. In addition, creativity in the arts enriches and adds breadth to our everyday experiences. Creativity in the sciences has extended our lifespan, made living conditions more comfortable, and opened the worlds of outer space and inner space to our scrutiny and amazement. This course provides an overview of the major theories, modern research, and current issues in the field of creativity. We examine creativity from different levels of analysis, including biological, psychological, and social levels. We use three different approaches in our examinations: first, we examine empirical research; second, we employ the case-study approach to learn from the lives of history’s most eminent creative achievers; and finally, we use ourselves as subjects to arrive at valuable insights about the creative process. Some of the topics we cover include the definition and measurement of creativity, the nature of the creative process, the creative personality, the role of family life and culture in creativity, the relationship of creativity to IQ, and the relationship of creativity to psychopathology.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15403/2020

PSYC E-1801
Anxiety Disorders

Richard J. McNally, PhD

Professor of Psychology, Harvard University

January session | CRN 25499

Description
This course concerns current theory and research on the etiology and treatment of anxiety and related disorders (for example, post-traumatic stress disorder or obsessive-compulsive disorder). Cognitive, behavioral, and biological approaches are emphasized.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays-Thursdays, 2-5 pm
Start Date: Jan. 4, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: PSYC E-1240 is recommended but not required.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25499/2021

PSYC E-1860
Pseudoscience and Mental Health

Cynthia A. Meyersburg, PhD

Research Associate, Psychology, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26059

Description
In clinical psychology, it is essential to distinguish valid scientific claims from pseudoscientific ones so that we conduct research that is elucidating and provide treatments that work. This course teaches students the critical thinking skills necessary to identify the characteristics of pseudoscience, applying what they learn to evaluate popular, and often controversial, methods, assessments, and treatments within the field of clinical science. Controversies to be examined include the following: is the Rorschach inkblot test a valid measure of psychopathology? Is there such a thing as multiple personality disorder? Is it possible to remember events that did not actually occur? The critical thinking skills learned in this course can help students recognize bias and errors in their own research and that of others.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: PSYC E-15 or permission of the instructor.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26059/2021

PSYC E-1861
Developmental Psychopathology

Dante Spetter, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25969

Description
This course examines the overlap between normal and abnormal child development, exploring the relationship between atypical development and child or adult psychopathology. Emphasis is on risk and protective factors, characteristics of disorders first evident in childhood, and ways that caregivers can promote positive outcomes. Both categorical and dimensional approaches are considered.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: PSYC E-1030 (offered previously) or the equivalent.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25969/2021

PSYC E-1865
Psychopaths and Psychopathy

Ellsworth Lapham Fersch, PhD, JD

Lecturer on Psychology, Harvard Medical School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25735

Description
This course focuses on criminal as well as successful white-collar and street psychopaths. Topics include definitions of psychopathy and its relation to sociopathy and antisocial personality disorder; neuroscientific and psychological research into causation and treatment; similarities and differences among male and female psychopaths; social and media reaction; and legal responses. The course examines psychological and neuroscience research as well as case studies.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Introductory psychology or abnormal psychology, or introductory neuroscience.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25735/2021

PSYC E-1877
The Psychology of Cults

Bethany Burum, PhD

Teaching Assistant in Psychology, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26044

Description
In November of 1978, 909 members of the People’s Temple perished in Jonestown, Guyana. In March of 1997, 39 followers of the Heaven’s Gate cult died in a mass suicide, believing that their souls would join a spacecraft following the comet Hale-Bopp. In the 1960s and 70s, David Berg of the Children of God convinced his followers to abandon their monogamous marriages, encourage pedophilia, and allow their children to be sex trafficked. How do these things happen? This course explores the psychological mechanisms that enable cults to form and to take things to such extremes. What do cults share with other groups (mainstream religions, nations, and everyday social interactions), and what makes them stand apart? In what ways are cults an environment in which many of our psychological tendencies (toward ingroup conformity, heuristic decision making, and rationalization) are magnified? And what do cults reveal about the profound power of our social environment?

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 19 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26044/2021

PSYC E-1880
Clinical Psychology

Nancy Hebben, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14782

Description
Clinical psychology is a diverse and compelling field that combines science and practice. Clinical psychologists research, assess, and treat mental illness. They work with people to help them adjust to challenges and deal with problems of everyday life. They can develop and use empirically validated treatments to alleviate suffering and to improve functioning. They also can assess human abilities and personality traits. This course provides a broad overview of the field and introduces students to topics such as the history of clinical psychology, professional activities of clinical psychologists, diagnosis and treatment, the role of science in clinical psychology, and current issues and ethics. The course also explores some of the most common mental illnesses. In addition, students learn about preparing and applying for graduate school in clinical psychology or related fields.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Coursework in psychology, preferably abnormal psychology.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 39 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14782/2020

PSYC E-1900
Statistical Modeling for Social and Behavioral Sciences

Adam Smith, PhD

Associate Consultant, Kincentric/Spencer Stuart

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25981

Description
Understanding and performing statistical analyses is a vital ability for those working in the psychological and behavioral sciences. Regardless of a person’s specialty, the concepts of variability, probability, and predictive modeling are fundamental for answering questions involving data. This intermediate level statistics course is designed to help students understand how to manage data, formulate strong questions/hypotheses, perform analyses, and accurately evaluate statistical results and output. We use the free and open-source program R/RStudio to run statistical analyses. Because we use this tool, both academic and industry-oriented students leave the course with the capability to run complex analyses without the need for expensive software. We cover topics related to the general linear model, including regression, analysis of variance (ANOVA), and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). Students may not take both PSYC E-1900 and STAT E-150 for degree or certificate credit.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: STAT E-100, STAT E-102, or STAT E-104, or the equivalent; understanding of correlation, simple regression, t-tests, and one-way ANOVA is assumed.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 55 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25981/2021

PSYC E-2000
Case Studies in the Lives of Persons

Wynn Schwartz, PhD

Lecturer on Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, William James College

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25693

Description
How do we go about understanding and describing the lives of persons? How can we empathetically depict a life that respects how people actually behave, how people come to be the way they are, and how people change? While acting more or less cognizantly and intentionally, engaged in varied roles in multiple and complex communities, people encounter and construct their worlds. Working from a theory-neutral descriptive perspective designed for comparative theoretical approaches, we employ conceptual tools that facilitate an examination of the nuanced commonalities, differences, and significant through-lines in selected adults, and then apply these concepts in constructing a psychological biography or autobiography.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: Introduction to psychology.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25693/2021

RELI E-1010
World Religions

Aaron Spevack, PhD

Visiting Scholar, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and Program Affiliate, Program in Islamic Law, Harvard Law School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16100

Description
This course seeks to introduce students to a variety of religious traditions, texts, and practices through the lenses provided by the academic study of religion. The traditions studied include Islam, Taoism, Judaism, Hinduism, and Rastafari(ism). Topics studied include liminal states and rites of passage, symbols and social belonging, the sacred and the profane, music and trance, and religion and politics. While this course exposes students to some of the most important figures, texts, beliefs, and practices of these traditions, students also develop analytical frameworks of inquiry through which to contemplate and experience religious concepts and practices provided by the various theorists of the academic study of religion along with comparative insider frameworks of analysis.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 5:50-7:50 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16100/2020

RELI E-1016
Angels: Messengers of God

Kimberley Christine Patton, PhD

Professor of the Comparative and Historical Study of Religion, Harvard Divinity School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25902

Description
The angel or “messenger” is a spectacular focus for the religious imagination, linking immortal and mortal worlds. This course explores the historical theology, iconography, and liminal function of angels in Judaism, Christianity, Mazdayasna (Zoroastrianism), and Islam, as well as the widespread revival of interest in these mysterious beings.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 33 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25902/2021

RELI E-1047
Religion, the Arts, and Social Change

Diane L. Moore, PhD

Lecturer on Religion, Conflict, and Peace, Harvard Divinity School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 23531

Description
Through historical and contemporary case studies, this course examines the intersection of religion and politics through the lens of the arts. What do particular artistic expressions reveal about religious influences and worldviews within specific social and historical contexts? How do political assumptions about religion and culture influence artistic expression? Literature, poetry, visual art, music, theater, and dance from around the world are explored. Case studies may include the Christian Passion, the veil, Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Nazi Germany, the cold war, apartheid in South Africa, and the Afro-Brazilian experience. Cross-global cases may also be explored through the lenses of immigration, gay and lesbian rights, global warming, and gender equality.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-23531/2021

RELI E-1052
Aliens, Artificial Intelligence, and Apocalypse: Ancient Gnosticism and Contemporary Film

Charles Marshall Stang, ThD

Professor of Early Christian Thought, Harvard Divinity School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16387

Description
Are you anxious about the dangers of technological innovation, especially artificial intelligence, the possibility of alien life and its intentions, the threat of environmental devastation, and other apocalyptic futures? You’re not alone: contemporary filmmakers are constantly exploring these themes. What may surprise you, however, is that these filmmakers are increasingly turning to ancient Gnostic mythology as a resource for thinking through these anxieties. From Bladerunner to Westworld, from The Matrix to the Alien franchise, we see more and more films picking up this ancient mythology and adapting it to contemporary anxieties about aliens, artificial intelligence, and the apocalypse. According to this Gnostic mythology, the world we inhabit is believed to have been created by a malevolent or ignorant god, and governed by its deputies. Gnostic mythology emerges, then, as a critique of the created order and the powers that be, and imagines forms of resistance and liberation, including how to seek out the true god, who is higher than the creator and its deputies. This course examines Gnosticism’s sudden resurgence in the world of film (and increasingly, in television), especially in science fiction and fantasy. The aim of this course is to equip students with the texts and tools to see this ancient mythology at work in our contemporary culture.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 3-5 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 24 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16387/2020

RELI E-1505
Religion, Education, and Democracy

Lauren Kerby, PhD

Education Specialist, Religious Literacy Project, Harvard Divinity School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 13667

Description
The focus of this course is to develop an understanding of the complex intersection between religion, secularism, democracy, and public education in multicultural America. Our exploration includes a historical review of the relationship between religion and public education in the US with special attention to pivotal Supreme Court decisions that have shaped public policy discourses in these areas over the past half century; a consideration of the social and moral consequences that stem from privileging secularism as the normative ideology of the public sphere; and a historical and contemporary analysis of differing views regarding the nature and purpose of public education and the role of religion in those debates.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-13667/2020

RELI E-1550
Understanding Islam and Contemporary Muslim Societies

Ali S. Asani, PhD

Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, and Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25913 | Section 1

Description
The course is an introduction to the fundamental concepts of Islam and the role that religious ideas and institutions play in Muslim communities around the world. Its main concern is to develop an understanding of the manner in which diverse notions of religious and political authority have influenced Muslim societies politically, socially, and culturally. Through specific case studies of countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, the course considers the role played by ideologies such as jihad, colonialism, nationalism, secularism, and globalization in shaping the ways in which Muslims interpret and practice their faith today. The course briefly considers the contemporary situation of Muslim minorities in Europe and the United States. The course allows those enrolled to engage with students from all over the world.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 6-7:30 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions on demand. The recorded sessions are available within 24 hours of the lecture. The recorded lectures are from the 2019 course. This course follows the Harvard College spring calendar and will meet during the Extension School spring break, March 14-20. See the syllabus for specific meeting dates.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25913/2021

RELI E-1550
Understanding Islam and Contemporary Muslim Societies

Ali S. Asani, PhD

Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, and Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26078 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, noon-1:30 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via web conference. Students may attend at the scheduled meeting time or watch recorded sessions on demand. The recorded sessions are available within 24 hours of the lecture. The recorded lectures are from the 2019 course. This course follows the Harvard College spring calendar and will meet during the Extension School spring break, March 14-20. See the syllabus for specific meeting dates.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26078/2021

RELI E-1701
Mindfulness, Meaning, and Resilience

Chris Berlin, MDiv

Instructor in Ministry and Spiritual Counseling and Denominational Counselor to Buddhist Students, Harvard Divinity School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16166

Description
Mindfulness is a way of attending to the experience of the present moment with full awareness and without judgment or reactivity. Studies show the benefits of mindfulness include stress reduction, emotional balance, greater mental focus, and increased physical well-being. This introductory course explores the origins of mindfulness in Buddhist philosophy and how it can promote these states, as well as foster greater resilience especially during challenging times. We also discuss its present-day interface with Western psychology, how mindfulness is being applied in clinical contexts, and the role that meaning plays in mindfulness practice and building resilience.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 51 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16166/2020

RELI E-1702
Compassion, Science, and the Contemplative Arts

Chris Berlin, MDiv

Instructor in Ministry and Spiritual Counseling and Denominational Counselor to Buddhist Students, Harvard Divinity School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25923

Description
Recent research shows significant benefits from cultivating empathy and compassion, ranging from physiological changes and brain biology to psychological and emotional well-being. Mindfulness and contemplative practices in Buddhism that emphasize compassion are also increasingly being integrated into Western clinical approaches for mental health. Other studies document the obstacles to compassion that can arise from experiencing fear and prolonged adversity, making it a challenge for some to value empathy, altruistic behavior, and the desire to alleviate suffering for others. This course draws on trends in mindfulness and the Buddhist view of compassion in theory and practice, as well as on scientific research, to explore how compassion can be applied to clinical contexts as informed by contemplative approaches. We also consider notions of compassion fatigue, self-compassion, compassion training for trauma, and its impact on neuroplasticity.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25923/2021

RELI E-2000
Methods in Religious Studies and Education: Integrating the Study of Religion into Curricula

Lauren Kerby, PhD

Education Specialist, Religious Literacy Project, Harvard Divinity School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 23864

Description
Students learn how to integrate the study of religion from a nonsectarian perspective throughout the curriculum by applying a cultural studies methodology that is interdisciplinary and appropriate for all ages. Participants learn the foundations of a cultural studies approach and have the opportunity to construct lesson plans and unit plans suitable for their educational settings.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: RELI E-1505, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-23864/2021

SOCI E-126
Organized Crime: Mafias in Theory, in Film, and in Reality

Danilo Mandic, PhD

Lecturer on Sociology, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16437

Description
This course explores organized crime as interrelated social phenomena. Students read sociologists, historians, and other social scientists addressing the nature, causes and consequences of mafias in different national and historical contexts. The phenomenon of organized crime is further scrutinized through its (mis)representation in classic and modern cinematic works. Throughout the course, students develop an increased awareness of the interconnectedness of organized crime with war, capitalism, ghettoization, patrimonialism, the modern nation-state, and globalization. Students become aware of the veracity and limitations of portrayals of gangsters in film.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:20-9:20 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16437/2020

SOCI E-144
Human Trafficking, Slavery, and Abolition in the Modern World

Orlando Patterson, PhD

John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26049

Description
We often think of slavery as being a dark chapter in our past, but this is a tragic oversimplification. What defines slavery in the modern world, and what are the moral, political, and social implications of its continued existence? As we explore its underpinnings, we discover that all of us may be in some way complicit in its survival. This course surveys the nature, types, and extent of modern servitude such as transnational and domestic prostitution, forced marriage, labor trafficking and forced domestic labor, child soldiering and other forms of enslavement of children, organ trafficking and other health aspects of trafficking, debt-bondage, and the forced exploitation of other vulnerable groups such as refugees and stateless persons. Throughout the course, but especially in the final part, we examine anti-trafficking and anti-slavery measures and movements and ways in which students can increase awareness or become involved. By the end of our exploration, students are able to trace the moral and ethical arguments surrounding human slavery in its various forms, understand the ways in which this problem still affects so many people, and what can and should be done about it.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date:

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course Gen Ed 1115. This course follows the Harvard College spring calendar and will meet during the Extension School spring break, March 14-20. See the syllabus for specific meeting dates.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26049/2021

SOCI E-180
The Israel/Palestine Conflict: Contemporary Socio-Legal Aspects

Tally Kritzman-Amir, PhD

Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University and Visiting Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Law

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26033

Description
The decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict has attracted significant international attention and is perceived as an international threat. This course offers a nuanced exploration of the conflict’s socio-legal context and its implications for Palestinian and Israeli society, through creating a safe environment to discuss the works of scholars from diverse backgrounds and views. We take a closer look at some of the main controversies, and how these have an impact on the lived experiences of people in both societies, including Israel’s control over the West Bank and Gaza, and establishment of settlements there; the separation wall and policy; concepts of citizenship, migration and refugee-hood; and Palestinian and Israeli statehood. Readings for the course include court decisions, international law instruments, and domestic legislation, as well as sociological analyses.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 2-4 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 35 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26033/2021

SPAN E-1
Intensive Elementary Spanish I

Douglas Morgenstern, MA

Senior Lecturer in Spanish, Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 10266

Description
An introduction to oral and written Spanish for students with little or no background in the language. Assignments involve work with an online textbook and occasional videos. Class sessions focus on additional instructor-supplied exercises, conversation, listening comprehension, and reading. Grammar includes present and past tenses.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference

See the course syllabus for Tuesday and Thursday meeting times.Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-10266/2020

SPAN E-1A
Elementary Spanish I

Catalina Espinosa, PhD

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 13719

Description
This course is an introductory course in Spanish as a foreign language. The four skills—listening, speaking, reading, and writing—are covered, although particular emphasis is placed on speaking and listening. At the end of the semester, students are able to speak about themselves and their environment; to introduce themselves and other people; to ask questions and provide information about people, objects, and places; to talk about their daily activities and how they organize their time; as well as to express what their present obligations and needs are and what plans they have for the future.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Noncredit: $750
Undergraduate credit: $940
Credits: 2

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-13719/2020

SPAN E-1B
Elementary Spanish I

Catalina Espinosa, PhD

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 21497

Description
This course is the second part of an introductory course in Spanish as a foreign language. At the end of the semester, students are able to talk about their current activities, their likes and dislikes, as well as to express their feelings and opinions and make comparisons. Their knowledge of the verbal system is also enlarged with the introduction of more irregular verbs and the preterit, which enables them to speak about their past experiences. Core grammar points such as the use of direct and indirect object pronouns and the difference between ser and estar are also covered.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Noncredit: $750
Undergraduate credit: $940
Credits: 2

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: SPAN E-1a, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-21497/2021

SPAN E-2
Intensive Elementary Spanish II

Douglas Morgenstern, MA

Senior Lecturer in Spanish, Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 20240

Description
This course presents additional language structures, including more ways to express the past, the subjunctive mood, and the future and conditional tenses. Assignments involve work with an online textbook, several feature films and documentaries, and websites from Spain and Latin America. Class sessions focus on instructor-supplied exercises, conversation, discussion, listening comprehension, and reading.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference

See the course syllabus for Tuesday and Thursday meeting times.Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: SPAN E-1b, SPAN E-1, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-20240/2021

SPAN E-2
Intensive Elementary Spanish II

Joy Renjilian-Burgy, AM

Associate Professor of Spanish, Wellesley College

Mary-Anne Vetterling, PhD

Professor of Spanish, Emerita, Regis College

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 13968

Description
This course emphasizes oral and written communication using additional language structures, including the future and conditional tenses and the subjunctive mood. Students communicate using role-play and other interpersonal activities. They also read short pieces on modern Spanish culture and write compositions on topics of personal interest.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, Wednesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: SPAN E-1b, SPAN E-1, or the equivalent.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-13968/2020

SPCH E-100
Mastering the Art of Presentations

Marjorie L. North, MA

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 13666

Description
This course teaches participants the techniques of capturing and maintaining the attention of an audience by focusing on the content and delivery aspects of public address. Each student has the opportunity to present several speeches.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 41 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-13666/2020

SPCH E-100
Fundamentals of Public Speaking

Jill A. Slye, ALB

Associate in the MMSc in Dental Education Program, Harvard School of Dental Medicine

January session | CRN 25036

Description
This course covers the basic principles of public speaking. Students learn how to handle nerves, organize and deliver a formal presentation, and use verbal and non-verbal communication to connect with their audience. During class, students learn to use their own communication style while adapting their message for a variety of audiences. Students present several speeches in a safe and comfortable environment. Throughout the semester lectures focus on use of language, narratives, vocal variation, basic techniques for public speaking, and effective methods to overcome the fear of speaking in front of a large audience or small group of people.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays-Thursdays, 9 am-noon
Start Date: Jan. 4, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 42 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25036/2021

SPCH E-100
Fundamentals of Public Speaking

Jill A. Slye, ALB

Associate in the MMSc in Dental Education Program, Harvard School of Dental Medicine

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25318

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 42 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25318/2021

SPCH E-120
Advanced Public Speaking and Professional Presenting

Jill A. Slye, ALB

Associate in the MMSc in Dental Education Program, Harvard School of Dental Medicine

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15364

Description
This course covers advanced public speaking techniques for persuasion, effective interoffice communication, and connecting with an audience. Students learn to use their own communication style while adapting their message for a variety of audiences. Students present several speeches and receive peer review. Throughout the semester lectures include a focus on use of language, narratives, vocal variation, techniques for persuasion, and effective communication in the workplace.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: SPCH E-100 or the equivalent. Students must watch the seven short videos on the course website, available beginning mid-August.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 41 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15364/2020

SPCH E-120
Advanced Public Speaking and Professional Presenting

Jill A. Slye, ALB

Associate in the MMSc in Dental Education Program, Harvard School of Dental Medicine

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24704

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: SPCH E-100 or the equivalent. Students must watch the seven short videos on the course website, available beginning early January.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 32 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24704/2021

SSCI E-100A
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Anthropology and Psychology

Jack Demick, PhD

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26125 | Section 7

Description
This proseminar introduces students to basic behavioral science research methods in psychology and anthropology. It teaches them how to read and evaluate research papers and translate their ideas into viable research projects. Topics include library and archival research, scholarly writing and argumentation, descriptive research methods, quasi-experimental and experimental design, ethical issues, and analytical methods. Because skills learned in this course are useful in subsequent courses, it is the first course that prospective Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) candidates should take toward the degree (or the second, if they are completing the expository writing prerequisite). While not designed to be a thesis or capstone proposal course, this course does serve as a foundation for eventual work on the thesis or capstone.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Undergraduate statistics and research methods courses are recommended, computer literacy (skills and experience with the internet, Word, and Excel) required. Students must receive a satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. EXPO E-42b is strongly recommended. In addition, at the first class meeting, students must complete a writing assignment that demonstrates their graduate-level reading comprehension and ability to write coherent, logical arguments.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26125/2021

SSCI E-100A
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Anthropology and Psychology

Karyn Gunnet-Shoval, PhD

Associate of the Department of Psychology, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16155 | Section 3

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 8:10-10:10 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16155/2020

SSCI E-100A
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Anthropology and Psychology

Richard Joseph Martin, PhD

Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15914 | Section 4

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15914/2020

SSCI E-100A
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Anthropology and Psychology

Jack Demick, PhD

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15160 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15160/2020

SSCI E-100A
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Anthropology and Psychology

Cynthia A. Meyersburg, PhD

Research Associate, Psychology, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16493 | Section 5

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16493/2020

SSCI E-100A
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Anthropology and Psychology

Steven Raymond Boomhower, PhD

Associate Toxicologist, Gradient Corporation

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16523 | Section 6

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16523/2020

SSCI E-100A
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Anthropology and Psychology

Richard Joseph Martin, PhD

Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25250 | Section 4

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25250/2021

SSCI E-100A
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Anthropology and Psychology

Jack Demick, PhD

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25536 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25536/2021

SSCI E-100A
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Anthropology and Psychology

Steven Raymond Boomhower, PhD

Associate Toxicologist, Gradient Corporation

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16323 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16323/2020

SSCI E-100A
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Anthropology and Psychology

Karyn Gunnet-Shoval, PhD

Associate of the Department of Psychology, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25560 | Section 3

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25560/2021

SSCI E-100A
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Anthropology and Psychology

Cynthia A. Meyersburg, PhD

Research Associate, Psychology, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26085 | Section 5

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 18 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26085/2021

SSCI E-100A
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Anthropology and Psychology

Karyn Gunnet-Shoval, PhD

Associate of the Department of Psychology, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26087 | Section 6

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 8:10-10:10 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26087/2021

SSCI E-100A
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Anthropology and Psychology

Steven Raymond Boomhower, PhD

Associate Toxicologist, Gradient Corporation

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25840 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25840/2021

SSCI E-100B
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Government, History, and International Relations

Ariane Liazos, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26117 | Section 8

Description
This proseminar addresses problems and methods related to the study of government, history, and international relations. It stresses the critical analysis of sources, constructing explanatory models, standards of logical demonstration, as well as organizing and presenting research results. Emphasis is on developing both writing and research skills. Students study essential categories of analysis used in history and political science. Because skills learned in this course are useful in subsequent courses, it is the first course that prospective Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) candidates should take toward the degree (or the second, if they are completing the expository writing prerequisite). While not designed to be a thesis or capstone proposal course, this course does serve as a foundation for eventual work on the thesis or capstone.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. EXPO E-42b is strongly recommended. In addition, at the first class meeting, students must complete a writing assignment that demonstrates their graduate-level reading comprehension and ability to write coherent, logical arguments.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26117/2021

SSCI E-100B
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Government, History, and International Relations

Asher Orkaby, PhD

Center Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14601 | Section 5

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. EXPO E-42b is strongly recommended. In addition, at the first class meeting, students must complete a writing assignment that demonstrates their graduate-level reading comprehension and ability to write coherent, logical arguments.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14601/2020

SSCI E-100B
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Government, History, and International Relations

Elise Madeleine Ciregna, PhD

Program Administrator, Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15908 | Section 3

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. EXPO E-42b is strongly recommended. In addition, at the first class meeting, students must complete a writing assignment that demonstrates their graduate-level reading comprehension and ability to write coherent, logical arguments.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15908/2020

SSCI E-100B
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Government, History, and International Relations

Ariane Liazos, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25142 | Section 4

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. EXPO E-42b is strongly recommended. In addition, at the first class meeting, students must complete a writing assignment that demonstrates their graduate-level reading comprehension and ability to write coherent, logical arguments.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25142/2021

SSCI E-100B
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Government, History, and International Relations

Ariane Liazos, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15948 | Section 4

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. EXPO E-42b is strongly recommended. In addition, at the first class meeting, students must complete a writing assignment that demonstrates their graduate-level reading comprehension and ability to write coherent, logical arguments.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15948/2020

SSCI E-100B
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Government, History, and International Relations

Michael Tworek, PhD

Associate, Department of History, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16485 | Section 7

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. EXPO E-42b is strongly recommended. In addition, at the first class meeting, students must complete a writing assignment that demonstrates their graduate-level reading comprehension and ability to write coherent, logical arguments.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16485/2020

SSCI E-100B
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Government, History, and International Relations

Doug Bond, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16233 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. EXPO E-42b is strongly recommended. In addition, at the first class meeting, students must complete a writing assignment that demonstrates their graduate-level reading comprehension and ability to write coherent, logical arguments.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16233/2020

SSCI E-100B
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Government, History, and International Relations

Stephen Shoemaker, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

January session | CRN 25710

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays-Thursdays, 9 am-noon
Start Date: Jan. 4, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. Final papers due Monday, February 8.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. The last day to take the test of critical reading and writing skills for this section is December 3. EXPO E-42b is strongly recommended. In addition, at the first class meeting, students must complete a writing assignment that demonstrates their graduate-level reading comprehension and ability to write coherent, logical arguments.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25710/2021

SSCI E-100B
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Government, History, and International Relations

Elizabeth Hope Shlala, PhD

Fellow, Francois-Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University and Associate Professor of the Practice in Core Curriculum, Boston College

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25474 | Section 6

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. EXPO E-42b is strongly recommended. In addition, at the first class meeting, students must complete a writing assignment that demonstrates their graduate-level reading comprehension and ability to write coherent, logical arguments.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25474/2021

SSCI E-100B
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Government, History, and International Relations

Doug Bond, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25989 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. EXPO E-42b is strongly recommended. In addition, at the first class meeting, students must complete a writing assignment that demonstrates their graduate-level reading comprehension and ability to write coherent, logical arguments.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25989/2021

SSCI E-100B
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Government, History, and International Relations

Elise Madeleine Ciregna, PhD

Program Administrator, Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16522 | Section 8

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. EXPO E-42b is strongly recommended. In addition, at the first class meeting, students must complete a writing assignment that demonstrates their graduate-level reading comprehension and ability to write coherent, logical arguments.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16522/2020

SSCI E-100B
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Government, History, and International Relations

Harry Bastermajian, PhD

Executive Director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25226 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. EXPO E-42b is strongly recommended. In addition, at the first class meeting, students must complete a writing assignment that demonstrates their graduate-level reading comprehension and ability to write coherent, logical arguments.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25226/2021

SSCI E-100B
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Government, History, and International Relations

Doug Bond, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25783 | Section 3

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. EXPO E-42b is strongly recommended. In addition, at the first class meeting, students must complete a writing assignment that demonstrates their graduate-level reading comprehension and ability to write coherent, logical arguments.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25783/2021

SSCI E-100B
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Government, History, and International Relations

Michael Tworek, PhD

Associate, Department of History, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15550 | Section 6

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 7:40-9:40 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. EXPO E-42b is strongly recommended. In addition, at the first class meeting, students must complete a writing assignment that demonstrates their graduate-level reading comprehension and ability to write coherent, logical arguments.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15550/2020

SSCI E-100B
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Government, History, and International Relations

Doug Bond, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16062 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. EXPO E-42b is strongly recommended. In addition, at the first class meeting, students must complete a writing assignment that demonstrates their graduate-level reading comprehension and ability to write coherent, logical arguments.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16062/2020

SSCI E-100B
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Government, History, and International Relations

Elise Madeleine Ciregna, PhD

Program Administrator, Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26090 | Section 7

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. EXPO E-42b is strongly recommended. In addition, at the first class meeting, students must complete a writing assignment that demonstrates their graduate-level reading comprehension and ability to write coherent, logical arguments.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26090/2021

SSCI E-100B
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Government, History, and International Relations

Asher Orkaby, PhD

Center Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24558 | Section 5

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 8:10-10:10 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: A satisfactory score on the mandatory test of critical reading and writing skills or a B or higher grade in the alternate expository writing course. EXPO E-42b is strongly recommended. In addition, at the first class meeting, students must complete a writing assignment that demonstrates their graduate-level reading comprehension and ability to write coherent, logical arguments.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 15 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24558/2021

SSCI E-115
Class and Culture

James P. Herron, PhD

Director of the Harvard Writing Project and Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16332

Description
It is commonplace to note that in the United States a large portion of the population self-identifies as middle class, even though our society is marked by deep, persistent, and increasing class inequality. Such self-identification, however, can obscure the complex and often contradictory ways in which we experience social class in our everyday lives. This course explores the cultural dimensions of social class in the US from an ethnographic perspective, focusing on the everyday lives and cultures of ordinary Americans. We consider questions such as the following: what is it like to be a working class person in a society heavily invested in ideas of individual advancement and meritocracy? How do professionals (the upper middle class) define themselves and how do they view those above and below them in the class structure? How does social class shape people’s values, political views, and tastes? How are class boundaries created and maintained? The course readings are drawn mainly from anthropology and sociology.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 3-5 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 46 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16332/2020

SSCI E-118
Histories and Ethnographies of Capitalism

James P. Herron, PhD

Director of the Harvard Writing Project and Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25354

Description
Marx famously wrote that with the advance of capitalist social relations, “all that is solid melts into air.” Here Marx refers to the supposed power of capitalism to destroy pre-existing economic, social, and cultural orders. In the centuries since capitalism spread over the globe, it has indeed transformed the lifeways and cultures of peoples throughout the world. In more recent years, globalization—understood as the widespread and accelerated movement of capital across national borders—has radically altered the lives of many peoples, from peasants in China to industrial workers in Michigan. This course critically examines capitalism historically and ethnographically. In the first part of the course we consider historical accounts of the origins, development, and transformation of American capitalism, focusing on the key themes of slavery, industrialization, and financialization. In the second part of the course we consider ethnographic accounts of life under contemporary capitalism, focusing on the cultural responses of peoples experiencing the rapid social change, dislocation, opportunities, and hardships brought about by changing capitalist social relations. We consider questions such as how have people coped culturally with the demands of capitalist wage labor and work discipline? How have capitalist social relations transformed communities, families, and senses of ethnic and national identity?

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 3-5 pm
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 45 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25354/2021

SSCI E-121
Dying Well

Jason Bryan Silverstein, PhD

Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15512

Description
“How does one go about dying?” the poet Franz Wright asked. “The world is filled with people / Who have never died.” For a matter so inevitable, which the best minds of every generation have tackled, a good death seems increasingly out of reach. As modern medicine racks up victories to ensure healthier and longer lives, a quieter, darker parallel story is emerging in even our finest hospitals: people die anxious and in pain, pursuing long-shot treatments instead of comfort. Why is dying so difficult, and how can we make death a better experience for others, and ultimately ourselves? This course is split into three units. In the first, we focus on cancer, with a close reading of Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air. In this unit, we explore notions of identity, hope, and what counts as a good outcome, especially when it is at odds with the healthcare team. In the second, we reflect on mortality, including the badness of death and how death should change the way we live, reading Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal and Shelly Kagan’s Death. In the final unit, we examine death and dying through case studies, including sudden death, physician aid-in-dying, and the scientific quest to evade death altogether.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15512/2020

SSCI E-122
Social Medicine in the United States

Jason Bryan Silverstein, PhD

Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25126

Description
If you are sick or hurt, whether you live or die depends not only on biological factors, but social ones: are you wealthy or poor? Do you have a stable home and health insurance? How far away is the closest trauma center or pharmacy? Do people believe your illness is your fault, or even something you deserve? This course explores how social factors create health disparities in the United States. We gain foundational knowledge of key concepts in social medicine, including an overview of health care policy in the United States and the arguments for health as a human right. We then turn to what we can call chronic emergencies: case studies of people and communities who have been denied health care and allowed to suffer and die, because they are poor, uninsured, undocumented, or otherwise social outcasts. Our examples are drawn from across the United States, from the eviction crisis in Milwaukee, to injection drug users in San Francisco, to the people who endure gang violence in Chicago, to the suffering of Mexican migrants in California. We give significant attention to the lived experience of poverty, housing insecurity, addiction, discrimination, and violence. As we encounter these examples, we engage directly with guest speakers from the community. In the final section, we turn from studying how harm falls unevenly to considering how social determinants can be incorporated into action plans; students apply the themes and concepts from the course to explore topics of their own choosing. By the end of the course, students not only have a knowledge of concepts and case studies in social medicine, but also knowledge about how to close the gaps that we study. For premedical students, this course reviews concepts found on the psychological, social, and biological foundations of behavior section of the MCAT, including how sociocultural factors and access to resources have an impact on health.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25126/2021

SSCI E-125
Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Cares? Reimagining Global Health

Arthur Kleinman, MD

Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University, and Professor of Medical Anthropology and Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Anne E. Becker, MD, PhD

Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Paul E. Farmer, MD, PhD

Kolokotrones University Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Salmaan Keshavjee, MD, PhD

Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15453

Description
If you are sick or hurt, whether you live or die depends not only on biological factors, but social ones: who you are and where you are, what sort of healthcare system is available to help you survive, and what kind of care is available to help you recover, if society believes you deserve it. The global coronavirus pandemic illustrates with dramatic urgency the role social forces play in patterning health inequities and determining individual fates. The vulnerabilities of those most likely to get sick and to die from COVID-19 stem from the ongoing effects of systemic racism on racialized subjects, the devaluation of eldercare and precarity of low-paid work under neoliberal forms of governance, and enduring material effects of colonial-era power structures that render health care systems dangerously weak or inaccessible for many communities. Now, as ever, it is imperative to develop frameworks and methodologies to identify and to intervene effectively in harmful social configurations that cause illness and suffering. Most medical research narrowly focuses on the biological basis of disease, but this course takes a novel biosocial approach to reveal how governments, institutions, and histories shape health and well-being, how poverty and racism get into someone’s lymph nodes, how cost-saving measures manifest as tuberculosis in someone’s lungs. In doing so, the course challenges the conventional assumptions within the field of global health—examining how interventions influence what happens after a catastrophe in unexpected ways, how the persistence of health inequalities over centuries can be explained, how the structures of powerful institutions influence the policies they develop, how the poor deserve not only health care but high quality health care, and how caregiving and global health are urgent moral practices.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date:

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course Gen Ed 1093 starting September 4. See syllabus for details.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15453/2020

SSCI E-126A
The Coronavirus Pandemic: The Fight to Save the World

Jason Bryan Silverstein, PhD

Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16348

Description
COVID-19, the worst pandemic in one hundred years, has rapidly transformed the globe, turning our most routine activities, like going to the grocery store or shaking someone’s hand, into matters of life and death. It has exposed the weaknesses of healthcare systems worldwide and forced horrifying decisions about how to ration resources and care for the dying when families and chaplains are not allowed in the room. This course examines the existential threat of COVID-19 to the entire world through the four elements of fighting pandemic disease: staff, stuff, space, and systems. We use those elements to analyze and contrast the outbreak and response in the United States, China, Italy, and South Korea. While drawing analogies to previous global epidemics, such as AIDS and Ebola, we examine the constraints and opportunities to fight the novel coronavirus as medical problems that are products of political, economic, and imaginative limits. Classes frequently feature remote question and answer sessions with guest speakers working on the front lines, which allows the course to keep pace with the rapid developments of COVID-19.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16348/2020

SSCI E-128
Health Inequities and Health Justice in Urban Communities

Flavia Perea, PhD

Lecturer on Sociology, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16175

Description
This course explores the relationship between health, place, and social location, and how nested factors influence and determine the health of people and communities in urban settings. Emphasizing health as multidimensional, contextual, and socially determined, we explore the history, principles, theories, and frameworks relevant to understanding inequities in health, as well as tools and strategies for advancing justice in health across sectors of civic and community life. We explore how inequity gets under the skin and operates on the body; discuss how racism, oppression, social stratification, and systemic advantages and disadvantages all structure and perpetuate injustice in health; how systems, institutions, and policies influence health. To understand how socio-environmental factors can create pathways to health or disparities, we explore the mechanisms by which poverty, socioeconomic status, education, housing, and the built environment create and sustain inequitable health outcomes in urban communities. Understanding the social conditions people need to be healthy, we turn our attention to approaches for advancing justice in health, with particular attention to root-cause strategies. We explore community development, capacity building, and community mobilization as strategies for building power for health. We discuss health improvement interventions and how community engagement, participatory processes, and cross-sector collaboration can help create and sustain health promoting environments.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:10-7:10 pm
Start Date: Sep. 3, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 25 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16175/2020

SSCI E-129
Child Health in America and Around the World

Judith S. Palfrey, MD

T. Berry Brazelton Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16411

Description
This course focuses on children and adolescents and looks at factors that have an impact on their health, growth, and development. Increasingly, it is understood that child health depends on a complex of interrelated factors. Biologic and genetic issues are very important in determining children’s health status. Societal, environmental, community, and family factors also play a major role in child health outcomes. We focus on social concerns such as economic status, class, race, and ethnicity. Recently the American Academy of Pediatrics has called out poverty and racism as actual pathogens. We explore the American healthcare system and ask why in the richest country in the world, our child health outcomes are measured near the bottom in comparison with other industrialized nations and our black infant mortality remains twice that of white infant mortality. In this time of COVID-19, we pay special attention to the impact of infections on children and compare the US response with that of other countries. We also look at the history of infectious disease outbreaks and the ways that these have been controlled and ultimately prevented. Finally, the course emphasizes the importance of team approaches among people from multiple backgrounds and organizations. Increasingly, we are understanding that if the threats to child health live in the society and community, so do the answers. We discuss strength-based approaches and the shifting of power and agency to families and communities and learn how hope and accentuating the positive are new approaches that are beginning to have success in the promotion of child health.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Prerequisites: Interest in children and adolescent health and development. Familiarity with population-based data sets is helpful but not required.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16411/2020

SSCI E-140
Pursuing Truth and Justice: Community-Based, Participatory, and Action Research

Flavia Perea, PhD

Lecturer on Sociology, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25984

Description
This course explores the principles and methods of community-based, participatory, and action research. We engage with various perspectives on the process, practice, and applications of engaged inquiry, with an emphasis on diverse voices, sources, and materials. The course seeks to connect to students’ professional work and personal pursuits outside of their coursework. Through this course, students learn to apply the course concepts and tools to their academic and professional work, as well as to advocacy and organizing efforts they may be engaged or interested with. In the course we discuss various frameworks and systems of knowing and meaning making through the research process; how they are centered on, or the extent they intersect with the pursuit of equity and justice; and pragmatic approaches for moving from theory to practice. We discuss power and privilege in the context of research; perspectives on investigator identity and location; the promise and limitations of engaged inquiry to help advance social change; and the ethics of inquiry with historically and systemically oppressed people and communities. We explore a variety of approaches, including participatory action research (PAR), community-based participatory research (CBPR), and citizen science, and discuss how different approaches for asking questions, methods for gathering and analyzing information, and sharing knowledge can be applied within various engaged research approaches. Ultimately, we critically examine how inquiry that emphasizes equity, collaboration, and reciprocity in the uncovering, integration, application, and dissemination of knowledge can be a tool of liberation and certain methods a strategy for responding to oppression, colonization, and systems of domination.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Mondays, 5:10-7:10 pm

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 31 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25984/2021

SSCI E-490
Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches to Experimental Design and Research Methods

Jennifer Palacio, ALM

Partner, Arbalest Press LLC

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16446

Description
This course presents a framework and process for conducting qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research. Emphasis is placed on developing strategies for addressing the key elements of the process of research design. These include identifying a project of appropriate scope, conducting an efficient literature review, writing an introduction, stating a purpose for the study, developing research questions and hypotheses, and advancing methods and procedures for data collection and analysis. At each step in this process, students are taken through a variety of research design approaches, with illustrative examples of contemporary research in social sciences, environmental management, and sustainability. Students may not count both ENVR E-495 (offered previously) and SSCI E-490 toward a degree.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Tuesdays, 7:20-9:20 pm
Start Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16446/2020

SSCI E-495
Advanced Research Methods in the Social Sciences

Nadine Weidman, PhD

Lecturer on the History of Science, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25363

Description
This course surveys a wide range of research methods in the social sciences. The purpose of this course is to teach the theory and application of those research methods to help students create well-designed thesis projects. It gives students a sound grounding in a broad range and variety of approaches, designs, statistical techniques, and methods to conducting social science research, both qualitative and quantitative. Focus is on developing analytical thinking skills, identifying research questions, formulating hypotheses, operationalizing ways to test them, and drawing conclusions based on logical analysis of the source testimony. It is ideally suited for Master of Liberal Arts candidates who are looking for a thesis topic or who would like to do more research on a possible thesis topic, as well as others who are interested in pursuing graduate study in the social sciences.

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Wednesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: Writing-intensive course. This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 30 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25363/2021

SSCI E-497A
Crafting the Thesis Proposal in International Relations Tutorial

Ariane Liazos, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15883 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $0
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The tutorial is not a course in the traditional sense. It is structured one-on-one advising with the instructor along with opportunities for interaction with other proposal writers. Students participate in an initial meeting with their instructor by phone or video conference. Then, weekly work begins on the production of the various portions of the proposal document. As these materials are submitted, the instructor provides feedback to each student. The goal is to have a full draft of the proposal by the end of the semester.

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, international relations. They must have completed eight courses toward the degree, including research methods and data analysis, and be in good academic standing. Their prework, due between April 1 and June 1, must be approved before they are allowed to register for the tutorial. See the Guide to the ALM Thesis for details. Candidates accepted to the 12-course thesis track register for graduate credit; those in the ten-course thesis track register for noncredit.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15883/2020

SSCI E-497A
Crafting the Thesis Proposal in International Relations Tutorial

Doug Bond, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25101 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $0
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The tutorial is not a course in the traditional sense. It is structured one-on-one advising with the instructor along with opportunities for interaction with other proposal writers. Students participate in an initial meeting with their instructor by phone or video conference. Then, weekly work begins on the production of the various portions of the proposal document. As these materials are submitted, the instructor provides feedback to each student. The goal is to have a full draft of the proposal by the end of the semester.

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, international relations. They must have completed eight courses toward the degree, including research methods and data analysis, and be in good academic standing. Their prework, due between September 1 and November 1, must be approved before they are allowed to register for the tutorial. See the Guide to the ALM Thesis for details. Candidates accepted to the 12-course thesis track register for graduate credit; those in the ten-course thesis track register for noncredit.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25101/2021

SSCI E-497A
Crafting the Thesis Proposal in International Relations Tutorial

Doug Bond, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15481 | Section 1

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $0
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The tutorial is not a course in the traditional sense. It is structured one-on-one advising with the instructor along with opportunities for interaction with other proposal writers. Students participate in an initial meeting with their instructor by phone or video conference. Then, weekly work begins on the production of the various portions of the proposal document. As these materials are submitted, the instructor provides feedback to each student. The goal is to have a full draft of the proposal by the end of the semester.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15481/2020

SSCI E-497A
Crafting the Thesis Proposal in International Relations Tutorial

Ariane Liazos, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25527 | Section 2

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $0
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The tutorial is not a course in the traditional sense. It is structured one-on-one advising with the instructor along with opportunities for interaction with other proposal writers. Students participate in an initial meeting with their instructor by phone or video conference. Then, weekly work begins on the production of the various portions of the proposal document. As these materials are submitted, the instructor provides feedback to each student. The goal is to have a full draft of the proposal by the end of the semester.

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, international relations. They must have completed eight courses toward the degree, including research methods and data analysis, and be in good academic standing. Their prework, due between September 1 and November 1, must be approved before they are allowed to register for the tutorial. See the Guide to the ALM Thesis for details. Candidates accepted to the 12-course thesis track register for graduate credit; those in the ten-course thesis track register for noncredit.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25527/2021

SSCI E-497B
Crafting the Thesis Proposal in Anthropology, Government, and History Tutorial

Michael David Miner, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25103

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $0
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The tutorial is not a course in the traditional sense. It is structured one-on-one advising with the instructor along with opportunities for interaction with other proposal writers. Students participate in an initial meeting with their instructor by phone or video conference. Then, weekly work begins on the production of the various portions of the proposal document. As these materials are submitted, the instructor provides feedback to each student. The goal is to have a full draft of the proposal by the end of the semester.

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, anthropology, government, or history. They must have completed eight courses toward the degree, have completed their research methods and data analysis requirement if they are candidates in government, and be in good academic standing. Their prework, due between September 1 and November 1, must be approved before they are allowed to register for the tutorial. See the Guide to the ALM Thesis for details. Candidates accepted to the 12-course thesis track register for graduate credit; those in the ten-course thesis track register for noncredit.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25103/2021

SSCI E-497B
Crafting the Thesis Proposal in Anthropology, Government, and History Tutorial

Donald Ostrowski, PhD

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 15483

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $0
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The tutorial is not a course in the traditional sense. It is structured one-on-one advising with the instructor along with opportunities for interaction with other proposal writers. Students participate in an initial meeting with their instructor by phone or video conference. Then, weekly work begins on the production of the various portions of the proposal document. As these materials are submitted, the instructor provides feedback to each student. The goal is to have a full draft of the proposal by the end of the semester.

Prerequisites: Students must be candidates in the Master of Liberal Arts, anthropology, government, or history. They must have completed eight courses toward the degree, have completed their research methods and data analysis requirement if they are candidates in government, and be in good academic standing. Their prework, due between April 1 and June 1, must be approved before they are allowed to register for the tutorial. See the Guide to the ALM Thesis for details. Candidates accepted to the 12-course thesis track register for graduate credit; those in the ten-course thesis track register for noncredit.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-15483/2020

STAR E-176
Nazi Cinema: The Art of Propaganda

Eric Rentschler, PhD

Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16330

Description
As thinking beings we often consider the limits of human potential and wonder what might be the worst. The Nazis obsess us because they were masters of extremity who brought to the world unprecedented violence and destruction. They were also masters of propaganda who engineered sophisticated techniques of mass manipulation. Throughout their endeavors cinema and modern media assumed a seminal role. Why, this course asks, were films so essential to the Hitler regime and so captivating to German audiences of the Third Reich? And what explains the continuing allure, to this very day, of what Susan Sontag once spoke of as “fascinating fascism”?

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date:

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the 2018 Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16330/2020

STAR E-182
American Dreams Made in Hollywood

Eric Rentschler, PhD

Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 25916

Description
Is the so-called American dream dead? The notion once essentialized the grand promise of a better, fuller, and richer life. At the present moment, however, it seems to have lost its evocative persuasiveness as a collective myth. In a time of cultural crisis and political emergency, this course has a pressing mission. It aims to further a dynamic understanding of American dreams, to apprehend their complexities and contradictions, to appreciate their many different manifestations and historical shapes, and above all to take measure of their relevance and meaning for the world we inhabit. In this endeavor we study the various ways in which Hollywood’s fantasy machinery has created designs for living, indeed the most influential and resonant incarnations of American dreams. We analyze popular films produced during crucial junctures in the modern history of the United States, from the Great Depression and World War II through the cold war, McCarthy era, and the 1960s. We consider the wide range of functions that commercial studio features have assumed, how they at times have legitimated and sustained the status quo, but at others also have interrogated, exposed, and even indicted social inequity. The class offers a representative sampling of classical Hollywood features from 1932 to 1969; films to be studied include Scarface, King Kong, It Happened One Night, The Wizard of Oz, The Grapes of Wrath, Citizen Kane, Casablanca, The Best Years of Our Lives, Detour, High Noon, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, A Face in the Crowd, Raisin in the Sun, The Manchurian Candidate, and Easy Rider.

Class Meetings:
Online
Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the 2019 Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course Gen Ed 1043.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-25916/2021

STAR E-200
The Imagination of Disaster: American Science Fiction Cinema and Television

Charlotte Szilagyi, PhD

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26006

Description
A century after science fiction studies solidified as a discipline and entered popular culture, Hollywood science fiction cinema and television captivate audiences by the radical transformations of the human condition they envision. Technological immortality, time travel, teleportation, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, space exploration, cyborgs, robots, aliens, mutants, human evolution, and dystopian societies: these tropes of advanced science and technology capture our attention now more than ever. Often eerily prescient oracles, sci-fi film’s prophetic sights and sounds foretold, time after time and with compelling accuracy, the trajectory from science fiction to science fact. With humanity entering the Anthropocene epoch, where human activity exerts unprecedented impact on the environment and climate, and with human beings increasingly replaced by the posthuman, sci-fi cinema and television have become the premier forces in playing out the imagination of disaster. In the quest to overcome humanity’s limitations, sci-fi film, a cinema of “what if?” confronts us with questions, offers answers to some, and forces us to ask ourselves even more. How might we make sense of sci-fi films and their strong appeal? What is their relationship to science, technology, politics, history, other genres, and pop culture? In what ways is sci-fi film influenced by advances in technology? Conversely, how do sci-fi cinema and television influence scientific inquiry itself? Above all, to what extent is sci-fi film transformative? In other words, can powerful works of science fiction not just describe the future, but also change it? At a time of an exponential expanse in empirical knowledge and technological ability, but also, crucially, a time of human history nearing a critical point of no return, the mission of this course is threefold. First, we examine the iconography, tropes, and conventions of the science fiction genre to interrogate how this speculative cinema, due to the radical questions it poses, and the alternative social scenarios it envisions, emerges as the most revolutionary film genre. Second, we investigate specific ways in which sci-fi cinema has reflected, and reflected on, acute social and historical phenomena such as automation, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, surveillance, copyright, privacy, first amendment, race and gender inequality, totalitarianism, national security, racial profiling, smart weapons, the specter of nuclear war, eco-fascism, the posthuman, corporate greed, manipulative media, immigration, complicit governments, global pandemics, and climate change. Third, we probe the ways in which American sci-fi, with all its dystopias, catastrophes, and cautionary tales imagining total disaster, is ultimately a fundamentally optimistic genre. We examine titles including The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), The Planet of the Apes (1968), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Soylent Green (1973), Star Wars (1977), Alien (1979), Blade Runner (1982), Brazil (1985), 12 Monkeys (1995), The Matrix (1999), District 9 (2009), Avatar (2009), Inception (2010), Interstellar (2014), Westworld (2016), and Stranger Things (2016).

Class Meetings:
Online (live) web conference
Thursdays, 5:50-7:50 pm
Start Date: Jan. 28, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 40 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26006/2021

STAT E-100
Introduction to Quantitative Methods for the Social Sciences and Humanities

Ethan Fosse, PhD

Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14574

Description
This course introduces the basic concepts of data analysis and statistical computing, both increasingly used in the social sciences and the humanities. The emphasis is on the practical application of quantitative reasoning, visualization, and data analysis. The goal is to provide students pragmatic tools for assessing statistical claims and conducting their own basic statistical analyses. Topics covered include basic descriptive measures, measures of association, sampling and sample size estimation, and simple linear regression. Assignments are based on real-world data and problems in a wide range of fields in the social sciences and humanities, including psychology, sociology, education, and public health. Students may count one of the following courses toward a degree or certificate, but not more than one: MGMT E-104, STAT E-100, STAT E-101 (offered previously), STAT E-102, or STAT E-104.

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Aug. 31, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: No prior data analytic experience required, but a working knowledge of basic high school algebra is recommended.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 155 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14574/2020

STAT E-100
Introduction to Quantitative Methods for the Social Sciences and Humanities

Ethan Fosse, PhD

Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24571

Class Meetings:
Online

Required sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: No prior data analytic experience required, but a working knowledge of basic high school algebra is recommended.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 150 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24571/2021

STAT E-102
Fundamentals of Biostatistics

Bernard A. Rosner, PhD

Professor of Medicine (Biostatistics), Harvard Medical School and Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 24540

Description
This course is an introduction to statistical methods used in biological and medical research. Elementary probability theory, basic concepts of statistical inference, regression and correlation methods, and sample size estimation are covered. Emphasis on applications to medical problems. Students may count one of the following courses toward a degree or certificate, but not more than one: MGMT E-104, STAT E-100, STAT E-101 (offered previously), STAT E-102, or STAT E-104.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Tuesdays, 5:50-7:50 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 26, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: High school algebra.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 100 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-24540/2021

STAT E-104
Introduction to Quantitative Methods for Economics

Kathryn Mckeough, PhD

College Fellow in Statistics, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16463

Description
In a world where data is growing larger and more complex, it can be a challenge to turn an abundance of information into the knowledge from which sound decisions can be made. As a discipline, statistics aims to bridge the gap between knowledge and information. This course motivates statistical methods through data analysis and visualization, in addition to discussing the underlying theory. We discuss topics such as study design, descriptive statistics, probability, sampling distributions, hypothesis testing, linear regression, and Bayesian inference. A wide variety of applications from the economic and social sciences are highlighted along with examples from biology, sports, politics, and more. Students with prior exposure to introductory statistics find some overlap of material but are exposed to new applications and learn more advanced modeling techniques. This course makes use of the statistical programming language R, but no prior knowledge of computer science is required. Students may count one of the following courses toward a degree or certificate, but not more than one: MGMT E-104, STAT E-100, STAT E-101 (offered previously), STAT E-102,, or STAT E-104.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date:

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course Statistics 104 starting September 3. See syllabus for details.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 100 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16463/2020

STAT E-109
Introduction to Statistical Modeling

Bharatendra Rai, PhD

Professor of Decision and Information Sciences, Charlton College of Business, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 26040

Description
This is a second course in statistical inference and is a further examination of statistics and data analysis beyond the introductory course. Topics include t-tools and permutation-based alternatives including bootstrapping, analysis of variance, linear regression, model checking, and refinement. Statistical computing and simulation-based emphasis is also covered as well as basic programming in the R statistical package. Emphasis is placed on thinking statistically, evaluating assumptions, and developing tools for real-life applications. By the end of the course, students should be able to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of a variety of statistical techniques appearing in the media, scientific literature, or students’ own work. Students may not count this course toward a degree if they have already completed STAT E-139, offered previously. Students may not count both CSCI E-106 and STAT E-109 toward a degree or certificate.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 3-5 pm, or on demand.
Start Date: Jan. 27, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: An introductory statistics course such as STAT E- 100 or STAT E-104.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 150 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-26040/2021

STAT E-150
Intermediate Statistics: Methods and Modeling

Karyn Gunnet-Shoval, PhD

Associate of the Department of Psychology, Harvard University

Spring Term 2021 | CRN 23445

Description
This intermediate statistics course is intended to give students familiarity with statistical tools used to analyze data in a variety of disciplines, including psychology, and provides experience reading and understanding studies based on data analysis. The focus is on understanding underlying concepts rather than on memorizing mathematical formulas. Students choose to use SPSS, R, or SAS to analyze data, and gain experience reading output and translating it into meaningful findings. Several sections are available each week, so that students have the option to learn how to use any or all of the above statistical programs. Students are only required to learn one program for analyzing data and reading output, however. The course covers linear and logistic regression, various types of ANOVA, as well as effect sizes and power analyses. Students may not take both PSYC E-1900 and STAT E-150 for degree or certificate credit.

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Mondays, 11 am-1 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Jan. 25, 2021

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: STAT E-100, STAT E_102, STAT E-104, or the equivalent; understanding of univariate statistics, correlation, univariate regression, t-tests, and one-way ANOVA is assumed.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 150 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-23445/2021

STAT E-150
Intermediate Statistics: Methods and Modeling

Karyn Gunnet-Shoval, PhD

Associate of the Department of Psychology, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 14567

Class Meetings:
Online (live or on demand) web conference
Wednesdays, 11 am-1 pm, or on demand.

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date: Sep. 2, 2020

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Prerequisites: STAT E-100, STAT E_102, STAT E-104, or the equivalent; understanding of univariate statistics, correlation, univariate regression, t-tests, and one-way ANOVA is assumed.

Enrollment limit: Limited to 150 students

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14567/2020

STAT E-200
Quantitative Social Science Methods

Gary King, PhD

Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor, Harvard University

Fall Term 2020 | CRN 16350

Description
This course introduces students to quantitative methods and how they are applied in social science research. It has two overarching goals. First, we focus on the theory of statistical inference—using facts you know to learn about facts you don’t know—so that students can truly understand the wide range of methods we introduce; feel comfortable using them in their research; digest new ones invented after the course ends; implement them; apply them to data; interpret the results; and explain them to others. Second, students learn how to publish novel substantive contributions in a scholarly journal. A substantial portion of those in this course, including undergraduates and others, publish a revised version of their course paper as their first scholarly journal article.

Class Meetings:
Online

Optional sections to be arranged.Start Date:

Noncredit: $1500
Undergraduate credit: $1880
Graduate credit: $2900
Credits: 4

Notes: The recorded lectures are from the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences course Government 2001.

Prerequisites: STAT E-190 (offered previously) or the equivalent.

Syllabus: http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-16350/2020

AAAS E-119Chocolate, Culture, and the Politics of Food

ANTH E-1000Pyramid Schemes: What Can Ancient Egyptian Civilization Teach Us?

ANTH E-1050Moctezuma’s Mexico Then and Now: The Past as Present in North America

ANTH E-1062Selling Paradise: Tourism and its Objects

ANTH E-1067American Eating: Succotash, Spam, and Cultures of Food

ANTH E-1400Quests for Wisdom: Religious, Moral, and Aesthetic Searches for the Art of Living in Perilous Times

ANTH E-1660Anthropology and Human Rights

ANTH E-1700Race in the Americas

APMA E-115Mathematical Modeling

APMA E-207Advanced Scientific Computing: Stochastic Methods for Data Analysis, Inference, and Optimization

ARAB E-1Intensive Elementary Modern Standard Arabic I

ARAB E-2Intensive Elementary Modern Standard Arabic II

ASTR E-8The Emergence of Space and Time, Light and Matter: How Our Galaxy, Our Sun, and Our Earth Came to Be

BIOS E-1AIntroduction to Molecular and Cellular Biology

BIOS E-1BIntroduction to Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

BIOS E-10Introduction to Biochemistry

BIOS E-10Introduction to Biochemistry

BIOS E-12Principles and Techniques of Molecular Biology

BIOS E-14Principles of Genetics

BIOS E-16Cell Biology

BIOS E-18Evolution

BIOS E-30Epigenetics and Gene Regulation

BIOS E-40Introduction to Proteomics

BIOS E-45Introduction to Genomics

BIOS E-50Neurobiology

BIOS E-52The Neurobiology of Pain

BIOS E-55Developmental Biology

BIOS E-60Immunology

BIOS E-63COVID-19 Disease: Facts and Fiction

BIOS E-65CHuman Anatomy and Physiology I

BIOS E-65DHuman Anatomy and Physiology II

BIOS E-67Introduction to Pharmacology

BIOS E-69Health Effects of Cannabis

BIOS E-70Introduction to Epidemiology

BIOS E-72Infectious Diseases in a World of Changing Climate, Drug Resistance, and Vaccine Hesitancy

BIOS E-107Introduction to Medical Neuroscience

BIOS E-110Addiction Neuroscience: Substance Abuse and the Brain

BIOS E-116Marine Biology

BIOS E-117Human Impact and the Marine Environment

BIOS E-118Deep Sea Biology

BIOS E-123Reproductive Biology: Physiological, Evolutionary, and Behavioral Aspects

BIOS E-129Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology

BIOS E-155Medical Microbiology

BIOS E-156Vaccines for the New Millennium

BIOS E-162BHuman Pathophysiology II

BIOS E-163Human Endocrine Physiology

BIOS E-200Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Biology

BIOS E-200Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Biology

BIOS E-204Developmental and Regenerative Biology

BIOS E-232Neurobiology of Emotion and Psychiatric Illnesses

BIOS E-245CRISPR-Gene Editing Applications for Healthcare and Biotechnology

BIOS E-497Crafting the Thesis Proposal in Biology and Biotechnology Tutorial

BIOS E-497Crafting the Thesis Proposal in Biology and Biotechnology Tutorial

BIOT E-105Bioinformatics: Fundamentals of Sequence Analysis

BIOT E-105Bioinformatics: Fundamentals of Sequence Analysis

BIOT E-120Ethics and Trends in Biotechnology

BIOT E-120Ethics and Trends in Biotechnology

BIOT E-140RNA Biotechnology: The Emergence of RNA-based Drugs and RNA Therapeutics

BIOT E-200Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Biotechnology and Bioengineering and Nanotechnology

BIOT E-200Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Biotechnology and Bioengineering and Nanotechnology

BIOT E-200Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Biotechnology and Bioengineering and Nanotechnology

BIOT E-220Regulatory Aspects of Drug Development

BIOT E-225Biomedical Product Development

BIOT E-497Crafting the Thesis Proposal in Biotechnology and Bioengineering and Nanotechnology Tutorial

BIOT E-497Crafting the Thesis Proposal in Biotechnology and Bioengineering and Nanotechnology Tutorial

BIOT E-599Biotechnology Capstone

CELT E-10AIntroduction to Modern Irish

CELT E-10BIntroduction to Modern Irish

CGRK E-1ABeginning Ancient Greek

CGRK E-1BBeginning Ancient Greek

CGRK E-31Homer’s Odyssey

CGRK E-36Archaic Greek Lyric Poetry

CHEM E-1AGeneral Chemistry I (Lecture and Lab)

CHEM E-1AXGeneral Chemistry I (Lecture)

CHEM E-1AXLGeneral Chemistry I (Lab)

CHEM E-1BGeneral Chemistry II (Lecture and Lab)

CHEM E-1BXGeneral Chemistry II (Lecture)

CHEM E-1BXLGeneral Chemistry II (Lab)

CHEM E-17Principles of Organic Chemistry

AAAS E-119
Chocolate, Culture, and the Politics of Food

ANTH E-1000
Pyramid Schemes: What Can Ancient Egyptian Civilization Teach Us?

ANTH E-1050
Moctezuma’s Mexico Then and Now: The Past as Present in North America

ANTH E-1062
Selling Paradise: Tourism and its Objects

ANTH E-1067
American Eating: Succotash, Spam, and Cultures of Food

ANTH E-1400
Quests for Wisdom: Religious, Moral, and Aesthetic Searches for the Art of Living in Perilous Times

ANTH E-1660
Anthropology and Human Rights

ANTH E-1700
Race in the Americas

APMA E-115
Mathematical Modeling

APMA E-207
Advanced Scientific Computing: Stochastic Methods for Data Analysis, Inference, and Optimization

ARAB E-1
Intensive Elementary Modern Standard Arabic I

ARAB E-2
Intensive Elementary Modern Standard Arabic II

ASTR E-8
The Emergence of Space and Time, Light and Matter: How Our Galaxy, Our Sun, and Our Earth Came to Be

BIOS E-1A
Introduction to Molecular and Cellular Biology

BIOS E-1B
Introduction to Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

BIOS E-10
Introduction to Biochemistry

BIOS E-10
Introduction to Biochemistry

BIOS E-12
Principles and Techniques of Molecular Biology

BIOS E-14
Principles of Genetics

BIOS E-16
Cell Biology

BIOS E-18
Evolution

BIOS E-30
Epigenetics and Gene Regulation

BIOS E-40
Introduction to Proteomics

BIOS E-45
Introduction to Genomics

BIOS E-50
Neurobiology

BIOS E-52
The Neurobiology of Pain

BIOS E-55
Developmental Biology

BIOS E-60
Immunology

BIOS E-63
COVID-19 Disease: Facts and Fiction

BIOS E-65C
Human Anatomy and Physiology I

BIOS E-65D
Human Anatomy and Physiology II

BIOS E-67
Introduction to Pharmacology

BIOS E-69
Health Effects of Cannabis

BIOS E-70
Introduction to Epidemiology

BIOS E-72
Infectious Diseases in a World of Changing Climate, Drug Resistance, and Vaccine Hesitancy

BIOS E-107
Introduction to Medical Neuroscience

BIOS E-110
Addiction Neuroscience: Substance Abuse and the Brain

BIOS E-116
Marine Biology

BIOS E-117
Human Impact and the Marine Environment

BIOS E-118
Deep Sea Biology

BIOS E-123
Reproductive Biology: Physiological, Evolutionary, and Behavioral Aspects

BIOS E-129
Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology

BIOS E-155
Medical Microbiology

BIOS E-156
Vaccines for the New Millennium

BIOS E-162B
Human Pathophysiology II

BIOS E-163
Human Endocrine Physiology

BIOS E-200
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Biology

BIOS E-200
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Biology

BIOS E-204
Developmental and Regenerative Biology

BIOS E-232
Neurobiology of Emotion and Psychiatric Illnesses

BIOS E-245
CRISPR-Gene Editing Applications for Healthcare and Biotechnology

BIOS E-497
Crafting the Thesis Proposal in Biology and Biotechnology Tutorial

BIOS E-497
Crafting the Thesis Proposal in Biology and Biotechnology Tutorial

BIOT E-105
Bioinformatics: Fundamentals of Sequence Analysis

BIOT E-105
Bioinformatics: Fundamentals of Sequence Analysis

BIOT E-120
Ethics and Trends in Biotechnology

BIOT E-120
Ethics and Trends in Biotechnology

BIOT E-140
RNA Biotechnology: The Emergence of RNA-based Drugs and RNA Therapeutics

BIOT E-200
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Biotechnology and Bioengineering and Nanotechnology

BIOT E-200
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Biotechnology and Bioengineering and Nanotechnology

BIOT E-200
Proseminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Biotechnology and Bioengineering and Nanotechnology

BIOT E-220
Regulatory Aspects of Drug Development

BIOT E-225
Biomedical Product Development

BIOT E-497
Crafting the Thesis Proposal in Biotechnology and Bioengineering and Nanotechnology Tutorial

BIOT E-497
Crafting the Thesis Proposal in Biotechnology and Bioengineering and Nanotechnology Tutorial

BIOT E-599
Biotechnology Capstone

CELT E-10A
Introduction to Modern Irish

CELT E-10B
Introduction to Modern Irish

CGRK E-1A
Beginning Ancient Greek

CGRK E-1B
Beginning Ancient Greek

CGRK E-31
Homer’s Odyssey

CGRK E-36
Archaic Greek Lyric Poetry

CHEM E-1A
General Chemistry I (Lecture and Lab)

CHEM E-1AX
General Chemistry I (Lecture)

CHEM E-1AXL
General Chemistry I (Lab)

CHEM E-1B
General Chemistry II (Lecture and Lab)

CHEM E-1BX
General Chemistry II (Lecture)

CHEM E-1BXL
General Chemistry II (Lab)

CHEM E-17
Principles of Organic Chemistry

CHEM E-17LAB
Principles of Organic Chemistry: Laboratory