11.477
1.268
11.165

Urban Energy Systems and Policy

Examines efforts in developing and advanced nations and regions. Examines key issues in the current and future development of urban energy systems, such as technology, use, behavior, regulation, climate change, and lack of access or energy poverty. Case studies on a diverse sampling of cities explore how prospective technologies and policies can be implemented. Includes intensive group research projects, discussion, and debate.

    Fall
    3-0-9
    Graduate
    Schedule
    TR 11:00AM - 12:30PM
    Location
    9-451
    HASS
    S
    Can Be Repeated for Credit
    No
    11.478
    11.158

    Behavioral Science, A.I. and Urban Mobility

    Integrates behavioral science, artificial intelligence and transportation technology to shape travel behavior, design mobility systems and business, and reform transportation policies. Introduces methods to sense travel behavior with new technology and measurements; nudge behavior through perception and preference shaping; design mobility systems and ventures that integrate autonomous vehicles, shared mobility, and public transit; and regulate travel with behavior-sensitive transport policies. Challenges students to pilot behavioral experiments and design creative mobility systems, business and policies.

    Fall
    3-0-9
    Graduate
    Schedule
    MW 9:30 - 11:00 AM
    Location
    4-149
    HASS
    S
    Can Be Repeated for Credit
    No
    11.169
    11.269

    Global Climate Policy and Sustainability

    Examines climate politics both nationally and globally. Addresses economic growth, environmental preservation, and social equity through the lens of sustainability. Uses various country and regional cases to analyze how sociopolitical, economic and environmental values shape climate policy. Students develop recommendations for making climate policy more effective and sustainable. Limited to 25.

    Spring
    3-0-9
    Undergraduate
    Schedule
    M 9:00 - 12:00 PM
    Location
    9-451
    HASS
    S
    Can Be Repeated for Credit
    No
    11.158
    11.478

    Behavioral Science, A.I. and Urban Mobility

    Integrates behavioral science, artificial intelligence and transportation technology to shape travel behavior, design mobility systems and business, and reform transportation policies. Introduces methods to sense travel behavior with new technology and measurements; nudge behavior through perception and preference shaping; design mobility systems and ventures that integrate autonomous vehicles, shared mobility, and public transit; and regulate travel with behavior-sensitive transport policies. Challenges students to pilot behavioral experiments and design creative mobility systems, business and policies.

    Fall
    3-0-9
    Undergraduate
    Schedule
    MW 9:30 - 11:00 AM
    Location
    4-149
    HASS
    S
    Can Be Repeated for Credit
    No
    11.131
    CMS.593

    Educational Theory and Practice III

    Students continue their IAP student teaching through mid March. Topics include educational psychology, theories of learning, and using technology and evaluating its effectiveness to enhance student learning. Assignments include readings from educational literature, written reflections on student teaching, presentations on class topics and creating a project that supports student learning at the school where the MIT student is teaching. This is the third of the three-course sequence necessary to complete the Teacher Education Program.

    G. Schwanbeck
    Spring
    3-0-9
    Undergraduate
    Schedule
    TR 3:30 - 5:00 PM
    Location
    1-135
    HASS
    S
    Can Be Repeated for Credit
    No
    11.125
    CMS.587

    Introduction to Education: Understanding and Evaluating Education

    One of two introductory subjects on teaching and learning science and mathematics in a variety of K-12 settings. Topics include student misconceptions, formative assessment, standards and standardized testing, multiple intelligences, and educational technology. Students gain practical experience through weekly visits to schools, classroom discussions, selected readings, and activities to develop a critical and broad understanding of past and current forces that shape the goals and processes of education, and explores the challenges and opportunities of teaching. Students work collaboratively and individually on papers, projects, and in-class presentations. Limited to 25.

    Eric Klopfer
    Spring
    3-6-3
    Undergraduate
    Schedule
    TR 2:30 - 4:00 PM
    Location
    5-134
    HASS
    CI
    H
    S
    Can Be Repeated for Credit
    No
    11.123

    Big Plans and Mega-Urban Landscapes

    This class explores various types of large-scale planning initiatives that have been devised and implemented to improve the human condition through the lenses of urban planning and international development. Using case studies from all around the world, we will trace the evolution of Big Plans and examine how these plans have modified the social, economic, environmental, and spatial fabric of cities. We will consider potential strategies to improve Big Planning approaches of the past from a variety of perspectives from technology to democratic decision-making processes to real estate development. Assignments include analyzing physical plans, writing policy memos and reflection pieces, and a group project evaluating a Big Plan of one’s choice.

    Spring
    3-0-6
    Undergraduate
    Schedule
    TR 11:00 - 12:30PM
    Location
    10-485
    HASS
    S
    Can Be Repeated for Credit
    No
    11.067
    11.367

    Land Use Law and Politics: Race, Place, and Law

    Explores conceptions of spatial justice and introduces students to basic principles of US law and legal analysis, focused on property, land use, equal protection, civil rights, fair housing, and local government law, in order to examine who should control how land is used. Examines the rights of owners of land and the types of regulatory and market-based tools that are available to control land use, and discusses why and when government regulation, rather than private market ordering, might be necessary to control land use patterns. Explores basic principles of civil rights and anti-discrimination law and focuses on particular civil rights problems associated with the land use regulatory system, such as exclusionary zoning, residential segregation, the fair distribution of undesirable land uses, and gentrification. Introduces basic skills of statutory drafting and interpretation. Assignments differ for those taking the graduate version.

    Spring
    3-0-9
    Undergraduate
    Schedule
    TR 3:30 - 5:00 PM
    Location
    10-401
    HASS
    S
    Can Be Repeated for Credit
    No
    11.045
    21A.129
    11.045, 15.302, 17.045

    Power: Interpersonal, Organizational, and Global Dimensions

    The study of power among individuals and within organizations, markets, and states. Using examples from anthropology and sociology alongside classical and contemporary social theory, explores the nature of dominant and subordinate relationships, types of legitimate authority, and practices of resistance. Examines how people are influenced in subtle ways by those around them, who makes controlling decisions in the family, how people get ahead at work, and whether democracies, in fact, reflect the will of the people. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.

    S. Silbey
    Spring
    3-0-9
    Undergraduate
    Schedule
    TR 2:30 - 4:00 PM
    Location
    56-114
    HASS
    S
    Can Be Repeated for Credit
    No
    11.027

    City to City: Comparing, Researching and Writing about Cities

    Introduces students to practice through researching, writing, and working for and with nonprofits. Students work directly with nonprofits and community partners to help find solutions to real world problems; interview planners and other field experts, and write and present findings to nonprofit partners and community audiences.

    Spring
    3-0-9
    Undergraduate
    Schedule
    TR 4:00 - 5:00 PM
    Location
    9-217
    HASS
    S
    Can Be Repeated for Credit
    No