Syllabi:
Graduate
NYU | Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. A syllabus of a course that covers poverty, inequality, and policy. A course that examines the nature and extent of poverty in the United States and covering some developed countries in Europe. They will define and measure key terms, analyze the role of labor markets, family structure, and social organizations and the effects each have on poverty.
University of Pennsylvania | Graduate School of Education. A course that combines normative and empirical approaches to better understand economic and academic/education inequality and how economic and educational inequality are related. The four indicators the course focuses on is income, achievement, mobility/opportunity, and segregation.
University of Michigan | Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. A course that studies poverty and inequality in the United States. How they are both measured, consider the underlying causes, consequences of them, and how our views of these concepts shape public policy.
Columbia University | Department of Sociology. An advanced level graduate seminar in social stratification. Focusing on relatively recent research. Original research paper of the student’s interest, a thesis, journal submission, proposal, and analysis of literature in the desired topic.
Portland State University | Master of Urban and Regional Planning.This course examines the nature and perceptions of urban poverty in the United States, exploring the characteristics of low-wage work and how it effects poverty, and the relationships between poverty discourse and anti-poverty policy. The course will also trace roots of the 1960’s War on Poverty through “the War on Welfare” of the Reagan era.
Stanford | Center on Poverty and Inequality. This course goes into how the United States is in the midst of an “inequality explosion,” as the upper class has become wondrously rich. The course will go into detail of how this happened, by going through the first half of America and the second half of America.
Harvard University | Department of Economics. The course will show how “big data” can be used to understand and solve some of the biggest and hardest situations of our time. The course will introduce basic statistical methods, data analysis techniques, including regression, analysis, causal inference, quasi-experimental methods, and machine learning.
George Washington University | Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration. A graduate seminar in public assistance policy for students interested in policy analysis and public management as a profession. A comprehensive introduction to analytic and political issues surrounding the ongoing American and European debates on poverty and social policy.
University of Denver | Graduate School of International Studies. This course presents understanding of conceptual and empirical issues underlying the political economy of global poverty and human rights. What it is, the dimensions of it, disclosers, and causes of poverty in the world.
Tulane University | School of Liberal Arts. Presents an overview of poverty analysis and how it is applied by multilateral organizations. Topics include measuring the characteristics of the poor, understanding the causes of poverty and assessing policies to reduce poverty