Undergraduate Courses 2020-21

Selected topics of current interest in public policy studies. The course aims to broaden students' exposure to a broad range of topics within the public policy discipline. The course may be repeated for credit, if the topics studied are different. Graded letter grade or P/F subject to different offerings. Instructor's approval is required for enrollment in the course.

This course aims to cultivate students’ systematic and critical thinking about science, technology, innovation, and society, especially in light of the transition from traditional China to contemporary China. Differing from the usual courses focusing on this subject, this course will take a social and critical approach, enabling students to understand and analyze the social, political, and cultural preconditions and impacts of scientific and technological development. By the end of the course, students should understand the significance of the social, cultural, and political preconditions underlying scientific and technological innovations and be able to gauge the impact of those innovations. They should also be able to systematically analyze the factors that make innovation significant and use this analysis to critically examine the development of science and technology over the course of China’s history.

Selected topics of current interest in public policy studies. The course aims to provide students with a more in-depth knowledge of a broad range of topics within the public policy discipline. The course may be repeated for credit, if the topics studied are different. Graded letter grade or P/F subject to different offerings. Instructor's approval is required for enrollment in the course.

This course aims to provide students a comprehensive perspective of the technical, environmental, economic, and policy aspects of energy use and supply in tackling energy-related problems. It examines the choices and constraints regarding sources and uses of energy by households, firms, and governments through a number of frameworks to describe and explain behavior at various levels of aggregation. Policy related to energy demand, supply, transmission, consumption; climate change and other environmental issues, energy market structure, role of renewable energy, sustainable development, influence of energy issues on international and domestic politics and security.

Selected topics of current interest in public policy studies. The course aims to provide students the advanced knowledge for a broad range of topics within the public policy discipline. The course may be repeated for credit, if the topics studied are different. Graded letter grade or P/F subject to different offerings. Instructor's approval is required for enrollment in the course.