Undergraduate Courses with CES Faculty
CES faculty offer courses in a variety of departments and subject areas. Some faculty members are CES residents, while many have offices in their departments.
New Courses for 2011-2012
Full course list

Anthropology

Anthropology 1996 - Angels, Ghosts, and Hustlers: Bangkok Live (Spring) Michael Herzfeld

Anthropology 2660 - The Anthropology of Knowledge: Seminar (Fall) Michael Herzfeld

Anthropology 2850r - Practicum in Foreign-Language Ethnography (Fall/ Spring) Michael Herzfeld

Anthropology 97z - Sophomore Tutorial in Social Anthropology (Spring) Michael Herzfeld


Comparative Literature

Comparative Literature 257 - Trauma, Memory, and Creativity (Fall) Susan Suleiman

Comparative Literature 288 - The Ancients and the Moderns: Modern Critical Theory and the Classics (Spring) Panagiotis Roilos


Economics

Economics 1018 - Cultural Economics (Fall) Alberto Alesina

Economics 1432 - Economics of European Integrations (Fall) Hans-Helmut Kotz

Economics 2060 - Contract Theory (Fall) Philippe Aghion

Economics 2390dhf - Research in Economic Development (Full Year) Philippe Aghion

Economics 2412a - Political Economics (Fall) Alberto Alesina

Economics 2420hf - Research in Macroeconomics (Full Year) Philippe Aghion & Alberto Alesina

Economics 3087 - Applied Theory: Research Workshop (Fall/ Spring) Philippe Aghion

Economics 3410 - The Monetary and Fiscal Policy Seminar (Full Year) Alberto Alesina


Freshman Seminar

Freshman Seminar 40j - Advice to Young Leaders (Spring) David Armitage


General Education

Culture and Belief 50 - The European Postwar: Literature, Film, Politics (Fall) Peter Gordon

Ethical Reasoning 12 - Political Justice and Political Trials (Spring) Charles S. Maier

Societies of the World 11 - Germany in the World, 1500-2000 (Spring) David Blackbourn

Societies of the World 14 - The British Empire (Spring) Maya Jasanoff

Societies of the World 19 - Western Ascendancy: The Mainsprings of Global Power from 1600 to the Present (Fall) Niall Ferguson

Societies of the World 32 - The Making of Modern Politics: The Development of Democracy in Europe from the Middle Ages to the European Union (Fall) Peter A. Hall


Germanic Languages and Literature

German 147 - Nietzsche (Spring) Peter Burgard

German 61 - Advanced Grammar and Reading (Fall) Peter Burgard


Government

Government 1109 - Comparative Institutional Design (Spring) Pippa Norris

Government 1203 - Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe (Spring) Grzegorz Ekiert

Government 2009 - Methods of Political Analysis (Spring) Peter A. Hall

Government 2088 - Ethical Foundations of Political Thought (Fall) Michael Rosen

Government 2105 - Comparative Politics: Field Seminar (Spring) Torben Iversen

Government 2148 - Civil Society, West and East (Fall) Grzegorz Ekiert

Government 2176 - Varieties of Capitalism and Social Inequality (Fall) Peter A. Hall and Kathleen Thelen

Government 2213 - Comparative Politics of Post-Socialism (Spring) Grzegorz Ekiert

Government 2310 - Social Capital and Public Affairs: Research Seminar (Spring) Robert Putnam

Government 2340a - Proseminar on Inequality and Social Policy I (Fall) Torben Iversen

Government 90a - Contemporary British Politics: Seminar (Fall) James Alt

Government 90ti - Adorno (Fall) Michael Rosen

Government 98au - Political Economy (Fall) Torben Iversen

Government 98oa - Inequality and American Democracy (Fall) Theda Skocpol

Government 98qa - Community in America (Spring) Robert Putnam

Government 98vg - Topics in Recent Political Theory (Fall) Michael Rosen


Graduate School of Design

Cities by Design II (GSD - SES 0521100) (Spring) Eve Blau

History of Urban Form: From the First Industrial Revolution to Today (GSD - HIS 0435900) (Spring) Eve Blau

Urban Design Proseminar (GSD DES 0350300) (Fall) Eve Blau


Greek Language and Literature

Modern Greek 125. Greek Modernism (Fall) Panagiotis Roilos

Modern Greek 145 (formerly Comparative Literature 145). Dreams and Literature (Spring) Panagiotis Roilos

Modern Greek 224 - History and Literature: Seminar (Spring) Panagiotis Roilos


Harvard Divinity School

Orientalism: Old and New Perspectives (DIV) (Fall) Malika Zeghal


Harvard Kennedy School

Challenges of Democratization (HKS - DPI-413) (Spring) Pippa Norris

History, Politics, and the Public (HKS - DPI-705) (Spring) Moshik Temkin

Proseminar on Inequality and Social Policy I (HKS - SUP-921) (Fall) Torben Iversen


Harvard Law School

Bankruptcy (HLS - 31400A-1 F) (Fall) Mark Roe

Comparative Corporate Governance A: Seminar (HLS - 91315A-1 F) (Fall) Mark Roe

Global Law and Governance (HLS - 39010A-1 F) (Fall) David Kennedy

Law and Economic Development (HLS - 41160A-1 S) (Spring) David Kennedy

Power and Mystery of Expertise (The): Seminar (HLS - 98057A-1 S) (Spring) David Kennedy

The U.S. & the World: From 1917 to the Present (HKS - DPI-714) (Spring) Moshik Temkin


History

History 1224 - Britain since 1760: Island, Europe, Empire (Fall) Maya Jasanoff

History 1266 - Central Europe, 1789-1918: Empires, Nations, States (Spring) Alison Frank

History 1326 - The Frankfurt School and Religion: Conference Course (Spring) Peter Gordon

History 1965 - International History: States, Markets, and the Global Economy: Conference Course (Spring) Niall Ferguson and Charles S. Maier

History 2260 - Central Europe: Seminar (Fall) Alison Frank

History 2265 - Problems and Sources in Modern German History: Seminar (Fall) David Blackbourn

History 2300 - Methods in Intellectual History: Proseminar (Spring) David Armitage

History 2320hf - Foundations of Modern European Intellectual History: Seminar (Full Year) Peter Gordon

History 2921 - Western Ascendancy: Historiography and Pedagogy: Seminar (Fall) Niall Ferguson

History 3900 - Writing History: Approaches and Practices (Fall) David Armitage

History 3920hf - Colloquium on Teaching Practices (Full Year) Peter Gordon

History 72k - The Worlds of Joseph Conrad (Fall) Maya Jasanoff

History 73c - The University and Society (Spring) David Armitage

History 78c - Islam, Law, and the State: Historical and Global Comparisons (Spring) David Armitage

History 79e - Commodities in International History (Fall) Alison Frank

History 79i - Breaking Headlines: The History of News (Fall) David Armitage (with Heidi Tworek)

History 82c - Vichy France (Fall) Patrice Higonnet

History 82l - The French Revolution (Fall) Patrice Higonnet

History 91r - Supervised Reading and Research (Fall/ Spring) Maya Jasanoff


Islamic Civilizations

Islamic Civilizations 103 - Orientalism: Old and New Perspectives (Fall) Malika Zeghal

Islamic Civilizations 183 - Reform and Revival in Modern Islam, 19th -20th centuries (Spring) Malika Zeghal


Philosophy

Philosophy 225 - Heidegger and Kant: Seminar (Fall) Peter Gordon


Religion

Religion 1828 - Islam in the West (Spring) Malika Zeghal

Religion 20 - Ethnographies of Religion, Texts and Contexts (Fall) Malika Zeghal

Social Capital and Public Affairs: Research Seminar (HKS - DPI-360) (Spring) Robert Putnam


Romance Languages & Literature

French 132b - 20th-Century French Fiction II: The Experimental Mode (Spring) Susan Suleiman

French 242 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Spring) Christie Mcdonald and Stanley Hoffmann


Sociology

Sociology 147 - The Shareholder Value Management Revolution (Spring) Frank Dobbin

Sociology 164 - Successful Societies: Markers and Pathways (Spring) Michele Lamont

Sociology 202 - Intermediate Quantitative Research Methods (Spring) Jason Beckfield

Sociology 205 - Sociological Research Design (Fall) Frank Dobbin

Sociology 209 - Qualitative Social Analysis: Seminar (Spring) Michele Lamont

Sociology 24 - Introduction to Social Inequality (Spring) Jason Beckfield

Sociology 304 - Culture and Social Analysis Workshop (Fall/ Spring) Michele Lamont

Sociology 308 - Workshop on Economic Sociology (Fall/ Spring) Frank Dobbin

Sociology 98L - Racism and Anti-Racism in Comparative Perspective (Fall) Michele Lamont


Social Sciences

Social Studies 98ji - French Political Thought Since 1930 (Spring) Stanley Hoffmann