Graduate Seminars in General Education
These seminars for graduate students will be committed to the discussion, development, and design of undergraduate courses that will be appropriate for the new Program in General Education. Graduate students will actively engage with faculty to consider central conceptual and analytic themes, course design and pedagogy, as well as other important decisions in the development and implementation of courses in general education.
Interested graduate students should contact the specific faculty members for more information and check with their home departments about whether these courses will fulfill requirements for relevant graduate degrees.
Graduate Seminars in General Education 211hf. Seminar on Research Methods on Internet and Society - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 83601
John G. Palfrey (Law School)
Half course (throughout the year). Fall: (M.), 6–8 p.m.; Spring: M., 6–8 p.m.
The Internet, digital media and new computational tools raise new challenges while also offering new opportunities for ways to study our social world and the social, political, cultural and economic aspects of the Internet in particular. The goal of this seminar is to explore rigorous ways of studying the Internet’s societal implications empirically using a myriad of social scientific and computing scientific research methodologies. We will also consider the use of these methods in combination with analytical processes used by lawyers and others who examine issues of public policy. The seminar will also design and develop a General Education course on these themes for undergraduates.
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