GLBL 5002a, Policy Communicator  William Vance

Policy professionals engage a spectrum of stakeholders as they analyze issues and share findings. This work requires a refined set of personal communication tools for inquiry, collaborating, reporting, and presenting policy recommendations. Students in this course strengthen their skills by experimenting with the oral communication tasks related to policy work. We address the different types of information architecture required in synchronic contexts, explore the cognitive approaches needed for spoken interactions, build confidence in speaking to groups, and diversify approaches to persuasion. Students benefit from speech analysis technology and personal data visualizations of their linguistic choices. Throughout the course, students receive rich feedback about the impact of their words, the clarity of their messages, and their policy advocacy.  ½ Course cr
F 1:30pm-3:30pm

GLBL 5010b, Economics for Global Affairs  Amit Khandelwal and Lorenzo Caliendo

This core course introduces students to the critical issues facing the global economy today. One of the main goals of the course is to practice how to use measurement and economic frameworks to analyze current events. The course teaches students how to apply economic reasoning to policy issues in the real world building on the concepts covered in the first-semester economics course and new concepts presented in the course.  We use these frameworks to understand questions such as: Why do some countries richer than others? How much inequality is, and should we worry about it?, How are wages and interest rates determined? How do countries conduct fiscal and monetary policy to smooth the business cycle? What determines the gains from international trade and migration? Graded only, sat/unsat option is not permissible. 
MW 1pm-2:15pm

GLBL 5030a, History and Global Affairs  Alden Young

Nobody can understand the present without a keen understanding of the past. After all, history is all we have to go on in providing the resources for making sense of the world we live in. Successful policy makers understand this and turn historical sensibility to their advantage in interpreting the present. They understand how good policy is grounded in sound historical thinking. The purpose of the core requirement is to introduce advanced students of global affairs to the manifold ways in which history is discussed and perceived today. Different from the social sciences, history as a discipline is less about prediction and more about finding out where we come from and what challenges the past has bequeathed to us. It is also about grasping, in a critical fashion, that we know the future only by the past we project into it.
T 1:30pm-3:20pm

GLBL 5050a, Introduction to Python for Global Affairs  William King

In the second decade of the twenty-first century, “big data” analytics and techniques have fundamentally transformed policy decisions both in the United States and throughout the globe. NGOs, NPOs, political campaigns, think tanks, and government agencies more and more recruit policy analysts with the necessary skills to embrace novel, data-driven approaches to policy creation and evaluation. This course is designed to help students meet this growing demand. It is an introductory course in Python programming and data analysis for policy students with no prior coding experience. Unlike massive introductory classes, this course is deliberately small, designed to provide the necessary support for humanists to make a smooth and nurturing transition to "tech humanists." Ultimately, students should be comfortable using what they’ve learned in further Yale courses in programming and statistics, or in research and policy after leaving Yale. They should know enough to productively collaborate on projects with engineers, understand the potential of such work, have sufficient background to expand their skills with more advanced classes, and perform rudimentary data analyses and make policy recommendations based on these analyses.
F 1pm-2:50pm

GLBL 6520a, Social Entrepreneurship in Public Health  Teresa Chahine

This is a case-based course about innovation and entrepreneurship for health equity and drivers of health. Health equity means that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. This requires removing obstacles to health such as poverty, racism, gender, and other biases and their consequences, including powerlessness and lack of access to good jobs with fair pay, quality education and housing, healthy foods, safe environments, and health care. We refer to these as drivers of health. COVID-19 has brought to light for many the complexities in drivers of health, and the role of entrepreneurship and cross-sectoral collaboration in eliminating health disparities. Students examine cases of entrepreneurship for health equity in the United States and globally, using a research-based framework to analyze the role of innovation and design thinking, resource mobilization, financial viability, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and systems strengthening. Cases include start-ups and new ventures within existing institutions, referred to as intrapreneurship. Students also examine cases of collective impact, or innovating across multiple institutions. Over the years, students in this class have begun referring to these as extrapreneurship. This course brings together students from Yale College, the Graduate School, and the Schools of Management, Public Health, Environment, Divinity, and Engineering & Applied Science.  ½ Course cr
HTBA

GLBL 6611b, Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Technologies, and National Power II  Ted Wittenstein

Part II of this two-term course continues to examine how artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to alter the fundamental building blocks of world order. Machines capable of sophisticated information processing, towards the frontier of autonomy, pose tremendous opportunities for economic growth and societal well-being. Yet the potential risks also are extraordinary. How can we build AI systems that are reliable, transparent, safe, scalable, and aligned with human values? Following an introduction to AI and survey of current research challenges, the seminar focuses on seven core areas where AI and emergent technologies already pose significant security concerns: (1) lethal autonomous weapons and the nature of conflict, (2) disinformation and the future of democracy, (3) competition and conflict in U.S.-China relations, (4) AI ethics and safety, (5) AI governance, (6) nanotechnology and quantum computing, and (7) outer-space development. For each of these sub-units, the goal is to equip aspiring leaders with requisite technical fluency, and to bridge the divide across the law, technology, and policy communities at Yale.
Th 1:30pm-3:20pm

GLBL 7560a, Democracy and Distribution  Ian Shapiro

An examination of relations between democracy and the distribution of income and wealth. The central focus is on ways in which different groups and coalitions affect, and are affected by, democratic distributive politics. This course also examines the variation among democracies in the provision of education, social and health insurance, and policies designed to ameliorate inequalities.
W 9:25am-11:15am

GLBL 8000a, Directed Reading with Senior Fellow  Staff

Directed reading or individual project option is designed for qualified students who wish to investigate an area not covered in regular graduate-level courses. The student must be supervised by a senior fellow, who sets the requirements and meets regularly with the student. Usually limited to one per semester, this option may involve reading the literature on a topic, attending a lecture or seminar series, and writing a substantial research paper. It is the student’s responsibility to make all the arrangements before the semester begins.
HTBA

GLBL 9800a, Directed Reading  Staff

Directed reading or individual project option is designed for qualified students who wish to investigate an area not covered in regular graduate-level courses. The student must be supervised by a faculty member, who sets the requirements and meets regularly with the student. Usually limited to one per semester, this option may involve reading the literature on a topic, attending a lecture or seminar series, and writing a substantial research paper. It is the student’s responsibility to make all the arrangements before the semester begins. By arrangement with faculty.
HTBA