Course Description:
This course introduces undergraduate planning students to the role of the planner in researching issues in cities both in the United States and abroad. This course is a practical, hands-on workshop that challenges students to research, write, and present their ideas on two different cities.
SAGE Stats allows students to compare urban social statistics about thousands of geographies, like crime, against key demographic information about those geographies, or thousands of other data measures like weather patterns and poverty rates.
Applicable stats set:
Crime Rate (City)
Course Description:
Why do some metropolitan areas prosper while others fall on hard times? This intermediate seminar course examines the underlying economic forces that shape the development of metropolitan areas, paying special attention to policy issues regarding land use, housing, transportation, and poverty.
SAGE Stats allows students to compare crime statistics about thousands of geographies against key demographic information about those geographies, like poverty rates, or thousands of other data measures like weather patterns.
Applicable stats set:
Aggravated Assault Rate (Metro)
Course Description:
Examines classrooms and schools as social institutions that function as socializing agents for both stability and societal change. Emphasizes the influence of inequality on educational processes and outcomes and critically examines the social organization of the U.S. public school system.
SAGE Stats allows students to compare social science statistics about thousands of geographies against each other to draw insightful conclusions about those locations. In the case, students are able to compare education indicators between locations.
Applicable stats set:
Estimated Per Pupil Public Elementary and Secondary School Expenditures (State)
Course Description:
Through lectures and small group discussions, students will develop a framework for analyzing health care policy problems and gain familiarity with current issues including managed care, Medicare, and the uninsured.
SAGE Stats allows students to compare crime statistics about thousands of geographies against key demographic information about those geographies, like poverty rates, or thousands of other data measures like weather patterns.
Applicable stats set:
Percent of Population Not Covered by Health Insurance (County)
Course Description:
Examines criminal justice from the perspective of local communities. Questions of how local communities affect and are affected by crime and criminal justice will be addressed. A central concern will be the discussion of characteristics of neighborhoods that lead to high rates of criminality and how federal, state, and local policies not directly concerned with crime policy may nonetheless bear on crime rates. The City of Boston will be used as a laboratory in which to study these issues.
SAGE Stats allows students to compare economic statistics, like poverty rate or median salary, about thousands of geographies against key demographic information about those geographies or other data measures like housing and transportation statistics.
Applicable stats set:
Poverty Rate (Metro)
Course Description:
Does education equalize or widen gaps between people and nations? Has mass imprisonment reduced crime or exacerbated U.S. racial inequality? Does biology determine destiny, or is society more fluid? This course introduces theory and research on social inequality, emphasizing temporal dimensions of social differentiation. Attention will be paid to the characteristics we are given (race, sex), those we achieve (education, income), and institutions and policies we encounter throughout the life cycle (schools, the justice system). By understanding the complexities of social inequality and the challenges of devising solutions, students will leave as informed citizens, better equipped to enter any profession.
SAGE Stats allows students to compare social statistics, like crime and educational attainment rates, about thousands of geographies against key demographic and policy statistics about those geographies to collect empirical evidence for this class.
Applicable stats set:
Crime Rate (City)
Course Description:
Projects can vary widely, but a typical project might involve investigating potential markets for a new business, matching a product to particular customer needs, defining and quantifying the value proposition for target customers, and/or developing a market entry strategy. A hands-on course, where students learn by doing. The emphasis is on identifying attractive target market(s), defining customer value propositions, specifying product/technology requirements and developing market entry strategies. Class sessions combine the use of cases, exercises, presentations and interactive lectures (frequently from invited guests).
Business Stats allows students to discover new target markets and areas of innovation for startups. Imagine a student group has been assigned to work on a project for a new home healthcare enterprise in the Harvard area. The company’s mission is to capitalize on the fact that the baby boom is at retirement age, and deliver a home healthcare solution for the elderly in the Mass area.
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Course Description:
This course is concerned with understanding 1) an entity's own goals and abilities and 2) its potential and existing customers and competitors as bases for setting objectives and making decisions about products, services, pricing, promotion, and distribution. The ability to analyze current situations and objectives, recognize impediments, and generate solutions is the foundation for creating, achieving, and maintaining a competitive advantage. This is a management-oriented course designed to give students an integrative framework for analyzing marketing programs and making marketing decisions.
Business Stats allows students to find granular geographic statistics, both historical and projected, about people and industries to make business decisions.
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Course Description:
Applies the tools of economics to explore social issues including crime, discrimination, racial and gender differences, poverty, family structure, urban problems, social interactions and peer effects, and intergenerational mobility.
Business Stats contains essential economic statistics that are useful not only to the business field, they can be leveraged by the social sciences who, more often than not, need similar data.
Applicable stats set:
Crime Rate (Metro)