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January Courses
The Harvard Kennedy School offers a small number of courses during a three week intensive winter term in January. Enrollment in January classes takes place in October and the process is the same as the fall and spring term.
January courses count as spring term courses for all purposes (i.e., use of points and number of classes enrolled) and will appear on a student’s official Harvard Kennedy School transcript in the spring semester. Students may not sign up for more than one January class (including cross-registered classes).
January 2010 Courses
In January 2010, the Harvard Kennedy School is offering the following nine courses for credit:
API-506M: Integrative Problem Solving Workshop: Global Hunger
DPI-106M: Acting in Time
IGA-308: Inclusive Security
MLD-230: Advanced Workshop in Multiparty Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
MLD-342: Persuasion: The Science and Art of Effective Influence
MLD-364: Leadership on the Line
MLD-615M: Controlling Corruption
MLD-717M A: The Arts of Communication
PED-501M: Native Americans in the 21st Century: Nation Building I
Initial registration is through SPARKS as in the fall. Any oversubscribed course will require bidding. The Office of the Registrar will let students know if they need to bid on a course and how much it is oversubscribed.
The instructors will provide details about prerequisites and/or other requirements for consideration for their courses. With regard to MLD-230 (previously offered as STM-230) students must have taken either MLD-221 (previously offered as STM-221), or a Harvard Law School or MIT negotiation course as the prerequisite. MLD-230 and HLS’s 44100A (or 44100-21) Winter Negotiation Workshop may not be both taken for credit.
Important Dates
| October 23, 2009 | Previews of January courses and non-credit activities | |
| October 27, 28 | 12 noon online Registration opens (closes at 12 noon on October 28) | |
| October 28, 29 | 3 pm Bidding opens if necessary (closes at 3 pm on October 29) | |
| October 30 | Paper add/drop begins; cross-registration petitions accepted | |
| December 1 | Drop deadline (without notation) | |
| First day of class | Add deadline, drop deadline (with notation) | |
| Last day of class | Final withdraw deadline (with notation) |
Should students drop a January course after the drop deadline (with notation), they will receive a WD (withdraw) notation on their transcript. Students enrolled in a course who do not attend and fail to drop it will receive an ABS (absent from the final examination) notation on their transcript.
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