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Home > Degree Programs > Teaching & Courses > 2009-2010 Course Listing > Acting in Time
DPI-106M: Acting in Time
Faculty: David Ellwood, Christopher Stone
Schedule
| Day | Time | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Day | 1/8 | ||
| Meet Day | M/T/W/R/F | 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM | L280 |
| Review | |||
| meets daily Jan 8-15, 10:10-11:30 and 1:30-4:00 | |||
Description
This course invites students to join a university-wide effort, led by the Kennedy School, to develop practical lessons about how governments can more reliably act in time to avert a wide range of disasters. The Acting in Time Initiative — inspired in part by the failures of the U.S. governments preparation for, and response to, Hurricane Katrina — harnesses the capacities of faculty and students across the university to better understand the qualities of analysis, governance, policy design, democratic institutional structure, information, political mobilization, and leadership that can lead to effective and timely action. The course draws on research projects currently underway as part of this initiative, focusing on topics from energy policy and climate change, to the preparation for natural disasters, to global health pandemics. Students assemble a briefing book and present their work at the end of the course.