Our Offerings

The courses offered at Harvard Kennedy School provide an enriching curricular experience, and are organized around our seven academic areas. They include core courses that are required for earning a degree, along with electives, modules and January-term options to cater to different interests and schedules.

While classroom learning is integral to an HKS education, it is elevated by the many extra-curricular activities and programs, including lectures, seminars, brown bags, conferences and experiential learning, on- and off-campus.

Information on course registration and cross-registration:

Academic Year 2026 - 2027

Course Number

Course Title

Instructors

API-101 Resources, Incentives, and Choices I: Markets and Market Failures
Anne Le BrunInstructor
API-102 Resources, Incentives, and Choices II: Analysis of Public Policy
API-104M Resources, Incentives, and Choices: Advanced Policy Analysis
API-105 Markets and Market Failure in the Real Situations
API-109 Advanced Microeconomic Analysis I: Theory of Supply, Demand, and Equilibrium
Shanwen MaFaculty
API-110 Advanced Microeconomic Analysis II: Game Theory and Information Economics
Jie BaiFaculty
API-111 Microeconomic Theory I
Shanwen MaFaculty
API-112 Microeconomic Theory II
API-114 Econometric Methods for Applied Research I
API-115 Econometric Methods for Applied Research II
API-119 Advanced Macroeconomics for the Open Economy I
API-120 Advanced Macroeconomics for the Open Economy II
Ishan NathFaculty
API-121 Recessions, Growth, and Macroeconomic Policy
API-126 American Economic Policy
API-129 Using Markets to Solve Social Problems
API-135 Economics of Climate Change and Environmental Policy
API-141 Finance
Akash DeepFaculty
API-148 Advanced Risk Management and Infrastructure Finance
Akash DeepFaculty
API-165 Energy and Environmental Economics and Policy
API-170 Managing Climate Change Risks: Information, Incentives, and Institutions
API-201 Quantitative Analysis and Empirical Methods
API-202M Empirical Methods II
Melanie RucinskiInstructor
API-203M Empirical Methods II
Chase HarrisonInstructor
API-205 Politics and Policies: The Power of Data and AI
API-209 Advanced Quantitative Methods I: Description and Prediction
Dan LevyFaculty
API-210M Advanced Quantitative Methods II: Causal Inference
API-212M Advanced Quantitative Methods III: Agentic Data Analysis
API-232 Computational Policy Analysis: Data, Decisions, and Evidence
API-233M Agentic Data Analysis
API-302 Analytic Frameworks for Policy
API-303 Game Theory and Strategic Decisions
API-305 Behavioral Economics, Law and Public Policy
API-318 Thinking Analytically in an Uncertain World
Dan LevyFaculty
API-500M Spring Exercise
API-501 Policy Design and Delivery
API-901 Doctoral Research Seminar
API-902 Doctoral Research Seminar
API-905Y Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy
BGP-100 The Business-Government Relationship in the United States
BGP-150Y Seminar: Business and Government
John HaighFaculty
BGP-204 Food Systems: Feeding the Planet Sustainably
BGP-215 Big Tech, AI and Competition Policy: Markets, Power and Innovation
John HaighFaculty
Jonathan SalletFellow Instructor/Staff
BGP-235M Private Capital for Public Purpose: Impact Investing and Its Siblings
David WoodFaculty
BGP-264 Capital Markets Regulation
Hal ScottFaculty
BGP-510Y HKS-HBS Joint Degree First-Year Seminar
Shawn ColeFaculty
BGP-610 The Political Economy of Trade
BGP-620 International Macroeconomics
BGP-622 Strategies for Shared Prosperity in the 21st Century
BGP-625 Past, Present, and Future of Globalization
BGP-631 Regulation of International Finance
Daniel TarulloInstructor