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.

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Featured Course Guides


Academic Year 2024 - 2025

Course Number

Course Title

Instructors

DPI-691M Programming and Data for Policymakers
Aarushi SahejpalInstructor
DPI-703 Democracy: The Long View and the Bumpy History
DPI-802M The Arts of Communication
DPI-805M Writing for Policy and Politics: Mastering Daily Communications
Alex GreenFaculty
DPI-810M Writing for Policy and Politics: Developing Voice and Narrative
DPI-820M Policy Memo Writing for Decision Makers
DPI-821M Writing Policy Reports
DPI-828M Persuasive Policy Communication
DPI-830M Column and Opinion Writing Workshop
DPI-831M Op-Ed Writing
Alex GreenFaculty
DPI-835M Speechwriting
DPI-840M Feature Writing
DPI-851M Data and Information Visualization
Hong QuFaculty
DPI-852M Advanced Data and Information Visualization
Hong QuFaculty
DPI-891M Engaging the Media
DPI-896M Crisis Communications
Jon HaberFaculty
IGA-100 International and Global Affairs: Concepts and Applications
Leslie SchumacherInstructor/Staff
IGA-103 Global Governance
IGA-105 International Law and Global Justice
IGA-108 China and the World: Challenges, Competition and Cooperation
IGA-125 Reasoning from the Past: Applied History and Decision Making
IGA-150Y Seminar: International and Global Affairs
Zoe MarksFaculty
IGA-211 Central Challenges of American National Security, Strategy, and the Press
Derek ReveronInstructor
IGA-232 Controlling the World's Most Dangerous Weapons
IGA-236 Cybersecurity: Technology, Policy, and Law
IGA-237M Future Issues in Cyber-Security Policy
IGA-250 Emerging Tech: Security, Strategy, and Risk
IGA-291 The War in Vietnam
IGA-315 Global Ethnic Politics
IGA-342M Human Rights Dilemmas in Child Protection
IGA-353M Frontline Negotiation Lab: Strategic Planning for Complex Engagements
Claude BruderleinInstructor
IGA-355 Migration, Refugees, and Human Rights
IGA-402 The Climate Energy Challenge: A Foundation in Science, Technology and Policy
IGA-412 Energy, the Energy Transition, and Geopolitics
IGA-413M The Energy-Climate Transition
Henry LeeFaculty
IGA-415M Financing the Clean Energy Transition
Ely SandlerInstructor/Staff
IGA-453 Reweaving Ourselves and the World: New Perspectives on Climate Change
IGA-455 Climate Leadership: Persuasion, Advocacy and Negotiation
IGA-513 Science, Power, and Politics
IGA-538 Technology, Privacy, and the Trans-National Nature of the Internet
Jim WaldoFaculty
IGA-632 African Politics in Perspective: Groups, Governance, and Growth
IGA-655 Middle Eastern Politics and Policy
IGA-662 The Future of the European Union: Europe in the World
IGA-671M Policy and Social Innovations for the Changing Arctic
IGA-956Y Science, Technology, and Society: Research Seminar
MLD-102 Getting Things Done: Management and Implementation for Development
MLD-111 Critical Pathways: Leadership Dilemmas in U.S. Transportation
MLD-125 What Works in Public Sector Management
MLD-201 Exercising Leadership: The Politics of Change
MLD-202M Leadership from the Inside Out: The Capacity to Lead and Stay Alive–Self, Identity, and Freedom