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Workshop on Public Economics is the second in a two-seminar sequence focused on individual research and group discussion of public expenditure programs, including human capital, education, training, health information, and welfare.

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Graduate seminar on current research in international trade covering theory, quantitative analysis, statistics, and policy for students working on theses.

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ECON 990 Thesis involves independent research and writing for graduate students under the supervision of a faculty member.

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Independent work consisting of directed study projects for graduate students, arranged with a faculty member.

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Introductory corporate finance and investments course.

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Investment Theory covers securities market structure, portfolio construction principles, and models of the tradeoff between risk and expected return.

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An advanced course on Markets with Frictions that uses search theory to develop theoretical tools for studying monetary, public, and financial economics, focusing on frictions in formal models and applied scenarios.

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Advanced Bayesian statistics course covering theory, methods, and computational procedures for data analysis, including MCMC and variational inference.

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Analysis of the health care industry, covering markets for hospitals, physicians' care, health manpower, and the role of health insurance.

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Focuses on the study of the allocation of scarce resources across space. Uses economic methods to analyze urban real estate. Topics covered include the determinants of real estate values, the location decisions of households and firms, land use, urban growth and agglomeration, real estate pricing, cycles, development, housing market and policies, and sustainable development.

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Insuring Life's Risks: Health, Aging, and Policy covers risks related to health and aging, rationales for social insurance programs, and their costs and benefits.

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Introduction to Tutoring covers techniques for asking questions, research-based learning strategies, active learning, productive struggle, feedback, and cognitive apprenticeship.

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Global Education Through Film introduces global educational issues, policies, and practices through films, encouraging critical thinking about education's role in society.

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Intensive study of Wisconsin's environmental, sustainability, and climate change education history combined with active participation in community organizations engaged in sustainability.

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Intro to education, technology, and society covering AI, big data, and the digital divide in domestic and global contexts.

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Examines claims in education stories, forms of bias, and how the changing media landscape impacts what stories are told, who tells them, and their effect on education policy and practice.

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Introduction to Education examines fundamental educational questions, concepts, and perspectives to assess proposed and existing educational policies and practices.

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Introduction to K-12 education policy, policy processes, and school governance in the U.S., examining goals, discourses, research, and lenses across historical and global contexts.

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Examines ethical questions in education, including justification, equity, and decision-making authority, while introducing analytic tools used by educational ethicists.

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Education and Public Policy examines educational policies, practices, and issues in social, cultural, historical, and political economic contexts in the U.S. and globally.

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Examines histories of discrimination and resistance at UW-Madison and in Madison since 1848, focusing on race, racial inequalities, and structural impacts on students, staff, and faculty.

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Explores race, ethnicity, and inequality in U.S. public education through theoretical, historical, social, and cultural frameworks, focusing on K-12 and multicultural contexts.

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Explores the value of an education/social sciences major for education-related careers in the contemporary workplace.

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An internship course in education, arts, or health that combines workplace experience with critical reflection and career development theory to enhance professional opportunities.

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Examines cultural and language politics in education through anthropology, sociolinguistics, and language policy to understand how they reinforce or reduce inequality.

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Introduction to quantitative methods in education policy, focusing on using quantitative reasoning to analyze and interpret data in visual and numerical forms.

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An interdisciplinary course that explores youth through theoretical, historical, social, and cultural perspectives with a focus on Minoritized Youth and the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality.

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Study theories and practices of educating for social justice using participatory methodologies, focusing on critical pedagogy and transformative educators like Paulo Freire and bell hooks.

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Disability and Education Policy examines how policies shape the educational experiences of students with disabilities in education and the broader educational landscape.

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This course examines the socio-cultural, political, and economic forces shaping education worldwide, including in the U.S., focusing on purposes of schooling, inequality, and global reform.

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