Course Title: Understanding AI: Capabilities, Limitations, and Impact

Day & Time: Wednesdays, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. 

Title: The Politics of Gentrification in Washington, DC

Class Day: Tuesdays

Time: 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Course Title: The Asian American Policymaking Experience in DC

Day and Time: Thursdays, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Course Title: A Right to the City? Race, Space, and the Struggle for Housing Justice

Day & Time: Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Day & Time: Tuesday, 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The study of both race and politics are fraught with preconceived notions, assumptions, and anecdotal evidence supporting personal views. In this course we will learn how race is studied by scholars, organizers, and activists who not only submit their preconceived notions to the test of scientific scrutiny, but who also engage issues of race, power, domination, and society as a matter of grave importance.

This course examines the history of immigration law and policy in the U.S., with a particular focus on the historical, political, and cultural conditions shaping immigration law and policy. In addition, the course looks at the history of the immigrant rights movement and immigrant community organizing, and explores the diversity of immigrant communities in the Washington, D.C. area. Students will develop their capacities for civic engagement by writing letters to elected officials about immigration law and policy and developing policy proposals of their own. 

Course Title: Reducing Poverty and Inequity: Lessons from International Development

Day & Time: Tuesdays, 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

Course Title: Washington Media: Fake News, Social Media, and the Reshaping of American Politics

Day & Time: Wednesdays, 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Do Tik Tok threaten democracy? What is the difference between “fake news” and journalism? Should the media report what people want to know or ought to know? Does objectivity exist?

Course Title: The American Congress in History and in Crisis  

Day & Time: Tuesdays, 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

Course Title: The U.S. Supreme Court: Conflict, Change and the Court

Day and Times: Wednesdays, 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.