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Social Science

How societies work: economies, institutions and human behavior.

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  • Anthropology Foundations
    Completed the introductory course on anthropology: the four fields, human origins and evolution, culture and cultural relativism, fieldwork and ethnography, kinship and family, gifts and exchange, religion and ritual, and the discipline's colonial past and modern ethics. 0 holders 1 course
  • Cognitive Biases Foundations
    Completed the introductory course on what cognitive biases are, how heuristics work, confirmation bias, memory and perception, judging probability and risk, social biases, decisions and money, the replication debates and practical debiasing. 0 holders 1 course
  • Economics Foundations
    Completed the introductory course on scarcity and choice, supply and demand, markets and trade, market and government failure, money and inflation, growth and business cycles, inequality, economic systems and economic reasoning about public questions. 0 holders 1 course
  • Education and Learning Foundations
    Completed the introductory course on education and learning: the purposes of schooling, the history of mass education, the science of learning, teaching and assessment, inequality and opportunity, debates over school choice, testing and reading, education around the world, and technology and AI in learning. 0 holders 1 course
  • Food and Agriculture Foundations
    Completed the introductory course on food and agriculture: the origins of farming, how famines happen, the Green Revolution and its critics, modern food systems, GMOs and organic farming, land, water and biodiversity, animal welfare and diet, and food security and the right to food. 0 holders 1 course
  • Forms of Government Foundations
    Completed the introductory course on how political scientists classify regimes, absolute and constitutional monarchy, presidential, parliamentary and semi-presidential democracy, unitary, federal and confederal states, authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, theocracy, oligarchy and other forms, and the evidence on regime change and outcomes. 0 holders 1 course
  • Human Geography Foundations
    Completed the introductory course on human geography: maps and spatial thinking, population and the demographic transition, cities and urbanization, borders and territory, development and the geography of inequality, globalization and trade routes, regions, place and the spread of culture, and geography and public policy. 0 holders 1 course
  • International Relations Foundations
    Completed the introductory course on international relations: sovereignty and the state system, realism, liberalism and constructivism, power, alliances and deterrence, the causes of war, international law and the UN, and interdependence and shared global problems. 0 holders 1 course
  • Language and Linguistics Foundations
    Completed the introductory course on language and linguistics: what sets human language apart from animal communication, speech sounds, words and grammar, meaning and pragmatics, how children acquire language, language change and families, dialects and language prejudice, and writing systems and endangered languages. 0 holders 1 course
  • Poverty and Global Development Foundations
    Completed the introductory course on measuring poverty, the causes of national wealth, growth stories, aid, trade and debt, health and education, fragile states and the ethics of global poverty. 0 holders 1 course
  • Psychology Foundations
    Completed the introductory course on psychology: its history from Wundt's laboratory to the cognitive revolution, the brain, perception and attention, classical and operant conditioning and observational learning, memory and its reconstruction, development across the lifespan, emotion, motivation and personality, the classic findings of social psychology, and mental health, treatment and wellbeing. 0 holders 1 course
  • Public Health Foundations
    Completed the introductory course on public health: its purpose and the levels of prevention, John Snow and the methods of epidemiology, the sanitary revolution and clean water, vaccines and herd immunity, chronic disease and tobacco control, health inequality and the social gradient, pandemics and preparedness, and the role of trust in protecting the public's health. 0 holders 1 course
  • Sociology Foundations
    Completed the introductory course on sociology: the sociological imagination, the discipline's founders and perspectives, culture and socialization, groups, organizations and institutions, stratification and mobility, race, ethnicity and the family, deviance and social control, and research methods and social change. 0 holders 1 course
  • Statistics for Citizens Foundations
    Completed the introductory course on the role of numbers in public life, describing data, percentages and rates, sampling and surveys, correlation and causation, probability and risk, misleading charts and statistics, and checking a statistic for yourself. 0 holders 1 course
  • Work and Automation Foundations
    Completed the introductory course on work and automation: what work gives people, past waves of automation, the task approach to jobs, AI exposure and competing forecasts, gig and platform work, wages and inequality, policy responses, and work, dignity and citizenship. 0 holders 1 course

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