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Doctoral Research Seminar: Knowledge in the Public Arena

11.800 · Urban Studies and Planning · Graduate · Spring 2007

Prof. Frank Levy, Prof. Martin Rein, Prof. Xavier de Souza Briggs

MIT · Tier 1

<p>This is a course about how research knowledge and other types of knowledge come to be actionable and influential in the world — or not. The course explores ways to make research knowledge more accessible, credible, and useful in the realm of public policy and practice, a project in which the course faculty collectively bring decades of professional experience, in both academic and non-academic roles.</p> <p>The course addresses the politics of the policymaking process, the power of framing a…

CommunicationPolitical SciencePolicy and AdministrationSociologyUrban StudiesSocial Sciences

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Prof. Frank Levy, Prof. Martin Rein, Prof. Xavier de Souza Briggs. 11.800 Doctoral Research Seminar: Knowledge in the Public Arena. Spring 2007. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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