Students who choose to work in the areas of Poverty, Violence, and Development will find a wealth of advanced graduate seminars taught by the core faculty in the working group (see below). That coursework complements a rigorous methods sequence, and a range of relevant foundational courses in the fields of Comparative Politics, International Relations, American Politics, and Normative Political Theory. Students are encouraged to address core disciplinary concerns while focusing their research on substantive areas of interest.

For more information on the department's quantitative methods sequence, visit the following site: http://web.mit.edu/dhidalgo/www/meth_seq/quant_seq.html