Junior Seminars

These Faculty-led seminars  introduce students to research and prepare students to undertake their own research. All junior seminars require a major research paper.  Prerequisites are intermediate microeconomic and macroeconomics, statistics, and econometrics (concurrent enrollment in econometrics is acceptable). Junior seminars satisfy both the writing requirement and the theory prerequisite requirement for the concentration. Each seminar is limited to 18 participants with preference given to Economics and Applied Math/Economics junior concentrators. Enrollment is determined by a lottery based on student preferences, although faculty may reserve two spaces in their seminars.

Lotteries for Junior Seminars take place the week before classes start. 

Five junior seminars will be offered in 2012-13:

• *Economics 980q. Economics Design Lab
Prof. Sendhil Mullainathan, M 4:30-6:30, Littauer 219


• Economics 980u. Immigration Economics
Prof.George Borjas, W 2-4:00, Sever 206


• Economics 980x. Economics of Work and Family - (New Course)
Prof. Claudia Goldin, M 2-4, Littauer 219

• Ec 980b: Education in the Economy 
  Prof  Katz & Prof Goldin   M 2:00-4:00, locatiom TBD
  

• Ec 980y: The Economy of China
  Prof. Cooper, W 2:00-4:00, location TBD 
  

The lottery for the Spring term seminars takes place the week before classes start. The first day of classes for Spring term is Monday January 28th.

The Spring-term lottery form will be due to Emily Neill (Littauer 113) by 5pm on Wednesday, January 23rd and results will be announced by 5:00pm FridayJanuary 25th, before classes meet. The first meeting of Junior Seminars is the first week of classes. You may email your preferences to Emily Neill (eneill@fas.harvard.edu).

There is no shopping for junior seminars. We encourage you to review the course syllabi ahead of time. Syllabi of the Spring-term seminars will be available on course websites (the links are posted above) by Monday, January 21st at the latest.

Send comments or questions to the
Emily Neill, Undergraduate Program Coordinator