Propaganda and Ideology in Everyday Life
ADD FREE starts 11 May 2015
This free online course explores the building blocks of our political views: freedom, community, place, justice and choice. These words mean different things to different people – such radically different things in fact, that individuals, protest movements and entire states often go to war to assert their understanding of, say, freedom over somebody else’s. Over five weeks, we will explore how and why words come to mean such different things, across time and space. We will look at how individuals respond to the political propaganda they are exposed to, and how political ideas can impact on people’s everyday lives.

The Affordable Care Act and the Future of Health Care Reform (Part 2/2)
ADD FREE starts 23 Mar 2015
This course will explore the Affordable Care Act in depth and then turn towards future health reform efforts and the future of the American health care system. This is part two of a two-part course. We will examine the challenges that were overcome to achieve health reform in America, then go on to delineate the specific ways that the Affordable Care Act improves access and quality, and will control costs. The course will conclude with predictions about further reforms and about the future of health care in America.

Politics and Religion
ADD FREE always open
This course explores the role of religious groups, institutions and ideas in politics using social science theories. It surveys recent social science literature on politics and religion. The first objective of the course is to familiarize students with the existing theoretical literature and empirical research. The second objective to evaluate recent research on the role of religious actors, institutions and ideologies in policymaking, state-building, democratic politics, regime change, conflict, war and other political processes.