Course Listing
Rice University classes taught by Baker Institute fellows.
Fall 2011
Baker Institute Fellows
Vivian Ho, Ph.D.
James A. Baker III Institute Chair in Health Economics
• ECON 481 — Health Economics
• ECON 516 — Empirical Microeconomics
Amy Myers Jaffe
Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in Energy Studies
Director, Baker Institute Energy Forum
• POST 499 — Independent Study
Kenneth B. Medlock III, Ph.D.
James A. Baker, III, and Susan G. Baker Fellow in Energy and Resource Economics
• ECON 437/ENST 437 — Energy Economics I
Ronald L. Sass, Ph.D.
Fellow in Global Climate Change
• CHEM 570 — Nanotechnology for Teachers
• MLSC 502 — Our Environment: Science and Culture
Robert M. Stein, Ph.D.
Fellow in Urban Politics
• POLI 530 — Approaches to American Government
• POLI 440 — Public Policy Seminar
Baker Institute Rice Scholars
David Cook, Ph.D.
• RELI 221 — Life of the Prophet Muhammad
• RELI 348 — Christianity and Islam in Africa
• RELI 441 — Arabic Texts
Elaine Ecklund, Ph.D.
• SOCI 580 — Classical Sociological Theory
Peter Hartley, Ph.D.
• ECON 480 — Environmental Economics
• ECON 523 — Corporate Finance
Rachel Kimbro, Ph.D.
• SOCI 101 — Introduction to Sociology
Richard Smith, Ph.D.
• HIST 206 — Introduction to Asian Civilizations
• HIST 341 — Premodern Chinese History
Richard Stoll, Ph.D.
• POLI 211 — Introduction to International Relations
• POLI 305 — Directed Readings (supervisor)
• POLI 405 — Senior Thesis (supervisor)
• POLI 570 — Seminar in International Conflict
• POLI 599 — Teaching Political Science
Ted Temzelides, Ph.D.
• ECON 303 — Macroeconomics
• ECON 502 — Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics I
Sarah Whiting, Ph.D.
• ARCH 433/633 — The Cullinan Seminar
Ron Witte
• ARCH 501 — Introductory Graduate Design Studio
George Zodrow, Ph.D.
• ECON 483 — Public Finance: Tax Policy
• ECON 522 — Public Economics: Tax Policy
