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"I started out as a physics major, but wanted a broader base to my education without abandoning math and physics. It was easy to switch to system dynamics because the courses I'd already taken satisfied many of the requirements. Through my internship at Eli Lilly, I met an executive who later started his own company in computer modeling, and who hired me after I graduated. I'm now going for my Ph.D. in earth and planetary sciences at MIT. By using system dynamics methodology in my projects, I've started winning my classmates over to the approach." - Ian Fenty '01

In the complex world of today, technological solutions can often be found for most problems, but the societal agendas remain challenging. These include readdressing environmental, economic and political problems, as well as dealing with the new economy and its institutions, such as cyber markets, peer to peer markets, legal interventions and the design of various types of service and responsibility institutions. The programs offered by the social science and policy studies department respond to these challenges by bringing formal analysis, modeling and experimentation with models to the study of social science disciplines. We offer majors and minors programs in economic science, psychological science, society and technology, and system dynamics, and a minor in pre-law. Additionally, all WPI students must complete a meaningful social science preparation that helps them in their Interactive Qualifying Project (IQP).

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