MITx Course Second Edition - Sep 2022!

Exciting news!

The second edition of the MITx course 11.s952 COVID-19 in Slums & Informal Settlements: Guidelines & Responses will be ready soon.

It will be available in September 2022 on the MITx Online platform!

After a very sucessful 1st Run (2020-2021), with over 1200 enrolled students from over 100 countries around the world, MIT SIS is proud to share the launch of the 2nd Run of our MITx course 11.s952 COVID-19 in Slums & Informal Settlements: Guidelines & Responses.

The course engages learners to analyze not only how COVID-19 has impacted the world’s most marginalized populations, but also how these communities have developed their own strategies, and have been in the frontlines of the pandemic response. 

The course is structured in four modules. The first module presents an overview of slums and slum health. The second module describes the different sets of guidelines that development actors published in the first months of the pandemic, pertaining specifically to COVID-19 response in slums and informal settlements. The third module reviews the early response in self-organized, self-built urban poor communities through the experiences of slum-dwellers and community-based organizations in Freetown (Sierra Leone), Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Masvingo (Zimbabwe). The fourth module presents overarching analysis, conclusions and an open crowdsourced map of Covid-19 response experiences that learners share as they take the course.

In this second edition, the course is updated to show current situations in the study sites, as well as a new case study on current impact and response in Masvingo, Zimbabwe.

The course is self-paced (15-20 hours total) and allows for a high degree of flexibility. Stay tuned for the enrollment link!