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MIT OCW
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Modern China
Prof. Tristan G. Brown
This course discusses China’s emergence as a global power, which has arisen out of two centuries of significant...
History Humanities
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Music and Technology (Contemporary History and Aesthetics)
Prof. Christopher Ariza
This course is an investigation into the history and aesthetics of music and technology as deployed in experimental...
Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Media Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
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Shakespeare
Prof. Diana Henderson
Three hundred and eighty years after his death, William Shakespeare remains the central author of the...
Humanities Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
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Logic I
Dr. Ephraim Glick
In this course we will cover central aspects of modern formal logic, beginning with an explanation of what...
Humanities Philosophy
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Classics of Western Philosophy
Prof. Sally Haslanger
This course will introduce you to the Western philosophical tradition through the study of thinkers such as Plato,...
History Humanities Literature
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Digital Humanities
Dr. Kurt Fendt
This course examines the theory and practice of using computational methods in the emerging field of digital...
Art, Design & Architecture Computer Science Data Science
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Myth, Ritual, and Symbolism
Prof. James Howe
Human beings are symbol-making as well as tool-making animals. We understand our world and shape our lives in large...
Anthropology Humanities Linguistics
intermediate
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Old English and Beowulf
Prof. Arthur Bahr
This course is an intensive introduction to Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon), the ancestor of modern English...
Humanities Language Literature
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Philosophy of Law
Prof. Julia Markovits
This course examines fundamental issues in the philosophy of law, including the nature and content of law, its...
Humanities Law Philosophy
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Meta-ethics
Prof. Justin Khoo
This course considers a range of philosophical questions about the foundations of morality, such as whether and in...
Humanities Philosophy
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MIT OCW
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Writing and Reading the Essay
Dr. Rebecca Blevins Faery
This is a course focused on the literary genre of the essay, that wide-ranging, elastic, and currently very popular...
Humanities Literature
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MIT OCW
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Ethics in Your Life: Being, Thinking, Doing (or Not?)
Prof. Sally Haslanger
This seminar is made possible through a collaboration between Radius and the Philosophy section of MIT. This course...
Humanities Philosophy Social Sciences
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Writing Science Fiction
Shariann Lewitt
This class will focus on the craft of writing genre science fiction. Students write and read science fiction and...
Humanities Literature
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MIT OCW
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Theory of Knowledge
Prof. Declan Smithies
This course is an introduction to epistemology: the theory of knowledge. We will focus on skepticism—that is, the...
Humanities Philosophy
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American History Since 1865
Prof. Caley Horan
This course examines the social, cultural, political, and economic history of the United States, from the Civil War...
History Humanities
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MIT OCW
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The Art Museum: History, Theory, Controversy
Prof. Kristel R Smentek
Art museums are powerful and contested institutions. They are also innovative sites of architectural and artistic...
Architecture Art, Design & Architecture Art History
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Magic, Science, and Religion
Prof. Graham Jones
This course explores the origins of magic, science, and religion as forms of belief within and across cultures. It...
Anthropology Social Sciences
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Small Wonders: Staying Alive
Prof. John Hildebidle
This course closely examines a coherent set of short texts and/or visual works. The selections may be the shorter...
Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Literature
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Writing and Reading Poems
William Corbett
This course is an examination of the formal structural and textual variety in poetry. Students engage in extensive...
Humanities Literature
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Islam/Media
Dr. Peter McMurray
This course is an introduction to Islam from the perspective of media and sound studies, intended for advanced...
Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Media Studies
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The Ancient World: Greece
Prof. William Broadhead
This course elaborates the history of Ancient Greece from the Bronze Age to the death of Alexander. It covers major...
History Humanities Literature
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Theories and Methods in the Study of History
Prof. Kenda Mutongi
This course examines the distinctive ways in which historians in different parts of the world have approached the...
History Humanities
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German IV
Ellen Crocker
This course focuses on development of interpretive skills, using literary texts (B. Brecht, S. Zweig) and...
Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Language
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Comedy
Dr. Wyn Kelley
This course looks at comedy in drama, novels, and films from Classical Greece to the twentieth century. Focusing on...
Humanities Literature
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History of Western Thought, 500-1300
Prof. Anne McCants
This course examines the development of the western intellectual tradition from the fall of the Roman Empire through...
History Humanities Religion
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Genre Fiction Workshop
Shariann Lewitt
Some argue that genre fiction is only a marketing category, but other critics say that different genres meet...
Humanities Literature
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Fans and Fan Cultures
Prof. Edward Schiappa
This subject examines media audiences—specifically, fans—and the subcultures that evolve around them. Explores...
Humanities Literature Social Sciences
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Renaissance To Revolution: Europe, 1300-1800
Prof. Jeffrey S. Ravel
This course provides an introduction to major political, social, cultural and intellectual changes in Europe from...
History Humanities Philosophy
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Technology and Culture
Prof. Stefan Helmreich
This subject examines relationships among technology, culture, and politics in a range of social and historical...
Anthropology Policy and Administration Social Sciences
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Global Africa: Creative Cultures
Prof. M. Amah Edoh
This course examines contemporary and historical cultural production on and from Africa across a range of registers,...
Anthropology Art, Design & Architecture History
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Foundations of Western Culture: The Making of the Modern World
Dr. Howard Eiland
This course comprises a broad survey of texts, literary and philosophical, which trace the development of the modern...
History Humanities Literature
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Genre Fiction Workshop: Fantasy
Shariann Lewitt
Fantasy is currently one of the most popular genres across every platform in fiction. From film to gaming to...
Humanities Literature
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MIT OCW
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Studies in Literary History: Modernism: From Nietzsche to Fellini
Dr. Howard Eiland
How do literature, philosophy, film and other arts respond to the profound changes in world view and lifestyle that...
Art, Design & Architecture History Humanities
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Introduction to Contemporary Hispanic Literature
Prof. Margery Resnick
This course studies important twentieth century texts from Spain and Latin America. The readings include short...
Humanities Language Literature
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American Urban History II
Prof. Robert Fogelson
This is a seminar course that explores the history of selected features of the physical environment of urban...
History Humanities Policy and Administration
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Topics in Indian Popular Culture: Spectacle, Masala, and Genre
Arundhati Banerjee
This course aims to provide an overview of Indian popular culture over the last two decades, through a variety of...
Anthropology Art, Design & Architecture Humanities
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Writing and Experience: MIT: Inside, Live
Lucy Marx
During this seminar, students will chronicle their MIT experiences and investigate MIT history and culture. Visits...
Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Literature
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Popular Culture and Narrative: Use and Abuse of the Fairy Tale
Dr. William Donaldson
This course takes a deep look at a big subject. We ask where Fairy Tales come from and we examine the structure of...
Humanities Literature
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Transmedia Storytelling: Modern Science Fiction
Shariann Lewitt
Transmedia narratives exist across multiple storytelling platforms, using the advantages of each to enhance the...
Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Literature
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Godzilla and the Bullet Train: Technology and Culture in Modern Japan
Dr. Takashi Nishiyama
This course explores how and why Japan, a late-comer to modernization, emerged as an industrial power and the...
Art, Design & Architecture Media Studies Social Sciences
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MIT OCW
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Studies in Poetry: From the Sonneteers to the Metaphysicals
Prof. Shankar Raman
This course introduces students to some of the most important practitioners of poetry in sixteenth- and...
Humanities Literature
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Culture, Embodiment and the Senses
Prof. Erica James
Culture, Embodiment, and the Senses will provide an historical and cross-cultural analysis of the politics of...
Anthropology Humanities Philosophy
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MIT OCW
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Small Wonders: Media, Modernity, and the Moment: Experiments in Time
Prof. Noel Jackson
The “small wonders” to which our course will attend are moments of present time, depicted in the verbal and visual...
Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Literature
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Studies in Fiction: Rethinking the American Masterpiece
Dr. Wyn Kelley
What has been said of Moby-Dick—that it’s the greatest novel no one ever reads—could just as well be said of any...
Humanities Literature
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Topics in South Asian Literature and Culture
Arundhati Banerjee
This subject aims to provide an overview of contemporary texts in regional languages in South Asian Literature and...
Anthropology Art, Design & Architecture Humanities
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MIT OCW
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Ethnic Literature in America
Dr. Wyn Kelley
Although this class starts by critically examining the term “ethnic” as it defines a wide range of cultural forms...
Humanities Literature
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MIT OCW
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Medieval Literature: Legends of Arthur
Prof. Arthur Bahr
As a quasi-historical, quasi-legendary figure of consistently great popularity, King Arthur has been subject to an...
History Humanities Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
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Capitalism in the Age of Revolution
Prof. Malick Ghachem
The decades leading up to the Atlantic revolutions of the late eighteenth century were formative moments in the rise...
History Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
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Studies in Poetry - British Poetry and the Sciences of the Mind
Prof. Noel Jackson
Do poems think? Recurrent images of the poet as an inspired lunatic, and of poetry as a fundamentally irrational...
Cognitive Science History Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
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Modern Latin America, 1808-Present: Revolution, Dictatorship, Democracy
Prof. Jeffrey S. Ravel
This class is a selective survey of Latin American history from the beginning of the twentieth century to the...
Anthropology History Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
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The American Novel: Stranger and Stranger
Dr. Wyn Kelley
This course covers works by major American novelists, beginning with the late 18th century and concluding with a...
Humanities Literature
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MIT OCW
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Studies in Poetry: 20th Century Irish Poetry: The Shadow of W. B. Yeats
Prof. John Hildebidle
William Butler Yeats occupies a dominant position in the lives and work of the Irish poets who followed him. We will...
Humanities Literature
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Causes and Prevention of War
Prof. Stephen Van Evera
This course examines the causes of war, with a focus on practical measures to prevent and control war. Topics...
History Humanities Policy and Administration
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MIT OCW
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From Print to Digital: Technologies of the Word, 1450-Present
Prof. Jeffrey S. Ravel
There has been much discussion in recent years, on this campus and elsewhere, about the death of the book....
Art, Design & Architecture History Humanities
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MIT OCW
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Riots, Strikes, and Conspiracies in American History
Prof. Pauline Maier
This course uses readings and discussions to focus on a series of short-term events that shed light on American...
History Humanities Philosophy
intermediate
MIT OCW
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Reading Cookbooks: from The Forme of Cury to The Smitten Kitchen
Ina Lipkowitz
In this course students will visit the past through cookbooks to learn about what foodstuffs and technologies were...
Gender Studies History Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
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Studies in Fiction: Stowe, Twain, and the Transformation of 19th-Century America
Dr. Wyn Kelley
This seminar looks at two bestselling nineteenth-century American authors whose works made the subject of slavery...
Humanities Literature
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MIT OCW
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The Places of Migration in United States History
Prof. Christopher Capozzola
This course examines the history of the United States as a “nation of immigrants” within a broader global context....
Anthropology History Humanities
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Making Books: The Renaissance and Today
Prof. Anne McCants
This course explores the impact of new technology on the recording and distribution of words and images at three...
History Humanities Literature
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MIT OCW
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All the President's Generals: Civil-Military Relations in the US and Beyond
Sara Plana
This course introduces the unique characteristics of militaries and explores the roles they play in the societies...
Policy and Administration Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
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Recreate Experiments from History: Inform the Future from the Past: Galileo
Dr. Elizabeth Cavicchi
2010 marks the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s astonishing sightings of features on the moon, stars, and moons around...
History Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
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Dynastic China
Prof. Tristan G. Brown
This course surveys the history of China from the first dynasty to the year 1800. It traces the rise of the world’s...
History Humanities
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MIT OCW
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Introduction to the History and Theory of Architecture
Prof. Mark Jarzombek
This course is a global-oriented survey of the history of architecture, from the prehistoric to the sixteenth...
Architecture Art, Design & Architecture History
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MIT OCW
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Forms of Western Narrative
Prof. James Cain
This class will investigate the ways in which the formal aspects of Western storytelling in various media have...
Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
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Ethics and the Law on the Electronic Frontier
Prof. Daniel Weitzner
This course considers the interaction between law, policy, and technology as they relate to the evolving...
Communication Computer Science Data Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
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Chinese V (Regular): Chinese Cultures & Society
Tong Chen
This course is the continuation of 21G.104/108. It is designed to further help students develop sophisticated...
Humanities Language Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
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Chinese VI (Regular): Discovering Chinese Cultures and Societies
Tong Chen
This course is the continuation of 21G.105. It is designed to further help students develop sophisticated...
Humanities Language Social Sciences
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MIT OCW
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Riots, Rebellions, Revolutions
Prof. Roger Petersen
This course examines different types of violent political conflict. It compares and contrasts several social science...
History Humanities Political Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
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American Science: Ethical Conflicts and Political Choices
Dr. Brendan Foley
We will explore the changing political choices and ethical dilemmas of American scientists from the atomic...
History Humanities Philosophy
intermediate
MIT OCW
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Understanding Television
Prof. David Thorburn
The subtitle of this course for the spring 2003 term is “American Television: A Cultural History.” The class takes a...
Anthropology Art, Design & Architecture Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
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Magic, Witchcraft, and the Spirit World
Prof. James Howe
Spiritual, magical, and “occult” aspects of human behavior in anthropological and historical perspective: magic,...
Anthropology History Humanities
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Writing and Reading Short Stories
Shariann Lewitt
This course is an introduction to the short story. Students will write stories and short descriptive sketches....
Humanities Literature
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MIT OCW
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The Bible
Ina Lipkowitz
This course is an introduction to major books from both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. Particular attention...
History Humanities Literature
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MIT OCW
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Victorian Literature and Culture
Prof. James Buzard
The course covers British literature and culture during Queen Victoria’s long reign, 1837-1901. This was the...
Anthropology History Humanities
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Problems of Philosophy
Prof. Miriam Schoenfield
This course is an introduction to the problems of philosophy—in particular, to problems in ethics, metaphysics,...
Humanities Philosophy Religion
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Ethics of Technology
Dr. Kevin Mills
This course introduces the tools of philosophical ethics through application to contemporary issues concerning...
Computer Science Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology Engineering
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Moral Psychology
Prof. Tamar Schapiro
This course is an examination of philosophical theories of action and motivation in the light of empirical findings...
Humanities Philosophy Psychology
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Chinese I (Regular)
Dr. Haohsiang Liao
This subject is the first semester of four that forms an introduction to modern standard Chinese, commonly called...
Humanities Language
intermediate
MIT OCW
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Ancient Greek Philosophy and Mathematics
Dr. Lee Perlman
This course explores the relationship between ancient Greek philosophy and mathematics. We investigate how ideas of...
History Humanities Literature
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MIT OCW
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Introduction to French Literature
Prof. Bruno Perreau
This course is a study of major French literary genres and an introduction to methods of literary analysis. This...
Humanities Language Literature
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The Science Fiction of Freedom
Prof. Ben Mangrum
What does it mean to be free? Is freedom a state of mind? An inalienable property of the self? The absence of...
Humanities Literature Social Sciences
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Literature and Ethical Values
Prof. Alvin Kibel
The aim of this subject is to acquaint the student with some important works of systematic ethical philosophy and to...
Humanities Literature Philosophy
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Moral Problems and the Good Life
Prof. Sally Haslanger
This course will focus on issues that arise in contemporary public debate concerning matters of social justice....
Humanities Philosophy Social Sciences
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Japanese Literature and Cinema
Prof. Ian Condry
This course surveys both cinematic and literary representations of diverse eras and aspects of Japanese culture such...
Anthropology Art, Design & Architecture Humanities
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MIT OCW
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Introduction to Latin American Studies
Prof. Chappell Lawson
This course is designed as an introduction to Latin American politics and society for undergraduates at MIT. No...
Humanities International Development Philosophy
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Intro to Japanese Culture
Prof. Ian Condry
This course examines the major aesthetic, social, and political elements which have shaped modern Japanese culture...
Anthropology History Humanities
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Bioethics
Prof. Caspar Hare
This course does not seek to provide answers to ethical questions. Instead, the course hopes to teach students two...
Business & Management Health & Medicine Humanities
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Contemporary Literature
Prof. John Hildebidle
This semester, Contemporary Literature (21L.488) deals with Irish literature, a subject broad and deep. To achieve a...
Humanities Literature
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Ethics for Engineers: Artificial Intelligence
Prof. Bernhardt Trout
Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the algorithmic judgment at its core, is developing at breakneck speed. This...
AI Computer Science Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
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MIT OCW
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Writing and Rhetoric: Rhetoric and Contemporary Issues
Dr. Andrea Walsh
This course seeks to provide a supportive context for students to grow significantly as writers by discovering and...
Communication Humanities International Development
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Introduction to Literary Theory
Prof. Shankar Raman
This subject examines the ways in which we read. It introduces some important strategies for engaging with literary...
Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Literature
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Reading Fiction
Ina Lipkowitz
This course introduces prose narrative, both short stories and the novel. It examines the construction of narrative...
Humanities Literature
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Ethics
Prof. Julia Markovits
This will be a seminar on classic and contemporary work on central topics in ethics. The first third of the course...
Humanities Philosophy
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Introduction to Media Studies
Dr. Andrea Walsh
Introduction to Media Studies is designed for students who have grown up in a rapidly changing global multimedia...
Anthropology Art, Design & Architecture Humanities
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Modal Logic
Prof. Stephen Yablo
Modal logic is the logic of necessity and possibility, and by extension of analogously paired notions like validity...
Humanities Linguistics Philosophy
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Ancient Philosophy
Prof. Sally Haslanger
This course will acquaint the student with some of the ancient Greek contributions to the Western philosophical and...
Humanities Literature Philosophy
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Foundations of Western Culture: Homer to Dante
Prof. Arthur Bahr
As we read broadly from throughout the vast chronological period that is “Homer to Dante,” we will pepper our...
Humanities Literature Philosophy
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Anthropology Through Speculative Fiction
Prof. Erica James
This class examines how anthropology and speculative fiction (SF) each explore ideas about culture and society,...
Anthropology Humanities Literature
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Jewish History from Biblical to Modern Times
Prof. Peter Temin
This course explores how our views of Jewish history have been formed and how this history can explain the survival...
Anthropology History Humanities
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Paradox and Infinity
Prof. Agustín Rayo
This course presents highlights of the more technical side of philosophy. It studies a cluster of puzzles,...
Economics Humanities Mathematics
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Classics of Chinese Literature
Prof. Emma Teng
This course is an introduction to three of the major genres of traditional Chinese literature—poetry, fiction and...
Humanities Literature
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American Literature
Dr. Wyn Kelley
This course studies the national literature of the United States since the early 19th century. It considers a range...
Humanities Literature
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Masterworks in American Short Fiction
Prof. John Hildebidle
For some reason, American literature (like French, Irish, and Russian, among others) has been especially productive...
Humanities Literature
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Modern African History
Prof. Kenda Mutongi
This course surveys the history of 19th and 20th century Africa. It focuses on the European conquest of Africa and...
History Humanities
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Introduction to Fiction
Dr. Wyn Kelley
This course investigates the uses and boundaries of fiction in a range of novels and narrative styles–traditional...
Humanities Literature
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MIT OCW
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Good Food: Ethics and Politics of Food
Prof. Sally Haslanger
This course explores the values (aesthetic, moral, cultural, religious, prudential, political) expressed in the...
Gender Studies Humanities International Development
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MIT OCW
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Chinese I (Streamlined)
Min-Min Liang
This course, along with 21G.108 / 158 offered in the spring, form the elementary level of the streamlined sequence,...
Humanities Language
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The Supernatural in Music, Literature and Culture
Prof. Charles Shadle
This course explores the relationship between music and the supernatural, focusing on the social history and context...
Art, Design & Architecture Humanities Literature
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Chinese IV (Regular)
Dr. Haohsiang Liao
Together with 21G.103 Chinese III, this course forms the intermediate level of what constitutes a four-term...
Humanities Language
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MIT OCW
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Philosophy of Love in the Western World
Prof. Irving Singer
This course is a seminar on the nature of love and sex, approached as topics both in philosophy and in literature....
Humanities Literature Philosophy
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Anthropology of the Middle East
Prof. Susan Slyomovics
This course examines traditional performances of the Arabic-speaking populations of the Middle East and North...
Anthropology Art, Design & Architecture History
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MIT OCW
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Chinese II (Regular)
Dr. Haohsiang Liao
This subject is the second semester of four that forms an introduction to modern standard Chinese, commonly called...
Humanities Language
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MIT OCW
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Writing About Literature: Writing About Love
Rosa Martínez
This course is designed around analyzing intimate bonds and the permutations of heartbreak. Through the analysis of...
Humanities Literature
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Prohibition and Permission
Prof. Jeremy Wolfe
Explore where the prohibitions and permissions that occur in every day life come from, why they exist, and what...
Humanities Law Literature
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The Making of a Roman Emperor
Prof. William Broadhead
Through close examination of the emperor Augustus and his Julio-Claudian successors, this subject investigates how...
History Humanities
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MIT OCW
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Modern Japan: 1868 to Present
Prof. Hiromu Nagahara
This course surveys Japanese history from the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1603 to the present and...
History Humanities Political Science
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Introduction to French Culture
Catherine E Clark
This course examines major social and political trends, events, debates and personalities which help place aspects...
Anthropology Humanities Language
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MIT OCW
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Writing and Experience: Exploring Self in Society
Dr. Andrea Walsh
The reading and writing for this course will focus on what it means to construct a sense of self and a life...
Humanities Literature
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European Thought and Culture
Prof. Thomas Nolden
This subject surveys main currents of European cultural and intellectual history in the modern period. Such a...
Anthropology History Humanities
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Writing About Literature
Dr. Wyn Kelley
Students, scholars, bloggers, reviewers, fans, and book-group members write about literature, but so do authors...
Humanities Literature
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