http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33991 History (21H) Sun, 19 May 2013 10:17:05 GMT 2013-05-19T10:17:05Z http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78857 21F.027J / CMS.874 / 21H.917J Visualizing Cultures, Spring 2008 Dower, John; Miyagawa, Shigeru In this new course, students will study how images have been used to shape the identity of peoples and cultures. A prototype digital project looking at American and Japanese graphics depicting the opening of Japan to the outside world in the 1850s will be used as a case study to introduce the conceptual and practical issues involved in "visualizing cultures". The major course requirement will be creation and presentation of a project involving visualized cultures. Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78857 2008-06-01T04:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77982 21H.416J / 14.70J Medieval Economic History in Comparative Perspective, Spring 2006 McCants, Anne This course will survey the conditions of material life and the changing social and economic relations in medieval Europe with reference to the comparative context of contemporary Islamic, Chinese, and central Asian experiences. The subject covers the emergence and decline of feudal institutions, the transformation of peasant agriculture, living standards and the course of epidemic disease, and the ebb and flow of long-distance trade across the Eurasian system. Particular emphasis will be placed on the study of those factors, both institutional and technological, which have contributed to the emergence of capitalist organization and economic growth in Western Europe in contrast to the trajectories followed by the other major medieval economies. Thu, 01 Jun 2006 04:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77982 2006-06-01T04:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77167 21H.126 America in Depression and War, Spring 2003 Jacobs, Meg The Great Depression and World War II permanently changed American politics and society. Topics include: the Great Crash, the New Deal, Roosevelt, the home front, the Normandy Invasion, and the atomic bomb. Explores those events through film, novels, newspapers, and other historical documents. Sun, 01 Jun 2003 04:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77167 2003-06-01T04:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/75812 18.152 Introduction to Partial Differential Equations, Fall 2004 Staffilani, Gigliola; Vasy, Andras This course analyzes initial and boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations and the wave and heat equation in one space dimension. It also covers the Sturm-Liouville theory and eigenfunction expansions, as well as the Dirichlet problem for Laplace's operator and potential theory. Wed, 01 Dec 2004 05:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/75812 2004-12-01T05:00:00Z