Science Writing - Master's Degree
In 2013, the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences merged the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies with the Comparative Media Studies program, creating the Comparative Media Studies/Writing section. This merger therefore also brought two master's programs -- one in comparative media studies, the other in science writing -- under the same roof.
Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies theses can be found
here.
Recent Submissions
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Operational atmosphere : mediating policing in the "fight against crime" and "rural terrorism" in Chile
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)From drones to predictive policing systems, there has been an increasing incorporation of new security technologies over the last years in Chile to make the fight against crime and "rural terrorism" more effective, in a ... -
Fission and fury in Perry, Ohio : one town's fight to save their nuclear power plant
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)Before much of America learned to fear atomic energy, towns like Perry, Ohio, learned to love it. For over thirty years the Perry Nuclear Power Plant has been the linchpin of the small Rust Belt community, bringing flush ... -
The people and the park : how a small Mexican community created one of the world's most successful marine preserves
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)Cabo Pulmo National Park is a 27-square mile protected area in the Gulf of California, near the southern end of Mexico's Baja Peninsula. The park surrounds one of the oldest coral reefs on the western coast of North America. ...
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