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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

  • Narrative as an aid for the doctor-patient relationship in China 
    Tong, Yao, S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
    In recent years, the incidence of violence against Chinese doctors has increased dramatically, with the scale, frequency and viciousness of attacks shocking the world. The challenging doctor-patient relationship remains a ...
  • Operational images and the interpretive turn 
    Saucier, Nathan (Nathan W.) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
    Over the past several decades, computers have allowed for the increasingly voluminous and rapid ingest of images. These images, made for machine legibility, are called "operational images," a term coined by Harun Farocki. ...
  • Ghost Forests of the Mid-Atlantic : how sea-level rise is killing our coastlines 
    Friar, Greta (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
    Up and down the eastern seaboard of the United States, ocean levels are rising at rates faster than just about anywhere in the world. Coastal forests are dying off as a result-an early warning, if people will pay attention, ...
  • Media of Mass Destruction : how fake news is killing Italy's olive trees 
    Guglielmi, Giorgia (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
    In 2013, the plant pathogen Xylellafastidiosa was found in Salento, Italy's most southeastern region, famous for its centuries-old olive trees. Spread by insects, the bacterium is decimating those trees and compromising ...
  • The Angelman Approach : hacking DNA to treat a rare disease 
    Levy, Brandon A (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
    One of every hundred children is born with a disease caused by a single abnormal gene. In the case of Angelman Syndrome, the genetic defect leaves patients mentally disabled, largely or completely unable to speak, and prone ...
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