Browsing Writing and Humanistic Studies (21W) - Archived by Title
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11.124 Introduction to Teaching and Learning Mathematics and Science, Fall 2004
(2004-12)This course provides an introduction to teaching and learning in a variety of K-12 settings. Through visits to schools, classroom discussions, selected readings, and hands-on activities, we explore the challenges and ... -
11.131 Educational Theory and Practice III, Spring 2007
(2007-06)This is the final course in the three course sequence (11.129, 11.130 and 11.131) that deals with the practicalities of teaching students. Our areas of study will include: educational psychology, identification of useful ... -
11.165 / 11.477 Infrastructure in Crisis: Energy and Security Challenges, Fall 2009
(2009-12)The purpose of this seminar is to examine efforts in developing and advanced nations and regions to create, finance and regulate infrastructure systems and services that affect energy security. We will introduce a variety ... -
12.010 Computational Methods of Scientific Programming, Fall 2008
(2008-12)This course introduces programming languages and techniques used by physical scientists: FORTRAN, C, C++, MATLAB, and Mathematica. Emphasis is placed on program design, algorithm development and verification, and comparative ... -
12.086 / 12.586 Modeling Environmental Complexity, Fall 2008
(2008-12)This course provides an introduction to the study of environmental phenomena that exhibit both organized structure and wide variability—i.e., complexity. Through focused study of a variety of physical, biological, ... -
17.433 / 17.434 International Relations of East Asia, Spring 2005
(2005-06)The aim of this lecture course is to introduce and analyze the international relations of East Asia. With four great powers, three nuclear weapons states and two of the world's largest economies, East Asia is one of the ... -
18.152 Introduction to Partial Differential Equations, Fall 2004
(2004-12)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, ... -
21F.040 A Passage to India: Introduction to Modern Indian Culture and Society, Spring 2005
(2005-06)This course introduces students to Indian Culture through films, short-stories, novels, essays, and newspaper articles. The course examines some major social and political controversies of contemporary India through ... -
21H.909 People and Other Animals, Fall 2005
(2005-12)A historical survey of the ways that people have interacted with their closest animal relatives, for example: hunting, domestication of livestock, worship of animal gods, exploitation of animal labor, scientific study of ... -
21L.000J / 21L.010 / 21W.734J Writing About Literature, Fall 2006
(2006-12)Writing About Literature aims: To increase students' pleasure and skill in reading literary texts and in writing and communicating about them. To introduce students to different literary forms (poetry, fiction, drama) and ... -
21L.010 / 21W.730-5 Writing About Literature, Fall 2002
(2002-12)This is a HASS –CI course. Like other communications-intensive courses in the humanities, arts, and social sciences, it allows students to produce 20 pages of polished writing with careful attention to revision. It also ... -
21L.448 / 21W.739J Darwin and Design, Fall 2002
(2002-12)In the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin gave us a model for understanding how natural objects and systems can evidence design without positing a designer: how purpose and mechanism can exist without intelligent agency. ... -
21L.448J / 21W.739J Darwin and Design, Fall 2009
(2009-12)In the Origin of Species (1859), Charles Darwin gave us a model for understanding how natural objects and systems can evidence design without positing a designer: how purpose and mechanism can exist without intelligent ... -
21M.220 Early Music, Spring 2007
(2007-06)This class covers the history of Western music from antiquity until approximately 1680, about 2000 years worth of music. Rather than cover each topic at the same level of depth, we will focus on four topics in particular ... -
21M.785 / 21M.789 / 21W.769J Playwrights' Workshop, Spring 2007
(2007-06)This course provides continued work in the development of play scripts for the theater. Writers work on sustained pieces in weekly workshop meetings, individual consultation with the instructor, and in collaboration with ... -
21W.730-1 Imagining the Future, Spring 2004
(2004-06)Turn-of-the-century eras have historically been times when people are more than usually inclined to scrutinize the present and speculate about the future. Now, the turn not just of a century but of a millennium having ... -
21W.730-2 Expository Writing - Food for Thought: Writing and Reading about Food and Culture, Fall 2005
(2005-12)"Civilization is mostly the story of how seeds, meats, and ways to cook them travel from place to place." - Adam Gopnik, "What's Cooking" "A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one's accurate consciousness of ... -
21W.730-4 Writing and the Environment, Fall 2002
(2002-12)Environmentalists have traditionally relied upon the power of their prose to transform the thoughts and behavior of their contemporaries. John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club, evoked the wonders of California's Hetch ... -
21W.731-1 Writing and Experience: Culture Shock! Writing, Editing, and Publishing in Cyberspace, Fall 2005
(2005-12)This course is an introduction to writing prose for a public audience—specifically, prose grounded in, though not confined to, personal narrative and perspective. The focus of our reading and your writing will be American ... -
21W.731-3 Culture Shock!, Fall 2002
(2002-12)This course is an introduction to writing prose for a public audience--specifically, prose grounded in, but not confined to, personal narrative.That is, you will write essays that engage elements and aspects of contemporary ...