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21W.747-1 Rhetoric, Fall 2006
(2006-12)
This course is an introduction to the history, the theory, the practice, and the implications (both social and ethical) of rhetoric, the art and craft of persuasion. This semester, many of your skills will be deepened by ...
21W.749 / CMS.935 Documentary Photography and Photojournalism: Still Images of a World in Motion, Spring 2009
(2009-06)
This course is an introduction to the great tradition of documentary photography. Students learn to see the world around them in a new way and produce a documentary project. The course requires reading and writing about ...
21W.731-2 Writing and Experience: Crossing Borders, Fall 2010
(2010-12)
In this era of globalization, many of us have multi- or bi-cultural, multilingual or bilingual backgrounds, and even if we don't have such a background, we need urgently to understand the experiences of people who do. You ...
21W.783 Science and Engineering Writing for Phase II, Fall 2002
(2002-12)
21W.783 is a series of seminars focusing on common writing problems faced by professional engineers and scientists. Participants will tune up their writing skills and prepare a pair of technical documents under the guidance ...
21W.780 Communicating in Technical Organizations, Spring 2005
(2005-06)
This course has two parallel aims: To improve student writing about technical subject matters, including forms of writing commonly employed in technical organizations, and Critically to examine the nature of technologica ...
CMS.S60 / CMS.S96 Technopanics: Moral Panics about Technology, Spring 2013
(2013-06)
Hacking and trolling; mass murders and bullying. What do these have in common? One theory holds that these are all "deviant" social behaviors, occurring both online and off, which have purportedly been brought ...
21W.730-4 Writing on Contemporary Issues: Food for Thought: Writing and Reading about the Cultures of Food, Fall 2008
(2008-12)
"What people do with food is an act that reveals how they construe the world." - Marcella Hazan, The Classic Italian Cookbook If you are what you eat, what are you? Food is at once the stuff of life and a potent ...
21W.730-5 Writing on Contemporary Issues: Culture Shock! Writing, Editing, and Publishing in Cyberspace, Fall 2008
(2008-12)
This course is an introduction to writing prose for a public audience—specifically, prose that is both critical and personal, that features your ideas, your perspective, and your voice to engage readers. The focus ...
21W.749 Documentary Photography and Photo Journalism: Still Images of A World In Motion, Spring 2002
(2002-06)
Documentary Photography and Photojournalism: Still Images of A World In Motion exposes students to the work of a number of great documentary photographers and photojournalists, as well as to writing about the documentary ...
21W.747-1 Rhetoric, Spring 2006
(2006-06)
This course is an introduction to the history, the theory, the practice, and the implications (both social and ethical) of rhetoric, the art and craft of persuasion. By the end of the semester, you will have been exposed ...