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CMS.100 Introduction to Media Studies, Fall 2010
(2010-12)This course offers an overview of the social, cultural, political, and economic impact of mediated communication on modern culture. Combines critical discussions with experiments working with different media. Media covered ... -
CMS.405 Media and Methods: Seeing and Expression, Spring 2009
(2009-06)This class examines frameworks for making and sharing visual artifacts using a trans-cultural, trans-historical, constructionist approach. It explores the relationship between perceived reality and the narrative imagination, ... -
CMS.603 / CMS.995 American Soap Operas, Spring 2008
(2008-06)The television landscape has changed drastically in the past few years; nowhere is this more prevalent than in the American daytime serial drama, one of the oldest forms of television content. This class examines the history ... -
CMS.611J / 6.073J Creating Video Games, Fall 2013
(2013-12)Students will learn creative design and production methods, working together in small teams to design, develop, and thoroughly test their own original digital games. Design iteration across all aspects of video game ... -
CMS.801 Media in Transition, Fall 2004
(2004-12)This course centers on historical eras in which the form and function of media technologies were radically transformed. It includes consideration of the "Gutenberg Revolution," the rise of modern mass media, and the "digital ... -
CMS.876 History of Media and Technology: Sound, the Minority Report -- Radical Music of the Past 100 Years, Spring 2006
(2006-06)This course looks at the history of avant-garde and electronic music from the early twentieth century to the present. The class is organized as a theory and production seminar for which students may either produce ... -
CMS.998 / CMS.600 Videogame Theory and Analysis, Fall 2006
(2006-12)This course is an introduction to the interdisciplinary study of commercial videogames as texts, examining their cultural, educational, and social functions in contemporary settings. Students play and analyze videogames ... -
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 ... -
CMS.S61 Special Subject: The Rise of Film Noir, January IAP 2012
(2012)This class explores the development of Hollywood Film Noir. There will be a focus on émigré directors who moved to Hollywood when the Nazis rose to power. Assignments will include short response papers about three of the ... -
ES.2H3 Ancient Philosophy and Mathematics, Fall 2009
(2009-12)Western philosophy and theoretical mathematics were born together, and the cross-fertilization of ideas in the two disciplines was continuously acknowledged throughout antiquity. In this course, we read works of ancient ... -
ESD.126 Energy Systems and Economic Development, Spring 2001
(2001-06)A team-based policy research subject focused on evaluation of energy technologies and their implementation within developing countries. Focuses on one or more specific nations, carries out a resource assessment, and develops ... -
ESD.140 Organizational Processes, Spring 2002
(2002-06)Focuses on the organization of the future, identifies its characteristics, and explores the implications for living in, managing, and leading such an organization. Also focuses on skills such as organizational diagnosis, ... -
ESD.260J / 1.260J / 15.770J Logistics Systems, Fall 2003
(2003-12)See description under subject 1.260J. This course is a survey of analytic tools, approaches, and techniques which are useful in the design and operation of logistics systems and integrated supply chains. The material is ... -
ESD.36J / 1.432J System and Project Management, Fall 2003
(2003-12)The course is designed for students in the System Design and Management (SDM) program and therefore assumes that you already have a basic knowledge of project management. The objective is to introduce advanced methods and ... -
ESD.70J / 1.145J Engineering Economy Module, Fall 2008
(2008-12)This intensive micro-subject provides the necessary skills in Excel spreadsheet modeling for ESD.71 – Engineering Systems Analysis for Design. Its purpose is to bring entering students up to speed on some of the advanced ... -
ESD.801 Leadership Development, Fall 2004
(2004-12)Presents basic concepts in group dynamics and leadership. A structured set of outdoor experiences complements classroom activities. Restricted to entering students in the Technology and Policy Program. -
ESD.801 Leadership Development, Fall 2005
(2005-12)This seminar meets six times during the semester. Students work in a seminar environment to develop leadership capabilities. An initial Outward Bound experience builds trust, teamwork and communications. Readings and ... -
ESD.801 Leadership Development, Fall 2010
(2010-12)Students in ESD.801 Leadership Development work in a seminar environment to develop leadership capabilities. Readings, assignments and class discussion explore the topics covered in this class. In addition, students ... -
ESD.83 Doctoral Seminar in Engineering Systems, Fall 2009
(2009-12)In establishing the Engineering Systems Division, MIT has embarked on a bold experiment – bringing together diverse areas of expertise into what is designed to be a new field of study. In many respects, the full scale ... -
ESD.84 Engineering Systems Doctoral Seminar, Fall 2002
(2002-12)Examines core theory and contextual applications of the emerging field of Engineering Systems. The focus is on doctoral-level analysis of scholarship on key concepts such as complexity, uncertainty, fragility, and robustness, ...