Spanish for Bilingual Students

keywords: Humanities Literature Language Spanish

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: Spanish for Bilingual Students is an intermediate course designed principally for heritage learners, but which includes other students interested  in specific content areas, such as US Latino immigration, identity, ethnicity, education and representation in the media. Linguistic goals include vocabulary acquisition, improvement in writing, and enhancement of formal communicative skills.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

addressCountry: US

addressLocality: Cambridge

addressRegion: Massachusetts

type: Organization

Elizabeth Garrels

honorificPrefix: Prof.

type: Person

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Language
International Literature
Spanish

de: Geisteswissenschaften

uk: Гуманітарні науки

en: Humanities

description: This course studies representative twentieth and twenty-first-century texts and films from Hispanic America and Spain. Emphasis is on developing strategies for analyzing the genres of the novel, the short story, the poem, the fictional film, and the theatrical script. The novels read this semester are Magali García Ramis's _Felices días_, _Tío Sergio_ (1986, Puerto Rico) and Javier Cercas's _Soldados de Salamina_ (2001, Spain). We will study Lorca's play "La casa de Bernarda Alba" (1936, Spain), films from Spain, México, and Cuba, poems by Darío (Nicaragua), Machado (Spain), Lorca (Spain), Hernández (Spain), Vallejo (Perú), Cernuda (Spain), and Luis Palés Matos (Puerto Rico), and short stories from México (by an exiled Spanish writer), Chile, Argentina, and Cuba. Thematic emphasis is on the Spanish Civil War, changing attitudes toward gender, the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, and the history of race in the Americas.

MIT OpenCourseWare

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name: Introduction to Contemporary Hispanic Literature

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de: Kurs

fi: Kurssi

uk: Курс

en: Course

fr: Cours

da: Kursus

nl: Cursus

es: Curso


uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course studies important twentieth century texts from Spain and Latin America. The readings include short stories, theatre, the novel and poetry. This subject is conducted in Spanish and all reading and writing for the course is also done in Spanish.

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Introduction to Spanish Culture

keywords:
Social Science
Society
Anthropology
European and Russian Studies
Ethnography
Cultural Anthropology

de: Sozialwissenschaften/Soziologie

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

en: Social Sciences/Sociology

de: Anthropologie (Humanbiologie)

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

en: Anthropology (Human Biology)

de: Mathematik, Naturwissenschaften

uk: Математика, природничі науки

en: Mathematics, Natural Sciences

de: Rechts-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

en: Law, Economics and Social Sciences

de: Biologie

uk: Біологія

en: Biology

description: This course has several purposes. The major concern will be the examination of Spanish culture including Spain's history, architecture, art, literature and film, to determine if there is a uniquely Spanish manner of seeing and understanding the world - one which emerges as clearly distinct from our own and that of other Western European nations.

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keywords:
Humanities
Literature
History
Language
Society
Latin and Caribbean Studies
Classics
International Literature
Comparative Literature
Spanish
Poetry
Latin American History

uk: Гуманітарні науки

de: Geschichte

uk: Історія

en: History

description: This course explores artistic achievement in a culture that over the past century has engaged in constant and intense imaginative self-renewal. The class studies film, narrative (e.g., Márquez's _One Hundred Years of Solitude_), and poetry. Conducted in Spanish.

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name: Hispanic America: One Hundred Years of Literature and Film


keywords:
Humanities
History
Visual Arts
Fine Arts
Society
European and Russian Studies
Film and Video
European History
Latin American History

de: Bildende Kunst

uk: Образотворче мистецтво

en: Fine Arts

uk: Гуманітарні науки

de: Kunst, Kunstwissenschaft

uk: Мистецтво, мистецтвознавство

en: Art, Art Theory

description:
This course considers films spanning the entire career of pioneering Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel (1900–1983), from his silent surrealist classic of 1929, _Un perro andaluz_, to his last film, _Ese oscuro objeto del deseo_ (1977). We pay special attention to his Mexican period, in exile, and the films he made in, and about, Spain, including his work in documentary. It explores Buñuel's early friendship with painter Salvador Dalí and poet Federico García Lorca, surrealist aesthetics, the influence of Freud's ideas on dreams and sexuality, and the director's corrosive criticism of bourgeois society and the Catholic church. We will focus on historical contexts and relevant film criticism.

About This Course on OpenCourseWare
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The instructor of this course, Elizabeth Garrels, is a Professor Emeritus at MIT. She retired in 2014 after 35 years at the Institute. Professor Garrels taught this course for over 15 years, and it evolved over this time period. Normally, a course on OCW represents the version of a course taught during a specific semester and year. However, for this course we hope to represent the evolution of the course during the main years it was taught. The materials you see here are not from a particular iteration of the course, but are drawn from all of the years the course was taught.

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name: Advanced Topics in Hispanic Literature and Film: The Films of Luis Buñuel


Portuguese I

Nilma Dominique

honorificPrefix: Dr.

keywords:
Humanities
Language
Social Science
Society
Anthropology
Latin and Caribbean Studies
Cultural Anthropology
Portuguese

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

uk: Математика, природничі науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

description: This course provides an introduction to the language and culture of the Portuguese-speaking world, with special attention to Brazilian Portuguese. This course focuses are on basic oral expression, listening comprehension, and elementary reading and writing. Students develop their vocabulary and understanding of grammatical concepts through active communication. This is a coordinated language lab program and is designed for students with no knowledge of Portuguese. Class is conducted entirely in Portuguese.

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Portuguese II

keywords: Humanities Language Portuguese

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course is a continuation of 21G.801. It focuses on expanding communication skills and further development of linguistic competency using a variety of authentic sources, such as the Internet, audio, video, and printed materials, to help develop cultural awareness and linguistic proficiency. This course is conducted entirely in Portuguese.

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keywords:
Humanities
Language
Society
European and Russian Studies
Latin and Caribbean Studies
Portuguese

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This is an advanced course that aims to build vocabulary competence and improve oral communication through the study and discussion of topics related to cultural aspects in Lusophone societies, primarily from current issues in Brazil. It is designed to give students extensive experience in Portuguese and emphasizes skill development and refinement in the area of critical reading and writing in Portuguese.

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name: Portuguese Advanced Conversation and Composition


keywords:
Humanities
History
Music
Language
Fine Arts
Society
Latin and Caribbean Studies
Portuguese
Music History
Latin American History

de: Musik, Musikwissenschaft

uk: Музика, музикознавство

en: Music, Musicology

de: Musikwissenschaft/-geschichte

uk: Музикознавство/Історія музики

en: Musicology/History of Music

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Образотворче мистецтво

uk: Мистецтво, мистецтвознавство

description: This course will present students with an overview of Brazilian popular music, from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Considered an advanced course, it aims to build vocabulary competence and improve oral communication through the study and discussion of topics about cultural aspects and current issues in Brazil. It is designed to give students extensive experience in Portuguese and emphasizes skill development and refinement in the area of critical reading and writing in Portuguese.

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name: The Beat of Brazil: Brazilian Society Through Its Music


keywords:
Humanities
Language
Society
Latin and Caribbean Studies
Portuguese

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: Accelerated Introductory Portuguese for Spanish Speakers covers the basics of Portuguese grammar and presents selected cultural aspects of the Lusophone world, with special emphasis on Brazil. Designed as an intensive introductory course equivalent to Portuguese I and II, it is a Portuguese course for native speakers of Spanish or speakers of other languages who have a native-like command of Spanish.

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keywords:
Humanities
Literature
History
Language
Visual Arts
Fine Arts
Society
Latin and Caribbean Studies
International Literature
Spanish
Latin American History

uk: Образотворче мистецтво

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Мистецтво, мистецтвознавство

description: The goal of this course is to offer a general introduction to 20th and 21st century literature and cultural production about Modern Mexico. Emphasis will be placed on the way intellectuals and artists have presented the changes in Mexico City's urban life, and how these representations question themes and trends in national identity, state control, globalization, and immigration.

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name: Modern Mexico: Representations of Mexico City's Urban Life


Japanese V

keywords: Humanities Language Japanese

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This is an experimental version of 21G.505, which offers a combination of in-person and synchronous remote instruction. It aims to achieve simultaneous progression of four skills—listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It immerses students in various aspects of Japanese culture through authentic everyday Japanese media.

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Japanese VI

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This is an experimental version of 21G.506, which offers a combination of in-person and synchronous remote instruction. It aims to achieve simultaneous progression of four skills—listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It immerses students in various aspects of Japanese culture through authentic everyday Japanese media.

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Lesson 6 Part 1

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cs: Video

de: Video

fi: Video

uk: Відео

en: Video

fr: Vidéo

da: Video

nl: Video

es: Video


Lesson 6 Part 2

uk: Гуманітарні науки

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Lesson 7 Part 1

uk: Гуманітарні науки

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Lesson 7 Part 2

uk: Гуманітарні науки

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Lesson 8 Part 1

uk: Гуманітарні науки

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Lesson 8 Part 2

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Lesson 9 Part 1

uk: Гуманітарні науки

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Lesson 9 Part 2

uk: Гуманітарні науки

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Lesson 10 Part 1

uk: Гуманітарні науки

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Lesson 10 Part 2

uk: Гуманітарні науки

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How to Stage a Revolution

keywords:
Humanities
History
American History
Modern History
Middle Eastern History

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course explores fundamental questions about the causes and nature of revolutions by looking at how people overthrow their rulers and establish new governments. Considers a set of major political transformations throughout the world and across centuries to understand the meaning of revolution and evaluate its impact. Examines how revolutionaries have attempted to establish their ideals and realize their goals. Asks whether radical upheavals require bloodshed, violence, or even terror. Seeks to explain why some revolutions succeed and others fail. Materials include the writings of revolutionaries, declarations and constitutions, music, films, art, novels, memoirs, and newspapers.

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keywords:
Humanities
History
European History
Ancient History

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course is an investigation of the Roman empire of Augustus, the Frankish empire of Charlemagne, and the English empire in the age of the Hundred Years War. Students examine different types of evidence, read across a variety of disciplines, and develop skills to identify continuities and changes in ancient and medieval societies. Each term this course is different, looking at different materials from a variety of domains to explore ancient and mideveal studies. This version is a capture of the course as it was taught in 2012, and does not reflect how it is taught currently.

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name: Empire: Introduction to Ancient and Medieval Studies


The World: 1400-Present

keywords:
Humanities
History
World History

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course surveys the increasing interaction between communities, as the barrier of distance succumbed to both curiosity and new transport technologies. It explores Western Europe and the United States' rise to world dominance, as well as the great divergence in material, political, and technological development between Western Europe and East Asia post–1750, and its impact on the rest of the world. It examines a series of evolving relationships, including human beings and their physical environment; religious and political systems; and sub-groups within communities, sorted by race, class, and gender. It introduces historical and other interpretive methodologies using both primary and secondary source materials.

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American History to 1865

keywords:
Humanities
History
American History

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course provides a basic history of American social, economic, and political development from the colonial period through the Civil War. It examines the colonial heritages of Spanish and British America; the American Revolution and its impact; the establishment and growth of the new nation; and the Civil War, its background, character, and impact. Readings include writings of the period by J. Winthrop, T. Paine, T. Jefferson, J. Madison, W. H. Garrison, G. Fitzhugh, H. B. Stowe, and A. Lincoln.

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American History Since 1865

keywords:
Humanities
History
American History
Modern History

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course examines the social, cultural, political, and economic history of the United States, from the Civil War to the present. It uses secondary analysis and primary documents, such as court cases, personal accounts, photographs, and films, to examine some of the key issues in the shaping of modern America, including industrialization and urbanization, immigration, the rise of a mass consumer society, the emergence of the US as a global power, and the development of civil rights activism and other major social movements.

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keywords:
Humanities
History
Philosophy
American History
Political Philosophy

de: Philosophie

uk: Філософія

en: Philosophy

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course uses readings and discussions to focus on a series of short-term events that shed light on American politics, culture, and social organization. It emphasizes finding ways to make sense of these complicated, highly traumatic events, and on using them to understand larger processes of change in American history. The class also gives students experience with primary documentation research through a term paper assignment.

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name: Riots, Strikes, and Conspiracies in American History


American Classics

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
History
Social Science
Anthropology
Social Anthropology
American History
Classics
Cultural Anthropology

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Математика, природничі науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

description: "What then is the American, this new man?" asked J. Hector St-John de Crèvecoeur in his _Letters from an American Farmer_ in 1782. This subject takes Crèvecoeur's question as the starting point for an examination of the changing meanings of national identity in the American past. We will consider a diverse collection of classic texts in American history to see how Americans have defined themselves and their nation in politics, literature, art, and popular culture. As a communications-intensive subject, students will be expected to engage intensively with the material through frequent oral and written exercises.

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uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Математика, природничі науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

description: This subject is devoted to reading and discussing basic American historical texts that are often cited but often remain unread, understanding their meaning, and assessing their continuing significance in American culture. Since it is a "Communications Intensive" subject, 21H.105 is also dedicated to improving students' capacities to write and speak well. It requires a substantial amount of writing, participation in discussions, and individual presentations to the class.

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The American Revolution

keywords:
Humanities
History
Social Science
Political Science
Philosophy
American History
Political Philosophy
American Politics

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

description: This course is concerned primarily with the revolutionary origins of American government. Topics covered include: English and American backgrounds of the Revolution; issues and arguments in the Anglo-American conflict; colonial resistance and the beginnings of republicanism; the Revolutionary War; constitution writing for the states and nation; and effects of the American Revolution. Readings emphasize documents from the period--pamphlets, correspondence, the minutes or resolutions of resistance organizations, constitutional documents and debates.

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The Civil War and Reconstruction

keywords:
Humanities
History
Social Science
Public Administration
Philosophy
American History
Political Philosophy
Military Studies
Military History

de: Verwaltungswissenschaften

uk: Управління та адміністрування

en: Administrative Sciences

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

description:
Although attention will be devoted to the causes and long-term consequences of the Civil War, this class will focus primarily on the war years (1861-1865) with special emphasis on the military and technological aspects of the conflict. Four questions, long debated by historians, will receive close scrutiny:

1.  What caused the war?
2.  Why did the North win the war?
3.  Could the South have won?
4.  To what extent is the Civil War America's "defining moment"?

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The Ancient World: Rome

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
History
Classics
European History
Ancient History

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course covers the history of Rome from its humble beginnings to the 5th century A.D. The first half covers Kingship to Republican form; the conquest of Italy; Roman expansion: Pyrrhus, Punic Wars and provinces; classes, courts, and the Roman revolution; Augustus and the formation of empire. The second half covers Virgil to the Vandals; major social, economic, political and religious trends at Rome and in the provinces. There is an emphasis on the use of primary sources in translation.

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keywords:
Humanities
History
European History
Asian History
Medieval History
Comparative History

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course will survey the conditions of material life and changing social and economic conditions in medieval Europe with reference to the comparative context of contemporary Islamic, Chinese, and central Asian experiences. Subject covers the emergence and decline of feudal institutions, the transformation of peasant agriculture, living standards and the course of epidemic disease, and the ebb and flow of long-distance trade across the Eurasian system. Particular emphasis will be placed on the study of those factors, both institutional and technological, which have contributed to the emergence of capitalist organization and economic growth in Western Europe in contrast to the trajectories followed by the other major medieval economies.

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name: Medieval Economic History in Comparative Perspective


keywords:
Humanities
History
Philosophy
European History
Political Philosophy
History of Science and Technology
Religion

de: Religionswissenschaft

uk: Релігієзнавство

en: Religious Studies

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course provides an introduction to major political, social, cultural and intellectual changes in Europe from the beginnings of the Renaissance in Italy around 1300 to the outbreak of the French Revolution at the end of the 1700s. It focuses on the porous boundaries between categories of theology, magic and science, as well as print. It examines how developments in these areas altered European political institutions, social structures, and cultural practices. It also studies men and women, nobles and commoners, as well as Europeans and some non-Europeans with whom they came into contact.

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name: Renaissance To Revolution: Europe, 1300-1800


Modern China

keywords:
Humanities
History
World History
Asian History
Modern History

de: Geisteswissenschaften

uk: Гуманітарні науки

en: Humanities

description: This course discusses China's emergence as a global power, which has arisen out of two centuries of significant change. It explores those transformations from 1800 to the present by examining the advent of foreign imperialism in the nineteenth century, the collapse of the last imperial dynasty in 1911, China's debilitating war against Japan, the communist revolution, and the tumultuous history of the People's Republic of China from 1949. Also, this course addresses the historical transformations that have shaped contemporary Chinese politics, ethnicity, gender, environment, economics, and international relations.

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Race and Gender in Asian America

keywords:
Humanities
History
Social Science
Society
Anthropology
Asian Studies
Gender Studies
Ethnography
American History
Cultural Anthropology

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Математика, природничі науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

description: In this seminar we will examine various issues related to the intersection of race and gender in Asian America, starting with the nineteenth century, but focusing on contemporary issues. Topics to be covered may include racial and gender discourse, the stereotyping of Asian American women and men in the media, Asian American masculinity, Asian American feminisms and their relation to mainstream American feminism, the debate between feminism and ethnic nationalism, gay and lesbian identity, class and labor issues, domestic violence, interracial dating and marriage, and multiracial identity.

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en: no login required


Inventing the Samurai

keywords:
Humanities
History
Asian History
Ancient History

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description:
This course explores the historical origins of the Japanese warrior class as well as its reinvention throughout the archipelago's history, with a special focus on the pre-modern era (200–1600 CE). It highlights key historical contexts including the rise of the imperial court, interactions with the broader world, and the establishment of a warrior-dominated state. It also considers the modern imaginations and uses of the warrior figure.

Note: This course is taught in English with a project that requires research in Japanese.

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de: Kurs

en: Course


Modern Japan: 1868 to Present

keywords:
Humanities
History
Social Science
Political Science
International Relations
Asian History
Modern History
Military History

de: Sozialwissenschaften/Soziologie

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

en: Social Sciences/Sociology

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

description: This course surveys Japanese history from the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1603 to the present and explores the local and global nature of modernity in Japan. It highlights key themes, including the emergence of a modern nation-state, the rise and fall of the Japanese Empire, the development of mass consumer culture and the middle class, and the continued importance of historical memory in Japan today.

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The Middle East in the 20th Century

keywords:
Humanities
History
Modern History
Middle Eastern History

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course surveys the history of the Middle East, from the end of the 19th century to the present. It examines major political, social, intellectual and cultural issues and practices. It also focuses on important events, movements, and ideas that prevailed during the last century and affect its current realities.

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Modern African History

keywords:
Humanities
History
European History
Asian History
African History

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course surveys the history of 19th and 20th century Africa. It focuses on the European conquest of Africa and the dynamics of colonial rule, especially its socioeconomic and cultural consequences. It looks at how the rising tide of African nationalism, in the form of labor strikes and guerrilla wars, ushered out colonialism. It also examines the postcolonial states, focusing on the politics of development, recent civil wars in countries like Rwanda and Liberia, the AIDS epidemic, and the history of apartheid in South Africa up to 1994. Finally, it surveys the entrepreneurship in the post-colonial period and China's recent involvement in Africa.

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Libertarianism in History

keywords:
Humanities
History
Social Science
Political Science
American History
American Politics

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

description: This course explores the history of the ideal of personal freedom with an eye towards contemporary debates over the pros and cons of the regulatory state. The first part of the course surveys the sociological and theological sources of the concepts of freedom and civil society, and introduces liberty's leading relatives or competitors: property, equality, community, and republicanism. The second part consists of a series of case studies in the rise of modern liberty and libertarianism: the abolition of slavery, the struggle for religious freedom, and the twentieth-century American civil liberties movement. In the last part of the course, we take up debates over the role of libertarianism vs. the regulatory state in a variety of contexts: counter-terrorism, health care, the financial markets, and the Internet.

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American Consumer Culture

keywords:
Humanities
History
Social Science
Anthropology
Philosophy
Social Anthropology
American History
Political Philosophy
Cultural Anthropology

de: Anthropologie (Humanbiologie)

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

en: Anthropology (Human Biology)

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Математика, природничі науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

description: This class examines how and why twentieth-century Americans came to define the "good life" through consumption, leisure, and material abundance. We will explore how such things as department stores, nationally advertised brand-name goods, mass-produced cars, and suburbs transformed the American economy, society, and politics. The course is organized both thematically and chronologically. Each period deals with a new development in the history of consumer culture. Throughout we explore both celebrations and critiques of mass consumption and abundance.

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The Energy Crisis: Past and Present

keywords:
Humanities
History
Social Science
Public Administration
Energy
American History
Science and Technology Policy
Modern History
Fossil Fuels
Environmental Policy

uk: Управління та адміністрування

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

description: This course will explore how Americans have confronted energy challenges since the end of World War II. Beginning in the 1970s, Americans worried about the supply of energy. As American production of oil declined, would the US be able to secure enough fuel to sustain their high consumption lifestyles? At the same time, Americans also began to fear the environmental side affects of energy use. Even if the US had enough fossil fuel, would its consumption be detrimental to health and safety? This class examines how Americans thought about these questions in the last half-century. We will consider the political, diplomatic, economic, cultural, and technological aspects of the energy crisis. Topics include nuclear power, suburbanization and the new car culture, the environmental movement and the challenges of clean energy, the Middle East and supply of oil, the energy crisis of the 1970s, and global warming.

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America in Depression and War

keywords:
Humanities
History
Social Science
Political Science
Anthropology
Philosophy
American History
Political Philosophy
American Politics
Cultural Anthropology
Military History

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

de: Mathematik, Naturwissenschaften

uk: Математика, природничі науки

en: Mathematics, Natural Sciences

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

description: This course focuses on the Great Depression and World War II and how they led to a major reordering of American politics and society. We will examine how ordinary people experienced these crises and how those experiences changed their outlook on politics and the world around them.

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The United States in the Nuclear Age

keywords:
Humanities
History
American History
History of Science and Technology

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This subject examines the unique culture that developed in the United States after World War II. The dawn of the nuclear age and the ensuing Cold War fundamentally altered American politics and social life. It also led to a flowering of technological experimentation and rapid innovation in the sciences. Over the course of the term, students will explore how Americans responded to these changes, and how those responses continue to shape life in the US today.

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keywords:
Humanities
History
Social Science
Anthropology
Ethnography
American History

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Математика, природничі науки

de: Rechts-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

en: Law, Economics and Social Sciences

description: This course examines the history of the United States as a "nation of immigrants" within a broader global context. It considers migration from the mid-19th century to the present through case studies of such places as New York's Lower East Side, South Texas, Florida, and San Francisco's Chinatown. It also examines the role of memory, media, and popular culture in shaping ideas about migration. The course includes optional field trip to New York City.

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name: The Places of Migration in United States History


War & American Society

keywords:
Humanities
History
Social Science
Anthropology
Social Anthropology
American History
Cultural Anthropology
Military History

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Математика, природничі науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

de: Biologie

en: Biology

description: Writing in the wake of the Civil War, poet Walt Whitman insisted that "the real war will never get in the books." Throughout American history, the experience of war has fundamentally shaped the ways that Americans think about themselves, their fellow Americans, and the meanings of national citizenship. War has also posed challenges of representation, both for those who fought as well as those who did not. This subject examines how Americans have told the stories of modern war in history, literature, and popular culture, and interprets them in terms of changing ideas about American national identity.

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Law and Society in US History

keywords:
Humanities
History
Social Science
Anthropology
Philosophy
Legal Studies
American History
Political Philosophy
Cultural Anthropology

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

uk: Гуманітарні науки

de: Geschichte

en: History

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Математика, природничі науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

description: As events of the last few years have shown, the Supreme Court has played a crucial role in American political life. There is practically no issue of social significance in the American past that did not at some point end up in the nation's courtrooms, yet much of the workings of the constitution remain obscure. This subject is designed to introduce students to the main themes and events of American constitutional law since 1787. It introduces terms and concepts of law and legal history, focusing on three recurring themes in American public life: liberty, equality, and property. Readings consist mostly of original court cases, especially from the U.S. Supreme Court, but the focus of the class is on the historical connections between those cases and broader social, political, and cultural trends.

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Gender and the Law in U.S. History

keywords:
Humanities
History
Social Science
Society
Philosophy
Legal Studies
Gender Studies
American History
Political Philosophy

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

description: This subject explores the legal history of the United States as a gendered system. It examines how women have shaped the meanings of American citizenship through pursuit of political rights such as suffrage, jury duty, and military service, how those political struggles have varied for across race, religion, and class, as well as how the legal system has shaped gender relations for both women and men through regulation of such issues as marriage, divorce, work, reproduction, and the family. The course readings will draw from primary and secondary materials in American history, as well as some court cases. However, the focus of the class is on the broader relationship between law and society, and no technical legal knowledge is required or assumed.

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Downtown

keywords:
Humanities
History
Architecture
Social Science
Fine Arts
Urban Studies
Environmental Design
American History

uk: Гуманітарні науки

de: Architektur, Innenarchitektur

uk: Архітектура, дизайн інтер'єру

en: Architecture, Interior Architecture

de: Bildende Kunst

uk: Образотворче мистецтво

en: Fine Arts

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

cs: Technické vědy

de: Ingenieurwissenschaften

fi: tekniikka

uk: Інженерія

en: Engineering Sciences

fr: Ingénierie

da: Ingeniørvidenskab

es: Ingeniería

nl: Engineering

uk: Мистецтво, мистецтвознавство

description: This seminar focuses on downtowns in U.S. cities from the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. Emphasis will be placed on downtown as an idea, place, and cluster of interests; on the changing character of downtown; and on recent efforts to rebuild it. Subjects to be considered will include subways, skyscrapers, highways, urban renewal, and retail centers. The focus will be on readings, discussions, and individual research projects.

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Metropolis: History of New York City

keywords:
Humanities
History
Social Science
Urban Studies
Anthropology
American History
Cultural Anthropology

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Математика, природничі науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

description:
> Hitherto it had gone by the original Indian name Manna-hatta, or as some still have it, 'The Manhattoes'; but this was now decried as savage and heathenish... At length, when the council was almost in despair, a burgher, remarkable for the size and squareness of his head, proposed that they should call it New-Amsterdam. The proposition took every body by surprise; it was so striking, so apposite, so ingenious. The name was adopted by acclamation, and New-Amsterdam the metropolis was thenceforth called.
>
> —Washington Irving, 1808

In less tongue-in-cheek style, this course examines the evolution of New York City from 1607 to the present. The readings focus on the city's social and physical histories, and the class discussions compare New York's development to patterns in other cities.

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keywords:
Humanities
Literature
History
Architecture
Fine Arts
Architectural Design
Classics
European History
Ancient History

uk: Архітектура, дизайн інтер'єру

uk: Образотворче мистецтво

uk: Гуманітарні науки

de: Kunst, Kunstwissenschaft

uk: Мистецтво, мистецтвознавство

en: Art, Art Theory

description: This course investigates the relationship between urban architecture and political, social, and cultural history of Athens in the 5th and 4th centuries BC. It surveys and analyzes archeological and literary evidence, including the sanctuary of Athena on the Acropolis, the Agora, Greek houses, the histories of Herodotus and Thucydides, plays of Sophocles and Aristophanes, and the panhellenic sanctuaries of Delphi and Olympia.

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name: The City of Athens in the Age of Pericles


keywords:
Humanities
History
European History
Asian History

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course analyzes Russia's social, cultural, and political heritage in the 18th and 19th centuries, up to and including the Russian Revolution of 1917. It compares reforming and revolutionary impulses in the context of serfdom, the rise of the intelligentsia, and debates over capitalism, while focusing on historical and literary texts, especially the intersections between the two.

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name: Imperial and Revolutionary Russia: Culture and Politics, 1700-1917


keywords:
Humanities
History
Society
European and Russian Studies
European History
Military History

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course explores the political and historical evolution of the Soviet state and society from the 1917 Revolution to the present. It covers the creation of a revolutionary regime, causes and nature of the Stalin revolution, post-Stalinist efforts to achieve political and social reform, and causes of the Soviet collapse. It also examines current developments in Russia in light of Soviet history.

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name: Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, 1917 to the Present


Apartheid and South Africa

keywords:
Humanities
History
African History

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course introduces students to the spatial, legal, economic, social and political structures that created apartheid in South Africa, and to the factors that led to the collapse of the racist order. We will examine the many forms of Black oppression and, also, the various forms of resistance to apartheid. Some of the themes we will explore include industrialization and the formation of the Black working classes; the constructions of race, ethnicities, and sexualities; land alienation and rural struggles; township poverty and violence; Black education; the African National Congress; and the Black Consciousness Movement.

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The Ancient World: Greece

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
History
Classics
European History
Ancient History

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course elaborates the history of Ancient Greece from the Bronze Age to the death of Alexander. It covers major social, economic, political, and religious trends. It also includes discussions on Homer, heroism, and the Greek identity; the hoplite revolution and the rise of the city-state; Herodotus, Persia, and the (re)birth of history; Empire, Thucydidean rationalism, and the Peloponnesian War; Platonic constructs; Aristotle, Macedonia, and Hellenism. Emphasis is on use of primary sources in translation.

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The Emergence of Europe: 500-1300

keywords:
Humanities
History
Social Science
Anthropology
Philosophy
European History
Political Philosophy
Medieval History
Cultural Anthropology

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Математика, природничі науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

description: This course surveys the social, cultural, and political development of western Europe between 500 and 1350. A number of topics are incorporated into the broad chronological sweep of the course, including: the Germanic conquest of the ancient Mediterranean world; the rise of a distinct northern culture and the Carolingian Renaissance; the emergence of feudalism and the breakdown of political order; contact with the Byzantine and Islamic East and the Crusading movement; the quality of religious life; the vitality of the high medieval economy and culture; and the catastrophes of the fourteenth century.

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Final Exam Review Questions

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Математика, природничі науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

description: Sample review and test questions for the final exam.

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cs: Cvičení

de: Übung

fi: Harjoitus

uk: Практика

en: Drill and Practice

fr: Apprentissage par Répétition

da: Øvelse

nl: Oefenen

es: Práctica


Mid-term exam

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

de: Philosophie

en: Philosophy

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Математика, природничі науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

description: Midterm exam on the emergence of Europe.

uk: вхід без авторизації


The Renaissance, 1300-1600

keywords:
Humanities
History
Social Science
Anthropology
European History
Cultural Anthropology
Intellectual History

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Математика, природничі науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

description: The "Renaissance" as a phenomenon in European history is best understood as a series of social, political, and cultural responses to an intellectual trend which began in Italy in the fourteenth century. This intellectual tendency, known as humanism, or the _studia humanitatis_, was at the heart of developments in literature, the arts, the sciences, religion, and government for almost three hundred years. In this class, we will highlight the history of humanism, but we will also study religious reformations, high politics, the agrarian world, and European conquest and expansion abroad in the period.

uk: вхід без авторизації


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uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Математика, природничі науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

description: The woodcut reproduced below circulated in print in the 1520s. The head on the top is that of a Cardinal in the Catholic church; that on the bottom represents a fool.

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keywords:
Humanities
History
Social Science
Public Administration
Political Science
Society
Sociology
Legal Studies
African American Studies
Social Justice
American History
American Politics
Modern History
Public Policy
Security Studies

de: Verwaltungswissenschaften

uk: Управління та адміністрування

en: Administrative Sciences

uk: Гуманітарні науки

de: Soziologie

uk: Соціологія

en: Sociology

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

description: This seminar looks at key issues in the historical development and current state of modern American criminal justice, with an emphasis on its relationship to citizenship, nationhood, and race/ethnicity. We begin with a range of perspectives on the rise of what is often called "mass incarceration": how did our current system of criminal punishment take shape, and what role did race play in that process? Part Two takes up a series of case studies, including racial disparities in the administration of the death penalty, enforcement of the drug laws, and the regulation of police investigations. The third and final part of the seminar looks at national security policing: the development of a constitutional law governing the intersection of ethnicity, religion, and counter-terrorism, and the impact of counter-terrorism policy on domestic police practices.

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name: Race, Crime, and Citizenship in American Law


keywords:
Humanities
History
Social Science
Society
Anthropology
Philosophy
European and Russian Studies
European History
Political Philosophy
Asian History
Cultural Anthropology

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

de: Geisteswissenschaften

uk: Гуманітарні науки

en: Humanities

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Математика, природничі науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

description: Medieval and early modern Russia stood at the crossroads of Europe and Asia. In this course we will examine some of the native developments and foreign influences which most affected the course of Russian history. Particular topics include the rise of the Kievan State, the Mongol Yoke, the rise of Muscovy, Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, relations with Western Europe. How did foreigners perceive Russia? How did those living in the Russian lands perceive foreigners? What social relations were developing between nobility and peasantry, town and country, women and men? What were the relations of each of these groups to the state? How did state formation come about in Kievan and Muscovite Russia? What were the political, religious, economic, and social factors affecting relations between state and society? In examining these questions we will consider a variety of sources including contemporary accounts (both domestic and foreign), legal and political documents, historical monographs and interpretive essays.

uk: вхід без авторизації

name: The Making of Russia in the Worlds of Byzantium, Mongolia, and Europe


keywords:
Humanities
History
European History
Ancient History

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course explores the political, social, and economic factors commonly offered to explain the fall of the Roman Republic: growth of the territorial empire, increased intensity of aristocratic competition, transformation of the Italian economy, growth of the city of Rome and dependence of the urban plebs, changes in military recruitment and dependence of soldiers on their generals. There is an emphasis on the reading of ancient sources in translation, including Cicero, Sallust, Caesar, Augustus, Appian, Plutarch, and Suetonius.

de: keine Anmeldung erforderlich

uk: вхід без авторизації

en: no login required

name: Julius Caesar and the Fall of the Roman Republic


The Making of a Roman Emperor

keywords:
Humanities
History
Ancient History

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: Through close examination of the emperor Augustus and his Julio-Claudian successors, this subject investigates how Roman emperors used art, architecture, coinage, and other media to create and project an image of themselves, how the surviving literary sources from the Roman period reinforced or subverted that image, and how both phenomena have contributed to post-classical perceptions of Roman emperors. It also considers works of Suetonius and Tacitus as well as modern representations of the emperors such as those found in the films *I, Claudius*, *Quo Vadis*, and HBO's *Rome* series.

uk: вхід без авторизації

de: Kurs

en: Course


The Royal Family

keywords:
Humanities
History
Social Science
Political Science
Society
Anthropology
European and Russian Studies
European History
Cultural Anthropology

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

de: Sozialwissenschaften/Soziologie

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

en: Social Sciences/Sociology

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Математика, природничі науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

description: This course is an an exploration of British culture and politics, focusing on the changing role of the monarchy from the accession of the House of Hanover (later Windsor) in 1714 to the present. The dynasty has encountered a series of crises, in which the personal and the political have been inextricably combined: for example, George III's mental illness; the scandalous behavior of his son, George IV; Victoria's withdrawal from public life after the death of Prince Albert; the abdication of Edward VIII; and the public antagonism sparked by sympathy for Diana, Princess of Wales.

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Making Books: The Renaissance and Today

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
History
European History
History of Science and Technology
International Literature

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description:
This course explores the impact of new technology on the recording and distribution of words and images at three different times: The invention of the printing press ca. 1450; the adaptation of electricity to communication technology in the 19th century (telegraph, telephone, phonograph); and the emergence of digital media today. Assignments include essays and online projects. Students also participate in the design and construction of a hand-set printing press.

This course is also part of the [Concourse](http://concourse.mit.edu/) program at MIT.

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keywords:
Humanities
History
Social Science
Anthropology
Philosophy
European History
Political Philosophy
Cultural Anthropology

de: Anthropologie (Humanbiologie)

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

en: Anthropology (Human Biology)

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Математика, природничі науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

description: This course covers French politics, culture, and society from Louis XIV to Napoleon Bonaparte. Attention is given to the growth of the central state, the beginnings of a modern consumer society, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, including its origins, and the rise and fall of Napoleon.

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name: France, 1660-1815: Enlightenment, Revolution, Napoleon


South Asian Migrations

keywords:
Humanities
History
American History
World History
Asian History
Modern History

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course provides a global history of South Asians and introduces students to the cultural, social, economic, and political experiences of immigrants who traveled across the world. It studies how and why South Asians, who have migrated to America, Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and the Middle East, are considered a model minority in some countries and unwanted strangers in others. Through literature, memoirs, films, music, and historical writing, it follows South Asian migrants as they discovered the world beyond India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

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keywords:
Humanities
History
Social Science
Society
Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Modern History
Middle Eastern History
Middle Eastern Studies

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Гуманітарні науки

de: Mathematik, Naturwissenschaften

uk: Математика, природничі науки

en: Mathematics, Natural Sciences

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

description: This seminar considers "difference" and "sameness" as they have been conceived, experienced, and regulated by peoples of the Middle East, with a focus on the 19th and 20th centuries. The first half discusses the Ottoman Empire by exploring how this multiethnic, polyglot empire survived for several relatively peaceful centuries and what happened when its formula for existence was challenged by politics based on mono-ethnic states. The second half of the course focuses on post-Ottoman nation-states, such as Turkey and Egypt, and Western-mandated Arab states, such as Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and Iraq. Finally, the course concludes with a case analysis of Israel.

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name: Cultural Pluralism in Modern Middle East


People and Other Animals

keywords:
Humanities
History
Social Science
Anthropology
History of Science and Technology
Cultural Anthropology
Intellectual History

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Математика, природничі науки

de: Rechts-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

en: Law, Economics and Social Sciences

description: This course is a historical exploration of the ways that people have interacted with their closest animal relatives, for example: hunting, domestication of livestock, exploitation of animal labor, scientific study of animals, display of exotic and performing animals, and pet-keeping. Themes include changing ideas about animal agency and intelligence, our moral obligations to animals, and the limits imposed on the use of animals. Students taking the graduate version complete additional assignments.

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Women and War in the 20th Century

keywords:
Humanities
History
Society
Gender Studies
Women's Studies
World History

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This seminar examines women's experiences during and after war, revolution, and genocide. The focus of the course is mostly on the 20th century and on North America, Europe and the Middle East.

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Capitalism in the Age of Revolution

keywords:
Humanities
History
American History
World History
European History

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: The decades leading up to the Atlantic revolutions of the late eighteenth century were formative moments in the rise of capitalism. The novel instruments of credit, debt, and investment fashioned during this period proved to be enduring sources of financial innovation, but they also generated a great deal of political conflict, particularly during the revolutionary era itself.  This seminar examines the debates surrounding large-scale financial and trading corporations and considers the eighteenth century as a period of recurring financial crisis in which corporate power came into sustained and direct contact with emerging republican norms. The seminar ends with a look at the relationship between slavery and the rise of “modern” or “industrial” capitalism in the nineteenth century, as well as some of the critiques of capitalism that emerged out of that experience.

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keywords:
Humanities
History
American History
World History
Medieval History
African History

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This seminar examines the global history of the last millennium, including technological change, commodity exchange, systems of production, and economic growth. Students engage with economic history, medieval and early modern origins of modern systems of production, consumption and global exchange. Topics include the long pre-history of modern economic development; medieval world systems; the age of discovery; the global crisis of the 17th century; demographic systems; global population movements; the industrial revolution; the rise of the modern consumer; colonialism and empire building; patterns of inequality, within and across states; the curse of natural resources fate of Africa; and the threat of climate change to modern economic systems. Students taking the graduate version complete additional assignments.

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name: Technology and the Global Economy, 1000-2000


keywords:
Humanities
History
Historical Methods

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course examines the distinctive ways in which historians in different parts of the world have approached the task of writing history. It explores methodologies used, such as political, social, economic, cultural, and popular histories through the reading and discussion of relevant and innovative texts. It introduces a variety of sources (archival documents, statistical data, film, fiction, memoirs, artifacts, and images) and the ways they can be used to research, interpret, and present the past. Assignments include an original research paper. Students taking the graduate version complete additional assignments.

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name: Theories and Methods in the Study of History


The Making of a Roman Emperor

keywords:
Humanities
History
Media Studies
Fine Arts
Art History
European History
Ancient History

de: Medienwissenschaft

uk: Медіазнавство

en: Media Science

uk: Образотворче мистецтво

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Медіазнавство

uk: Мистецтво, мистецтвознавство

description: Focusing on the emperors Augustus and Nero, this course investigates the ways in which Roman emperors used art, architecture, coinage and other media to create and project an image of themselves, the ways in which the surviving literary sources from the Roman period reinforced or subverted that image, and the ways in which both phenomena have contributed to post-classical perceptions of Roman emperors. Material studied will include the art, architecture, and coinage of Augustan and Neronian Rome, the works of Suetonius and Tacitus, and modern representations of the emperors such as those found in _I, Claudius_ and _Quo Vadis_.

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The Ancient City

keywords:
Humanities
History
Architecture
Social Science
Fine Arts
Urban Studies
Architectural History and Criticism
Archaeology
Ancient History

de: Archäologie

uk: Археологія

en: Archaeology

uk: Гуманітарні науки

de: Geschichte

en: History

uk: Архітектура, дизайн інтер'єру

uk: Образотворче мистецтво

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

uk: Мистецтво, мистецтвознавство

description: This course focuses on the archaeology of the Greek and Roman city. It investigates the relationship between urban architecture and the political, social, and economic role of cities in the Greek and Roman world, by analyzing a range of archaeological and literary evidence relevant to the use of space in Greek and Roman cities (e.g. Athens, Paestum, Rome, Pompeii) and a range of theoretical frameworks for the study of ancient urbanism.

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History of Western Thought, 500-1300

keywords:
Humanities
History
European History
Medieval History
Religion
Intellectual History

de: Religionswissenschaft

uk: Релігієзнавство

en: Religious Studies

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course examines the development of the western intellectual tradition from the fall of the Roman Empire through the High Middle Ages. Our basic premise will be that the triumph of Christianity in the west was not the inevitable outcome it might appear from hindsight. Our attention will therefore be focused not only on the development of Christian thought and practice, but on its challengers as well. The core themes of the course include the emergence of a uniform Christian orthodoxy in late antiquity; the development of monastic practice and its attendant intellectual traditions; and the geographical spread of Christian beliefs. Working in opposition to those trends were other forces, which we will also address in our readings. In particular, we will consider the persistence of northern paganism; the rise of Islam; the solidification of a separate Byzantine orthodoxy; indigenous heretical movements; and the ambiguous position of Jews in all of European society.

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keywords:
Humanities
History
Media Studies
Fine Arts
Digital Media
History of Science and Technology
Intellectual History

uk: Медіазнавство

de: Bildende Kunst

uk: Образотворче мистецтво

en: Fine Arts

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Медіазнавство

uk: Мистецтво, мистецтвознавство

description: There has been much discussion in recent years, on this campus and elsewhere, about the death of the book. Digitization and various forms of electronic media, some critics say, are rendering the printed text as obsolete as the writing quill. In this subject, we will examine the claims for and against the demise of the book, but we will also supplement these arguments with an historical perspective they lack: we will examine texts, printing technologies, and reading communities from roughly 1450 to the present. We will begin with the theoretical and historical overviews of Walter Ong and Elizabeth Eisenstein, after which we will study specific cases such as English chapbooks, Inkan knotted and dyed strings, late nineteenth-century recording devices, and newspapers online today. We will also visit a rare book library and make a poster on a hand-set printing press.

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name: From Print to Digital: Technologies of the Word, 1450-Present


Introduction to Environmental History

keywords:
Science
Humanities
History
Earth Science
Biology
Environmental Science
Climate Studies
Modern History
Ecology

de: Geowissenschaften (ohne Geographie)

uk: Науки про Землю(крім географії)

en: Geosciences (excl. Geography)

de: Biologie

en: Biology

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Математика, природничі науки

description: Focusing primarily on the period since 1500, explores the influence of climate, topography, plants, animals, and microorganisms on human history and the reciprocal influence of people on the environment. Topics include the European encounter with the Americas, the impact of modern technology, and the historical roots of the current environmental crisis.

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keywords:
Humanities
History
European History
History of Science and Technology
Intellectual History

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course asks students to consider the ways in which social theorists, institutional reformers, and political revolutionaries in the 17th through 19th centuries seized upon insights developed in the natural sciences and mathematics to change themselves and the society in which they lived. Students study trials, art, literature and music to understand developments in Europe and its colonies in these two centuries. Covers works by Newton, Locke, Voltaire, Rousseau, Marx, and Darwin.

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name: The Age of Reason: Europe from the 17th to the Early 19th Centuries


keywords:
Humanities
History
Business
Globalization
Philosophy
European History
Political Philosophy
Modern History

de: Betriebswirtschaftslehre

uk: Бізнес-адміністрування

en: Business Administration

de: Philosophie

en: Philosophy

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

de: Wirtschaftswissenschaften

uk: Бізнес та економіка

en: Business and Economics

description: From pineapples grown in Hawaii to English-speaking call centers outsourced to India, the legacy of the "Age of Imperialism" appears everywhere in our modern world. This class explores the history of European imperialism in its political, economic, and cultural dimensions from the 1840s through the 1960s.

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name: European Imperialism in the 19th and 20th Centuries


Nazi Germany and the Holocaust

keywords:
Humanities
History
Social Science
Political Science
Anthropology
European History
Cultural Anthropology
Modern History

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

de: Geisteswissenschaften

uk: Гуманітарні науки

en: Humanities

uk: Математика, природничі науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

description: The rise and fall of National Socialism is one of the most intensively-studied topics in European history. Nevertheless, after more than half a century, popular views of Nazism in the media and among the public remain simplistic-essentialized by equal parts fascination and horror. Adolf Hitler, for instance, is often portrayed as an evil genius of supernatural ability; while the Nazi state is similarly imagined to have held absolute power over every aspect of its subjects' lives. Such characterizations allow ordinary Germans to be portrayed as helpless victims of Nazism, ensnared or coerced into submission by forces beyond their control. Another popular characterization is that German culture itself is fundamentally flawed - that all Germans were basically Nazis at heart. This schema conveniently erases the manifestations of fascism in other Western nations, and allows Americans and other Westerners to reassure themselves that the horrors of Nazism could never emerge in their own enlightened national cultures.

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East Asia in the World

keywords:
Humanities
History
Social Science
Political Science
Society
Business
Globalization
Asian Studies
International Relations
Asian History

uk: Бізнес-адміністрування

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

uk: Бізнес та економіка

description: This subject examines the interactions of East Asia with the rest of the world and the relationships of each of the East Asian countries with each other, from ca. 1500 to 2000 A.D. Primary focus on China and Japan, with some reference to Korea, Vietnam, and Central Asia. Asks how international diplomatic, commercial, military, religious, and cultural relationships joined with internal processes to direct the development of East Asian societies. Subject addresses perceptions and misperceptions among East Asians and foreigners.

de: keine Anmeldung erforderlich

uk: вхід без авторизації

en: no login required


keywords:
Humanities
History
Social Science
Visual Arts
Fine Arts
Society
Anthropology
Asian Studies
Film and Video
Asian History
Medieval History
Cultural Anthropology

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Образотворче мистецтво

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Математика, природничі науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

de: Kunst, Kunstwissenschaft

uk: Мистецтво, мистецтвознавство

en: Art, Art Theory

description: This course covers medieval Japanese society and culture from the twelfth to the nineteenth centuries, when political power rested largely in the hands of feudal warriors. Topics include religion (especially Zen Buddhism); changing concepts of "the way of the warrior;" women under feudalism; popular culture; and protest and rebellion. Presentations include weekly feature films. Assigned readings include many literary writings in translation.

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name: Japan in the Age of the Samurai:  History and Film

de: Kurs

en: Course


keywords:
Humanities
History
Social Science
Society
Anthropology
Asian Studies
Social Anthropology
Asian History

de: Anthropologie (Humanbiologie)

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

en: Anthropology (Human Biology)

de: Sozialwissenschaften/Soziologie

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

en: Social Sciences/Sociology

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Математика, природничі науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

description: This subject examines the experiences of ordinary Chinese people as they lived through the tumultuous changes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We look at personal narratives, primary sources, films alongside a textbook to think about how individual and family lives connect with the broader processes of change in modern China. In the readings and discussions, you should focus on how major political events have an impact on the characters' daily lives, and how the decisions they make cause large-scale social transformation.

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name: Smashing the Iron Rice Bowl: Chinese East Asia


The Making of Modern South Asia

keywords:
Humanities
History
Society
Asian Studies
Asian History

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: Survey of Indian civilization from 2500 BC to present-day. Traces major political events as well as economic, social, ecological, and cultural developments. Primary and secondary readings enhance understanding of this unique civilization, and shape and improve understanding in analyzing and interpreting historical data. Examines major thematic debates in Indian history through class discussion.

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keywords:
Humanities
History
Social Science
Society
Anthropology
Asian Studies
Gender Studies
Women's Studies
Social Anthropology
Asian History

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Гуманітарні науки

de: Mathematik, Naturwissenschaften

uk: Математика, природничі науки

en: Mathematics, Natural Sciences

de: Rechts-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

en: Law, Economics and Social Sciences

description: This course is designed to introduce and help students understand the changes and continuities in the lives of women in South Asia from a historical perspective. Using gender as a lens of examining the past, we will examine how politics of race, class, caste and religion affected and continue to impact women in South Asian countries, primarily in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. We will reflect upon current debates within South Asian women's history in order to examine some of the issues and problems that arise in re-writing the past from a gendered perspective and these are found in primary documents, secondary readings, films, newspaper articles, and the Internet.

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name: Women in South Asia from 1800 to Present


keywords:
Humanities
History
Society
Asian Studies
European and Russian Studies
Asian History
Ancient History

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This subject examines interactions across the Eurasian continent between Russians, Chinese, Mongolian nomads, and Turkic oasis dwellers during the last millennium and a half. As empires rose and fell, religions, trade, and war flowed back and forth continuously across this vast space. Today, the fall of the Soviet Union and China's reforms have opened up new opportunities for cultural interaction.

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name: From the Silk Road to the Great Game: China, Russia, and Central Eurasia


geographyquiz.pdf

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: вхід без авторизації

de: Übung

en: Drill and Practice


Islam, the Middle East, and the West

keywords:
Humanities
History
Society
World History
Middle Eastern History
Middle Eastern Studies

uk: Гуманітарні науки

de: Geschichte

en: History

description: This course aims to provide students with a general overview of basic themes and issues in Middle Eastern history from the rise of Islam to the present, with an emphasis on the encounters and exchanges between the "Middle East" (Southwest Asia and North Africa) and the "West" (Europe and the United States).

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uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: вхід без авторизації


uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: Exam sheet.

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uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: Exam handout.

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keywords:
Humanities
History
Social Science
Society
Anthropology
Latin and Caribbean Studies
Cultural Anthropology
Modern History
Latin American History

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Математика, природничі науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

description: This class is a selective survey of Latin American history from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. Issues studied include Latin America in the global economy, relations between Latin America and the U.S., dictatorships and democracies in the twentieth century, African and Indigenous cultures, feminism and gender, cultural politics, revolution in Mexico, Cuba, and Central America, and Latin American identity.

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name: Modern Latin America, 1808-Present: Revolution, Dictatorship, Democracy


Trials in History

keywords:
Humanities
History
Social Science
Sociology
Legal Studies
Social Justice
American History
European History

de: Soziologie

en: Sociology

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

description: This seminar examines a number of famous trials in European and American history. It considers the salient issues (political, social, cultural) of several trials, the ways in which each trial was constructed and covered in public discussions at the time, the ways in which legal reasoning and storytelling interacted in each trial and in the later retellings of the trial, and the ways in which trials serve as both spectacle and a forum for moral and political reasoning. Students have an opportunity to study one trial in depth and present their findings to the class.

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keywords:
Humanities
History
Social Science
Anthropology
Ethnography
Cultural Anthropology
Religion
Jewish History

de: Religionswissenschaft

uk: Релігієзнавство

en: Religious Studies

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Математика, природничі науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

description: This course explores how our views of Jewish history have been formed and how this history can explain the survival of the Jews as an ethnic/religious group into the present day. Special attention is given to the partial and fragmentary nature of our information about the past, and the difficulties inherent in decoding statements about the past that were written with a religious agenda in mind. It also considers complex events in Jewish history -- from early history as portrayed in the Bible to recent history, including the Holocaust.

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name: Jewish History from Biblical to Modern Times


The Economic History of Work and Family

keywords:
Humanities
History
Economics
Social Science
Society
Anthropology
Gender Studies
Women's Studies
Social Anthropology
Labor Economics

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

de: Volkswirtschaftslehre

uk: Економіка

en: Economics

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Математика, природничі науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

uk: Бізнес та економіка

description: This course will explore the relation of women and men in both pre-industrial and modern societies to the changing map of public and private (household) work spaces, examining how that map affected their opportunities for both productive activity and the consumption of goods and leisure. The reproductive strategies of women, either in conjunction with or in opposition to their families, will be the third major theme of the course. We will consider how a place and an ideal of the "domestic" arose in the early modern west, to what extent it was effective in limiting the economic position of women, and how it has been challenged, and with what success, in the post-industrial period. Finally, we will consider some of the policy implications for contemporary societies as they respond to changes in the composition of the paid work force, as well as to radical changes in their national demographic profiles. Although most of the material for the course will focus on western Europe since the Middle Ages and on the United States, we will also consider how these issues have played themselves out in non-western cultures.

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Seminar in Historical Methods

keywords:
Humanities
History
Comparative History
Historical Methods
Historiography

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course is designed to introduce students to fundamental issues and debates in the writing of history. It will feature innovative historical accounts written in recent years. The class will consider such questions as the words historians use, their language, sources, methods, organization, framing, and style. How does the choice of each of these affect the historian's work? How does the author choose, analyze, and present evidence? How effective are different methodologies?

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keywords:
Humanities
History
Modern History
Comparative History
Historical Methods
Historiography

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This subject is designed to give 21H majors and minors an introduction to the methods that historians use to interpret the past. We will focus on two areas: archives and interpretation. In our work on archives, we will ask what constitutes an archive. We will visit one or two local archives, speak with archivists, and assemble our own archive related to life at MIT in 2003. Once we have a better understanding of the possibilities and limitations of historical archives, we will turn to the task of interpreting archival findings. We will discuss a series of readings organized around the theme of history and national identity in various parts of the world since the end of the eighteenth century.

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uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course is designed to acquaint students with a variety of approaches to the past used by historians writing in the twentieth century. The books we read have all made significant contributions to their respective sub-fields and have been selected to give as wide a coverage in both field and methodology as possible in one semester's worth of reading. We examine how historians conceive of their object of study, how they use primary sources as a basis for their accounts, how they structure the narrative and analytic discussion of their topic, and what are the advantages and drawbacks of their various approaches.

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Readings in American History Since 1877

keywords:
Humanities
History
American History
Modern History
Comparative History
Historical Methods

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This seminar aims to develop a teaching knowledge of the field through extensive reading and discussion of major works. The reading covers a broad range of topics - political, economic, social, and cultural - and represents a variety of historical methods.

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Nature, Environment, and Empire

keywords:
Science
Humanities
History
Earth Science
Biology
Environmental Science
Modern History
Ecology
Intellectual History

de: Geowissenschaften (ohne Geographie)

uk: Науки про Землю(крім географії)

en: Geosciences (excl. Geography)

de: Biologie

en: Biology

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Математика, природничі науки

description: This class examines the relationship between the study of natural history, both domestic and exotic, by Europeans and Americans, and exploration and exploitation of the natural world, focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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Gender

keywords:
Humanities
History
Social Science
Society
Anthropology
Gender Studies
Social Anthropology
American History
European History
Cultural Anthropology

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Математика, природничі науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

description: This course examines the definition of gender in scientific, societal, and historical contexts. It explores how gender influences state formation and the work of the state, what role gender plays in imperialism and in the welfare state, the ever-present relationship between gender and war, and different states' regulation of the body in gendered ways at different times. It investigates new directions in the study of gender as historians, anthropologists and others have taken on this fascinating set of problems.

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Gender: Historical Perspectives

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Математика, природничі науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

description: This course examines the definition of gender in scientific, societal, and historical contexts. It explores how gender influences state formation and the work of the state, what role gender plays in imperialism and in the welfare state, the ever-present relationship between gender and war, and different states' regulation of the body in gendered ways at different times. It also investigates new directions in the study of gender as historians, anthropologists and others have taken on this fascinating set of problems. Students taking the graduate version complete additional assignments.

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keywords:
Humanities
History
Historical Methods
Historiography

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: We will doggedly ask two questions in this class: "What is history?" and "How do you do it in 2010?" In pursuit of the answers, we will survey a variety of approaches to the past used by historians writing in the last several decades. We will examine how these historians conceive of their object of study, how they use primary sources as a basis for their accounts, how they structure the narrative and analytical discussion of their topic, and the advantages and limitations of their approaches.

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uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This subject examines some of the many ways that contemporary historians interpret the past, as well as the multiple types of sources on which they rely for evidence. It is by no means an exhaustive survey, but the topics and readings have been chosen to give a sense of the diversity of work that is encompassed in the discipline of history.

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Food in American History

keywords:
Science
Humanities
History
Health and Medicine
Earth Science
Energy
Business
Globalization
Technology
Health and Exercise Science
American History
Climate
Sustainability

de: Humanmedizin/Gesundheitswissenschaften

uk: Медицина / Науки про здоров'я

en: Human Medicine / Health Sciences

de: Betriebswirtschaftslehre

uk: Бізнес-адміністрування

en: Business Administration

uk: Науки про Землю(крім географії)

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Математика, природничі науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

uk: Бізнес та економіка

description: This course will explore food in modern American history as a story of industrialization and globalization. Lectures, readings, and discussions will emphasize the historical dimensions of—and debates about—slave plantations and factory farm labor; industrial processing and technologies of food preservation; the political economy and ecology of global commodity chains; the vagaries of nutritional science; food restrictions and reform movements; food surpluses and famines; cooking traditions and innovations; the emergence of restaurants, supermarkets, fast food, and slow food. The core concern of the course will be to understand the increasingly pervasive influence of the American model of food production and consumption patterns.

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Writing About Literature

keywords: Humanities Literature Criticism

de: Geisteswissenschaften

uk: Гуманітарні науки

en: Humanities

description: Students, scholars, bloggers, reviewers, fans, and book-group members write about literature, but so do authors themselves. Through the ways they engage with their own texts and those of other artists, sampling, remixing, and rethinking texts and genres, writers reflect on and inspire questions about the creative process. We will examine Mary Shelley's reshaping of Milton's _Paradise Lost_, German fairy tales, tales of scientific discovery, and her husband's poems to make _Frankenstein_ (1818, 1831); Melville's redesign of a travel narrative into a Gothic novella in _Benito Cereno_ (1856); and Alison Bechdel's rewriting of Oscar Wilde's _The Importance of Being Earnest_ (1895) in her graphic novel _Fun Home_ (2006). Showings of film versions of some of these works will allow us to project forward in the remixing process as well.

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keywords: Humanities Literature Criticism Fiction Drama Poetry

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course is designed around analyzing _intimate bonds_ and the permutations of _heartbreak_. Through the analysis of a set of relations in novels, short stories, poetry, music videos, and live theatre, we will consider the transformative states of the lover’s (un)becoming, for how consciousness is constituted by bonds yet how the lover transcends crisis in the moment of the epiphany that surfaces in love’s very failure; indeed, love itself becomes narcissistically yet optimistically illuminating, even in its oppressive hold.

de: keine Anmeldung erforderlich

uk: вхід без авторизації

en: no login required

name: Writing About Literature: Writing About Love


keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Philosophy
Classics
Comparative Literature

de: Philosophie

en: Philosophy

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: As we read broadly from throughout the vast chronological period that is "Homer to Dante," we will pepper our readings of individual ancient and medieval texts with broader questions like: what images, themes, and philosophical questions recur through the period; are there distinctly "classical" or "medieval" ways of depicting or addressing them; and what do terms like "Antiquity" or "the Middle Ages" even mean? (What are the Middle Ages in the "middle" of, for example?) Our texts will include adventure tales of travel and self-discovery (Homer's _Odyssey_ and Dante's _Inferno_); courtroom dramas of vengeance and reconciliation (Aeschylus's _Oresteia_ and the Icelandic _Njáls saga_); short poems of love and transformation (Ovid's _Metamorphoses_ and the _Lais_ of Marie de France); and epics of war, nation-construction, and empire (Homer's _Iliad_, Virgil's _Aeneid_, and the Anglo-Saxon _Beowulf_).

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name: Foundations of Western Culture:  Homer to Dante


keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Social Science
Anthropology
Philosophy
Classics
International Literature
Comparative Literature
Cultural Anthropology

uk: Суспільні науки та соціологія

uk: Гуманітарні науки

uk: Антропологія (Біологія людини)

uk: Математика, природничі науки

uk: Право, економіка та суспільні науки

description: This course aims to introduce students to the rich diversity of human culture from antiquity to the early 17th century. In this course, we will explore human culture in its myriad expressions, focusing on the study of literary, religious and philosophical texts as ways of narrating, symbolizing, and commenting on all aspects of human social and material life. We will work comparatively, reading texts from various cultures: Mesopotamian, Greek, Judeo-Christian, Chinese, Indian, and Muslim. Throughout the semester, we will be asking questions like: How have different cultures imagined themselves? What are the rules that they draw up for human behavior? How do they represent the role of the individual in society? How do they imagine 'universal' concepts like love, family, duty? How have their writers and artists dealt with encounters with other cultures and other civilizations?

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name: Foundations of World Culture I: World Civilizations and Texts

de: Kurs

en: Course


keywords:
Humanities
Ethics
Literature
Philosophy
Political Philosophy
International Literature
Comparative Literature

de: Ethik

uk: Етика

en: Ethics

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This subject offers a broad survey of texts (both literary and philosophical) drawn from the Western tradition and selected to trace the growth of ideas about the nature of mankind's ethical and political life in the West since the renaissance. It will deal with the change in perspective imposed by scientific ideas, the general loss of a supernatural or religious perspective upon human events, and the effects for good or ill of the increasing authority of an intelligence uninformed by religion as a guide to life. The readings are roughly complementary to the readings in 21L001, and classroom discussion will stress appreciation and analysis of texts that came to represent the cultural heritage of the modern world.

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name: Foundations of Western Culture II: Renaissance to Modernity


Foundations of Western Culture II

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
History
Philosophy
Political Philosophy
International Literature
Comparative Literature
Intellectual History

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description:
Complementary to 21L.001. A broad survey of texts - literary, philosophical, and sociological - studied to trace the growth of secular humanism, the loss of a supernatural perspective upon human events, and changing conceptions of individual, social, and communal purpose. Stresses appreciation and analysis of texts that came to represent the common cultural possession of our time. Enrollment limited. HASS-D, CI.

Readings this semester ranging from political theory and oratory to autobiography, poetry, and science fiction reflect on war, motives for war, reconciliation and memory. The readings are largely organized around three historical moments: the Renaissance and first contacts between Europe and America (Machiavelli, Cortés, Sahagún); the European age of revolutions (Voltaire, Blake, Williams); the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery (Stowe, Whitman, Lincoln). Readings from the twentieth-century include poetry by Lowell and Walcott and fiction by Ondaatje and O.S. Card.

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keywords:
Humanities
Literature
History
Philosophy
Comparative Literature
Comparative History

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course comprises a broad survey of texts, literary and philosophical, which trace the development of the modern world from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Intrinsic to this development is the growth of individualism in a world no longer understood to be at the center of the universe. The texts chosen for study exemplify the emergence of a new humanism, at once troubled and dynamic in comparison to the old. The leading theme of this course is thus the question of the difference between the ancient and the modern world. Students who have taken Foundations of Western Culture I will obviously have an advantage in dealing with this question. Classroom discussion approaches this question mainly through consideration of action and characters, voice and form.

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name: Foundations of Western Culture: The Making of the Modern World


keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Classics
International Literature

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This class continues our study of the foundational texts of human culture, focusing on early modernity until the recent past. In many ways, this includes several questions such as: Why did these works achieve the fame and influence they achieved? How do they present what it means to be a human being? How do they describe the role of a member of a family, community, tradition, social class, gender? How do they distinguish between proper and improper behavior? How do they characterize the members of other groups? However, in several ways, these texts are also iconoclastic, breaking with centuries of established tradition to shed light on previously unexplored subjects, such as the status of women in society or the legacy of the colonial expansion of European countries. They also question well-established social beliefs like religion, monarchical rule and human nature in general.

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name: Foundations of World Culture II: World Literatures and Texts


Reading Fiction: Dysfunctional Families

keywords: Humanities Literature Criticism Fiction

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course explores the form, content, and historical context of various works of fiction specifically through the thematic lens of "dysfunctional families." We will focus primarily on questions pertaining to the structure, language, story, and characters of these fictional works.

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Reading Fiction

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course introduces prose narrative, both short stories and the novel. It examines the construction of narrative and the analysis of literary response.

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uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: Reading Fiction is designed to sharpen your skills as a critical reader. As we explore both short stories and novels focusing on the theme of "the city in literature," we will learn about the various elements that shape the way we read texts - structure, narrative voice, character development, novelistic experimentation, historical and political contexts and reader response.

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Introduction to Fiction

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Fiction
Comparative Literature

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course investigates the uses and boundaries of fiction in a range of novels and narrative styles--traditional and innovative, western and nonwestern--and raises questions about the pleasures and meanings of verbal texts in different cultures, times, and forms. Toward the end of the term, we will be particularly concerned with the relationship between art and war in a diverse selection of works.

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keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Criticism
Fiction
Comparative Literature

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This course investigates the uses and boundaries of fiction in a range of novels and narrative styles, traditional and innovative, western and non-western, and raises questions about the pleasures and meanings of verbal texts in different cultures, times, and forms.

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Reading Fiction: Imaginary Journeys

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: Great works of fiction often take us to far-off places; they sometimes conduct us on journeys toward a deeper understanding of what's right next door. We'll read, discuss, and interpret a range of short and short-ish works: The reading list will be chosen from among such texts as "Gilgamesh," Homer's _Odyssey_ (excerpts), Bunyan's _The_ _Pilgrim's Progress_ (excerpts), Swift's _Gulliver's Travels_, Mary Shelley's _Frankenstein_, Conrad's _Heart of Darkness_, Saleh's _Season of Migration to the North_, Woolf's _To the Lighthouse_, John Cheever's "The Swimmer," Coetzee's _The Life and Times of Michael K_, Irving's "Rip Van Winkle," Toni Morrison's _Jazz_, H. G. Wells' _The Time Machine_, Twain's _The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_, Beckett's _How It Is_, Calvino's _Invisible Cities_, Forster's _A Passage to India_. As a CI-H class, this subject will involve substantial practice in argumentative writing and oral communication.

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Major Poets

keywords: Humanities Literature Criticism Poetry

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This subject follows a course of readings in lyric poetry in the English language, tracing the main lines of descent through literary periods from the Renaissance to the modern period and concentrating mostly on English rather than American examples.

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uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: This subject is an introduction to poetry as a genre; most of our texts are originally written in English. We read poems from the Renaissance through the 17th and 18th centuries, Romanticism, and Modernism. Focus will be on analytic reading, on literary history, and on the development of the genre and its forms; in writing we attend to techniques of persuasion and of honest evidenced sequential argumentation. Poets to be read will include William Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth, William Wordsworth, John Keats, T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop, and some contemporary writers.

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Reading Poetry: Social Poetics

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Society
African American Studies
Poetry

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: The central concern of this class is the historical relationship between the social lives of everyday people and U.S. American poetics, with a special emphasis on what June Jordan once termed the “difficult miracle of Black poetry in America.” How does poetry help us to know one another? And how might we better understand the particular role of poetry, of poiesis, for those historically barred from the very practice of reading or writing, from ownership (even of one’s own body), and various generally recognized forms of belonging? For this course, these will be some of our animating questions.

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Reading Poetry

keywords:
Humanities
Literature
Criticism
Comparative Literature
Poetry

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: "Reading Poetry" has several aims: primarily, to increase the ways you can become more engaged and curious readers of poetry; to increase your confidence as writers thinking about literary texts; and to provide you with the language for literary description. The course is not designed as a historical survey course but rather as an introductory approach to poetry from various directions – as public or private utterances; as arranged imaginative shapes; and as psychological worlds, for example. One perspective offered is that poetry offers intellectual, moral and linguistic pleasures as well as difficulties to our private lives as readers and to our public lives as writers. Expect to hear and read poems aloud and to memorize lines; the class format will be group discussion, occasional lecture.

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keywords:
Humanities
Literature
American Literature
Criticism
Poetry

uk: Гуманітарні науки

description: How do you read a poem? Intuition is not the only answer. In this class, we will investigate some of the formal tools poets use—meter, sound, syntax, word-choice, and other properties of language—as well as exploring a range of approaches to reading poetry, from the old (memorization and reading out loud) to the new (digitally enabled visualization and annotation). We will use readings available online via the generosity of the Poetry Foundation and the Academy of American Poets. We will also think collectively about how to approach difficult poems.

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