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21F.311 / 21F.312 Introduction to French Culture, Fall 2004
(2004-12)
Ce cours est une introduction à la culture et la société françaises depuis la Révolution, mais surtout à partir du Second Empire. Nous tacherons de cerner ce qui définit ...
21A.215 Medical Anthropology, Fall 2004
(2004-12)
Examination of how medicine is practiced cross-culturally, with particular emphasis on Western biomedicine. Analysis of medical practice as a cultural system, focusing on the human, as opposed to the biological, side of ...
21W.731-2 Writing and Experience: Crossing Borders, Fall 2010
(2010-12)
In this era of globalization, many of us have multi- or bi-cultural, multilingual or bilingual backgrounds, and even if we don't have such a background, we need urgently to understand the experiences of people who do. You ...
21A.100 Introduction to Anthropology, Fall 2004
(2004-12)
This class introduces students to the methods and perspectives of cultural anthropology. Readings emphasize case studies in very different settings (a nuclear weapons laboratory, a cattle-herding society of the Sudan, and ...
21A.112 Seminar in Ethnography and Fieldwork, Fall 2003
(2003-12)
Introduction to ethnographic practices: the study of and communicating about culture. Reading and discussion of classics of anthropological field work, contemporary critiques, and innovative practices. From the course home ...
21W.730-5 Writing on Contemporary Issues: Culture Shock! Writing, Editing, and Publishing in Cyberspace, Fall 2008
(2008-12)
This course is an introduction to writing prose for a public audience—specifically, prose that is both critical and personal, that features your ideas, your perspective, and your voice to engage readers. The focus ...
21F.711 Advanced Spanish Conversation and Composition: Perspectives on Technology and Culture, Spring 2005
(2005-06)
En este curso el estudiante perfeccionará su comunicación oral y escrita mediante el estudio y la discusión de temas relacionados al impacto social y cultural de la ciencia y la tecnología en ...
21F.730 Twentieth and Twentyfirst-Century Spanish American Literature, Spring 2003
(2003-06)
Este semestre la materia combina obras ya canonizadas de finales del siglo XIX y del XX con algunas obras de reciente aparición. De los géneros literarios, vemos poesía, el cuento corto, la novela y ...
21F.711 Advanced Spanish Conversation and Composition, Spring 2002
(2002-06)
Subject designed as a logical complement to Advanced Reading and Writing in Spanish. Unlike 21F.713, which focuses primarily on literary language, subject focuses on expository and journalistic writing that examines the ...
21W.730-1 Imagining the Future, Spring 2004
(2004-06)
Turn-of-the-century eras have historically been times when people are more than usually inclined to scrutinize the present and speculate about the future. Now, the turn not just of a century but of a millennium having ...