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ESD.801 Leadership Development, Fall 2010
(2010-12)
Students in ESD.801 Leadership Development work in a seminar environment to develop leadership capabilities. Readings, assignments and class discussion explore the topics covered in this class. In addition, students ...
RES.10-001 Making Science and Engineering Pictures, Fall 2014
(2014-12)
This collection of videos teaches how to use a flatbed scanner to create photographs of science and engineering. It is part of the interdisciplinary course taught at MIT called “Visual Strategies for Scientists and ...
21A.232J / WGS.172J Rethinking the Family, Sex, and Gender, Fall 2010
(2010-12)
Through investigating cross-cultural case studies, this course introduces students to the anthropological study of the social institutions and symbolic meanings of family, household, gender, and sexuality. We will explore ...
21W.730 Writing on Contemporary Issues: Social and Ethical Issues, Spring 2010
(2010-06)
This course provides the opportunity for students-as readers, viewers, writers and speakers-to engage with social and ethical issues they care deeply about. Over the course of the semester, through discussing the writing ...
WGS.110 Sexual and Gender Identities, Fall 2010
(2010-12)
This course introduces scholarly debates about sexual identities, gender identities and expressions, and sexual orientation and its representation in film and literature. We begin with a contemporary debate about biology ...
16.63J / ESD.03J System Safety, Fall 2012
(2012-12)
This class introduces the concepts of system safety and how to analyze and design safer systems. Topics include the causes of accidents in general, and recent major accidents in particular; hazard analysis, safety-driven ...
14.03 / 14.003 Microeconomic Theory and Public Policy, Fall 2010
(2010-12)
This class presents microeconomic theory and applications of consumer and producer behavior and welfare analysis at an intermediate level. In addition to standard competitive models, we study deviations due to externalities, ...
12.141 Electron Microprobe Analysis by Wavelength Dispersive X-ray Spectrometry, January IAP 2010
(2010)
This lab-oriented course introduces the student to the subject of X-ray spectrometry and micro-scale chemical quantitative analysis of solid samples through an intensive series of hands-on laboratory exercises that use the ...
2.29 Numerical Fluid Mechanics, Fall 2011
(2011-12)
This course will provide students with an introduction to numerical methods and MATLAB®. Topics covered throughout the course will include: errors, condition numbers and roots of equations; Navier-Stokes; direct and ...
21L.705 Major Authors: Old English and Beowulf, Spring 2014
(2014-06)
hƿæt ƿe gardena in geardagum þeodcyninga þrym gefrunon hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon…. Those are the first words of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to read them. Besides being the ...