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21W.745 / WGS.576 Advanced Essay Workshop, Spring 2008
(2008-06)
This course is a workshop for students with some experience in writing essays, nonfiction prose. Our focus will be negotiating and representing identities grounded in gender, race, class, nationality, sexuality, and other ...
21F.065 / 21F.593 Japanese Literature and Cinema, Spring 2006
(2006-06)
This course includes surveys for both cinematic and literary representations of diverse eras and aspects of Japanese culture such as the classical era, the samurai age, wartime Japan and the atomic bombings, social change ...
21W.730-3 Consumer Culture, Fall 2002
(2002-12)
What is the good life, and can you shop there? Would you want that life if you couldn't? Has shopping replaced working as the activity that gives the most meaning to our lives? The theme for this Expository Writing class ...
21A.226 Ethnic and National Identity, Spring 2005
(2005-06)
This course is an introduction to the cross-cultural study of ethnic and national identity. We examine the concept of social identity, consider how gender, religious and racial identity components interact with ethnic and ...
17.042 Citizenship and Pluralism, Fall 2003
(2003-12)
This course will serve as both an introduction to contemporary political philosophy and a way to explore issues of pluralism and multiculturalism. Racial and ethnic groups, national minorities, aboriginals, women, sexual ...
17.41 Introduction to International Relations, Spring 2018
(2018-06)
This course provides an introduction to the causes of international conflict and cooperation. Topics include war initiation, crisis bargaining, international terrorism, nuclear strategy, interstate economic relations, ...
RES.CD-001 Leadership and Empowerment: Resources from Graduate Women at MIT (GWAMIT), Spring 2012
(2012-06)
Graduate Women at MIT (GWAMIT) is an institute-wide, student-led group founded in 2009. Its mission is to promote the personal and professional development of MIT's graduate women. GWAMIT welcomes all members of the MIT ...
CMS.600 / CMS.998 Videogame Theory and Analysis, Fall 2007
(2007-12)
This course will serve as an introduction to the interdisciplinary academic study of videogames, examining their cultural, educational, and social functions in contemporary settings. By playing, analyzing, and reading and ...
21A.230J / WGS.456J The Contemporary American Family, Spring 2004
(2004-06)
We begin by considering briefly the evolution of the family, its cross-cultural variability, and its history in the West. We next examine how the family is currently defined in the U.S., discussing different views about ...