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21M.220 Early Music, Spring 2007
(2007-06)
This class covers the history of Western music from antiquity until approximately 1680, about 2000 years worth of music. Rather than cover each topic at the same level of depth, we will focus on four topics in particular ...
12.086 / 12.586 Modeling Environmental Complexity, Fall 2008
(2008-12)
This course provides an introduction to the study of environmental phenomena that exhibit both organized structure and wide variability—i.e., complexity. Through focused study of a variety of physical, biological, ...
21H.302 The Ancient World: Rome, Spring 2005
(2005-06)
This course elaborates the history of Rome from its humble beginnings to the fifth century A.D. The first half of the course covers Kingship to Republican form; the conquest of Italy; Roman expansion: Pyrrhus, Punic Wars ...
21F.027J / CMS.874 / 21H.917J Visualizing Cultures, Spring 2003
(2003-06)
Extensive reading and discussion of how visual images impose a variety of identities on individuals and societies. Case studies drawn primarily from the Pacific region, and include: identities of individuals in a society; ...
21H.153J / SP.421J / WGS.421J Race and Gender in Asian America, Fall 2002
(2002-12)
An interdisciplinary examination of the Asian-American experience with particular emphasis on gender and race from mid-nineteenth century to present. Topics include: Asian American women's history, Asian American feminisms, ...
21H.909 People and Other Animals, Fall 2005
(2005-12)
A historical survey of the ways that people have interacted with their closest animal relatives, for example: hunting, domestication of livestock, worship of animal gods, exploitation of animal labor, scientific study of ...
11.014J / 21H.232J American Urban History II, Fall 2004
(2004-12)
This is a seminar course that explores the history of selected features of the physical environment of urban America. Among the features considered are parks, cemeteries, tenements, suburbs, zoos, skyscrapers, department ...
17.433 / 17.434 International Relations of East Asia, Spring 2005
(2005-06)
The aim of this lecture course is to introduce and analyze the international relations of East Asia. With four great powers, three nuclear weapons states and two of the world's largest economies, East Asia is one of the ...
12.010 Computational Methods of Scientific Programming, Fall 2008
(2008-12)
This course introduces programming languages and techniques used by physical scientists: FORTRAN, C, C++, MATLAB, and Mathematica. Emphasis is placed on program design, algorithm development and verification, and comparative ...
21H.346 France 1660-1815: Enlightenment, Revolution, Napoleon, Fall 2005
(2005-12)
A century and a half ago, Alexis de Tocqueville argued that the Revolution of 1789 in France constituted the culmination of long-term administrative and social changes, rather than a rupture with the past. In this class, ...