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21H.991J / STS.210J Theories and Methods in the Study of History, Fall 2004
(2004-12)
The purpose of this course is to acquaint you with a variety of approaches to the past used by historians writing in the twentieth century. Most of the books on the list constitute, in my view (and others), modern classics, ...
21H.001 How to Stage a Revolution, Fall 2007
(2007-12)
21H.001, a HASS-D, CI course, explores fundamental questions about the causes and nature of revolutions. How do people overthrow their rulers? How do they establish new governments? Do radical upheavals require bloodshed, ...
21L.448J / 21W.739J Darwin and Design, Fall 2009
(2009-12)
In the Origin of Species (1859), Charles Darwin gave us a model for understanding how natural objects and systems can evidence design without positing a designer: how purpose and mechanism can exist without intelligent ...
5.301 Chemistry Laboratory Techniques, January IAP 2004
(2004)
This course is an intensive introduction to the techniques of experimental chemistry and gives first year students an opportunity to learn and master the basic chemistry lab techniques for carrying out experiments. Students ...
21F.027J / CMS.874 / 21H.917J Visualizing Cultures, Spring 2008
(2008-06)
In this new course, students will study how images have been used to shape the identity of peoples and cultures. A prototype digital project looking at American and Japanese graphics depicting the opening of Japan to the ...
21H.433 The Age of Reason: Europe in the 18th and 19th Centuries, Spring 2002
(2002-06)
A study of the evolution of European society from the end of the seventeenth century to the outbreak of World War I. Its politics, the nature of its social system, the workings of its economy, and its intellectual ...
21H.615 The Middle East in 20th Century, Spring 2003
(2003-06)
This course explores the 20th-century history of the Middle East, concentrating on the Fertile Crescent, Egypt, Turkey, the Arabian peninsula, and Iran. We will begin by examining the late Ottoman Empire and close with the ...
21H.102 The Emergence of Modern America 1865-Present, Spring 2003
(2003-06)
This subject studies the changing structure of American politics, economics, and society from the end of the Civil War to the present. We will consider secondary historical accounts and primary documents to examine some ...
21H.244 Imperial and Revolutionary Russia: Culture and Politics, 1700-1917, Fall 2012
(2012-12)
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 ...
21H.206 American Consumer Culture, Fall 2001
(2001-12)
Examines how and why twentieth-century Americans came to define the "good life" through consumption, leisure, and material abundance. Explores how such things as department stores, advertising, mass-produced cars, and ...