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21W.742J / SP.575J / WGS.575J Writing About Race, Spring 2007
(2007-06)
In The Souls of Black Folk (1903), the great cultural critic W. E. B. Du Bois wrote that "...the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line." A century after Du Bois penned those words, most Americans ...
SP.235 Chemistry of Sports, Spring 2007
(2007-06)
In this new seminar, we will be focusing on three sports, swimming, cycling and running. There will be two components to the seminar, a classroom and a laboratory. The classroom component will introduce the students to the ...
SP.778 Toy Product Design, Spring 2007
(2007-06)
Toy Product Design is a MIT Public Service Center learning design course offered in the Spring semester. This course is an introduction to the product design process with a focus on designing for play and entertainment. ...
11.131 Educational Theory and Practice III, Spring 2007
(2007-06)
This is the final course in the three course sequence (11.129, 11.130 and 11.131) that deals with the practicalities of teaching students. Our areas of study will include: educational psychology, identification of useful ...
21A.218J / SP.454J / WGS.454J Identity and Difference, Spring 2007
(2007-06)
How can the individual be at once cause and consequence of society, a unique agent of social action and also a social product? This course explores how identities, whether of individuals or groups, based on single behaviors ...
24.09 Minds and Machines, Spring 2007
(2007-06)
This course is an introduction to many of the central issues in a branch of philosophy called philosophy of mind. Some of the questions we will discuss include the following. Can computers think? Is the mind an immaterial ...
21M.785 / 21M.789 / 21W.769J Playwrights' Workshop, Spring 2007
(2007-06)
This course provides continued work in the development of play scripts for the theater. Writers work on sustained pieces in weekly workshop meetings, individual consultation with the instructor, and in collaboration with ...
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 ...
SP.401 / WGS.401 Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies, Fall 2007
(2007-12)
This course offers an introduction to Women's and Gender Studies, an interdisciplinary academic field that asks critical questions about the meaning of gender in society. The primary goal of this course is to familiarize ...
SP.784 Wheelchair Design in Developing Countries, Spring 2007
(2007-06)
This class will give students the chance to better the lives of others by improving wheelchairs and tricycles made in the developing world. According to the United States Agency for International Development, 20 million ...