Humanities Degrees

...and "belief," and of the innate basis for the acquisition of certain types of knowledge (especially linguistic knowledge). Students have the option... Learn about: Cognitive Science...

...level in an allied field. A relatively large amount of unrestricted elective time is available so that students can devise programs suited to individual needs and interests... Learn about: Cognitive Science...

...science and technical work to broad audiences and members of their professions. Others work collaboratively within the evolving framework of digital media... Learn about: Communication Training...

...The chronological span of the program includes some 6,500 years between 5000 BC and 1500 AD. The goal of this program is to develop knowledge and understanding...

...and of prosodic aspects of speech; perception of speech; models of lexical access and of speech production and planning; and applications to recognition... Learn about: Speech Communication, Communication Training...

...2 sessions / week, 1 hour / session Labs: 2 sessions / week, 2 hours / session Students are organized into groups of 2 or 3. Laboratory sessions are usually 2-3 hours... Learn about: Communication Training, Speech Communication...

...features, and phonological structure are also discussed. In addition, the course offers a variety of perspectives on these issues, drawn from Electrical Engineering...

...Areas of discussion include: Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Recitations: 1 session / week, 1 hour / session The Acoustics of Speech... Learn about: GCSE Physics, Speech and Hearing...

...and models in syntactic parsing, information extraction, statistical machine translation, dialogue systems, and summarization. The subject qualifies...

...of archaeological field methods and analytical techniques including the examination of stone, ceramic, and metal artifacts and bone materials...

...for human evolution from earliest times through the Pleistocene; evolution of tool use and social behavior; modern human variation and concepts of...

...the other to struggles between the government of Panama and the Kuna between 1900 and 1925-students examine primary documents such as letters...

...anti-terrorist policies and other judicial attempts to redress state-sponsored wrongs. It also considers whether the human rights framework effectively... Learn about: Human Rights...

...of the phenomena in both past and present contexts. It examines the wide range of factors and agents that enable these practices, such as technology...

...East and North Africa. Starting with the history of the ways in which the West has discovered, translated and written about the Orient, we will consider...

...rationality, kinship, gender, and sexuality. It also analyzes whether contemporary western bio-medical interventions reinforce colonial or imperial power... Learn about: Medical training...

...George Orwell, Rachel Carson, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., who have used the power of the pen to inspire social change. Lectures... Learn about: Social Change...

...In this introductory writing class we consider the role of sports in our own lives and explore the cultural meanings of sports in America. Sports...

...informed rhetorical choices as we design our own texts. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 2 hours / session There are no prequisites for this course...

...1.5 hours / session There are no prerequisites for this course. Acting as participant-observers, students will chronicle their MIT experiences and investigate...