Other Social Science Undergraduate Degrees

...of, for example?) Our texts will include adventure tales of travel and self-discovery (Homer's Odyssey and Dante's Inferno); courtroom dramas of vengeance... Learn about: Construction Training...

...Mesopotamian, Greek, Judeo-Christian, Chinese, Indian, and Muslim. Throughout the semester, we will be asking questions like: How have different cultures imagined themselves?...

...of the difference between the ancient and the modern world. Students who have taken Foundations of Western Culture I will obviously have an advantage...

...3 hours / session Weekly journals (1-2 pp.); four essays, totalling 20 pp. or more; revision of first essay; pre-submitted draft of second essay...

...uninformed by religion as a guide to life. The readings are roughly complementary to the readings in 21L001, and classroom discussion will stress appreciation...

...How do they characterize the members of other groups? However, in several ways, these texts are also iconoclastic, breaking with centuries of established...

...Some prior work in political science or economics is strongly recommended. For undergraduates there will be an additional one-section meeting...

...heart disease, and mental illness. At the same time there has been enormous growth in the role of medicine in culture, economics, and politics...

...the great leap in productivity (also known as the industrial revolution), and the great acceleration that has come with the rise of human empire on the planet...

...Darwinian debates in the 19th century, and the creation controversies in the 20th century) and give class presentations. Lectures: 2 sessions /...

...social problems such as addiction and violence. Guest lectures by neuroscientists, class discussion, and weekly readings in neuroscience, popular media...

...the original development of nuclear weapons and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the effects of the Cold War on American science; the space shuttle disasters... Learn about: Wind Power...

...socioeconomic, and cultural factors that have historically shaped these interrelations at a local and global scale. Lectures: 2 sessions /...

...Lectures: 1 session / week, 3 hours / session Science is the most highly specialized form of knowledge we possess. But science also sells, and sells... Learn about: Communication Training...

...as well as the creation of an interactive exhibit for display in the MIT Museum. Lectures: 1 session / week, 3 hours / session Skloot, Rebecca... Learn about: Communication Training...

...How does the computer change the way scientists approach the notions of proof, expertise, and discovery? No comprehensive history of scientific computing has yet been written... Learn about: GCSE Physics, GCSE Mathematics...

...From small farms to suburbia, Walden Pond to Yosemite, we will ask how technological and natural forces have interacted, and whether there is a place... Learn about: American History, Construction Training, Land Use...

...Examines the development of modern physics within shifting institutional, cultural, and political contexts, such as physics in Imperial Britain... Learn about: GCSE Physics...

...1.5 hours / session This class is centered upon two questions: first, how has gender mattered in the historical development of modern American culture... Learn about: American History...

...what it has been in the past and what it will be in the future. The course includes guest lecturers and field trips to the Institute Archives and the MIT Museum... Learn about: Creative Thinking...