Social Science Undergraduate Degrees

...when living under a dollar per day? Why do some countries grow fast and others fall further behind? Does growth help the poor? Are famines unavoidable?...

...This is an empirical class. For each topic, we will study several concrete examples chosen from around the world. While studying each of these topics... Learn about: IT risk...

...a good empirical study or field experiment and how to discriminate between reliable and unreliable evidence. Lecture: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Recitation...

...modes-from 18th century epistolary fiction, Liaisons dangereuses, to 20th century avant-garde fiction: Cosmicomicsi and Aura. Attention is paid not...

...and Poland. Primary works are drawn from literature, cinema, art, and performance, including works by Peter Sloterdijk, Thomas Vinterberg, and Michel Houellebecq...

...In particular, students will examine the elements of the formulaic "masala movie", music and melodrama, the ideas of nostalgia and incumbent change in youth culture...

...or one group from another are becoming more and more permeable. For proof of this close to home, you need only to look at the composition of the MIT student... Learn about: Communication Training...

...how each author’s work reflects a distinct cultural heritage and to what extent, if any, we can identify a female voice that transcends national cultures...

...It also uses case studies to consider how Africa articulates its place in, and relationship to, the world through creative practices. Discussion topics... Learn about: Social Theory...

...historically and today. Examples include religious and philosophical beliefs (Confucianism and Buddhism), literature, art, food, architecture...

...texts themselves (songs, films, videos, and images), students will scrutinize the different interpretations of reggae's significance and the implications... Learn about: Music Industry...

...in the First and Third World; how globalization leads to a common cosmopolitan culture; the emergence of a global youth culture; and religious...

...and viewing of film clips. The focus will be on the transformations of gender and class issues, representation of nationhood, the idea of regional identities...

...and as we examine their different socio-cultural, political and historical contexts we will attempt to understand what it means to study them under...

...and the new wave of post–1965 Asian immigration. The class examines the role these experiences played in the formation of Asian American ethnicity... Learn about: American History, Professor Training...

...from the Algerian war to postcolonial issues, from the birth of the European Union to the recent financial crisis, and from the moral "revolution"... Learn about: Financial Training...

...of militant organizations in the 1970s and 80s (Italy's Red Brigade, Germany's Red Army Faction, and the Real Irish Republican Army). In the middle...

...difference is considered and how it is altered through processes of globalization. Performances are viewed live when possible, but the course also relies on video...

...ambassadors of a specifically "French" theory? The course will explore the maze of transatlantic intellectual debates since 1945 and the heyday of French existentialism...

...Asian American masculinity, Asian American feminisms and their relation to mainstream American feminism, the debate between feminism and ethnic nationalism...