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Communication Skills for Academics
Prof. Joanne Yates
Your success as an academic will depend heavily on your ability to communicate to fellow researchers in your...
Communication Humanities Literature
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Crafting Research Questions and Qualitative Methodology
Prof. Judith Tendler
This course covers approaches to research and evaluation in the planning field, for those preparing to write...
Humanities Literature Social Sciences
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Argumentation and Communication
Cherie Miot Abbanat
This Communication and Argumentation seminar is an intensive writing workshop that focuses on argumentation and...
Communication Humanities Literature
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Graduate Technical Writing Workshop
Caroline Beimford
This course is designed to improve the student’s ability to communicate technical information. It covers the basics...
Humanities Literature
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Economic History
Richard A. Hornbeck
This course is a survey of world economic history, and it introduces economics students to the subject matter and...
Economics History Humanities
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Introduction to the History of Technology
Prof. David Mindell
This course is an introduction to the consideration of technology as the outcome of particular technical,...
History Humanities
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History of Science
Prof. Robin Scheffler
This course offers an introduction to the history and historiography of science from ancient Greece to the present....
History Humanities
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Wanderings in Psychogeography: Exploring Landscapes of History, Biography, Memory, Culture, Nature, Poetry, Surreality, Fantasy, and Madness
Ezra Haber Glenn
In this seminar we explore the history, present, and future of psychogeography, hoping to map the center and the...
Geography Humanities Philosophy
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Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series: Developing Professional Skills
Dr. Mya Poe
This course consists of a series of seminars focused on the development of professional skills. Each semester...
Humanities Literature Philosophy
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Technology and the Literary Imagination
Prof. Leo Marx
Our linked subjects are (1) the historical process by which the meaning of technology has been constructed, and (2)...
Anthropology History Humanities
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Advanced Workshop in Writing for Science and Engineering (ELS)
Jane Dunphy
This course offers analysis and practice of various forms of scientific and technical writing, from memos to journal...
Humanities Language Literature
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Advanced Writing Seminar
Cherie Miot Abbanat
The purpose of this seminar is to expose the student to a number of different types of writing that one may...
Humanities Literature
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Advanced Semantics
Prof. Kai von Fintel
This course is the second of the three parts of our graduate introduction to semantics. The others are 24.970...
Humanities Linguistics
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Urban Development in Conflict Cities: Planning Challenges and Policy Innovations
Jota Samper
Economic, religious, gender, and ethnic differences must be negotiated every day in the urban arena. When tensions...
Humanities International Development Policy and Administration
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Cultural History of Technology
Prof. Leo Marx
The subject of this course is the historical process by which the meaning of “technology” has been constructed....
History Humanities
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Language Acquisition I
Prof. Athulya Aravind
This course focuses on the process by which native speakers of a language acquire the ability to speak and...
Humanities Linguistics
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Social Study of Science and Technology
Prof. Stefan Helmreich
This course surveys canonical and recent theories and methods in science studies. We will organize our discussions...
History Humanities Philosophy
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Territorial Conflict
Prof. M. Taylor Fravel
This graduate seminar introduces an emerging research program within International Relations on territorial...
History Humanities Policy and Administration
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Leadership Stories: Literature, Ethics, and Authority
Prof. Leigh Hafrey
This course explores how we use story to articulate ethical norms. The syllabus consists of short fiction, novels,...
Business & Management Humanities Literature
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Language Processing
Prof. Edward Gibson
This course is a seminar in real-time language comprehension. It considers models of sentence and discourse...
Cognitive Science Humanities Linguistics
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Narrative Ethics: Literary Texts and Moral Issues in Medicine
Prof. Martha Montello
This eight-session course, designed for a mixed group of first, second, third and fourth-year medical students, uses...
Humanities Literature Philosophy
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Topics in Phonology
Prof. Adam Albright
This course introduces students to the theory and practice of modeling phonology, with an empirical focus on...
Engineering Humanities Linguistics
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Language Disorders in Children
Prof. Suzanne Flynn
This seminar focuses on reading and discussion of current linguistic theory, first language acquisition and language...
Humanities Language Linguistics
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Introduction to Syntax
Prof. Idan Landau
This course is concerned with the concepts and principles which have been of central significance in the recent...
Humanities Linguistics
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Seeing the City Afresh
Garnette Cadogan
This course explores the city through writing—listening to the voices of poets, short story writers, novelists,...
Humanities Literature
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Pragmatics in Linguistic Theory
Prof. Daniel Fox
The course introduces formal theories of context-dependency, presupposition, implicature, context-change, focus and...
Humanities Linguistics
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Nature, Environment, and Empire
Prof. Harriet Ritvo
This class examines the relationship between the study of natural history, both domestic and exotic, by Europeans...
Biology Earth Science History
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Survival Skills for Researchers: The Responsible Conduct of Research
Prof. Elizabeth R. Myers
This course is designed to provide graduate students and postdoctoral associates with techniques that enhance both...
Humanities Literature Philosophy
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Nationalism
Prof. Melissa Nobles
This course provides a broad overview of the theories of and approaches to the study of nationalist thought and...
Humanities Philosophy Political Science
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Histories of Information, Communication, and Computing Technologies
Prof. Jennifer S Light
The histories of information, communication, and computing technologies have attracted attention from scholars...
Communication History Humanities
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History and Theory of Historic Preservation
Prof. Max Page
This class examines the history and theory of historic preservation, focusing on the United States, but with...
History Humanities Social Sciences
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Technology and Change in Rural America
Prof. Deborah Fitzgerald
This course considers the historical dimensions of rural production from subsistence to industrialization, both in...
Anthropology History Humanities
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Readings in American History Since 1877
Prof. Meg Jacobs
This seminar aims to develop a teaching knowledge of the field through extensive reading and discussion of major...
History Humanities
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Reasonable Conduct in Science
Prof. Matthew Wilson
To provide instruction and dialog on practical ethical issues relating to the responsible conduct of human and...
Cognitive Science Humanities Philosophy
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Special Graduate Topic in Political Science: Political Behavior
Prof. Andrea Campbell
This graduate seminar provides an examination of mass and elite political behavior in the United States, with an...
Humanities Philosophy Political Science
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The Civil War and the Emergence of Modern America, 1861-1890
Prof. Merritt Roe Smith
Using the American Civil War as a baseline, the course considers what it means to become “modern” by exploring the...
History Humanities
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Advanced Phonology
Prof. Donca Steriade
This course focuses on phonological phenomena that are sensitive to morphological structure, including...
Humanities Linguistics
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Literature, Ethics and Authority
Prof. Alvin Kibel
Our subject is the ethics of leadership, an examination of the principles appealed to by executive authority when...
Anthropology Business & Management Humanities
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Planning in Transition Economies for Growth and Equity
Prof. Annette M. Kim
During the last fifteen years, nations across the globe embarked on a historic transformation away from centrally...
Economics Humanities Philosophy
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Nuclear Weapons in International Politics: Past, Present and Future
Prof. Owen Cote
This course will expose students to tools and methods of analysis for use in assessing the challenges and dangers...
History Humanities Policy and Administration
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The Final Solution to the Jewish Question
The "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" was the official code name used by Nazi German authorities for the...
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Canadian Criminal Evidence
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Canadian Criminal Procedure and Practice
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Canadian Criminal Sentencing
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Canadian Criminal Trial Advocacy
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Canadian Refugee Procedure
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Consciousness Studies
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Foundations of the Ontology of Emerging Complexity
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Hawaiian Monarchs
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Heraldry and Genealogy of the Historical Báthory Families of Hungary
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Imperialism: a black and white issue?
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Plato
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Précis of epistemology
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American Foreign Policy: Theory and Method
Prof. Stephen Van Evera
This course examines the causes and consequences of American foreign policy since 1898. Course readings cover both...
History Humanities Policy and Administration
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Food and Power in the Twentieth Century
Prof. Deborah Fitzgerald
In this class, food serves as both the subject and the object of historical analysis. As a subject, food has been...
Economics History Humanities
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Civil War
Prof. Roger Petersen
This course surveys the social science literature on civil war. Students will study the origins of civil war,...
History Humanities Policy and Administration
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Topics in Phonology: Phonetic Realization
Prof. Edward Flemming
Many details of phonetic realization cannot be predicted from standard phonological representations on a...
Humanities Linguistics
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Topics in Semantics: Negative Polarity Items
Prof. Luka Crnic
This course is concerned with Negative Polarity Items. While raising familiar foundational questions for linguistic...
Humanities Linguistics
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Civil-Military Relations
Prof. Roger Petersen
This course centers on mechanisms of civilian control of the military. Relying on the influential texts of Lasswell,...
Humanities Philosophy Policy and Administration
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Advanced Syntax
Prof. Daniel Fox
This course is a continuation of 24.951. This semester the course topics of interest include movement, phrase...
Humanities Linguistics
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Syntactic Models
Prof. David Pesetsky
This course presents a comparison of different proposed architectures for the syntax module of grammar. The subject...
Humanities Linguistics
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Cold War Science
Prof. David Kaiser
This seminar examines the history and legacy of the Cold War on American science. It explores scientist’s new...
History Humanities
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