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Einstein, Oppenheimer, Feynman: Physics in the 20th Century
Prof. David Kaiser
This class explores the changing roles of physics and physicists during the 20th century. Topics range from...
History
Humanities
Physics
intermediate
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free
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Logic I
Dr. Ephraim Glick
In this course we will cover central aspects of modern formal logic, beginning with an explanation of what...
Humanities
Philosophy
intermediate
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free
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Philosophical Issues in Brain Science
Prof. Alex Byrne
This course provides an introduction to important philosophical questions about the mind, specifically those that...
Cognitive Science
Humanities
Philosophy
intermediate
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free
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Introduction to Linguistics
Prof. Norvin W. Richards
This class provides some answers to basic questions about the nature of human language. Throughout the course, we...
Humanities
Linguistics
intermediate
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Magic, Witchcraft, and the Spirit World
Prof. James Howe
Spiritual, magical, and “occult” aspects of human behavior in anthropological and historical perspective: magic,...
Anthropology
History
Humanities
intermediate
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free
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Classics of Western Philosophy
Prof. Sally Haslanger
This course will introduce you to the Western philosophical tradition through the study of thinkers such as Plato,...
History
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
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Problems of Philosophy
Prof. Miriam Schoenfield
This course is an introduction to the problems of philosophy—in particular, to problems in ethics, metaphysics,...
Humanities
Philosophy
Religion
intermediate
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Dynastic China
Prof. Tristan G. Brown
This course surveys the history of China from the first dynasty to the year 1800. It traces the rise of the world’s...
History
Humanities
intermediate
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free
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Moral Psychology
Prof. Tamar Schapiro
This course is an examination of philosophical theories of action and motivation in the light of empirical findings...
Humanities
Philosophy
Psychology
intermediate
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The Bible
Ina Lipkowitz
This course is an introduction to major books from both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. Particular attention...
History
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
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Myth, Ritual, and Symbolism
Prof. James Howe
Human beings are symbol-making as well as tool-making animals. We understand our world and shape our lives in large...
Anthropology
Humanities
Linguistics
intermediate
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free
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Gödel, Escher, Bach
Robert Speer
How are math, art, music, and language intertwined? How does intelligent behavior arise from its component parts?...
Cognitive Science
Computer Science
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
intermediate
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Old English and Beowulf
Prof. Arthur Bahr
This course is an intensive introduction to Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon), the ancestor of modern English...
Humanities
Language
Literature
intermediate
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free
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Ethics of Technology
Dr. Kevin Mills
This course introduces the tools of philosophical ethics through application to contemporary issues concerning...
Computer Science
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
Engineering
intermediate
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The Science Fiction of Freedom
Prof. Ben Mangrum
What does it mean to be free? Is freedom a state of mind? An inalienable property of the self?
The absence of...
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
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free
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Rhetoric
Dr. Steven Strang
This course is an examination of the theory, the practice, and the implications of rhetoric & rhetorical...
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
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free
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Victorian Literature and Culture
Prof. James Buzard
The course covers British literature and culture during Queen Victoria’s long reign, 1837-1901. This was the...
Anthropology
History
Humanities
intermediate
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free
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Introduction to French Literature
Prof. Bruno Perreau
This course is a study of major French literary genres and an introduction to methods of literary analysis. This...
Humanities
Language
Literature
intermediate
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free
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Advanced Speaking and Critical Listening Skills (ELS)
Jane Dunphy
This course is for advanced students who wish to build confidence and skills in spoken English. It focuses on the...
Humanities
Language
intermediate
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free
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Ancient Greek Philosophy and Mathematics
Dr. Lee Perlman
This course explores the relationship between ancient Greek philosophy and mathematics. We investigate how ideas of...
History
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
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Listening, Speaking, and Pronunciation
Isaiah WonHo Yoo
This course is designed for high-intermediate ESL students who need to develop better listening comprehension and...
Humanities
Language
intermediate
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free
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The Nature of Creativity
Prof. Irving Singer
This course is an introduction to problems about creativity as it pervades human experience and behavior. Questions...
Cognitive Science
Humanities
Philosophy
intermediate
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free
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Literature and Ethical Values
Prof. Alvin Kibel
The aim of this subject is to acquaint the student with some important works of systematic ethical philosophy and to...
Humanities
Literature
Philosophy
intermediate
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free
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Introduction to Philosophy of Language
Prof. Stephen Yablo
This course explores the nature of meaning and truth, and their bearing on the use of language in communication. No...
Humanities
Linguistics
Philosophy
intermediate
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free
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Writing and Reading Short Stories
Shariann Lewitt
This course is an introduction to the short story. Students will write stories and short descriptive sketches....
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
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free
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Moral Problems and the Good Life
Prof. Sally Haslanger
This course will focus on issues that arise in contemporary public debate concerning matters of social justice....
Humanities
Philosophy
Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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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
advanced
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free
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Writing Workshop
Jessica Young
MIT students are challenged daily to solve for x, to complete four problem sets, two papers, and prepare for an exam...
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
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free
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Language Acquisition
Prof. Athulya Aravind
This course is an introduction to language acquisition, a subfield of linguistics whose goal is to understand how...
Humanities
Linguistics
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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American Urban History
Ezra Haber Glenn
This is a seminar on the history of institutions and institutional change in American cities from roughly 1850 to...
History
Humanities
Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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The Linguistic Study of Bilingualism
Prof. Suzanne Flynn
One mind, two languages. The basic focus of this class will be on the linguistic and psycholinguistic underpinnings...
Cognitive Science
Humanities
Linguistics
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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Meta-ethics
Prof. Justin Khoo
This course considers a range of philosophical questions about the foundations of morality, such as whether and in...
Humanities
Philosophy
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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Linguistic Phonetics
Prof. Edward Flemming
This course is about the study of speech sounds; how we produce and perceive them and their acoustic properties....
Humanities
Linguistics
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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Introduction to Literary Theory
Prof. Shankar Raman
This subject examines the ways in which we read. It introduces some important strategies for engaging with literary...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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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
advanced
MIT OCW
free
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Ethics
Prof. Julia Markovits
This will be a seminar on classic and contemporary work on central topics in ethics. The first third of the course...
Humanities
Philosophy
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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Foundations of Western Culture: Homer to Dante
Prof. Arthur Bahr
As we read broadly from throughout the vast chronological period that is “Homer to Dante,” we will pepper our...
Humanities
Literature
Philosophy
intermediate
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free
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Modal Logic
Prof. Stephen Yablo
Modal logic is the logic of necessity and possibility, and by extension of analogously paired notions like validity...
Humanities
Linguistics
Philosophy
intermediate
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free
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Ancient Philosophy
Prof. Sally Haslanger
This course will acquaint the student with some of the ancient Greek contributions to the Western philosophical and...
Humanities
Literature
Philosophy
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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Foundations of Cognition
Prof. Josh Tenenbaum
Advances in cognitive science have resolved, clarified, and sometimes complicated some of the great questions of...
Cognitive Science
Humanities
Philosophy
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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Ethics in Your Life: Being, Thinking, Doing (or Not?)
Prof. Sally Haslanger
This seminar is made possible through a collaboration between Radius and the Philosophy section of MIT. This course...
Humanities
Philosophy
Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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Writing and Reading the Essay
Dr. Rebecca Blevins Faery
This is a course focused on the literary genre of the essay, that wide-ranging, elastic, and currently very popular...
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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Theory of Knowledge
Prof. Declan Smithies
This course is an introduction to epistemology: the theory of knowledge. We will focus on skepticism—that is, the...
Humanities
Philosophy
intermediate
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free
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Topics in the Avant-Garde in Literature and Cinema
Prof. Charity Scribner
21G.031 examines the terms “avant garde” and “Kulturindustrie” in French and German culture of the early twentieth...
Anthropology
Art, Design & Architecture
Art History
intermediate
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free
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Science Communication: A Practical Guide
Prof. John Durant
This class develops the abilities of students to communicate science effectively in a variety of real-world...
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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Anthropology Through Speculative Fiction
Prof. Erica James
This class examines how anthropology and speculative fiction (SF) each explore ideas about culture and society,...
Anthropology
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Classics of Chinese Literature
Prof. Emma Teng
This course is an introduction to three of the major genres of traditional Chinese literature—poetry, fiction and...
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Writing Science Fiction
Shariann Lewitt
This class will focus on the craft of writing genre science fiction. Students write and read science fiction and...
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Philosophy of Love
Dr. Lee Perlman
This course explores the nature of love through works of philosophy, literature, film, poetry, and individual...
Humanities
Literature
Philosophy
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Argumentation and Communication
Cherie Miot Abbanat
This Communication and Argumentation seminar is an intensive writing workshop that focuses on argumentation and...
Communication
Humanities
Literature
advanced
MIT OCW
free
course
Logic II
Prof. Vann McGee
This course begins with an introduction to the theory of computability, then proceeds to a detailed study of its...
Computer Science
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
Engineering
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
German III
Dagmar Jaeger
This course expands skills in speaking, reading, listening, and writing. Students develop analytic and...
Humanities
Language
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Globalization: The Good, the Bad and the In-Between
Prof. Margery Resnick
This subject examines the paradoxes of contemporary globalization. Through lectures, discussions and student...
Anthropology
Economics
History
intermediate
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free
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Masterworks in American Short Fiction
Prof. John Hildebidle
For some reason, American literature (like French, Irish, and Russian, among others) has been especially productive...
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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Writing and Reading Poems
William Corbett
This course is an examination of the formal structural and textual variety in poetry. Students engage in extensive...
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
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free
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The Ancient World: Greece
Prof. William Broadhead
This course elaborates the history of Ancient Greece from the Bronze Age to the death of Alexander. It covers major...
History
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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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
advanced
MIT OCW
free
course
The Making of a Roman Emperor
Prof. William Broadhead
Through close examination of the emperor Augustus and his Julio-Claudian successors, this subject investigates how...
History
Humanities
intermediate
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free
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Theories and Methods in the Study of History
Prof. Kenda Mutongi
This course examines the distinctive ways in which historians in different parts of the world have approached the...
History
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Modern China
Prof. Tristan G. Brown
This course discusses China’s emergence as a global power, which has arisen out of two centuries of significant...
History
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Reading Fiction
Prof. Alisa Braithwaite
Reading Fiction is designed to sharpen your skills as a critical reader. As we explore both short stories and novels...
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
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free
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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
advanced
MIT OCW
free
course
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
advanced
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free
course
The Rise of Modern Science
Prof. David Jones
This subject introduces the history of science from antiquity to the present. Students consider the impact of...
History
Humanities
Policy and Administration
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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
advanced
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free
course
European Thought and Culture
Prof. Thomas Nolden
This subject surveys main currents of European cultural and intellectual history in the modern period. Such a...
Anthropology
History
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Language and Its Structure I: Phonology
Prof. Michael Kenstowicz
24.901 is designed to give you a preliminary understanding of how the sound systems of different languages are...
Humanities
Linguistics
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Fans and Fan Cultures
Prof. Edward Schiappa
This subject examines media audiences—specifically, fans—and the subcultures that evolve around them. Explores...
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Writing About Literature: Writing About Love
Rosa Martínez
This course is designed around analyzing intimate bonds and the permutations of heartbreak. Through the analysis of...
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Introduction to Fiction
Dr. Wyn Kelley
This course investigates the uses and boundaries of fiction in a range of novels and narrative styles–traditional...
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Jewish History from Biblical to Modern Times
Prof. Peter Temin
This course explores how our views of Jewish history have been formed and how this history can explain the survival...
Anthropology
History
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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
advanced
MIT OCW
free
course
History of Western Thought, 500-1300
Prof. Anne McCants
This course examines the development of the western intellectual tradition from the fall of the Roman Empire through...
History
Humanities
Religion
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Reading Poetry: Social Poetics
Prof. Joshua Bennett
The central concern of this class is the historical relationship between the social lives of everyday people and...
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Paradox and Infinity
Prof. Agustín Rayo
This course presents highlights of the more technical side of philosophy. It studies a cluster of puzzles,...
Economics
Humanities
Mathematics
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
American Literature
Dr. Wyn Kelley
This course studies the national literature of the United States since the early 19th century. It considers a range...
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Modern Japan: 1868 to Present
Prof. Hiromu Nagahara
This course surveys Japanese history from the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1603 to the present and...
History
Humanities
Political Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Cultures of Computing
Prof. Stefan Helmreich
This course examines computers anthropologically, as artifacts revealing the social orders and cultural practices...
Anthropology
History
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Linguistic Studies of Bilingualism
Prof. Suzanne Flynn
This course studies the development of bilingualism in human history (from Australopithecus to present day). It...
Humanities
Language
Linguistics
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Good Food: Ethics and Politics of Food
Prof. Sally Haslanger
This course explores the values (aesthetic, moral, cultural, religious, prudential, political) expressed in the...
Gender Studies
Humanities
International Development
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Genre Fiction Workshop
Shariann Lewitt
Some argue that genre fiction is only a marketing category, but other critics say that different genres meet...
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Capitalism and Its Critics
Prof. Michael Piore
This course addresses the evolution of the modern capitalist economy and evaluates its current structure and...
Economics
Humanities
Philosophy
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Writing and Experience: Exploring Self in Society
Dr. Andrea Walsh
The reading and writing for this course will focus on what it means to construct a sense of self and a life...
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Contemporary Literature: British Novels Now
Prof. Sarah Brouillette
What is Britain now? Its metropolises are increasingly multicultural. Its hold over its distant colonies is a thing...
Humanities
Literature
Philosophy
intermediate
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free
course
Shakespeare
Prof. Diana Henderson
Three hundred and eighty years after his death, William Shakespeare remains the central author of the...
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Expository Writing for Bilingual Students
Patricia Brennecke
The purpose of this course is to develop your writing skills so that you can feel confident writing the essays, term...
Humanities
Language
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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
advanced
MIT OCW
free
course
Literary Interpretation: Virginia Woolf's Shakespeare
Prof. Diana Henderson
How does one writer use another writer’s work? Does it matter if one author has been dead 300 years? What...
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Language and its Structure III: Semantics and Pragmatics
Prof. Kai von Fintel
This course gives an introduction to the science of linguistic meaning. There are two branches to this discipline:...
Humanities
Linguistics
Philosophy
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
World Literatures: Travel Writing
Prof. Mary Fuller
This semester, we will read writing about travel and place from Columbus’s Diario through the present. Travel...
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Anthropology of the Middle East
Prof. Susan Slyomovics
This course examines traditional performances of the Arabic-speaking populations of the Middle East and North...
Anthropology
Art, Design & Architecture
History
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Genre Fiction Workshop: Fantasy
Shariann Lewitt
Fantasy is currently one of the most popular genres across every platform in fiction. From film to gaming to...
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Technology in History
Prof. Rosalind Williams
Today many people assume that technological change is the major factor in historical change and that it tends to...
History
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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
advanced
MIT OCW
free
course
Anthropology of Biology
Prof. Stefan Helmreich
This course applies the tools of anthropology to examine biology in the age of genomics, biotechnological...
Anthropology
History
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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
advanced
MIT OCW
free
course
The Ancient City
Prof. William Broadhead
This course focuses on the archaeology of the Greek and Roman city. It investigates the relationship between urban...
Anthropology
Architecture
Art, Design & Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Renaissance To Revolution: Europe, 1300-1800
Prof. Jeffrey S. Ravel
This course provides an introduction to major political, social, cultural and intellectual changes in Europe from...
History
Humanities
Philosophy
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
English Renaissance Drama: Theatre and Society in the Age of Shakespeare
Prof. Shankar Raman
Shakespeare “doth bestride the narrow world” of the English Renaissance “like a colossus,” leaving his...
Art, Design & Architecture
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Literary Studies: The Legacy of England
Prof. Stephen Tapscott
Topic: The English sense of humor. This course examines English literature across genre and historical periods. It...
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Law and Society in US History
Prof. Christopher Capozzola
As events of the last few years have shown, the Supreme Court has played a crucial role in American political life....
Anthropology
History
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Introduction to Comparative Politics
Prof. Chappell Lawson
This course examines why democracy emerges and survives in some countries rather than in others; how political...
Humanities
Philosophy
Political Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Studies in Literary History: Modernism: From Nietzsche to Fellini
Dr. Howard Eiland
How do literature, philosophy, film and other arts respond to the profound changes in world view and lifestyle that...
Art, Design & Architecture
History
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Foundations of Western Culture II: Renaissance to Modernity
Prof. Alvin Kibel
This subject offers a broad survey of texts (both literary and philosophical) drawn from the Western tradition and...
Humanities
Literature
Philosophy
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Ethics and the Law on the Electronic Frontier
Prof. Daniel Weitzner
This course considers the interaction between law, policy, and technology as they relate to the evolving...
Communication
Computer Science
Data Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Foundations of Western Culture: The Making of the Modern World
Dr. Howard Eiland
This course comprises a broad survey of texts, literary and philosophical, which trace the development of the modern...
History
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Writing About Literature
Dr. Wyn Kelley
Students, scholars, bloggers, reviewers, fans, and book-group members write about literature, but so do authors...
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Foundations of World Culture I: World Civilizations and Texts
Dr. Ghenwa Hayek
This course aims to introduce students to the rich diversity of human culture from antiquity to the early 17th...
Anthropology
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Philosophy of Love in the Western World
Prof. Irving Singer
This course is a seminar on the nature of love and sex, approached as topics both in philosophy and in literature....
Humanities
Literature
Philosophy
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Introduction to International Development
Cauam Ferreira Cardoso
This course introduces undergraduates to the basic theory, institutional architecture, and practice of international...
Economics
History
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
The Ancient World: Rome
Prof. William Broadhead
This course covers the history of Rome from its humble beginnings to the 5th century A.D. The first half covers...
History
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
North America through French Eyes
Prof. Bruno Perreau
The course offers an analysis of the keen interest shown by France and the French in North American cultures since...
Anthropology
Humanities
Language
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Contemporary Literature
Prof. John Hildebidle
This semester, Contemporary Literature (21L.488) deals with Irish literature, a subject broad and deep. To achieve a...
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Lab in Psycholinguistics
Prof. Edward Gibson
Hands-on experience designing, conducting, analyzing, and presenting experiments on the structure and processing of...
Cognitive Science
Humanities
Linguistics
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
The Middle East in the 20th Century
Prof. Abigail Jacobson
This course surveys the history of the Middle East, from the end of the 19th century to the present. It examines...
History
Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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
advanced
MIT OCW
free
course
Liberalism, Toleration, and Freedom of Speech
Prof. Alex Byrne
This course examines theories and principles that underlie the concept of free speech in the United...
Humanities
Philosophy
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
Major English Novels
Ina Lipkowitz
In this class, you will read, think about, and (I hope) enjoy important examples of what has become one of the most...
Humanities
Literature
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
course
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
advanced
MIT OCW
free
course
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
advanced