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Communication Skills for Academics

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Cherie Miot Abbanat

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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,...

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Advanced Semantics

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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...

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Advanced Workshop in Writing for Science and Engineering (ELS)

Jane Dunphy

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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...

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Territorial Conflict

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This graduate seminar introduces an emerging research program within International Relations on territorial...

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Nationalism

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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...

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Introduction to Phonology

Prof. Michael Kenstowicz

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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,...

Management Literature Humanities

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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)...

History Anthropology Humanities

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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...

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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...

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Language Processing

Prof. Edward Gibson

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History and Theory of Historic Preservation

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Narrative Ethics: Literary Texts and Moral Issues in Medicine

Prof. Martha Montello

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Pragmatics in Linguistic Theory

Prof. Danny Fox

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Survival Skills for Researchers: The Responsible Conduct of Research

Prof. Elizabeth R. Myers

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Histories of Information, Communication, and Computing Technologies

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The histories of information, communication, and computing technologies have attracted attention from scholars...

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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...

Policy and Administration Urban Studies International Development

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Topics in Phonology

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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...

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Literature, Ethics and Authority

Prof. Alvin Kibel

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Advanced Phonology

Prof. Donca Steriade

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Introduction to Syntax

Prof. Idan Landau

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Civil-Military Relations

Prof. Roger Petersen

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Nature, Environment, and Empire

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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...

History Economics Humanities

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Cold War Science

Prof. David Kaiser

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Planning in Transition Economies for Growth and Equity

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During the last fifteen years, nations across the globe embarked on a historic transformation away from centrally...

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Nuclear Weapons in International Politics: Past, Present and Future

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Topics in Semantics: Negative Polarity Items

Prof. Luka Crnic

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Cultural History of Technology

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The Final Solution to the Jewish Question

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Canadian Criminal Evidence

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Imperialism: a black and white issue?

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Syntactic Models

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This course presents a comparison of different proposed architectures for the syntax module of grammar. The subject...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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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Reasonable Conduct in Science

Prof. Matthew Wilson

To provide instruction and dialog on practical ethical issues relating to the responsible conduct of human and...

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