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21 UR: Research in Humanities
0.00 - 6.00 Credits
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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21 URG: Research in Humanities
0.00 - 6.00 Credits
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Individual participation in an ongoing research project. For students in the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program.
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21A 100: Introduction to Anthropology
3.00 Credits
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Through the comparative study of different cultures, anthropology explores fundamental questions about what it means to be human. Seeks to understand how culture shapes societies, from the smallest island in the South Pacific to the largest Asian metropolis, and affects the way institutions work, from scientific laboratories to Christian mega-churches. Provides a framework for analyzing diverse facets of human experience, such as gender, ethnicity, language, politics, economics, and art.
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21A 109: How Culture Works
3.00 Credits
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Introduces diverse meanings and uses of the concept of culture with historical and contemporary examples from scholarship and popular media around the globe. Includes first-hand observations, synthesized histories and ethnographies, quantitative representations, and visual and fictionalized accounts of human experiences. Students conduct empirical research on cultural differences through the systematic observation of human interaction, employ methods of interpretative analysis, and practice convincing others of the accuracy of their findings. Enrollment limited.
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21A 113J: The Supernatural in Music, Literature and Culture
3.00 Credits
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Explores the relationship between music and the supernatural, focusing on the social history and context of supernatural beliefs as reflected in key literary and musical works from 1600 to the present. Provides a better understanding of the place of ambiguity and the role of interpretation in culture, science and art. Explores great works of art by Shakespeare, Verdi, Goethe (in translation), Gounod, Henry James and Benjamin Britten. Readings will also include selections from the most recent scholarship on magic and the supernatural. Writing assignments will range from web-based projects to analytic essays. No previous experience in music is necessary. Projected guest lectures, musical performances, field trips.
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21A 114J: Black Matters: Introduction to Black Studies
3.00 Credits
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Interdisciplinary survey of people of African descent that draws on the overlapping approaches of history, literature, anthropology, legal studies, media studies, performance, linguistics, and creative writing. Connects the experiences of African-Americans and of other American minorities, focusing on social, political, and cultural histories, and on linguistic patterns. Includes lectures, discussions, workshops, and required field trips that involve minimal cost to students.
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21A 210: Magic, Science, and Religion
3.00 Credits
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Explores the origins of magic, science, and religion as forms of belief within and across cultures. Addresses the place of rationality and belief in competing sociocultural theories, with a focus on analyzing modern perspectives. Examines how cases of overlap between magic, science, and religion raise new questions about modernity and human nature.
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21A 215: Disease and Health: Culture, Society, and Ethics
3.00 Credits
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Examines how medicine is practiced cross-culturally, with particular emphasis on Western biomedicine. Analyzes medical practice as a cultural system, focusing on the human, as opposed to the biological, side of things. Also considers how people in different cultures think of disease, health, body, and mind. Enrollment limited.
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21A 216J: Dilemmas in Biomedical Ethics: Playing God or Doing Good?
3.00 Credits
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
An introduction to the cross-cultural study of biomedical ethics. Examines moral foundations of the science and practice of western biomedicine through case studies of abortion, contraception, cloning, organ transplantation and other issues. Evaluates challenges that new medical technologies pose to the practice and availability of medical services around the globe, and to cross-cultural ideas of kinship and personhood. Discusses critiques of the biomedical tradition from anthropological, feminist, legal, religious, and cross-cultural theorists.
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21A 218J: Identity and Difference
3.00 Credits
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Examines several theoretical perspectives on human identity and focuses on processes of creating categories of acceptable and deviant identities; how identities are formed, how behaviors are labelled, and how people enter deviant roles and worlds; and responses to differences and strategies for coping with these responses. Describes how identity and difference are inescapably linked. Enrollment limited.
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