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0.00 - 6.00 Credits
An academic enrichment program for first-year students, XL utilizes the innovative and effective small-group learning concept to enhance students' academic performance in calculus and science. Students meet in study groups of five to six participants with facilitators trained in effective classroom techniques and concept focus. The study groups help students to reinforce concepts learned in the regular curriculum, and help them to gain mastery of concepts and problems that are often more challenging than those dealt with during lecture. The small study group format emphasizes the full participation of each student with the facilitator acting as a guide. The regularity of weekly meetings enhances the students' understanding of MIT's academic expectations. After the initial meetings, students are encouraged to take more responsibility and to lead the group in problem-solving sessions, which helps to maximize their own learning. Each study group meets for a minimum of three hours each week. The meeting time is set by the XL facilitator based on students' schedules.
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Prereq: First-year undergraduate standing
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0.00 - 6.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of radio as a medium of expression and communication, particularly the communication of complex scientific or technical information to general audiences. Examines the ingredients of effective radio programming, drawing extensively on examples from both commercial and public radio. Student teams produce, assemble, narrate, record and broadcast/webcast radio programs on topics related to the complex environmental issue that is the focus of the year's Terrascope subjects. Includes multiple individual writing assignments that explore the constraints and opportunities in radio as a medium. Limited to 12. Terrascope students only.
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Prereq: None. Coreq: 1.016
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0.00 - 6.00 Credits
Prepares freshmen for summer internships in various companies. Includes workshops on leadership skill development, interviewing, communications, negotiation, and dynamics in the workplace. Upon acceptance to the program, students have readings, writings, discussion, and role-playing exercises. Attendance at the workshops is mandatory.
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Prereq: None
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0.00 - 6.00 Credits
Students who have completed the subject requirements for SP.800 and worked in an approved internship polish their communication skills further by writing reflection papers and giving a formal presentation about their experiences upon their return in the Fall.
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Prereq: SP.800
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3.00 Credits
A survey of America's transition from a rural, agrarian, and artisan society to one of the world's leading industrial powers. Treats the emergence of industrial capitalism: the rise of the factory system; new forms of power, transport, and communication; the advent of the large industrial corporation; the social relations of production; and the hallmarks of science-based industry. Views technology as part of the larger culture and reveals innovation as a process consisting of a range of possibilities that are chosen or rejected according to the social criteria of the time.
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Prereq: None
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3.00 Credits
Covers the development of major fields in the physical and life sciences, from 18th-century Europe through 20th-century America. Examines ideas, institutions, and the social settings of the sciences, with emphasis on how cultural contexts influence scientific concepts and practices.
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Prereq: None
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3.00 Credits
Examines the growing importance of medicine in culture, economics and politics. Uses a historical approach to examine changing patterns of disease, the causes of morbidity and mortality, evolution of medical theory and practice, development of hospitals and the medical profession, the rise of the biomedical research industry, and the ethics of health care in America.
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Prereq: None
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3.00 Credits
Considers ethical questions that have arisen from the growth of biomedical research and the health-care industry since World War II. Should doctors be allowed to help patients end their lives? If so, when and how? Should embryos be cloned for research and/or reproduction? Should parents be given control over the genetic make-up of their children? What types of living things are appropriate to use as research subjects? How should we distribute scarce and expensive medical resources? Draws on philosophy, history, and anthropology to show how problems in bioethics can be approached from a variety of perspectives.
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Prereq: None
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3.00 Credits
Covers theories of the interactions between historical and technological change; relations between the histories of science and of technology; purported turning points such as the Neolithic, Industrial, and Information Revolutions; case studies from a wide range of times and places; and connections across time and space. Lectures supplemented by student presentations. Frequent writing, rewriting, and small group work.
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Prereq: None
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