chaseharmon/MIT_Course_Catalog · Datasets at Hugging Face

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21G.716[J]	Introduction to Contemporary Hispanic Literature and Film	Focuses on literary and cinematic production in 20th- and 21st-century Spain and Latin America with a particular emphasis on how social, cultural, political, and technological changes led to aesthetic innovations. Topics include the literature of politics, the avant-garde and subsequent literary boom, the radical aesthetic of the post-Franco era, and post-modern film and art. Materials include short stories, novels, poetry, song, and film. Conducted in Spanish.	false	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	One intermediate subject in Spanish or permission of instructor	21L.636[J]	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21G.717[J]	Power and Culture: Utopias and Dystopias in Spain and Latin America	Studies how new literary, artistic and musical forms have emerged in response to tensions and contradictions in Hispanic culture, from the eighth century to the present. Examines distinctively Hispanic artistic movements and modes from Al-Andalus' vibrant heterogeneity to the enforced homogeneity of the Spanish Inquisition; from a rich plurality of pre-Colombian civilizations to the imposed conversions by conquistadors; from the revolutionary zeal of Latin America's liberators to the crushing dictatorships that followed; from the promise of globalization to the struggle against US cultural imperialism. Taught in Spanish. Limited to 18.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	One intermediate subject in Spanish or permission of instructor	21L.637[J]	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21G.731[J]	Creation of a Continent: Media Representations of Hispanic America, 1492 to present	Traces the creation of a new literature in Spanish to record and interpret New World experiences. Begins with excerpts from Columbus's diary and ends with writings on the late 19th-century Cuban and Puerto Rican independence movements. Pairs some of these pre-20th-century texts with more recent literary and film interpretations of the first 400 years of Hispanic American history. Conducted in Spanish.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	One intermediate Spanish subject or permission of instructor	21H.274[J], CMS.357[J]	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21G.732	The Making of the Latin American City: Culture, Gender, and Citizenship	Explores paradigms of Latin American modernity, gender, and urban cultures through primary texts and media. Examines a range of materials (literature, films, visual arts, music, and advertising) to reflect on the region's urbanization processes of the 20th and 21st centuries. Focuses on the production and representation of gender - and women, in particular - as key subjects of urbanization, mass media, and consumer culture. Discussions travel through urban centers as different as Buenos Aires, Mexico DF, Lima, Havana, Miami and New York, but are organized around four critical categories: urban spaces, labor, leisure, and citizenship. Taught in Spanish.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	One intermediate subject in Spanish or permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21G.735	Advanced Topics in Hispanic Literature and Film	Close study of a theme, a grouping of authors, or a historical period not covered in depth in other subjects. May be repeated for credit with permission of instructor. Taught in Spanish. Limited to 18.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	4-0-8	One intermediate Spanish subject or permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21G.736[J]	The Short Form: Literature and New Media Cultures in the Hispanic World	Examines the aesthetics of the brief form across a variety of media and genres in Latin America and Spain, from short stories and snapshots to newspapers and Twitter. Explores the history and social significance of four short genres in the Hispanic world: the short story, the crónica, the poem, and the song. Discusses the rich literary and critical tradition that relates narrative length and temporality to the prose and the lyric in Spanish speaking cultures. With an emphasis on the 20th- and 21st-century epistemologies of acceleration and the remediation of literary theories of brevity, analyzes the relationship between temporality, aesthetic form, and media technologies, and the way these topics have taken shape in the imagination of writers, artists, and audiences in historically specific and politically significant contexts. Taught in Spanish. Limited to 18.	false	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	One intermediate subject in Spanish or permission of instructor	CMS.358[J]	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21G.738[J]	Literature and Social Conflict: Perspectives on the Hispanic World	Considers how major literary texts illuminate principal issues in the evolution of modern Spanish society. Emphasizes the treatment of such major questions as the exile of liberals in 1820, the concept of progress, the place of religion, urbanization, rural conservatism and changing gender roles, and the Spanish Civil War. Authors include Perez Galdos, Pardo Bazan, Unamuno, Ortega y Gasset, Salinas, Lorca, La Pasionaria, and Falcon. Taught in Spanish.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	One intermediate subject in Spanish or permission of instructor	21L.638[J]	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21G.739[J]	Globalization and its Discontents: Spanish-speaking Nations	Studies new paradigms of cultural exchange that have shaped Latin America in the 20th and 21st centuries. Examines how globalization is rapidly changing the identity of peoples and cultures in Spanish-speaking nations. Spotlights debates about human rights. Materials studied include film, fiction, essay, architectural archives, music and art. Students complete a research project about a specific aspect of Hispanic culture that has been shaped by contemporary forces in the global economy. Taught in Spanish with required readings and writing in Spanish.	false	Fall	Undergraduate	3-0-9	One intermediate subject in Spanish or permission of instructor	21L.639[J]	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21G.740[J]	The New Spain: 1977-Present	Deals with the vast changes in Spanish social, political and cultural life that have taken place since the death of Franco. Topics include new freedom from censorship, the re-emergence of strong movements for regional autonomy (the Basque region and Catalonia), the new cinema including Almodovar and Saura, educational reforms instituted by the socialist government, and the fiction of Carme Riera and Terenci Moix. Special emphasis on the emergence of mass media as a vehicle for expression in Spain. Considers the changes wrought by Spain's acceptance into the European Community. Materials include magazines, newspapers, films, fiction, and Amando de Miguel's Los Españoles. Taught in Spanish.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	One intermediate subject in Spanish or permission of instructor	21L.640[J]	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21G.784	Introduction to Latin American Studies	Examines contemporary Latin American culture, politics, and history. Surveys geography, economic development, and race, religion, and gender in Latin America. Special emphasis on the Salvadoran civil war, human rights and military rule in Argentina and Chile, and migration from Central America and Mexico to the United States. Students analyze films, literature, visual art, journalism, historical documents, and social scientific research. Taught in English with a project that requires research and writing in Spanish.	false	Fall	Undergraduate	3-0-10	21G.704 or permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	Social Sciences	CI-H
21G.751	Spanish I	For students with no previous knowledge of Spanish. Introduction to understanding, speaking, reading, and writing Spanish. Maximal use of fundamentals of grammar in active communication. Audio- and video-based language laboratory program coordinated with and supplementary to class work. Same as 21G.701, but for graduate credit. Limited to 18 per section.	true	Fall, IAP, Spring	Graduate	4-0-5	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
21G.752	Spanish II	Introductory subject that continues the study of Spanish language and culture using audio, video and print materials, feature films and popular music from Latin America and Spain. Emphasizes writing, vocabulary acquisition, and the study of more complex grammatical structures. Group interaction and short oral presentations develop students' oral skills. Limited to 18 per section.	true	Fall, Spring	Graduate	4-0-5	21G.751 or permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
21G.911	Independent Study	Advanced work in languages and literatures for students wishing to pursue topics or projects not provided by regular subject offerings. Before registering, student must plan course of study with appropriate instructor in the section and secure the approval of the Section Head. Normal maximum is 6 units.	true	Fall, IAP, Spring	Undergraduate	rranged	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
21G.S01	Special Subject: Global Studies and Languages	Opportunity for undergraduate study of subject matter that is not covered in the regular curriculum.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	rranged	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
21G.S02	Special Subject: Global Studies and Languages	Opportunity for undergraduate study of subject matter that is not covered in the regular curriculum.	true	IAP	Undergraduate	rranged	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
21G.S03	Special Subject: Global Studies and Languages	Opportunity for undergraduate study of subject matter that is not covered in the regular curriculum.	false	Spring	Undergraduate	rranged	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
21G.S04	Special Subject: Global Studies and Languages	Opportunity for undergraduate study of subject matter that is not covered in the regular curriculum.	true	IAP	Undergraduate	rranged	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
21G.S05	Special Subject: Global Studies and Languages	Opportunity for undergraduate study of subject matter that is not covered in the regular curriculum.	true	IAP	Undergraduate	rranged	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
21G.S06	Special Subject: Global Studies and Languages	Opportunity for undergraduate study of subject matter that is not covered in the regular curriculum.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	rranged	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
21G.S07	Special Subject: Global Studies and Languages	Opportunity for undergraduate study of subject matter that is not covered in the regular curriculum.	true	IAP	Undergraduate	rranged	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
21G.S08	Special Subject: Global Studies and Languages	Opportunity for undergraduate study of subject matter that is not covered in the regular curriculum.	true	IAP	Undergraduate	rranged	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
21G.THT	Pre-Thesis Tutorial: Global Studies and Languages	Definition of and early-stage work on thesis project leading to 21G.THU Undergraduate Thesis in Global Studies and Languages. Taken during the first term of the student's two-term commitment to the thesis project. Student works closely with an individual faculty tutor.	true	Fall, IAP, Spring	Undergraduate	1-0-5	Permission of instructor	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
21G.THU	Global Studies and Languages Thesis	Completion of work on the senior major thesis under supervision of a faculty thesis advisor. Includes oral presentation of thesis progress early in the term, assembling and revising the final text, and a final meeting with a committee of faculty evaluators to discuss the successes and limitations of the project.	true	Fall, IAP, Spring, Summer	Undergraduate	rranged	21G.THT	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
21G.UR	Undergraduate Research	Individual participation in an ongoing research project. For students in the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program.	true	Fall, IAP, Spring, Summer	Undergraduate	rranged [P/D/F]	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
21G.URG	Undergraduate Research	Individual participation in an ongoing research project. For students in the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program.	true	Fall, IAP, Spring, Summer	Undergraduate	rranged	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
21H.000	The History of Now	Exposes students to the study of history for a deeper understanding of the past, the present and the future by exploring current events in a historical perspective. Features guest lectures from experts inside and outside MIT. Subject can count toward the 6-unit discovery-focused credit limit for first-year students; preference to first-year students.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	1-0-0 [P/D/F]	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
21H.001	How to Stage a Revolution	Explores fundamental questions about the causes and nature of revolutions by looking at how people overthrow their rulers and establish new governments. Considers a set of major political transformations throughout the world and across centuries to understand the meaning of revolution and evaluate its impact. Examines how revolutionaries have attempted to establish their ideals and realize their goals. Asks whether radical upheavals require bloodshed, violence, or even terror. Seeks to explain why some revolutions succeed and others fail. Materials include the writings of revolutionaries, declarations and constitutions, music, films, art, novels, memoirs, and newspapers.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	CI-H
21H.007[J]	Introduction to Ancient and Medieval Studies	Explores the fascinating history, culture, and society of the ancient and medieval worlds and the different methodologies scholars use to interpret them. Wrestles with big questions about the diversity of life and thought in pre-modern societies, the best ways to study the distant past, and the nature (and limitations) of knowledge about long-ago eras. Considers a wide range of scholarly subjects such as the rise and fall of the Roman empire, the triumph of Christianity and Islam, barbarian invasions and holy wars, courts and castles, philosophy and religion, and the diversity of art, literature, and politics. Ponders different types of evidence, reads across a variety of disciplines, and develops skills to identify continuities and changes in ancient and medieval societies.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	21L.014[J]	false	false	false	False	Humanities	CI-H
21H.009	World History and Its Fault Lines Since 1800	Explores how the world, as we know it today, came to be. Examines what it means to be modern and the consequences of modernity on people's everyday lives. Introduces real and perceived changes that made the world recognizably "modern." Surveys the rise of empires, nation-states, industrialized economies, mass consumption, popular culture, and political ideas and movements, and studies how they resulted in new, often contested, dynamics of racial, class, religious, gendered, and political identity. Instruction provided in how the evolving relationships of people with political, social, and economic structures produced a world that is highly interconnected and, at the same time, divided along different fault lines.	false	Fall	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	CI-H
21H.061	The History of American Presidential Elections	Introduces the main themes and topics in the history of presidential elections from 1788 to the present. Explores structures of the US executive branch, the primary, convention, and election systems, and the Electoral College. Students examine academic debates in history and other social sciences, and write short papers on historical and contemporary topics. Meets with 21H.203 when offered concurrently. 21H.061 is offered only in an election year (not for HASS credit) and covers the first half of the course, leading up to election day.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	3-0-3	null	null	false	false	false	False	False	False
21H.090	Digital Humanities Laboratory	Combines research in HASS fields with computational methods of analysis, data collection, and presentation. Rotates to a different research project within SHASS each offering and meets with a research seminar taught by the PI of that project. Students work in teams to produce original computational research within the existing project, in collaboration with the research staff of the Programs in Digital Humanities. Leverage techniques from a wide range of practices including natural language processing, computer vision, machine learning, and web development. Repeatable for credit with permission of instructor. Limited to 25.	true	Fall, Spring	Undergraduate	2-2-8	6.100A	null	true	false	false	False	False	False
21H.101	American History to 1865	A basic history of American social, economic, and political development from the colonial period through the Civil War. Examines the colonial heritages of Spanish and British America; the American Revolution and its impact; the establishment and growth of the new nation; and the Civil War, its background, character, and impact. Readings include writings of the period by Winthrop, Paine, Jefferson, Madison, W. H. Garrison, G. Fitzhugh, H. B. Stowe, and Lincoln.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.102	American History since 1865	Examines the social, cultural, political, and economic history of the United States, from the Civil War to the present. Uses secondary analysis and primary documents, such as court cases, personal accounts, photographs, and films, to examine some of the key issues in the shaping of modern America, including industrialization and urbanization, immigration, the rise of a mass consumer society, the emergence of the US as a global power, and the development of civil rights activism and other major social movements.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	CI-H
21H.106[J]	Black Matters: Introduction to Black Studies	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.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	24.912[J], 21L.008[J], 21W.741[J], CMS.150[J], WGS.190[J]	false	false	false	False	False	CI-H
21H.107[J]	From Yellow Peril to Model Minority: Asian American History to 1968	Provides an overview of Asian American history between the 1830s and 1968 and its relevance for contemporary issues. Covers the first wave of Asian immigration in the 19th century, the rise of anti-Asian movements, the experiences of Asian Americans during WWII, the 1965 immigration reform, and the emergence of the Asian American movement in the 1960s. Examines the role these experiences played in the formation of Asian American ethnicity. Addresses key societal issues such as racial stereotyping, xenophobia, ethnicity and racial formation, citizenship, worker activism, immigrant community building, the "model minority" myth, and anti-Asian harassment and violence. Taught in English.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	21G.043[J]	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.108[J]	Sexual and Gender Identities in the Modern United States	Provides an introduction to the history of gender, sex, and sexuality in the modern United States, from the end of the 19th century to the present. Surveys historical approaches to the field, emphasizing the changing nature of sexual and gender identities over time. Traces attempts to control, construct, and contain sexual and gender identities. Examines the efforts of those who worked to resist, reject, and reform institutionalized heterosexuality and mainstream configurations of gendered power.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	WGS.110[J]	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.109[J]	Gender: Historical Perspectives	Examines the definition of gender in scientific, societal, and historical contexts. Explores how gender influences state formation and the work of the state, what role gender plays in imperialism and in the welfare state, the ever-present relationship between gender and war, and different states' regulation of the body in gendered ways at different times. Investigates new directions in the study of gender as historians, anthropologists and others have taken on this fascinating set of problems. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	WGS.303[J]	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.130	The Ancient World: Greece	History of Ancient Greece from the Bronze Age to the death of Alexander. Major social, economic, political, and religious trends. Homer, heroism, and the Greek identity; the hoplite revolution and the rise of the city-state; Herodotus, Persia, and the (re)birth of history; Empire, Thucydidean rationalism, and the Peloponnesian War; Aristotle, Macedonia, and Hellenism. Emphasis on use of primary sources in translation.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	CI-H
21H.132	The Ancient World: Rome	History of Rome from its humble beginnings to the 5th century A.D. First half: Kingship to Republican form; the conquest of Italy; Roman expansion: Pyrrhus, Punic Wars and provinces; classes, courts, and the Roman revolution; Augustus and the formation of empire. Second half: Virgil to the Vandals; major social, economic, political and religious trends at Rome and in the provinces. Emphasis on use of primary sources in translation. Enrollment limited.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	CI-H
21H.133	The Medieval World	Investigates the dynamic history of Europe and the wider world between the late Roman empire and voyages of discovery. Examines the rise of Christianity, the cult of the saints, and monasticism; the decline of the Roman empire, the barbarian invasions, and the foundation of post-Roman kingdoms; the meteoric rise of Islam; the formation of the Carolingian, Byzantine, and Islamic empires; the Vikings and Mongols; castles, knights, and crusades; religious thinkers, reformers, and heretics; changes in art, architecture, and literature; the Black Death and the fall of Constantinople; the Italian Renaissance and the voyages of discovery.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.134[J]	Medieval Economic History in Comparative Perspective	Surveys the foundations of material life and changing social and economic conditions in medieval Europe in their broader Eurasian context. Covers the gradual disintegration of the Roman imperial order, the emergence and decline of feudal institutions, the transformation of peasant agriculture, living standards and the impact of climate and disease environments, and the ebb and flow of long-distance trade across the Eurasian system. Particular emphasis on the study of those factors, both institutional and technological, which contributed to the emergence of capitalist organization and economic growth in western Europe in comparison to the trajectories followed by the other major medieval economies.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	14.70[J]	false	false	false	False	Social Sciences	CI-H
21H.135	J.R.R. Tolkien: Scholar, Author, and Thinker	Explores how an Oxford professor of medieval philology and literature wrote the most influential work of fantasy, The Lord of the Rings. Investigates how Tolkien's scholarship on Anglo-Saxon and Middle English, fascination with inventing languages, experiences during the First World War, and Catholic faith shaped the creation of his fantasy world often (mistakenly) called Middle Earth. Examines Tolkien's books within the context of his life, scholarship, ideas, and beliefs to uncover how an author of fantasy literature helped shape the image of the Middle Ages in the modern popular imagination. Considers the extent to which film adaptations do justice to the complexity of Tolkien's stories, themes, and characters.	false	Fall	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	CI-H
21H.141	Renaissance to Revolution: Europe, 1300-1800	Provides an introduction to major political, social, cultural and intellectual changes in Europe from the beginnings of the Renaissance in Italy around 1300 to the outbreak of the French Revolution at the end of the 1700s. Focuses on the porous boundaries between categories of theology, magic and science. Examines how developments in these areas altered European political institutions, social structures, and cultural practices. Studies men and women, nobles and commoners, as well as Europeans and some non-Europeans with whom they came into contact.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	CI-H
21H.143[J]	The "Making" of Modern Europe: 1789-Present	Provides an overview of European history from 1789 to the present. Explores how the ideas of "European" and "modern" have been defined over time. Explores major events and the evolution of major tensions and issues that consumed Europe and Europeans through the period, including questions of identity, inclusion/exclusion, religion, and equality. Places major emphasis on the fiction, visual culture, and films of the century as the products and evidence of political, social and cultural change. Taught in English.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	21G.056[J]	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.144[J]	Introduction to Russian Studies	Explores Russian culture and society by analyzing its unique position at the crossroads of Europe and Asia throughout medieval, Imperial, Soviet, and contemporary periods. Investigates a variety of topics: defining the borders of the country and shaping its relationship with the outside world; changes in living spaces from rural to urban, development of cultural centers; and daily life, customs, and traditions. Includes readings in literature, history, and cultural studies, as well visual arts, music, and film. Limited to 25.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	21G.087[J]	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.145[J]	French Photography	Introduces students to the world of French photography from its invention in the 1820s to the present. Provides exposure to major photographers and images of the French tradition and encourages students to explore the social and cultural roles and meanings of photographs. Designed to help students navigate their own photo-saturated worlds; provides opportunity to gain practical experience in photography. Taught in English. Enrollment limited.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	4.674[J], 21G.049[J]	false	false	false	False	Arts	CI-H
21H.151	Dynastic China	Examines the first dynasty to 1800. Traces the rise of the world's first centralized bureaucratic state, the development of the world's oldest living written culture, and the formation of the pre-modern world's largest single commercial market. Studies women and men as they founded dynasties, engaged in philosophy, challenged orthodoxies, and invented technologies used around the globe. Explores China's past to understand the country's present, and reflects on what its stories mean for the global world.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.152	Modern China	Discusses China's emergence as a global power, which has arisen out of two centuries of significant change. Explores those transformations from 1800 to the present by examining the advent of foreign imperialism in the nineteenth century, the collapse of the last imperial dynasty in 1911, China's debilitating war against Japan, the communist revolution, and the tumultuous history of the People's Republic of China from 1949. Addresses the historical transformations that have shaped contemporary Chinese politics, ethnicity, gender, environment, economics, and international relations.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.154	Inventing the Samurai	Explores the historical origins of the Japanese warrior class as well as its reinvention throughout the archipelago's history. Special focus on the pre-modern era (200-1600 CE). Highlights key historical contexts including the rise of the imperial court, interactions with the broader world, and the establishment of a warrior-dominated state. Also considers the modern imaginations and uses of the warrior figure.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.155	Modern Japan: 1600 to Present	Surveys Japanese history from the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1603 to the present and explores the local and global nature of modernity in Japan. Highlights key themes, including the emergence of a modern nation-state, the rise and fall of the Japanese Empire, the development of mass consumer culture and the middle class, and the continued importance of historical memory in Japan today.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.156[J]	Global Chinese Food: A Historical Overview	Introduces the history of Chinese food around the world. Illustrates how the globalization of Chinese food is deeply connected to Chinese migration patterns, expansion of Western influence in Asia, Chinese entrepreneurship, and interethnic relations in places of Chinese settlement. With an overview of earlier periods in Chinese history, focuses on the 18th through 20th centuries, specifically on major events in modern world history that affected the availability and demand for Chinese food. Considers environmental issues in relation to China's changing food systems. Includes a mandatory field trip to Boston Chinatown. Taught in English. Limited to 30.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	21G.045[J]	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.157	Modern South Asia	Explores the political, social, and economic history of South Asia from the 18th century to the present day. Topics include colonial rule; anti-colonial movements; nationalism and the creation of modern India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh; the post-colonial nation state; social movements; religious identity; involvement of the United States in the region; and economic development. Students develop an understanding of the current successes, failures, and challenges facing the people and states of contemporary South Asia from a historical perspective.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.160	Islam, the Middle East, and the West	Provides students with an overview of basic themes and issues in Middle Eastern history from the rise of Islam to the present, with an emphasis on exchanges and encounters between the Middle East and Europe/North America. Examines the history of the notion of "East" and "West;" the emergence of Islam and the Christianization of Europe; Ottoman expansion; the flourishing of European powers; European competition with and colonization of Middle Eastern societies, and Middle Eastern responses, including Arab and Iranian nationalisms as well as the rise of Political Islam, the "Clash of Civilizations", and Islamophobia.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.161	The Modern Middle East	Surveys the history of the Middle East, from the end of the 19th century to the present. Examines major political, social, intellectual and cultural issues and practices. Focuses on important events, movements, and ideas that prevailed during the last century and affect its current realities. Enrollment limited.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	CI-H
21H.165	A Survey of Modern African History	Surveys the history of 19th- and 20th-century Africa. Focuses on the European conquest of Africa and the dynamics of colonial rule, especially its socioeconomic and cultural consequences. Looks at how the rising tide of African nationalism, in the form of labor strikes and guerrilla wars, ushered out colonialism. Examines the postcolonial states, focusing on the politics of development, recent civil wars in countries like Rwanda and Liberia, the AIDS epidemic, and the history of Apartheid in South Africa up to 1994.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.170[J]	Introduction to Latin American Studies	Examines contemporary Latin American culture, politics, and history. Surveys geography, economic development, and race, religion, and gender in Latin America. Special emphasis on the Salvadoran civil war, human rights and military rule in Argentina and Chile, and migration from Central America and Mexico to the United States. Students analyze films, literature, visual art, journalism, historical documents, and social scientific research.	false	Fall	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	17.55[J], 21A.130[J], 21G.084[J]	false	false	false	False	Social Sciences	CI-H
21H.172[J]	Latin America Through Film	Traces Latin American history through film and analyzes how this medium represents events in the recent and distant past. Weekly movies provide a window through which to analyze themes such as colonialism, national formation, revolution, gender, race relations, popular mobilizations and counterinsurgency. Examines films for how they represent a particular group or country, the reality they capture or obscure, and the message they convey.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	21G.078[J]	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.173	Socialism in Latin America, from Che Guevara to Hugo Chavez	Explores various socialist projects in the Americas. Studies how Latin America's poor have supported socialism as an alternative to capitalist exploitation, as a strategy to break colonial vestiges, and an anti-imperialist ideology. Focuses on various case studies to address the meaning of socialism, how governments have implemented socialism and who has fought against it. Explores how socialism has attempted to address women's rights and combat racism, and how socialist projects have extended beyond national borders.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.181[J]	Libertarianism	Explores the history of the ideal of individual liberty in light of contemporary arguments over the proper scope of the regulatory state. Surveys the political theory of freedom and its relationship to other dominant norms (e.g., property, equality, community, republicanism, innovation, and the pursuit of wealth). Revisits the diversity of modern libertarian movements with attention to issues such as abolitionism and the Civil Rights revolution, religious liberty, the right to bear arms, and LGBTQ rights. Concludes with a set of policy and legal/constitutional debates about the role of government in regulating the financial markets, artificial intelligence, and/or the internet.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	17.035[J]	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.185[J]	Environment and History	Focusing on the period from 1500 to the present, explores the influence of climate, topography, plants, animals, and microorganisms on human history and the reciprocal influence of people on the environment. Topics include the European encounter with the Americas, the impact of modern technology, and the current environmental crisis. Enrollment limited.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	12.386[J], STS.031[J]	false	false	false	False	Social Sciences	CI-H
21H.186	Nature and Environment in China	Focuses on the late imperial period with forays into the modern area. Explores how Chinese states and people related to and shaped their environments, which, in turn, shaped China. Considers the degree to which China's long environmental history has integrated with global trends and ponders the historical experiences and precedents we bring to today's environmental challenges. Explores the diverse ways in which scholars study China's environmental history and conceptions of nature, including the use of digital humanities tools for visualizing data and analyzing geography.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.187	US Environmental Governance: from National Parks to the Green New Deal	Explores the interwoven threads of politics, economics, and the environment in the 20th century. Examines topics such as preservation, conservation, national park creation, federal projects, infrastructure, economic growth, hydrocarbon society, international development, nuclear power, consumer rights, public health crises, environmentalism, Earth Day, globalization, sustainability, and climate change. Studies how politics, economics, and environment converged in modern U.S. history, the "Green New Deal" and how its role promoting economic growth conflicts with its commitments to environmental management, and the emergence of the environmental movement.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.201	The American Revolution	Covers the American Revolution in the broadest sense; not only the independence movement and the military conflict, but also the liberation struggles launched by Indigenous people, enslaved Americans, free women, and others. Modes of learning could include reenactments, close reading of primary sources, or field trips. Field trips may be optional or mandatory depending on scheduling.	false	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.203	The History of American Presidential Elections	Introduces the main themes and topics in the history of presidential elections from 1788 to the present. Explores structures of the US executive branch, the primary, convention, and election systems, and the Electoral College. Students examine academic debates in history and other social sciences, and undertake a research project based on a past election of their choosing. Meets with 21H.061 when offered concurrently. 21H.061 is offered only in an election year (not for HASS credit) and covers the first half of the course, leading up to election day.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Social Sciences	False
21H.205[J]	The Civil War and the Emergence of Modern America: 1861-1890	Using the American Civil War as a baseline, considers what it means to become "modern" by exploring the war's material and manpower needs, associated key technologies, and how both influenced the United States' entrance into the age of "Big Business." Readings include material on steam transportation, telegraphic communications, arms production, naval innovation, food processing, medicine, public health, management methods, and the mass production of everything from underwear to uniforms – all essential ingredients of modernity. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	3-0-9	Permission of instructor	STS.027[J]	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.211	The United States in the Cold War Era	Examines the culture that developed in the US during the early years of the Cold War, at the dawn of the nuclear age. Topics include new family structures and civil defense strategies that emerged in response to the promise and perils of nuclear power; the role of anxiety and insecurity in transforming American politics and psychology; the development of computing technology and the changes it brought to American workspaces; the social impacts of space exploration, suburbanization, and the construction of highways and shopping malls; and new models used by social scientists and other experts to predict human behavior and the future.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.213[J]	The War at Home: American Politics and Society in Wartime	Examines the relationship between war and domestic politics in the US since the start of 20th century. Students engage in historical and social scientific research to analyze the ways that overseas military commitments shaped US political institutions, and how domestic politics has in turn structured US engagements abroad. Moving chronologically from World War I to the Iraq War, subject draws on materials across the disciplines, including political documents, opinion polls, legal decisions, and products of American popular culture.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	17.28[J]	false	false	false	False	Social Sciences	False
21H.214	War and American Society	Examines how issues of war and national security have affected politics, economics, and society from the First World War to the war in Iraq. Draws on historical evidence as well as representations in film, music and popular culture.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.217[J]	American Urban History	Seminar on the history of institutions and institutional change in American cities from roughly 1850 to the present. Among the institutions to be looked at are political machines, police departments, courts, schools, prisons, public authorities, and universities. Focuses on readings and discussions.	false	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	11.013[J]	false	false	false	False	Humanities	CI-H
21H.218[J]	History of the Built Environment in the US	Seminar on the history of selected features of the physical environment of urban America. Among the features considered are parks, cemeteries, tenements, suburbs, zoos, skyscrapers, department stores, supermarkets, and amusement parks.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	2-0-7	null	11.014[J]	false	false	false	False	Humanities	CI-H
21H.220[J]	Metropolis: A Comparative History of New York City	Examines the evolution of New York City from 1607 to the present. Readings focus on the city's social and physical histories. Discussions compare New York's development to patterns in other cities.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	11.150[J]	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.225	History of American Capitalism (New)	Discussion-based seminar offering an introduction to the history of capitalism and a broad overview of debates concerning its impacts on social life, with a particular focus on the modern American experience. Examines the central position that the United States occupies in today's capitalist global system and the key role it has played in shaping both the development of capitalism and critical responses to its advance. Drawing on primary historical documents and secondary literature from multiple disciplines, students examine capitalism's historical relationship to race, class, gender, government, finance, technology, and the natural environment. Limited to 15.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	2-0-10	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.226[J]	Riots, Strikes, and Conspiracies in American History	Focuses on a series of short, complicated, traumatic events that shed light on American politics, culture, and society. Events studied may include the rendition of Anthony Burns in 1854, the most famous fugitive slave controversy in US history; the Homestead strike/lockout of 1892; the quiz show scandal of the 1950s; and the student uprisings at Columbia University in 1968. Emphasis on finding ways to make sense of these events and on using them to understand larger processes of change in American history.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	11.015[J]	false	false	false	False	Humanities	CI-H
21H.227	History of the US Supreme Court	Exploration of the historical development of constitutional law and the relationship between the Supreme Court and broader social, political, and cultural trends. Introduces major themes and patterns of change in American constitutional law since 1787, including federal-state relations, racial and gender equality, economic regulation, and civil liberties. Readings consist of original court cases, especially from the US Supreme Court, including cases of the current term.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Social Sciences	False
21H.228	American Classics	Students read, discuss, and write about critical works in American history from the 17th through the 20th centuries. Includes writings by early Puritan writers, Franklin, Paine, Jefferson, and Madison; Lewis and Clark; Frederick Douglass; Harriet Beecher Stowe; the Lincoln-Douglas debates; U. S. Grant, W. E. B. Dubois, Andrew Carnegie, Horatio Alger, F. D. Roosevelt, Betty Friedan, and Martin Luther King, Jr. May also include music, recorded speeches, television programs, visual images, or films. Enrollment limited.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	CI-H
21H.229	The Black Radical Tradition in America	Focuses on American history from the African-American perspective. Includes alternative visions of the nation's future, and definitions of its progress, that have called for a fundamental restructuring of political, economic and social relations. Introduces events, figures and institutions that have shaped African-American history, from the struggles to dominate the African coast and the emergence of a modern slave trade, through the fall of the Western slave societies. Also examines the experiences of Africans in other parts of North America, as well as South America and the Caribbean.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.230	Barbarians, Saints, and Emperors	Explores the late Roman Empire and its transformations during Late Antiquity (c.300-c.700). Questions the traditional decline and fall narrative of the period, which argues that Christianity and barbarians destroyed classical civilization and ushered in the Dark Ages. Explores such topics as Romans and barbarians, paganism and Christianity, politics and war, Rome and Constantinople, and bishops and saints. Discusses the influence of such characters as Constantine the Great, St. Augustine, Attila the Hun, and the prophet Mohammed.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.237	The City of Athens in the Age of Pericles	Historical topography of ancient Athens. Investigates the relationship between urban architecture and political, social, and cultural history of Athens in the 5th and 4th centuries BC. Surveys and analyzes archeological and literary evidence, including the sanctuary of Athena on the Acropolis, the Agora, Greek houses, the histories of Herodotus and Thucydides, plays of Sophocles and Aristophanes, and the panhellenic sanctuaries of Delphi and Olympia.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.238	The Vikings	Explores the complex relationship of the Vikings with the medieval world. Investigates the dynamics of Viking expansion, not only in terms of raiding and conflict, but also as a process of diplomacy, settlement, assimilation, and colonization. Examines developments within Scandinavian society such as state formation, social structures, trade, shipbuilding, slavery, urban growth, and Christianization. Considers the methodological difficulties presented by the diverse and often contradictory historical sources for information about the Vikings, such as chronicles, archaeology, coin hoards, stone inscriptions, and sagas.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.239	The City of Rome in the Age of the Caesars	Historical topography of Ancient Rome. Investigates the relationship between urban architecture and the political, social, and cultural history of Rome from the 1st century BC to the 2nd century AD. Surveys and analyzes archaeological and literary evidence, including the Roman Forum, the Imperial fora, the palace of the emperors, the atrium houses of Roman Pompeii, the Colosseum, the Pantheon, Polybius' history, Martial's Epigrams, and Vitruvius' treatise on architecture.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.240	The World of Charlemagne	Investigates the world of the first medieval emperor, Charles the Great, or Charlemagne (768-814). Focuses on how Charlemagne and his dynasty, the Carolingians (ruled 751-888), forged a vast empire out of the diverse peoples and territories of Europe - not only through conquests and military might, but through Christianity and the Church, education and literacy, government and law, art and architecture, and a fundamental reorganization of the economy and society. Considers the enduring contributions of Charlemagne and his family to the formation of Europe as well as the shortcomings and failures of their empire.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	CI-H
21H.241[J]	France and Haiti: Enlightenment, Slavery, and Revolution	Explores the relationship between the Enlightenment, slavery, and the French and Haitian revolutions. Studies France and Haiti prior to 1789, analyzes some of the central texts of the Enlightenment with an emphasis on ideas about monarchy, slavery, and democracy. Considers the place of these ideas and the role of popular mobilization in the French and Haitian revolutionary era from 1789 to 1804. Concludes with an examination of some of the legacies of the eighteenth-century experience for modern French and Haitian politics.	false	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	21G.054[J]	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.242[J]	Frenchness in an Era of Globalization	Approaches the question of what constitutes Frenchness in today's era of globalization through issues of memory, belonging, and cultural production. Explores the role of timeless traditions - common technologies, an internationally-spoken language, monuments open to the world, and foods such as wine and cheese - remain quintessentially French. Also covers recent scandals about France's role in the world, such as its colonial identity and Dominique Strauss-Kahn's New York debacle. Taught in French. Limited to 18.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	3-0-9	One intermediate subject in French or permission of instructor	21G.322[J]	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.244[J]	Imperial and Revolutionary Russia: Culture and Politics, 1700-1917	Analyzes Russia's social, cultural, and political heritage in the 18th and 19th centuries, up to and including the Russian Revolution of 1917. Compares reforming and revolutionary impulses in the context of serfdom, the rise of the intelligentsia, and debates over capitalism. Focuses on historical and literary texts, especially the intersections between the two.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	21G.085[J]	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.245[J]	Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society: 1917 to the Present	Explores the political and historical evolution of the Soviet state and society from the 1917 Revolution to the present. Covers the creation of a revolutionary regime, causes and nature of the Stalin revolution, post-Stalinist efforts to achieve political and social reform, and causes of the Soviet collapse. Also examines current developments in Russia in light of Soviet history. Enrollment limited.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	17.57[J], 21G.086[J]	false	false	false	False	Social Sciences	CI-H
21H.247[J]	Looking East/Looking West	Examines how objects and images mediate encounters between people and helped define the "Orient" and the "Occident." Explores the visual and material culture as well as textual accounts produced by and consumed during encounters between European and Asian travelers, diplomats, artists, writers, and tourists since the seventeenth century. Considers the frameworks scholars have used to understand these encounters and how we might deploy those frameworks ourselves. Employs historical thinking to work on our skills of visual and cultural analysis. Questions how these legacies of material and visual exchange have shaped the community within Boston area.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	21G.050[J]	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.253[J]	Global Chinese Migration, 1567-Present	Examines Chinese migration in historical and comparative perspective, beginning in 1567 with the lifting of the imperial ban on private maritime trade. Covers migration to diverse venues across the globe, including tropical colonies, settler societies, Chinese frontiers, and postcolonial metropoles. Topics include the varied roles of Chinese migrants in these diverse venues, the coolie trade and anti-Chinese movements, overseas students, transnational networks, cultural adaptation, and the creolization of Chinese food in migrant communities. Critically examines the degree to which this transnational migration has produced a "Global Chinese" identity. Taught in English.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	21G.075[J]	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.260	Cities in the Middle East: History, Politics and Society	Examines the role and centrality of cities in the history of the modern Middle East, through political, social, cultural and urban interactions. Begins with a theoretical introduction of the different approaches for investigating urban spaces, and follows with discussions of case studies that demonstrate the diversity of urban centers in the Middle East, including Beirut, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Mecca, Algiers, and Cairo.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Social Sciences	False
21H.261	Modern Iran: A Century of Revolution	Provides an overview of Iran's modern history from a social, cultural, and political perspective while also considering factors as they relate to gender and race. Covers the country's long and complicated interaction with the "West." Situates Iran in the wider region, thereby delineating how political trends in the Middle East influenced the country and how its history of revolution has in turn impacted the region. Unpacks the Sunni-Shi'ite divide as a modern phenomenon rooted more in inter-state rivalry than in a theological dispute, Western perceptions of the Iranian and the Middle Eastern "Other," the Iranian Diaspora, political Islam, and post-Islamism.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.262	Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict	Surveys the history and various realities and challenges of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Introduces the fundamental historical trajectories of the conflict. Analyzes the conflicting narratives and perceptions of both Palestinians and Israelis over key moments and issues in the conflict's history. Considers current challenges and possible solutions to the conflict. Limited to 40.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.263[J]	Women and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa	Provides an overview of key issues and themes in the study of women and gender relations in the Middle East and North Africa. Includes readings from a variety of disciplines, e.g., history, anthropology, sociology, literature, religious studies, and media studies. Addresses themes such as the relationship between the concepts of nation and gender; women's citizenship; Middle Eastern women's activism and the involvement of their Western "sisters" to this movement; gendered interpretations of the Qur'an and the example of the Prophet Muhammad; and the three H's of Orientalism (hijab, harem, and hamam).	false	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	21A.138[J], WGS.220[J]	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.265	Humanitarianism and Africa: A Critical History	Examines two centuries of foreign interventions in Africa in the name of humanitarian principles, from the abolition of the slave trade to the most recent Ebola crisis in West Africa. Explores humanitarianism and how it informs the understanding of poverty, race, and violence; and who gives and receives aid. Scrutinizes the prejudices about Africans embedded within salvation projects and how these campaigns have been part of the larger dynamics of power that have defined Africa's position in the world before, during, and after the European colonization of the continent. Reflects upon the practical and morally ethical alternatives in a world still shaped by suffering and injustice.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.266	South Africa and Apartheid	Explores the spatial, legal, economic, social and political structures that created Apartheid in South Africa, and the factors that led to the collapse of the racist order. Examines the many forces of black oppression and the various forms of resistance to Apartheid. Themes include industrialization and the formation of the black working classes, constructions of race, ethnicities and sexualities, land alienation and rural struggles, township poverty and violence, black education, and the Black Consciousness Movement.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.267	Atlantic Slave Revolts	Examines the many ways enslaved people in the Americas resisted slavery, individually and collectively. Studies shipboard revolts, maronage, conspiracies, and armed uprisings. Investigates the causes and organization of rebellion. Uses the topic of rebellion to study how historians analyze and use primary sources, historical context, and write convincing prose.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.268	Urban History in Africa	Explores the emergence of cities in sub-Saharan Africa, and traces major themes in the history of urban Africa. Examines urban Africans at work and leisure, including their popular culture and politics and the conflicts that arise from the cities' growth. Questions how the city emerged in Africa, what distinguishes African cities, and how urban Africans have responded to the dramatic historical changes and intense cultural interactions of African history (e.g. colonialism, industrialization, urbanization, globalization). Incorporates scholarly monographs and articles, African life histories, primary sources, fiction, and film to explore the variety of perspectives on urban history in Africa.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.270[J]	Latinx in the Age of Empire	Analyzes the histories and presence of the Latinx population in the context of US territorial expansion, foreign intervention and economic policy toward Latin America. Combines both historical and anthropological approaches to analyze local conditions that lead people to migrate within the broader forces of international political economy. Pays attention to the historical context in the home countries, especially as impacted by US policy. Explores Latinx community dynamics, politics of migrant labor, relational formations of race and transnational forms of belonging. Historically and ethnographically seeks to understand structures of criminalization, activist practices of resistance and the development of deportation regimes.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	21A.131[J]	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.273	From Coca to Cocaine: Drug Economies in Latin America	Explores how drug production and consumption has affected Latin America's political, cultural and economic life and shaped US foreign policy toward the region. Discusses the history of different psychoactive substances and analyzes why certain drugs became illegal. Pays particular attention to the relationship between strategies of interdiction, poverty, and drug violence. Limited to 35.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.274[J]	Creation of a Continent: Media Representations of Hispanic America, 1492 to present	Traces the creation of a new literature in Spanish to record and interpret New World experiences. Begins with excerpts from Columbus's diary and ends with writings on the late 19th-century Cuban and Puerto Rican independence movements. Pairs some of these pre-20th-century texts with more recent literary and film interpretations of the first 400 years of Hispanic American history. Conducted in Spanish.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	One intermediate Spanish subject or permission of instructor	21G.731[J], CMS.357[J]	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False
21H.281	MIT and Slavery: Research	Explores the influence of slavery and race on MIT's founding and early development, and the connections between slavery and the rise of sciences and engineering. Students will have their research projects published through the MIT and Slavery website. While 21H.281 and 21H.282 are sequential, students have the option of taking either or both.	true	Fall	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	CI-H
21H.282	MIT and Slavery: Publication	Students work on turning research from 21H.281 into publishable quality essays, researching images and other supporting documentary materials, and developing the main narrative of the MIT and Slavery website, for which they receive editorial credit. While 21H.281 and 21H.282 are sequential, students have the option of taking either or both.	true	Spring	Undergraduate	3-0-9	null	null	false	false	false	False	Humanities	False

21G.716[J]

Introduction to Contemporary Hispanic Literature and Film

Focuses on literary and cinematic production in 20th- and 21st-century Spain and Latin America with a particular emphasis on how social, cultural, political, and technological changes led to aesthetic innovations. Topics include the literature of politics, the avant-garde and subsequent literary boom, the radical aesthetic of the post-Franco era, and post-modern film and art. Materials include short stories, novels, poetry, song, and film. Conducted in Spanish.

false

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

One intermediate subject in Spanish or permission of instructor

21L.636[J]

false

False

Humanities

False

21G.717[J]

Power and Culture: Utopias and Dystopias in Spain and Latin America

Studies how new literary, artistic and musical forms have emerged in response to tensions and contradictions in Hispanic culture, from the eighth century to the present. Examines distinctively Hispanic artistic movements and modes from Al-Andalus' vibrant heterogeneity to the enforced homogeneity of the Spanish Inquisition; from a rich plurality of pre-Colombian civilizations to the imposed conversions by conquistadors; from the revolutionary zeal of Latin America's liberators to the crushing dictatorships that followed; from the promise of globalization to the struggle against US cultural imperialism. Taught in Spanish. Limited to 18.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

One intermediate subject in Spanish or permission of instructor

21L.637[J]

false

False

Humanities

False

21G.731[J]

Creation of a Continent: Media Representations of Hispanic America, 1492 to present

Traces the creation of a new literature in Spanish to record and interpret New World experiences. Begins with excerpts from Columbus's diary and ends with writings on the late 19th-century Cuban and Puerto Rican independence movements. Pairs some of these pre-20th-century texts with more recent literary and film interpretations of the first 400 years of Hispanic American history. Conducted in Spanish.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

One intermediate Spanish subject or permission of instructor

21H.274[J], CMS.357[J]

false

False

Humanities

False

21G.732

The Making of the Latin American City: Culture, Gender, and Citizenship

Explores paradigms of Latin American modernity, gender, and urban cultures through primary texts and media. Examines a range of materials (literature, films, visual arts, music, and advertising) to reflect on the region's urbanization processes of the 20th and 21st centuries. Focuses on the production and representation of gender - and women, in particular - as key subjects of urbanization, mass media, and consumer culture. Discussions travel through urban centers as different as Buenos Aires, Mexico DF, Lima, Havana, Miami and New York, but are organized around four critical categories: urban spaces, labor, leisure, and citizenship. Taught in Spanish.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

One intermediate subject in Spanish or permission of instructor

null

false

False

Humanities

False

21G.735

Advanced Topics in Hispanic Literature and Film

Close study of a theme, a grouping of authors, or a historical period not covered in depth in other subjects. May be repeated for credit with permission of instructor. Taught in Spanish. Limited to 18.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

4-0-8

One intermediate Spanish subject or permission of instructor

null

false

False

Humanities

False

21G.736[J]

The Short Form: Literature and New Media Cultures in the Hispanic World

Examines the aesthetics of the brief form across a variety of media and genres in Latin America and Spain, from short stories and snapshots to newspapers and Twitter. Explores the history and social significance of four short genres in the Hispanic world: the short story, the crónica, the poem, and the song. Discusses the rich literary and critical tradition that relates narrative length and temporality to the prose and the lyric in Spanish speaking cultures. With an emphasis on the 20th- and 21st-century epistemologies of acceleration and the remediation of literary theories of brevity, analyzes the relationship between temporality, aesthetic form, and media technologies, and the way these topics have taken shape in the imagination of writers, artists, and audiences in historically specific and politically significant contexts. Taught in Spanish. Limited to 18.

false

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

One intermediate subject in Spanish or permission of instructor

CMS.358[J]

false

False

Humanities

False

21G.738[J]

Literature and Social Conflict: Perspectives on the Hispanic World

Considers how major literary texts illuminate principal issues in the evolution of modern Spanish society. Emphasizes the treatment of such major questions as the exile of liberals in 1820, the concept of progress, the place of religion, urbanization, rural conservatism and changing gender roles, and the Spanish Civil War. Authors include Perez Galdos, Pardo Bazan, Unamuno, Ortega y Gasset, Salinas, Lorca, La Pasionaria, and Falcon. Taught in Spanish.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

One intermediate subject in Spanish or permission of instructor

21L.638[J]

false

False

Humanities

False

21G.739[J]

Globalization and its Discontents: Spanish-speaking Nations

Studies new paradigms of cultural exchange that have shaped Latin America in the 20th and 21st centuries. Examines how globalization is rapidly changing the identity of peoples and cultures in Spanish-speaking nations. Spotlights debates about human rights. Materials studied include film, fiction, essay, architectural archives, music and art. Students complete a research project about a specific aspect of Hispanic culture that has been shaped by contemporary forces in the global economy. Taught in Spanish with required readings and writing in Spanish.

false

Fall

Undergraduate

3-0-9

One intermediate subject in Spanish or permission of instructor

21L.639[J]

false

False

Humanities

False

21G.740[J]

The New Spain: 1977-Present

Deals with the vast changes in Spanish social, political and cultural life that have taken place since the death of Franco. Topics include new freedom from censorship, the re-emergence of strong movements for regional autonomy (the Basque region and Catalonia), the new cinema including Almodovar and Saura, educational reforms instituted by the socialist government, and the fiction of Carme Riera and Terenci Moix. Special emphasis on the emergence of mass media as a vehicle for expression in Spain. Considers the changes wrought by Spain's acceptance into the European Community. Materials include magazines, newspapers, films, fiction, and Amando de Miguel's Los Españoles. Taught in Spanish.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

One intermediate subject in Spanish or permission of instructor

21L.640[J]

false

False

Humanities

False

21G.784

Introduction to Latin American Studies

Examines contemporary Latin American culture, politics, and history. Surveys geography, economic development, and race, religion, and gender in Latin America. Special emphasis on the Salvadoran civil war, human rights and military rule in Argentina and Chile, and migration from Central America and Mexico to the United States. Students analyze films, literature, visual art, journalism, historical documents, and social scientific research. Taught in English with a project that requires research and writing in Spanish.

false

Fall

Undergraduate

3-0-10

21G.704 or permission of instructor

null

false

False

Social Sciences

CI-H

21G.751

Spanish I

For students with no previous knowledge of Spanish. Introduction to understanding, speaking, reading, and writing Spanish. Maximal use of fundamentals of grammar in active communication. Audio- and video-based language laboratory program coordinated with and supplementary to class work. Same as 21G.701, but for graduate credit. Limited to 18 per section.

true

Fall, IAP, Spring

Graduate

4-0-5

null

false

False

21G.752

Spanish II

Introductory subject that continues the study of Spanish language and culture using audio, video and print materials, feature films and popular music from Latin America and Spain. Emphasizes writing, vocabulary acquisition, and the study of more complex grammatical structures. Group interaction and short oral presentations develop students' oral skills. Limited to 18 per section.

true

Fall, Spring

Graduate

4-0-5

21G.751 or permission of instructor

null

false

False

21G.911

Independent Study

Advanced work in languages and literatures for students wishing to pursue topics or projects not provided by regular subject offerings. Before registering, student must plan course of study with appropriate instructor in the section and secure the approval of the Section Head. Normal maximum is 6 units.

true

Fall, IAP, Spring

Undergraduate

rranged

null

false

False

21G.S01

Special Subject: Global Studies and Languages

Opportunity for undergraduate study of subject matter that is not covered in the regular curriculum.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

rranged

null

false

False

21G.S02

Special Subject: Global Studies and Languages

Opportunity for undergraduate study of subject matter that is not covered in the regular curriculum.

true

IAP

Undergraduate

rranged

null

false

False

21G.S03

Special Subject: Global Studies and Languages

Opportunity for undergraduate study of subject matter that is not covered in the regular curriculum.

false

Spring

Undergraduate

rranged

null

false

False

21G.S04

Special Subject: Global Studies and Languages

Opportunity for undergraduate study of subject matter that is not covered in the regular curriculum.

true

IAP

Undergraduate

rranged

null

false

False

21G.S05

Special Subject: Global Studies and Languages

Opportunity for undergraduate study of subject matter that is not covered in the regular curriculum.

true

IAP

Undergraduate

rranged

null

false

False

21G.S06

Special Subject: Global Studies and Languages

Opportunity for undergraduate study of subject matter that is not covered in the regular curriculum.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

rranged

null

false

False

21G.S07

Special Subject: Global Studies and Languages

Opportunity for undergraduate study of subject matter that is not covered in the regular curriculum.

true

IAP

Undergraduate

rranged

null

false

False

21G.S08

Special Subject: Global Studies and Languages

Opportunity for undergraduate study of subject matter that is not covered in the regular curriculum.

true

IAP

Undergraduate

rranged

null

false

False

21G.THT

Pre-Thesis Tutorial: Global Studies and Languages

Definition of and early-stage work on thesis project leading to 21G.THU Undergraduate Thesis in Global Studies and Languages. Taken during the first term of the student's two-term commitment to the thesis project. Student works closely with an individual faculty tutor.

true

Fall, IAP, Spring

Undergraduate

1-0-5

Permission of instructor

null

false

False

21G.THU

Global Studies and Languages Thesis

Completion of work on the senior major thesis under supervision of a faculty thesis advisor. Includes oral presentation of thesis progress early in the term, assembling and revising the final text, and a final meeting with a committee of faculty evaluators to discuss the successes and limitations of the project.

true

Fall, IAP, Spring, Summer

Undergraduate

rranged

21G.THT

null

false

False

21G.UR

Undergraduate Research

Individual participation in an ongoing research project. For students in the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program.

true

Fall, IAP, Spring, Summer

Undergraduate

rranged [P/D/F]

null

false

False

21G.URG

Undergraduate Research

Individual participation in an ongoing research project. For students in the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program.

true

Fall, IAP, Spring, Summer

Undergraduate

rranged

null

false

False

21H.000

The History of Now

Exposes students to the study of history for a deeper understanding of the past, the present and the future by exploring current events in a historical perspective. Features guest lectures from experts inside and outside MIT. Subject can count toward the 6-unit discovery-focused credit limit for first-year students; preference to first-year students.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

1-0-0 [P/D/F]

null

false

False

21H.001

How to Stage a Revolution

Explores fundamental questions about the causes and nature of revolutions by looking at how people overthrow their rulers and establish new governments. Considers a set of major political transformations throughout the world and across centuries to understand the meaning of revolution and evaluate its impact. Examines how revolutionaries have attempted to establish their ideals and realize their goals. Asks whether radical upheavals require bloodshed, violence, or even terror. Seeks to explain why some revolutions succeed and others fail. Materials include the writings of revolutionaries, declarations and constitutions, music, films, art, novels, memoirs, and newspapers.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Humanities

CI-H

21H.007[J]

Introduction to Ancient and Medieval Studies

Explores the fascinating history, culture, and society of the ancient and medieval worlds and the different methodologies scholars use to interpret them. Wrestles with big questions about the diversity of life and thought in pre-modern societies, the best ways to study the distant past, and the nature (and limitations) of knowledge about long-ago eras. Considers a wide range of scholarly subjects such as the rise and fall of the Roman empire, the triumph of Christianity and Islam, barbarian invasions and holy wars, courts and castles, philosophy and religion, and the diversity of art, literature, and politics. Ponders different types of evidence, reads across a variety of disciplines, and develops skills to identify continuities and changes in ancient and medieval societies.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

21L.014[J]

false

False

Humanities

CI-H

21H.009

World History and Its Fault Lines Since 1800

Explores how the world, as we know it today, came to be. Examines what it means to be modern and the consequences of modernity on people's everyday lives. Introduces real and perceived changes that made the world recognizably "modern." Surveys the rise of empires, nation-states, industrialized economies, mass consumption, popular culture, and political ideas and movements, and studies how they resulted in new, often contested, dynamics of racial, class, religious, gendered, and political identity. Instruction provided in how the evolving relationships of people with political, social, and economic structures produced a world that is highly interconnected and, at the same time, divided along different fault lines.

false

Fall

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Humanities

CI-H

21H.061

The History of American Presidential Elections

Introduces the main themes and topics in the history of presidential elections from 1788 to the present. Explores structures of the US executive branch, the primary, convention, and election systems, and the Electoral College. Students examine academic debates in history and other social sciences, and write short papers on historical and contemporary topics. Meets with 21H.203 when offered concurrently. 21H.061 is offered only in an election year (not for HASS credit) and covers the first half of the course, leading up to election day.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

3-0-3

null

false

False

21H.090

Digital Humanities Laboratory

Combines research in HASS fields with computational methods of analysis, data collection, and presentation. Rotates to a different research project within SHASS each offering and meets with a research seminar taught by the PI of that project. Students work in teams to produce original computational research within the existing project, in collaboration with the research staff of the Programs in Digital Humanities. Leverage techniques from a wide range of practices including natural language processing, computer vision, machine learning, and web development. Repeatable for credit with permission of instructor. Limited to 25.

true

Fall, Spring

Undergraduate

2-2-8

6.100A

null

true

false

False

21H.101

American History to 1865

A basic history of American social, economic, and political development from the colonial period through the Civil War. Examines the colonial heritages of Spanish and British America; the American Revolution and its impact; the establishment and growth of the new nation; and the Civil War, its background, character, and impact. Readings include writings of the period by Winthrop, Paine, Jefferson, Madison, W. H. Garrison, G. Fitzhugh, H. B. Stowe, and Lincoln.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.102

American History since 1865

Examines the social, cultural, political, and economic history of the United States, from the Civil War to the present. Uses secondary analysis and primary documents, such as court cases, personal accounts, photographs, and films, to examine some of the key issues in the shaping of modern America, including industrialization and urbanization, immigration, the rise of a mass consumer society, the emergence of the US as a global power, and the development of civil rights activism and other major social movements.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Humanities

CI-H

21H.106[J]

Black Matters: Introduction to Black Studies

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.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

24.912[J], 21L.008[J], 21W.741[J], CMS.150[J], WGS.190[J]

false

False

CI-H

21H.107[J]

From Yellow Peril to Model Minority: Asian American History to 1968

Provides an overview of Asian American history between the 1830s and 1968 and its relevance for contemporary issues. Covers the first wave of Asian immigration in the 19th century, the rise of anti-Asian movements, the experiences of Asian Americans during WWII, the 1965 immigration reform, and the emergence of the Asian American movement in the 1960s. Examines the role these experiences played in the formation of Asian American ethnicity. Addresses key societal issues such as racial stereotyping, xenophobia, ethnicity and racial formation, citizenship, worker activism, immigrant community building, the "model minority" myth, and anti-Asian harassment and violence. Taught in English.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

21G.043[J]

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.108[J]

Sexual and Gender Identities in the Modern United States

Provides an introduction to the history of gender, sex, and sexuality in the modern United States, from the end of the 19th century to the present. Surveys historical approaches to the field, emphasizing the changing nature of sexual and gender identities over time. Traces attempts to control, construct, and contain sexual and gender identities. Examines the efforts of those who worked to resist, reject, and reform institutionalized heterosexuality and mainstream configurations of gendered power.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

WGS.110[J]

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.109[J]

Gender: Historical Perspectives

Examines the definition of gender in scientific, societal, and historical contexts. Explores how gender influences state formation and the work of the state, what role gender plays in imperialism and in the welfare state, the ever-present relationship between gender and war, and different states' regulation of the body in gendered ways at different times. Investigates new directions in the study of gender as historians, anthropologists and others have taken on this fascinating set of problems. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

WGS.303[J]

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.130

The Ancient World: Greece

History of Ancient Greece from the Bronze Age to the death of Alexander. Major social, economic, political, and religious trends. Homer, heroism, and the Greek identity; the hoplite revolution and the rise of the city-state; Herodotus, Persia, and the (re)birth of history; Empire, Thucydidean rationalism, and the Peloponnesian War; Aristotle, Macedonia, and Hellenism. Emphasis on use of primary sources in translation.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Humanities

CI-H

21H.132

The Ancient World: Rome

History of Rome from its humble beginnings to the 5th century A.D. First half: Kingship to Republican form; the conquest of Italy; Roman expansion: Pyrrhus, Punic Wars and provinces; classes, courts, and the Roman revolution; Augustus and the formation of empire. Second half: Virgil to the Vandals; major social, economic, political and religious trends at Rome and in the provinces. Emphasis on use of primary sources in translation. Enrollment limited.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Humanities

CI-H

21H.133

The Medieval World

Investigates the dynamic history of Europe and the wider world between the late Roman empire and voyages of discovery. Examines the rise of Christianity, the cult of the saints, and monasticism; the decline of the Roman empire, the barbarian invasions, and the foundation of post-Roman kingdoms; the meteoric rise of Islam; the formation of the Carolingian, Byzantine, and Islamic empires; the Vikings and Mongols; castles, knights, and crusades; religious thinkers, reformers, and heretics; changes in art, architecture, and literature; the Black Death and the fall of Constantinople; the Italian Renaissance and the voyages of discovery.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.134[J]

Medieval Economic History in Comparative Perspective

Surveys the foundations of material life and changing social and economic conditions in medieval Europe in their broader Eurasian context. Covers the gradual disintegration of the Roman imperial order, the emergence and decline of feudal institutions, the transformation of peasant agriculture, living standards and the impact of climate and disease environments, and the ebb and flow of long-distance trade across the Eurasian system. Particular emphasis on the study of those factors, both institutional and technological, which contributed to the emergence of capitalist organization and economic growth in western Europe in comparison to the trajectories followed by the other major medieval economies.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

14.70[J]

false

False

Social Sciences

CI-H

21H.135

J.R.R. Tolkien: Scholar, Author, and Thinker

Explores how an Oxford professor of medieval philology and literature wrote the most influential work of fantasy, The Lord of the Rings. Investigates how Tolkien's scholarship on Anglo-Saxon and Middle English, fascination with inventing languages, experiences during the First World War, and Catholic faith shaped the creation of his fantasy world often (mistakenly) called Middle Earth. Examines Tolkien's books within the context of his life, scholarship, ideas, and beliefs to uncover how an author of fantasy literature helped shape the image of the Middle Ages in the modern popular imagination. Considers the extent to which film adaptations do justice to the complexity of Tolkien's stories, themes, and characters.

false

Fall

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Humanities

CI-H

21H.141

Renaissance to Revolution: Europe, 1300-1800

Provides an introduction to major political, social, cultural and intellectual changes in Europe from the beginnings of the Renaissance in Italy around 1300 to the outbreak of the French Revolution at the end of the 1700s. Focuses on the porous boundaries between categories of theology, magic and science. Examines how developments in these areas altered European political institutions, social structures, and cultural practices. Studies men and women, nobles and commoners, as well as Europeans and some non-Europeans with whom they came into contact.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Humanities

CI-H

21H.143[J]

The "Making" of Modern Europe: 1789-Present

Provides an overview of European history from 1789 to the present. Explores how the ideas of "European" and "modern" have been defined over time. Explores major events and the evolution of major tensions and issues that consumed Europe and Europeans through the period, including questions of identity, inclusion/exclusion, religion, and equality. Places major emphasis on the fiction, visual culture, and films of the century as the products and evidence of political, social and cultural change. Taught in English.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

21G.056[J]

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.144[J]

Introduction to Russian Studies

Explores Russian culture and society by analyzing its unique position at the crossroads of Europe and Asia throughout medieval, Imperial, Soviet, and contemporary periods. Investigates a variety of topics: defining the borders of the country and shaping its relationship with the outside world; changes in living spaces from rural to urban, development of cultural centers; and daily life, customs, and traditions. Includes readings in literature, history, and cultural studies, as well visual arts, music, and film. Limited to 25.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

21G.087[J]

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.145[J]

French Photography

Introduces students to the world of French photography from its invention in the 1820s to the present. Provides exposure to major photographers and images of the French tradition and encourages students to explore the social and cultural roles and meanings of photographs. Designed to help students navigate their own photo-saturated worlds; provides opportunity to gain practical experience in photography. Taught in English. Enrollment limited.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

4.674[J], 21G.049[J]

false

False

Arts

CI-H

21H.151

Dynastic China

Examines the first dynasty to 1800. Traces the rise of the world's first centralized bureaucratic state, the development of the world's oldest living written culture, and the formation of the pre-modern world's largest single commercial market. Studies women and men as they founded dynasties, engaged in philosophy, challenged orthodoxies, and invented technologies used around the globe. Explores China's past to understand the country's present, and reflects on what its stories mean for the global world.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.152

Modern China

Discusses China's emergence as a global power, which has arisen out of two centuries of significant change. Explores those transformations from 1800 to the present by examining the advent of foreign imperialism in the nineteenth century, the collapse of the last imperial dynasty in 1911, China's debilitating war against Japan, the communist revolution, and the tumultuous history of the People's Republic of China from 1949. Addresses the historical transformations that have shaped contemporary Chinese politics, ethnicity, gender, environment, economics, and international relations.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.154

Inventing the Samurai

Explores the historical origins of the Japanese warrior class as well as its reinvention throughout the archipelago's history. Special focus on the pre-modern era (200-1600 CE). Highlights key historical contexts including the rise of the imperial court, interactions with the broader world, and the establishment of a warrior-dominated state. Also considers the modern imaginations and uses of the warrior figure.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.155

Modern Japan: 1600 to Present

Surveys Japanese history from the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1603 to the present and explores the local and global nature of modernity in Japan. Highlights key themes, including the emergence of a modern nation-state, the rise and fall of the Japanese Empire, the development of mass consumer culture and the middle class, and the continued importance of historical memory in Japan today.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.156[J]

Global Chinese Food: A Historical Overview

Introduces the history of Chinese food around the world. Illustrates how the globalization of Chinese food is deeply connected to Chinese migration patterns, expansion of Western influence in Asia, Chinese entrepreneurship, and interethnic relations in places of Chinese settlement. With an overview of earlier periods in Chinese history, focuses on the 18th through 20th centuries, specifically on major events in modern world history that affected the availability and demand for Chinese food. Considers environmental issues in relation to China's changing food systems. Includes a mandatory field trip to Boston Chinatown. Taught in English. Limited to 30.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

21G.045[J]

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.157

Modern South Asia

Explores the political, social, and economic history of South Asia from the 18th century to the present day. Topics include colonial rule; anti-colonial movements; nationalism and the creation of modern India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh; the post-colonial nation state; social movements; religious identity; involvement of the United States in the region; and economic development. Students develop an understanding of the current successes, failures, and challenges facing the people and states of contemporary South Asia from a historical perspective.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.160

Islam, the Middle East, and the West

Provides students with an overview of basic themes and issues in Middle Eastern history from the rise of Islam to the present, with an emphasis on exchanges and encounters between the Middle East and Europe/North America. Examines the history of the notion of "East" and "West;" the emergence of Islam and the Christianization of Europe; Ottoman expansion; the flourishing of European powers; European competition with and colonization of Middle Eastern societies, and Middle Eastern responses, including Arab and Iranian nationalisms as well as the rise of Political Islam, the "Clash of Civilizations", and Islamophobia.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.161

The Modern Middle East

Surveys the history of the Middle East, from the end of the 19th century to the present. Examines major political, social, intellectual and cultural issues and practices. Focuses on important events, movements, and ideas that prevailed during the last century and affect its current realities. Enrollment limited.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Humanities

CI-H

21H.165

A Survey of Modern African History

Surveys the history of 19th- and 20th-century Africa. Focuses on the European conquest of Africa and the dynamics of colonial rule, especially its socioeconomic and cultural consequences. Looks at how the rising tide of African nationalism, in the form of labor strikes and guerrilla wars, ushered out colonialism. Examines the postcolonial states, focusing on the politics of development, recent civil wars in countries like Rwanda and Liberia, the AIDS epidemic, and the history of Apartheid in South Africa up to 1994.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.170[J]

Introduction to Latin American Studies

Examines contemporary Latin American culture, politics, and history. Surveys geography, economic development, and race, religion, and gender in Latin America. Special emphasis on the Salvadoran civil war, human rights and military rule in Argentina and Chile, and migration from Central America and Mexico to the United States. Students analyze films, literature, visual art, journalism, historical documents, and social scientific research.

false

Fall

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

17.55[J], 21A.130[J], 21G.084[J]

false

False

Social Sciences

CI-H

21H.172[J]

Latin America Through Film

Traces Latin American history through film and analyzes how this medium represents events in the recent and distant past. Weekly movies provide a window through which to analyze themes such as colonialism, national formation, revolution, gender, race relations, popular mobilizations and counterinsurgency. Examines films for how they represent a particular group or country, the reality they capture or obscure, and the message they convey.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

21G.078[J]

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.173

Socialism in Latin America, from Che Guevara to Hugo Chavez

Explores various socialist projects in the Americas. Studies how Latin America's poor have supported socialism as an alternative to capitalist exploitation, as a strategy to break colonial vestiges, and an anti-imperialist ideology. Focuses on various case studies to address the meaning of socialism, how governments have implemented socialism and who has fought against it. Explores how socialism has attempted to address women's rights and combat racism, and how socialist projects have extended beyond national borders.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.181[J]

Libertarianism

Explores the history of the ideal of individual liberty in light of contemporary arguments over the proper scope of the regulatory state. Surveys the political theory of freedom and its relationship to other dominant norms (e.g., property, equality, community, republicanism, innovation, and the pursuit of wealth). Revisits the diversity of modern libertarian movements with attention to issues such as abolitionism and the Civil Rights revolution, religious liberty, the right to bear arms, and LGBTQ rights. Concludes with a set of policy and legal/constitutional debates about the role of government in regulating the financial markets, artificial intelligence, and/or the internet.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

17.035[J]

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.185[J]

Environment and History

Focusing on the period from 1500 to the present, explores the influence of climate, topography, plants, animals, and microorganisms on human history and the reciprocal influence of people on the environment. Topics include the European encounter with the Americas, the impact of modern technology, and the current environmental crisis. Enrollment limited.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

12.386[J], STS.031[J]

false

False

Social Sciences

CI-H

21H.186

Nature and Environment in China

Focuses on the late imperial period with forays into the modern area. Explores how Chinese states and people related to and shaped their environments, which, in turn, shaped China. Considers the degree to which China's long environmental history has integrated with global trends and ponders the historical experiences and precedents we bring to today's environmental challenges. Explores the diverse ways in which scholars study China's environmental history and conceptions of nature, including the use of digital humanities tools for visualizing data and analyzing geography.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.187

US Environmental Governance: from National Parks to the Green New Deal

Explores the interwoven threads of politics, economics, and the environment in the 20th century. Examines topics such as preservation, conservation, national park creation, federal projects, infrastructure, economic growth, hydrocarbon society, international development, nuclear power, consumer rights, public health crises, environmentalism, Earth Day, globalization, sustainability, and climate change. Studies how politics, economics, and environment converged in modern U.S. history, the "Green New Deal" and how its role promoting economic growth conflicts with its commitments to environmental management, and the emergence of the environmental movement.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.201

The American Revolution

Covers the American Revolution in the broadest sense; not only the independence movement and the military conflict, but also the liberation struggles launched by Indigenous people, enslaved Americans, free women, and others. Modes of learning could include reenactments, close reading of primary sources, or field trips. Field trips may be optional or mandatory depending on scheduling.

false

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.203

The History of American Presidential Elections

Introduces the main themes and topics in the history of presidential elections from 1788 to the present. Explores structures of the US executive branch, the primary, convention, and election systems, and the Electoral College. Students examine academic debates in history and other social sciences, and undertake a research project based on a past election of their choosing. Meets with 21H.061 when offered concurrently. 21H.061 is offered only in an election year (not for HASS credit) and covers the first half of the course, leading up to election day.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Social Sciences

False

21H.205[J]

The Civil War and the Emergence of Modern America: 1861-1890

Using the American Civil War as a baseline, considers what it means to become "modern" by exploring the war's material and manpower needs, associated key technologies, and how both influenced the United States' entrance into the age of "Big Business." Readings include material on steam transportation, telegraphic communications, arms production, naval innovation, food processing, medicine, public health, management methods, and the mass production of everything from underwear to uniforms – all essential ingredients of modernity. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

3-0-9

Permission of instructor

STS.027[J]

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.211

The United States in the Cold War Era

Examines the culture that developed in the US during the early years of the Cold War, at the dawn of the nuclear age. Topics include new family structures and civil defense strategies that emerged in response to the promise and perils of nuclear power; the role of anxiety and insecurity in transforming American politics and psychology; the development of computing technology and the changes it brought to American workspaces; the social impacts of space exploration, suburbanization, and the construction of highways and shopping malls; and new models used by social scientists and other experts to predict human behavior and the future.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.213[J]

The War at Home: American Politics and Society in Wartime

Examines the relationship between war and domestic politics in the US since the start of 20th century. Students engage in historical and social scientific research to analyze the ways that overseas military commitments shaped US political institutions, and how domestic politics has in turn structured US engagements abroad. Moving chronologically from World War I to the Iraq War, subject draws on materials across the disciplines, including political documents, opinion polls, legal decisions, and products of American popular culture.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

17.28[J]

false

False

Social Sciences

False

21H.214

War and American Society

Examines how issues of war and national security have affected politics, economics, and society from the First World War to the war in Iraq. Draws on historical evidence as well as representations in film, music and popular culture.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.217[J]

American Urban History

Seminar on the history of institutions and institutional change in American cities from roughly 1850 to the present. Among the institutions to be looked at are political machines, police departments, courts, schools, prisons, public authorities, and universities. Focuses on readings and discussions.

false

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

11.013[J]

false

False

Humanities

CI-H

21H.218[J]

History of the Built Environment in the US

Seminar on the history of selected features of the physical environment of urban America. Among the features considered are parks, cemeteries, tenements, suburbs, zoos, skyscrapers, department stores, supermarkets, and amusement parks.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

2-0-7

null

11.014[J]

false

False

Humanities

CI-H

21H.220[J]

Metropolis: A Comparative History of New York City

Examines the evolution of New York City from 1607 to the present. Readings focus on the city's social and physical histories. Discussions compare New York's development to patterns in other cities.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

11.150[J]

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.225

History of American Capitalism (New)

Discussion-based seminar offering an introduction to the history of capitalism and a broad overview of debates concerning its impacts on social life, with a particular focus on the modern American experience. Examines the central position that the United States occupies in today's capitalist global system and the key role it has played in shaping both the development of capitalism and critical responses to its advance. Drawing on primary historical documents and secondary literature from multiple disciplines, students examine capitalism's historical relationship to race, class, gender, government, finance, technology, and the natural environment. Limited to 15.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

2-0-10

null

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.226[J]

Riots, Strikes, and Conspiracies in American History

Focuses on a series of short, complicated, traumatic events that shed light on American politics, culture, and society. Events studied may include the rendition of Anthony Burns in 1854, the most famous fugitive slave controversy in US history; the Homestead strike/lockout of 1892; the quiz show scandal of the 1950s; and the student uprisings at Columbia University in 1968. Emphasis on finding ways to make sense of these events and on using them to understand larger processes of change in American history.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

11.015[J]

false

False

Humanities

CI-H

21H.227

History of the US Supreme Court

Exploration of the historical development of constitutional law and the relationship between the Supreme Court and broader social, political, and cultural trends. Introduces major themes and patterns of change in American constitutional law since 1787, including federal-state relations, racial and gender equality, economic regulation, and civil liberties. Readings consist of original court cases, especially from the US Supreme Court, including cases of the current term.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Social Sciences

False

21H.228

American Classics

Students read, discuss, and write about critical works in American history from the 17th through the 20th centuries. Includes writings by early Puritan writers, Franklin, Paine, Jefferson, and Madison; Lewis and Clark; Frederick Douglass; Harriet Beecher Stowe; the Lincoln-Douglas debates; U. S. Grant, W. E. B. Dubois, Andrew Carnegie, Horatio Alger, F. D. Roosevelt, Betty Friedan, and Martin Luther King, Jr. May also include music, recorded speeches, television programs, visual images, or films. Enrollment limited.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Humanities

CI-H

21H.229

The Black Radical Tradition in America

Focuses on American history from the African-American perspective. Includes alternative visions of the nation's future, and definitions of its progress, that have called for a fundamental restructuring of political, economic and social relations. Introduces events, figures and institutions that have shaped African-American history, from the struggles to dominate the African coast and the emergence of a modern slave trade, through the fall of the Western slave societies. Also examines the experiences of Africans in other parts of North America, as well as South America and the Caribbean.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.230

Barbarians, Saints, and Emperors

Explores the late Roman Empire and its transformations during Late Antiquity (c.300-c.700). Questions the traditional decline and fall narrative of the period, which argues that Christianity and barbarians destroyed classical civilization and ushered in the Dark Ages. Explores such topics as Romans and barbarians, paganism and Christianity, politics and war, Rome and Constantinople, and bishops and saints. Discusses the influence of such characters as Constantine the Great, St. Augustine, Attila the Hun, and the prophet Mohammed.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.237

The City of Athens in the Age of Pericles

Historical topography of ancient Athens. Investigates the relationship between urban architecture and political, social, and cultural history of Athens in the 5th and 4th centuries BC. Surveys and analyzes archeological and literary evidence, including the sanctuary of Athena on the Acropolis, the Agora, Greek houses, the histories of Herodotus and Thucydides, plays of Sophocles and Aristophanes, and the panhellenic sanctuaries of Delphi and Olympia.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.238

The Vikings

Explores the complex relationship of the Vikings with the medieval world. Investigates the dynamics of Viking expansion, not only in terms of raiding and conflict, but also as a process of diplomacy, settlement, assimilation, and colonization. Examines developments within Scandinavian society such as state formation, social structures, trade, shipbuilding, slavery, urban growth, and Christianization. Considers the methodological difficulties presented by the diverse and often contradictory historical sources for information about the Vikings, such as chronicles, archaeology, coin hoards, stone inscriptions, and sagas.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.239

The City of Rome in the Age of the Caesars

Historical topography of Ancient Rome. Investigates the relationship between urban architecture and the political, social, and cultural history of Rome from the 1st century BC to the 2nd century AD. Surveys and analyzes archaeological and literary evidence, including the Roman Forum, the Imperial fora, the palace of the emperors, the atrium houses of Roman Pompeii, the Colosseum, the Pantheon, Polybius' history, Martial's Epigrams, and Vitruvius' treatise on architecture.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.240

The World of Charlemagne

Investigates the world of the first medieval emperor, Charles the Great, or Charlemagne (768-814). Focuses on how Charlemagne and his dynasty, the Carolingians (ruled 751-888), forged a vast empire out of the diverse peoples and territories of Europe - not only through conquests and military might, but through Christianity and the Church, education and literacy, government and law, art and architecture, and a fundamental reorganization of the economy and society. Considers the enduring contributions of Charlemagne and his family to the formation of Europe as well as the shortcomings and failures of their empire.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Humanities

CI-H

21H.241[J]

France and Haiti: Enlightenment, Slavery, and Revolution

Explores the relationship between the Enlightenment, slavery, and the French and Haitian revolutions. Studies France and Haiti prior to 1789, analyzes some of the central texts of the Enlightenment with an emphasis on ideas about monarchy, slavery, and democracy. Considers the place of these ideas and the role of popular mobilization in the French and Haitian revolutionary era from 1789 to 1804. Concludes with an examination of some of the legacies of the eighteenth-century experience for modern French and Haitian politics.

false

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

21G.054[J]

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.242[J]

Frenchness in an Era of Globalization

Approaches the question of what constitutes Frenchness in today's era of globalization through issues of memory, belonging, and cultural production. Explores the role of timeless traditions - common technologies, an internationally-spoken language, monuments open to the world, and foods such as wine and cheese - remain quintessentially French. Also covers recent scandals about France's role in the world, such as its colonial identity and Dominique Strauss-Kahn's New York debacle. Taught in French. Limited to 18.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

3-0-9

One intermediate subject in French or permission of instructor

21G.322[J]

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.244[J]

Imperial and Revolutionary Russia: Culture and Politics, 1700-1917

Analyzes Russia's social, cultural, and political heritage in the 18th and 19th centuries, up to and including the Russian Revolution of 1917. Compares reforming and revolutionary impulses in the context of serfdom, the rise of the intelligentsia, and debates over capitalism. Focuses on historical and literary texts, especially the intersections between the two.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

21G.085[J]

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.245[J]

Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society: 1917 to the Present

Explores the political and historical evolution of the Soviet state and society from the 1917 Revolution to the present. Covers the creation of a revolutionary regime, causes and nature of the Stalin revolution, post-Stalinist efforts to achieve political and social reform, and causes of the Soviet collapse. Also examines current developments in Russia in light of Soviet history. Enrollment limited.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

17.57[J], 21G.086[J]

false

False

Social Sciences

CI-H

21H.247[J]

Looking East/Looking West

Examines how objects and images mediate encounters between people and helped define the "Orient" and the "Occident." Explores the visual and material culture as well as textual accounts produced by and consumed during encounters between European and Asian travelers, diplomats, artists, writers, and tourists since the seventeenth century. Considers the frameworks scholars have used to understand these encounters and how we might deploy those frameworks ourselves. Employs historical thinking to work on our skills of visual and cultural analysis. Questions how these legacies of material and visual exchange have shaped the community within Boston area.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

21G.050[J]

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.253[J]

Global Chinese Migration, 1567-Present

Examines Chinese migration in historical and comparative perspective, beginning in 1567 with the lifting of the imperial ban on private maritime trade. Covers migration to diverse venues across the globe, including tropical colonies, settler societies, Chinese frontiers, and postcolonial metropoles. Topics include the varied roles of Chinese migrants in these diverse venues, the coolie trade and anti-Chinese movements, overseas students, transnational networks, cultural adaptation, and the creolization of Chinese food in migrant communities. Critically examines the degree to which this transnational migration has produced a "Global Chinese" identity. Taught in English.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

21G.075[J]

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.260

Cities in the Middle East: History, Politics and Society

Examines the role and centrality of cities in the history of the modern Middle East, through political, social, cultural and urban interactions. Begins with a theoretical introduction of the different approaches for investigating urban spaces, and follows with discussions of case studies that demonstrate the diversity of urban centers in the Middle East, including Beirut, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Mecca, Algiers, and Cairo.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Social Sciences

False

21H.261

Modern Iran: A Century of Revolution

Provides an overview of Iran's modern history from a social, cultural, and political perspective while also considering factors as they relate to gender and race. Covers the country's long and complicated interaction with the "West." Situates Iran in the wider region, thereby delineating how political trends in the Middle East influenced the country and how its history of revolution has in turn impacted the region. Unpacks the Sunni-Shi'ite divide as a modern phenomenon rooted more in inter-state rivalry than in a theological dispute, Western perceptions of the Iranian and the Middle Eastern "Other," the Iranian Diaspora, political Islam, and post-Islamism.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.262

Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Surveys the history and various realities and challenges of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Introduces the fundamental historical trajectories of the conflict. Analyzes the conflicting narratives and perceptions of both Palestinians and Israelis over key moments and issues in the conflict's history. Considers current challenges and possible solutions to the conflict. Limited to 40.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.263[J]

Women and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa

Provides an overview of key issues and themes in the study of women and gender relations in the Middle East and North Africa. Includes readings from a variety of disciplines, e.g., history, anthropology, sociology, literature, religious studies, and media studies. Addresses themes such as the relationship between the concepts of nation and gender; women's citizenship; Middle Eastern women's activism and the involvement of their Western "sisters" to this movement; gendered interpretations of the Qur'an and the example of the Prophet Muhammad; and the three H's of Orientalism (hijab, harem, and hamam).

false

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

21A.138[J], WGS.220[J]

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.265

Humanitarianism and Africa: A Critical History

Examines two centuries of foreign interventions in Africa in the name of humanitarian principles, from the abolition of the slave trade to the most recent Ebola crisis in West Africa. Explores humanitarianism and how it informs the understanding of poverty, race, and violence; and who gives and receives aid. Scrutinizes the prejudices about Africans embedded within salvation projects and how these campaigns have been part of the larger dynamics of power that have defined Africa's position in the world before, during, and after the European colonization of the continent. Reflects upon the practical and morally ethical alternatives in a world still shaped by suffering and injustice.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.266

South Africa and Apartheid

Explores the spatial, legal, economic, social and political structures that created Apartheid in South Africa, and the factors that led to the collapse of the racist order. Examines the many forces of black oppression and the various forms of resistance to Apartheid. Themes include industrialization and the formation of the black working classes, constructions of race, ethnicities and sexualities, land alienation and rural struggles, township poverty and violence, black education, and the Black Consciousness Movement.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.267

Atlantic Slave Revolts

Examines the many ways enslaved people in the Americas resisted slavery, individually and collectively. Studies shipboard revolts, maronage, conspiracies, and armed uprisings. Investigates the causes and organization of rebellion. Uses the topic of rebellion to study how historians analyze and use primary sources, historical context, and write convincing prose.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.268

Urban History in Africa

Explores the emergence of cities in sub-Saharan Africa, and traces major themes in the history of urban Africa. Examines urban Africans at work and leisure, including their popular culture and politics and the conflicts that arise from the cities' growth. Questions how the city emerged in Africa, what distinguishes African cities, and how urban Africans have responded to the dramatic historical changes and intense cultural interactions of African history (e.g. colonialism, industrialization, urbanization, globalization). Incorporates scholarly monographs and articles, African life histories, primary sources, fiction, and film to explore the variety of perspectives on urban history in Africa.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.270[J]

Latinx in the Age of Empire

Analyzes the histories and presence of the Latinx population in the context of US territorial expansion, foreign intervention and economic policy toward Latin America. Combines both historical and anthropological approaches to analyze local conditions that lead people to migrate within the broader forces of international political economy. Pays attention to the historical context in the home countries, especially as impacted by US policy. Explores Latinx community dynamics, politics of migrant labor, relational formations of race and transnational forms of belonging. Historically and ethnographically seeks to understand structures of criminalization, activist practices of resistance and the development of deportation regimes.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

21A.131[J]

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.273

From Coca to Cocaine: Drug Economies in Latin America

Explores how drug production and consumption has affected Latin America's political, cultural and economic life and shaped US foreign policy toward the region. Discusses the history of different psychoactive substances and analyzes why certain drugs became illegal. Pays particular attention to the relationship between strategies of interdiction, poverty, and drug violence. Limited to 35.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.274[J]

Creation of a Continent: Media Representations of Hispanic America, 1492 to present

Traces the creation of a new literature in Spanish to record and interpret New World experiences. Begins with excerpts from Columbus's diary and ends with writings on the late 19th-century Cuban and Puerto Rican independence movements. Pairs some of these pre-20th-century texts with more recent literary and film interpretations of the first 400 years of Hispanic American history. Conducted in Spanish.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

One intermediate Spanish subject or permission of instructor

21G.731[J], CMS.357[J]

false

False

Humanities

False

21H.281

MIT and Slavery: Research

Explores the influence of slavery and race on MIT's founding and early development, and the connections between slavery and the rise of sciences and engineering. Students will have their research projects published through the MIT and Slavery website. While 21H.281 and 21H.282 are sequential, students have the option of taking either or both.

true

Fall

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Humanities

CI-H

21H.282

MIT and Slavery: Publication

Students work on turning research from 21H.281 into publishable quality essays, researching images and other supporting documentary materials, and developing the main narrative of the MIT and Slavery website, for which they receive editorial credit. While 21H.281 and 21H.282 are sequential, students have the option of taking either or both.

true

Spring

Undergraduate

3-0-9

null

false

False

Humanities

False