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This advanced course in anthropology engages closely with discussions and debates about ethnographic research, ethics, and representation.
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- anthropology
- fieldwork
- anthropology
- ethnography
- culture
- theory
- data analysis
- research design
- interviewing
- method
- student work
- military anthropology
- controversies
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The aim of the Portfolio Seminar is to assist in developing a critical position in relationship to their design work. By engaging multiple forms of representation, written and visual, students will explore methods that facilitate describing and representing their design work. Through a critical assessment of their existing portfolios, stude
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- architecture
- representation
- portfolio
- digital
- written
- communicating design
- meta-level design
- theory
- representational media
- words vs image
- physical vs digital
- design vs representation
- multiple media
- architecture and representation
- design thesis
- web publishing
- architecture
- description
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This class is a general study of modern architecture as a response to important technological, cultural, environmental, aesthetic, and theoretical challenges after the European Enlightenment. It focuses on the theoretical, historiographic, and design approaches to architectural problems encountered in the age of industrial and post-industri
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- architecture
- architecture
- theory
- practice
- globalization
- historiography
- phenomenology
- nationalism
- color
- drawing
- ornament
- structure
- construction
- material
- inhabitation
- gender
- class
- race
- design
- modernism
- classicism
- philosophy
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This class, required of all Master of Architecture students, presents a critical review of works, theories, and polemics in architecture in the aftermath of World War II. The aim is to present a historical understanding of the period, and to develop a meaningful framework to assess contemporary issues in architecture. Special attention will
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- architecture
- architecture
- theory
- practice
- globalization
- historiography
- phenomenology
- nationalism
- color
- drawing
- ornament
- structure
- construction
- material
- inhabitation
- gender
- class
- race
- design
- modernism
- classicism
- philosophy
- works
- polemics
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An historical examination and analysis of the evolution and development of games and game mechanics. Topics include a large breadth of genres and types of games, including sports, game shows, games of chance, schoolyard games, board games, roleplaying games, and digital games. Students submit essays documenting research and analysis of a va
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- comparative media studies
- a
- games
- narrative
- playtesting
- student work
- student notes
- chance
- competition
- information
- probability
- strategy
- theory
- symbolism
- rules
- gambling
- emergence
- progression
- randomness
- cooperation
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This seminar is intended to help students in the MIT/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program develop a broader perspective on their thesis research by considering some aspects of science in the large. The first part of the course challenges students to develop a thoughtful view towards major questions in science that can be incor
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- earth atmospheric and planetary sciences
- woods hole oceanographic institute
- thesis
- research
- science
- social process
- written
- oral
- communication
- scientific knowledge
- progress
- change
- theory
- observation
- method
- physical sciences
- life sciences
- reward system
- publication
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This course presents the phenomena, theory, and modeling of turbulence in the Earth's oceans and atmosphere. The scope ranges from centimeter to planetary scale motions. The regimes of turbulence include homogeneous isotropic three dimensional turbulence, convection, boundary layer turbulence, internal waves, two dimensional turbulence, qua
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- earth atmospheric and planetary sciences
- phenomena
- theory
- and modeling of turbulence
- oceans
- atmosphere
- fine structure
- planetary scale motions
- homogeneous flows
- geostrophic motions
- shear flows
- convection
- boundary layers
- stably stratified flows
- internal waves
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This course presents the phenomena, theory, and modeling of turbulence in the Earth's oceans and atmosphere. The scope ranges from centimeter to planetary scale motions. The regimes of turbulence include homogeneous isotropic three dimensional turbulence, convection, quasi-geostrophic turbulence, shallow water turbulence, baroclinic turbule
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- earth atmospheric and planetary sciences
- phenomena
- theory
- and modeling of turbulence
- oceans
- atmosphere
- fine structure
- planetary scale motions
- homogeneous flows
- geostrophic motions
- shear flows
- convection
- boundary layers
- stably stratified flows
- internal waves
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This is the second course in the four-quarter graduate sequence in macroeconomics. Its purpose is to introduce the basic models macroeconomists use to study fluctuations. Topics include the basic model or the consumption/saving choice, the RBC model or the labor/leisure choice, non-trivial investment decisions, two-good analysis, money, pri
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- economics
- macroeconomics
- theory
- fluctuations
- the basic model
- consumption/saving choice
- the rbc model
- the labor/leisure choice
- non-trivial investment decisions
- two-good analysis
- money
- price setting
- the ?new keynesian? model
- monetary policy
- fiscal policy
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The aim of this course is to acquaint students with traditional topics in labor economics and to encourage the development of independent research interests. This course is taught in two parts: Fall term and then in the subsequent Fall term.
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- economics
- economics
- labor
- market
- statistics
- theory
- neoclassical
- supply
- model
- life-cycle
- demand
- wages
- immigration
- human capital
- econometrics
- liquidity
- constraints
- mobility
- incentives
- organization
- moral hazard
- insurance
- investments
- efficiency
- unemployment
- search
- jobs
- training
- capital
- firm
- technology
- skills
- risk
- signaling
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This course focuses on the study of problems concerning our concept of knowledge, our knowledge of the past, our knowledge of the thoughts and feelings of ourselves and others, and our knowledge of the existence and properties of physical objects in our immediate environment.
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- linguistics and philosophy
- philosophy
- knowledge
- belief
- foundationalism
- reliabilism
- epistemology
- ontology
- theory
- reliable
- thoughts
- feelings
- existence
- objects
- properties
- physical
- noumenal
- environment
- partial
- external
- world
- skepticism
- empirical
- a priori
- truth
- justified
- justification
- true
- false
- probability
- externalist
- logic
- decision
- choice
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This course offers an advanced survey of current debates about the ontology, methodology, and aims of the social sciences.
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- linguistics and philosophy
- ontology
- methodology
- social science
- human being
- human behavior
- social structure
- practices
- norms
- institutions
- individual
- society
- mental state
- values
- theory
- objectivity
- reductionism
- individualism
- holism
- prediction
- laws
- explanation
- rational choice
- functional
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This course will acquaint you with some of the important results and ideas of the last half - century of research in syntax. We will explore a large number of issues and a large amount of data so that you can learn something of what this field is all about. From time to time, we will discuss related work in language acquisition and processi
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- linguistics and philosophy
- linguistics
- syntax
- language
- structure
- theory
- language structure
- philosophy
- cognitive psychology
- languages
- syntactic theory
- language acquisition
- processing
- principles and parameters syntax
- theoretical linguistics
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This subject offers a broad survey of texts (both literary and philosophical) drawn from the Western tradition and selected to trace the growth of ideas about the nature of mankind's ethical and political life in the West since the renaissance. It will deal with the change in perspective imposed by scientific ideas, the general loss of a su
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- literature
- literature
- culture
- philosophy
- ethics
- theory
- society
- politics
- religion
- science
- west
- machiavelli
- more
- swift
- hobbes
- shakespeare
- rousseau
- wordsworth
- kant
- austen
- nietzsche
- balzac
- shaw
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Geometry and Quantum Field Theory, designed for mathematicians, is a rigorous introduction to perturbative quantum field theory, using the language of functional integrals. It covers the basics of classical field theory, free quantum theories and Feynman diagrams. The goal is to discuss, using mathematical language, a number of basic notion
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- mathematics
- perturbative quantum field theory
- classical field theory
- free quantum theories
- feynman diagrams
- renormalization theory
- local operators
- operator product expansion
- renormalization group equation
- classical
- field
- theory
- feynman
- diagrams
- free
- quantum
- theories
- local
- operators
- product
- expansion
- perturbative
- renormalization
- gr
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This course introduces students to the art and formal ideologies of contemporary dance. We explore the aesthetic and technical underpinnings of contemporary dance composition. Basic compositional techniques are discussed and practiced, with an emphasis on principles such as weight, space, time, effort, and shape. Principles of musicality ar
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- music and theater arts
- dance
- theory
- composition
- ideology
- contemporarym
- weight
- space
- time
- effort
- shape
- body
- workshop
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