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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This course introduces analysis techniques for complex structures and the role of material properties in structural design, failure, and longevity. Students will learn about the energy principles in structural analysis and their applications to statically-indeterminate structures and solid continua. Additionally, the course will examine mat
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- aeronautics and astronautics
- expository writing
- analyzing
- mass
- media
- voice
- academic
- writing
- self-discovery
- critical thinking
- communicating
- audience
- drafting
- revising
- essays
- analysis techniques
- complex structures
- material properties
- structural design
- failure
- longevity
- energy principles
- structural analysis
- statically-indeterminate structures
- solid
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This class examines the ways humans experience the realm of sound and how perceptions and technologies of sound emerge from cultural, economic, and historical worlds. In addition to learning about how environmental, linguistic, and musical sounds are construed cross-culturally, students learn about the rise of telephony, architectural acous
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- anthropology
- sound art
- jacques attali
- music
- musicology
- post-modern
- recording
- ethnomusicology
- ethnography
- soundscape
- voice
- audio
- sonic space
- science sound
- cultural studies
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This course comprises a broad survey of texts, literary and philosophical, which trace the development of the modern world from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Intrinsic to this development is the growth of individualism in a world no longer understood to be at the center of the universe. The texts chosen for study exemplify
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- literature
- western culture
- foundations
- modernism
- texts
- literary
- philosophical
- sociological
- secular humanism
- human events
- individual
- social
- communal purpose
- common
- cultural
- possession
- ancient
- modern world
- discussion
- action
- characters
- voice
- form
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This seminar explores approaches to representation for distributed cinematic storytelling. The relationship between story creation and story appreciation is analyzed. Readings are drawn from literary and cinematic criticism, as well as from descriptions of interactive, distributed works. Students analyze a range of storytelling techniques;
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- media arts and sciences
- storytelling
- human communication
- representation
- causality
- live media
- recorded media
- computation
- user interface
- interaction
- digital media
- information and story
- authoring
- interface
- computer-assisted storytelling
- cinema
- film
- television
- mass media
- narrative
- voice
- information
- story
- character
- dynamic situation
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Focus: What can we believe when we read an autobiography? How do writers recall, select, shape, and present their lives to construct life stories? Readings that ground these questions include selections from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Linda Brent (pseudonym for Harriet Jacobs), "A Sketch of the Past" by Virginia Woolf, Notes of A Native Son by James Baldwin, "The Achievement of Desire" by Richard Rodriguez, The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston, and "Our Secret" by Susan Griffin. Discussion, papers, and brief oral presentations will focus on the content of the life stories as well as the forms and techniques authors use to shape autobiography. We will identify masks and stances used to achieve various goals, sources and interrelationships of technical and thematic concerns, and "fictions" of autobiographical writing. Assignments will allow students to consider texts in terms of their implicit theories of autobiography, of theories we read, and of students' experiences; assignments also allow some autobiographical writing.
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- writing and humanistic studies
- writing
- autobiography
- text
- composition
- critical reading
- voice
- exposition
- narration
- critique
- argument
- persuasion
- oral presentations
- prose
- write
- revising
- life stories
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This course focuses on developing and refining the skills that will you need to express your voice more effectively as an academic writer. As a focus for our writing this semester, this course explores what it means to live in the age of mass media. We will debate the power of popular American media in shaping our ideas of self, family and community and in defining social issues. Throughout the semester, students will focus on writing as a process of drafting and revising to create essays that are lively, clear, engaging and meaningful to a wider audience.
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- writing and humanistic studies
- expository writing
- analyzing
- mass
- media
- voice
- academic
- writing
- self-discovery
- critical thinking
- communicating
- audience
- drafting
- revising
- essays
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This class will focus on the craft of the short story, which we will explore through reading great short stories, writers speaking about writing, writing exercises and conducting workshops on original stories.
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- writing and humanistic studies
- short story
- voice
- point of view
- character
- place
- plot
- pace
- conflict
- want
- obstacle
- writer's block
- workshop
- incident
- description
- publishing
- revelation
- reader
- writer
- free writing
- rewrite
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