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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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It has become commonplace knowledge that globalization is one of the major forces shaping our world. If we look at the spread of information, ideas, capital, media, cultural artifacts - or for that matter, people - we can see the boundaries and borders that have historically separated one country or one group from another are becoming more
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- communication styles
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- cultural norms
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- communication
- culture
- verbal communication
- non-verbal communication
- intercultural communication
- argumentation
- negotiation
- conflict resolution
- intercultural adjustment
- asian culture
- european culture21
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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The course examines various aspects of culture in both premodern and modern East Asia, ranging from literature, art, performance, and cuisine to contemporary pop culture (film, manga, anime, etc.).
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- foreign languages and literatures
- east asia
- zen
- japanese arts
- confucianism
- literati
- imperial china
- material cutlure
- westernization
- globalization
- japanization
- tradition
- weddings
- science fiction
- food
- cuisine
- utopia
- dystopia
- post-mao china
- china
- japan
- korea
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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Spanish IV aims at developing and improving student's oral and written communication through the continued study of the language, literature and culture of Spain, Latin America and Hispanic communities in the United States. It also seeks to improve students' ability to read and appreciate literary and non-literary texts in Spanish, deepenin
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- foreign language
- conversation
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- literature
- culture
- history
- society
- hispanic
- latin america
- western europe
- spain
- central america
- south america
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This subject examines interactions across the Eurasian continent between Russians, Chinese, Mongolian nomads, and Turkic oasis dwellers during the last millennium and a half. As empires rose and fell, religions, trade, and war flowed back and forth continuously across this vast space. Today, the fall of the Soviet Union and China's reforms
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- history
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- silk road
- china
- russia
- central eurasia
- mongolia
- turkey
- religion
- trade
- war
- tradition
- culture
- soviet union
- islam
- buddhism
- christianity
- confucianism
- marco polo
- rabban sauma
- film
- travelogue
- music
- empire
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This course will acquaint the student with some of the ancient Greek contributions to the Western philosophical and scientific tradition. We will examine a broad range of central philosophical themes concerning: nature, law, justice, knowledge, virtue, happiness, and death. There will be a strong emphasis on analyses of arguments found in t
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- greek western
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The reading and writing for this course will focus on what it means to construct a sense of self and a life narrative in relation to the larger social world of family and friends, education, media, work, and community. Readings will include nonfiction and fiction works by authors such as Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Andre Dubus, Anne Frank, Tim O'Brien, Flannery O'Connor, George Orwell, John Steinbeck, Amy Tan, Tobias Wolff, and Alice Walker. Students will explore the craft of storytelling and the multiple ways in which one can employ the tools of fiction in crafting creative nonfiction and fiction narratives.
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- writing and humanistic studies
- identity
- culture
- tradition
- ethnicity
- cultural identity
- intercultural experience
- maxine hong kingston
- kesaya noda
- gary soto
- sherman alexie
- jhumpa lahiri
- danzy senna
- identity
- culture
- tradition
- ethnicity
- cultural identity
- intercultural experience
- maxine hong kingston
- kesaya noda
- gary soto
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- jhumpa lahiri
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MIT students bring rich cultural backgrounds to their college experience. This course explores the splits, costs, confusions, insights, and opportunities of living in two traditions, perhaps without feeling completely at home in either. Course readings include accounts of growing up Asian-American, Hispanic, Native American, and South-East Asian-American, and of mixed race. The texts include selections from Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, Kesaya E. Noda's "Growing Up Asian in America," Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek, Gary Soto's "Like Mexicans," Sherman Alexie's The Toughest Indian in the World, Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies, the movies Smoke Signals and Mississippi Masala, Danzy Senna's Caucasia, and others. We will also use students' writings as ways to investigate our multiple identities, exploring the constraints and contributions of cultural and ethnic traditions. Students need not carry two passports in order to enroll; an interest in reading and writing about being shaped by multiple influences suffices.
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- ethnicity
- cultural identity
- ntercultural experience
- maxine hong kingston
- kesaya noda
- gary soto
- sherman alexie
- jhumpa lahiri
- danzy senna
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As the course title suggests, this class is meant to acquaint you with the literary and rhetorical tradition of the essay, a genre which has been described by one scholar as "the meeting ground between art and philosophy," and by another as "the place where the self finds a pattern in the world, and the world finds a pattern in the self". T
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- media
- web
- functions
- commentary
- others
- textual
- numerical
- data
- discovery
- meaning
- personal experience
- narration
- specialized
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- general
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This OER is part of OCW: From the Silk Road to the Great Game: China, Russia, and Central Eurasia
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This OER is part of OCW: From the Silk Road to the Great Game: China, Russia, and Central Eurasia
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- history
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- silk road
- china
- russia
- central eurasia
- mongolia
- turkey
- religion
- trade
- war
- tradition
- culture
- soviet union
- islam
- buddhism
- christianity
- confucianism
- marco polo
- rabban sauma
- film
- travelogue
- music
- empire
- nomad
- conquest
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This OER is part of OCW: From the Silk Road to the Great Game: China, Russia, and Central Eurasia
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This OER is part of OCW: From the Silk Road to the Great Game: China, Russia, and Central Eurasia
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- silk road
- china
- russia
- central eurasia
- mongolia
- turkey
- religion
- trade
- war
- tradition
- culture
- soviet union
- islam
- buddhism
- christianity
- confucianism
- marco polo
- rabban sauma
- film
- travelogue
- music
- empire
- nomad
- conquest
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- ethnicity
- cultural identity
- intercultural experience
- maxine hong kingston
- kesaya noda
- gary soto
- sherman alexie
- jhumpa lahiri
- danzy senna
- identity
- culture
- tradition
- ethnicity
- cultural identity
- intercultural experience
- maxine hong kingston
- kesaya noda
- gary soto
- sherman alexie
- jhumpa lahiri
- dan
File: s_l_in_731.pdf
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- cultural identity
- intercultural experience
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- kesaya noda
- gary soto
- sherman alexie
- jhumpa lahiri
- danzy senna
- identity
- culture
- tradition
- ethnicity
- cultural identity
- intercultural experience
- maxine hong kingston
- kesaya noda
- gary soto
- sherman alexie
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File: grading_crtr_735.pdf
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- modern
- popular
- form
- media
- web
- functions
- commentary
- others
- textual
- numerical
- data
- discovery
- meaning
- personal experience
- narration
- specialized
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- general
- audience.
File: 21f-019-spring-2005.zip
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- westernization
- globalization
- japanization
- tradition
- weddings
- science fiction
- food
- cuisine
- utopia
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This OER is part of OCW: Spanish IV
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- spain
- central america
- south america
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