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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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This seminar is open to graduate students, and is intended to offer a synoptic view of selected methodologies and thinkers in art history (with some implications for architecture). It is a writing-intensive class based on the premise that writing and editing are forms of critical thinking. The syllabus outlines the structure of the course a
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- architecture
- theory
- method
- architecture
- art history
- demise of formalism
- formalism
- connoisseurial appreciation
- art historical prose
- writing
- intensive
- writing-intensive
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This course centers on historical eras in which the form and function of media technologies were radically transformed. It includes consideration of the "Gutenberg Revolution," the rise of modern mass media, and the "digital revolution," among other case studies of media transformation and cultural change. Readings cover cultural and social
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- comparative media studies
- media
- mass media
- history
- gutenberg
- cultural change
- cultural history
- social history
- historiographic method
- books
- medieval history
- codex book
- writing
- printing
- printing press
- stage
- theater
- renaissance
- romanticism
- modernity
- inventions
- photography
- nineteenth century
- image
- telegraph
- electrification
- communication
- morse
- d
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This course will guide students through the process of forming economic hypotheses, gathering the appropriate data, analyzing them, and effectively communicating their results. All students will be expected to have successfully completed Introduction to Statistical Methods in Economics and Econometrics (or their equivalents) as well as cour
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- economics
- empirical economics
- econometrics
- mathematical economics
- statistics
- economics
- research
- communication
- hypotheses
- data
- analysis
- results
- stata
- data sets
- writing
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This course is for students interested in conducting original research on economics questions. There will be an emphasis on choice of research topics, primary sources, data sources, and research methods. The primary activities are oral presentations, the preparation of a paper, and providing constructive feedback on classmates' research pro
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- economics
- research
- communication
- economics
- causation
- randomized experiments
- inference
- stata
- empirical
- writing
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This subject is the first semester of two that form an introduction to modern standard Chinese, commonly called Mandarin. Though not everyone taking this course will be an absolute beginner, the course presupposes no prior background in the language. The purpose of this course is to develop:
Basic conversational abilities (pronunciatio
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This subject is the second semester of two that form an introduction to modern standard Chinese, commonly called Mandarin. Though not everyone taking this course will be an absolute beginner, the course presupposes only 21F.101/151, the beginning course in the sequence. The purpose of this course is to develop: (a) basic conversational abil
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This course is designed to consolidate the foundation built in Elementary Chinese and continue developing students skills in aural comprehension, reading, and writing.
Upon completion of the course, students should be able to speak Chinese with some fluency on basic conversational topics, achieve a basic level of reading competence within s
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- foreign languages and literatures
- chinese
- comprehension
- speaking
- writing
- china
- language
- mandarin
- reading
- aural comprehension
- reading competence
- simplified characters
- traditional characters
- common compounds
- composition
- conversational fluency
- language laboratory
- structure
- vocabulary
- grammar
- oral exercises
- writing exercises
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This is the third of the four courses (Chinese I through IV) in MIT's regular (non-streamlined) Chinese curriculum. The four make use of the textbook, Learning Chinese: A Foundation Course in Mandarin (unpublished, but available online), to which are added various supporting materials as needs arise. The foundation level covers core grammar
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- foreign languages and literatures
- chinese
- language
- china
- mandarin
- reading
- writing
- speaking
- comprehension
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This is the continuing instruction in spoken and written Chinese, with particular emphasis on consolidating basic conversational skills and improving reading confidence and depth.
Upon completion of the course, students should be able to speak Chinese with some fluency on basic conversational topics, achieve a basic level of reading compete
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- foreign languages and literatures
- chinese
- languge
- mandarin
- reading
- conversation
- writing
- culture
- china
- society
- custom
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This is the last of the four courses (Chinese I through IV) that make up the foundation level (four semesters over two years in the normal curriculum) of MIT's regular (non-streamlined) Chinese program. Chinese IV is designed to consolidate conversational usage and grammatical and cultural knowledge encountered in the earlier courses, and t
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- foreign languages and literatures
- chinese
- language
- china
- mandarin
- reading
- writing
- speaking
- comprehension
- pinyin
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This course is the continuation of 21F104/108. It is designed to further help students develop sophisticated conversational, reading and writing skills by combining traditional textbook material with their own explorations of Chinese speaking societies, using the human, literary, and electronic resources available at in the Boston area. Som
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- foreign languages and literatures
- chinese
- language
- mandarin
- reading
- conversation
- writing
- culture
- china
- society
- custom
- conversational skills
- reading skills
- chinese speaking societies
- writing skills
- chinese society
- chinese culture
- chinese customs
- chinese history
- discussion
- composition
- network exploration
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This course is the continuation of 21F105. It is designed to further help students develop sophisticated conversational, reading and writing skills by combining traditional textbook material with their own explorations of Chinese speaking societies, using the human, literary, and electronic resources available at MIT and in the Boston area.
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- foreign languages and literatures
- language
- china
- mandarin
- reading
- writing
- speaking
- comprehension
- culture
- society
- conversational skills
- reading skills
- chinese speaking societies
- writing skills
- chinese society
- chinese culture
- chinese customs
- chinese history
- discussion
- composition
- network exploration
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This course, along with 21F.108/158 offered in the spring, form the elementary level of the streamlined sequence, which is for students who have some basic conversational skills gained, typically, from growing up in a Chinese speaking environment, but lack a corresponding level of literacy. The focus of the course is on learning standard ev
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- foreign languages and literatures
- chinese
- asia
- language
- literature
- elementary
- conversation
- reading
- writing
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This course, along with 21F.107 / 21F.157 Chinese I (Streamlined) offered in the previous fall, form the elementary level of the streamlined sequence, which is intended for students who, when they began the sequence at beginning level, had basic conversational skills (gained, typically, from growing up in a Chinese speaking environment), bu
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- foreign languages and literatures
- chinese
- asia
- language
- literature
- elementary
- conversation
- reading
- writing.
- writing
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This course is the intermediate level of the streamlined curriculum, which is intended for students who, when they began streamlined I, had some background in the language, whether it be comprehension with limited speaking ability or quite fluent speaking ability. The focus of the course is on standard pronunciation and usage, on reading in
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- foreign languages and literatures
- chinese language
- written chinese
- chinese usage
- chinese
- asia
- language
- literature
- intermediate
- conversation
- reading
- writing
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