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Environmental Struggles

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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English

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This class explores the interrelationship between humans and natural environments. It does so by focusing on conflict over access to and use of the environment as well as ideas about "nature" in various parts of the world.

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Walley, Christine

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Basic Structural Design

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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English

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This course provides students with a basic knowledge of structural analysis and design for buildings, bridges and other structures. The course emphasizes the historical development of structural form and the evolution of structural design knowledge, from Gothic cathedrals to long span suspension bridges. Students will investigate the behavi

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Ochsendorf, John

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Energy, Environment, and Society

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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English

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"Energy, Environment and Society" is an opportunity for first-year students to make direct contributions to energy innovations at MIT and in local communities. The class takes a project-based approach, bringing student teams together to conduct studies that will help MIT, Cambridge and Boston to make tangible improvements in their energy ma

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Environmental Microbiology

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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English

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This class provides a general introduction to the diverse roles of microorganisms in natural and artificial environments. It will cover topics including: cellular architecture, energetics, and growth; evolution and gene flow; population and community dynamics; water and soil microbiology; biogeochemical cycling; and microorganisms in biodet

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Polz, Martin

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Environmental Earth Science

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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English

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The geologic record demonstrates that our environment has changed over a variety of time scales from seconds to billions of years. This course explores the many ways in which geologic processes control and modify the Earth's environment and serves as an introduction to Environmental Earth Science Field Course (12.120), which addresses field

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Bowring, Samuel

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Environmental Policy and Economics

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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English

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This course explores the proper role of government in the regulation of the environment. It will help students develop the tools to estimate the costs and benefits of environmental regulations. These tools will be used to evaluate a series of current policy questions, including: Should air and water pollution regulations be tightened or loo

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Allcott, Hunt

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Environmental Economics and Government Responses to Market Failure

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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English

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This course explores the theory behind and evidence on regulatory, tax, and other government responses to problems of market failure. Special emphasis is given to developing and implementing tools to evaluate environmental policies. Other topics include cost-benefit analysis, measurement of the benefits of non-market goods and costs of regu

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Greenstone, Michael

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Systems Perspectives on Industrial Ecology

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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English

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This course examines quantitative techniques for life cycle analysis of the impacts of materials extraction, processing use, and recycling; and economic analysis of materials processing, products, and markets. Student teams undertake a major case study using the latest methods of analysis and computer-based models of materials process.

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Engineering Ethics

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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English

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This course introduces the theory and the practice of engineering ethics using a multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural approach. Theory includes ethics and philosophy of engineering. Historical cases are taken primarily from the scholarly literatures on engineering ethics, and hypothetical cases are written by students. Each student will wr

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Broome, Taft

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Introduction to Latin American Studies

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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English

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This course is designed as an introduction to Latin American politics and society for undergraduates at MIT. No background on the region is required. Overall workload (reading, writing, class participation, and examinations) is similar to that of other HASS-D courses. Many of the themes raised here are covered in greater detail in other cou

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Lawson, Chappell

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French I

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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English

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21F.301/351 offers an introduction to the French language and culture with an emphasis on the acquisition of vocabulary and grammatical concepts through active communication. The course is conducted entirely in French, and students interact in French with their classmates from the very beginning. They also receive exposure to the language v

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French II

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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English

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21F.302/352 is the second part of an introductory course to the French language and culture with an emphasis on the acquisition of vocabulary and grammatical concepts through active communication. The course is conducted entirely in French and students interact in French with their classmates from the very beginning. They also receive expos

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Seminar in Historical Methods

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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English

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This subject is designed to give 21H majors and minors an introduction to the methods that historians use to interpret the past. We will focus on two areas: archives and interpretation. In our work on archives, we will ask what constitutes an archive. We will visit one or two local archives, speak with archivists, and assemble our own archi

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Ravel, Jeffrey S.

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Seminar in Historical Methods

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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English

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This course is designed to acquaint students with a variety of approaches to the past used by historians writing in the twentieth century. The books we read have all made significant contributions to their respective sub-fields and have been selected to give as wide a coverage in both field and methodology as possible in one semester's wort

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McCants, Anne

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Nature, Environment, and Empire

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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English

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This class examines the relationship between the study of natural history, both domestic and exotic, by Europeans and Americans, and exploration and exploitation of the natural world, focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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Ritvo, Harriet

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Theory of Knowledge

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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English

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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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Hawley, Patrick

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