Humans 101 @ MIT

Humans 101 @ MIT Every year the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) publishes a list of introductory subjects offered across its departments. The purpose of the list is to provide admitted students with a basic roadmap to the SHASSy side of MIT as they try to navigate the Institute and figure out where their interests lie. Many MIT students are interested in SHASS subjects, but economics at MIT is different from AP Macro, and disciplines like CMS/STS are rarely offered at high schools. So this list can help articulate/reveal the many options available as students consider their HASS requirement  or disciplinary focus. The list for fall 2017 includes: Anthropology 21A.00  Introduction to Anthropology: Comparing Human Cultures; HASS-S   | G. Jones 21A.500J/STS.075J Technology and Culture; HASS-S   | S. Helmreich 21A.520 Magic, Science, and Religion; HASS-S   | G. Jones Comparative Media Studies (CMS) CMS.100 Introduction to Media Studies; HASS-H, CI-H   | J. Picker and S. Hong CMS.300 Introduction to Videogame Theory; HASS-H   | M. Jakobsson CMS.309J/21W.763J Transmedia Storytelling: Modern Science Fiction; HASS-A   | H. Hendershot Economics 14.01 Principles of Microeconomics; HASS-S   | J. Gruber 14.02 Principles of Macroeconomics; HASS-S   | R. Caballero 14.73 The Challenge of World Poverty; HASS-S, CI-H   | F. Schilbach Global Studies and Languages (GSL) 21G.030J/WGS.236J   Introduction to East Asian Cultures: From Zen to K-Pop; HASS-H   | E. Teng 21G.064   Introduction to Japanese Culture; HASS-H, CI-H   | P. Roquet 21G.070   Latin America and the Global Sixties: Counterculture and Revolution; HASS-H, CI-H | S. Greene GSL offers language instruction courses at a variety of levels to suit your skills. All but ELS provide subjects for complete beginners:   Chinese, English Language Studies, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. History 21H.001 How to Stage a Revolution; HASS-H, CI-H | P. Alimagham, M. Ghachem, C. Horan 21H.130 The Ancient World: Greece; HASS-H, CI-H | S. Ostrow 21H.157 The Making of Modern South Asia; HASS-S | S. Aiyar Linguistics 24.900 Introduction to Linguistics; HASS-S, CI-H | A. Albright Literature 21L.015 Childrens Literature; HASS-H, CI-H   | A. Bahr, M. Gubar 21L.021 Comedy; HASS-H, CI-H | P. Donaldson 21L.024 Literature and Existentialism (Proposed); HASS-H, CI-H | E. Brinkema Music 21M.011 Introduction to Western Music; HASS-A, CI-H | E. Pollock, T. Neff, A. Boyles 21M.030 Introduction to World Music ; HASS-A, CI-H | P. Tang, L. Flood 21M.051 Fundamentals of Music; HASS-A |   E. Kwon, K. Salfelder Philosophy 24.01 Classics of Western Philosophy; HASS-H, CI-H | S. Haslanger 24.02 Moral Problems and the Good Life; HASS-H, CI-H | K. Setiya 24.08J/9.48J Philosophical Issues in Brain Science; HASS-H, CI-H   | E. J. Green Political Science 17.20 Introduction to the American Political Process; HASS-S, CI-H   | D. Caughey 17.40 American Foreign Policy: Past, Present, and Future; HASS-S, CI-H | S. Van Evera 17.56 Politics of Crime and Policing (Proposed); HASS-S, CI-H | R. Bateson Science, Technology, and Society (STS) STS.004 Intersections: Science, Technology, and the World; HASS-H   | D. Fitzgerald STS.026 History of Manufacturing in America; HASS-H   | M. Roe Smith Theater  Arts 21M.603 Introduction to Design for the Theater; HASS-A   | S. Brown 21M.604J/21W.754J Playwriting I; HASS-A   | L. Harrington, K. Urban 21M.605 Voice and Speech for the Actor; HASS-A   | K. Eastley, O. DAmbrosio Womens and Gender Studies (WGS) WGS.101 Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies; HASS-H, CI-H   | A. Walsh WGS.110J/21H.108J   Sexual and Gender Identities; HASS-H   | C. Horan WGS.S10 Special Subject: History of Women in Science and Engineering (New) | M. Weinstock Writing 21W.747 Rhetoric; HASS-H, CI-H   | S. Strang 21W.755 Writing and Reading Short Stories; HASS-A   | S. Lewitt 21W.762 Poetry Workshop; HASS-A   | E. Barrett If youre interested in seeing the full range of courses at MIT, you can also browse the subject listings or departmental course listings. For a visual  tour-de-SHASS, you can also stare at this gorgeous, hand-illustrated poster representing this years SHASS Lightning Talks at CPW. I explained the Lightning Talks in a blog entry last year. Basically, at CPW we have 10 faculty members give 5 minute talks on whatever the most exciting/interesting topic in the world to them is at that moment. This year, we had: Heather Paxson from Anthropology on the culture of cheesemaking Ariel White from Political Science on voting in an age of mass incarceration Eugenie Brinkema from Literature on the aesthetic of horror Joshua Angrist from Economics on ridesharing compensation Jack Spencer from Philosophy on religious toleration Sasha Costanza-Chock from CMS on design justice Michael Scott Cuthbert from Music and Theater Arts on computational musicology Will Deringer from STS on calculating the future Hiromu Nagahara from History on the sounds of World War II Ezra Haber Glenn from Urban Studies and Planning on the city in film As an alumnus of (and occasionally lecturer in) CMS, Ive always loved the SHASS courses at MIT, and view the particular kind of humanistic work we do as a strength of the Institute. Hopefully the courses, posters, and talks above serve as a useful map to the wonderful world of SHASS at MIT. 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