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This course introduces personality as a dynamic, organizing system that shapes how individuals experience themselves, relate to others, and adapt to life's demands across contexts. Moving beyond trait lists and diagnostic labels, the course examines…
Admiring recognition of French artist Édouard Manet (1832-1883) as a painter of skill, innovative talent, and deep personal conviction is a well-established phenomenon. Born and bred a Parisian, Manet's insistence that French art in the city, the cultural…
The British Empire controlled roughly a quarter of the world by the end of the nineteenth century; its literature, however, was increasingly haunted by decline. This course explores why, by way of some of the writers and texts most responsible for shaping…
This course explores magical realism as a literary mode rooted not in escapist fantasy, but in cultural ways of knowing that emerge in response to historical trauma, political upheaval, personal loss, and the limits of ordinary language. In magical realist…
Why do some buildings move us while others repel us? How does architecture shape not just our physical shelter but our sense of meaning, identity, and justice? This course examines the built environment as a philosophical problem, exploring how beauty, power,…
This is an advanced fiction-writing course. Class meetings run mainly as workshops: students respond to one another's novel excerpts. We also discuss process, as well as elements of fiction that relate to the novel. Students are expected to produce two new…
Mental illness and mental health, as diagnoses and as experiences, have not remained constant over time. Those who displayed unusual behaviors were once denounced as witches or locked up in asylums; now they are more likely to be considered differently…
This course aims to unpack the hype behind the cryptocurrency craze and give students the facts through the eyes of leading regulators, technologists, lawyers, and experts. Students learn what blockchains and cryptocurrencies are, how they can be used, and…
Why is suffering central to so much entertainment? This is a question that great artists, writers, and filmmakers have inspired their audiences to ask throughout history. In this course, we undertake a unique survey of tragic art spanning the ancient and…
How did Britain go from sitting atop the world's greatest Empire in 1901 to Brexit in 2020 and into a prolonged economic and political slide, as well as sundry royal scandals, through 2026? Using the monarchy as our lens, we analyze Britain's tumultuous…
This is a practical course on the creative process, human judgment, and innovation in a world where artificial intelligence (AI) can generate ideas, images, text, and solutions in seconds. Rather than treating AI as the center of the course, it examines how…
If you want to jumpstart your writing, if you do not want to have to choose between writing poetry and prose, or if you would like a basic overview of what different genres can accomplish, this is the course for you. In this course, we create a supportive…
Short films offer screenwriters the opportunity to showcase compelling storylines, demonstrate their ability to craft captivating characters and engaging dialogue, and collaborate with directors—without breaking the bank. Using successful short screenplays as…
This course provides an integrated, systems-based examination of disease mechanisms affecting the human nervous, endocrine, gastrointestinal, and reproductive systems. The course emphasizes shared biological pathways of pathogenesis including genetic and…
This proseminar introduces students to basic behavioral science research methods in psychology and anthropology. It teaches them how to read and evaluate research papers and translate their ideas into viable research projects. Topics include library and…
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) can impact children, teens, and adults. Over two percent of people experience OCD at some point in their lives. OCD and other OCD-spectrum disorders (such as hoarding, trichotillomania, and body dysmorphic disorder) can…
Harvard hosted three Norton lecturers in the twentieth century who all addressed the same question: What is the meaning of music? Igor Stravinsky (1939), Aaron Copland (1952), and Leonard Bernstein (1973) contemplated from whence the power of music derives.…
The difficulty of both learning and teaching math is evident in its history. The struggle of early research mathematicians who developed and formalized a topic parallels the struggle of students and teachers in the modern classroom. Students learning about…
What does it mean to be human? This course takes a close look at the human condition as viewed through the lens of classical Greek civilization; the basic organizing principle is an objective study of a model of humanity, the hero. Students learn that there…
How much does the likability of a protagonist matter? David Foster Wallace once disparaged John Updike's penchant for unlikable protagonists, writing that Updike's narrators were becoming more and more despicable, "without any corresponding indication that…
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