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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…
This course introduces students to the demands and conventions of academic reading and writing. It focuses on analyzing texts, building effective arguments, and using evidence and secondary source material. Instruction on the stages of the writing process,…
Fairy tales have inspired authors for centuries and we are still very much under their spell. In the first part of this course, we study classic as well as contemporary fairy tales, including works by Helen Oyeyemi, Neil Gaiman, Margaret Atwood, and Kelly…
Feature writing combines the literary craft of fiction with the fact-gathering and storytelling skills of the journalist, historian, and documentary filmmaker. These true stories can be both timely and timeless; the narrative becomes a vehicle for something…
Harvard University presents 'Writing in the Social Sciences,' a meticulously designed course under the Emerging / Needs Review category. This academic offering equips students with advanced writing techniques tailored for social science research, fostering…
Offered by Harvard University, this College Algebra course delves into essential mathematical concepts within the Emerging / Needs Review category. Designed for academic rigor, it equips students with foundational skills to tackle complex problems, fostering…
Beginning with the violent street demonstrations in Tunisia in December 2010, the media has followed the course of the Arab Spring as it has spread throughout North Africa and the Middle East. The popular protests, violent reprisals, and full scale civil war…
This course draws upon the diverse experiences of international students to advance ideas for how streets can be the conduit of equitable mobility, improved health, dynamic public spaces, economic opportunity, and urban biodiversity, while addressing the…
From journalism to documentary filmmaking, there is a rich tradition of storytellers who make the decision to insert themselves into their own work. There is good reason for this—making yourself into a character in your own story can be a powerful tool. But…
In 1727, in Leipzig, Johann Sebastian Bach premiered what would become one of the central monuments of Western sacred music: the Passion According to St. Matthew ( BWV 244 ). Three centuries later, this course examines the work both in its original…
Immunology is the study of the immune system, the body's built-in defense system. The lectures cover the basics of immunology, theoretical aspects of practical laboratory approaches and the ways that research is performed to understand immunology. This course…
Why do we go, again and again, to movies that make us scream with terror? Why do we seek out overwhelming fear? Is slaughter really the best medicine? In this course, our mission is threefold. First, we identify the iconography and the visual rhetoric of…
The human mind has been sculpted over millennia to pursue rewarding and pleasurable experiences. Addiction ensnares our mind's pleasure systems, replacing otherwise adaptive behaviors with a restless pursuit of reward. Addictions can occur not only to…
Modern networks have grown to extremely large scale, connecting millions of servers, and high speed, with terabits per second to meet the needs of a variety of cloud applications in business and society (for example, social media, public health, and…
This is an intensive course in the craft and analysis of prose from a writer's perspective. The focus of this course is to teach prose writers how to read well. Students explore the potential and possibilities of different approaches to writing, and, by the…
A work of fiction cannot come to life if its characters are not alive! But how to make our characters come alive on the page? This course focuses intensely on characterization in fiction. To that end, we study how writers render characters vividly on the page…
This course focuses on crucial developments in, and controversies about, the study of world history from 1800 to the present. Topics include the Industrial Revolution, Latin American independence, European colonization of Africa, independence movements in…
This is a rigorous course on the design and analysis of efficient algorithms and their associated data structures. Algorithm design methods, graph algorithms, approximation algorithms, and randomized algorithms are covered.
The global fashion and apparel industry has changed dramatically in the last 20 years to become an industry that today produces between four and ten percent of the world's greenhouse gases. This course explores the historical, social, and environmental…
This course introduces students to the demands and conventions of academic reading and writing. It focuses on analyzing texts, building effective arguments, and using evidence and secondary source material. Instruction on the stages of the writing process,…
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