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SP.100 Interphase ( ) Prereq: Commitment to register as a freshman in the Fall Units arranged A seven-week academic skills-honing program, Interphase is designed to enhance the preparedness of students entering MIT in the fall term. The program has a dual focus: academic readiness and general educational development. The program involves calculus, chemistry, physical education, physics, writing, and supporting academic activities, including small-group learning. The students can earn transcript credit for subjects taken in the program, sometimes resulting in advanced placement in corresponding subjects taken in the fall. Activities include day trips to area cultural, recreational, and business sites. Students participate in a range of personal and educational development seminars and activities designed to ensure their smooth transition to college life. The summer experience gives them increased opportunity to prepare for the rigors of an MIT full-subject load. T. Stevens
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SEM.XL1 Program XL: You Can Be a Success at MIT ( ) Prereq: First-year undergraduate standing Units arranged [P/D/F] SEM.XL2 Program XL: You Can Be a Success at MIT ( ) Prereq: First-year undergraduate standing Units arranged [P/D/F] An academic enrichment program for first-year students, XL utilizes the innovative and effective small-group learning concept to enhance students' academic performance in calculus and science. Students meet in study groups of five to six participants with facilitators trained in effective classroom techniques and concept focus. The study groups help students to reinforce concepts learned in the regular curriculum, and help them to gain mastery of concepts and problems that are often more challenging than those dealt with during lecture. The small study group format emphasizes the full participation of each student with the facilitator acting as a guide. The regularity of weekly meetings enhances the students' understanding of MIT's academic expectations. After the initial meetings, students are encouraged to take more responsibility and to lead the group in problem-solving sessions, which helps to maximize their own learning. Each study group meets for a minimum of three hours each week. The meeting time is set by the XL facilitator based on students' schedules. S. Mtingwa
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SP.211 ESG (Experimental Study Group) ( ) Prereq: None Units arranged [P/D/F] TBA. SP.212 ESG (Experimental Study Group) ( ) Prereq: None Units arranged [P/D/F] An innovative and personalized program for first-year students who wish to take a more active role in their MIT education. In place of lectures and large classes, ESG students take their core subjects through small interactive classes, seminars, and independent study projects, with opportunity for more flexibility in pace and scheduling than is normally available in the regular curriculum. Credit is available in freshman subjects in biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics, as well as several HASS, HASS-D, and CI-H offerings. Certain sophomore-level subjects can be studied in ESG, depending on staff and student interest. Undergraduate seminars in a variety of areas are also offered, including psychology, energy, and chemistry. Students are expected to take the majority of their classes in ESG but may take one or two classes in the regular curriculum. Staff includes MIT faculty, lecturers, graduate students, and undergraduate instructors who are interested in teaching in a small and informal academic community. A. Slocum
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SP.221 ESG (Experimental Study Group) ( ) Prereq: SP.211 and/or SP.212 Units arranged [P/D/F] TBA. SP.222 ESG (Experimental Study Group) ( ) Prereq: SP.211 and/or SP.212 Units arranged [P/D/F] Continuation of ESG for sophomores. A. Slocum
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SP.231 ESG Undergraduate Teaching ( ) Prereq: SP.211 or SP.212 Units arranged [P/D/F] TBA. SP.232 ESG Undergraduate Teaching ( ) Prereq: SP.211 or SP.212 Units arranged [P/D/F] An opportunity to assist in the teaching of subjects in ESG in biology, chemistry, humanities and social sciences, mathematics, and physics. Student instructors may be involved in grading, running problem solving sessions, or teaching classes depending on experience and interest. Qualified students may also develop and teach undergraduate seminars under the supervision of an appropriate faculty or staff member. Student instructors meet weekly with staff to discuss their teaching and cover a variety of topics related to effective teaching techniques. A. Slocum
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SP.233 ESG Special Topics ( , , ) Prereq: None Units arranged [P/D/F] SP.233: TBA. Independent study projects which are not covered in the regular ESG offerings. These projects require prior approval and regular supervision by a staff member, as well as a written proposal and a final report. A. Slocum
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SP.2H1 Philosophy of Love ( ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Explores the nature of love through works of philosophy, literature, film, poetry, and individual experience. Investigates the distinction among eros, philia, and agape. Students discuss ideas of love as a feeling, an action, a species of 'knowing someone,' or a way to give or take. Authors include Plato, Kant, Buber, D.H. Lawrence, Rumi, and Aristotle. L. Perlman
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SP.2H2 Readings in the Philosophy of Technology ( ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Surveys various conceptions of the nature of science and society and how they relate to each other. Examines fundamental alternative views through the works of Aristotle, Bacon, Rousseau, Nietzsche, and Weber. Topics include goals, meaning, beneficence, and manipulability of nature and human nature; the relation between wisdom, power, goodness, and happiness; and the character and direction of modern politics and science. S. Minkov
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SP.2H3 Ancient Philosophy and Mathematics ( ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 TBA. Explores the relationship between ancient Greek philosophy and mathematics. Investigates how ideas of definition, reason, argument and proof, rationality/irrationality, number, quality and quantity, truth, and even the idea of an idea were shaped by the interplay of philosophic and mathematical inquiry. Examines how discovery of the incommensurability of magnitudes challenged the Greek presumption that the cosmos is fully understandable. Explores the influence of mathematics on ancient Greek ethical theories. Authors: Euclid, Plato, Aristotle, Nicomachus, Theon of Smyrna, Bacon, Descartes, Dedekind, and Newton. Priority given to students in the Experimental Study Group. L. Perlman
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SP.2UR Undergraduate Research in ESG ( , , ) Prereq: None Units arranged [P/D/F] TBA. For students wishing to pursue undergraduate research opportunities in the Experimental Study Group. A. Slocum
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SP.311 Concourse Program ( ) Prereq: None Units arranged [P/D/F] Lecture: MW9.30-11 ( 16-160 ) or MW12.30-2 ( 16-160 ) or TR1,F2 ( 16-160 ) Recitation: MW2 ( 16-160 , 56-162 ) or TR9 ( 16-160 ) or TR2 ( 16-160 ) or TR3 ( 16-160 ) +final SP.312 Concourse Program ( ) Prereq: None Units arranged [P/D/F] An integrative program for the freshman year. Staff includes faculty from the Schools of Science, Engineering, and Humanities and Social Science. Credits in Concourse fulfill the General Institute Requirements and are so recorded. B.L.Trout
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SP.313 Concourse Program for Upperclassmen ( ) Prereq: Permission of instructor Units arranged [P/D/F] For students wishing to pursue additional humanities or writing subjects in Concourse beyond freshman year. Subject matter changes from year to year. Staff
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SP.314 Love and Aggression ( ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Subject explores the interrelated topics of love and aggression from the vantage points of literature and psychology. Students read a series of texts from Biblical excerpts to the modern novel. Lectures, classroom discussions, and writing assignments consider whether the text deliberately or unintentionally borrows from psychological theory. Enrollment limited and restricted to students enrolled in Concourse. J. Wolfe, W. Kelley
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SP.315 Concourse Program Undergraduate Teaching ( ) Prereq: SP.311 or SP.312 ; permission of instructor Units arranged SP.316 Concourse Program Undergraduate Teaching ( ) Prereq: SP.311 or SP.312 ; permission of instructor Units arranged Tutoring, leadership of study and review groups, seminars and recitations in the Concourse Program, under the supervision of senior Concourse staff. Staff
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SP.317 Memory and Literature ( ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 There are many forms of memory. Memories can be explicit or implicit, hidden from conscious awareness. They can be long lasting or fleeting, individual or held by a group. Examines this diversity of memory through works of literature. Specific topics include the nature of historical memory: how it changes over time and place, the connection between memory and art, and repressed or hidden memories. Illustrated with readings from psychological sources as well as ancient and modern literature. Group and individual oral presentations. Restricted to students enrolled in Concourse. Limited enrollment. J. Wolfe, J. Hildebidle
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SP.318 Introduction to Psychology ( ) Prereq: None Units: 4-0-8 Credit cannot also be received for 9.00 Lecture: T10-12,R10 ( 16-160 ) Recitation: R11 ( 16-160 ) +final A survey of the scientific study of human nature, including how the mind works, and how the brain supports the mind. Topics include the mental and neural bases of perception, emotion, learning, memory, cognition, child development, personality, psychopathology, and social interaction. Consideration of how such knowledge relates to debates about nature and nurture, free will, consciousness, human differences, and self and society. Restricted to students enrolled in Concourse. J. Wolfe
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SP.321 Madness and Literature ( ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Examines "madness" (or, more technically, abnormal behavior) through the lens of literature; how literature reveals changes in the conceptions of madness over time and how literature can offer a glimpse of the first-person experience of madness. Considers the long-standing, folk-psychological theory that there is a link between art and madness. Enrollment limited and restricted to students enrolled in Concourse. J. Wolfe, J. Hildebidle
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SP.322 Prohibition and Permission ( ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Explore where the prohibitions and permissions that occur in every day life come from, why they exist, and what gives them force. For example: food- you are only willing and able to eat a subset of the world's edible substances. Marriage- some marriages are prohibited by law or by custom. Addresses questions of prohibition and permission using psychological sources and literary works from ancient to modern. Includes texts by Shakespeare, Melville, Mary Rowlandson, & Anita Desai. Students give group and individual oral presentations. Enrollment is restricted to Concourse students and limited to 18 students per section. J. Wolfe, W. Kelley
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SP.343 Concourse Special Topics ( ) Prereq: Permission of instructor Units arranged [P/D/F] SP.344 Concourse Special Topics ( ) Prereq: Permission of instructor Units arranged [P/D/F] Open to students enrolled in Concourse who wish to pursue topics not covered in the regular Concourse offerings. Topics change from year to year. B. L. Trout
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SP.345, SP.346, SP.347 Concourse Special Topics for IAP ( ) Prereq: Permission of instructor Units arranged [P/D/F] Open to students who wish to pursue topics over IAP not covered in the regular Concourse offerings. Topics change from year to year. B. L. Trout
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SP.3UR Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Concourse ( , , ) Prereq: None. Coreq: SP.311 or SP.312 Units arranged [P/D/F] For students wishing to pursue undergraduate research opportunities in Concourse. B. L. Trout
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SP.35UR Undergraduate Research in Terrascope ( , , , ) Prereq: None Units arranged [P/D/F] Staff
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SP.360 Terrascope Radio ( ) Prereq: None. Coreq: 1.016 Units: 3-3-6 Lecture: T2-5 ( 36-372 ) Lab: R EVE (7-10 PM) ( 24-121 ) An exploration of radio as a medium of expression and communication, particularly the communication of complex scientific or technical information to general audiences. Examines the ingredients of effective radio programming, drawing extensively on examples from both commercial and public radio. Student teams produce, assemble, narrate, record and broadcast/webcast radio programs on topics related to the complex environmental issue that is the focus of the year's Terrascope subjects. Includes multiple individual writing assignments that explore the constraints and opportunities in radio as a medium. Limited to 12. Terrascope students only. A. W. Epstein
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SP.702J Introduction to Digital Electronics ( ) (Same subject as 6.072J ) Prereq: None Units: 0-3-3 [P/D/F] Subject Cancelled Design your own circuits for times when off-the-shelf solutions are not available. Seminar begins with assembly of a utility board. Weekly labs cover digital logic gates, memory elements, and finite-state machine design. Seminar concludes with a team-based design project. Preference given to freshmen. Maximum of 10 students per term, lottery at the first class session if oversubscribed . S. Banzaert
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SP.705J Electronics Project Laboratory ( , ) (Same subject as 6.070J ) Prereq: None Units: 2-2-2 Lecture: M EVE (7-10 PM) ( 4-409 ) Introduction to electronics test equipment such as oscilloscopes, meters (voltage, resistance inductance, capacitance, etc.), and signal generators. Emphasizes individual instruction and development of skills, such as soldering, assembly, and troubleshooting. Students build and keep an electronics kit, such as a radio, to serve as the vehicle for learning about electronics test and measurement equipment. Intended for students without a previous background in electronics. Enrollment may be limited. J. Bales
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