During much of the 20th century, the Broadway musical stood at the center of American culture, producing tunes and tales that became the hits of their day. It commented-wittily, satirically, relentlessly-on the ever-shifting social and political landscape, with subjects ranging from new immigrants to poverty, power, westward expansion, and issues of race. This course explores the musical artistry and cultural resonances of a cluster of iconic Broadway musicals on stage and screen, including Shuffle Along, Show Boat, Stormy Weather, The Cradle Will Rock, Oklahoma!, and Pacific Overtures. Readings focus on primary sources drawn from Harvard's illustrious Theatre Collection.
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Surveys the long-term development of the U.S. state and political system, and more closely examines changes since the 1960s in social policies, party politics, and social movements and citizen participation. The semester will culminate in an examination of the Obama era juxtaposed to earlier transformative eras in U.S. governance and politics, including the New Deal of the 1930s. Students will gain a critical appreciation of historical and institutionally focused research on the American polity.
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This course studies the American Populist tradition that defines the common "people" as the centerpiece of American economic and political life and thrives on opposition between the people and "elite" interests. The class focuses on the formal Populist movement and the People's Party of the late nineteenth century, and places this history in broader context, from Jeffersonian tradition through the rise of anti-elitist and anti-government movements characterized by Ronald Reagan and Rush Limbaugh.
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What can we learn from modern presidential campaigns and elections about our own political era? In this Seminar, we examine changes in campaigns and elections since 1960; demographic shifts of the last fifty years; nature and structure of American public opinion; ways American news media transmit information and people learn about matters in the public sphere - and use all these perspectives to understand the remarkable 2008 presidential campaign and our own times, issues and society.
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This interdisciplinary course examines the rich tradition of protest literature in the US from the American Revolution to the rise of Hip Hop and globalization. Using a broad definition of "protest literature," it focuses on the production and consumption of dissent as a site of progressive social critique, using a wide variety of print, visual, and oral forms. We examine the historical links between modes of protest and meanings of literature, and explore how various expressions of dissent function as aesthetic, performative, rhetorical, and ideological texts within specific cultural contexts. "Readings" range from novels to photographs and music.
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This course considers the Age of Revolution in the North Atlantic world, roughly encompassing the latter half of the 18th century, as a continuous sequence of radical challenges to established authority resulting in fundamental transformations of governance throughout the region. We will view the progression of the American and Haitian revolutions as a kind of chain reaction, as if the Atlantic world was swept by a single revolutionary movement, though one of widely ranging inspirations, goals, and outcomes.
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Explores the significance of the road narrative in twentieth-century American literature and film, focusing on how stories of travel have functioned as a forum for examining larger social and cultural issues. Course will consider the possibilities and promises represented by travel in these stories, and will also interrogate how race, class, and gender affect the experience of being on the road. Authors include Zora Neale Hurston, John Steinbeck, Vladimir Nabokov, Jack Kerouac, and Cormac McCarthy.
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How do social problems get redefined over time; why do they appear differently to various groups; and how are public policies about problematic social conditions debated, devised, and changed? Looking over modern US history, this course combines demographic data on societal trends, ethnographic data on people's everyday lives and outlooks, and evidence about changing institutional structures. This combination of approaches often pursued separately in the social sciences is used to explore recurrent yet shifting controversies about the well-being of families and children, about immigration and citizenship, and about access to health care in the US.
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This course will examine artistic production in the US and Europe between 1945 and 1975 to clarify some of the most crucial questions of this thirty year period: How did post war visual culture repress or acknowledge the recent 'caesura of civilization' brought about by World War II?; how did the neo-avantgarde position itself with regard to the legacies of the avantgardes of the 1920s?; how did artistic production situate itself in relation to the newly emerging apparatus of Mass Media culture?
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In this course, students will be invited to get lost, like Mark Twain, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and scores of others did (and do), in the pleasures and pains associated with travel, and led to explore and question the history, literature, economics, politics, and spectacle of Americans abroad through reading travel writing by Americans. Together we will consider the ways in which travel and tourism complicate ideas about Americans' cultural and social mobility.
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Individualized study of Amharic at the elementary, intermediate and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy.
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Individualized study of Amharic at the elementary, intermediate and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy.
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Explores how war and love define romance. Readings will be organized around famous love stories (such as those of Dido and Aeneas, Lancelot and Guenievre, Tristan and Yseut), and less famous ones, in works from the 12th to the 15th century.
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What are the fundamental features of living systems? What are the molecules imparting them and how do their chemical properties explain their biological roles? The answers form a basis for understanding the molecules of life, the cell, diseases, and medicines. In contrast with traditional presentations of relevant scientific disciplines in separate courses, we take an integrated approach, presenting chemistry, molecular biology, biochemistry, and cell biology framed within central problems such as the biology of HIV and cancer.
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Why is there so much variation among individuals? Why are species so different? Biological variation reflects differences among genes and genomes: how genetic information is transmitted, how it functions, how it mutates from one form to another, how it interacts with the environment, and how it changes through time. These and related issues are examined in depth with special emphasis on complex traits whose expression is determined by a complex interplay between genes and environment.
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An introduction to 20th-century literary theory. We examine the principal trends in 20th-century literary criticism, including New Criticism, phenomenological criticism, psychoanalytical criticism, semiology, the Frankfurt school, French structuralist and post-structuralist thought, new historicism, and multiculturalism. Readings may include Auerbach, Adorno, Curtius, de Man, Derrida, Foucault, Spitzer, Gadamer, Frye, Eco, Freud, Lacan.
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This seminar offers introductory readings on the topic of global history and gives students the opportunity for further, individualized reading. Discussion topics include: deep history and human genetics, ancient and modern forms of imperialism, commercial networks and consumerism, global biography, long-distance travel and communication (including the invention of the passport and the telegraph), definitions of international and transnational communities, modernity and mass culture, globalization, decolonization, the space age, and cyberworlds.
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The course is designed for students interested in concentrating in a Humanities discipline. We cover major works of literature and ideas from Homer's Odyssey to Joyce's Ulysses. Many of the texts have thematic connections; we hope that all of them will stimulate interest in the kinds of issues addressed in humanistic studies.
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Analytic functions of one complex variable: power series expansions, contour integrals, Cauchy's theorem, Laurent series and the residue theorem. Some applications to real analysis, including the evaluation of indefinite integrals. An introduction to some special functions.
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Lebesgue measure and integration; general topology; introduction to L p spaces, Banach and Hilbert spaces, and duality.
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Intensive survey of compositional styles and techniques of the last 100 years. Traditional pitch-centered analysis, including set theory, as well as approaches focusing on rhythm, timbre, gesture, and other elements.
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Discusses the theoretical basis of concepts and methodologies associated with survival data and censoring, nonparametric tests, and competing risk models. Much of the theory is developed using counting processes and martingale methods.
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Treats longitudinal design and methods for the statistical analysis of longitudinal data with an emphasis on the analysis of change in discrete variables. Includes introduction to time series analysis. Statistical theory and practical applications covered.
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The multivariate normal distribution, Hotelling's T2, MANOVA, repeated measures, the multivariate linear model, random effects and growth curve models, generalized estimating equations, multivariate categorical outcomes, missing data, computational issues for traditional and new methodologies.
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