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Harvard - The Understand Seminar

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Harvard - The United States Supreme Court

This course provides graduate students with a systematic understanding of the Supreme Court as an institution. We examine issues regarding judicial process and politics, and how participants attempt to achieve their goals within institutional constraints.
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Harvard - The United States in the World, since 1900

This course provides a broad-ranging view of U.S. interactions with the wider world from the Spanish-American War through 9/11. Topics we explore include war, international politics, economic relations, the role of ideology, cultural influences, globalization, and non-state actors.
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Harvard - The United States in the World, to 1920

American foreign relations from the colonial period through World War I. Topics include the transition from colonial to imperial status; the changing role of the US in international relations; interaction between domestic politics and foreign policy; political, economic, and cultural relationships between Americans and other peoples.
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Harvard - The Unity of Science: From the Big Bang to the Brontosaurus and Beyond

Science is like well-woven, ever-expanding fabric, designed to (un)cover Nature's secrets. This course emphasizes the strong connections between subfields of science, showing it as the never-ending and greatest detective story ever told, with evidence always the arbiter. These characteristics are exhibited in the semi-historical treatment of three themes: unveiling the universe, the earth and its fossils, and the story of life. Opportunities include working with Harvard's scientific facilities and making short films.
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Harvard - The Uses and Meaning of the New Arts of Presentation

Exploration of the new horizons of communication created by current media technology and their implications for the future of teaching and scholarship. The seminar will combine theoretical readings and reflection with practical, hands-on experiments using podcasts, media-intensive lectures, and iMovies for conveying academic research.
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Harvard - The Vernacular Short Story (huaben xiaoshen): Historical and Critical Approaches

Deals with the development of the vernacular short story, focusing on Feng Menglong's Sanyan (1620-1627), a compilation of 120 stories old and new. This course also looks at vernacular narratives of the Tang as found in Dunhuang and follows the development of the genre throughout the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Harvard - The Vikings and the Nordic Heroic Tradition

Examines the heroic legacy resulting from the historical events in northern Europe A.D. 800 to A.D. 1100, concentrating on medieval Icelandic poetry and sagas. The course focuses on how these texts present their heroes as warriors, kings, poets, outlaws and adventurers, and reviews how the viking image is received and shaped in later periods. Pre-Christian mythology, the viking raids and the Norse experience in "Vinland" carefully considered.
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Harvard - The Visual Display of Information: The Art of Numbers

This course focuses on the insight into quantitative information offered by graphs, tables, charts, maps, and other illustrations. We analyze which of these tools are best for communicating what kinds of data, and why. Ideas about causality, approximation, statistical significance, credibility, and dimensionality will be addressed by analyzing real data and their display. The data will be drawn from medical, astronomical, social-science, aerospace, financial, and geographic examples. Approximately one-quarter of the course will focus on web and live presentations of data. Much of the course's philosophy is based on the work of Edward Tufte.
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Harvard - The Vocabulary of Islam

Provides students with knowledge of a broad range of key concepts, technical terms, seminal questions, and cultural motifs internal to the Islamic tradition. These constitute a vocabulary related to Quran and exegesis, Hadith, law, theology, political thought, philosophy, Sufism, ritual, literature, art, and architecture, that has permeated Islamic discourses, practices, and identities down to the modern period, and that is central to an informed understanding and further study of Islam as religion and civilizational complex.
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Harvard - The Voice: Between Media and Immediacy

Traces the interplay of literary, philosophical, and technological discourses in the cultural history of `voice.' Readings include Hoffmann, Kafka, and Thomas Mann as well as treatises of rhetoric, theories of orality, and approaches from media studies.
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Harvard - The Waltharius

Studies a poem about an early Germanic hero, Walter of Aquitaine. Considers problems connected with the poem, from date and authorship to its essential meanings. Seeks to relate poem to both Germanic and Latin contexts, with attention to versions in other languages (in translation) and to sources and analogues in classical and Christian Latin literature.
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Harvard - The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice, 1953-1969

Examines the significance of the Supreme Court during the Chief Justiceship of Earl Warren in the broader context of the development of American thought and society. Explores the basic premise that the Warren Era represented not only a major constitutional revolution but that it produced a fundamental transformation in the conception of the role of law in American society. Subjects to be studied are Brown v. Board of Education, the Civil Rights Movement, and the history of race relations; McCarthyism and civil liberties; the emergence of a right to privacy in Griswold v. Connecticut; and the "rights" revolution in jurisprudence. In conclusion, we assess the global influence of the Warren Court in encouraging and spread of human rights and judicial review.
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Harvard - The Way to Painting (Possibly): Studio Course

As a "painter" I go through a multitude of preparatory activities in the process of making paintings. Curiosities in a particular subject matter may result in a collection of diverse materials. Such an archive could spark a plethora of activities aimed at focusing interests and producing objects of aesthetic qualities. This class will give equal attention to those often under-appreciated processes containing a thought or a spontaneity often lost in a "finished" piece of art.
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Harvard - The Way to Painting (Possibly): Studio Course

As a "painter" I go through a multitude of preparatory activities in the process of making paintings. Curiosities in a particular subject matter may result in a collection of diverse materials. Such an archive could spark a plethora of activities aimed at focusing interests and producing objects of aesthetic qualities. This class will give equal attention to those often under-appreciated processes containing a thought or a spontaneity often lost in a "finished" piece of art.
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Harvard - The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance

Concentrating on painting but with reference to other media, we examine art between the beginning of Modern Times around 1400 until the present. It is team taught and organized around specific topics each occupying one week. It is organized chronologically but does not attempt to be a comprehensive survey, but rather to highlight important issues, debates, innovations, specific works or artists.
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Harvard - The World of William James

Examines James's life and writings in relation to American and European thinkers such as his contemporaries Wilhelm Dilthey and Friedrich Nietzsche, his brother Henry James, his sister Alice James, and his students W.E.B. DuBois, Walter Lippmann, and Gertrude Stein.
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Harvard - The World of the Roman Empire

An introduction to Roman history from the mid third century BCE to the mid third century CE, with emphasis on the multiple cultures of the Roman empire and their diverse involvement in, and perspectives on, Roman conquest and rule. Challenging traditional narratives of Roman political history, we will seek a much more dynamic view of 'Roman' culture and society, based on both literary and archaeological evidence.
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Harvard - The Yiddish Novel Under Tsars and Stripes

Studies the emergence of the Yiddish novel as a major literary form in Russia, Poland, and the US. Begins with the pioneer of modern Yiddish and Hebrew prose, Mendele Mocher Sforim, includes Sholem Aleichem, Sholem Asch, David Bergelson, Der Nister, and the family Singer: Israel Joshua, Isaac Bashevis, and Esther Kreitman. Highly compressed development of the genre reflects great artistic, ideological, and thematic variety.
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Harvard - Theater and Culture in Contemporary French Society

Designed to improve spoken expression and build vocabulary as well as to develop critical thinking and writing skills. Discussions are based on readings of modern and contemporary playwrights (Ionesco, Sartre, Koltes, Bariou, Largarce, N'Diaye) and question how these plays explore the major cultural and political trends in France during the 20th and 21st centuries. Special emphasis is paid to both pronunciation and the ideological power of images through theatrical workshops.
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Harvard - Theater, Dream, Shakespeare

This course considers theories of dream and theater from Shakespeare's time to the modern era. We will also read three Shakespearean dream plays - A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, and The Winter's Tale - in immediate conjunction with the ART fall season of productions based on those plays. We will ask how concepts like source, adaptation, translation, and performance function in theater as well as in dream, and examine how such concepts apply to Shakespeare.
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Harvard - Themes in Feminism and Islam: A Historical Overview

This course follows out the history of feminist debates and developments in Islam from beginnings in 19th century Egypt to contemporary and ongoing discussions of women, gender and Islam in the United States.
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Harvard - Themes in Modern Sub-Saharan African History: Proseminar

An in-depth study of the major themes in sub-Saharan African history from the mid-19th century to the present, including the scholarship and debates on the changing relationship between Africa and the West.
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Harvard - Themes in the History of American Civilization

Interdisciplinary study of one or several topics.
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