21A.512 Seminar in Ethnography and Fieldwork (21A.112) ( ) Prereq: Permission of instructor Units: 3-0-9 Introduction to ethnographic practices: the study of and communicating about culture. Subject provides instruction and practice in writing, revision of fieldnotes, and a final paper. Preference to Anthropology majors and minors. S. Silbey
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21A.650, 21A.651 Special Topics in Anthropology ( , , , ) Prereq: Any two subjects in Anthropology Units arranged 21A.650: TBA. 21A.651: TBA. Topics in anthropology not included in other subjects. Students electing this subject must discuss the subject with the instructor and secure the approval of the Head of the Anthropology Program. HASS credit for Special Topics subjects awarded only by individual petitions to the Committee on Curricula. Normal maximum is 6 units; to count toward HASS Requirement, 9 units are required. Exceptional 9- and 12-unit projects occasionally approved. Consult Department Head
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21A.660 Special Seminars in Anthropology ( , , ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Seminar for subjects taught outside the regularly-offered curriculum. Staff
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21A.661 Special Seminars in Anthropology ( , , ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Seminar for subjects taught outside the regularly-offered curriculum. Staff
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21A.662 Special Seminars in Anthropology ( , , ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Seminar for subjects taught outside the regularly-offered curriculum. Staff
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21A.663 Special Seminars in Anthropology ( , , ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Seminar for subjects taught outside the regularly-offered curriculum. Staff
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21A.664 Special Seminars in Anthropology ( , , ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Seminar for subjects taught outside the regularly-offered curriculum. Staff
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21A.ThT Anthropology Pre-Thesis Tutorial ( , , , ) Prereq: None Units arranged TBA. Students writing a thesis work with an advisor to develop research topics, review relevant research and scholarship, frame research questions, choose an appropriate methodology for data collection and analysis, and draft the introductory and methodology sections of their theses. Includes substantial practice in writing (with revision) and oral presentations. Consult Department Head
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21A.ThU Undergraduate Thesis in Anthropology ( , , , ) Prereq: 21A.ThT Units arranged TBA. Completion of work on the senior major thesis under supervision of a faculty thesis advisor. Includes oral presentation of thesis progress early in the term, assembling and revising the final text, and a final meeting with a committee of faculty evaluators to discuss the successes and limitations of the project. Staff
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21A.UR Undergraduate Research ( , , , ) Prereq: None Units arranged [P/D/F] TBA. Individual participation in an ongoing research project. For students in the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. Staff
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21A.URG Undergraduate Research ( , , , ) Prereq: None Units arranged TBA. Individual participation in an ongoing research project. For students in the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. Staff
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21A.750J Social Theory and Analysis ( ) (Same subject as STS.250J ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Lecture: R12-3 ( E51-393 ) Major theorists and theoretical schools since the late nineteenth century. Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Bourdieu, Levi-Strauss, Geertz, Foucault, Gramsci, and others. Key terms, concepts, and debates. M. Fischer
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21A.760J Qualitative Research Methods ( ) (Same subject as 15.349J, STS.401J ) Prereq: None Units: 3-6-3 Training in the design and practice of qualitative research. Organized around illustrative texts, class exercises, and student projects. Topics include the process of gaining access to and participating in the social worlds of others; techniques of observation, fieldnote-taking, researcher self-monitoring and reflection; methods of inductive analysis of qualitative data including conceptual coding, grounded theory, and narrative analysis. Discussion of research ethics, the politics of fieldwork, modes of validating researcher accounts, and styles of writing up qualitative field research. S. Silbey, E. C. James
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21A.780 Representing Reality: Theories and Production of Documentary Film and Video (STS.451) ( ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Explores theories and production of documentary film and video-making. Topics include how documentaries encapsulate or contest commonplace meanings of reality and truth in everyday life; how the historical use of visual technologies have alternately built upon and contested positivistic scientific understandings; and how historical transformations in film and video technologies periodically restructure the nature of documentary filmmaking, reshaping understandings of everyday truth in the process. Assignments in written and production-oriented exercises. Enrollment limited. C. Walley, C. Boebel
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21A.790J Ethics of Intervention: Anthropological Approaches ( ) (Same subject as 11.238J ) Prereq: Permission of instructor Units: 3-0-9 An historical and cross-cultural study of the logics and practices of intervention: the ways that individuals, institutions, and governments identify conditions of need or states of emergency within and across borders that require a response. Examines when a response is viewed as obligatory, when is it deemed unnecessary, and by whom; when the intercession is considered fulfilled; and the rationales or assumptions that are employed in assessing interventions. Theories of the state, globalization, and humanitarianism; power, policy, and institutions; gender, race, and ethnicity; and law, ethics, and morality are examined. E. C. James
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21A.800J Environmental Conflict and Social Change (STS.320) ( ) (Same subject as STS.320J ) Prereq: Permission of instructor Units: 3-0-9 Explores the complex interrelationships among humans and natural environments, focusing on non-western parts of the world in addition to Europe and the United States. Use of environmental conflict to draw attention to competing understandings and uses of "nature" as well as the local, national and transnational power relationships in which environmental interactions are embedded. In addition to utilizing a range of theoretical perspectives, subject draws upon a series of ethnographic case studies of environmental conflicts in various parts of the world. C. Walley
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21A.820J Ethnography ( ) (Same subject as STS.360J ) Prereq: Permission of instructor; Coreq: 21A.750J Units: 3-0-9 Lecture: W12-3 ( 66-148 ) Practicum-style course in anthropological methods of ethnographic fieldwork and writing. Depending on student experience in ethnographic reading and practice, subject combines reading ethnographies in anthropological and science studies with formulating and pursuing ethnographic work in local labs, companies, or other sites. Preference to HASTS, CMS, HTC and Sloan graduate students. M. Fischer
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21A.830J History and Anthropology of Medicine and Biology ( ) (Same subject as STS.330J ) Prereq: Permission of instructor Units: 3-0-9 Explores recent historical and anthropological approaches to the study of medicine and biology. Topics might include interaction of disease and society; science, colonialism, and international health; impact of new technologies on medicine and the life sciences; neuroscience and psychiatry; race, biology and medicine. Specific emphasis varies from year to year. D. Jones, S. Helmreich
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21A.861 Methods for Graduate Research in the Social Sciences ( ) (Subject meets with 15.347 ) Prereq: Permission of instructor Units: 3-0-9 Lecture: T9-12 ( 16-220 ) Foundations of good empirical research in the social sciences. Introduction to the basic assumptions and underlying logic of both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. Explores a variety of approaches to research design, evaluates the products of empirical research, and practices several common techniques. Students develop a framework for their own research project. S. Silbey, A. McCants
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21A.998, 21A.999 Advanced Topics in Anthropology ( , ) Prereq: None Units arranged 21A.998: TBA. 21A.999: TBA. Special studies or projects at an advanced level with an Anthropology faculty member. Consult Program Head
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4.001J CityScope ( ) (Same subject as 11.004J ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Project-based introduction to the contemporary city as a complex system within a context of limited resources and competing interests. Learn to assess scenarios for the purpose of formulating social, economic and design strategies that provide optimized solutions that are humane and sustainable. Group projects develop and advocate visions for housing, urban planning, regeneration of natural ecologies and other sectors of the city. Travel may be involved that will be funded, but not required. Includes exercises in written and oral communication and team building. Limited to 15 participants. Preference to freshmen. J. Fernandez, P. Thompson
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4.102 Drawing for Architects ( ) Prereq: 4.111 Units: 0-3-0 [P/D/F] Focuses on drawing from observation and explores a range of non-digital media. Exercises use still life arrangements as well as the human figure, and includes gesture drawing, composition and interior perspective. Charcoal, oil pastel, India ink and acrylic paint used to develop a broad range of drawing techniques that can be applied to design studio work. Enrollment limited to 15 students. P. Paturzo
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4.103 Freehand Drawing (New) ( ) Prereq: None Units: 0-3-0 Lecture: M2-5 ( 9-250 ) Focuses on drawing as a translation from three-dimensional form and space to two-dimensional representation. Expands critical and organizational skills for seeing and drawing. Explores a full range of drawing techniques, materials, and image-making strategies. Fortifies the use of drawing in the architecture studio practice, through a multidisciplinary understanding of freehand drawing, in the context of both art and architecture. Limited to first year MArch students. Architecture Design Staff
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4.105 Geometric Disciplines and Architecture Skills I ( ) Prereq: Permission of instructor Units: 2-2-5 Lecture: MW9-11 ( 1-246 ) Introduction to the architectural design process and its tools. Develops skills ranging from techniques of hand drafting, to generation of 3-D computer models, physical model-building, sketching, and diagramming. The conceptual and technical basis of each exercise has a reciprocal relationship with studio and the instruments necessary to approach studio design problems. Lectures address the conventions associated with modes of architectural representation and their capacity to convey ideas. Pin-ups teach legible presentation of architectural concepts through fabricated images and presentation manner. Restricted to level one MArch students. J. Lamere
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4.106 Geometric Disciplines and Architecture Skills II ( ) Prereq: 4.105 Units: 2-2-5 Introduction to the architectural design process and its tools. Develops skills ranging from techniques of hand drafting, to generation of 3-D computer models, physical model-building, sketching, and diagramming. The conceptual and technical basis of each exercise has a reciprocal relationship with studio and the instruments necessary to approach studio design problems. Lectures address the conventions associated with modes of architectural representation and their capacity to convey ideas. Pin-ups teach legible presentation of architectural concepts through fabricated images and presentation manner. Restricted to level one MArch students. J. Lamere
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