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Spanish Aa

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Fall

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2014

A basic beginning semester course for students with no previous study of Spanish. Emphasis on speaking, writing, reading, and listening, as the basis for the development of all three Communication Modes (Interpersonal, Interpretive, and Presentational). Hispanic cultures will be introduced through a variety of texts, including readings, music, art, and film.

SPU 29: The Climate-Energy Challenge

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Fall

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2014

This course will examine future climate change in the context of Earth history, and then consider various strategies for what might be done to deal with it. The likely impacts of continued greenhouse gas emissions will be explored, emphasizing the scientific uncertainties associated with various predictions, and how this can be understood in the context of risk. In the latter third of the class, the question of how to mitigate climate change will be discussed, including an examination of various options for advanced energy systems.

Government 50: Poltical Science Research

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Fall

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2014

This class will introduce students to techniques used for research in the study of politics. Students will learn to think systematically about research design and causality, how data and theory fit together, and how to measure the quantities we care about. Students will learn a `toolbox' of methods---including statistical software---that enable them to execute their research plans. This class is highly recommended for those planning to write a senior thesis.

Social Studies 10b

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Spring

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2015

This class continues the introduction to the classic texts of social theory begun in Social Studies 10a through the twentieth century. Authors include Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, Sigmund Freud, and Michel Foucault.

Spanish Ab

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Spring

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2015

For students with the equivalent of one semester previous study of Spanish. Emphasis on strengthening students' interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational skills in both oral and written Spanish. Hispanic cultures are presented through a variety of authentic texts, including short pieces of literature, essays, and newspaper articles. Music, art, and film are also included. After Spanish Aa and Ab, students should be able to engage in everyday conversations with native speakers, and read straightforward texts, both fiction and non-fiction, with relative ease.

SLS: Nutrition & Global Health

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Spring

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2015

This course will introduce students to nutrition and global health problems through exploration of demographic, epidemiological, biological, social, political, and economic determinants of nutritional status. Emphasis will be placed on the role of nutritional status and dietary intake, both as a determinant and as a consequence, of these health problems. Students will be encouraged to think critically about the major challenges to improve nutrition and health at a global level, with a focus on nutrition and infectious diseases, maternal and child health, and chronic diseases. Nutritional...

History 60o: American Indian History in Four Acts

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Spring

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2015

Both scholars and tribal people (not mutually exclusive!) have found it useful to structure American Indian history around four broad chronological categories emerging from the formation of United States Indian policy: Treatymaking, Indian Removal, Land Allotment, and Self-Determination. This seminar will use this "four acts" structure to offer a broad overview of American Indian history, while also considering the limitations of such category-making, including the decentering of Indian people and the blunting of historical complexity. Engaged with primary sources and...

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Fall

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2015

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EPS 232. Dynamic Meteorology

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Fall

Offered:

2014

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Instructor: Brian Farrell

Description: The purpose of this course is to introduce you to the fundamental ideas and paradigms of modern dynamic meteorology. Although we will try to keep our study informed by observations of the atmosphere, we can not in the time allotted do justice to the field of synoptic meteorology. You are therefore urged to supplement the lectures with further study of data sources relevant to your particular interests.

Credit: Half Course (Fall term)

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EPS 132. Introduction to Meteorology and Climate

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Spring

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2015

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Instructor: Brian Farrell

Description: Physical concepts necessary to understand atmospheric structure and motion. Phenomena studied include the formation of clouds and precipitation, solar and terrestrial radiation, dynamical balance of the large-scale wind, and the origin of cyclones. Concepts developed for understanding today’s atmosphere are applied to understanding the record of past climate change and the prospects for climate change in the future.

Note:EPS 132 is also offered as ES 132. Students may not take...

EPS 231. Climate Dynamics

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Spring

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2015

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Instructor: Eli Tziperman

Description: Climate and climate variability phenomena and dynamical mechanisms over multiple time scales, using dynamical system tools and a hierarchical modeling approach. Energy balance and greenhouse, El Niño, thermohaline circulation, abrupt climate change, millennial variability (DO and Heinrich events), glacial-interglacial cycles, warm past climates including the Pliocene (2-5 Myrs) and Eocene (50 Myrs). Needed background in stochastic and nonlinear dynamics will be covered....

AMP 120. Applied Linear Algebra and Big Data

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N/A

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2015

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Instructor: Eli Tziperman

Description: Topics in linear algebra which arise frequently in applications, including in the analysis of large data sets: linear equations, eigenvalue problems, principal component analysis, singular value decomposition, quadratic forms, linear inequalities, linear programming, optimization, linear differential equations, modeling and prediction, data mining methods including frequent pattern analysis, classification, clustering, outlier detection.

Credit: Half Course (Spring term)

ES 237. Planetary Radiation and Climate

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Spring

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2015

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Instructor: Robin Wordsworth

Description: Atmospheric radiative transfer, including stellar properties, spectroscopy, gray and real gas calculations, Mie theory and scattering, satellite retrievals, and radiative-convective climate modelling. Climate feedbacks: the runaway greenhouse, volatile cycles on Mars and Titan, and atmospheric collapse around M-stars. Atmospheric evolution and escape (Jeans, diffusion-limited, hydrodynamic), and key processes in planetary atmospheric chemistry.

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The Physics of Fiction: Pynchon, Narrative, Theory

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Fall

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2015

This course focuses on an extraordinary body of work by Thomas Pynchon, including "Entropy," "Crying of Lot 49," "Gravity’s Rainbow," and "Mason and Dixon." By studying this work we explore Pynchon’s vision of modernity, but also important themes in the history of science and in philosophy. We will grapple with communication, surveying, and weaponization of science in the twentieth century on the one hand, and with clashing accounts of explanation on the other. How (for example) does one explain the pattern of V2 rocket-bombs exploding around London in World War II? Do we...

East Asian Studies 220r. Medieval Japanese Picture Scrolls

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Spring

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2015

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Catalog Number: 1685Melissa M. McCormickPrimarily for Graduates
Half course (spring term). Tu., 1-3 pm Exam Group: 1
Examines the rich tradition of medieval Japanese picture scrolls (emaki). Provides training in the reading of scroll texts (kotobagaki), the analysis of paintings, and the examination of the production contexts of important scrolls from the 12th to the 16th century. Aims to make picture scrolls available as a primary source for graduate research in many different disciplines within Japanese studies....

History of Art and Architecture 18p - The Japanese Woodblock Print

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Spring

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2014

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Catalog Number: 78376
Yukio Lippit
Primarily for Graduates
This course provides an introduction to Japanese art and cultural history through a survey of the Japanese woodblock print from its emergence in the mid-17th century to the modern era. Technical developments, major genres, and master designers are explored within the context of Japan's pictorial traditions and evolving urban culture. Topics for consideration include aesthetic discourse, censorship, erotica, Japonisme, the construction of social identity, print culture, and the representation of war....

History of Art and Architecture 289p - Sotatsu

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Spring

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2014

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Catalog Number: 45089
Yukio Lippit
This seminar explores the work of the Japanese artist Tawaraya Sotatsu (active ca. 1600-1640). Emphasis will be placed on an intermedia approach that examines his paintings vis-as-vis other kinds of artistic surfaces.

History of Art and Architecture 18k - Introduction to Japanese Art

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Fall

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2014

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Catalog: 25638
Melissa McCormick
Surveys the arts of Japan from the prehistoric period to the nineteenth century. Includes Japanese painting, sculpture, and architecture, as well as calligraphy, garden design, ceramics, and prints. Essential themes include the relationship between artistic production and Japanese sociopolitical development, Sino-Japanese cultural exchange, and the impact of religion, region, gender, and class on Japanese artistic practice.

History of Art and Architecture 286x - Modern Japanese Art

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Spring

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2014

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Catalog: 80845
Melissa McCormick
This seminar examines art in Japan from the mid nineteenth century to the present, focusing on the visual arts, performance art, commercial design, and new media. Topics to be addressed include the reception of European beaux-arts institutions and artistic practices, international expositions, the role of art in the formation of the nation-state, the rise of the avant-garde, art and mass culture, and Japanese exhibition culture.

History of Art and Architecture 182w - China in Twelve Artworks

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Spring

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2014

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Catalog: 20356
Eugene Wang
The course revolves around close looking at twelve Chinese artworks from Harvard Art Museums. The objects to be examined range from the Neolithic period to the twentieth century. They anchor larger horizons, opening up hidden historical dimensions. Students learn to interrogate artworks by forming fruitful questions and identifying leads that take them to deeper cultural historical contexts. It will be demonstrated that artworks yield insights into a culture in a palpable way unobtainable from texts.

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