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Available Syllabi and Websites for Spring 2009
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- ACCT E-100 Financial Accounting Principles, spring term, section 1 (22335)
- ACCT E-100 Financial Accounting Principles, spring term, section 2 (22315)
- ACCT E-120 Managerial Accounting (22330)
- ACCT E-130 Accounting, Auditing, and Ethical Standards (22413)
- ACCT E-140 Tax Factors in Business Decisions (22595)
- AFAM E-187 Religion in Africa (23042)
- ANTH E-100 Anthropology and the Uses of History (23068)
- ANTH E-161 Who Owns Culture? Public Resources and Heritage Management (23034)
- ANTH E-169 Anthropology and Human Rights (22773)
- ANTH E-170 Race in the Americas (22776)
- ANTH E-179 Historical Linguistics, Ancient Inscriptions, and Archaeology (22897)
- ARAB E-1b Elementary Modern Standard Arabic I (21993)
- ARAB E-2b Elementary Modern Standard Arabic II (21994)
- ARAB E-3b Elementary Modern Standard Arabic III (23067)
- ASTR E-8 Cosmic Evolution: The Origins of Matter and Life (21171)
- BIOS E-1b Introduction to Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (22957)
- BIOS E-12 Principles and Techniques of Molecular Biology (22965)
- BIOS E-14 Principles of Genetics (22962)
- BIOS E-16 Cell Biology (22958)
- BIOS E-45 Introduction to Genomics (23031)
- BIOS E-55 Developmental Biology (22959)
- BIOS E-60b Immunology II (22963)
- BIOS E-65b Human Physiology II: Neural, Muscular, Renal, Reproductive, and Digestive Systems (23022)
- BIOS E-102 Newsworthy Topics in Contemporary Life Sciences (23074)
- BIOS E-150 The Biology of Cancer (23079)
- BIOS E-200 Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in the Biological Sciences, spring term, section 1 (22951)
- BIOS E-200 Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in the Biological Sciences, spring term, section 2 (22952)
- BIOS E-200 Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in the Biological Sciences, spring term, section 3 (22950)
- BIOS E-215 The Evolution of Protein Structure (22964)
- BIOS E-225 Human Impacts on Marine Communities (22956)
- BIOS E-230 The Neurobiology of Drug Addiction (23114)
- BIOS E-234 Principles of Human Disease: Cellular Metabolism (23029)
- CELT E-12b Intermediate Modern Irish (22916)
- CELT E-113 Irish Storytelling (22920)
- CGRK E-1b Elementary Classical Greek (20138)
- CGRK E-31b Homer's Iliad, Part II (22980)
- CHEM E-1b General Chemistry II (20020)
- CHEM E-2b Organic Chemistry II (20021)
- CHEM E-120 Medicinal Chemistry of Psychiatric Drugs (22934)
- CHIN E-2 Elementary Modern Chinese II (20022)
- CHIN E-40 Elementary Modern Chinese IV (20023)
- CHIN E-60 Intermediate Modern Chinese II (22869)
- CLAS E-116 Concepts of the Hero in Greek Civilization and Beyond (21990)
- CLAS E-128 Death and the Afterlife in the Ancient World (23035)
- COMM E-100 Strategic Business Communication (22328)
- COMM E-110 Oral Communication: Business and Organizational (22317)
- COMM E-120 Development Communications (22341)
- COMM E-130 Project Development and Grant Proposal Writing, spring term, section 1 (23071)
- COMM E-130 Project Development and Grant Proposal Writing, spring term, section 2 (23069)
- COMM E-140 Communicating and Negotiating in a Global Context (22321)
- COMM E-150 Writing for Public Relations and Marketing (22313)
- COMM E-160 Principles of Legal Writing (22368)
- COMM E-180 Technical Writing (22896)
- CREA E-20 Introduction to Memoir (22787)
- CREA E-22 Introduction to Creative Nonfiction (22585)
- CREA E-25 Introduction to Fiction Writing, spring term, section 1 (22970)
- CREA E-25 Introduction to Fiction Writing, spring term, section 2 (22507)
- CREA E-30 Introduction to Poetry Writing (22188)
- CREA E-45 Beginning Screenwriting (22865)
- CREA E-45b Playwriting (23024)
- CREA E-50 Intermediate Fiction Writing, spring term, section 1 (21630)
- CREA E-50 Intermediate Fiction Writing, spring term, section 2 (23099)
- CREA E-58 Writing Suspense Fiction (23066)
- CREA E-100r Advanced Fiction Writing (22613)
- CREA E-105r Writing the Novel (22894)
- CREA E-110r Advanced Poetry Writing (22679)
- CSCI E-2 Bits (22883)
- CSCI E-7 Exposing Digital Photography (22866)
- CSCI E-9 Creative Explorations in Screen-Based and Physical Computing (22834)
- CSCI E-11 Digital Multimedia Art (22124)
- CSCI E-12 Fundamentals of Website Development (21144)
- CSCI E-21b 3-D Modeling for Animation (22900)
- CSCI E-24 Video Editing and Digital Design (22659)
- CSCI E-50b Introduction to Computer Science Using Java II (20659)
- CSCI E-64 Visualization (22872)
- CSCI E-75 Building Dynamic, Scalable Websites (22884)
- CSCI E-119 Data Structures (22568)
- CSCI E-124 Algorithms and Data Structures (21462)
- CSCI E-131b Communication Protocols and Internet Architectures (21387)
- CSCI E-160 Java for Distributed Computing (22075)
- CSCI E-162 Distributed and Enterprise Computing (21510)
- CSCI E-170 Security, Privacy, and Usability (22815)
- CSCI E-181 Intelligent Machines: Perception, Learning, and Uncertainty (23101)
- CSCI E-190 Bioinformatics Algorithms (23052)
- CSCI E-215 Unix/Linux Systems Programming (20034)
- CSCI E-225 Object-Oriented Programming in C++ (22833)
- CSCI E-241 Web Development Using ASP.NET, Silverlight, and Ajax (23020)
- CSCI E-254 Oracle 11g as a Development Platform (22898)
- CSCI E-256 Oracle Database Administration (22750)
- CSCI E-275 Software Engineering (21908)
- CSCI E-295 Compiler Design and Implementation (22947)
- DRAM E-5 American Repertory Theatre Production Case Study (20055)
- DRAM E-10 Introduction to Acting (20544)
- DRAM E-12 Acting Shakespeare (22938)
- DRAM E-20 Advanced Acting (21260)
- DRAM E-28 Musical Theater Scene Study (22940)
- DRAM E-166 Modern Drama (22879)
- ECON E-10a Principles of Economics (22004)
- ECON E-1012 Macroeconomic Theory (22243)
- ECON E-1040 Strategy, Conflict, and Cooperation (21946)
- ECON E-1297 International Economics (21181)
- ECON E-1600 Economics of Business (23096)
- EDUC E-101 Improving Education Systems in Developing Countries (23038)
- EDUC E-104 Theory and Practice of Web Pedagogies (22893)
- EDUC E-109 Human Development: Applications in the Classroom (22647)
- EDUC E-128 Universal Design for Learning (23077)
- EDUC E-200b Instructional Technology Licensure Practicum Seminar II (22249)
- EDUC E-599 Capstone Course in Educational Technologies (22925)
- ENGL E-106 Beowulf and Seamus Heaney (22758)
- ENGL E-121 Masterworks of Western Drama (22890)
- ENGL E-126 A Silk Road Course: Travel and Transformation on the High Seas—An Imaginary Journey in the Early Seventeenth Century (23064)
- ENGL E-132 Shakespeare in Slow Motion (23025)
- ENGL E-152 Victorian Literature and Visual Culture (23063)
- ENGL E-175 Southern Literature and Culture in the United States (22941)
- ENGL E-215 Cross-Cultural Studies in the Novel (22891)
- ENSC E-123 Laboratory Electronics: Digital Circuit Design (22098)
- ENSC E-155 Fundamentals of Microfluidics with Applications in Biological Analysis and Discovery (22768)
- ENVR E-102 Environmental Management II (21783)
- ENVR E-105 Strategies for Environmental Management (21808)
- ENVR E-108 Environmental Systems (23047)
- ENVR E-110 Ocean Environments (21784)
- ENVR E-117 Organizational Change Management for Sustainability (22225)
- ENVR E-125 Corporate Sustainability (23026)
- ENVR E-128 Climate Change: Past, Present, and Future (22972)
- ENVR E-130 Global Climate Change: The Science, Social Impact, and Diplomacy of a World Environmental Crisis (22039)
- ENVR E-142 Conservation Biology and Sustainable Use of Forested Landscapes (22762)
- ENVR E-145 Introduction to Environmental Justice (22548)
- ENVR E-160 Critical Thinking about Environmental and Public Health Issues (22435)
- EXPO E-1 Introduction to Expository Writing (20788)
- EXPO E-5 Fundamentals of Grammar, spring term, section 1 (22060)
- EXPO E-5 Fundamentals of Grammar, spring term, section 2 (21627)
- EXPO E-15 Fundamentals of Academic Writing, spring term, section 1 (22113)
- EXPO E-15 Fundamentals of Academic Writing, spring term, section 2 (21666)
- EXPO E-15 Fundamentals of Academic Writing, spring term, section 3 (22356)
- EXPO E-25 Academic Writing and Critical Reading, spring term, section 1 (22802)
- EXPO E-25 Academic Writing and Critical Reading, spring term, section 10 (23118)
- EXPO E-25 Academic Writing and Critical Reading, spring term, section 2 (22880)
- EXPO E-25 Academic Writing and Critical Reading, spring term, section 3 (22803)
- EXPO E-25 Academic Writing and Critical Reading, spring term, section 4 (22889)
- EXPO E-25 Academic Writing and Critical Reading, spring term, section 5 (22799)
- EXPO E-25 Academic Writing and Critical Reading, spring term, section 6 (22801)
- EXPO E-25 Academic Writing and Critical Reading, spring term, section 7 (22971)
- EXPO E-25 Academic Writing and Critical Reading, spring term, section 8 (22798)
- EXPO E-25 Academic Writing and Critical Reading, spring term, section 9 (23113)
- EXPO E-46 Narrating Illness (22881)
- EXPO E-170 Principles of Editing (20967)
- EXPO E-171 Writing and Editing for the Web (23051)
- FINC E-100 Principles of Finance (23075)
- FINC E-105 Financial Statement Analysis (22359)
- FINC E-120 Project Financing (23086)
- FINC E-130 Managerial Finance (23065)
- FINC E-135 Business Analysis and Valuation (22396)
- FINC E-142 Mergers and Acquisitions (22764)
- FINC E-143 Investment Theory and Applications (22427)
- FINC E-144 Investment Management (22882)
- FINC E-150 Personal Financial Planning (22344)
- FINC E-160 Global Financial Markets (22316)
- FINC E-190 Private Equity (23091)
- FREN E-1b Elementary French I (20108)
- FREN E-1y Reading and Translation (20112)
- FREN E-2 Intensive Elementary French II (20115)
- FREN E-2b Elementary French II (23028)
- FREN E-4 Intensive Intermediate French II Online (22587)
- FREN E-10 Contemporary French Culture (23027)
- GEOL E-152 Meteorology: The Science of the Weather (22928)
- GERM E-1b Elementary German I (20123)
- GERM E-2 Intensive Elementary German II (20126)
- GERM E-4 Intensive Intermediate German II: Conversation, Reading, and Composition (22690)
- GOVT E-1027 Preventive Measures: Peace and Security Challenges for Africa (22912)
- GOVT E-1061 The History of Modern Political Philosophy (23041)
- GOVT E-1064 Religion, Liberalism, and Democracy (23043)
- GOVT E-1340 American Constitutional Law (22022)
- GOVT E-1500 How Government Policies Really Affect You: Administrative Policymaking (22619)
- GOVT E-1734 Nation Building (22615)
- GOVT E-1750 International Organization (20927)
- GOVT E-1886 Nuclear Weapons and International Security (23087)
- GOVT E-1962 Jihad: From Classical Islam to Bin Laden (22888)
- GOVT E-1977 The Politics and International Relations of Iran (22780)
- GOVT E-2001 Advanced Quantitative Research Methodology (22403)
- HARC E-13b Introduction to the History of Art and Architecture II: Renaissance through Modern (21344)
- HARC E-137 A History of Japanese Painting (23050)
- HARC E-157 Women Artists in Early Modern Europe (23021)
- HARC E-178 Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form (22673)
- HARC E-190 Art Since 1940 (22908)
- HARC E-194 Art and Exposition: World Fairs (22911)
- HIST E-1148 The Invention of Europe (23032)
- HIST E-1152 History of Jewish-Christian Interaction from Jesus to the French Revolution (23076)
- HIST E-1351 Western Economies, Societies, and Polities: From 1648 to the Present (22837)
- HIST E-1425 Jane Austen's World in History, Literature, and Film (22973)
- HIST E-1557 History of Russian Culture (22885)
- HIST E-1632 The History of Boston (22211)
- HIST E-1665 History of Continuing Education in the US (22831)
- HIST E-1685 From Ripon to Roosevelt: American Political History, 1856-1945 (22917)
- HIST E-1851 Japan: Tradition and Transformation (23072)
- HNDI E-2 Intensive Introductory Hindi II (22579)
- HSCI E-137 History and Ethics of Biotechnology, spring term, section 1 (22974)
- HSCI E-137 History and Ethics of Biotechnology, spring term, section 2 (23100)
- HSCI E-179 Madness, Mind, and Brain: A Cultural History of Psychiatry and Neurology (22887)
- HUMA E-100 Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in the Humanities, spring term, section 1 (22029)
- HUMA E-100 Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in the Humanities, spring term, section 2 (22975)
- HUMA E-128 Goethe's Communications (23046)
- HUMA E-150 Italian American Image from Broadway to Hollywood (22899)
- ISMT E-110 Internet and Integrated Productivity Software for Managers (22314)
- ISMT E-120 Desktop Office Applications for Managers (22333)
- ISMT E-125 Launching an e-Commerce Start-up (22746)
- ISMT E-135 Simulation for Management Decision Making (22358)
- ISMT E-140 Using Databases for Information Management (22360)
- ISMT E-152 Operational GIS (22871)
- ISMT E-200 Trends in Enterprise Information Systems (22365)
- ITAL E-1b Elementary Italian I (20159)
- ITAL E-2 Intensive Elementary Italian II (20160)
- ITAL E-4b Intermediate Italian II: Readings in Modern Italian Literature (22223)
- JAPA E-2 Elementary Japanese II (20163)
- JAPA E-40 Elementary Japanese IV (22468)
- JOUR E-110 The Constitution and the Media (22424)
- JOUR E-135 Opinion Writing (22588)
- JOUR E-137 Feature Writing (22391)
- JOUR E-140b Breaking News: On-Scene News Gathering (22969)
- JOUR E-146 Foreign Correspondence (23097)
- JOUR E-155 Magazine Writing (22921)
- JOUR E-160 Travel Writing (22976)
- JOUR E-165 Documentary Photography (22790)
- KORE E-1b Elementary Korean (22737)
- LATI E-1b Latin for Beginners (20168)
- LATI E-46 Intermediate Latin: Ovid's Metamorphoses (22901)
- LING E-128 African-American English: How African and How American? (22939)
- LING E-130 Language Policy (22977)
- LING E-160 Linguistic Unity and Diversity (22733)
- LSTU E-101 Evidence, Law, and Reason (23116)
- LSTU E-104 Guarding our Civil Liberties (22924)
- LSTU E-106 Crimes Against Humanity (22566)
- LSTU E-120 Internet and Society: Technologies and Politics of Control (22054)
- LSTU E-140 The Law of Business Enterprises (22334)
- MATH E-3 Quantitative Reasoning: Practical Math (20389)
- MATH E-8 College Algebra (20393)
- MATH E-10 Precalculus (22379)
- MATH E-15 Introduction to the Calculus A (20399)
- MATH E-16 Introduction to the Calculus B and Differential Equations (20395)
- MATH E-21b Linear Algebra (21474)
- MATH E-138 Classical Geometry (22919)
- MATH E-302 Math for Teaching Geometry (22945)
- MATH E-303 Math for Teaching Algebra (22499)
- MATH E-306 Theory and Practice of Teaching Statistics (22927)
- MATH E-311 Analysis: Investigating the Mathematical Process (22428)
- MATH E-599 Teaching Projects: Math for Teaching Capstone Course (22946)
- MGMT E-120 Project Management of Information Technology (22327)
- MGMT E-135 Operations Management, spring term, section 1 (22819)
- MGMT E-135 Operations Management, spring term, section 2 (23130)
- MGMT E-138 Operations Research and Forecast Management (22948)
- MGMT E-141a Entrepreneurial Leadership (23044)
- MGMT E-148 Crisis Management and Emergency Preparedness (22661)
- MGMT E-154 Social Entrepreneurship (23070)
- MGMT E-165 Higher Education Management (23049)
- MGMT E-192 The Donor's Perspective: Gift Giving and Grant Making (23102)
- MGMT E-195 Civil Society: The New Superpower (23045)
- MGMT E-200 The Business of Sports (22332)
- MGMT E-599 Strategic Management Capstone Course, spring term, section 1 (23054)
- MGMT E-599 Strategic Management Capstone Course, spring term, section 2 (23088)
- MGMT E-599 Strategic Management Capstone Course, spring term, section 3 (23111)
- MRKT E-100 Marketing Management, spring term, section 1 (22319)
- MRKT E-100 Marketing Management, spring term, section 2 (22759)
- MRKT E-100 Marketing Management, spring term, section 3 (23098)
- MRKT E-122 Social Media for Web 2.0 (22978)
- MRKT E-126 Customer Life Cycle Marketing (23106)
- MRKT E-140 Advertising and Buyer Behavior (22348)
- MUSE E-100 Introduction to Museum Studies (21989)
- MUSE E-101 Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in Museum Studies (22771)
- MUSE E-110 Museum Exhibition (20185)
- MUSE E-125 Preservation and Conservation of Museum Collections (22352)
- MUSE E-130 Museums and the Web (22929)
- MUSE E-140 Inventing the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (22909)
- MUSE E-160 Repatriation and the Modern Museum (22785)
- MUSI E-100 Music Theory and Composition (20345)
- MUSI E-139 A History of Blues in America (22621)
- OBHR E-100 Human Resource Management, spring term, section 1 (22318)
- OBHR E-100 Human Resource Management, spring term, section 2 (23083)
- OBHR E-105 Workplace Development and Talent Management (22598)
- OBHR E-110 Organizational Behavior, spring term, section 1 (23036)
- OBHR E-110 Organizational Behavior, spring term, section 2 (22907)
- OBHR E-110 Organizational Behavior, spring term, section 3 (22861)
- OBHR E-110 Organizational Behavior, spring term, section 4 (23090)
- OBHR E-130 Managing Workplace Performance (22347)
- OBHR E-170 The Challenges of Team Management (22338)
- OBHR E-190 Gender, Leadership, and Management (22322)
- OBHR E-195 Choice Points: Exercising Power and Responsibility (22811)
- OBHR E-215 Managing Negotiations (22864)
- OBHR E-220 International Business Negotiation (23048)
- PERS E-1b Introduction to Persian (22942)
- PHIL E-100 Introduction to Logic (20195)
- PHIL E-118 Introduction to Metaphysics (21617)
- PHIL E-120 The Identities of Persons: Literary, Philosophical, and Political (22967)
- PHIL E-160 Philosophical Problems of Economic Justice (23053)
- PHYS E-1b Principles of Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism, Light, and Atomic Structure (20199)
- PHYS E-6 Physics Made Simple: From Concepts to Practice (22604)
- PORT E-1b Elementary Portuguese (22669)
- PORT E-3b Intermediate Portuguese (22666)
- PSYC E-15 Introduction to Psychology (20205)
- PSYC E-1020 Cognition (22794)
- PSYC E-1040 Personality Theory (22789)
- PSYC E-1052 Cross-Cultural Psychology (23033)
- PSYC E-1090 Animal Cognition (22402)
- PSYC E-1420 The Psychology of Addiction (22233)
- PSYC E-1604a Foundations of Neuropsychology (22902)
- PSYC E-1650 Introduction to Psychoanalysis (22288)
- PSYC E-1704 Creativity: Geniuses, Madmen, and Harvard Students (22607)
- PSYC E-1870 Law and Psychology (20212)
- PSYC E-2441 Clinical Neuroscience (23115)
- PSYC E-2455 Psychotherapy Research (22622)
- RELI E-1010 World Religions (21794)
- RELI E-1047 Religion, the Arts, and Social Change (23093)
- RELI E-1061 Rethinking Mental Health: Spirituality, Healing, and Culture (23078)
- RELI E-1063 Literature of Journey and Quest (22840)
- RELI E-1422 The Apostle Paul: His Letters, Cities, and Heritage (22930)
- RELI E-1550 Understanding Islam and Contemporary Muslim Societies (23089)
- RELI E-1705 Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism (22756)
- RELI E-1710 Introduction to the Hindu Traditions of India (22731)
- RUSS E-1b Elementary Russian I (20220)
- SPAN E-1 Intensive Elementary Spanish I (20236)
- SPAN E-1b Elementary Spanish I, spring term, section 1 (22068)
- SPAN E-1b Elementary Spanish I, spring term, section 2 (21497)
- SPAN E-1y Reading and Translation (20238)
- SPAN E-2 Intensive Elementary Spanish II (20240)
- SPAN E-2b Elementary Spanish II (20239)
- SPAN E-2v Intensive Elementary Spanish II: Multimedia (20355)
- SPAN E-3b Intermediate Spanish I (20241)
- SPAN E-5 Spanish Oral Expression (20243)
- SPAN E-152 Latin American Short Story (22904)
- SPCH E-100 Fundamentals of Public Speaking (23082)
- SPCH E-110 The Art and Practice of Public Speaking (23105)
- SPCH E-130 Essentials of Executive Speaking, spring term, section 1 (22905)
- SSCI E-100a Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in the Social Sciences: Anthropology and Psychology (22903)
- SSCI E-100b Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in the Social Sciences: Government and History, spring term, section 1 (22116)
- SSCI E-100b Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in the Social Sciences: Government and History, spring term, section 2 (22383)
- SSCI E-102 World Poverty and Human Rights (23055)
- SSCI E-132 Conspiracy (22156)
- STAR E-112 Book Art I (22114)
- STAR E-113 Book Art II (22821)
- STAR E-130 Youth Arts for Social Change (22687)
- STAR E-172 Masterpieces of German Cinema (23085)
- STAR E-185 Nonfiction Film (22906)
- STAT E-50 Introduction to Statistics (20993)
- SWED E-1b Elementary Swedish (22445)
- TURK E-1b Elementary Modern Turkish (22796)