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Syllabi and Websites for January and Spring 2012 Courses

Links to available syllabi and course websites are below. Links are added as they become available. For full access to websites when classes begin, register by the registration deadline for the term. For access to syllabi from 2010-11, visit the website archive. Most syllabi require Adobe’s Acrobat Reader.
  • ANTH E-1075 Anthropology of Art, Spring term, section 1 (23706)
  • ANTH E-1075 Anthropology of Art, Spring term, section 2 (23736)
  • ANTH E-1179 Historical Linguistics, Ancient Inscriptions, and Archaeology (23644)
  • ANTH E-1660 Anthropology and Human Rights (23622)
  • ANTH E-1700/W Race in the Americas (23623)
  • ARAB E-1 Intensive Elementary Modern Standard Arabic I (23302)
  • ARAB E-2 Intensive Elementary Modern Standard Arabic II (23418)
  • ASTR E-8 Cosmic Evolution: The Origins of Matter and Life (21171)
  • BIOS E-1b Introduction to Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (22957)
  • BIOS E-5/W Debunking Biology Myths (23603)
  • BIOS E-12 Principles and Techniques of Molecular Biology (22965)
  • BIOS E-14 Principles of Genetics (22962)
  • BIOS E-16/W Cell Biology (22958)
  • BIOS E-25 Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of Vertebrates (23390)
  • BIOS E-45 Introduction to Genomics (23605)
  • BIOS E-55 Developmental Biology (22959)
  • BIOS E-60 Immunology (23186)
  • BIOS E-65d Human Anatomy and Physiology II (23232)
  • BIOS E-102 Newsworthy Topics in Contemporary Life Sciences (23074)
  • BIOS E-109 A Translational Approach to the Study of Alzheimer's Disease (23632)
  • BIOS E-110 The Neurobiology of Drug Addiction (23229)
  • BIOS E-120 Trees and Forests in New England (23645)
  • BIOS E-150 The Biology of Cancer (23079)
  • BIOS E-161 Obesity and Body Weight Regulation (23610)
  • BIOS E-175 Optical Imaging in Modern Biomedical Research: An Introduction to Principles and Techniques (23296)
  • BIOS E-176 Experimental Molecular and Cellular Biology (23660)
  • BIOS E-200 Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in the Biological Sciences (22950)
  • BIOS E-232 The Neurobiology of Emotion and Mental Illness (23451)
  • BIOS E-234 Principles of Human Disease: Cellular Metabolism (23029)
  • BIOT E-200 Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in Biotechnology (23457)
  • BIOT E-205 Drug Discovery, Project Design, and Management (23604)
  • BIOT E-215 Elements of Clinical Investigation (23639)
  • CELT E-10b Introduction to Modern Irish (23586)
  • CGRK E-6 Sophocles' Antigone (23599)
  • 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 (23707)
  • CREA E-22 Introduction to Creative Nonfiction (23627)
  • CREA E-25 Introduction to Fiction Writing, Spring term, section 2 (23177)
  • CREA E-25 Introduction to Fiction Writing, Spring term, section 1 (23637)
  • CREA E-45 Beginning Screenwriting (23628)
  • CREA E-50 Intermediate Fiction Writing (23286)
  • CREA E-100r Advanced Fiction Writing (22613)
  • CREA E-105r Writing the Novel (22894)
  • CSCI E-9 Creative Explorations in Screen-Based and Physical Computing (22834)
  • CSCI E-12 Fundamentals of Website Development (21144)
  • 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-76 Building Mobile Applications (23497)
  • CSCI E-120 Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science (23582)
  • CSCI E-124 Algorithms and Data Structures (21462)
  • CSCI E-131b Communication Protocols and Internet Architectures (21387)
  • CSCI E-139 Internet Voice, Video, and Telepresence (23501)
  • CSCI E-147 Medical Informatics (23657)
  • CSCI E-160 Java for Distributed Computing (23664)
  • CSCI E-170 Security, Privacy, and Usability (22815)
  • CSCI E-190 Bioinformatics Algorithms (23052)
  • CSCI E-215 Unix/Linux Systems Programming (20034)
  • CSCI E-241 Web Development Using ASP.NET MVC (23020)
  • CSCI E-250 Abstraction and Design in Computation (23371)
  • CSCI E-256 Oracle Database Administration (22750)
  • CSCI E-268 Database and Information Management Systems (23300)
  • CSCI E-275 Software Engineering (21908)
  • CSCI E-295 Compiler Design and Implementation (23653)
  • DRAM E-10 Introduction to Acting (20544)
  • DRAM E-20 Advanced Acting (23479)
  • DRAM E-21 Improvisational Acting (23239)
  • DRAM E-23 Acting Workshop: The Monologue (23292)
  • DRAM E-55 Sex Wars: Betrayal and Infidelity in the Theater (23691)
  • ECON E-10a Principles of Economics (22004)
  • ECON E-1010 Microeconomic Theory (23285)
  • ECON E-1012 Macroeconomic Theory (22243)
  • ECON E-1040 Strategy, Conflict, and Cooperation (21946)
  • ECON E-1297 International Economics (21181)
  • ECON E-1500 The Economics of Financial Markets (23271)
  • ECON E-1600 Economics of Business (23096)
  • ECON E-1661 Environmental Economics (23592)
  • EDUC E-150 Educational Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship in Comparative Perspective (23515)
  • EDUC E-599 Capstone Course in Educational Technologies (22925)
  • ENGL E-106 Beowulf and Seamus Heaney (22758)
  • ENGL E-125 Shakespeare's Later Plays (23485)
  • ENGL E-130 Shakespeare and Modern Culture (23696)
  • ENGL E-137 Metaphysical Poetry (23625)
  • ENGL E-156a Crime and Horror in Victorian Literature and Culture (23331)
  • ENGL E-157a An Extravagant Poise: The Poetry of William Butler Yeats (23676)
  • ENGL E-159 Reading James Joyce (23541)
  • ENGL E-185 Wit and Humor (23648)
  • ENGL E-189 The Civil War from Nat Turner to Birth of a Nation (23651)
  • ENGL E-198 Modern American Crime Narratives (23659)
  • ENGL E-208/W The Expatriate Moment in Paris (23606)
  • ENSC E-123 Laboratory Electronics: Digital Circuit Design (22098)
  • ENSC E-151 Nanotechnology for Drug Discovery and Delivery (23684)
  • ENSC E-155 Fundamentals and Applications of Microfluidics (22768)
  • ENSC E-165 Engineering of Nanostructures for Targeted Drug Delivery (23245)
  • ENVR E-102 Environmental Management II (21783)
  • ENVR E-105 Strategies for Sustainability Management (21808)
  • ENVR E-110 Sustainable Ocean Environments (21784)
  • ENVR E-116 Planning for Carbon Neutrality: Practical Methods for Implementing Greenhouse Gas Reduction (23508)
  • ENVR E-127 Practice of Sustainable Development (23656)
  • ENVR E-130 Global Climate Change: The Science, Social Impact, and Diplomacy of a World Environmental Crisis (22039)
  • ENVR E-134 Environment- and Cost-Saving Energy Management (23517)
  • ENVR E-142/W Conservation Biology and Sustainable Use of Forested Landscapes (22762)
  • ENVR E-145 Introduction to Environmental Justice (22548)
  • ENVR E-152 Global Biogeochemistry (23596)
  • ENVR E-157 Sustainable Business and Technology (23427)
  • ENVR E-159 Environmental Toxicology and Risk Management (23613)
  • ENVR E-160 Critical Thinking about Environmental and Public Health Issues (22435)
  • ENVR E-165 Human Health and Global Environmental Change (23703)
  • ENVR E-210 Critical Analysis of Environmental Systems (23614)
  • EXPO E-5 Fundamentals of Grammar, Spring term, section 1 (21627)
  • EXPO E-5 Fundamentals of Grammar, Spring term, section 2 (22060)
  • EXPO E-5a Basic Grammar (23629)
  • EXPO E-15 Fundamentals of Academic Writing, Spring term, section 3 (21666)
  • EXPO E-15 Fundamentals of Academic Writing, Spring term, section 2 (22113)
  • EXPO E-15 Fundamentals of Academic Writing, Spring term, section 1 (22356)
  • EXPO E-15 Fundamentals of Academic Writing, Spring term, section 4 (23434)
  • EXPO E-15 Fundamentals of Academic Writing, Spring term, section 5 (23564)
  • EXPO E-15 Fundamentals of Academic Writing, Spring term, section 6 (23715)
  • EXPO E-25 Academic Writing and Critical Reading, Spring term, section 9 (22801)
  • EXPO E-25 Academic Writing and Critical Reading, Spring term, section 11 (22803)
  • EXPO E-25 Academic Writing and Critical Reading, Spring term, section 1 (22971)
  • EXPO E-25 Academic Writing and Critical Reading, Spring term, section 3 (23118)
  • EXPO E-25 Academic Writing and Critical Reading, Spring term, section 12 (23194)
  • EXPO E-25 Academic Writing and Critical Reading, Spring term, section 10 (23195)
  • EXPO E-25 Academic Writing and Critical Reading, Spring term, section 2 (23226)
  • EXPO E-25 Academic Writing and Critical Reading, Spring term, section 6 (23378)
  • EXPO E-25 Academic Writing and Critical Reading, Spring term, section 8 (23385)
  • EXPO E-25 Academic Writing and Critical Reading (23474)
  • EXPO E-25 Academic Writing and Critical Reading, Spring term, section 5 (23512)
  • EXPO E-25 Academic Writing and Critical Reading, Spring term, section 4 (23520)
  • EXPO E-25 Academic Writing and Critical Reading, Spring term, section 7 (23597)
  • EXPO E-34 Business Rhetoric, Spring term, section 1 (23698)
  • EXPO E-34 Business Rhetoric, Spring term, section 2 (23719)
  • EXPO E-48 Multimedia Communication: Digital Storytelling, Spring term, section 1 (23630)
  • EXPO E-48 Multimedia Communication: Digital Storytelling, Spring term, section 2 (23675)
  • EXPO E-170 Principles of Editing (23655)
  • FORE E-141 European Romanticisms (23600)
  • FORE E-155 Culture and Society in Modern Arabic Fiction (23608)
  • FREN E-1 Intensive Elementary French I (23183)
  • FREN E-1y Reading and Translation (23593)
  • FREN E-2b Elementary French II (23028)
  • FREN E-2d Online Intensive Elementary French II (23254)
  • FREN E-2 Intensive Elementary French II, Spring term, section 1 (23396)
  • FREN E-2 Intensive Elementary French II, Spring term, section 2 (23577)
  • FREN E-5 Oral Expression: Le Français parlé (23420)
  • FREN E-28 Discovering Paris (23607)
  • GERM E-2 Intensive Elementary German II (20126)
  • GOVT E-1040 Human Rights: A Philosophical Introduction (23672)
  • GOVT E-1048 Human Rights and International Politics (23673)
  • GOVT E-1064 Religion, Liberalism, and Democracy (23043)
  • GOVT E-1310 Introduction to Congress (23500)
  • GOVT E-1750 International Organization (20927)
  • GOVT E-1780 International Political Economy (23417)
  • GOVT E-1880/W Popular Culture and US Foreign Policy During the Cold War (23609)
  • GOVT E-1961 Comparative National Security Strategies of Middle Eastern Countries (23343)
  • GOVT E-1977 The Politics and International Relations of Iran (23398)
  • GOVT E-2001 Advanced Quantitative Research Methodology (22403)
  • HARC E-177 Whistler and Sargent: Painting and Expatriatism (23579)
  • HARC E-178 Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form (23594)
  • HARC E-190 Art Since 1940 (23580)
  • HIST E-1572 The Holocaust in History, Literature, and Film (23693)
  • HIST E-1607b The American Revolution in Boston (23307)
  • HIST E-1632/W The History of Boston (22211)
  • HIST E-1837 Rebels with a Cause: Tiananmen in History and Memory (23551)
  • HIST E-1852 Japan in the Twentieth Century (23587)
  • HIST E-1890/W World War II through Film and Literature (23595)
  • HIST E-1895 The Origins of the Cold War: The Yalta Conference, 1945 (23682)
  • HIST E-1915 Africa and Africans: The Making of a Continent in the Modern World (23612)
  • HSCI E-112 Science and Technology in Modern America (23601)
  • HSCI E-125 Medicine and Society in America (23670)
  • 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 (23681)
  • ISMT E-110 Internet and Integrated Productivity Software for Managers (22314)
  • ISMT E-120 Desktop Office Applications for Managers (22333)
  • ISMT E-130 Spreadsheet Models for Managers (23306)
  • ISMT E-135 Simulation for Management Decision Making (22358)
  • ISMT E-155 Geographic Communication Today (23443)
  • ISMT E-200 Capstone Seminar in Enterprise Systems (22365)
  • ITAL E-1 Intensive Elementary Italian I (23402)
  • ITAL E-1b Elementary Italian I (23588)
  • JAPA E-2 Elementary Japanese II (20163)
  • JOUR E-110/W The Constitution and the Media (22424)
  • JOUR E-125 Watergate to Wikileaks: Journalism Ethics Through Film (23631)
  • JOUR E-139 Community Journalism (23661)
  • JOUR E-140a News Reporting for the Web, Print, and other Platforms (23662)
  • JOUR E-147 Media Management and Marketing: New Business Models in an Evolving Industry (23665)
  • JOUR E-150 Advanced Narrative Nonfiction (23695)
  • JOUR E-152 Freelance Journalism (23487)
  • JOUR E-165 Documentary Photography (22790)
  • LATI E-1 Intensive Latin for Beginners (23251)
  • LATI E-45 Catullus: The Poems (23581)
  • LSTU E-108 Cases in the Supreme Court, Spring term, section 1 (23453)
  • LSTU E-108 Cases in the Supreme Court, Spring term, section 2 (23731)
  • LSTU E-109 Constitutional Law (23683)
  • LSTU E-120 Internet and Society: Technologies and Politics of Control (22054)
  • MATH E-3 Quantitative Reasoning: Practical Math (20389)
  • MATH E-6 Mathematics and the Greeks (23689)
  • 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-23b Linear Algebra and Real Analysis II (23175)
  • MATH E-210 Vector Space Methods for Differential Equations (23498)
  • MATH E-217 Probability and Random Processes with Economic Applications (23624)
  • MATH E-302 Math for Teaching Geometry (23646)
  • MATH E-303 Math for Teaching Algebra (22499)
  • MATH E-320 Teaching Mathematics with a Historical Perspective (23238)
  • MATH E-599 Teaching Projects: Math for Teaching Capstone Course (22946)
  • MGMT E-1000 Financial Accounting Principles, Spring term, section 1 (23197)
  • MGMT E-1000 Financial Accounting Principles (23248)
  • MGMT E-1000 Financial Accounting Principles, Spring term, section 2 (23291)
  • MGMT E-1300 Fundamentals of Accounting and Finance for Governmental and Nonprofit Organizations (23401)
  • MGMT E-1600 Managerial Accounting (23198)
  • MGMT E-2000 Principles of Finance, Spring term, section 2 (23258)
  • MGMT E-2000 Principles of Finance, Spring term, section 1 (23671)
  • MGMT E-2020 Managerial Finance (23699)
  • MGMT E-2600 Financial Statement Analysis (23231)
  • MGMT E-2620 Business Analysis and Valuation (23658)
  • MGMT E-2640 Project Financing (23264)
  • MGMT E-2700 Corporate Finance, Spring term, section 1 (23462)
  • MGMT E-2700 Corporate Finance, Spring term, section 2 (23718)
  • MGMT E-2720 Mergers and Acquisitions (23701)
  • MGMT E-2740 Investment Theory and Applications (23205)
  • MGMT E-3000 Strategic Business Communication (23446)
  • MGMT E-3040 Writing for Public Relations and Marketing (23450)
  • MGMT E-3300 Development Communications (23499)
  • MGMT E-4000 Organizational Behavior, Spring term, section 1 (23219)
  • MGMT E-4000 Organizational Behavior, Spring term, section 2 (23220)
  • MGMT E-4000 Organizational Behavior, Spring term, section 3 (23221)
  • MGMT E-4000 Organizational Behavior, Spring term, section 4 (23678)
  • MGMT E-4000 Organizational Behavior, Spring term, section 5 (23732)
  • MGMT E-4030 Leading through Change (23260)
  • MGMT E-4032 Becoming an Agent of Change (23677)
  • MGMT E-4140 Gender, Leadership, and Management (23223)
  • MGMT E-4150 Principles and Lessons on Leadership (23688)
  • MGMT E-4170 Managing Virtual Teams (23674)
  • MGMT E-4190 Leaders and Leadership Through Biography, Literature, and Film (23635)
  • MGMT E-4220 Managing Negotiations (23328)
  • MGMT E-4225 Negotiation and Organizational Conflict Resolution (23543)
  • MGMT E-4240 Human Resource Management (23214)
  • MGMT E-5000 Strategic Management, Spring term, section 2 (23206)
  • MGMT E-5000 Strategic Management, Spring term, section 1 (23207)
  • MGMT E-5000 Strategic Management (23354)
  • MGMT E-5000 Strategic Management, Spring term, section 3 (23540)
  • MGMT E-5030 Project Management (23361)
  • MGMT E-5032 Introduction to Lean/Six Sigma Process Improvement Methodology (23654)
  • MGMT E-5040 Project Management of Information Technology (23208)
  • MGMT E-5050 Resource Planning and Allocation Management (23468)
  • MGMT E-5060 Operations Management (23312)
  • MGMT E-5070 Data Mining and Forecast Management (23274)
  • MGMT E-5095 Disaster Relief and Recovery (23490)
  • MGMT E-5120b Personal Financial Planning B (23301)
  • MGMT E-5300 The Not-For-Profit Sector (23278)
  • MGMT E-5320 Higher Education Management (23211)
  • MGMT E-5325 Strategy and Competition in Higher Education (23663)
  • MGMT E-5450 Launching an e-Commerce Start-up (23290)
  • MGMT E-5475 Strategic Management of Growth Companies (23550)
  • MGMT E-5500 The Business of Sports (23213)
  • MGMT E-5700 Management Consulting (23542)
  • MGMT E-5750 The Art and Science of Decision Making (23687)
  • MGMT E-5800 Judgment and Decision Making (23375)
  • MGMT E-6000 Marketing Management, Spring term, section 2 (23217)
  • MGMT E-6000 Marketing Management, Spring term, section 1 (23262)
  • MGMT E-6620 Internet Marketing Strategies (23483)
  • MGMT E-6700 Marketing Research and Analysis (23484)
  • MUSE E-100 Introduction to Museum Studies (21989)
  • MUSE E-101 Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in Museum Studies (23589)
  • MUSE E-110 Museum Exhibition Content Development (20185)
  • MUSE E-120 Museum Education (23288)
  • MUSE E-130/W Using Technology to Support the Nonprofit Mission (23583)
  • MUSE E-150 The Role of Museums in History (23626)
  • MUSI E-139 A History of Blues in America (22621)
  • PHIL E-100 Introduction to Logic (20195)
  • PHIL E-160/W Philosophical Problems of Economic Justice (23590)
  • PHIL E-166/W Ethical Theory (23305)
  • PHYS E-1b Principles of Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism, Light, and Atomic Structure (20199)
  • PORT E-1b Elementary Portuguese (22669)
  • PSYC E-15 Introduction to Psychology (20205)
  • PSYC E-1018 Psychological Resilience (23412)
  • PSYC E-1030/W Human Development (23482)
  • PSYC E-1034 Adult Development (23295)
  • PSYC E-1040 Personality Theory (22789)
  • PSYC E-1090 Animal Cognition (23679)
  • PSYC E-1420 Addiction (22233)
  • PSYC E-1604b Neuropsychology II: Clinical Applications (23615)
  • PSYC E-1609 Mind, Brain, Health, Education: The Sciences of Achievement in Learning and Life (23690)
  • PSYC E-1650/W Introduction to Psychoanalysis (22288)
  • PSYC E-1865 Psychopaths and Psychopathology: Psychological and Legal Issues (23652)
  • PSYC E-2455 Psychotherapy Research (22622)
  • RELI E-1010/W World Religions (23423)
  • RELI E-1047/W Religion, the Arts, and Social Change (23531)
  • RELI E-1050 Apocalypse Now: How the World Ends (or Doesn't) in World Religions (23642)
  • RELI E-1070 Children's Literature and Religion (23641)
  • RELI E-1555 Introduction to Islamic Mysticism: The Sufi Tradition (23666)
  • SPAN E-1 Intensive Elementary Spanish I (20236)
  • SPAN E-1b Elementary Spanish I (21497)
  • SPAN E-2b Elementary Spanish II (20239)
  • SPAN E-2 Intensive Elementary Spanish II, Spring term, section 2 (20240)
  • SPAN E-2v Intensive Elementary Spanish II: Multimedia (20355)
  • SPAN E-2 Intensive Elementary Spanish II, Spring term, section 1 (23424)
  • SPAN E-5 Spanish Oral Expression (20243)
  • SPAN E-7 Espanol avanzado: Cultura y conversación (23620)
  • SPAN E-152 Latin American Short Story (23598)
  • SPCH E-110 The Art and Practice of Public Speaking (23530)
  • SPCH E-130 Essentials of Executive Speaking (23529)
  • SSCI E-100a Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in the Social Sciences: Anthropology and Psychology (23379)
  • SSCI E-100b Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in the Social Sciences: Government and History, Spring term, section 3 (23643)
  • SSCI E-100b Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in the Social Sciences: Government and History, Spring term, section 1 (23667)
  • SSCI E-100b Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in the Social Sciences: Government and History, Spring term, section 4 (23745)
  • SSCI E-110/W Exploring Research Methods and Writing in the Social Sciences (23332)
  • SSCI E-132 Conspiracy (22156)
  • STAR E-114 Prints, Presses, and Other Impressions, January session, section 1 (23565)
  • STAR E-114 Prints, Presses, and Other Impressions, January session, section 2 (23714)
  • STAR E-117 Contemporary Drawing Practice (23621)
  • STAR E-170/W History of Film: The First Half Century (23585)
  • STAT E-50 Introduction to Statistics (20993)
  • STAT E-102 Fundamentals of Biostatistics (23171)
  • STAT E-150 Statistical Methods (23445)
  • STSK E-105 Learning Styles and Compensatory Strategies (23692)