How do international and global perspectives shape and conceptualization, research, and writing of history? Topics include approaches to comparative history and transnational processes, the relationship of local, regional, national, and global scales of analysis, and the problem of periodization when considered on a world scale.
How do international and global perspectives shape and conceptualization, research, and writing of history? Topics include approaches to comparative history and transnational processes, the relationship of local, regional, national, and global scales of analysis, and the problem of periodization when considered on a world scale.
This course is attentive to how social contexts shape the reception of ideas that are assumed to have universal purchase. The seminar adopts a historical mode of presentation, and locates social theory in its global contexts with a specific focus on the global South.We follow the itinerary of two concepts,
equality
and
difference
. Can we write a global history of social thought? How are ideas and contexts transformed when they encounter forms of social difference (e.g., race, caste, religion) that must be thought on their own terms? What is the relationship between commitments to equality, on the one hand, and the preservation of difference on the other?
Readings for the seminar will include a mix of classic texts of social theory, and monographs in history and anthropology that seek to engage and redirect the energies of social thought toward questions of translation, commensuration, and alterity.
This year-long workshop will meet every two weeks for two hours to discuss the structure of a dissertation prospectus, strategies of grant-writing, and, most importantly, successive drafts of individual dissertation prospectuses. Consistent attendance and participation are mandatory.
Prerequisites: Language prerequisite: Intermediate to advanced Chinese.
This graduate seminar examines critical issues and under-studied topics in the histories of Chinese cinema and photography. We cover a historical period from mid-19
th
century to the present, pay attention to the political, social and cultural environments and media technologies that gave rise to specific visual expressions, and consider photography and cinema in relation to other art forms going through equally rapid transformations in modern China: traditional Chinese painting, graphic arts, theater, architecture, and music.
All graduate students are required to attend the department colloquium as long as they are in residence. No degree credit is granted.
Theoretical or experimental study or research in graduate areas in mechanical engineering and engineering science.
Prerequisite:
completion of all M.Phil. requirements, and approval of a research proposal by the supervising faculty adviser.
Required for all M.S. students in residence in their first semester. Topics related to professional development and the practice of chemical engineering. No degree credits granted. Intended for M.S./Ph.D. students or doctoral students.
Prerequisites: the permission of the instructor in charge of the student's field of research.
Individual research in the student's field of specialization. The research may lead to a doctoral dissertation or to contributions for publications.
HRSMA students may receive one academic credit for the completion of a relevant internship. The credit would count towards the elective requirement for the degree. In order to receive one credit, students will be required to complete a total of 100 internship hours. The internship must be professional in nature and substantively focused on human rights or social justice. For more information, students should refer to the HRSMA Digital Handbook.
Candidates for the M.S. degree may conduct an investigation of some problem in biomedical engineering culminating in a thesis describing the results of their work. No more than 6 points in this course may be counted for graduate credit, and this credit is contingent upon the submission of an acceptable thesis.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Individual research and tutorial in social and cultural anthropology for advanced graduate students.