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American Literature
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This course studies the national literature of the United States since the early 19th century. It considers a range of texts - including, novels, essays, and poetry - and their efforts to define the notion of American identity. Readings usually include works by such authors as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Emily Dickinson, and Toni Morrison.

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Arts and Humanities
Literature
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Full Course
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Kelley, Wyn
Date Added:
02/01/2013
The American Novel: Stranger and Stranger
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This course covers works by major American novelists, beginning with the late 18th century and concluding with a contemporary novelist. The class places major emphasis on reading novels as literary texts, but attention is paid to historical, intellectual, and political contexts as well. The syllabus varies from term to term, but many of the following writers are represented: Rowson, Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, Wharton, James, and Toni Morrison. Previously taught topics include The American Revolution and Makeovers (i.e. adaptations and reinterpretation of novels traditionally considered as American “Classics”). May be repeated for credit with instructor’s permission so long as the content differs.

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Arts and Humanities
Literature
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Full Course
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Kelley, Wyn
Date Added:
02/01/2013
America's Founding: Why Our Founding Fathers Risked It All
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Have you ever stopped to think about the incredible risks the Founding Founders took when they rebelled against British authority? They were starting a war with the greatest military power of the time even though they did not have a mighty fighting force themselves. And they were fighting for a type of government that most people thought was impossible. In this video mini-course, Professor Sarah Burns of the Rochester Institute of Technology explains the historical and philosophical context of the American Revolution from the changing role of the British army in the colonies to Radical Whig theory.

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History
U.S. History
Material Type:
Lecture
Provider:
Institute for Humane Studies
Author:
Sarah Burns
Date Added:
07/04/2016
Arabic Level 1, Activity 09: "البُلدَان والجِنسِيّات / Countries & Nationalities" (Face-to-Face/Online)
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In this activity, students will be learning about Arabic countries in addition to European and South American countries. Also, practice asking and answering questions about various nationalities. Using feminine and masculine forms.Can-Do Statements:I can identify the names of Arabic countries.I can ask someone where they are from and say where am I from?I can use either feminine or masculine to describe my nationality.

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Language Education (ESL)
Languages
World Cultures
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
Blake Simmerman
Amber Hoye
Sara Bakari
Sara Bakari
Date Added:
11/06/2020
Congress and the American Political System II
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This course analyzes the development of the United States Congress by focusing on the competing theoretical lenses through which legislatures have been studied. In particular, it compares sociological and economic models of legislative behavior, applying those models to floor decision-making, committee behavior, political parties, relations with other branches of the Federal government, and elections. Graduate students are expected to pursue the subject in greater depth through reading and individual research.

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Political Science
Social Science
Material Type:
Full Course
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Stewart, Charles
Date Added:
09/01/2005
Hip Hop
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This class explores the political and aesthetic foundations of hip hop. Students trace the musical, corporeal, visual, spoken word, and literary manifestations of hip hop over its 30 year presence in the American cultural imagery. Students also investigate specific black cultural practices that have given rise to its various idioms. Students create material culture related to each thematic section of the course. Scheduled work in performance studio helps students understand how hip hop is created and assessed.

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Anthropology
Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
Social Science
Material Type:
Full Course
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MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
DeFrantz, Thomas
Date Added:
09/01/2007
Introduction to the American Political Process
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This class introduces students to innovative as well as classic approaches to studying U.S. government. The writing assignments will help you explore, through a variety of lenses, statis and change in the American political system over the last three decades. In the end each student will have a solid grounding in our national political institutions and processes, sharper reading and writing skills, and insight into approaching politics critically and analytically.

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Political Science
Social Science
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Full Course
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Berinsky, Adam
Date Added:
02/01/2004
Major Authors: After the Masterpiece: Novels by Melville, Twain, Faulkner, and Morrison
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This seminar provides intensive study of exciting texts by four influential American authors. In studying paired works, we can enrich our sense of each author’s distinctive methods, get a deeper sense of the development of their careers, and shake up our preconceptions about what makes an author or a work “great.” Students will get an opportunity to research an author in depth, as well as making broader comparisons across the syllabus.

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Arts and Humanities
Literature
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Kelley, Wyn
Date Added:
09/01/2006
Major Authors: Melville and Morrison
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This seminar provides intensive study of texts by two American authors (Herman Melville, 1819-1891, and Toni Morrison, 1931-) who, using lyrical, radically innovative prose, explore in different ways epic notions of American identity. Focusing on Melville’s Typee (1846), Moby-Dick (1851), and The Confidence-Man (1857) and Morrison’s Sula (1973), Beloved (1987), Jazz (1992), and Paradise (1998), the class will address their common concerns with issues of gender, race, language, and nationhood. Be prepared to read deeply (i.e. a small number of texts with considerable care), to draw on a variety of sources in different media, and to employ them in creative research, writing, and multimedia projects.

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Arts and Humanities
Graphic Arts
Literature
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Full Course
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Kelley, Wyn
Date Added:
09/01/2003
Masterworks in American Short Fiction
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For some reason, American literature (like French, Irish, and Russian, among others) has been especially productive in major works in fictional forms shorter than the novel. Our task in this course will be to survey that field, by looking at particular moments of high accomplishment. We will, in addition, consider some of the ways in which literary formulae can be used and varied, and some of the impacts of elements of narrative construction.

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Arts and Humanities
Literature
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Full Course
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Hildebidle, John
Date Added:
09/01/2005
RoPeCast - The light-hearted podcast for learners of English
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This podcast from Saarland University offers challenging listening opportunities for upper intermediate to advanced learners and fascinating topics to do with the English language and culture. Published bi-weekly, with a growing archive of nearly 100 episodes, the podcast can be used in the context of traditional, e-learning, or blended learning courses as well as self-study approaches.

Subject:
Education
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lecture
Provider:
Uni Saarland
Date Added:
07/26/2016
The Robinson House: A Portrait of African American Heritage
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Pieces together the story of the James Robinson family from artifacts found in archaeological excavations around the house where they lived for nearly a century. An African American born free in 1799, Robinson worked in a Virginia tavern earning nearly $500 to purchase 170 acres of land near Bull Run. There he built a log cabin, and his family turned the land into a prosperous farm, making him one of the wealthiest African Americans in the Manassas area in the mid-19th century.

Subject:
Archaeology
Arts and Humanities
Social Science
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
National Park Service
Date Added:
01/29/2004
Spanish American Thought and Culture: Addendum
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These materials are for teaching the class Creating Spanish America alongside the book Anthology of Spanish American Thought and Culture, edited by Jorge Aguilar Mora, Josefa Salmón, and Barbara C. Ewell.

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Anthropology
Arts and Humanities
Languages
World Cultures
World History
Material Type:
Full Course
Author:
Elizabeth Kelly
Barbara C. Ewell
Josefa Salmon
Victoria Elmwood
Date Added:
02/10/2020
Special Graduate Topic in Political Science: Public Opinion
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This course provides an introduction to the vast literature devoted to public opinion. In the next 12 weeks, we will survey the major theoretical approaches and empirical research in the field of political behavior (though we will only tangentially discuss political  participation and voting). For the most part we will focus on American public opinion, though some of the work we will read is comparative in nature.

Subject:
Political Science
Social Science
Sociology
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Berinsky, Adam
Date Added:
02/01/2004
Studies in Fiction: Stowe, Twain, and the Transformation of 19th-Century America
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This seminar looks at two bestselling nineteenth-century American authors whose works made the subject of slavery popular among mainstream readers. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain have subsequently become canonized and reviled, embraced and banned by individuals and groups at both ends of the political and cultural spectrum and everywhere in between.

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Arts and Humanities
Literature
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Full Course
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Kelley, Wyn
Date Added:
09/01/2004
Theater and Cultural Diversity in the U.S.
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This course explores contemporary American theatrical expression as it may be organized around issues of gender and cultural identity. This exploration will include the analysis of performances, scripts, and video documentation, as well as the invention of original documents of theatrical expression. Class lectures and discussions will analyze samples of Native American, Chicano, African American, and Asian American theater, taking into consideration the historical and political context for the creation of these works. Performance exercises will help students identify theatrical forms and techniques used by these theaters, and how these techniques contribute to the overall goals of specific theatrical expressions.

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Anthropology
Arts and Humanities
Literature
Social Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
DeFrantz, Thomas
Date Added:
02/01/2008
क्रांतीयुग (अमेरिका स्वातंत्र्ययुद्ध )
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उद्दिष्टे-१.विद्यार्थ्यांना क्रांतीयुग हि संकल्पना समजणे.२. विद्यार्थाना जगातील प्रमुख खंड नकाशात दाखवता येणे.३.विद्यार्थांना जगातील तीन महान क्रांतीची  नावे सांगता येणे.४.विद्यार्थ्यांना अमेरिकेच्या स्वातंत्र्याविषयी माहिती होणे.५..विद्यार्थांना अमेरिका खंड नकाशात दाखवता येणे.६.विद्यार्थ्यांना नकाशाच्या सहाय्याने अमेरिकेतील ब्रिटीश वसाहतींचे ठिकाण स्पष्ट करता येणे.

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History
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
poonam bhondve
Date Added:
09/28/2016