MIT Subject Listing & Schedule
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4.120 Furniture Making Workshop

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Prereq: Permission of instructor
Units: 2-2-5
Credit cannot also be received for 4.125
In person required. Lecture: WF9.30 (N51-160) Lab: MTWRF9-12 (N51-160) or MTWRF2-5 (N51-160) or MTWRF EVE (7-10 PM) (N51-160)

Provides instruction in designing and building a functional piece of furniture from an original design. Develops woodworking techniques from use of traditional hand tools to digital fabrication. Gives students the opportunity to practice design without using a building program or code. Surveys the history of furniture making and includes site visits to local collections and artists/craftsmen. Additional work required of students taking for graduate credit. Limited to 12; preference to graduate Course 4 students.
C. Dewart
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4.125 Furniture Making Workshop

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Prereq: None
Units: 2-2-5
Credit cannot also be received for 4.120

Provides instruction in designing and building a functional piece of furniture from an original design. Develops woodworking techniques from use of traditional hand tools to digital fabrication. Gives students the opportunity to practice design without using a building program or code. Surveys the history of furniture making and includes site visits to local collections and artists/craftsmen. Additional work required of students taking for graduate credit. Limited to 12; preference to undergraduate Course 4 and 4B majors and Design and Architecture minors.
Staff

4.677 Advanced Study in the History of Art

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Prereq: Permission of instructor
Units arranged
Lecture: T9-12 (VIRTUAL)

Seminar in a selected topic in the history of art, with a particular emphasis on developments from the 18th century to the present. Includes short field trips to museums and collections. Oral presentations and research paper required. Offered for 9 or 12 units. Limited to 15.
C. Jones
No textbook information available

6.838 Shape Analysis

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Prereq: Calculus II (GIR), 18.06, and (6.837 or 6.869)
Units: 3-0-9
https://eecs.scripts.mit.edu/eduportal/__How_Courses_Will_Be_Taught_Online_or_Oncampus__/S/2021/#6.838
Lecture: TR2.30-4 (VIRTUAL)

Introduces mathematical, algorithmic, and statistical tools needed to analyze geometric data and to apply geometric techniques to data analysis, with applications to fields such as computer graphics, machine learning, computer vision, medical imaging, and architecture. Potential topics include applied introduction to differential geometry, discrete notions of curvature, metric embedding, geometric PDE via the finite element method (FEM) and discrete exterior calculus (DEC),; computational spectral geometry and relationship to graph-based learning, correspondence and mapping, level set method, descriptor, shape collections, optimal transport, and vector field design.
J. Solomon
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11.457 More than Data: Smart Cities, Big Data, Civic Technology and Policy

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Prereq: None
Units: 3-0-6

Discussions of future directions in the 'smart cities' debate. Begins by framing the current smart city with past trends such as the efficient city movement of the 1930s and the Modernist city of the 1950s and 60s. Examines current trends in big data, civic apps, Code for America, the open data movement, DIY data collections devices, and their policy impacts.
Staff

21W.757 Fiction Workshop

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Prereq: 21W.755
Units: 3-0-9

Intermediate class for students with some experience in writing fiction. Students write short stories and complete other writing exercises. Readings include short story collections by contemporary writers such as Sandra Cisneros, Benjamin Percy, Leila Lalami, Laura Pritchett, Bret Anthony Johnston, and Edward P. Jones. Discussions focus on sources of story material, characterization, setting, architecture, point of view, narrative voice, and concrete detail.
H. Lee

21W.770 Advanced Fiction Workshop

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Prereq: Permission of instructor
Units: 3-0-9
Lecture: TR3-4.30 (VIRTUAL)

For students with some experience in writing fiction. Write longer works of fiction and short stories which are related or interconnected. Read short story collections by individual writers, such as Sandra Cisneros, Raymond Carver, Edward P. Jones, and Tillie Olsen, and discuss them critically and analytically, with attention to the ways in which the writers' choices about component parts contribute to meaning. In-class exercises and weekly workshops of student work focus on sources of story material, characterization, structure, narrative voice, point of view and concrete detail. Concentration on revision.
H. Lee
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