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6.2300 Electromagnetics Waves and Applications

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Prereq: Calculus II (GIR) and Physics II (GIR)
Units: 3-5-4
Lecture: MW1 (32-144) Lab: T10 (38-600) or T11 (38-600) Recitation: R10 (4-153) or R11 (4-153)

Analysis and design of modern applications that employ electromagnetic phenomena for signals and power transmission in RF, microwaves, optical and wireless communication systems. Fundamentals include dynamic solutions for Maxwell's equations; electromagnetic power and energy, waves in media, metallic and dielectric waveguides, radiation, and diffraction; resonance; filters; and acoustic analogs. Lab activities range from building to testing of devices and systems (e.g., antenna arrays, radars, dielectric waveguides). Students work in teams on self-proposed maker-style design projects with a focus on fostering creativity, teamwork, and debugging skills. 6.2000 and 6.3000 are recommended but not required.
L. Daniel, K. O'Brien
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6.6300 Electromagnetics

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Prereq: Physics II (GIR) and 6.3000
Units: 4-0-8

Explores electromagnetic phenomena in modern applications, including wireless and optical communications, circuits, computer interconnects and peripherals, microwave communications and radar, antennas, sensors, micro-electromechanical systems, and power generation and transmission. Fundamentals include quasistatic and dynamic solutions to Maxwell's equations; waves, radiation, and diffraction; coupling to media and structures; guided and unguided waves; modal expansions; resonance; acoustic analogs; and forces, power, and energy.
Q. Hu

21L.400 Medical Narratives: Compelling Accounts from Antiquity to Grey's Anatomy

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Not offered regularly; consult department
Prereq: None
Units: 3-3-6
URL: https://lit.mit.edu/21l-400-medical-narratives-compelling-accounts-from-antiquity-to-greys-anatomy/

Explores fundamental questions about the experience of illness from the points of view of the patient, the physician, and the caretaker. Examines the ways in which these narratives have changed across centuries and across cultures. Asks about the physician's role in determining treatment; whether storytelling leads to more ethical life and death decisions; what special insights patient narratives provide; and what new awareness physicians derive from narrating illness. Materials include essays, fiction, poetry, memoir, blogs, film and television. As a capstone project, students develop their own medical narratives that emerge in interaction with a mentor from the greater-Boston medical community.
Staff

21W.777 Science Writing in Contemporary Society

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Prereq: None
Units: 3-0-9
Lecture: R EVE (7-10 PM) (14N-112)

Drawing in part from their own interests and ideas, students write about science within various cultural contexts using an array of literary and reportorial tools. Studies the work of contemporary science writers, such as David Quammen and Atul Gawande, and examines the ways in which science and technology are treated in media and popular culture. Discussions focus on students' writing and address topics such as false equivalency, covering controversy, and the attenuation of initial observations. Emphasizes long-form narratives; also looks at blogs, social media, and other modes of communication. Not a technical writing class.
K. Weintraub
No textbook information available

21W.788[J] South Asian America: Transnational Media, Culture, and History

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(Same subject as CMS.334[J])
Prereq: None
Units: 3-0-9
Lecture: T EVE (7-10 PM) (2-103)

Examines the history of South Asian immigration, sojourning, and settlement from the 1880s to the present. Focuses on the US as one node in the global circulation, not only of people, but of media, culture and ideas, through a broader South Asian diaspora. Considers the concept of "global media" historically; emphasis on how ideas about, and self-representations of, South Asians have circulated via books, political pamphlets, performance, film, video/cassette tapes, and the internet. Students analyze and discuss scholarly writings, archival documents, memoirs, fiction, blogs and films, and write papers drawing on course materials, lectures, and discussions. Limited to 18.
V. Bald
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WGS.111[J] Gender and Media Studies

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(Same subject as CMS.619[J])
Prereq: None
Units: 3-0-9

Examines representations of race, gender, and sexual identity in the media. Considers issues of authorship, spectatorship, and the ways in which various media (film, television, print journalism, advertising) enable, facilitate, and challenge these social constructions in society. Studies the impact of new media and digital media through analysis of gendered and racialized language and embodiment online in blogs and vlogs, avatars, and in the construction of cyberidentities. Provides introduction to feminist approaches to media studies by drawing from work in feminist film theory, cultural studies, gender and politics, and cyberfeminism.
H. Arain