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This course will explore the mutual influences of ideas of nature, theories of city design and planning, and practices of urban design, construction, and management. We will investigate how natural processes shape urban landscapes (from the scale of street corner to region) and how to intervene strategically in those processes in order to achieve certain goals. We will examine cases of cities that adapted successfully to natural processes and those that did not. Students will then have the opportunity to research a case of their choice and to present their findings for discussion. The subject may be historical or an an example of contemporary theory and practice. Additional information is also available at Professor Spirn's class website.
The Beijing Urban Design Studio is a joint program between the MIT and Tsinghua University Schools of Architecture and Planning. The goal of the studio is to foster international cooperation through the undertaking of a joint urban design and planning initiative in the city of Beijing involving important, often controversial, sites and projects. Since 1995, almost 250 MIT and Tsinghua University students and faculty have participated in this annual studio, making it one of the most successful and enduring international academic programs between China and the US. It has received the Irwin Sizer Award from MIT for outstanding innovation in education. The studio takes place over five weeks in June and July including several weeks in residence at Tsinghua University and two brief study tours to locations and projects that inform the work. It will include 18-20 MIT and 10-15 Tsinghua Architecture and Planning students. The Beijing City Planning Institute, responsible for strategic planning in the city, participates in the studio as the client.
In 2008, the Beijing Urban Design Studio will focus on the issue of Beijing's urban transformation under the theme of de-industrialization, by preparing an urban design and development plan for the Shougang (Capital Steel Factory) site. This studio will address whether portions of the old massive factory infrastructure can be preserved as a national industrial heritage site embedded into future new development; how to balance the cultural and recreational value of the site with environmental challenges; as well as how to use the site for urban development. A special focus of the studio will be to consider development approaches that minimize energy utilization.
To research these questions, students will be asked to interact with clients from the factory, local residents, city officials and experts on transportation, environment, energy and real estate. They will assess strategic options for the steel factory and propose comprehensive plans for the design and development of the brownfield site.
Der Kurs zeichnet die Geschichte Karls des Großen nach. Sein Aufstieg, die innere Durchsetzung, die Expansion des Reiches bis zur Kaiserkrönung sind Kernthemen der Geschichtswissenschaft. Weitere Themenfelder sind: Strukturen des Reiches, Funktionsweisen mittelalterlicher Königsherrschaft ohne Hauptstadt und Institutionen, Schriftlichkeit, Kommunikation und Bildung im frühen Mittelalter. In diesem Kurs erhältst du eine Einführung in den Umgang mit mittelalterlichen Quellen und ihrer Deutung. zudem soll der dich zu einem fundierten, kritischen Urteil in aktuellen Fragen befähigen: Wie gelangt man zu methodisch korrekten Erkenntnissen und wie lassen sich so unterschiedliche Karlsbilder bewerten?
Was lerne ich in diesem Kurs?
- Du lernst Hintergrundinformationen zur Geschichte Karls des Großen.
- Du lernst die typische Quellen seiner Zeit kennen und wirst mit den Schwierigkeiten ihrer Interpretation vertraut gemacht.
- Du erhältst Einführungen in typische geschichtswissenschaftliche Fragestellungen und Forschungsinstrumente. Das befähigt dich zu selbständigen Recherchen über Fragen des Kurses - und viele andere Fragen, die sich an die Geschichte des Mittelalters stellen lassen.
Welche Vorkenntnisse benötige ich?
Historische Vorkenntnisse oder propädeutische Grundlagen sind nicht erforderlich. Der Kurs richtet sich neben Studierenden der Geschichte auch an ein ein breiteres, geschichtsinteressiertes Publikum. Inhalte und Umgang mit Instrumenten der Forschung werden schrittweise erläutert. Zentrale Quellen werden in deutschen Übersetzungen präsentiert. Lateinkenntnisse sind also nicht erforderlich. Unverzichtbar ist: Interesse an Geschichte als Wissenschaft!
Wie hoch ist der Arbeitsaufwand?
Ca. 4 Stunden pro Woche.
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Wer 80% der Lehrvideos sowie 80% der Quizze absolviert, kann eine Teilnahmebestätigung erwerben.
This course is designed as a vocabulary of the main terms used by all of us when talking about local as well as world politics. We often use these terms without a proper awareness of their meanings and connections, a circumstance not exactly helpful for any attempt to understand how politics really works, regardless of our wishful thinking or simplistic morality or easy cynicism.
Now, if we want to go deeper into the workings of politics - the only serious starting point for those who want reform - we must agree to begin with very abstract notions. This includes the general definitions of what politics, conflict, power (incl. force/violence), and what legitimate power mean (Part 1: What is Politics?). On these premises, we will then explain the still main political institution, the state, and peer into the dynamics of war and peace that has dominated the relationships between the states (Part 2: How Does Politics Work?). Since with economic globalisation, which has restricted the room for political action, things are getting much more complicated on the planet, and more challenging outside of it (man-made climate change starts in the atmosphere), classical notions have to be rethought. The very nature of the threats endangering our global commons does not leave the definition of politics (Part 3: World Politics and the Future).
This course does not aim at communicating any 'message' as to how politics ought to be. However, we will obviously try to clarify the main concepts - freedom, equality, justice - concepts we will make use of while talking about values and principles in politics. This is, what is called 'normative political philosophy' and is regarded here as an important chapter of political philosophy, not the whole of it (Part 4: Ethics and Politics).
What will I learn?
At the end of the course, you will have achieved a clearer and less confused awareness of political vocabulary, thus gaining a more complex, more autonomous and more critical understanding of political processes. If you are a student of political science, law, sociology and economics you will gain better tools for catching the overarching sense of processes. This will help you overcome an otherwise fragmented perspective and perspective.
My teaching method aims primarily at defining and discussing concepts, not illustrating authors or providing historical narratives; needless to say, there will be plenty of references to authors, books, events and processes, in particular with regard to the evolution of political modernity.
What do I have to know?
Due to my conceptual approach, to follow this course you do not need a prior knowledge of philosophy or political science, just the degree of general culture needed to pass the final high school exam, be it Abitur, maturità, baccalauréat or 高考(gao kao).
Course Structure
Chapter 1:
Aim and method of the course. General information. Two definitions of politics.
Chapter 2:
Disassembling the classical definition, and its components: Conflict, (Legitimate) Power, Force.
Chapter 3:
Questions about power. A word on political philosophy.
Chapter 4:
The subjective side of politics, legitimacy, political identity and political obligation.
Chapter 5:
Political order, political institutions, models of order: From Aristotle to Hegel.
Chapter 6:
The (modern) state. Basic thoughts on democracy.
Chapter 7:
The states: Power, peace, and war in the anarchical society.
Chapter 8:
Globalisation and global governance.
Chapter 9:
Global challenges and politics after modernity.
Chapter 10:
Liberty and equality.
Chapter 11:
Justice.
Chapter 12:
Ethics and politics in modernity.
Build your earth science vocabulary and learn about cycles of matter and types of sedimentary rocks through the Education Portal course Earth Science 101: Earth Science. Our series of video lessons and accompanying self-assessment quizzes can help you boost your scientific knowledge ahead of the Excelsior Earth Science exam . This course was designed by experienced educators and examines both science basics, like experimental design and systems of measurement, and more advanced topics, such as analysis of rock deformation and theories of continental drift.
This course focuses on novels and films from the last twenty-five years (nominally 1985–2010) marked by their relationship to extreme violence and transgression. Our texts will focus on serial killers, torture, rape, and brutality, but they also explore notions of American history, gender and sexuality, and reality television—sometimes, they delve into love or time or the redemptive role of art in late modernity. Our works are a motley assortment, with origins in the U.S., France, Spain, Belgium, Austria, Japan and South Korea. The broad global era marked by this period is one of acceleration, fragmentation, and late capitalism; however, we will also consider national specificities of violent representation, including particulars like the history of racism in the United States, the role of politeness in bourgeois Austrian culture, and the effect of Japanese manga on vividly graphic contemporary Asian cinema.
We will explore the politics and aesthetics of the extreme; affective questions about sensation, fear, disgust, and shock; and problems of torture, pain, and the unrepresentable. We will ask whether these texts help us understand violence, or whether they frame violence as something that resists comprehension; we will consider whether form mitigates or colludes with violence. Finally, we will continually press on the central term in the title of this course: what, specifically, is violence? (Can we only speak of plural "violences"?) Is violence the same as force? Do we know violence when we see it? Is it something knowable or does it resist or even destroy knowledge? Is violence a matter for a text's content—who does what, how, and to whom—or is it a problem of form: shock, boredom, repetition, indeterminacy, blankness? Can we speak of an aesthetic of violence? A politics or ethics of violence? Note the question that titles our last week: Is it the case that we are what we see? If so, what does our obsession with ultraviolence mean, and how does contemporary representation turn an accusing gaze back at us?
This course examines how people learn, practice, and evaluate traditional and contemporary craft techniques. Social science theories of design, embodiment, apprenticeship learning, skill, labor, expertise, and tacit knowledge are used to explore distinctions and connections among art, craft, and science. We will also discuss the commoditization of craft into market goods, collectible art, and tourism industries. Ethnographic and historical case studies include textiles, glassblowing, quilting, cheese making, industrial design, home cooking, factory and laboratory work, CAD-CAM. In-class demonstrations and hands-on craft projects will be included.
Build your earth science vocabulary and learn about cycles of matter and types of sedimentary rocks through the Education Portal course Earth Science 101: Earth Science. Our series of video lessons and accompanying self-assessment quizzes can help you boost your scientific knowledge ahead of the Excelsior Earth Science exam . This course was designed by experienced educators and examines both science basics, like experimental design and systems of measurement, and more advanced topics, such as analysis of rock deformation and theories of continental drift.
This course enhances cross-cultural understanding through the discussion of practical, ethical, and epistemological issues in conducting social science and applied research in foreign countries or unfamiliar communities. It includes a research practicum to help students develop interviewing, participant-observation, and other qualitative research skills, as well as critical discussion of case studies. The course is open to all interested students, but intended particularly for those planning to undertake exploratory research or applied work abroad. Students taking the graduate version complete additional assignments.
Build your earth science vocabulary and learn about cycles of matter and types of sedimentary rocks through the Education Portal course Earth Science 101: Earth Science. Our series of video lessons and accompanying self-assessment quizzes can help you boost your scientific knowledge ahead of the Excelsior Earth Science exam . This course was designed by experienced educators and examines both science basics, like experimental design and systems of measurement, and more advanced topics, such as analysis of rock deformation and theories of continental drift.
Aspiring teachers need to pass one or more of the California Subject Examinations for Teachers (CSET) to qualify for licensure in this state. The CSET for social science teachers consists of three subtests covering history, geography, civics and economics. Subtest I focuses on world history and world geography. It includes 39 multiple-choice questions, two short response essay questions and one extended response essay question. You'll have five hours for your testing session, and you can choose to take one, two or all three subtests during this time. The test is offered only in a paper-based format, and you'll need to bring your own #2 pencils on test day. You can prepare for the exam with Education Portal's study guide, which includes video lessons and quizzes on the following topics:
- Ancient civilization
- Medieval and early modern times
- Modern world history
- Tools and methods for geographic study
- Geographic diversity
You'll encounter questions about the social and cultural structures, intellectual contributions and philosophical traditions of ancient civilizations from a wide range of geographical regions. Significant economic and political developments occurring in early modern Europe are covered as well. You can also expect to answer questions on topics ranging from the causes and outcomes of 18th century conflicts like the American Revolution to the impact of 19th century imperialism. Additional exam topics include the effects of world wars I and II and the Cold War. You should also be familiar with physical and human geography to do well on the test.
Preparing and Registering for the CSET Social Science Subtest I
Education Portal's study guide provides you with short video lessons that discuss all of the topics included on the exam. The instructors break down the information into manageable sections that are engaging and easy to follow. You can even use the corresponding quizzes to assess your understanding of the material and find out how the exam's multiple-choice questions are formatted.
Begin the registration process by creating an online account through the CSET website. Once you've selected a username and password and entered in your personal information, you'll be able to choose the test date and testing location that suits you. The social science subtests are administered four times a year. The regular registration deadline falls about one month before the test date, though you can sign up by the late and emergency registration deadlines for an additional fee.
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