MIT OCW Archived Courses: Recent submissions
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21W.730-4 Writing on Contemporary Issues: Food for Thought: Writing and Reading about the Cultures of Food, Fall 2008
(2008-12)"What people do with food is an act that reveals how they construe the world." - Marcella Hazan, The Classic Italian Cookbook If you are what you eat, what are you? Food is at once the stuff of life and a potent ... -
21W.730-3 Consumer Culture, Fall 2002
(2002-12)What is the good life, and can you shop there? Would you want that life if you couldn't? Has shopping replaced working as the activity that gives the most meaning to our lives? The theme for this Expository Writing class ... -
CMS.S60 / CMS.S96 Technopanics: Moral Panics about Technology, Spring 2013
(2013-06)Hacking and trolling; mass murders and bullying. What do these have in common? One theory holds that these are all "deviant" social behaviors, occurring both online and off, which have purportedly been brought ...