Available Syllabi and Websites for Summer 2009
This page contains content from the Summer School 2009. For current information, visit the Harvard Summer School website at www.summer.harvard.edu.
If a course syllabi or website is available, it is linked below. Syllabi or website links are added when faculty members submit them for publication on the website.
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- AFAM S-20 Introduction to African Languages and Cultures (32160)
- AFAM S-129 The Harlem Renaissance (32219)
- AFAM S-136 Study Abroad in Ghana: Slavery and Slave Trade in West Africa and the Caribbean: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives (32260)
- ANTH S-1011 The Road to Discovery: An Introduction to Archaeology (32367)
- ANTH S-1130 Archaeology of Harvard Yard (32415)
- ANTH S-1600 Introduction to Social Anthropology (31819)
- ANTH S-1641 Tolkien as Translator: Language, Culture, and Society in Middle-Earth (32366)
- ANTH S-1650 Museum Anthropology: Thinking with Objects (32348)
- ANTH S-1741d Study Abroad in San José, Costa Rica: An Anthropological Perspective on Media in Education (32291)
- ARAB S-Aab Elementary Arabic (31732)
- ARAB S-Bab Intermediate Modern Standard Arabic (32011)
- BIOS S-1ab Introductory Biology (32425)
- BIOS S-10 Principles of Biochemistry (32376)
- BIOS S-12 Principles and Techniques of Molecular Biology (32378)
- BIOS S-14 Principles of Genetics (32374)
- BIOS S-25 A Comparative Anatomical Perspective of Human Origins and Health (32372)
- BIOS S-50 Neurobiology (32375)
- BIOS S-74 Marine Life and Ecosystems of the Sea (32373)
- BIOS S-98r Study Abroad: Supervised Research (32426)
- BIOS S-200 Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in the Biological Sciences (32340)
- CELT S-110 Introduction to Irish Myth and Folklore (31418)
- CHEM S-1ab General Chemistry (30877)
- CHEM S-20ab Organic Chemistry (30609)
- CHIN S-102 Intermediate Modern Chinese (31091)
- CHIN S-163 Business Chinese (32453)
- CHIN S-Aa Beginning Modern Chinese I (30048)
- CHIN S-Aab Beginning Modern Chinese I, II (30047)
- CREA S-25 Beginning Fiction, section 1 (31670)
- CREA S-25 Beginning Fiction, section 3 (31658)
- CREA S-165 Writing Grant Proposals (31993)
- CREA S-175 Legal Writing, section 2 (30138)
- CREA S-180 Effective Business Communication, section 1 (30141)
- CREA S-180 Effective Business Communication, section 2 (30890)
- CSA S-1 Crimson Summer Academy Year 1 (32199)
- CSA S-2 Crimson Summer Academy Year II (32200)
- CSCI S-1 Great Ideas in Computer Science with Java (31441)
- CSCI S-12 Fundamentals of Website Development (32286)
- CSCI S-24 Video Editing and Digital Design (32454)
- CSCI S-131b Communication Protocols and Internet Architectures (32287)
- CZEC S-Aab Study Abroad in Prague, Czech Republic: Czech Language and Culture, Beginning Czech (32306)
- DRAM S-11 Acting Workshop: Developing a Character (30039)
- DRAM S-12 Acting Workshop: Shakespeare (30040)
- DRAM S-123 Modern Dance Technique and Choreography (32359)
- EALC S-11 Study Abroad in Tokyo, Japan—Culture and Belief: Medicine and the Body in East Asia and In Europe (32421)
- ECON S-10a Principles of Economics: Microeconomics (30056)
- ECON S-10ab Principles of Economics (30057)
- ECON S-110 Quantitative Methods in Economics and Business (30852)
- ECON S-190 Introduction to Managerial Finance (30298)
- ECON S-1010 Microeconomic Theory (30344)
- ECON S-1050 Strategy, Conflict, and Cooperation (31594)
- ECON S-1053 Study Abroad in Istanbul: Game Theory and Strategic Decisions (32420)
- ECON S-1123 Introduction to Econometrics (31837)
- ECON S-1316 Economic Development in India and East Asia (31522)
- ECON S-1397 Study Abroad in Istanbul: The Past, Present, and Future of Globalization (32464)
- ECON S-1452 Money, Financial Institutions, and Markets (31138)
- ECON S-1530 International Monetary Economics (32360)
- ECON S-1540 Globalization versus Regionalism in International Trade: Theory and Application (32358)
- ECON S-1913 Financial Strategy and Behavioral Finance (31733)
- ECON S-1920 Capital Markets and Investments (32440)
- ECON S-1941 Derivatives and Risk Management: Analytics and Applications (31602)
- EDUC S-037 Financial Management of Nonprofit Organizations (31667)
- ENGL S-88 Study Abroad in Venice: Interracial Literature (32137)
- ENGL S-124e Shakespeare (32235)
- ENGL S-141 Study Abroad in Venice: The Enlightenment Invention of the Modern Self (31801)
- ENGL S-144 Study Abroad in Venice: A Tale of Two Cities—Imagining Venice and London (32458)
- ENGL S-188 Science Fiction (32215)
- ENSC S-160 Mobile Robot and Embedded Programming (31913)
- ENVR S-101 Environmental Management (32382)
- ENVR S-130 Global Climate Change: The Science, Social Impact, and Diplomacy of a World Environmental Crisis (32294)
- ENVR S-200 Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in Environmental Management (31864)
- ENVR S-599 Capstone Projects in Environmental Management (32381)
- EXPO S-20a Writing and Literature, section 1 (31891)
- EXPO S-20a Writing and Literature, section 2 (31279)
- EXPO S-20a Writing and Literature, section 3 (31280)
- EXPO S-20d Writing about Social and Ethical Issues, section 1 (31893)
- EXPO S-20d Writing about Social and Ethical Issues, section 4 (31711)
- EXPO S-20d Writing about Social and Ethical Issues, section 5 (32485)
- EXPO S-20e The Essay, section 1 (31926)
- EXPO S-20e The Essay, section 2 (31290)
- EXPO S-20e The Essay, section 4 (32500)
- EXPO S-C Cross-Cultural Expository Writing, section 1 (31344)
- FINC S-100 Principles of Finance (32391)
- FINC S-120 Project Financing (32398)
- FINC S-135 Business Analysis and Valuation (32272)
- FINC S-137 Capital Acquisition and the Investment Banking Process (32361)
- FINC S-140 Applied Corporate Finance (32269)
- FINC S-142 Mergers and Acquisitions (32273)
- FINC S-148 Fundamentals of Investments and Portfolio Analysis (32357)
- FREN S-27 Oral Expression: Le Français parlé (31124)
- FREN S-Ax French for Reading Knowledge (31123)
- GERM S-23 Study Abroad in Munich: German Language and Culture (32093)
- GERM S-Bab Beginning German (31838)
- GERM S-R Introduction to German for Reading Knowledge (31302)
- GMAT S-1 Mathematics Review for the GMAT and GRE (30257)
- GOVT S-20 Introduction to Comparative Politics (32003)
- GOVT S-30 Introduction to American Government (31773)
- GOVT S-40 Introduction to International Relations (30155)
- GOVT S-1130 Intellectual Property (31596)
- GOVT S-1204 Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe (32413)
- GOVT S-1351 Congress: Policy, Parties, and Institutions (32147)
- GOVT S-1500 How Government Policies Really Affect You: Administrative Policymaking (32396)
- GOVT S-1511 Global Energy and Environmental Politics (32090)
- GOVT S-1731 The Future of War: Conflict and Order in the Twenty-First Century (31873)
- GOVT S-1732 War Crimes, Genocide, and Justice (31212)
- GOVT S-1900 American Foreign Policy (30164)
- GOVT S-1925 International Conflict and Cooperation (31739)
- GREK S-Aab Beginning Greek (31871)
- HARC S-34g Summer Seminar—Rome and Saint Peter's (31843)
- HARC S-128 Monuments and Cities of the Islamic World: An Introduction (32362)
- HARC S-152v Study Abroad in Venice: Topics in Italian Renaissance Art (32139)
- HARC S-183 The Architecture of Boston (31320)
- HIST S-1090 Study Abroad in Istanbul, Turkey: Introduction to Byzantine History (32435)
- HIST S-1331 Thought and Culture in Modern America (32343)
- HIST S-1572 Summer Seminar—The Holocaust in History, Literature, and Film, section 1 (32168)
- HIST S-1855 Film and History in Postwar Japan and Post-Mao China (31557)
- HIST S-1886 The Middle East: Rapprochement and Coexistence (31770)
- HIST S-1887 Perspectives on Islam: Religion, History, and Culture (31789)
- HIST S-1892 Study Abroad in Istanbul, Turkey: The Economic History of the Middle East Since World War II (32436)
- HIST S-1918 Colonialism in Africa (31964)
- HIST S-1967 From Cold War to Global Terror: World History from 1945 to the Present (32150)
- HSCI S-185 Study Abroad in London, England: Science and Engineering in Victorian Culture (32261)
- ISMT S-110 Internet and Integrated Productivity Software for Managers (32285)
- ITAL S-52 Study Abroad in Abruzzo, Italy: Mapping the Cultures of Italy—Food for Thought (31824)
- ITAL S-96r Study Abroad in Abruzzo, Italy: Italian and the Community—Academic Internships in Italian Language and Culture (32402)
- JAPA S-102 Intermediate Japanese (30053)
- JAPA S-Aab Beginning Japanese (30051)
- JAPA S-C Practical Japanese (31829)
- JOUR S-100 Graduate Journalism Proseminar: Writing and Reporting (31963)
- KORE S-133 Study Abroad in Seoul, Korea: Adventures in Early Korean History and Archaeology (32387)
- LATI S-122 Horace, Odes (32411)
- LATI S-Aab Beginning Latin (31870)
- LING S-110 Introduction to Linguistics (32159)
- LING S-120 Introduction to Historical Linguistics (32220)
- LITR S-143 Literature and the Possibility of Justice (32363)
- MATH S-1ab Calculus I and II (30390)
- MATH S-1b Calculus II (30393)
- MATH S-21a Multivariable Calculus (30189)
- MATH S-101 Spaces, Mappings, and Mathematical Reasoning: An Introduction to Proof (31859)
- MATH S-104 Discrete Mathematics with Computer Science Applications (32408)
- MATH S-300 Math for Teaching Arithmetic (32409)
- MGMT S-105 Electronic Commerce Strategies (32271)
- MGMT S-163 Cross-Border Innovation (32270)
- MGMT S-599 Strategic Management Capstone Course (32370)
- MUSE S-100 Introduction to Museum Studies (31851)
- MUSE S-101 Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in Museum Studies (31854)
- MUSI S-10 Fundamentals of Music (32243)
- MUSI S-55 The Evolution of Modern Jazz through Jazz-Rock and Fusion (30193)
- MUSI S-108 Introduction to Western Music of the "Golden Era": from the Baroque to Romanticism (32355)
- OBHR S-110 Organizational Behavior (32495)
- OBHR S-192 Principles and Lessons on Leadership (32293)
- PHIL S-4 Introduction to Philosophy (31849)
- PHIL S-120 The Identities of Persons: Literary, Philosophical, and Political (32368)
- PHIL S-167 Introduction to Biomedical Ethics (30201)
- PHYS S-1ab Principles of Physics (30610)
- PSYC S-25x Summer Seminar—The Meaning of Madness (32016)
- PSYC S-1016 Trauma and Development (32429)
- PSYC S-1240 Abnormal Psychology (30206)
- PSYC S-1293 The Aging Mind and Body (31644)
- PSYC S-1507 Psychology of Diversity (32397)
- PSYC S-1603 Adolescent and Young Adult Development (32156)
- PSYC S-1608 Brain and Behavior: Research Methods and Technologies (32246)
- PSYC S-1870 Law and Psychology (30208)
- PSYC S-1875 Delinquents, Criminals, Psychopaths, Terrorists (30209)
- RELI S-1010 World Religions (32228)
- RELI S-1013 Religion and Animals (32394)
- RELI S-1435 The History of Christianity in the West (32182)
- SLAV S-28 Icon, Ritual, Text: Reading the Culture of Medieval Rus' (32349)
- SLAV S-50 Study Abroad in St. Petersburg: Russian Imperial Masterworks (32385)
- SOCI S-45 Introduction to Modern Social Theory (32365)
- SPAN S-27 Oral Expression: El español hablado (31128)
- SPAN S-Cab Intermediate Spanish (30218)
- SPAN S-Aab Beginning Spanish (31365)
- SSCI S-100a Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in the Social Sciences: Psychology and Anthropology (31497)
- SSCI S-100b Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in the Social Sciences: Government and History, section 2 (32496)
- STAT S-100 Introduction to Quantitative Methods (32188)
- STAT S-102 Fundamentals of Biostatistics (32447)
- SWGS S-1154 Women, Popular Culture, and the American 1950s: I Like Ike, but I Love Lucy (32283)
- SWGS S-1230 History of Sexualities in the United States (32386)
- SWGS S-1412 Mystics and Memoirists: Women Writing Religious Experience (32388)
- SWGS S-1450 Our Mothers, Ourselves: A Brief History of the Women's Movement, 1953 to Present (32393)
- SWGS S-1453 Icons of Masculinity on Film (31921)
- UKRN S-103 Ukrainian Literature and Popular Culture (32389)
- UKRN S-124 Soviet Ukrainian History, 1914-1991 (32390)
- UKRN S-127 Ukraine as Linguistic Battleground (32351)
- UKRN S-Aab Beginning Ukrainian (30227)
- VISU S-76 Nazi Cinema: Fantasy Production in the Third Reich (32353)
- VISU S-160 Crucial Issues in Landscape Creation and Perception (30352)
- VISU S-167 Adventure, Fantasy, and Visual Representation of Alternate Topography (31119)
- VISU S-171 Introduction to Film Theory (32354)