Writing and Experience: MIT Inside, Live
Acting as participant-observers, students investigate MIT's history and culture through visiting the Institute's archives and the MIT Museum and evaluating depictions of MIT in popular culture. Students hone narrative and argumentative skills, working collaboratively and individually to examine inflection points in Institute history. Presents strategies for constructing arguments and presentations, culminating in a public slideshow on a historical aspect of student life at MIT. Limited to 15.
Fall 2013 · Writing and Experience: MIT: Inside, Live
During this seminar, students will chronicle their MIT experiences and investigate MIT history and culture. Visits to the MIT archives and museum, along with relevant readings, will supplement students’ experiences as source material for discussion and writing.
Prerequisites & course information
Prereq: None U (Fall, Spring) 3-0-9 units. HASS-H; CI-HW Credit cannot also be received for 21W.022 , 21W.023 , 21W.024
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Fall 2013
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.