4.250J | 4.264 | 4.301 | 4.322 | 4.341 | 4.351 | 4.361 | 4.362 | 4.364 | 4.366 | 4.371 | 4.372 | 4.601 | 4.602 | 4.605 | 4.613 | 4.614 | 4.615 | 4.635 | 4.641 | 4.651 | 4.652
4.250J Introduction to Urban Design and Development
4.264 Environmental Psychology
Presents social science theories and methods that apply to human transactions with a wide range of environments. Focuses on development of applied research skills relevant to successful designing for human use, from urban to machine interface. Readings reinforce lectures and fieldwork. Semester projects dovetail with student's field of interest.
S. C. Howell
4.301 Foundations in the Visual Arts
See description for subject 4.301 under HASS-D Category 3, Visual and Performing Arts.
R. Taho
4.322 Introduction to Sculpture
Examines fundamental issues in sculpture such as form in space, site, and context as well as issues of performance and the temporal dimensions in sculpture. Explores the relationships between concept, materials, and process. Lab fee.
R. Taho
4.341 Introduction to Photography
Investigates fundamental issues in photography and the nature of the photographic image as well as nontraditional ways of exploring the photographic vision. Explores relationship of image to language as well as the issues of meaning, interpretation, and their relationship to culture. Lab fee. Limited enrollment.
E. Levine
4.351 Introduction to Video
Explores fundamental issues in video such as the nature of the video image, narrative, and video time. Explores video as a sculptural, environmental, and narrative form. Looks at the issues of interpretation and meaning and how they relate to historical, social, and cultural issues. Limited enrollment.
E. Levine
4.361 Dimensions of the Body
4.362 Dimensions of Time
4.364 Dimensions in Space
Examines how the different ways people think about space alter and change the way they conceive of space and spatial experiences. From the heavens to architecture to body space, investigates how personal and cultural views of space affect ways of thinking about, constructing, and interpreting spatial experiences. Looks at how institutional and religious spaces differ and their relationship to cultural and disciplinary constraints. A series of studio projects.
E. Levine
4.366 Advanced Projects in Visual Arts
4.371 Art and the Environment
4.372 Environmental Art
4.601 Introduction to Art History
4.602 Modern Art and Mass Culture
See description for subject 4.602 under HASS-D Category 3, Visual and Performing Arts.
L. W. Kinney
4.605 Introduction to the History and Theory of Architecture
See description for subject 4.605 under HASS-D Category 3, Visual and Performing Arts.
D. H. Friedman
4.613 Civic and Residential Islamic Architecture
Studies select examples of palatial, residential, commercial, and landscape architecture in the Islamic world in chronological order. Examines the formation and developments of architectural traditions, their possible models, their survival, their regional transformations, and the various influences at different historical junctions, all within the framework of the general Islamic culture.
N. Rabbat
4.614 Religious Architecture and Islamic Culture
4.615 The Architecture of Cairo
4.635 Renaissance Architecture
4.641 19th-Century Art
4.651 20th-Century Art
4.652 History of Photography
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