APPENDIX B
If you entered MIT as of academic year 1988-89 or later, you must take three HASS-D subjects. The HASS Distribution subjects have been classified into five categories. Specifically, you must take one HASS-D subject from categories 1, 2, or 3, which have a content within the Humanities or Arts; and one HASS-D subject from category 4 or 5, which have a content within the Social Sciences. The third HASS-D Subject must be taken from one of the three remaining categories.
1998-99 HASS-D SUBJECTS IN HASS-D CATEGORIES
1) LITERARY AND TEXTUAL STUDIES. This category consists of subjects devoted to the interpretation of texts, of literary traditions, and of genres.
21F.020J New World Literature [21L.444J]
21F.022J International Women's Voices [SP 431J]
21F.311 Introduction to French Culture
21F.412 Introduction to German Literature
21F.716 Introduction to Contemporary Hispanic Literature
21L.003 Introduction to Fiction
21L.004 Major Poets
21L.006 American Literature
21L.009 Shakespeare
21L.012 Forms of Western Narrative
21L.021 Comedy
21W.735 Writing and Reading the Essay
2) LANGUAGE, THOUGHT, AND VALUE. Subjects in this category focus on the development of fundamental philosophical, conceptual, and moral issues, and stress careful analytical thinking and rigorous argumentation.
21L.001 Foundations of Western Culture I: Homer to Dante
21L.002 Foundations of Western Culture II: Renaissance to Modernity
21L.448J Darwin and Design [21W739J]
21L.449 The End of Nature
24.00 Problems of Philosophy
24.02 What is the Best Way to Live?
24.03 Relativism, Reason, and Reality
24.04J Justice [17.115J]
24.10J Philosophical Problems Concerning the Nature and Origins of Life [STS.004J]
STS.011 American Science: Ethical Conflicts and Political Choices
3) VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS. Subjects in this category are drawn from music, the visual arts, drama and dance, and film. Some are historical and analytical; others are more directly concerned with the creation of art.
4.301 Foundations in the Visual Arts
4.601 Introduction to Art History
4.602 Modern Art and Mass Culture
4.605 Introduction to the History and Theory of Architecture
4.614 Religious Architecture and Islamic Culture
21L.005 Introduction to Dramatic Art
21L.011 The Film Experience
21M.011 Introduction to Western Music
21M.030 Introduction to World Music
21M.065 Introduction to Music Composition
21M.226 Jazz
21M.301 Harmony and Counterpoint I
21M.601 Foundations of Theater History
21M.611 Foundations of Theater Practice
21M.621 Theater and Cultural Diversity in the U.S.
21M.670 Traditions in American Concert Dance
4) CULTURAL AND SOCIAL STUDIES. Subjects in this category study human societies by examining forms of social, cultural, economic, political, and religious organization and
behavior.
3.986 The Human Past: Introduction to Archaeology
9.00 Introduction to Psychology
11.020 Poverty, Public Policy, and Controversy
11.165 Courts and American Society
14.63 Labor in Industrial Society
14.72 Capitalism and Its Critics
17.241 Introduction to the American Political Process
17.319 Environmental Politics and Policy
17.403 American Foreign Policy: Past, Present, Future
17.577 The Politics of Change in the Third World
17.601J Soviet Politics and Society, 1917-1991 [21H.467J]
21A.100 Introduction to Anthropology
21A.109 Understanding Culture
21A.230J The Contemporary Family [SP 456J]
21F.018 Bilingualism: Language, Culture, and Experience
21F.084J Introduction to Latin American Studies [17.541J, 21A 224J]
21L.015 Introduction to Media Studies
SP.401 Introduction to Women's Studies
5) HISTORICAL STUDIES. Subjects in this category study the development of peoples, institutions, or countries over time.
21A.220 The Conquest of America
21H.102 The Emergence of Modern America, 1865 to the Present
21H.103 Family, Work and Leisure in America, 1600 to the Present
21H.104J Riots, Strikes, and Conspiracies in American History [11.015J]
21H.301 The Ancient World: Greece
21H.302 The Ancient World: Rome
21H.416J Medieval Economic History in Comparative Perspective [14.70J]
21H.421 Introduction to Environmental History
21H.433 The Age of Reason: Europe in the 18th and 19th Centuries
21H.523 Emergence of the Modern Japanese State, 1800-1945
21H.536 Family, State, and Economy in East Asian History
21H.601 Islam, the Middle East, and the West
21H.912 The World Since 1492
21W.746 Humanistic Perspectives on Medicine: From Ancient Greece to Modern America
STS.001 Technology in American History
STS.002 Toward the Scientific Revolution
STS.003 The Rise of Modern Science