Course Guides Archive
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- African and African American Studies
- Art and Architecture
- Celtic Languages and Literatures
- Classics
- Core Curriculum
- East Asian Studies
- English and American Literature and Language
- European Studies
- Expository Writing
- Foreign Cultures
- Freshman Seminars
- Germanic Languages and Literatures
- Government
- History
- History and Literature
- History of Science
- Humanities
- Human Rights
- Linguistics
- Literature and Arts Literature and Arts
- Middle Eastern Studies
- Music
- Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
- Psychology
- Radcliffe Fellows
- Religion
- Romance Languages and Literatures
- Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies
- Sanskrit and Indian Studies
- Slavic Languages and Literatures
- Social Studies
- Sociology
- Ukrainian Studies
- Women, Gender, and Sexuality
- Other Classes and Workshops
African and African American Studies
2006 Fall
- Professor John Mugane's African and African American Studies 20 Course: Introduction to African Languages and Cultures
2005 Spring
2004 Spring
Art and Architecture
2006 Summer
Celtic Language and Literatures
2007 Summer
2006 Summer
2005 Summer
Classics
2002 Spring
Core Curriculum
2008 Spring
- Library Research Guide for John Huehnergard's Social Analysis 74: Visible Language: Writing Systems, Scripts, and Literacy
2007 Spring
2006 Spring
- Professor Hue-Tam Ho Tai's Core Course: Foreign Cultures 60 — Individual, Community, and Nation in Vietnam
- Professor Park's Historical Studies B-24: Utopia in the Age of the Scientific Revolution
2005 Fall
- Professor Matalon's Foreign Cultures 90 Course
- Webliography for Professor Ann Blair's Historical Study A-27: Reason and Faith in the West
2005 Spring
- Webliography for Professor Matalon's Foreign Cultures 90 Course
- Webliography for Professor Don Pfister's Science B-40: The Biology of Trees and Forests
- Research Guide for Professor John Stauffer's Literature and Arts A-86: American Protest Literature from Tom Paine to Tupac
2004 Spring
2002 Fall
2008 Spring
- Library Research Guide for Shigehisa Kuriyama's East Asian Studies 205 : Approches to the Comparative History of Medicine and the Body
- Library Research Guide for East Asian Studies 98c: Junior Tutorial - Paper Writing Workshop
- Basic Dictionary Guide for Chinese 106b: Introduction to Literary Chinese
- Library Research Guide for Professor Helen Hardacre's Japanese History 126: Shinto, a Conference Course
- Research Guide for Professor Helen Hardacre's Japanese History 120: Religion and Society in Twentieth-Century Japan
2007 Fall
- Korean History 255r: Guide to Korean Online Databases for Korean History
- Library Research Guide for Chinese Studies, Regional Studies East Asia Fall 2007 Workshop
- Library Research Guide for the Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholars and Fellows
- Library Research Guide for Japanese Studies, Regional Studies East Asia Fall 2007 Workshop
- Library Research Guide for Korean Literature 212 : Modern Korean Poetry
- Library Research Guide for Korean Studies, Regional Studies East Asia Fall 2007 workshop
- Library Research Guide for the Regional Studies - East Asia Workshop, Fall 2007
- Webliography for the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Post-Docs and Visiting Scholars
2007 Spring
2006 Fall
2006 Spring
2005 Fall
- Introduction to Electronic Resources for Chinese Literature 200
- Webliography for the Harvard-Yenching Institute Visting Scholars and Fellows
2005 Spring
2003/2004
2002/2003
English and American Literature and Language
2008 Spring
2007 Fall
2007 Summer
- Library Research Guide for English S-128a — Professor Marjorie Garber's Shakespeare After All: The Early Plays
- Library Research Guide for Professor Helen Vendler's National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar
2006 Fall
2006 Spring
2005 Fall
- English 10a:Major British Authors
- English 97: Sophomore Seminars
- English 115b: Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales
- English 292: Issues in the Study of American Literature
2005 Spring
2004 Fall
European Studies
2007 Fall
Expository Writing
2008 Spring
- Library Guide for Professor John McMillian's Expository Writing 20: From Reform to Revolution: Youth Culture
- Library Guide for Professor Ken Urban's Expository Writing 20: Contemporary Theatre
- Library Guide for Professor Lydia Fillingham's Expository Writing 20: Freedom of Expression
- Library Guide for Laurie McIntosh's Expository Writing 20: Race in the Americas
- Library Guide for Professor Michelle Syba's Expository Writing 20: What Is an Author?
- Library Research Guide for Kathryn Chadbourne's Expository Writing 20: Storytelling
- Library Guide for Professor Tess O'Toole Expository Writing 20: Home and Homeland: Family and Nation in Victorian Britain
- Webliography for Professor Weitzel's Expos 20: Into the Wild
2007 Fall
- Library Guide for Professor Edyta Bojanowska's Expository Writing 20: Tolstoy and Chekhov
- Library Research Guide for Professor Emily Shelton's Expository Writing 20: Murder
- Library Guide for Professor Lydia Fillingham's Expository Writing 20: Freedom of Expression, Fall 2007
- Library Research Guide for Professor Sigrid Anderson Cordell's Expository Writing 20: Creating Monsters
- Library Research Guide for Professor Melissa Jenkins' Expository Writing 20: Women Writers of the South
- Professor Luciana Herman's Expository Writing 20: Rhetoric and Representation in Contemporary American Politics
2007 Spring
- Webliography for Professor Kathryn Chadbourne's Expository Writing 20: Storytelling 20
- Library Guide for Professor Sarah Emsley's Expository Writing 20: Jane Austen and Civil Society
- Webliography for Professor Luciana Herman's Expository Writing 20: Rhetoric and Representation in Contemporary American Politics
- Professor Ken Urban's Expository Writing 20: Contemporary Theatre
2006 Fall
- Professor Pat Bellanca's Expository Writing 10
- Professor Karen Leigh Heath's Expository Writing 10
- Professor Laura Adams' Expository Writing 20: Dilemmas of Memory
- Professor Tom Akbari's Expository Writing 20: Imagining Science
- Professor Kathryn Chadbourne's Expository Writing 20: Storytelling
- Professor Sarah Emsley's Expository Writing 20: Jane Austen and Civil Society
- Professor Luciana Herman's Expository Writing 20: Rhetoric and Representation in American Politics
- Professor David Haglund's Expository Writing 20: Writing and Rebellion in America
- Professor Ken Urban's Expository Writing 20: Contemporary Theatre
- Professor Tom Akbari's Expository Writing 20: Imagining Science
2006 Summer
- Professor Anthony Cashman's Expository Writing S-20: Writing about Social and Ethical Issues
- Professor Thane Weedon's Expository Writing S-20d: Writing about Social and Ethical Issues
2006 Spring
- Professor Susan Carlisle's Expository Writing 20: East Meets West
- Professor Kathryn Chadbourne's Expository Writing 20: Storytelling
- Professor Sarah Emsley's Expository Writing 20: Jane Austen and Civil Society
- Dr. Lydia Fillingham's Expository Writing 20 Class: Freedom of Expression
- Professor David Haglund's Expository Writing 20: Writing and Rebellion in America
- Professor Luciana Herman's Expository Writing 20: Rhetoric and Representation in American Politics
2005 Fall
- Professor Susan Carlisle's Expository Writing 10
- Professor Karen Leigh Heath's Expository Writing 10
- Professor Tom Akbari's Expository Writing 20: Imagining Science
- Professor Kathryn Chadbourne's Expository Writing 20: Storytelling
- Professor Sarah Emsley's Expository Writing 20: Jane Austen and Civil Society
- Dr. Lydia Fillingham's Expository Writing 20 Class: Freedom of Expression
- Professor Luci Herman's Expository Writing 20: Rhetoric and Representation in American Politics
- Professor Cassandra Volpe Horii's Expository Writing 20: Prediction
2005 Summer
- Professor Tom Akbari's Expository Writing S-20E: The Essay
- Professor Anthony Cashman's Expository Writing S-20: Writing about Social and Ethical Issues
- Professor Luciana Herman's Expository Writing 20: Political Rhetoric and the Right to Vote
2005 Spring
- Professor Susan Carlisle's Expository Writing 20: East Meets West
- Professor James Herron's Expository Writing 20: Race in the Americas
- Professor Janet Sylvester's Expository Writing 20: Ghost Stories
- Professor Suzanne Young's Expository Writing 20: Mapping the Mind
- Professor Justin Wolff's Expository Writing 20: Photography and the American Scene
2004 Fall
- Professor Susan Carlisle's Expository Writing 10
- Professor Karen Leigh Heath's Expository Writing 10
- Professor Tom Akbari's Expository Writing 20: The Medical Imagination
- Professor Kathryn Chadbournes's Expository Writing 20: Storytelling
- Professor Luciana Herman's Expository Writing 20: Representation and the Right to Vote
- Professor Suzanne Young's Expository Writing 20: Mapping the Mind
2004 Spring
- Professor Tom Akbari's Expository Writing 20: The Medical Imagination
- Professor Susan Carlisle's Expository Writing 20: East Meets West
- Professor Augusta Rohrbach's Expository Writing 20: The Civil War in Image and Memory and Icon
- Professor Cassandra Volpe Horii's Expository Writing 20: Prediction
- Professor Dan Wadhwani's Expository Writing 20: Money in America
- Professor Suzanne Young's Expository Writing 20: Mapping the Mind
2003 Fall
- Professor Augusta Rohrbach's Expository Writing 20: The Civil War in Image and Memory
- Professor Tom Akbari's Expository Writing 20: The Medical Imagination
- Professor Susan Carlisle's Expository Writing 10
- Professor Pat Kain's Expository Writing 10
- Professor Kathryn Chadbourne's Expository Writing 20: Storytelling
- Professor Karen Leigh Heath's Expository Writing 10
2003 Summer
2003 Spring
- Professor Cheryl Smith's Expository Writing 20: Environmental Ethics
- Professor Tom Akbari's Expository Writing 20: Cultures of Science
- Professor Augusta Rohrbach's Expository Writing 20: The Civil War in Image and Memory
- Professor Luciana Herman's Expository Writing 20: Race and Representation
2002 Fall
- Professor Pat Kain's Expository Writing 10
- Professor Tom Akbari's Expository Writing 20: Cultures of Science
- Professor Karen Leigh Heath's Expository Writing 10
- Professor Luciana Herman's Expository Writing 20: Race and Representation
- Professor Augusta Rohrbach's Expository Writing 20: The Civil War in Image and Memory
- Professor Cheryl Smith's Expository Writing 20: Environmental Ethics
2002 Summer
- Expository Writing S-20D: Writing about Social and Ethical Issues
- Expository Writing S-20E: Writing and the Essay
- Expository Writing S-20D: Writing about Social and Ethical Issues
2002 Spring
Foreign Cultures
2003 Spring
Freshman Seminars
2008 Spring
- Library Course Guide for Deborah Foster's Freshman Seminar 32v: The Art of Storytelling
- Library Research Guide for Sharrona Hyla Pearl's Freshman Seminar 34q: Languages of the Body: Physiognomy, Phrenology, and Hysteria in Western History and Literature
- Library Guide for Professor Julie Buckler's Freshman Seminar 37p: Reading Tolstoy's War and Peace
- Library Research Guide for Ofrit Liviatan's Freshman Seminar 42k: Comparative Law and Religion
- Library Research Guide for Robert Darnton's Freshman Seminar 42w: The Book: From Gutenberg to the Internet
- Library Research Guide for Tarun Khanna's Freshman Seminar 42z: Shaping Modern China and India
2007 Fall
- Library Research Guide for Professor Judith Palfrey's Freshman Seminar 24n: Child Health in America
- Library Research Guide for Professor Theodore Macdonald's Freshman Seminar 41g: The Faces of Human Rights in Latin America: Anthropological Perspectives
- Library Research Guide for Professor Stephen Marks' Freshman Seminar 42v: Human Rights Between Rhetoric and Reality
- Library Research Guide for Laura Schlosberg's Freshman Seminar 46i: The Art of Living: Consumer Cultures in Modern Europe
- Library Research Guide for Professors Jacqueline Bhabha and Jennifer Leaning's Freshman Seminar 46p: Human Rights in Peace and War
- Library Guide for Professor Maria Tatar's Freshman Seminar 49p: Childhood and Its Literary Culture
2007 Spring
- Library Course Guide for Deborah Foster's Freshman Seminar 32v: The Art of Storytelling
- Library Research Guide for Sharrona Hyla Pearl's Freshman Seminar 34q:
Languages of the Body: Physiognomy, Phrenology, and Hysteria in Western History and Literature - Library Research Guide for Stephen Greenblatt's Freshman Seminar 36i: First Encounters
- Library Research Guide for Professor Xiaofei Tian's Freshman Seminar 39v: How to Read Chinese Poetry
- Library Research Guide for Lisa Szefel's Freshman Seminar 40x: Disco Decade: The 1970s in America
- Library Research Guide for Ellen Condliffe Lagemann's Freshman Seminar 44m: Harvard & the History of Higher Education in the U.S., 1636-2006
- Library Course Guide for Timothy McCarthy's Freshman Seminar 46v: Political Speechmaking and the Language of American Democracy
- Library Research Guide for Paulo Daflon Barrozo's Freshman Seminar 49l: Cruelty and Modern Law: The Jurisprudence of Cruelty, Brutality, and Suffering
- Library Guide for Professor Sean Pollock's Freshman Seminar 49t: Russia as a Multiethnic Empire
2006 Fall
- Professor Smith's Freshman Seminar 40n: Art, Knowledge, and Faith in Boston's Copley Square, 1870-1900
- Freshman Seminar 41w: Public Power, Private Lives: Writing 20th-Century US History as Biography
- Professors Bhabha and Leaning's Freshman Seminar 46p: Human Rights in Peace and War
- Professor John Palfrey's Freshman Seminar 40p: Law of the Internet
2006 Spring
- Freshman Seminar 34k: Italian Americans: Literature, History, Identity
- Freshman Seminar 43n: Sin and the City: Tales of Historical Kyoto
- Freshman Seminar 40w: War and American Culture Since 1941
2005 Fall
- Freshman Seminar 25w: Responsibility, the Brain, and Behavior
- Freshman Seminar 35z: The Novel and Its Media
- Freshman Seminar 39s: Arthurian Literature in its Medieval Context
- Freshman Seminar 40p: Law of the Internet
- Freshman Seminar 46p: Human Rights
- Freshman Seminar 49e: Globalisation: Critical Perspectives
- Freshman Seminar 49p: Childhood and Its Literary Culture
2005 Summer
2004 Fall
- Webliography for Professors Bhabha and Leaning's Freshman Seminar 46j: Human Rights
- Research Strategies and Sources for Professor Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham's Freshman Seminar 46u: The Northern Side of the Civil Rights Movement
- Webliography for Professor John Huehnergard's Freshman Seminar 38g: Lost Languages and Decipherment
- Webliography for Dr. John O'Keefe's Freshman Seminar 48t, Hey Kids!: American Childhood in Historical Perspective
- Webliography for Professor Judy Palfrey's Freshman Seminar 24n: Child Health in America
- Webliography for Professor Farzin Vadhat's Freshman Seminar 46z: Islam and Modernity
- Webliography
for Professor Adam Webb's Freshman Seminar 49e: Globalization:
Critical Perspectives
2004 Spring
- Research Guide for Professor Lisa McGirr's Freshman Seminar 46k, The Sacco and Vanzetti Case: Culture, Politics and Memory
- Webliography for Professor Oona Ceder's Freshman Seminar 47e: The Politics of Love and Friendship
2003 Fall
- Professors Jacqueline Bhabha and Jennifer Leaning's Freshman Seminar 46p: Human Rights
- Professor John Huehnergard's Freshman Seminar 35y: Visible Language: Scripts and Writing Systems
- Professor Gloria Pastorino's Freshman Seminar 36s, Provocative Truths: The Role of the Fool in European Drama
- Professor Leah Price's Freshman Seminar 35z: The Novel and Its Media
- Professor Stephanie Sandler's Freshman Seminar 34e: Fear Itself
- Professor Andrew Scheil's Freshman Seminar 36t, Chivalry: Myth and Reality from the Middle Ages to the Present
- Professor Werner Sollors' Freshman Seminar 35n: American Literature in English and Other Languages
- Freshman Seminar 36e: Spanish American Culture and Society in the 1960s—The Last Utopia?
2002 Fall
- Professor
Joseph Harris' Freshman
Seminar 32z: Family Sagas and the Literature of Medieval Scandinavia
Germanic Languages and Literatures
2007 Fall
2006 Fall
2005 Fall
Government
2006 Fall
History
2008 Spring
- Webliography for Professor Browne's Historical Studies B-45: The Darwinian Revolution
- Library Guide for History of American Civilization New Graduate Students
2007 Fall
- English 259/History 2321: Methods in Book History
- Library Course Guide for History 1544: Stalinism Research Seminar
- Library Course Guide for History 1839: Ethnic Conflict in Twentieth-Century China: Research Seminar
- Library Guide for History of American Civilization New Graduate Students
2007 Spring
2006 Fall
- Historical Studies B-68: America and Vietnam, 1945-1975
- Historical Studies A-34: Medicine and Society in America
- History 2848b: Introduction to Archival Research in Chinese History: Seminar
2004 Spring
2003 Spring
- Professor Ann Blair's History 90D: Intellectual History of Early Modern and Modern Europe
- Professor
Caroline Elkins' History 1922: Protest, Rebellion and Power in
East African History
History and Literature
2003/2004
2002/2003
- Professors Serna and Silva's Sophomore Tutorial in American History and Literature
- Professors Des Jardins and Rohrbach's Sophomore Tutorial in American History and Literature
2001/2002
- History and Literature 97: The Revolution and Antebellum Period
- History
and Literature 97: American Places
History of Science
2008 Spring
- Webliography for Professor Browne's History of Science 134: Nature on Display
- Webliography for Professor Tracy's History of Science 146v: Measuring Humankind
2007 Fall
Humanities
2007 Fall
- Library Navigational Guide for Stephen Greenblatt's Humanities 27: Travel and Transformation on the High Seas: An Imaginary Journey in the Early 17th Century
2007 Summer
Human Rights
2008 Spring
2007 Fall
2007 Spring
Latin American Studies
2007 Fall
Linguistics
2007 Fall
Literature and Arts
2008 Spring
- Literature and Arts A-17: Childhood: Its History, Philosophy, and Literature
- Literature and Arts B-85: American Musicals and American Culture
2007 Fall
2007 Spring
Middle Eastern Studies
2008 Spring
2006 Fall
2006 Spring
2004/2005
2003/2004
2002/2003
- Professor Roy Mottahedeh's Arabic 144: Sources for the Study of Islamic History
- CMES
Graduate Students
Music
2008 Spring
- Literature and Arts B-85: American Musicals and American Culture
- Music 97r: Sophomore Tutorial - Music History and Repertory
- Music 193rt: Global Pop Music
2007 Fall
- Literature and Arts B-82: Sayin' Something: Jazz as Sound, Sensibility, and Social Dialogue
- Music 201b: Current Methods in Ethnomusicology
2007 Spring
2006 Fall
- Music 194r: The American Musical, 1927-1957
- Music 97r: Sophomore Tutorial: Music History and Repertory
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
2008 Spring
- Library Research Guide for John Huehnergard's Social Analysis 74: Visible Language: Writing Systems, Scripts, and Literacy
- Library Research Guide for Ali S. Asani's Islamic Civilizations 241r : Approaches to Studying Indo-Muslim Culture and South Asian Islam
- Library Research Guide for Peter B. Machinist's Near Eastern Civilizations 97r: Sophomore Tutorial
- Library Research Guide for Rachel L. Greenblatt's Jewish Studies 144: History and Memory: Modes of Jewish Discourse
- Library Research Guide for Wolfhart P. Heinrichs' Arabic 146r: History of the Arabic Languages
2007 Spring
2004 Spring
Psychology
2008 Spring
Radcliffe Fellows
2007 Fall
2007 Spring
Religion
2008 Spring
2007 Fall
2007 Spring
2006 Fall
2005 Fall
2004/2005
2003/2004
Romance Languages and Literatures
2008 Spring
- French 139b: The Eighteenth Century: Ethical Dilemmas
- French 115: Animals, Monsters & the Medieval Imagination
- French 165: Marcel Proust
- Spanish 154: Travel Literature and Modernity in the 19th Century
2007 Fall
- French 111: Violence: Medieval French Responses
- French 242: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- French 264: France in the World: Cultural Production, Transmission and Dialogue
2007 Spring
- French 161: Rereading Realism
- French 255: Metamorphoses of the Vampire
- Italian 113: On the Road: Geographies of Memory and Childhood in Italian Literature and Cinema (1941-1992)
- Spanish 191: Jorge Luis Borges y Julio Cortázar
2006 Fall
- French 100: History of the French Language
- French 112: From the Troubadour to the "Grand Rhétoriqueur": Lyric Poetry in Medieval France
- French 224: Théâtre et politique: Corneille, Molière, Racine
- French 259: The Culture of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century France
- Spanish 190: Proclamando territorios: literaturas y culturas indígenas en América Latina
2006 Spring
- French 108: Amours et Armes: Etude du Roman français du 12e au 15e siècle
- French 196: 20th-Century Theater in the Francophone Caribbean and the Indian Ocean: "de la Tragédie au Burlesque"
- French 238: Failure and Change: Rereading Enlightenment
- Spanish 155: Inventing Cultural and Political Myths: Eva Perón, Che Guevara, Simon Bolívar, La Malinche
2005 Fall
- French 100: History of the French Language
- French 139a: The Eighteenth Century: Self and Society
- French 161: Rereading Realism
- French 187: Espaces urbains comme architecture de la mémoire dans le roman
antillais contemporain
- French 256: Sand, Colette and the Mothers of Invention
- Spanish 184: Sex and Gender in Spanish America: Man and Woman
2005 Spring
2004 Fall
- French 134: Seventeenth-Century Prose Narrative
- French 165: Marcel Proust
- French 255: Metamorphoses of the Vampire
- Italian 97: Introduzione alla Letteratura Italiana
- Spanish 166: Hedonismo y Pragmatismo
- Spanish 191: Jorge Luis Borges y Julio Cortázar
2004 Spring
- French 102: Introduction à la littérature médiévale et à l'ancien français
- French 197: Francophone Women Writers: Exile, Immigration, Memory
- French 267: The Public Intellectual in France, from Zola to Bourdieu
- Spanish 155: Inventing Cultural and Political Myths: Eva Peron, Che Guevara, Simon Bolivar, La Malinche,
2003 Fall
- French 148: Images of the Family in 18th-century French Literature, Arts and Culture
- French 226: Literature and Civility in the Seventeenth Century
- French 252: Sounds of Silence
- French 259: The Culture of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century France
- French 272: Poésie Française du Vingtième Siècle
- Latin American Studies 110: Dictatorship/Postdictatorship
2003 Spring
Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies
2006 Fall
Sanskrit and Indian Studies
2008 Spring
Slavic Languages and Literatures
2006 Fall
Social Studies
2007 Spring
2006 Fall
Sociology
2008 Spring
- Library Research Guide for Sociology 98: Junior Tutorial: Understanding Latin American Migration Flows to the United States
- Library Research Guide for Sociology 98b: Junior Tutorial, Civic Organizations in American Democracy
2007 Fall
- Library Research Guide for Sociology 95: Research for Nonprofits
- Library Research Guide for Sociology 98z: Junior Tutorial, Residential Segregation and Urban Neighborhoods
2006 Fall
2004 Fall
- Webliography for Professor Neil Gross' Sociology 10: Introduction to Sociology
- Webliography
for Professor Michele Lamont's Sociology 209, Qualitative Social
Analysis: Seminar
Ukranian Studies
2007 Summer
2006 Summer
2005 Summer
Women, Gender, and Sexuality
2008 Spring
- Researching Women, Gender and Sexuality for WGS 97: Sophomore Tutorial
- Researching Women, Gender and Sexuality for WGS 1123: Women and Work in the U.S.
- Researching Women, Gender and Sexuality for WGS 1136: Food, Culture, and Gender
