# Past Courses (Harvard and MIT) Sort & Filters close ## Filters Course Categories expand\_more - expand\_moreexpand\_lessHarvard AY 2023-2024 (11) - Fall 2023 (7) - Spring 2024 (4) - expand\_moreexpand\_lessMIT AY 2023-2024 (115) - expand\_moreexpand\_lessPast Harvard Courses (59) - Harvard AY 2022-2023 (8) - Fall 2022 (4) - Spring 2023 (4) - Harvard AY 2021/2022 (5) - AY 2020/2021 (7) - Spring 2021 (7) - AY 2018/2019 (13) - Fall 2018 (4) - Spring 2019 (9) - AY 2017/2018 (12) - Fall 2017 (5) - Spring 2018 (7) - Harvard Courses Before 2017 (14) - expand\_moreexpand\_lessPast MIT Courses (9) - MIT AY 2022-2023 (1) - MIT AY 2021/2022 (2) - AY 2019/2020 (1) - Fall 2019 (1) - AY 2018/2019 (2) - Fall 2018 (1) - Spring 2019 (1) - AY 2017/2018 (2) - Fall 2017 (2) - MIT Courses before 2017 (1) - Courses 2014/15 and earlier (44) Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 134 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by Date AscendingDate DescendingAlphabetical A-ZAlphabetical Z-A sort list grid\_view ## 134 results ### Spring, 2010 [### History 1318: History of the Book and of Reading ](/class/history-1318-history-book-and-reading) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2010 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) Ann Blair An introduction to the cultural history of the book and its functions as both material object and text. Major themes include the techniques of book production, authorship, popular and learned readership, libraries and censorship. The course surveys developments... [### HISTSCI 189 The World We Made: Technology and Society (Formerly Speech, Print, Television, Blog: The History of Communications Technologies) ](/class/histsci-189-world-we-made-technology-and-society-formerly-speech-print-television-blog) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2010 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) For as long as people have lived on Earth, they have shaped their world and have, in turn, been shaped by it. This lecture course surveys humans’ relationships with the built world, beginning with the origins of civilization and extending through the present day. During the... [### History of Science 215r: Science and Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Seminar ](/class/history-science-215r-science-and-culture-late-medieval-and-early-modern-europe-seminar) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2010 Susan Dackerman Topic for 2009-10: Prints and the Production of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe. Explores the overlapping knowledge projects of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century artists, artisans, and scientists and the role of printed images in those projects. An... ### Fall, 2011 [### History 81j: What Was an Early Modern Author? ](/class/history-81j-what-was-early-modern-author) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2011 Ann Blair This course, designed for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, will examine forms of authorship in early modern Europe broadly defined and the contextual factors that help explain them. Topics include: authenticity and plagiarism, collaborations... [### History of Science 282: Communications Media in the Sciences ](/class/history-science-282-communications-media-sciences) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2011 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-107619) Alex Csiszar This seminar will investigate how and to what extent knowledge is shaped by the communication practices and media through which it has been produced, from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century. The last decade has seen a convergence of concerns in book... ### Spring, 2011 [### Freshman Seminar 42w: The Book: From Gutenberg to the Internet ](/class/freshman-seminar-42w-book-gutenberg-internet) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2011 Robert Darnton Examines the impact of books on Western culture from the time of Gutenberg. Hands-on experience in studying the book as a physical object and theoretical reflection on the nature of printing as a means of communication. Students will consider the publishing... ### Fall, 2012 [### Aesthetic & Interpretive Understanding 16: Openings: The Illuminated Manuscript ](/class/aesthetic-interpretive-understanding-16-openings-illuminated-manuscript) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2012 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-125491) Jeffrey Hamburger In an age of mechanical - and now virtual - reproduction, we have lost sight of the basic visual unit that structures our experience of the book: the opening. Employing old and new technologies, this course focuses on medieval books, their decoration and... [### History 84e: How to Read a Book ](/class/history-84e-how-read-book) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2012 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-108494) This hands-on interdisciplinary undergraduate seminar is for students who want to think about what a book is and how to read one. Readings include historical and literary narratives of reading by Cervantes, Richardson, Franklin, Sterne, Ellison, and Bradbury, together with... [### History of Art and Architecture 271p: Reading, Drawing, Printing Architecture ](/class/history-art-and-architecture-271p-reading-drawing-printing-architecture) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2012 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-127114) The architectural book and its readers, authors, circulation and manufacture in the early modern period. [### Romance Studies 220: Fragments of a Material History of Literature ](/class/romance-studies-220-fragments-material-history-literature) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2012 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-108779) Jeffrey T. Schnapp Literary studies examined from the perspective of the practices that have shaped ideas concerning literature, writing, speech, and communication: from scrolls and codices to the rise of printing and typewriting to digital writing. [### History of Science 284: Technology and the Text: Machines and Discourse in Historical and Literary Inquiry ](/class/history-science-284-technology-and-text-machines-and-discourse-historical-and-literary) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2012 Investigates historically and theoretically the relationship between textuality and technology in recent works as well as in "classics" of the history of technology, cultural theory, and literary criticism. Readings include studies in media history and theory, and theories... ### Spring, 2012 [### Spanish 124: Don Quixote and the Art of Reading ](/class/spanish-124-don-quixote-and-art-reading) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2012 In the beginning was the book. From his library the hidalgo, bent on writing himself into History, sallies forth into a world of actors, storytellers, and readers. How do books come by their power to shape individuals and their world? We read Cervantes’ masterpiece alongside... - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [3](?page=2 "Go to page 3") - [ Last page 12 ](?page=11 "Go to last page") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")