Individual Consultations at the Writing and Communication Center
MIT Building 12, Room 132 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAThe Writing and Communications Center will offer free consultation on oral presentations and any writing problem.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Alchemists and Mad Scientists: from Faust to Dr. Strangelove
MIT Building 3, Room 133 33 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MAWe will trace the development in mass media of the evolution of alchemists into mad scientists, using the films "Faust," "Metropolis," "The Bride of Frankenstein," and "Dr. Strangelove" as our texts.
Integrating Communication Instruction in CI Subjects: A Writing Across the Curriculum IAP Workshop
MIT Building 12, Room 134 Cambridge, MAWe'll explore how instructors can break down assignments to demystify research, writing, and presentation in their fields.
Powerful Feedback: Strategies for Responding to Student Writing: A Writing Across the Curriculum IAP Workshop
MIT Building 12, Room 134 Cambridge, MAWhat kind of feedback will help students understand how to revise their essays, reports or articles, or to write their next assignment more effectively?
Oral Presentations and the Academic Conversation: A Writing Across the Curriculum IAP Workshop
MIT Building 12, Room 134 Cambridge, MAThis interactive workshop is geared to instructors across the disciplines who are interested in integrating oral presentation into their classes
Annotation Studio Workshop
MIT Building 56, Room 180 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAIn this hands-on workshop you'll learn how to create, tag, link, and share annotations in web-based environments.
Online Information Session
cms.mit.eduJoin us at 8am on October 3, 2013, here at cms.mit.edu!
Online Information Session
cms.mit.eduJoin us at 2pm on October 31, 2013, here at cms.mit.edu!
Push Button Game Jam
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 124 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAStudents who attend will form teams and create design and technical prototypes that will eventually become full fledged games by the end of the month.
Global Game Jam 2014 at MIT
The Global Game Jam is the world’s largest game jam event taking place around the world at physical locations, a 48-hour a hackathon focused on game development.
Disney Fairies Film Series
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAThe mostly-female cast is generally portrayed as being extremely competent and working collectively to solve problems, even as the films fall back on formulaic personality conflicts.
A Conversation about Digital Humanities: What’s It All About?
MIT Building 14N, Room 217 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MALet's talk about the impact of computation on the humanities, about where it can takes us, and about what it means to use this lens on our scholarship. And who's doing what where in DH at MIT?
Knitting for Programmers
Comparative Media Studies: MIT Building E15, Room 335 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MA"A knitting pattern is actually a more or less complex algorithm with the difference being that the output is directly wearable like 3D printing."
“Theory” and its Quotation Marks
TBAThe aim of this course is to provide an opportunity to explore (and a community with which to do so) the longstanding dialogue in the humanities commonly known as "theory," using inroads offered by certain modifiers (queer theory, feminist theory, media theory, critical race theory, affect theory and so forth).
Global Game Jam 2016
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center) 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAThe Global Game Jam (GGJ) is the world's largest game jam event taking place around the world at physical locations. Think of it as a hackathon focused on game development. The GGJ encourages people with all kinds of backgrounds to participate and contribute to this global spread of game development and creativity.
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