Spring Courses

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NOTE: The History Department only has course locations for HISTORY classes. If your course is cross-listed, consult the original department.

General Education Courses (These courses count for History credit)

General Education 1014: Ancestry

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Spring

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2020

Maya Jasanoff

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See also: Cross-Listed/Spring, GENED/Spring, General Education (GenEd) Courses/Spring, US or European History (Western)

General Education 1095: Is War Inevitable?

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Spring

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2020

Derek Penslar

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See also: Cross-Listed/Spring, GENED/Spring, General Education (GenEd) Courses/Spring, US or European History (Western)

General Education 1101: The Business of China

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Spring

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2020

William Kirby

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See also: Cross-Listed/Spring, GENED/Spring, General Education (GenEd) Courses/Spring, Beyond the U.S.and Europe (Non-Western)

General Education 1117: Nature

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Spring

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2020

Joyce Chaplin

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See also: Cross-Listed/Spring, GENED/Spring, General Education (GenEd) Courses/Spring, US or European History (Western)

General Education 1159: American Capitalism

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Spring

Offered:

2020

Sven Beckert

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See also: Cross-Listed/Spring, GENED/Spring, General Education (GenEd) Courses/Spring, US or European History (Western)

Humanities

Humanities 10B: A Humanities Colloquium: From Joyce to Homer

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Spring

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2020

David Armitage/David Elmer/Samantha Matherne/Louis Menand/Katharina Piechocki/Leah Whittington

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Undergraduate Seminars (12, 13, 14, 70 and 80-level courses)

History 12A: Communal Life through the Ages: Monasteries, Cults & Collectives

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Spring

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2020

Claire Adams

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See also: Undergraduate Seminars/Spring, Before 1750 (Pre-modern - PM)

History 12B: Identity before Identity Politics: America in the Progressive Era

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Spring

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2020

Abigail Modaff

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See also: Undergraduate Seminars/Spring, US or European History (Western)

History 12C: Out of the Vault: Material Culture and Harvard's Collection

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Spring

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2020

Caitlin Hopkins

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See also: Undergraduate Seminars/Spring, US or European History (Western)

History 12D: Histories of the Third World: Asia, Africa, and Internationalism

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Spring

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2020

Ruodi Duan

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See also: Undergraduate Seminars/Spring, Beyond the U.S.and Europe (Non-Western)

History 13C: St. Louis from Lewis and Clark to Michael Brown

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Spring

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2020

Walter Johnson

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See also: Undergraduate Seminars/Spring, US or European History (Western)

History 14D. From the Belle Epoque to the Third Reich: Culture and Aesthetics in France and Germany, c. 1880-1945

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Spring

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2020

Carla Heelan

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See also: Undergraduate Seminars/Spring, US or European History (Western)

History 14N. The Uses and Abuses of the Past: History in American Public Life

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Spring

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2020

Lizabeth Cohen

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See also: Undergraduate Seminars/Spring, US or European History (Western)

History 14Q. Amsterdam: A Global History

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Spring

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2020

Pepijn Brandon

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See also: Undergraduate Seminars/Spring, US or European History (Western)

History 14S. Genocide, War Crime Trials, and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century

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Spring

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2020

Brandon Bloch

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See also: Undergraduate Seminars/Spring, US or European History (Western)

History 74N. U.S. History: Major Themes in the Twentieth Century

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Spring

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2020

Lisa McGirr

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See also: Undergraduate Seminars/Spring, US or European History (Western)

History 82F. The Origins of the Cold War: The Yalta Conference (1945)

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Spring

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2020

Serhii Plokhii

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See also: Undergraduate Seminars/Spring, US or European History (Western)

History 84G. Harvard and Slavery

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Spring

Offered:

2020

Sven Beckert

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See also: Undergraduate Seminars/Spring, US or European History (Western)

Directed Study for Undergraduates

History 91R. Supervised Reading and Research

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Spring

Offered:

2020

Lisa McGirr

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See also: Directed Study for Undergraduates/Spring

History 92R. History Lab

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Spring

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2020

Gabriel Pizzorno

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See also: Directed Study for Undergraduates/Spring

Tutorials (Hist 97 and 99)

History 97B: "What is Intellectual History?"

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Spring

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2020

Ann Blair

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See also: Tutorials/Spring

History 97D. "What is Environmental History?"

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Spring

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2020

Sunil Amrith

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See also: Tutorials/Spring

History 97J. "What is Family History?"

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Spring

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2020

Jane Kamensky

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See also: Tutorials/Spring

History 97L. "What is Atlantic History?"

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Spring

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2020

Mary Lewis

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See also: Tutorials/Spring

History 97M. "What is International History?"

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Spring

Offered:

2020

Erez Manela

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See also: Tutorials/Spring

History 99B. Senior Thesis Tutorial

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Spring

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2020

Carla Heelan

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See also: Tutorials/Spring

Lecture Courses (1000-1899-level courses)

History 1001: The War in Vietnam

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2020

Fredrik Logevall

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See also: Lecture Courses/Spring, US or European History (Western), Beyond the U.S.and Europe (Non-Western), 1000-Level Courses/Spring

History 1015: Native American Women: History and Myth

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Spring

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2020

Tiya Miles

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See also: Lecture Courses/Spring, US or European History (Western), 1000-Level Courses/Spring

History 1018: Coffee and the Nighttime: History and Politics, 1400-2020

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Spring

Offered:

2020

Cemal Kafadar

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See also: Lecture Courses/Spring, Before 1750 (Pre-modern - PM), Beyond the U.S.and Europe (Non-Western), 1000-Level Courses/Spring

History 1049: Nazi Germany and the Holocaust

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Spring

Offered:

2020

Brandon Bloch

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See also: Lecture Courses/Spring, US or European History (Western), 1000-Level Courses/Spring

History 1054: From the Little Ice Age to Climate Change: Introduction to US Environmental History

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Spring

Offered:

2020

Zachary Nowak

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See also: Lecture Courses/Spring, US or European History (Western), 1000-Level Courses/Spring

History 1155: Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789

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Spring

Offered:

2020

Ann Blair

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See also: Lecture Courses/Spring, Before 1750 (Pre-modern - PM), 1000-Level Courses/Spring

History 1240: Artifacts of the Russian Empire

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Spring

Offered:

2020

Megan Duncan Smith

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See also: Lecture Courses/Spring, US or European History (Western), 1000-Level Courses/Spring

History 1280: History of the Soviet Union, 1917-1991

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Spring

Offered:

2020

Terry Martin

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See also: Lecture Courses/Spring, US or European History (Western), 1000-Level Courses/Spring

History 1333. Hegel and Marx

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Spring

Offered:

2020

Peter Gordon

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See also: Lecture Courses/Spring, US or European History (Western), 1000-Level Courses/Spring

History 1433: History of American Populisms

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Spring

Offered:

2020

Brett Flehinger

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See also: Lecture Courses/Spring, US or European History (Western), 1000-Level Courses/Spring

History 1513: History of Modern Latin America

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Spring

Offered:

2020

Kirsten Weld

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See also: Lecture Courses/Spring, Beyond the U.S.and Europe (Non-Western), 1000-Level Courses/Spring

History 1610: Environments: China, Japan, Korea

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Spring

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2020

Ian J. Miller

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See also: Lecture Courses/Spring, Beyond the U.S.and Europe (Non-Western), 1000-Level Courses/Spring

History 1701: West Africa from 1800 to the Present

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Spring

Offered:

2020

Emmanuel Akyeampong

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See also: Lecture Courses/Spring, Beyond the U.S.and Europe (Non-Western), 1000-Level Courses/Spring

Conference Courses (1900-1999-level courses for Undergraduates and Graduates)

History 1913: Dirty Wars, Peace Processes, and the Politics of History in Latin America

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Spring

Offered:

2020

Kirsten Weld

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See also: Conference Courses (for Undergraduates & Graduates)/Spring, Beyond the U.S.and Europe (Non-Western)

History 1918: Directions in Civil War History

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Spring

Offered:

2020

Drew Faust

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See also: Conference Courses (for Undergraduates & Graduates)/Spring, US or European History (Western)

History 1919: Austrian History in Literature

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Spring

Offered:

2020

Alison Frank Johnson

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See also: Conference Courses (for Undergraduates & Graduates)/Spring, US or European History (Western)

History 1925: Europe and its Other(s)

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2020

Tamar Herzog

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See also: Conference Courses (for Undergraduates & Graduates)/Spring, Before 1750 (Pre-modern - PM)

History 1932: Fictions of Adultery: From Flaubert to Machado de Assis

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Spring

Offered:

2020

Sidney Chalhoub

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See also: Conference Courses (for Undergraduates & Graduates)/Spring, Beyond the U.S.and Europe (Non-Western)

History 1945: Slavery and Public History

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Spring

Offered:

2020

Tiya Miles

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See also: Conference Courses (for Undergraduates & Graduates)/Spring, US or European History (Western)

History 1984: The Dutch Empire

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2020

Pepijn Brandon

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See also: Conference Courses (for Undergraduates & Graduates)/Spring, US or European History (Western)

Graduate Proseminars (2000-level courses)

History 2271: The Soviet Union: Proseminar

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Spring

Offered:

2020

Terry Martin

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See also: Graduate Proseminar/Spring, 2000-Level Courses/Spring

History 2462: Readings in the U.S. in the 20th Century: Proseminar

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Spring

Offered:

2020

Lizabeth Cohen

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See also: Graduate Proseminar/Spring, 2000-Level Courses/Spring

Graduate Seminars (2000 and 3900-level courses)

History 2009: Oil and the Arabian Peninsula: Culture, Power, History: Seminar

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Spring

Offered:

2020

Rosie Bsheer

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See also: Graduate Seminars/Spring, 2000-Level Courses/Spring

History 2039: History from Things: Seminar

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Spring

Offered:

2020

Gabriel Pizzorno

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See also: Graduate Seminars/Spring, 2000-Level Courses/Spring

History 2056: Reading in Late Antique and Medieval History: Seminar

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Spring

Offered:

2020

Michael McCormick

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See also: Graduate Seminars/Spring, 2000-Level Courses/Spring

History 2080: Medieval Law

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Spring

Offered:

2020

Charles Donahue

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See also: Graduate Seminars/Spring, 2000-Level Courses/Spring

History 2114: Political Meritocracy in Comparative Historical Perspective: Seminar

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Spring

Offered:

2020

James Hankins/Peter Bol

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See also: Graduate Seminars/Spring, 2000-Level Courses/Spring

History 2270: Reformation and the Making of Religious Practice in Britain and Colonial America, c. 1550-1700: Research Seminar

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Spring

Offered:

2020

David Hall

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See also: Graduate Seminars/Spring, 2000-Level Courses/Spring

History 2331: Smith and Marx: Philosophy and Political Economy: Seminar

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Spring

Offered:

2020

Emma Rothschild/Amartya Sen

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See also: Graduate Seminars/Spring, 2000-Level Courses/Spring

History 2445: Constitutions, Law, and Empire: Seminar

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Spring

Offered:

2020

Annette Gordon-Reed/Peter Onuf

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See also: Graduate Seminars/Spring, 2000-Level Courses/Spring

History 2475: Legal History Workshop: Race and Policing in Historical Context

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Spring

Offered:

2020

Kenneth Mack/Anna Lvovsky

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See also: Graduate Seminars/Spring, 2000-Level Courses/Spring

History 2919B: International Society in Global Context: Seminar

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2020

David Armitage/Erez Manela

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See also: Graduate Seminars/Spring, 2000-Level Courses/Spring

History 2955B: Global Capitalism: Seminar

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2020

Sven Beckert/Sophus Reinert

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See also: Graduate Seminars/Spring, 2000-Level Courses/Spring

Teaching Practicum (3920B)

History 3920B: Colloquium on Teaching Practices

Semester:

Spring

Offered:

2020

Sidney Chalhoub

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