The History of MIT

Calendar

Reflection papers due before first class of the week, starting week two.

WEEK #	CLASS	TOPICS
1	1	Introduction, Course Overview. What is MIT? Why MIT?
	2	America in 1850: The Age of Transformation
2	3	William Barton Rogers and MIT’s Foundational Years
	4	Guest Speaker: Matthew Pearl, New York Times best-selling author of The Technologists Recitations will meet at the Institute Archives and Special Collections
3	5	No Class
	6	MIT Museum Workshop
4	7	Growing Pains: MIT in Boston, MIT-Harvard Merger
	8	Guest Speaker: Douglass Shand-Tucci, historian, author of MIT: The Campus Guide by Princeton Architectural Press, and numerous books on Boston architectural history Recitations Special Workshop: MIT Museum Architecture and Design Collection.
5	9	The Great Stride: MIT’s Move to Cambridge Early due date for Document Report
	10	Guest Speaker: Professor Mark Jarzombeck, author of Designing MIT: Bosworth’s New Tech
6	11	MIT in the 1920s and 1930s
	12	Guest Speaker: Martha Eddison Sieniewicz, Special Assistant to the President of MIT Final due date for Document Report
7	13	World War II and the Aftermath
	14	Guest Speaker: Emily Vanderbilt Wade, Class of 1945
8	15	Guest Speaker: Professor David Kaiser
	16	MIT Mid-Century
9	17	Guest Speaker: Professor David Mindell
	18	Sputnik and the Cold War Early due date for Plan Report
10	19	MIT in the 1960s
	20	Guest Speaker: Karen Arenson, Class of 1970 Final due date for Plan Report
11	21	No Class
	22	Guest Speaker: Susan Hockfield, President Emerita and Professor of Neuroscience
12	23	MIT in the 1970s and 1980s
	24	Hacks, Kludges, Improvisations: MIT in the Late 20th Century
13	25	Current Student Experience at MIT – Presentations Each student will give a one-minute presentation about a person, class, experience, club, or living group that has had an impact on his or her life.
	26	Guest Speaker: Sanjay Sarma, Vice President for Open Learning
14	27	Guest Speaker: Alan Marcum, Director of Treasury
	28	21st Century MIT Final Project Paper / Report Due