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Course Info

  • Course Number / Code:
  • 3.094 (Spring 2004) 
  • Course Title:
  • Materials in Human Experience 
  • Course Level:
  • Undergraduate 
  • Offered by :
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Massachusetts, United States  
  • Department:
  • Materials Science and Engineering 
  • Course Instructor(s):
  • Prof. Heather Lechtman
     
  • Course Introduction:
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  • 3.094 Materials in Human Experience



    Spring 2004




    Course Highlights


    This course features a detailed laboratory manual with specimen images  and a thorough list of necessary supplies in the tools section.


    Course Description


    This course examines the ways in which people in ancient and contemporary societies have selected, evaluated, and used materials of nature, transforming them to objects of material culture. Some examples are: glass in ancient Egypt and Rome; sounds and colors of powerful metals in Mesoamerica; cloth and fiber technologies in the Inca empire. It also explores ideological and aesthetic criteria often influential in materials development. Laboratory/workshop sessions provide hands-on experience with materials discussed in class. This course complements 3.091.

    *Some translations represent previous versions of courses.

     

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