In this course you’ll learn about the root of prejudice, and where bad decisions come from. You’ll figure out how to be a better leader, and why your lab partner is so lazy. You’ll learn whether or not you can trust a jury, and how otherwise good people can be driven to commit acts of evil. For better or for worse, people do things which we sometimes can’t explain, yet we go on interacting with them because we have to; but wouldn’t things be easier if we knew the reasons why? This course is about people, how they think about other people, and why. As we study experiments and theories which reveal surprising truths about our own thoughts, this course will teach you how to recognize where social thinking goes wrong, and how to outsmart it.

Learn the photographic process from start to finish! In this class you'll learn to take photos on old-fashioned black-and-white film, and to make beautiful prints in a darkroom just like the pros do. You'll learn how to manipulate light with your own hands, how to develop your own film, and create prints with stunning detail and quality. We'll start out with the basics of how to shoot with a film camera; mastering shutter, focus, ISO, and aperture control by shooting around the MIT campus, and on field trips to places like the Charles River Esplanade or the MIT museum. We'll then move on to rolling and developing our own film to make negatives that will last forever, and finally we'll learn how to use a darkroom to develop our pictures and bring them to life. We'll go over advanced and expressive techniques like burning & dodging, and how to make pictures without a camera. Each time you make a print, you'll get a critique and guidance on how to improve. By the time the class is over you'll have a the beginnings of your own portfolio, shot in classic black-and-white, with a quality greater than any digital print. With your newfound knowledge of the darkroom, you'll be free to create your own art with no computers involved; just with your own two hands.

Learn the photographic process from start to finish! Go beyond the “automatic” mode and learn how to take the most abstract concepts and stunning visual subjects, and turn them into beautiful works of art. We’ll start out by learning the basics of photography; going over shutter, focus, ISO, and aperture control, as well as post-production and digital editing techniques. From there we’ll learn the tricks and styles you can use to express your artistic vision, studying the examples of famous photographers from the past. We can explore the tools of framing, lighting and composition as we spend half of each day doing photo shoots around the MIT campus. Each shoot will have a theme such as landscapes, street photography, portraits, or any subject we decide to pursue. The course will culminate in a final project where each student will assemble a brief portfolio centered around any topic, subject or technique you like. On the last day of class you’ll receive a critique to leave or take with you as you go on to wield one of art’s most powerful tools: the camera.

Learn the photographic process from start to finish! Go beyond the "automatic" mode and learn how to take the most abstract concepts and stunning visual subjects, and turn them into beautiful works of art. We'll start out by learning the basics of photography; going over shutter, focus, ISO, and aperture control, as well as post-production and digital editing techniques. From there we'll learn the tricks and styles you can use to express your artistic vision, studying the examples of famous photographers from the past. We can explore the tools of framing, lighting and composition as we spend half of each day doing photo shoots around the MIT campus. Each shoot will have a theme such as landscapes, street photography, portraits, or any subject we decide to pursue. The course will culminate in a final project where each student will assemble a brief portfolio centered around any topic, subject or technique you like. On the last day of class you'll receive a critique to leave or take with you as you go on to wield one of art's most powerful tools: the camera.

Learn the photographic process from start to finish! Go beyond the "automatic" mode and learn how to take the most abstract concepts and stunning visual subjects, and turn them into beautiful works of art. We'll start out by learning the basics of photography; going over shutter, focus, ISO, and aperture control, as well as post-production techniques like digital editing, film developing, and darkroom printing. From there we'll learn the tricks and styles you can use to express your artistic vision, studying the examples of famous photographers from the past. We can explore the tools of framing, lighting and composition as we spend half of each day doing photo shoots around the MIT campus. Each shoot will have a theme such as landscapes, street photography, portraits, or any subject we decide to pursue. The course will culminate in a final project where each student will assemble a brief portfolio centered around any topic, subject or technique you like. On the last day of class you'll receive a critique to leave or take with you as you go on to wield one of art's most powerful tools: the camera.

In this course you'll learn about the root of prejudice, and where bad decisions come from. You'll figure out how to be a better leader, and why your lab partner is so lazy. You'll learn whether or not you can trust a jury, and how otherwise good people can be driven to commit acts of evil. For better or for worse, people do things which we sometimes can't explain, yet we go on interacting with them because we have to; but wouldn't things be easier if we knew the reasons why? This course is about people, how they think about other people, and why. As we study experiments and theories which reveal surprising truths about our own thoughts, this course will teach you how to recognize where social thinking goes wrong, and how to outsmart it.