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<div><b style="color:rgb(0,141,20); font-family:'Gill Sans'">*HASS options for Course 7 students in </b><b style="color:rgb(0,141,20); font-family:'Gill Sans'">Art, Culture, and Technology at MIT* </b></div>
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<div><b><font class="x_x_Apple-style-span" face="'Gill Sans'"><span class="x_x_Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal"><b>How can ACT help me fulfill my degree requirements?</b></span><span class="x_x_Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal"><br>
</span><span class="x_x_Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal">All undergraduates must take eight HASS courses and designate a concentration to fulfill their general Institute requirements (GIRs). We offer more than twelve HASS-certified subjects, as well
as a HASS concentration and a HASS minor. </span><span class="x_x_Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal"><br>
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</span><span class="x_x_Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal"><b>Are classes “hands-on”?</b></span><span class="x_x_Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal"><br>
</span><span class="x_x_Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal">Yes. Students work in various media including installation, performance,</span><span class="x_x_Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal"><br>
</span><span class="x_x_Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal">photography and video. Readings, screenings, lectures by visiting artists,</span><span class="x_x_Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal"><br>
</span><span class="x_x_Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal">and field trips compliment classwork. Facilities include a shop, darkroom, sewing room, video editing and sound suites, and a computer lab. <a href="http://act.mit.edu/facilities-and-resources/facilities/">http://act.mit.edu/facilities-and-resources/facilities/</a></span><span class="x_x_Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal"><br>
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</span><span class="x_x_Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal"><b>Do I need my own equipment?</b></span><span class="x_x_Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal"><br>
</span><span class="x_x_Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal">No. Students enrolled in ACT classes may check out equipment for their</span><span class="x_x_Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal"><br>
</span><span class="x_x_Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal">ACT coursework, including cameras, lighting, sound, and video equipment.</span></font></b></div>
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What is ACT?</b><br>
The MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) is an academic program and research center that facilitates artist-thinkers’ exploration of art’s broad, complex, global history and conjunction with culture, science, technology, and design in media including
cinema, video, sound, performance, photography, experimental media and new genres, conceptual and spatial experiments, and writings and publications. <b><br>
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<b>Courses offered Fall 2013</b><br>
<i><a href="http://act.mit.edu/academic-program/courses/">http://act.mit.edu/academic-program/courses/</a></i><br>
Most of our subjects are offered for both undergraduate and graduate students, which can provide you with unique opportunities. All have a fabrication or production component. </font></div>
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4.301 Introduction to Visual Arts<br>
4.322 Introduction to Three-Dimensional Art Work<br>
4.330 Introduction to Networked Cultures & Participatory Media<br>
4.307 Art, Architecture, & Urbanism in Dialogue<br>
4.341 Radical Camera and the Street – Introduction to Photography & Related Media<br>
4.344 Non-Capitalist Life – Advanced Photography & Related Media<br>
4.354 Introduction to Video & Related Media<br>
4.356 Cinematic Migrations<br>
4.361 Performance Art Workshop<br>
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<b>To find out more about our HASS concentration, visit </b><br>
<a href="http://act.mit.edu/academic-program/undergraduate/hass-concentration/">http://act.mit.edu/academic-program/undergraduate/hass-concentration/</a></font></div>
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<div><b><font class="x_x_Apple-style-span" face="'Gill Sans'">To find out more about our HASS minor, visit</font></b></div>
<div><font class="x_x_Apple-style-span" face="'Gill Sans'"><a href="http://act.mit.edu/academic-program/undergraduate/hass-minor/">http://act.mit.edu/academic-program/undergraduate/hass-minor/</a></font></div>
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<div><font class="x_x_Apple-style-span" face="'Gill Sans'">Questions? Contact Val Grimm (<a href="mailto:valgrimm@mit.edu">valgrimm@mit.edu</a>)</font></div>
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<div>M.I.T. Program in Art, Culture, and Technology<br>
School of Architecture and Planning<br>
<a href="http://act.mit.edu/">act.mit.edu</a><br>
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Val Grimm<br>
Academic Assistant<br>
<a href="mailto:valgrimm@mit.edu">valgrimm@mit.edu</a><br>
Phone: 617-324-6289<br>
Fax: 617-253-3977<br>
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