Eastern Great Egret: Sounds in the night in Kolkata (Calcutta), India, Tagore's "A Moments Indulgence", I lie in my bed in the home of the parents

Sounds in the night
in Kolkata (Calcutta), India
are many and varied ...

Car horns' combined
at 4 in the morning
sound like a dinosaurs' gathering, ...

Clink, clink clink - the metal pole
hits the ground, ...
the night watchman sounds
like he's awake around 2, 3 and 4 ...

This city is vibrant and awake
in the dream night ...

first Muslim call to prayer at 5 am
in this predominantly Hindu city
where Bengali and Hindi and English
are much spoken ...

a sound system turns on ...

someone starts singing ...

a group of women walk by talking ...

is that a snare drum? ...

and all so early in this sound-alive morning.


And the recent Sikh parade
was so colorful, and celebratory,
with garlands festooning the trucks ..

Religious parades are still many here,
and almost kind of hippy ...

We visited Tagore's house yesterday ...


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Here's Tagore ~


'A Moments Indulgence

I ask for a moment's indulgence to sit by thy side. The works
that I have in hand I will finish afterwards.

Away from the sight of thy face my heart knows no rest nor respite,
and my work becomes an endless toil in a shoreless sea of toil.

Today the summer has come at my window with its sighs and murmurs; and
the bees are plying their minstrelsy at the court of the flowering grove.

Now it is time to sit quite, face to face with thee, and to sing
dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.'

Rabindranath Tagore

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I lie in my bed
in the home of the parents,
my friends,
of my best friend from high school,
listening to sounds in the night,
in Kolkata (Calcutta),
in west Bengal,
here in India! ...
and, lingering,
wonder about
sitting, quite, with you,
and singing the
music of bliss loving, ~
a kind of Krishna consciousness,
having visited Mayapur first today ~
face to face,
bodymind with bodymind,
and especially with love and care.

http://www.avianweb.com/images/birds/EasternGreatEgretAdultAndChicks.jpg

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Jungle Bush-Quail: India film while traveling. .. a traveling film ... how to structure one? ... WUaS's wiki 'Film' and 'Documentary Film' subjects, How to make your own travel film? (1-4 minutes long, in a day?), MIT OCW resources - DV Lab: Documenting Science Through Video and New Media, Per our conversation on startups in India, here's an interesting interview on the MIT Media Lab in India

India film while traveling. .. a traveling film ... how to structure one? ...


How to make your own travel film? (1-4 minutes long, in a day?)


"Great One-Minute Travel Films, How to Make Your Own"

http://www.gottabemobile.com/2011/08/05/best-one-minute-travel-films-youll-see/


"How make your own travel film?"

http://www.traveloutthere.com/belgrade/make-your-own-film

"How to Write, Direct and Edit Your Own Movie"

http://www.wikihow.com/Write,-Direct-and-Edit-Your-Own-Movie



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 Will look to add these to WUaS's wiki Film and Documentary Film subjects ... but simple begin.


'Film - Documentary,' wiki page -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Film_-_Documentaries


'Film,' wiki, subject page links -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Film#World_University_and_School_Links

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Film


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And here are some MIT OCW resources ...

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| DV Lab: Documenting Science Through Video and New Media
| http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/21a-550j-dv-lab-documenting-science-through-video-and-new-media-fall-2012/
| MIT
| non-degree
| Prof. Christine Walley, Chris Boebel
| Browser
| Start anytime
| English
| Undergraduate




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Dear Mainak and Sati,

Per our conversation on startups in India, here's an interesting interview on the MIT Media Lab in India ...

"MIT Media Lab to launch its biggest ever India-based design workshop in Mumbai in early 2014"

http://social.yourstory.com/2013/12/mit-media-labs-launch-biggest-ever-india-based-design-workshop-mumbai-january-2014/ ...


which I've added to the following two, wiki

Media_Lab_at_World_University_and_School -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Media_Lab_at_World_University_and_School

India -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/India.


I may contact them per this article and setting up workshops vis-a-vis World University and School.

Nice to walk with you today!
Scott

                                                             

http://nagpurbirds.org/files/pictures/DSC_45523590.jpg

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Snow-Partridge: So many people here in India, in Kolkata, some speaking both Bengali and Hindi and English, would benefit from online, MIT OCW-centric World University and School, How to connect toward a flourishing, learning conversation, and online?

So many people here in India, in Kolkata, some speaking both Bengali and Hindi and English, would benefit from online, MIT OCW-centric World University and School.  How to connect toward a flourishing, learning conversation, and online? Advertising?


The internet is just becoming fast enough in India to support online learning and real time conversations probably in and around cities.


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Hi Dwaitayan and Dwaitashree,

Very nice to meet you.

Here's the The College at WUaS if you might  be interested -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School#World_University_and_School_Links

Best regards,
Scott

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Bengali, wiki page at WUaS -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bengali_/_Bangla

Hindi language -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hindi_language
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hindi_language#World_University_and_School_Links

India, wiki page at WUaS -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/India


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MIT OCW translated-courses
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/

MIT OCW audio-video-courses/
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses

MIT OCW -
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

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Blue-headed Quail-Dove: Wondering how to engage WUaS while traveling for teaching and learning ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/India ... in flourishing ways ...Chennai International Airport ... in India ... 2:51 am ... warm 80 degrees

Blue-headed Quail-Dove


Wondering how to engage WUaS while traveling for teaching and learning ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/India ... in flourishing ways ...

Flowers with strong scent in the woman's hair on the shuttle bus, with little child sitting next to her - Indian buses are interestingly illuminated and while this one didn't have moving xmas lights, or the jazz of Bollywood music, the light was grey green surreal in the morning hours - to the plane.

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Chennai International Airport ... in India ... 2:51 am ... warm 80 degrees ... colorful Indian airport in various phases of construction ... taxi drivers, women in saris, a sense of vastness and the feeling of different approaches to time ... slow going night time pace ... sleepy Indians (and myself) waiting ... developing world ... a little smoke in the air ... on to Kolkata (Calcutta) at 5 am ... saw parts of 'Slumdog Millionaire' on plane ... made 2 Tamil language speaking friends who came to the US for Masters' degrees from India and now work there as industrial engineer in biomedical field in southern California and in finance in Las Vegas ... liking the openness, friendliness and connectedness of Indians here (their speaking English helps) ...

Walk out of the Chennai International Terminal, India, and into the Domestic Terminal, and the whole air system becomes very Indian. Many, most, wear modern clothes, the Tamil language is on loudspeakers, ... and it's the middle of the night ... culturally surreal or transformative ... perhaps.

                       

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Blue Grosbeak: Traveling, London, Culture, Britain and India, 'India' wiki, Subject page (and beginning of online, C.C., MIT OCW-centric universities, and in many languages, there) at WUaS

Hi M,

Greetings from London. Nice person from near Geneva, where she works, who lives in France and is Italian, with 2 sons, not on plane, was sitting in my row - nice to chat and connect a little. Mentioned World University and School to her, saying she could Google search on these 4 words. The "Daily Mail"  tabloid with a price of 60 p slipped under the middle seat from the row behind in the course of the night flight ... bland food ... in British culture land for only a little while. Flight to Chennai, India, departs in 2 hours. Fun to be traveling.

Scott


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Curious about culture in India, and its far-reaching timelessness, its 'Rudyard Kipling sounds,' its ancient philosophies, festivals, temples, art and women in saris, its religiosity in the modern world - 'modernity' - even as I see a lot of people from India in Heathrow airport, many dressed in blue jeans and western clothes, all traveling by air around the world.


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Hoping to linger a lot in temples in India as I travel, soaking it all in (writing, drawing and making music, with, along the way).


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'India' wiki, Subject page (and beginning of online, C.C., MIT OCW-centric universities, and in many languages, there) at WUaS -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/India -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/India#World_University_and_School_Links.


How to invite these pages to 'sing?'

Asia Blue Quail: Enjoying these Youtube videos of bagpiping in India, Bagpipe Tutorials at WUaS ... Bringing my pipes to India and curious about how to connect with people with music, and especially playing for people and together. :)

Enjoying these Youtube videos of bagpiping in India ...


Kolkata Bagpipe Band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF7OJmJHjPg

Indo Tibetan Army band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uEN5SkaZ54

Indian Army Band Pipe & Drums - 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgW0HnY9crA

Massed Pipe Band 3 assam regiment & Assam rifles Indian army

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66AQVac1Z6A


and this article ...

"Hill girls trumpet bagpipe band - St Philomena’s in Kalimpong achieves rare feat"
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1131105/jsp/siliguri/story_17530518.jsp

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Bagpipe Tutorials at WUaS ...
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials


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Bringing my pipes to India and curious about how to connect with people with music, and especially playing for people and together. :)


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Wondering if I will meet the Stuart Liddells and Jack Lees, the greatest GHB pipers in India, serendipitously, and learn how they may engage Scottish Highland Bagpipe music in ways informed by India. Such musical cross-pollinations are fascinating.

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Bengal Florican: Merry Christmas ... Lovely and old (originating from the 1440s) 'Introducing Nine Lessons & Carols - 2012,' Singing wiki page at WUaS links for eventually singing via the Internet

Merry Christmas ...

Lovely and old (originating from the 1440s)

Introducing Nine Lessons & Carols - 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moLylNume9s


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Singing wiki page at World University and School links -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Singing#World_University_and_School_Links -
for eventually singing via the Internet.

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Flowers on the sea ~ Holiday greetings 2013 !

Flowers on the sea ~ Holiday greetings 2013!


Ahoy! Ships’ ahoy! Land ahoy! Wildflowers' ahoy! Happy Holidays’ ahoy! World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University -has grown over the course of the year, but WUaS’s skiff is only just floating, and not yet running before the wind, in full sail.  

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Flower ~ World University and School is seeking its first high school applicants this autumn 2013 to matriculate online next autumn 2014, first in English, for free, Creative Commons' licensed, MIT OCW-centric (e.g. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/ - not endorsed by MIT), undergraduate, online, accredited, bachelor degrees. WUaS is planning for our students to be up to speed, should they wish to apply to MIT for a year, for example, during their studies. Please let high school students know, who can use the MIT application information here -

http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2013/11/applying-to-worlduniversity-and-school.html - as we develop applications further. See, too: http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.html.




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Flower ~ And thanks to Creative Commons’ licensed, wiki (editable web pages) World University and School, with its wiki-openness, and C.C. MIT OCW as Academic standard, basis and content, - and eventually for all 7,105+ languages and in all 242+ countries - WUaS is seeking to generate a flourishing, people-to-people, teaching and learning conversation, with an invitation to edit a page, and teach to your web camera. Wikipedia is in 287 languages, by way of comparison, and we all created this. 




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Flower ~ World University and School continues to hold electronically-mediated, hour-long open, monthly business meetings on the second Saturdays of the month at 9 am PT, in the manner of Quakers, and having been doing these in Google + group video Hangouts for more than a year now. You’re invited to participate in these and contribute to World University and School’s burgeoning conversation as well as development of WUaS, decision making-wise. The Google + Hangouts remarkably facilitate international communication. WUaS welcomes you to participate, via - https://plus.google.com/u/0/115890623333932577910/posts - and via this email address - worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com - and via this WUaS blog - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/.

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Flower ~ In seeking to become a MIT / Harvard of the internet, WUaS’s free, C.C., online, university degrees in many languages will benefit so many people, - and is also a fascinating conversation and process to develop.

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Flowers ~ WUaS is also planning a Music School (in all instruments in all languages) ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School. 

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Flower ~ Editing of the 400 manuscript pages of my actual / virtual Harbin ethnographic book proceeds apace ~ http://harbin.org. I'll send out a book proposal to Yale University in the New Year, as I continue with anthropological fieldwork at Harbin, with potentially 3 or 4 more Harbin books planned – see the Harbin labels beginning with this one - 

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Harbin%20Hot%20Springs. I find Harbin inspiring and fascinating, emerging from the 1960s and 1970s as it does, and especially its pools-centric milieu and influences therein. 




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Flower ~ I taught again the "Information Technology and the Network Society" course, on Harvard's virtual island, as well as in a Google + group video Hangout this autumn, with participants across 14 time zones, - a remarkably diverse group of course participants. 

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Flower ~ I also continue to teach yoga - http://scottmacleod.com/yoga.htm - but not yet online; I'm curious to explore teaching {and learning} yoga via in something like Skype or in a Google + Hangout with a large screen. 





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Flower ~ I continue to give bagpipe lessons to a young piper in the SF Bay Area, about half of this in Skype or Google + Hangouts, as well as take Skype bagpipe lessons from a teacher via the College of Piping in Scotland.  

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Flower ~ And I continue to blog daily,  - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/ - which I've been doing now for nearly 5 years, and which is a way to share ideas, even as a kind of conversation, and which I find inspiring in a variety of ways. Read some poems in the ‘Poetry’ label here, for example.





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Flower ~ And in a variety of ways, I continue to explore thinking out of the box ... with a focus of inquiry on eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology, here, for example - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Loving_Bliss_(eliciting_this_neurophysiology) - and here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/loving%20bliss ... I haven't yet found the 'on/off switch,' the 'cello bow stroke,' or the dial, but listening to music is a beginning. 

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Flower ~ My home in the east bay hills of the San Francisco Bay Area, and in the city of Oakland's watershed, in the community of Canyon, above a redwood forest, continues to be inspiring in so many ways.

Canyon, California

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Flowers ~ Here are a few of the poems I've written this year, which I think you'd enjoy ...  

Resplendent Quetzal: Light lumens illuminated lightly

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/11/resplendent-quetzal-light-lumens.html

Blue Bird-of-Paradise: Harbin Waters’ Cosmic Consciousness

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/10/blue-bird-of-paradise-harbin-waters.html

Green sea turtle: Light, Float, Sit

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/09/green-sea-turtle-light-float-sit.html

Swimming iguana: Email to Cynefin and "Light Float Sit," as well as 12, "Blackberries: Harbin Haiku-ish" poems

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/09/swimming-iguana-email-to-cynefin-and.html

Young tapirs: "Harbin was alit in mid-evening," Complete recording of "Hair"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/07/young-tapirs-harbin-was-alit-in-mid.html

Sea Turtle: Jim Morrison of "The Doors" ... wow ... "The Doors --- Liquid Nights," So potent, this poem-video, how to rif as I listen, with - but don't watch, because I write - this here now? Jim sings a powerful energy ... I rif back with.

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/07/sea-turtle-jim-morrison-of-doors-wow.html

Scarlet Begonias Firefly: Let's re-write, re-rif a poem with this pipe major - Jim Morrison - here now which poem of mine? http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/poetry These? ... read and sung with nature in the video behind for what serendipity and Grateful Dead, moving toward Jim Morrison energy to open the doors of perception? "The blueness of the sky at night: I do choose to write the muse of bliss unfolding," "Firefly: I came upon a feast of lights spread speckle 'cross hill and vale," Drove into town … to write my book and explore putting my poetry to song …

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/07/scarlet-begonias-firefly-lets-re-write.html

St. Helena Gumwood: 'Great Gatsbys' in film, Loving Bliss Generation, ... Inspiring inscription to Gatsby, Audio text online for free but not in mp3 file format, WUaS Library Resources, English literature courses that focus on loving bliss, or even generate such courses vis-a-vis WUaS over the years, and to inform, over time, WUaS's English Department's focus?, (Yay for the invention/synthesis of ecstasy {MDMA} :), We/I/WUaS may have to write this 'loving bliss' subject into the academic discipline English literature, There's certainly a beginning of this in my poetry, How to get to these loving bliss neurophysiologies, and related, bodymind qualities of experience, and for 9 hours per day (e.g. over the next 40 years, not to belabor a quest of mine), for example, when and as one wants them (where is the metaphorical on-off switch / 'bliss' dial / cello bow stroke? :), and vis-a-vis WUaS, as well - e.g. this wiki, loving bliss subject, and even in Quaker ways?

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/07/st-helena-gumwood-great-gatsbys-in-film.html

Big, green, iridescent forests speak to me in Oregon, on the road to Reed

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/06/big-green-iridescent-forests-speak-to.html

Blackfin cisco: Blackberry blossoms blush Purple softly, at Harbin, Fruit soon to come

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/05/blackfin-cisco-blackberry-blossoms.html

The Gazebo Light Show at Harbin

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-gazebo-light-show-at-harbin.html

Turkish condor: Powerful poetry from Alysia Harris (who's doing a Ph.D. at Yale in linguistics) ... "Cab Rides and the Morning After" and a duet "Harris and Jasmine Mans "Black and Blue"" ...

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/01/yellow-corolla-monsieur-nikhil.html

Yellow corolla: Monsieur Nikhil Bannerjee, master raga player, moved me along the way

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/02/turkish-condors-powerful-poetry-from.html

Water lily flowers: In warm pool chez Harbin

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2012/12/water-lily-flowers-in-warm-pool-chez.html

... Accessible here at the 'poetry' label ... 

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/poetry ... 

And here's the link to my Holiday Greetings' 2012 letter from last year, with more poems ...  

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2012/12/flowers-on-trail-holiday-greetings.html

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Flower ~ World University and School is becoming a warm ocean (Caribbean?) of flourishing, learning conversations ... enjoy the waters and the free, MIT OCW-centric diplomas.


All the best to you all in the New Year and beyond, 

Scott




Scott MacLeod

http://scottmacleod.com 



PO Box 442, 

Canyon, CA 94516

415 480 4577

sgkmacleod@gmail.com

  

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Greater Racket-Tailed Drongo: Here are recent courses from a MIT OCW emailing, which I've added to various, following, WUaS, wiki subject pages (using the following format, with which you can add courses to WUaS, as well), 'Linguistics' (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Linguistics), 'Philosophy of Language' ... MIT OCW 'Paradox & Infinity,' Political Science ... MIT OCW 'Introduction to American Politics,' 'Anthropology,' 'Film - Documentaries,' 'Media Arts and Sciences' ... MIT OCW DV Lab: Documenting Science Through Video and New Media, ... e.g. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/21a-550j-dv-lab-documenting-science-through-video-and-new-media-fall-2012/

Here are recent courses from a MIT OCW emailing, which I've added to various, following, WUaS, wiki subject pages (using the following format, with which you can add courses to WUaS, as well) ...


Linguistics: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Linguistics
Philosophy of Language: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Philosophy_of_Language


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| Paradox & Infinity
| http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-118-paradox-infinity-spring-2013/
| MIT
| non-degree
| Prof. Agustín Rayo, Owain R. Evans (Teaching Assistant)
| Browser
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| English
| Undergraduate




Political Science: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Political_Science


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| Introduction to American Politics
| http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/political-science/17-20-introduction-to-american-politics-spring-2013/
| MIT
| non-degree
| Prof. Devin Caughey
| Browser
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| English
| Undergraduate



Anthropology: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Anthropology
Film - Documentaries: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Film_-_Documentaries
Media Arts and Sciences: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Media_Arts_and_Sciences



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| DV Lab: Documenting Science Through Video and New Media
| http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/21a-550j-dv-lab-documenting-science-through-video-and-new-media-fall-2012/
| MIT
| non-degree
| Prof. Christine Walley, Chris Boebel
| Browser
| Start anytime
| English
| Undergraduate

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