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Type
Course
Institution
Harvard University
Platform
edX
Cost
Free (certificate fee: USD$ 49, optional)
Available in
English
This course describes how material objects have shaped academic disciplines by reinforcing or challenging boundaries between people. It is offered by Harvard University through edX, an online education platform.
In the first section of the course, participants are taught how a statue, a fish, and a gingham gown have contributed to Harvard’s history. In the next section, the course elaborates on some of the ways people have brought things together into purposeful collections to preserve memory, promote commerce, and define culture. It concludes with the methods of rearranging objects to create new ways of thinking about nature, time, and ordinary work. Through the course, participants are exposed to the new ways of looking at, organizing, and interpreting tangible things in your own environment.
Some of the questions addressed in the course are: