Spring 2026 Subjects
Explore our Spring 2026 subject offerings, and all the diverse and exciting ways your interests can lead to a HASS concentration, minor, or major.
You can also review our suggested introductory subjects.
For Interdisciplinary Programs, you can review an updated list of subject offerings during AY2025-26 (and AY2026-27).
Contact us with questions.
New Courses
Learn more about our new subject offerings.
Anthropology
- 21A.144 Asian-American Experiences: Anthropological Perspectives | M. Buyandelger
- 21A.403[J] Anthro-Engineering: Green Steel, Green Jobs | C. Walley
- 21A.406[J] Anthro-Engineering: From Lab to Land – Infrastructures of Climate Justice in the Pacific Northwest | B. Stoetzer
Comparative Media Studies/Writing
- CMS.308 The Visual Story: Graphic Novel, Type to Tablet | J. Wiser
- CMS.337 Narratives of Disability and Neurodiversity | K. Ragusa
- CMS.344 Spatial Sound: Culture, Theory, and Practice | I. Condry
- CMS.354 Japanese Media Cultures | P. Roquet
- CMS.425 Children and Culture | M. Gubar
Economics
- 14.C395 Algorithmic & Human Decision-Making | S. Mullainathan
Global Languages
- 21G.316 Marseille Unveiled: Digital Stories and International Encounters | E. Dessein
- 21G.617 Advanced Russian: Exploration of Regional Cultures through Art | M. Khotimsky
- 21G.S01 Special Subject: Dynamic Korean | H. Jeong
History
- 21H.000 History of Now | E. Wood and H. Padalko
- 21H.001 How to Stage a Revolution | M. Ghachem, M. Kars, and C. Wilder
- 21H.234 Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient Mediterranean World | E. Driscoll
Literature
- 21L.050 Reading Nonfiction | B. Mangrum
- 21L.419 Books to Grow By | S. Raman
- 21L.420 Gateway to British Literature | S. Tapscott
- 21L.453 Political Utopias & Dystopias | M. Fuller, C. Lawson
- 21L.512 American Authors | J. Buzard
Music
- 21M.299 Studies in Global Musics: Japanese Pop | M. Takao
Science, Technology, and Society
- STS.057 Sociology of Medicine, Health, and Illness | O. Rollins
- STS.066 Discards, Technologies, and Everyday Ecologies | I. Saraf
- STS.088 Intro to Science, Tech, and Innovation in Africa | C. Mavhunga
- STS.S20 Special Topic: Urban Resilience | K. Brown
Compass
Compass is a new initiative by MIT faculty across the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. In the Compass class, students and faculty explore fundamental questions and how such questions relate to the everyday decisions we make about what is important to us, what is real and true, and what is right.
21.01 is a 12-unit, seminar-style CI-H and HASS-E offered for the first time in Spring 2025. It will be offered again in Spring 2026.
Learn more about the class and its flipped-classroom format.
