MIT 公开课程介绍（MIT OCW）
网址：http://ocw.mit.edu/
http://www.core.org.cn/ocwweb/
MIT 网上免费公开课程项目于 2001 年 4 月宣布，计划在今后十年内把 MIT
所有的课程内容放到网上，称之为“MIT OpenCourseWare”(MIT OCW)。此项
目 2001 年秋季正式启动，计划在此后两年内进行大规模的 OCW 试验项目，两
年半内使 500 门以上的课程上网，到 2007 年总量将达到 1800 门课程。目的是通
过这个项目推动 MIT 本身的教育教学，提升 MIT 在全世界的形象、同时供全世
界所有的人免费使用，但 OCW 提供的并不是网上的 MIT 学历教育。到目前为
止，MIT 已免费公开 500 门课程，涉及 MIT 的 33 个学科和全部 5 个学院。我
校相关课程的教师备课及课件制作、学生自学、尤其是使用双语教学的教师都可
以将其作为很好的学习和参考资料，使我们能够站在一个更高的起点上进行课程
建设，提高教学水平。网址为 http://ocw.mit.edu/
MIT 网上所有课程都有教程大纲、课程的日期安排（教学日历）和讲课记录。
许多课程还有作业、试卷、问题（包括解答）、实验室、项目、超文本的课本、
模拟、演示、辅导和讲课的视频实况及网络资源链接等。下面对公开课程的有关
内容举例介绍，希望广大教师有一个更直观的感受，以便更好的利用和借鉴。
一、33 个学科
1．Aeronautics and Astronautics
2．Anthropology
3．Architecture
4．Biological Engineering Division
5．Biology
6．Brain and Cognitive Sciences
7．Chemical Engineering
8．Chemistry
9．Civil and Environmental Engineering
10．Comparative Media Studies
11．Earth,Atmospheric,and Planetary Sciences
12．Economics
13．Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
14．Engineering Systems Division
15．Foreign Languages and Literatures
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16．Health Science and Technology
17．History
18．Linguistics and Philosophy
19．Literature
20．Material Science and Technology
21．Mathematics
22．Mechanical Engineering
23．Media Arts and Sciences
24．Music and Theater Arts
25．Nuclear Engineering
26．Ocean Engineering
27．Physics
28．Political Science
29．Science ,Technology and Society
30．Sloan School of Management
31．Urban Studies and Planning
32．Women’s Studies
33．Writing and Humanistic Studies
二、课程大纲
我们以建筑学系为例。开课时间为 2002 年秋季和 2003 年春季 。其中“4”
为建筑学系编号；“4.1,4.2,4.3,4.4,4.6”为该系下的 5 个半自治的学科组织
（discipline groups），此表共列出了 20 门公开课程。
4.101
Experiencing Architecture Studio Spring 2003
4.125
Architecture Studio: Building in Landscapes Fall 2002
4.143
Immaterial Limits: Process and Duration Fall 2002
4.181
Architectural Design Workshop - Rethinking Office Development Spring 2003
4.181
4.184
Architecture Design Workshop: Researching User Demand for Innovative Offices Fall
2002
Architectural Design Workshops: Computational Design for Housing Spring 2002
4.240J Urban Design Skills: Observing, Interpreting, and Representing the City Fall 2002
4.273
4.285
Introduction to Design Inquiry Fall 2001
Research Topics in Architecture: Citizen-Centered Design of Open Governance Systems
Fall 2002
4.297
Special Problems in Architecture Studies Fall 2000
4.341
Introduction to Photography Fall 2002
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4.343
Photography and Related Media Fall 2002
4.440
Basic Structural Theory Spring 2003
4.441
Building Technologies II: Building Structural Systems I Spring 2003
4.442
Building Technologies III: Building Structural Systems II Fall 2002
4.462
Building Technologies II: Building Structural Systems I Spring 2003
4.463
Building Technologies III: Building Structural Systems II Fall 2002
4.607
Thinking About Architecture: In History and At Present Fall 2002
4.651
20th Century Art Fall 2002
4.661
Theory and Method in the Study of Architecture and Art Fall 2002
全部院系课程都按编号排列管理。双击具体课程链接，如 4.440，MIT
OpenCourseWare
Architecture
4_440 Basic Structural Theory, Spring 2003
Home.htm，学习者可以了解到：该课的主讲教师 Prof. John Ochsendorf，适
用于本科生学习，课程简介和教学日历，参考书和讲义、作业、考试和课程设计
等内容。在此笔者暂不详细介绍该课，请读者上网自行阅读。
三、课程讲座安排：
学习者可以了解某门课程的具体学习安排。
课程名称：（建筑学系）
4.651
20th Century Art Fall 2002
双击该链接后，在网页的左侧有教学日历（calendar）一项，双击后，可以看到下表：
（在此表中清楚地列明在 14 个教学周中，每一次讲座的主题及各周学习任务情况。
）
WEEK
TOPIC
#-LEC#
1-1
2-1
2-2
Introduction: the Aesthetic and Ideological Context for Abstraction following WWII in
the United States and Europe
The Unconscious made Visible: Matta, Masson, Miro, Calder, Noguchi, Moore;
Formalizing the Intuitive: Arshile Gorky, John Graham, and Hans Hofmann
"I am Nature:" Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner. Screening of Hans Namuth's
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WEEK
TOPIC
#-LEC#
influential 1951 film, Jackson Pollock
3-1
3-2
4-1
Gesture/ Field: Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Philip Guston, Robert Motherwell
VERSUS Rothko, Newman, Reinhardt
Abstract Expressionist Sculpture: David Smith's "Drawing in Space" versus
Bourgeois's and Nevelson's Intimate Worlds; Roszak, Lipton, Ferber.
Rothko, Still, and the San Francisco School; Tobey, Matthieu, Yoshihara and the
promotion of an "ecole du Pacifique"
Body/Gesture in Europe: (Giacometti, Dubuffet, Fautrier), Tachisme, l'art informel,
4-2
CoBrA, the d'affichistes, the "Nouveaux Realistes" (Arman, Yves Klein), Nikki de
Saint-Phalle, Jean Tinguely
5-1
5-2
6-1
John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, and the question of a homosexual
aesthetic
The "Gutai" group in Japan; extending AbEx gesture into performance
Bay Area Figurative Art: The View from the West Coast; California Funk and Chicago's
"Hairy Who"
6-2
The Beats; Environments and Happenings in the US (Fluxus begins)
8-1
"Post-Painterly Abstraction" and Formalist Sculpture; Greenberg's reign
8-2
Frank Stella and Minimal Art: the Corporate Icon (Andre, Judd, Flavin, Morris)
9-1
9-2
10-1
10-2
11-1
Warhol's Factory; Pop Art and another kind of Industrial Aesthetic (Lichtenstein,
Oldenburg, Rosenquist, Dine, Marisol)
The Independent Group (London); German "Capitalist Realism"; Arte Povera (Italy)
Modes of Realism shading into conceptualism: Photorealism in US versus Lucian
Freud, Malcolm Morley in UK
Early Conceptual art: Sol LeWitt, John Baldessari, Richard Artschwager; International
conceptualism and Fluxus
Performance/Intervention abroad: Joseph Beuys, Daniel Buren, Bruce Nauman, Helio
Oiticica, Cildo Meireles
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WEEK
TOPIC
#-LEC#
11-2
12-1
Sculptors of Land, Poets of Light: Robert Smithson and De Maria, Heizer, Long (UK)
Morris, Flavin, Irwin, Turrell; screening of Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty
Process Art (and Earthworks Catchup)
Women buck the Canon: Louise Bourgeois to "Womanhouse" and "The Dinner Party,"
12-2
process/performance artists: Eva Hesse, Jackie Winsor, Hannah Wilke, Carolee
Schneeman, Laurie Anderson, Adrian Piper.
13-1
African Americans: Bearden, Puryear, Saar, Piper, Wilson; Native Americans: Luna,
Durham and Political Interventions
The End of American Hegemony? Italian "Bad Boys" (Mario Merz), Clemente, Chia,
13-2
Cucchi; German Neo-Expressionists (Baselitz), Kiefer, Richter; US
Neo-Expressionism with Graffitists: Basquiat, Haring; "Bad" Painting, New Image,
etc.; Salle and Schnabel vs. Bartlett, Rothenberg, Murray
14-1
14-2
Appropriation Art: Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, Sherrie Levine, Jeff
Koons, Haim Steinbach; "Neo Geo": Peter Halley, Philip Taaffe.
Installation Art, Video, and New Media in context; class summary and review
四、A.讲座提纲（教案）
：
建筑系部分讲座暂时公开的是讲座提纲，如 1-1。
讲座名称：
WEEK
TOPIC
#-LEC#
1-1
Introduction: the Aesthetic and Ideological Context for Abstraction following WWII
in the United States and Europe
Introduction: the Aesthetic and Ideological Context for
Abstraction following the Second World War
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I.
II.
Modernism to Postmodernism
Prehistory - the 1930s
A.
Documentary Photography
B.
Leftist Modernism
1.
Social Realism
2.
WPA
3.
Popular Front
versus
III.
IV.
V.
Right wing modernism
A.
Regionalism
B.
"The Silo School"
Modernism midcentury
A.
Form or
B.
Content
Post-modernism's answer = form versus content is a false dichotomy
Slide List
Rothko Number 10 1950
Sherman Untitled #92 1981 (photograph)
Pollock handprints in No. 1 1948
Horn The Little School of Painting 1978 (kinetic sculpture)
Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother 1936
Diego Rivera Motor Assembly 1932
Benton Cotton Pickers 1928
Picasso Guernica 1937
Matisse La Musique 1944
The course will cover the shift from modernist authorial genius, to the postmodernist critique
of that genius.
Compare: Jackson Pollock, #1, 1948 and Rebecca Horn, Little Painting School, 1978
Review the move from Social Realism (Diego Rivera, Motor Assembly, 1932) and Regionalism
(Thomas Hart Benton, Cotton Pickers, 1928-29).
But explain their continuities with the Abstract Expressionist Generation. (Jackson Pollock,
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Cotton Pickers, 1934-38)
B.具体讲座记录：（可以供我校双语教学教师参考）
在其它学科的公开课的讲座链接处可以看到较为详细的讲座笔记，如化学工
程系的 10.450 课程的讲座 2。
双击该链接
PClesson02system1.pdf
C.讲座幻灯片：部分讲座以幻灯片形式提供，如电子工程与计算机科学系的
6.042J 课程的讲座 1。
slides11.pdf 双击该链
D.音频讲座：部分讲座提供音频资料，如大脑与认知科学系的 9.01 课程的
讲座 4。
Lecture_04.mp3
双击该链
四、作业：
大多数公开课程都有作业一项，我们仍以建筑学系为例，建筑学系的 4.240J 课程。
课程名称：
4.240J
Urban Design Skills: Observing, Interpreting, and Representing the City Fall 2002
双击此链接 obs.pdf
可以看到教师引导学生如何完成作业，作业要点和作业的格式。
五、试卷
我们以化学工程系的 10.450 课程为例。
A.日常小考：
（双击该链接）
PC_exam_2_solution.pdf
B.期末：
（双击该链接）
PC_exam_final.pdf
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六、问题及答案
我们以经济学系的 14.41 课程为例。
课程名称：
14.41
Public Economics Fall 2002
问题：
（双击该链接）
ps2.pdf
答案：
（双击该链接）
ps2_ans.pdf
七、实验：
我们以物理系光学实验为例。
Optics
Optics - Image formation, diffraction, and polarization
Image formation, interference, and polarization are studied in several experiments which
include measurements of the focusing properties of a postive lens, determination of the
wavelength of laser light by multiple wave interference, and the measurement of the
intensity of light transmitted by crossed polarizers.
实验介绍和要求
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jlexp001.pdf（双击该链接）
电子工程及计算机科学系：
6.002
Circuits and Electronics Fall 2000
Lab 1 - Thevenin/Norton Equivalents and Logic Gates
lab1.pdf
八、课题项目
我们以材料科学与工程学系 3.082 课程为例。
课程名称：
3.082
Materials Processing Laboratory Spring 2003
Polymer processing（课题名称）
plastics.pdf（双击该链接）
九、超文本的课本
我们以数学系 18.013 课程为例。
课程名称;
18.013A
Calculus with Applications Fall 2001
18.013A Online Textbook （双击各章链接可以看到详细内容）
18.013A Online Textbook
A note to the user:
The contents in this section are presented in the format of a textbook.
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This section is divided into chapters, and each chapter contains a
number of pages. Navigation on each page allows the user to move to
the next or previous page. In addition, the user may navigate the site
alphabetically using the index, or chronologically using this page.

Chapter 0
The Spreadsheet

Chapter 1
Philosophy, Numbers and Functions

Chapter 2
The Exponential Function and Trigonometric Functions

Chapter 3
Vectors, Dot Products, Matrix Multiplication and Distance

Chapter 4
Area of a Parallelogram, Determinants, Volume and Hypervolume, the
Vector Product

Chapter 5
Vectors and Geometry in Two and Three Dimensions

Chapter 6
Differentiable Functions, the Derivative and Differentials

Chapter 7
Computation of Derivatives from their Definition

Chapter 8
Calculation of Derivatives by Rule

Chapter 9
Derivatives of Vector Fields and the Gradient in Polar Coordinates

Chapter 10 Higher Derivatives, Taylor Series, Quadratic Approximations and Accuracy
of Approximations

Chapter 11 Quadratic Approximations in Several Dimensions

Chapter 12 Applications of Differentiation: Direct Use of Linear Approximatio

Chapter 13 Solving Equations

Chapter 14 Extrema

Chapter 15 Curves

Chapter 16 Some Important Examples and a Formulation in Physics

Chapter 17 The Product Rule and Differentiating Vectors

Chapter 18 Complex Numbers and Functions of Them

Chapter 19 The Anti-derivative or Indefinite Integral

Chapter 20 The Area under a Curve and its Many Generalizations

Chapter 21 The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus in One Dimension

Chapter 22 Additive Measures, Stokes Theorem and the Divergence Theorem

Chapter 23 Reducing a Line Integral to an Ordinary Integral and Related Reductions

Chapter 24 Reducing a Surface Integral to a Multiple Integral and the Jacobian

Chapter 25 Numerical Integration

Chapter 26 Numerical Solution of Differential Equations

Chapter 27 Doing Integrals

Chapter 28 Introduction to Electric and Magnetic Fields

Chapter 29 Magnetic Fields, Magnetic Induction and Electrodynamics

Chapter 30 Series

Chapter 31 Doing Area, Surface and Volume Integrals

Chapter 32 Some Linear Algebra

Chapter 33 Second Order Differential Equations

Exercises

Chapter A Series Summing Magic

Chapter B Fun with Determinants
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
Glossary of Notations
十、模拟（simulation）：
我们以土木与环境工程系为例。双击表格中的各项链接后可以看到模拟效果。
Scattering by a vertical wedge
Explanations on the simulations:

Three different zones can be obviously observed.
o
Zone I: In front of the wedge, standing waves present because of the
combination of incident and reflected waves while the effect of the scattered
waves is relatively weak and present as the point source waves.
o
Zone III: Behind the wedge, only scattered waves present. The wave pattern
within this zone seems to be generated by a point wave source right on the
tip of the wedge. But there is a radian variation of the wave amplitude. At the
shadow line, the wave amplitude is as half as that of the incident waves,
which is easy to understand by following Huygens' view.
o
Zone II: Besides these two zones, the incident waves dominate and the effect
of the scattered waves is weak but can be observed as the parabola.

At the shadow line, parabolas can be seen. This is the proof of our parabolic
approximation.
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Here we present the 12 cases by combining three wedge angles (0, 45 and 90 degree) with
four incidence angles (0, 45, 90, 135 degree). For clarity, we also give the top view of some
cases (click on T).
0 wedge/0 incidence
45 wedge/0 incidence
90 wedge/0 incidence
0 wedge/45 incidence
45 wedge/45 incidence
90 wedge/45 incidence
0 wedge/90 incidence(T)
45 wedge/90 incidence
90 wedge/90 incidence
0 wedge/135 incidence
45 wedge/135 incidence
90 wedge/135 incidence(T)
十一、演示 demo：
我们以电子工程与计算机科学系 6.013 课程为例。
课程名称：
6.013
Electromagnetics and Applications Fall 2002
..\dispersion.mpg
十二、视频
我们以电子工程与计算机科学系 6.641 课程为例
课程名称:
6.641
Electromagnetic Fields, Forces, and Motion Spring 2003
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第七章 7.5.1 7.5.1.rm;
第八章 8.5.1 8.5.1.rm
以上是公开课程的大致情况，如要了解详细课程安排，可以在网上相应的课
程链接处阅读。有的还需要在 MIT 的具体院系网站上了解。
注：安装软件：Adobe Reader 6.0,Real One Player 。
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