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  • Dissertations & Theses: Full Text (more than 2.4 million entries)
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  • Interlibrary Loan (ILliad and BLC)
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  • (place materials on) Reserves (for faculty only)
  • RefWorks

• Alternatives to Wikipedia
  Online subject encyclopedias edited and written by experts in the fields.
  
  
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    • Britannica Online
    • World Almanac Encyclopedia
    
    
    
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    • Oxford Art Online
    • Oxford Encyclopedias of Art & Architecture
      architecture, modern design, decorative arts, the garden, photograph, 20th century art, Renaissance ...
    
    
    
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    • Dictionary of Literary Biography
    
    also includes critical biographical essays and bibliographies on the 20th century American and European cultural theorists.
    
    
    • Contemporary Literary Criticism - Select
    • Oxford Reference Works on Literature in the English speaking world
    
    
    
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    • Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance and many other titles
    
    
    
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    • Oxford Encyclopedias of History
      Social, political, religous history; history of ideas; all periods; international in scope.

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Library Research Guides prepared for specific Tufts courses:

• Architecture
  • Architecture in Britain, 1945-75 (FAH90/190)
  • Built in Boston
  • Gender and Modern Architecture (FAH92/192-05)
  • Introduction to Architecture, 1400-2000 (FAH8)
  • Japanese Architecture (FAH15/105-01)
  • Medieval Architecture (FAH25/125)
  • Modern Architecture, 1850-1950 (FAH92/192)
  • Renaissance and Baroque Architecture (FAH92/192-06)
  • Survey of American Architecture (FAH92B)
  
  
  
• Art and Art History
  
  
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    • Historiography and Methodology of Art History (FAH101)
    • Theories and Methods of Art History (FAH100)
    
    
    
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    • 20th Century Photography & Technology (FAH92/192-04)
    • Contemporary Art 1960-Present (FAH92/192-02)
    • Installation, Video and Performance Art (FAH58/158)
    
    
    
    • Multimedia and the Visual Arts I (FAH188)
    
    
    
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    • Art and Medieval Margins (FAH192B)
    • Arts of the Medieval Pilgrimage (FAH192-03)
    • Gender and Medieval Art and Literature (FAH29/129, GER29, CR29)
    • Medieval Architecture (FAH25/125)
    • Medieval Art in the Mediterranean: Pagans, Jews, Christians, Muslims (ca.200-1300CE) (FAH128)
    • Medieval Reliquaries: Between Interior and Exterior (FAH220-01)
    
    
    
    • Orientalism and the Visual Arts (from Medieval times to the present) (FAH220)
    
    
    
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    • The Arts of China (FAH13)
    • Arts of Japan (FAH12)
    • Japanese Art and Anime (FAH106)
    • The Latina/o Body in Visual Culture (FAH92/192-12)
    
    
    
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    • Buddhism, Women, Art (FAH/CR191)
    • Skillful Means, Buddhist Lies (FAH200)
    • Zen & Tea Aesthetics (FAH200-02)



• Drama and Theatre
  • African American Theater and Film (DR48)
  • Asian American Stage & Screen (DR49/149)
  • Costume Design (DR126)
  • Introduction to Acting (DR010)
  • Introduction to Research Methods and Materials  (DR220)
  • Modern Drama (DR04)
  • Play Translation and Cultural Transmission (DR294)
  
  
  
• Film/Cinema Studies
  • Film Studies
  • Film and Nation: Russia & Central Asia (RUS91)
  • German Film (GER85/185)
  • Latin American Cinema (FAH84/184)
  • Screening the Renaissance (FAH230-02)
  
  
  English Two & Ex-College Explorations Classes
  • Coming of Age in Film
  • The Impact of Drugs and Alcohol on Film
  • Films About Love, Sex, and Society
  • Sports Movies
  
  
  
• French Language and Literature
  • Parlez le Français avec plaisir
    Library Research for French Studies (Fr31A and Fr142
  
  
  
• 20th-Century Italian Poetry
  • 20th-Century Italian Poetry (Italian 177)



• Japanese Studies
• "Asia" in the Mind of the West (JPN192-05)



• Latin American Novel and Poetry
  • The Latin American Novel (SPN192B)
  • Latin American Poetry & the Spanish Civil War (SPN191)
  
  
  
• Russian Novel
  • Dostoevsky (RUS65)
  
  
  
• Spanish Novel
  • Novel of Post-Franco Spain (SPN 192B)
    
    

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• English One and English Two Courses
  • Titles in the Very Short Introductions Series
  
  
  
  • Family Ties
    Featuring Primary Sources
  
  
  
  • Current Issues
    Featuring sources for current issues
  
  
  
  • Who Are They?
    Featuring Cultures Around the World
  
  
  
  • Coming of Age in Film
  • The Impact of Drugs and Alcohol on Film
  • Films About Love, Sex, and Society
  • Sports Movies

• Learning Chinese (research on computer assisted language learning)
  • Computer Assisted Language Learning for Chinese