FALL 2010 FIQWS
FIQWS 10002 6.0 CR ANTHROPOLOGY
3525 EC2 M,W 02:00-03:15PM HR-10 BALDWIN-JONES
F 09:30-12:00PM NA-5142
MIDWIVES, HEALERS AND PHYSICIANS - How do different cultures, including our own, view healing? What is the place of the healer in their scientific, spiritual and cultural worlds? This course explores human cultures and ethnomedical thought and practices in our present day, comparing such aspects as marriage and the family, pregnancy and childbirth, health and healing, and economics and politics across time and through an examination of beliefs and behaviors in a variety of cultures.
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3527 ND11 T,F 12:30-01:45PM HR-10 WALL
T,TH 02:00-03:15PM NA-4148
HUMAN ORIGINS - The study of Human Origins is an extremely vibrant and controversial one today. One part of this debate concerns the controversy between creationists and scientists. The other part, and the focus of this course, is in the field of human evolution itself. It examines the process of evolution and the living primates, (our closest living relatives), and explores what we know about our ancestors other close relatives.
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FIQWS 10004 6.0 CR ARCHITECTURE
3529 PR5 T,TH 02:00-03:15PM AR-123 KALLMAN
T,TH 03:30-04:45PM AR-128
EXPLORING THE ARCHITECTURE OF NEW YORK CITY - We will look at and investigate aspects of the built environment of New York City – the meanings created by buildings and neighborhoods; the “reading” of our physical environment as influenced by our gender, sexual preference, age, ethnicity, religion, social class, etc.
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FIQWS 10006 6.0 CR ART
3531 AB6 M,W 08:00-09:15AM SH-277 BROWN-GREEN
M,W 09:30-10:45AM CG-108
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3530 BD6 M,W 09:30-10:45AM NA-4157 BROWN-GREEN
M,W 12:30-01:45PM CG-108
QUILT MAKING IN AMERICAN HISTORY - Quilt making in American History spans over two centuries of quilt history in America. This course examines women and their quilting from the Colonial America era to the 21st century. African American, Native American and Amish quilts will be studied. Connections will be explored between African textiles and quilting techniques and the textiles and techniques historically used in Europe. Memorial quilts, quilts made during the Black Power Movement, Feminist quilts, and political and commemorative quilts made in honor of special world events will be shown and analyzed.
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3532 5BE2 F 09:30-12:00PM AR-107 CHEN
F 12:30-03:00PM NA-6306
PAINTED PORTRAITS: FACTS AND FICTION - This course will represent an introduction to Western portrait painting from the Renaissance to the present. Visual representations of individual likenesses will be considered in terms of their formal and iconographic constructions as well as their significance within the society in which they were produced.
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FIQWS 10012 6.0 CR BLACK STUDIES
3609 RS4 T,TH 03:30-04:45PM NA-6319 GIBBONS
T,TH 05:00-06:15PM SH-73
THE CHANGING STREETSCAPES OF HARLEM - Harlem is at a crossroads. After three centuries and five decades of continuous development, Harlem is poised for yet another rebirth. But unlike the cultural artistic movement of the 1920s, this renaissance is class and economics driven. As brownstones and buildings that once stood empty for decades are rehabbed and new home ownership opportunities are created through public and private partnerships, Harlem’s long-term residents are in jeopardy of being displaced. This course will explore Harlem’s rebirth in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, discussing relevant themes and topics such as Harlem’s social and architectural history, the making of a ghetto, new home ownership opportunities, public and private partnerships, financing low-income development, gentrification and alternatives to displacement.
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FIQWS 10023 6.0 CR ECONOMICS
3859 LM7 T,TH 09:30-10:45AM NA-5148 SCHALLER
T,TH 11:00-12:15PM NA-6268
READING AND WRITING THE CITY:URBAN ECONOMIES,PLANNING AND NEIGHBORHOOD LIVING IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS - The “city,” depending on the vantage point of the observer and the historical moment, embodies contradictory meanings. For some the city represents fear, disease, poverty, and anomie; for others, it means fresh opportunities, anonymity, sociality, and offers spaces for democratic impulses to flourish. We will explore how the city, urban economies and urban life have been imagined, assessed and represented by sociologists, urban economists and planners as well as in literary works. We will situate the city in the global economy to examine how economic processes shape urban areas and will discuss how planned interventions have sought to transform urban spaces and economic as well as social conditions.
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FIQWS 10024 6.0 CR EDUCATION
3538 DD5 M,W 12:30-01:45PM NA-3224 WALL
F 09:30-12:00PM NA-6122
TEACHING AS ART AND PRACTICE - In this course we look, so to speak, behind the scenes into what teachers actually think and do. The course will focus on conceptions of teachers and teaching from ancient until post-modern times.
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3860 LN3 T,TH 09:30-10:45AM NA-6110 KATZ
T,F 12:30-01:45PM SH-17
SPORT, ETHICS, AND CULTURE - We will examine various ethical issues in sport, including competition, sportsmanship, gender equity, violence, collegiate athletics, doping, and cheating. Our analysis will involve several ethical frameworks, from relativism, consequentialism, and nonconsequentialism to utilitarianism, the categorical imperative, and certain non-Western ethical paradigms. We will explore the cultural contexts from which these sporting ethical questions emerge.
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3539 ND11 T,F 12:30-01:45PM NA-6136 Castiglioni
T,TH 02:00-03:15PM NA-6306
YOUNG AT ART, DEVELOPMENT OF CREATIVITY IN CHILDREN - This course will introduce students to the development of artistic tendencies in children and adolescents, with particular emphasis on issues of race, gender, class, culture, sexual orientation and disability. The lives and experiences of renowned artists in fields as diverse as literature, visual arts, performing arts will be explored.
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FIQWS 10032 6.0 CR HISTORY
3552 ND11 T,F 12:30-01:45PM NA-6329 GILLOOLY
T,TH 02:00-03:15PM NA-5148
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3553 RS3 T,TH 03:30-04:45PM NA-4209 GILLOOLY
T,TH 05:00-06:15PM SH-275
AFFLUENCE AND ITS DISCONTENTS - This course is organized around a discussion of some of the seminal critiques of consumer culture as they have emerged since the late 19th century. Readings will include sections of Thorstein Veblen’s The Theory of the Leisure Class, Robert S. Lynd’s Middletown, Theodor Adorno and Max Horkeimer’s “The Culture Industry,” and John Kenneth Galbraith’s The Affluent Society.
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FIQWS 10043 6.0 CR MCA
3556 GH5 M 05:00-07:45PM SH-291 OSWALD
W 05:00-07:45PM SH-274
PUBLISHING: YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW – this course will include an overview of significant developments in 20th and 21st century to an industry of printed books, magazines, newspapers as well as their developing electronic versions. We will look at this "publishing" from the writers' and business sides with the goal of learning from how communication has evolved from the "golden ages" of books and magazines and how that may foretell the industry's future.
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3557 KL10 T,TH 08:00-09:15AM SH-492 TOMASULO
T,TH 09:30-10:45AM SH-492
INDEPENDENT FILMS - This course will examine the history, aesthetics, and financial aspects of independent filmmaking around the globe, with an emphasis on the post-studio era in the United States. Filmmakers such as Charlie Chaplin, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Francis Ford Coppola, John Cassavetes David Lynch, Alejandro Jodorowky, Jim Jarmusch, Kevin Smith, Quentin Tatantino, Steven Soderbergh, will be highlighted and their works screened and evaluated. In addition, the role of film festivals, particularly the Sundance, Tribeca, New York, and Cannes festivals, will be explored as significant showcases for independent cinema.
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3555 5BF T,F 12:30-01:45PM SH-276 JOSEPH
F 09:30-12:00PM SH-291
WOMEN AND FILM - With an emphasis on the work of female filmmakers, this course introduces students to a variety of film forms, including experimental, documentary, and narrative. We will explore concepts of representation and gender in contemporary visual culture, and we will consider how individual filmmakers have approached and addressed questions of gender, sexuality, and identity in their work. This course also serves as a broad introduction to the vocabulary and techniques of film analysis and criticism.
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FIQWS 10044 6.0 CR MUSIC
3559 BC6 M,W 09:30-10:45AM SH-276 PIZA
M,W 11:00-12:15PM SH-180
CONTEMPORARY POPULAR MUSIC – This course is an examination of the multicultural roots of popular music, both historical and current, in the USA including Native-American, African-American, and Latin-American styles (Blues, Jazz Reggae, Salsa, Folk, Rock, and Hip Hop among others.
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3560 BC7 M,W 09:30-10:45AM SH-374 KRASNER
M,W 11:00-12:15PM SH-182
MUSIC AND SHAKESPEARE - Students learn to understand the expressive language of music by understanding the relationship between Shakespeare’s play’s and musical interpretations of them. In the past, this course has focused on Romeo and Juliet and MacBeth.
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3930 DN2 M,W 12:30-01:45PM SH-77 HARTMAN
T,F 12:30-01:45PM NA-6110
MUSIC FOR THE CINEMA - From the first movies introduced in the 1890s, music has always been an integral part of the cinematic experience. Can you imagine watching a movie without music? This class will explore film music from its earliest days to the present. We will learn how to listen to the music, understand its meaning more fully, and identify different styles and composers. Topics covered include “silent” movies, early sound movies, classic Hollywood films, musicals, cartoons, and modern cinema – both mainstream and experimental.
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3610 GC M,W 05:00-06:15PM SH-79 WEISMAN
F 09:30-12:00PM SH-17
ORAL HISTORY OF AMERICAN MUSIC - This course examines American concert music from the perspective of oral history. It will include explorations of American composers such as: Gershwin, Ives, Eubie Blake, Copland, Ellington and others, and discussions about what inspires these composers, and how their music fits into the broad spectrum of 20th century American music.
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3561 RS3 T,TH 03:30-04:45PM SH-17 WILKINSON
T,TH 05:00-06:15PM SH-177
FROM KEROUAC TO TUPAC - This course examines the cross fertilization that occurred between the 1950’s beat – poetry generation and modern jazz and the 1990’s hip hop movement and African American urban poetry. In each period, students will analyze the shared characteristics of the musical and poetic idioms. Throughout this course, students will create original music to express the poetry of the period or create original poetry that reflects the musical emotion from each time frame.
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FIQWS 10045 6.0 CR PHILOSOPHY
3563 AB6 M,W 08:00-09:15AM NA-6328 WEISSMAN
M,W 09:30-10:45AM NA-5124
CHALLENGING AUTHORITY - When is authority legitimately challenged? What are some effective ways of challenging it? How does one know that a challenge is well-founded? We shall read books that challenge authority: Plato’s first three dialogues, the authority of leaders; Descartes’ Meditations, the authority of belief; Mill, the authority of society vs. the desires of individuals.
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3565 EC2 M,W 12:30-01:45PM NA-6110 PAPPAS
M,W 02:00-03:15PM NA-4148
SOCRATES AT HOME-ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY IN ITS SOCIAL CONTEXT - This course offers glimpses of Socrates philosophizing, with special attention to the details of the kind of life he lived, and the context of daily life and practices in the Athens of his day. What do you need to know to make Socrates a living character for you? Is it what he and other people wear? What they eat? What kinds of work they do? What education means? Where people spend their leisure time? Some of Plato’s short dialogues will be used as jumping-off points for learning about ancient Greek dress and nudity; athletics; board games; education; funerals and mourning.
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3566 MN5 T,TH 11:00-12:15PM NA-6306 GREENWOOD CANCELLED
T,F 12:30-01:45PM NA-6307
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3567 PN T,F 12:30-01:45PM SH-15 MAG UIDHIR
T,TH 02:00-03:15PM SH-15
PHILOSOPHY OF SEX - This course will tackle philosophical issues related to sex, including sexual morality, practice, classification, orientation, and identity. Specific attention will be paid to issues of consent, gender, homosexuality, marriage, prostitution, pornography, harassment, and rape. Please be advised that the discussion of these topics will be frank and open, and some topics and the way they will be presented (including language used) may be found offensive by some.
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FIQWS 10048 6.0 CR POLITICAL SCIENCE
3873 CD6 M,W 11:00-12:15PM NA-4157 BUSCH
M,W 12:30-01:45PM NA-4157
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION - The challenges facing the world in the twenty-first century are already characterized by a rapidly expanding menu of global and regional issues: political tensions; climate change; shortages of water and food; economic uncertainty; ecosystem disruptions; increasing inequality and persistent poverty. We will spend the semester examining the most important issues currently facing the world as it negotiates the turbulent storm of global economic crisis. Our investigation will include a basic introduction to international relations, including: an overview of different theoretical perspectives on world politics and current events; a look at how power and leadership are exercised in the global arena; the role of international organizations, such as the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Trade Organization.
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3862 MN5 T,TH 11:00-12:15PM SH-101 KALLEN
T,F 12:30-01:45PM SH-22
ASKING AND ANSWERING QUESTIONS IN LITERATURE AND THE LAW - This course will invite students to compare the ways in which writers ask and attempt to answer questions through fiction and drama with the ways in which lawyers and judges do so in the context of legal disputes. In considering these ideas, we will look at the political and social contexts in which both the literature and the legal decisions were written. The reading assignments will allow us to examine the themes of the individual v. society, the letter v. the spirit of the law, and equality. Students will have an opportunity to explore questions of both a literary and a legal nature, to analyze the differences and to consider what makes each piece of writing successful in light of its intention.
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3863 NDC T,F 12:30-01:45PM SH-73 JONES
F 09:30-12:00PM SH-73
RACE AND THE LAW - The relationship between blacks and whites in America is central to a person’s understanding of American Politics. Much of the political and social phenomenon observable today is in some way related to the relationship between whites and blacks within the context of the American democracy and its’ judicial system. This course is designed to verse you in milestone cases and events related to the legal relationship between blacks and white in America, in an effort to both inform you about those cases and events, but also to provide you with a greater understanding of the United States legally, socially and politically.