Schedule of Classes

First-year Program
First-year seminars
K10.0024 Migration and American Culture Dinwiddie MW

2:00-3:15

 
K10.0032 The Social Construction of Reality Duncombe TR 2:00-3:15 syllabus
K10.0042 Capitalism and Democracy Phillips-Fein MW 12:30-1:45  
K10.0043 Travel Fictions Hutkins TR 11:00-12:15 syllabus
K10.0048

Exile                                                           

Antoon      W 9:30-12:15                       
K10.0049 The Self and the Call of the Other Greenberg MW 12:30-1:45  
K10.0050 The City and the Grassroots Poitevin R 6:20-9:00  
K10.0051 The Thingliness of Things Meltzer TR 11:00-12:15  
K10.0053 Novel Freedoms Parisier TR 3:30-4:45  
K10.0054 Genetic Enhancement Lewis M 3:30-6:10 syllabus
K10.0055 Encountering Race Lorts T 3:30-6:10 syllabus
K10.0057 Incivility in the Age of Civil Society Velasco W 6:20-9:00 syllabus
Writing Seminars
K10.0313 Writing Sem I: Reading and Writing Everyday Life Gabbard TR 3:30-4:45  
K10.0319 Writing Sem I: Aesthetics on Trial Trogan R 6:20-9:00  
K10.0323 Writing Sem I: The Artist in Context Blaney TR 4:55-6:10  
K10.0333 Writing Sem I: Writing 20th-Century Music and Culture Erickson TR 2:00-3:15 syllabus
K10.0336 Writing Sem I: Visual Texts Lemberg TR 2:00-3:15  
K10.0342 Writing Sem I: Writing Justice Siemann MW 12:30-1:45 syllabus
K10.0343 Writing Sem I: Writers on Writing Foley MW 3:30-4:45 syllabus
K10.0345 Writing Sem I: Forms of Love Weisser MW 9:30-10:45 syllabus
K10.0346 Writing Sem I: Writing Peace Wisor MW 11:00-12:15 syllabus
K10.0347 Writing Sem I: Writing the Self Libby MW 12:30-1:45  
K10.0348 Writing Sem I: The City and the Country Hatch   CANCELLED  
K10.0349 Writing Sem I: New York Stories Scott MW 2:00-3:15  
K10.0350 Writing Sem I: Writing for the Sciences, Writing for the Arts Turner MW 4:55-6:10  
K10.0351 Writing Sem I: Writing in Times of Historical Crisis Rezek MW 11:00-12:15 syllabus
K10.0352 Writing Sem I: America the Multicultural Chander F 11:00-1:45  
K10.0353 Writing Sem I: The Faith Between Us Korb TR 3:30-4:45 syllabus
K10.0639 Writing Sem II: Myths and Fables in Popular Culture Lennox MW 2:00-3:15 syllabus
Interdisciplinary Seminars
K20.1043 The Image: History of Mass Media II Duncombe TR 11:00-12:15 syllabus
K20.1063 The Meaning of Silence Achino-Loeb R 3:30-6:10 syllabus
K20.1081 Contemporary Aesthetics and Cultural History Barowitz R 6:20-9:00 syllabus
K20.1097 Inventing Modernity I Hornick W 3:30-6:10 syllabus
K20.1103 Pride and Power Mirabella TR 4:55-6:10 syllabus
K20.1107 Belief and Skepticism Goldfarb TR 3:30-4:45 syllabus
K20.1113 The Spirit of the Comic and the Spirit of the Age Rutigliano M 6:20-9:00 syllabus
K20.1119

Authority, Modernity and Democracy

Prerequisite any two of the following Primary Text courses: K20.1449, K20.1450, K20.1452 or K20.1455.

Shulman M 12:30-3:15 syllabus
K20.1128 Bodily Fictions Ciolkowski R 3:30-6:10  
K20.1193 Culture as Communication Varadhan TR 3:30-4:45 syllabus
K20.1197 Narratives of African Civilizations Dawson M 3:30-6:10 syllabus
K20.1202 Tragic Visions Mirabella TR 11:00-12:15 syllabus
K20.1249 Colonies, Empires, Nations, Globalizations Lauria-Perricelli TR 4:55-6:10  
K20.1251 Sex, Gender, Nature, Culture Murphy MW 2:00-3:15  
K20.1277 Alchemy and Transformation of the Self Robbins W 3:30-6:10 syllabus
K20.1298

Ecology and Environmental Thought

Cittadino MW 12:30-1:45 syllabus
K20.1299 Objectivity and the Politics of the Journalism Revolution Thaler W 6:20-9:00 syllabus
K20.1311

Mad Science/Mad Pride

Lewis R 3:30-6:10 syllabus
K20.1331 Readings in Asian and Comparative Philosophy Nordstrom F 12:30-3:15 syllabus
K20.1336 Contemporary Political Economy Phillips-Fein MW 3:30-4:45  
K20.1341 Metaphor and Meaning Pies MW 11:00-12:15 syllabus
K20.1364 AIDS and Its Cultural Effects McCreery T 3:30-6:10  
K20.1368 Arabic Poetry Antoon W 3:30-6:10  
K20.1371 Comedy: Ancient and Modern Calabrese TR 9:30-10:45  
K20.1378 Religion and "The Times" Graybeal T 3:30-6:10 syllabus
K20.1379 Liberalism and Sexuality in America Frank M 3:30-6:10 syllabus
K20.1381 Creative Democracy: The Pragmatist Tradition Caspary W 3:30-6:10  
K20.1382 Coming-of-Age on American Film Lang R 3:30-6:10  
K20.1384 Modernism and Imperialism Taylor T 3:30-6:10  
K20.1385 Black Cultural Studies White M 6:20-9:00 syllabus
K20.1388 Thinking About Seeing Miller T 3:30-6:10 syllabus
K20.1390

American Shakespeare

Open to sophomores only.

Cartelli F 12:30-3:15  
K20.1399 American Bohemia Amato MW 4:55-6:10 syllabus
K20.1408 Leviathans, Lovers and Libertines Cartmill MW 9:30-10:45  
K20.1409 The Postcolonial World and the Legacies of Empire Fong W 6:20-9:00 syllabus
K20.1410 Satan and the Angels: Good and Evil Personified McPherson MW 9:30-10:45 syllabus
K20.1411 What Was Conceptualism and Why Won't It Go Away? Meltzer W 3:30-6:10  
K20.1412 Yellow Peril
Permission of Instructor required. Same as V18.0380.003.
Tchen

W

F

2:00-4:45

10:00-12:00

 
K20.1413 Moral Behavior: Sentiment and Psychology Holt MW 11:00-12:15 syllabus
K20.1414 How the Laws of Nature Lie     CANCELLED  
K20.1415 Swing Down: Constructing the Future & Creating Space Brown T 6:20-9:00  
K20.1417 Politics and the Gods Tugendhaft M 6:20-9:00 syllabus
K20.1418 Literary Geography Hutkins T 3:30-6:10 syllabus
K20.1419

Primary Texts: Plato and Machiavelli

Open to sophomores only.

Shulman T 6:20-9:00  
K20.1460 Environmental Risk and Society Schlottman R 3:30-6:10  
K20.1464 In Full Effect: Hip Hop Culture Williams W 3:30-6:10 syllabus
K20.1465 Philosophy of Science DeNardis M 3:30-6:10 syllabus
K20.1470 (Re)Imagining Latin America Velasco TR 11:00-12:15 syllabus
K20.1471 Black Intellectual Thought in the Atlantic World Polyne M 6:20-9:00  
K20.1472 The Invention of Love Hornick M 3:30-6:10 syllabus
K20.1483 The Public Theatre and the Village Steinfeld MW 11:00-12:15  
K20.1484 The Emergence of Mind: Who Am I? Azmitia R 6:20-9:00  
Advanced Writing Courses
K30.1015 The Practice of Writing Hightower M 3:30-6:10 syllabus
K30.1033 Writing about Popular Music Wetta MW 2:00-3:15  
K30.1034 Writing About Performance Malnig W 3:30-6:10  
K30.1047 Writing on Wealth and Power Jones F 2:00-4:45  
K30.1317 Only Connect: Strategies for Writing Park F 11:00-1:45  
K30.1321 Travel Writing Brownmiller F 9:30-12:15 syllabus
K30.1330 Writing on Borderlines Blythe TR 4:55-6:10 syllabus
K30.1495 Writing the Documentary Film Seidman W 6:20-9:00  
K30.1510 Writing Comedy D.B. Gilles R 6:20-9:00 syllabus
K30.1537 Crafting Short Fiction from the Sentence Up Rinehart T 6:20-9:00 syllabus
K30.1540 Reading and Writing the Short Story Zoref M 6:20-9:00  
K30.1548 Pitch Perfect: Finding Your Voice in Fiction and Essay Nair F 9:30-12:15 syllabus
K30.1550 Fiction Writing Daith M 3:30-6:10  
K30.1555

Advanced Fiction Writing

Prerequisite K30.1550 or V39.0815 or V39.0816 or V39.0820.

King T 6:20-9:00 syllabus
K30.1560/01 The Art and Craft of Poetry Fragos M 6:20-9:00  
K30.1560/02 The Art and Craft of Poetry Pies MW 3:30-4:45  
Other Writing-Related Courses
K45.1460 Literacy in Action Donnelly M 6:20-9:00  
K80.2550

Fiction Writing

Graduate course open to advanced undergraduates with permission of the instructor.

Spain W 6:20-9:00  
Arts workshops
K40.1019 His Advice to the Players: Shakespeare in Performance Horton TR 2:00-3:15  
K40.1020 Character Acting Sloan M 6:20-9:00  
K40.1032 Stage Direction for the Twenty-first Century Horton W 12:30-3:15  
K40.1070

Equal Exchange: Arts-Based Collaborations

Course meets Mondays on-site in Brooklyn.

Bowers

M

W

3:30-6:10

4:55-6:10

 
K40.1105 Integrating Mind and Body in the Performing Arts Powell T 6:20-9:00 syllabus
K40.1110 The Art of Play Hodermarska R 9:30-12:15 syllabus
K40.1212 World Dance Posin W 3:30-6:10 syllabus
K40.1250 Interarts Collaboration Satin T 3:30-6:10  
K40.1305 Rudiments of Contemporary Musicianship Castellano W 6:20-9:00 syllabus
K40.1315 Understanding Jazz Prudente T 3:30-6:10 syllabus
K40.1325 Songwriting Rayner M 3:30-6:10  
K40.1405 Drawing and Painting Katz F 9:30-12:15  
K40.1420 Rites of Passage Into Contemporary Art Practice Ruhe R 3:30-6:10 syllabus
K40.1470

The Monument: From Concept to Creation

Course meets on site at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue.

Wyatt M 9:30-12:15  
K40.1525 Writing for the Ear: Broadcast News as Storytelling Hoffman MW 6:20-7:35 syllabus
K40.1565 Playwriting Churchill R 6:20-9:00 syllabus
K40.1571 Writing for Television I Douglas M 3:30-6:10  
K40.1621 Architectural Design and Drawing Goodman W 6:20-9:00  
K40.1635 Digital New Media Allen T 3:30-6:10  
K40.1652 Creating a Magazine: From Inspiration to Prototype Friedman, L. TR 2:00-3:15 syllabus
Graduate arts workshop
Graduate course open to advanced undergraduates with permission of the instructor.
K80.2570 Writing for Stage and Screen Thompson M 2:00-4:45 syllabus
Community Learning Courses
K45.1444 Lyrics on Lockdown Turenne T 6:20-9:00 syllabus
K45.1445 Shifting Focus: Video Production Read R 3:30-6:10 syllabus
K45.1452 Law and Community Activism OuYang T 6:20-9:00  
K45.1453 Gentrification and Its Discontents Poitevin F 9:30-12:15  
K45.1456 Immigrant Rights Shahani M 6:20-9:00 syllabus
K45.1460 Literacy in Action Donnelly M 6:20-9:00 syllabus
Individualized Projects
K50.1701 Private Lessons   to be arranged
K50.1801

Internship

Students registering for an Internship are required to attend one session of each workshop:

Workshop I: 9/17, 10:00 am–11:00 am, or 9/19, 4:30 pm–5:30 pm, or 9/20, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
Workshop II: 10/15, 10:00 am–11:00 am, or 10/17, 4:30 pm–5:30 pm, or 10/18, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm

  to be arranged
K50.1901 Independent Study   to be arranged
K50.1925 Tutorial   to be arranged