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May Intensive 2009
Course Number - Title
Sec. Call # Days Meeting Times Location Activity Cr. Hrs Instructor
Listings from: Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Undergraduate courses
E90.1082 - INTRO TO THE GALLERIES AND MUSEUMS OF NEW YORK
00640951MTWR01:30pm - 04:40pm BARN 6W LEC3.0 
 This section meets from 5/18/2009 to 6/5/2009
 MAY INTENSIVE COURSE. THERE IS A $250.00 LAB FEE AUTOMATICALLY ATTACHED. THE LAB FEE IS NON-REFUNDABLE AFTER THE 2ND DAY OF CLASS.
Listings from: Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Graduate courses
E20.2371 - SOCIAL INEQUALITY & EDUC
00140957MTWR04:10pm - 06:25pm 246G 3FL LEC3.0 
 This section meets from 5/18/2009 to 6/5/2009
 MAY INTENSIVE COURSE.
E32.2090 - MEAS/EVAL IN BUSN ED
00140958MWR04:55pm - 08:00pm TISC LC3 LEC3.0 STAGE, FRANCES
 This section meets from 5/18/2009 to 6/4/2009
 MAY INTENSIVE COURSE.
E90.2141 - THE HISTORY OF TASTE - 1850 - PRESENT Show Description
A concept-driven, cross-disciplinary survey that examines sources and influences that contributed to the formation of taste and style from 1850 to the present. Taste will be explored thematically and chronologically within a broad cultural context that includes art, architecture, decorative arts, and material culture. Factors and forces that shape this context include political developments, design philosophies, social customs and fads, fashion, pastimes, entertainment, and media.

The three-week intensive format for this course emphasizes critique and discussion exploring the interconnections between current trends and past developments in taste. There are reading assignments, oral reports, field trips, and course projects.

Prof. Carlo Lamagna is an art and architectural historian focusing on: modern and contemporary art and material culture; current trends in exhibitions and curatorial and interpretive approaches; arts advocacy concepts and practices; visual arts not-for-profit and for-profit professional training. He is a former art museum curator, gallerist, independent curator, and non-profit management consultant. He teaches the Thesis Sequence for the Visual Arts Administration M.A. program, Exhibition and Display of Art and Material Culture, in New York and in London, and Arts Administration in the European Context in the Netherlands and Berlin.
00140954MTWR04:00pm - 06:00pm BARN 508 LEC3.0 
 This section meets from 5/18/2009 to 6/5/2009
 MAY INTENSIVE COURSE.
E98.2087 - INSTITUT ASSESS HIGHER ED
00140827MWR04:55pm - 08:00pm TISC LC3 LEC3.0 STAGE, FRANCES
 This section meets from 5/18/2009 to 6/4/2009
 MAY INTENSIVE COURSE.
Listings from: Gallatin School of Individualized Study
Undergraduate courses
K20.1403 - THE GLOBAL NEIGHBORHOODS OF LOWER MANHATTAN Show Description
This course explores three downtown Manhattan neighborhoods: the Lower East Side, Chinatown, and the West Village. What are the historical and political roots of these communities? What are the social and economic forces shaping their identity, from architecture to public space and community organizations? How is globalization transforming them? How are their residents fighting back?

Through lectures, readings, walking-tours, films, class presentations, and field work with community-based-organizations, students will gain a first hand understanding of the idiosyncrasies and struggles that make New York City such an unique place. Reading assignments include Janet Abu-Lughod, Jack T. Chen, Saskia Sassen, Neil Smith, and Sharon Zukin.
00170452MTWR09:30am - 01:00pm   SEM4.0 POITEVIN, RENE
 This section meets from 5/18/2009 to 6/5/2009
 MAY INTENSIVE COURSE.
K20.1425 - THE PHILOSOPHIC DIALOGUE Show Description
In this course, we will read philosophical dialogues and their modern successors, poetic prose pieces and a play whose subjects are art and rhetoric. Ancient to modern writers have been fascinated with the power of art, and for each, ideas about art are connected to those about language and society. In our reading of Ion and Gorgias we will look at Plato’s ideas on art, rhetoric (oratory), and power before his Republic. Phaedrus, written later, complements the discussion in earlier texts, developing Plato’s ideas about the relation of the intellect, the emotions, and the appetites. We will then discuss Diderot’s Rameau’s Nephew, which revisits some of Plato’s themes from the perspective of the eighteenth century and the changing world of the Enlightenment.

Finally, we will explore the dialogue form in the twentieth century through Tom Stoppard's play Arcadia and excerpts from works of modern writers. In our dialogue, we will explore not only at what these writers say, but how they say it, and speculate on how and why conversation, rather than monologue, can give rise to knowledge.

Among the questions I hope we consider are the following: How are ideas born from conversation (and, I hope, our conversations)? What is the importance of human relationship in intellectual inquiry? How does the dialogue imply, and necessitate, our participation as readers? Readings may include works by Plato, Diderot, Stoppard and selected excerpts from Bakhtin, Mallarmé, and Murdoch.
00171295MTWRF01:30pm - 04:15pm   SEM4.0 PIES, STACY E
 This section meets from 5/18/2009 to 6/5/2009
 MAY INTENSIVE COURSE.
K20.1551 - SCIENCE IN THE THEATRE Show Description
Science is full of human drama—persecution and inspiration, betrayal and tragedy—and theater’s ability to distill these tropes provides a powerful way to see how science informs and is informed by the wider culture.

This course will explore classic plays built around scientific themes through both close readings of the scripts and a deep engagement with the technical, historical, and philosophical issues that motivate them.  We will particularly pay attention to how science and scientists are represented in theater, and how that shapes the public understanding of science.

We will read Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen alongside David Cassidy’s work on Heisenberg and the Nazi atomic bomb project; Brecht’s Galileo informed by Galileo’s own writings and records from the Roman Inquisition; Inherit the Wind with Edward Larson’s Pulitzer-prize winning account of the Scopes Trial; and Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia along with Newton’s Principia Mathematica and the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence. 
00171296MTWR09:30am - 01:00pm   SEM4.0 STANLEY, MATTHE
 This section meets from 5/18/2009 to 6/5/2009
 MAY INTENSIVE COURSE.
Listings from: Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
Undergraduate courses
P11.0038 - HUMAN RIGHTS / DEMOCRACY TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE
00150072W01:00pm - 05:00pm SILV 414 LEC4.0 BICKFORD, LOUIS
 RFS 09:00am - 05:00pm SILV 414
 This section meets from 5/27/2009 to 5/30/2009
 MAY INTENSIVE COURSE.
Listings from: College of Arts & Science
Undergraduate courses
V43.0413 - CUBISM TO ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
00171297MTWRF12:30pm - 04:15pm SILV 301 LEC4.0 
 This section meets from 5/18/2009 to 5/29/2009
 MAY INTENSIVE COURSE. PREREQUISITE: V43.0002 OR V43.0006 OR AP CREDIT WITH MIN SCORE OF 5.
V43.0650 - SP TPCS: LANDMARKS OF NEW YORK
00171298MTWRF12:30pm - 04:15pm SILV 302 SEM4.0 
 This section meets from 5/18/2009 to 5/29/2009
 MAY INTENSIVE COURSE.

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