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| Winter Session 2010 | ||||||||
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| Sec. | Call # | Days | Meeting Times | Location | Activity | Cr. Hrs | Instructor | |
| K20.1493 - SPORTS, RACE AND POLITICS Show Description | ||||||||
| Beyond spectacular touchdowns and walk-off grand slams, sport remains a vital institution for analyzing the ideological/theoretical frameworks of nationalism, diplomacy, corruption, gender and race. From Joe Louis’s historic fight against Max Schmeling in June 1936 to the recent murder of Pakistan’s cricket coach in Jamaica during the World Cup, sport should be understood beyond masculine bravado, violence and the joy and agony of competition, but also as a serious vehicle for conceptualizing and analyzing the triumphs and limitations of our society and its complicated history. This course examines sports (baseball, boxing, soccer, basketball and cricket), primarily from a U.S. and Latin American context, during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In what ways do these sports reify concepts of race and gender? How is it utilized as a tool of diplomatic relations? We will read key articles and chapters from books in the field of the sport studies that illuminate the significance of sport in shaping culture and politics in our global society. | ||||||||
| 001 | 70028 | MTWRF | 12:30pm - 04:30pm | 715B 601 | SEM | 4.0 | POLYNE, MILLERY | |
| This section meets from 1/4/2010 to 1/15/2010 | ||||||||
| UNDERGRADUATE COURSE. | ||||||||
| Tuition Cost: $4312 | ||||||||
| K20.1596 - DOMESTICATING THE WILD IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE Show Description | ||||||||
| The Ur-text of literatures for children is the encounter between a child and a Wild Thing. From Little Red Ridinghood to Peter and the Wolf to Charlotte’s Web, the border between the child and the wild is a rite of passage marking the transformation of the child into an adult, and is the site of a child’s most fundamental education about how to be human. Works of children’s literature agree that literature can be used to explicitly structure the relationship between children and the wild, and construct subjectivities by nurturing a deeper awareness of what that relationship should be. Yet, what, exactly, is the wild in children’s literature? Representations of the wild reflect adult ideas about children, but do children have a privileged relationship to nature, and innate understanding of the connection between humans and the world around them? Or are they wild things themselves, in need of templates for human/humane behavior toward other beings? Representations of the wild are also informed by ideology, shaped by societal ideas about race and gender, domination and subjection, power and privilege. In this course we will be thinking and writing about the surprising ways that children's texts imagine the wild as a charged cultural, political and racialized space, and how these texts imagine and construct subjectivities based on these relations pf power. Text may include Barbar, The Wind in the Willows, Alice in Wonderland, Where the Wild Things Are, Ricky Tiki Tavi and Fantasia. | ||||||||
| 001 | 70019 | MTWRF | 12:30pm - 04:30pm | 715B 401 | SEM | 4.0 | PRIEST, M | |
| This section meets from 1/4/2010 to 1/15/2010 | ||||||||
| UNDERGRADUATE COURSE. | ||||||||
| Tuition Cost: $4312 | ||||||||
| K55.9700 - CULTURE, DEVELOPMENT AND GLOBALIZATION IN INDIA Show Description | ||||||||
| COURSE IS OFFERED IN INDIA. PERMISSION REQUIRED. APPLICATION AVAILABLE AT: http://www.nyu.edu/gallatin/pdf/winterstudyabroad2010.pdf. PREFERENCE WILL BE GIVEN TO STUDENTS WHO HAVE TAKEN K20.1555 OR K20.1517. Contemporary representations of India either paint the subcontinent as a vast treasure trove of exotic culture and tradition and/or as an emergent economic powerhouse, rapidly modernizing to overtake the West. Sitting uneasily between these two images is the idea of India as a third world country, struggling with disparities of well being by trying to "develop" itself. During this two-week course based in Bangalore, India, students are offered an interdisciplinary learning experience that explores the dynamics of culture and development within globalizing India. Bangalore, considered the "Silicon Valley" of India, is at the epicenter of India’s information technology boom—its changing urban landscape a microcosm of third world urban development and globalization. In the classroom, students will be introduced to the philosophical underpinnings and practice of “development” as an important framework through which ideas of culture, economy, politics, tradition and modernity are organized and managed by the Indian state and international organizations. Background historical works will explore how the idea and practice of development are linked to colonialism and anticolonialism, capitalism, nationalism and globalization. Readings will also explore the cultural politics of tradition, tourism, heritage and monuments and the environment in order to understand how tourism is linked to development. Taught by a Gallatin faculty member and a faculty member of the Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology in Bangalore, students will have the opportunity to share classroom time, assignments and non-classroom learning experiences with peer undergraduate students of Srishti, who will take the same class. Excursions will include visits to heritage sites and community based NGOs focused on environmental sustainability within Bangalore. Students will also travel to the state of Karnataka and neighboring Kerala, enabling students to understand how local NGOs and other community based organizations seek to leverage local communities, culture and history as a platform for development. For more details, please visit: http://www.nyu.edu/gallatin/current/ba/courses-abroad-india.html | ||||||||
| 001 | 70027 | *To Be Arranged* | SEM | 4.0 | ||||
| This section meets from 1/2/2010 to 1/16/2010 | ||||||||
| UNDERGRADUATE COURSE. | ||||||||
| Tuition Cost: $4312 Tuition Cost for 4 credits. $1000 - Program Fee (Housing, Airfare, Excursions, Local Travel and Meals) $73 - Consulate Visa Fee Immunization Fees (Vary by Insurance) | ||||||||
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