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| Winter Session 2010 | ||||||||
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| Sec. | Call # | Days | Meeting Times | Location | Activity | Cr. Hrs | Instructor | |
| V18.0280 - TOPICS: CRIME, CITIZENSHIP & SOVEREIGNTY Show Description | ||||||||
| This course examines discourses of belonging, sacrifice, solidarity, and transgression within a geography of capital that structures the way we think about citizenship, crime, and sovereignty. In this regard, we will pay special attention to the forms of jurisdiction that define legal institutions, nation-state boundaries, and civic duties. Topics to be explored include the way emergency powers granted to the sovereign during times of crisis became normalized as the rule of law, the constitutional limits of detention, incarceration and execution, the historical continuity between different types of coercive regimes (plantation slavery, prisons, secret camps for detaining suspected terrorists), and the religious dimensions of political authority (whether in the form of sinister global trade networks or charismatic figures who unify disparate populations by cultivating faith in the promise of democracy). This course is expressly concerned with helping students learn how to formulate research questions concerning crime, citizenship, and sovereignty. Consequently, the workload consists primarily of a series of writing assignments that prepare students to formulate an original research proposal. In this way, students will learn how scholars use empirical data to generate new theoretical approaches. | ||||||||
| 001 | 70023 | MTWRF | 09:30am - 01:30pm | SEM | 4.0 | |||
| This section meets from 1/4/2010 to 1/15/2010 | ||||||||
| UNDERGRADUATE COURSE. | ||||||||
| Tuition Cost: $4312 | ||||||||
| V18.0680 - TOPICS: CINEMA & THE CONTEMPORARY URBANISM Show Description | ||||||||
| This class explores critical issues in contemporary urbanism through the prism of a diverse and international body of cutting-edge documentary and feature films. Drawing on an equally broad range of theoretical and historical texts, we will investigate topics such as psychogeography, catacombism, landscape hacking, surveillance, slum urbanism and many more. We will also look at the specific role of cinema in generating, framing and circulating emergent notions about the modern city. Films to be studied may include: ‘The Gleaners and I’, ‘Children of Men’, ‘Manufactured Landscapes’, ‘Helvetica’, ‘War In Mostar’. | ||||||||
| 001 | 70022 | MTWRF | 09:30am - 01:30pm | SEM | 4.0 | |||
| This section meets from 1/4/2010 to 1/15/2010 | ||||||||
| UNDERGRADUATE COURSE. | ||||||||
| Tuition Cost: $4312 | ||||||||
| V39.0815 - CREATIVE WRITING Show Description | ||||||||
| Note: With enrollments of 12–15 students each, the following classes will meet every weekday afternoon; special afternoon readings will be scheduled on both Winter Session Fridays. Beginning workshop in creative writing designed to explore and refine the student’s individual writing interests. The workshop emphasizes poetry and fiction writing. | ||||||||
| 001 | 70014 | MTWRF | 02:00pm - 05:30pm | SEM | 4.0 | ROHRER, MATTHEW | ||
| This section meets from 1/4/2010 to 1/15/2010 | ||||||||
| UNDERGRADUATE COURSE. | ||||||||
| Tuition Cost: $4312 | ||||||||
| V39.0815 - CREATIVE WRITING: FICTION & POETRY Show Description | ||||||||
| Note: With enrollments of 12–15 students each, the following classes will meet every weekday afternoon; special afternoon readings will be scheduled on both Winter Session Fridays. Beginning workshop in creative writing designed to explore and refine the student’s individual writing interests. The workshop emphasizes poetry and fiction writing. | ||||||||
| 002 | 70029 | MTWRF | 02:00pm - 05:30pm | SEM | 4.0 | |||
| This section meets from 1/4/2010 to 1/15/2010 | ||||||||
| UNDERGRADUATE COURSE. | ||||||||
| Tuition Cost: $4312 | ||||||||
| V39.0816 - INTERMEDIATE FICTION WORKSHOP Show Description | ||||||||
| Note: With enrollments of 12–15 students each, the following classes will meet every weekday afternoon; special afternoon readings will be scheduled on both Winter Session Fridays. Intermediate workshop designed to help students refine their approaches to the writing of fiction through peer critiques, craft readings, and individual conferences with the instructor. | ||||||||
| 001 | 70015 | MTWRF | 02:00pm - 05:30pm | WKS | 4.0 | SPANIDOU, IRINI | ||
| This section meets from 1/4/2010 to 1/15/2010 | ||||||||
| UNDERGRADUATE COURSE. | ||||||||
| Tuition Cost: $4312 | ||||||||
| 002 | 70016 | MTWRF | 02:00pm - 05:30pm | WKS | 4.0 | SCHULMAN, HELEN | ||
| This section meets from 1/4/2010 to 1/15/2010 | ||||||||
| UNDERGRADUATE COURSE. | ||||||||
| Tuition Cost: $4312 | ||||||||
| V43.0850 - TOPICS: NORTHERN ART FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO BAROQUE Show Description | ||||||||
| Note: This course is open to all undergraduates. Art History majors: please note that this course carries general elective credit, not Advanced Renaissance credit. This is a field study course.
The Renaissance art and Baroque art of Northern Europe follows a path different from Italian art of these periods. In the fifteenth century, Jan Van Eyck and other northern artists develop new techniques of oil painting, and combine the drama and pathos of medieval art with an unprecedented degree of descriptive realism. In the sixteenth century, Albrecht Dürer enriches this Northern sensibility with the classical vocabulary of Italian art; Hans Holbein evokes individual personality with amazing intensity; Pieter Bruegel the Elder records the richness of peasant life; and painters as diverse as Matthias Grünewald and Hieronymus Bosch introduce strange, sometimes grotesque new forms, often inspired by folk sayings. In the seventeenth century, the Flemish painter Pieter Paul Rubens follows in Dürer’s footsteps by visiting Italy; he then creates a bold new synthesis of Roman grandeur, Venetian color, and Northern passion. His Spanish contemporary, Diego Velazquez, adapts Italian chiaroscuro to create a monumental portrait of the royal court. Later in the century, the Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn uses expressive brushwork and contrasts of light and dark to plumb the depths of the human soul, while other Dutch painters, such as Jan Vermeer and Pieter de Hooch, depict everyday life and everyday settings that recall the realism of the fifteenth century. Northern Renaissance and Baroque painting is exceptionally well represented in New York collections, and the lectures and readings for this course will be complemented by frequent museum visits and on-the-spot discussions of major art works. | ||||||||
| 001 | 70024 | MTWRF | 12:30pm - 04:15pm | SEM | 4.0 | |||
| This section meets from 1/4/2010 to 1/15/2010 | ||||||||
| UNDERGRADUATE COURSE. | ||||||||
| Tuition Cost: $4312 | ||||||||
| V43.0850 - TOPICS: CONTEMPORARY ART IN NEW YORK Show Description | ||||||||
| Note: This course is open to all undergraduates. Art History majors: please note that this course carries general elective credit, not advanced Modern credit, and that it may NOT be taken for credit with V43.0414, “Post-Modern and Contemporary Art,” to be offered in the spring 2010 semester. This is a field study course. The headlong sprint of modern art toward an irreducible minimum comes to an end some time around 1972 with the virtual disappearance of traditional painting or sculpture. The defining feature of contemporary art is that it is art made after “the end of art.” This course begins with the 1980s and extends to the present, examining themes such as identity and the gaze, abjection and the informe, commodification and the institutional critique, appropriated imagery and simulacra, allegory and narrative, teen and comic-book imagery, Neo-Geo and Neo-Baroque, the evolution of video art and the proliferation of installation. Lectures will explore the role of the art market, the global art world, and the use of the biennial exhibition as a mode of nationalist self-assertion. Lectures and readings will be supplemented by frequent visits to New York galleries and museums. | ||||||||
| 002 | 70025 | MTWRF | 10:00am - 01:45pm | SEM | 4.0 | |||
| This section meets from 1/4/2010 to 1/15/2010 | ||||||||
| UNDERGRADUATE COURSE. | ||||||||
| Tuition Cost: $4312 | ||||||||
| V54.0202 - METHODS & PRAC: THE ART EDITING:COPY-TOP EDITING Show Description | ||||||||
| This course blends the practical aspects of technical editing with the critical thinking and craftsmanship needed to structure and polish stories till they shine. If you love to tweak a single sentence until it is clear, true and elegant, and enjoy deconstructing a feature story to truly understand how it was shaped, this is the class for you! The first half of the course will focus on the micro elements of editing: from proofreading to punctuation, to grammar and usage. The second half will focus on the macro elements of editing: from line editing to cutting meaty stories in half to fit the space. Publication tone, house voice and writer’s voice will be discussed in depth. Students will also gain experience writing headlines and captions. Other assignments include editing the interview, editing humor pieces, and re-structuring articles that just don’t work. Students will learn how to think like editors and shape and tweak stories analytically as well as technically. | ||||||||
| 001 | 70017 | MTWRF | 10:00am - 02:00pm | LAB | 4.0 | DEARMAN, J | ||
| This section meets from 1/4/2010 to 1/15/2010 | ||||||||
| UNDERGRADUATE COURSE. | ||||||||
| Tuition Cost: $4312 | ||||||||
| V71.0100 - MUSIC OF NEW YORK Show Description | ||||||||
| This course is designed to take advantage of New York’s dynamic music community. There are in-class presentations by local musicians and scholars, and students regularly attend performances throughout the city. The focus is on the everyday practices of musical life in New York City by both performers and listeners in a number of the City’s musical constituencies: immigrant communities; amateur and professional music-makers; and popular, classical, and avant-garde scenes. Examination of these processes of music-making will be enhanced by a look at the histories of these different kinds of music-making. There will also be a historical discussion of the vibrant musical life of New York in the 19th and early 20th centuries, which will contribute to an understanding of why New York is seen, and sees itself, as a musical city. | ||||||||
| 001 | 70018 | MTWRF | 01:00pm - 05:00pm | SILV 218 | LEC | 4.0 | ||
| This section meets from 1/4/2010 to 1/15/2010 | ||||||||
| UNDERGRADUATE COURSE. | ||||||||
| Tuition Cost: $4312 | ||||||||
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