6.21.06
NYU
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS (SCA)
Fall 2006 -- Undergraduate Course Descriptions
Listed Alphabetically by Course Title:
Following each description, in parentheses ( ), are the SCA majors for which the course fulfills a requirement. AF = Africana
Studies, AM = American Studies, APA = Asian-Pacific-American Studies, GEN = Gender & Sexuality Studies, LAT = Latino
Studies, MET = Metropolitan Studies, SCA = Social & Cultural Analysis
ADV SEMINAR: GENDER, WELFARE
Same as Sociology V93.0939
(GEN)
V18.0741
African American History to 1865 V18.0795
Same as History V57.0647
Survey of the experience of African Americans to 1865, emphasizing living conditions, treatment, images,
attitudes, important figures and events, and culture using a chronological and topical approach. Topics
include African way of life, initial contact between Africans and Europeans, slave trade, early slavery,
freedom and control in slave society, abolitionism, slave resistance, free blacks, and gender. (AF)
Approaches to the Asian/Pacific American Experience V18.0301
Formerly V15.0010 Identical to V57.0626. Tchen. 4 points.
This interdisciplinary course provides a general introduction to the themes of Asian/Pacific/American Studies
through class discussions, guest speakers, and visits to community organizations in addition to traditional
class methods. Emphasizing historical perspectives, it explores concepts of “home” and “community,” as
well as “Asian” and “American” in the context of Asian/Pacific/American experiences. Issues covered may
include: diaspora and migration, colonialism, orientalism, labor, family/community formations, national and
international law/policy vis-à-vis A/P/As, intersections of sex/gender/race, education, popular culture and
representation, activism, pan/ethnic identities, and electoral politics. (APA, SCA)
Asian American Literature - V18.0306
Formerly V15.0301 Identical to V41.0716 and V29.0301. 4 points.
This overview begins with the recovery of early writings during the 1960s-1970s and proceeds to the
subsequent production of Asian American writing and literary/cultural criticism up to the present. The course
focuses on significant factors affecting the formation of Asian American literature and criticism, such as
changing demographics of Asian American communities and the influence of ethnic, women’s, and
gay/lesbian/bisexual studies. Included in the course is a variety of genres (poetry, plays, fiction and
nonfiction, literary/cultural criticism) by writers from diverse ethnic backgrounds. The course explores the
ways in which the writers treat issues such as racial/ethnic identity; immigration and assimilation; gender;
class; sexuality; nationalism; culture and community; history and memory; and art and political engagement.
(AM, APA, SCA)
Asian Americans and War - V18.0365
Formerly V15.0321 Identical to V57.0654 and V33.0321. 4 points.
Examines Asian American history and contemporary culture using the theme of “war” as an organizing
principle. It considers not only the sociopolitical effects of actual war—between Asian nations, between the
United States and Asian nations, and civil wars in Asia—on immigration to the United States but also the
myriad meanings of war and their social and cultural implications for Asian Americans. It examines the ways
in which wars have transformed Asian American social organization and influenced shifting alliances,
multiple sense of belonging, and racial representations in the United States during World War II and Vietnam
as well as the metaphorical presence of war in everyday life. (AM, APA)
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The Black Body and The Lens - V18.0155 (Pending Approval)
This interdisciplinary seminar explores the range of ideas and methods used by critical thinkers in addressing
the body in photography, video, music, and film. Central to our discussions will be a focus on how the display
of the black body affects how we see and interpret the world. Using a series of case studies, we will consider
the construction of beauty, gendered images, race, and hip-hop culture. The historical gaze has profoundly
determined the visual construction of the black body in contemporary society. The interplay between the
historical and the contemporary, between self-presentation and imposed representation--all fundamental to
our discussions. The seminar will center the student within the contemporaneous world of image making with
an emphasis on the black body. Final projects include an imaging project and/or a written essay. (AF)
Black Feminism - V18.0180
This course explores the production and practice of black feminism in the late 19th and 20th century
America. We will carefully consider the relationship between social movements and critical theories of
power produced by African American women and men over time. We will be examining the written work and
the activism of African-American women and will look at the way that theory and practice historically
intersected around questions of race gender and power. We are concerned with appreciating black women's
critical roles in building, sustaining, and leading black and interracial social movements in the U.S. By
situating our readings around major social movements such as the anti-lynching campaigns, the Harlem
Renaissance, Garveyism, the Civil Rights movements, or current struggles around globalization, we will be in
the position to reconsider the importance of black feminist activism over time and space and to consider the
ways in which systems of oppression both produce and block black feminist consciousness. (AF, GEN)
Cities in a Global Context - V18.0602 (Recitation required)
Formerly V99.0103. 4 points.
What is a Global City? How does a global perspective shape our understanding of urban spaces, and the
politics of creating social and spatial order in cities? This course draws on ethnographic examples from a
range of cultural and geographic contexts to explore twenty-first century urbanization. Through examples that
range from Shanghai to Sao Paulo, we will trace how issues like equity, migration, violence, ecology, and
citizenship can inform an understanding of modern cities. (MET)
City Planning: 19th & 20th Centuries V18.0769
Same as Fine Arts V43.0650. Formerly V99.0650
Prerequisite: V18.0762. Instructor’s permission required.
(MET)
Concepts In Social And Cultural Analysis V18.0001.001
This course is a gateway to all majors offered by the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis (SCA). It
focuses on the core concepts that intersect the constituent programs of SCA: Africana Studies, A/P/A,
American Studies, Gender and Sexuality, Latino Studies, and Metropolitan Studies. The course surveys
basic approaches to a range of significant analytical concepts (e.g., Property, Work, Technology, Nature,
Popular Culture, Consumption, Knowledge), each one considered within a two-week unit. Because the
course is team-taught and the instructors for it vary from semester to semester, there will sometimes be
slight alteration in the concepts covered in different terms. (AF, AM, APA, GEN, LAT, MET, SCA)
The Constitution and People of Color - V18.0366
Formerly V15.0327 Identical to V53.0801, V62.0327. 4 points.
Examines how the American legal system decided constitutional challenges affecting the empowerment of
African, Latino, and Asian American communities from the 19th century to the present. Topics include the
denial of citizenship and naturalization to slaves and immigrants, government-sanctioned segregation, the
internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the prison industry, police brutality, post-9/11
detention issues, and voting rights. Course requirements include attendance at a community function
involving constitutional issues, a midterm, and an interactive oral and written final project comparing a
present-day issue affecting racial minorities in New York City and proposing measures to collectively address
the issue. (APA)
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Culture of the City: Landscapes of Consumption - V18.0620
Formerly V99.0247. 4 points.
Consumption of objects, images, and places is central to the culture and economy of metropolitan life. The
class will explore how the relationship between consumption and cities has developed by examining
three key moments—the late nineteenth century and the invention of urban commodity spectacles, post-war
America and the rise of suburban consumer spaces, and contemporary America and the selling of the
commodity city. The class addresses three questions: Why do we want things? How does landscape
organize our consumer desires? How does place become an object of consumption? We will begin with an
examination of classic theoretical works that probe the relationships between people, things, and cities. We
will then embed these in discussions of changing forms and practices of consumption and urbanism. The
empirical cases we will examine range from the development of the department store, to the fashioning of
commodity home, to the work of shopping, and to the emergence of a thriving urban debt industry. (AM,
MET)
Decision Making & Urban Design V18.0763
Same as Fine Arts V43.0032. Formerly V99.0321
Prerequisite: V18.0762. Instructor’s permission required.
The impact and limitations of private and public decision-making power on urban design and architecture.
City architecture in light of the values and priorities set by a society. Recognition of citizens' groups as
increasingly important factors in city planning and related changes. Critically evaluates the complexity of
decision making and historical circumstances as related to the built urban environment on the basis of
historical and modern American and European examples. (MET)
Elementary Cantonese I - V18.0331
Formerly V15.0410, Identical to V33.0410. 4 points.
An introduction to Cantonese with an emphasis on the spoken and written language and conversational
proficiency as a primary goal. The course emphasizes grammar, listening comprehension, and oral
expressions. It is designed to give beginning students a practical command of the language. Upon
completion of the course, students can expect to converse in simple sentences and recognize and write
about 350 Chinese characters. Students with passable conversation ability or native speakers from
Cantonese-speaking communities should not enroll in this course. (APA)
Elementary Filipino I - V18.0321
Formerly V15.0401, 4 points.
An introduction to Filipino with an emphasis on mastering basic grammar skills and working vocabulary.
Lessons incorporate discussions on history, current events, literature, pop culture, and native values. The
course is open to beginning language students and lessons are modified according to the needs of individual
students. Because language is key to connecting with community concerns, the course also includes field
trips to Filipino neighborhoods in Queens and Jersey City. (APA)
Elementary Hindi/Urdu I - V18.0341
Formerly V15.0405, 0406 Identical to V77.0405. 4 points.
(APA)
Feminism And Theatre V18.0726
Same as Tisch H28.0623
This class will examine how feminist theory has shaped theatre studies. As such the course will stage and
interrogate the shift between theatre and performance, and between textuality and embodiment. We will
focus on key issues such as the historical prostitutionalization of women performers, the problems of defining
feminism, being in a potentially “post feminist moment,” and the shift towards a "multicultural" theory of
identity. The class will dialectically engage the perils of performance for women, as well as the potential for
empowerment through feminist theatre. Authors may include Jill Dolan, Tracy Davis, Sue Ellen Case, Judith
Butler, Eve Ensler, Wendy Wasserstein, Holly Hughes, Maria Irene Fornes and others. (GEN)
Gay And Lesbian Performance
Same as Tisch H28.0624
(GEN)
V18.0714
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Infrastructure V18.0768
Same as Fine Arts V43.0036
Prerequisite: V18.0762. Instructor’s permission required.
Architecture of modern cities, planning procedures, and technology in terms of their relationship to public
health. Topics: building legislation; sanitary engineering; problems of pollution engendered and solved;
design of mass housing; design of hospitals, including contemporary controversies and community
participation; design and psychological disorder; and medical fact and theory and their relationship to
architectural design. (MET)
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Metropolitan Studies - V18.0601
*Recitation required
Formerly V99.0101 and identical to MAP course V55.0631. 4 points.
A broad and interdisciplinary introduction to the field of urban studies. Surveying the major approaches
deployed to investigate the urban experience in the social space of the modern city. This course explores the
historical geography of capitalist urbanization with attention to North American and European cities, to
colonial and postcolonial cities, and to the global contexts of urban development. Major topics include urban
politics and governance; suburban and regional development; urban social movements; urban planning; the
gendering of urban space and racial segregation in urban space. (MET, SCA)
Intermediate Cantonese I V18.0333, 0334
Formerly V15.0412, Identical to V33.0412. 4 points.
This is an advanced-level language and culture course following Elementary Cantonese. At this level, when
the basic skills and working vocabulary have been mastered, emphasis is placed on the linguistic rules to
enable students to communicate with more competence. The lessons focus not only on language, but also
use a holistic approach and incorporate discussions on history, current events, literature, pop culture, and
native values. Because language is key to connecting with community concerns, the course also includes
field trips to Chinatown and other Cantonese-speaking neighborhoods. (APA)
Intermediate Filipino I - V18.0323
Formerly V15.0403, 4 points.
At this level, when the basic skills and working vocabulary have been mastered, emphasis can be placed on
the linguistic rules to enable the student to communicate with more competence. There is also focus on
translation. Lessons use a holistic approach and incorporate discussions on history, current events,
literature, pop culture, and native values. To observe and experience the language at work, the course
includes field trips to Filipino centers in the New York-New Jersey area as well as invited guests who
converse with students in Filipino about their life and work. (APA)
Intermediate Hindi/Urdu I - V18.0343
Formerly V15.0407, 0408 Identical to V77.0407. 4 points. (APA)
Internship Program
The internship complements and enhances the formal course work of the SCA majors. Students intern at
agencies dealing with a range of issues pertaining to their major and take a co-requisite seminar that
enables them to focus the work experience in meaningful academic terms. The goals of the internship are
threefold: (1) to allow students to apply the theory they have gained through course work, (2) to provide
students with the analytical tools, and (3) to assist students in exploring professional career paths.
Internship Fieldwork V18.0040 Corequisite: V18.0042. 2 or 4 points. Ten hours of fieldwork are
required for 2 points, fifteen hours for 4 points.
(AF, AM, APA, GEN, LAT, MET, SCA)
Internship Seminar V18.0042 Corequisite: V18.0040. Prerequisites: majors must have taken one
course in the introductory sequence and one elective. There are no prerequisites for non-majors
except that they be in their junior year.
(MET)
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Intersections: Gender, Race, and Sexuality in U.S. History and Politics - V18.0230
Formerly V13.0301, Gender and Cultural History. Prerequisite: V18.0201 Duggan. 4 points. **Recitation
Required**
Drawing on the histories of African, Asian, Latino, European, and Native Americans of both genders and
many sexualities, the course explores the complex and important intersection of gender, race, and sexuality
in the United States from the 17th century through the 20th, in historically related case studies. Starting in the
period of European imperialism in the Americas, it examines the ways that gender, race, and sexuality
shaped cultural and political policies and debates surrounding the Salem witch trials; slavery, abolition, and
lynching; U.S. imperialism in Puerto Rico and Hawaii; the politics of welfare and reproduction; cultural
constructions of manliness, masculinity, and citizenship; and responses to the AIDS pandemic in a global
context. (AF, AM, APA, GEN, LAT, SCA)
Intro To Grassroots Organizing - Gallatin K45.1449
Activists seeking progressive social change face daunting obstacles: limited resources, cynicism about the possibilities
for social change, conservative worldviews, and powerful opponents, to name a few. To have an impact under these
conditions, activists need to learn how to think strategically about how to bring community members together to win
changes in oppressive institutions and policies through their own action. This course is an introduction to the nuts and
bolts of grassroots organizing. After studying alternative models of community organizing, we will look at how organizers
involve community members, select issues, develop local leadership, and plan effective campaign strategies and tactics.
We will draw upon organizing theory, case studies, interactive trainings, films on community and labor struggles,
conversations with organizers, and observation of community organizing in the field. Readings include Rinku Sen’s Stir It
Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy; Kim Bobo, et. al., Organizing for Social Change; and Saul Alinsky,
Rules for Radicals. Prior experience in campus or community organizing is desirable but not necessary. (MET)
Introduction to Pan-Africanism - V18.0104
Formerly V11.0010 Offered once a year. 4 points.
This course deals with the major themes and ideas in Pan-African thought. More than a historical survey, it
attempts to examine the impact of a range of intellectuals and artists on the issues of race, resistance and
identity. Readings will be drawn from the works of thinkers as linguistically and ideologically diverse as
C.L.R. James, Jean-Paul Sartre, James Baldwin, Aime Cesaire, Frantz Fanon and Jean Price-Mars among
others. These readings will serve as much to introduce essentialist theories of racial unity as they will be a
reaction against the ideal of a single monolithic black culture. The course will also relate Pan-Africanism to
other modern political and cultural movements such as Surrealism, nationalism, and Marxism, as well as
examine its evolution in the Americas. (AF, SCA)
Introduction to Swahili I - V18.0121
Formerly V11.0201 Offered once a year. 4 points.
Provides students with an elementary understanding of Swahili, a Bantu language with a rich oral and written
tradition that is spoken by about 100 million people from Somalia to Mozambique and Zanzibar. After a short
presentation of Swahili’s history, codification, and relation to other languages, students are drilled in
phonetics and grammar. They are also introduced to some poems, songs, and oral narratives. (AF, SCA)
Language And Society V18.0701
*Recitation required. Same as Linguistics V61.0015
Considers contemporary issues in the interaction of language and society, particularly work on speech
variation and social structure. Focuses on ways in which social factors affect language. Topics include
language as a social and political issue; regional, social, and ethnic speech varieties; bilingualism; pidgin and
creole languages. (GEN)
Latino/A Popular Culture V18.0534 (proposed)
From Spanish hip hop to Raggaeton Latinos are at the heart of numerous genres of popular culture
production. This course will examine contemporary popular culture products by and for Latinos looking in
particular at issues of production, circulation and consumption. Is popular culture a site of Latino/a cultural
expression, how and in what ways. How is it circulated and consumed, how is it mediated by different
culture industries? What do we even mean with Latino popular culture. These and more questions will be
considered through a range of interdisciplinary studies. (LAT)
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Law And Community Activism
- Gallatin K45.1452
As activists and members of society we are confronted by laws all of the time, though we rarely see
ourselves as actors in relationship to these laws. Why is that? We are taught that rights have been given by
progressive courts, rather than won by popular struggle. Where do rights come from? Are they the same as
laws? In this course we will examine the role of popular resistance and its relationship to laws. We will
examine concepts of justice, law, obedience and disobedience as we work with community-based
organizations. Through our study and discussions in class we will create a base for working in the
community, and from working in the community we will create more of an understanding of theory. Three
areas students can choose to work in are: community groups using the legal system to advance their goals,
groups mobilizing community support to defend against unjust laws, and groups using international human
rights standards to shift the discourse around the issue of rights. Readings will range from Howard Zinn and
Emma Goldman, to David Kairys and Patricia Williams, as well as excerpts from political trials. We will also
read reflections from community groups working with or against laws and segments of legal decisions. (MET)
Law And Society V18.0722
Same as Politics V53.0335
Critically examines the relationship between law and political and social movements such as the civil rights
movement, the women's movement, and the labor and environmental movements. Emphasis on law as a
political process and legal remedies for racial and gender discrimination and class action torts. Deals with the
politics of rights and the limits and possibilities of law as a process for social change. (GEN, MET)
Law and Urban Problems - V18.0610
Formerly V99.0232. 4 points.
Interdisciplinary introduction to the law as it interacts with society. Analysis focuses on problems in areas
such as housing, zoning, welfare, and consumer affairs, emphasizing the underlying social, economic, and
political causes of the problems and the responses made by lawmakers and courts. Readings are drawn
from the law and social science. No specific knowledge of law is required. (AM, MET)
Mapping For Social Change Gallatin K45.1420
The goal for this course is to learn how to use Geographic Information Systems (GIS), the state of the art in
mapping technology, as a tool for community organizing and public policy analysis. Among the specific skills
we’ll learn are how to geocode addresses, and how to do spatial analysis to measure whether communities
needs are being met or not. And last but not least, we will also learn how to use census data to map the
racial and income composition of NY neighborhoods. The semester ends with a closer look at the uses and
limitation of GIS for helping communities mobilize to improve their day-to-day lives and to enhance their
capacity to influence over time the future trajectories of politics, markets, and civic life. (MET)
Modern South Africa
V18.0792
Same as History V57.0568
Exploration and analysis of the political, social, and economic development of African nations south of the
Zambezi River from 1700 to the present. Focuses on South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and
Mozambique. (AF)
Politics Of Caribbean Nations V18.0802
Same as Politics V53.0532
Analysis of the political culture and institutions of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Jamaica,
and Trinidad and Tobago. Concentration on the study of specific countries is possible and requires a
research paper in addition to other requirements. Attention to the communities of Caribbean nationals in the
United States to the extent that the study of these communities is relevant to internal political processes.
(AF)
Poverty And Income Distribution V18.0718
Same as Economics V31.0233
Defines poverty and welfare. Analyzes who the poor are, why some people are rich and others poor, equality
of opportunity, income and status, inequality, trends in the degree of inequality, government’s role in income
distribution, and international comparisons of inequality. (GEN)
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Race and Rumors of Race - V18.0154 (Pending Approval)
This is a multidisciplinary reading, writing, and discussion course on the concept of race. Though the focus
will be on “blackness” and “whiteness” in the United States, there will be some comparison with Brazil. We
will also pay some attention to those who have traditionally rejected the racial identities imposed upon them
and have suffered the consequences. The name of the course is borrowed from the title of a book written by
Howard Washington Odum and published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1943. (AF)
Reading Race and Representation - V18.0368
Formerly V15.0603 Identical to V41.0058. 4 points.
This seminar centers on “reading race” as it is variously theorized in a range of cultural productions (fiction,
personal essays, cultural/literary criticism, sociology, independent films, and pop culture). The emphasis on
Asian American work is situated within a comparative framework that includes writers and filmmakers from
diverse backgrounds who explore ways of analyzing “differences.” Part of the course is devoted to examining
re-readings of race that have significantly redefined the “canon” of American literature. Looks at how the
relationship between racial “representation” (political, demographic, social historical, and cultural) and
constructions of national identity has been interrogated, especially in reference to the politics of “multicultural
literacy. (AF, APA)
Representations Of Women V18.0734
Same as English V47.0755
Selected readings in British and American poetry and fiction provide the focus for an exploration of woman’s
place in the writings of such authors as Jane Austen, the Brontës, George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, Emily Dickinson, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, Lillian Hellman,
Doris Lessing, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, and others.
(GEN)
Rights & Resistance: Theatre & Film In Latin America
Tisch Drama H28.0748
This course offers an introduction to Latin/o American theatre and film texts that illuminate cultural and
political movements in the Americas during the 20th century. We study the ways in which film and theatre
address and express crises of social conflict. Drawing on postcolonial and liberation theories of culture, art,
and the state, we construct an intellectual history of socially-motivated Latin/o American film and theatre
performances.
(LAT)
Senior Research Seminar V18.0090
Prerequisites V18.0001, V18.0020 and one of the following introductory courses: V18.0101, V18.0201,
V18.0301, V18.0401, V18.0502 or V18.0601. This is an advanced research in Social and Cultural Analysis,
which culminates in each student completing an extended research paper that makes use of various
methodology skills. Students work individually and collaboratively on part of a class research project on
pertaining to the major in Social and Cultural Analysis or the program in Africana Studies, American Studies,
Asian/Pacific/American Studies, Gender and sexuality Studies, Latino Studies or Metropolitan Studies.
Majors must enroll in fall of their senior year. (AF, AM, APA, GEN, LAT, MET, SCA)
Senior Honors Thesis V18.0092
Departmental Honors in Social and Cultural Analysis–as in all the majors administered within SCA–requires
a minimum of three courses with honors designations: An honors section of Strategies for Social and Cultural
Analysis, in which students will design their thesis research projects (or preliminary versions thereof) will
normally be taken in the sophomore or junior year. In the senior year, students will take a two-semester
Honors sequence, consisting of a fall Honors section of the Senior Research Seminar (V18.0900) and spring
Independent Honors Research (8 credits total), in which they will complete a substantive research project
with a significant component based on original primary research. Additional honors credit may be taken in
honors sections of the introductory Concepts course, in designated sections of other Departmental courses,
or in interdisciplinary Departmental honors junior seminars, when offered.
(AF, AM, APA, GEN, LAT, MET, SCA)
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Sex, Gender and The Bible V18.0743
Same as Hebrew and Judaic V78.0019
(GEN)
Sexual Diversity And Society V18.0725
Same as Sociology V93.0511
Variation in human sexuality. Explores the social nature of sexual expression and how one arrives at erotic
object choice and identity. Past and contemporary explanations for sexual variation. Heterosexuality,
homosexuality, bisexuality, transvestism, transgenderism, incest, sadomasochism, rape, prostitution, and
pornography. Origin of sexual norms and prejudices. Lifestyles in the social worlds of sexual minorities.
Problems of sexual minorities in such institutions as religion, marriage, polity, economy, military, prison, and
laws. The politics of sex. (GEN)
Shaping The Urban Environment
Fine Arts V43.0021.003
Students investigate the city in terms of architectural history, engineering, and urban planning. Topics:
historical types and shapes of cities, factors influencing our current urban scene, architectural form as
expression of political systems, discussions of urban design and architecture problems in the contemporary
world, and the role of technological factors such as construction and transportation systems. Students are
given projects in conjunction with class. (MET)
Strategies for Social and Cultural Analysis - V18.0020
This course explores various research methodologies that scholars and practitioners employ to answer both
historical and contemporary questions. Throughout the semester seminar participants will be introduced to
four broad categories of strategies for social and cultural analysis: historical analysis, particularly archival
research; literary analysis, which deals primarily with critical analysis of texts; social science methods,
focusing on the collection and interpretation of data and quantitative methods; and ethnography, along with
other forms of fieldwork.
In each of the four sections of the course, students will grapple with both the theory and the application of the
methodology being considered, and are encouraged to think carefully about which strategy or strategies are
most appropriate for his or her own research projects.
(AF, AM, APA, GEN, LAT, MET, SCA)
Topics: Caribbean Literature: Ancestors Plus V18.0780-001
Same as Comp Lit V29.0132
(AF)
Topics in Caribbean Literature: Novel & Phil/Hist V18.0780Same as Comp Lit V29.0132
(AF)
Topics: Latino Expressive Culture and Literature - V18.0541
(LAT)
Topics: Francophone Caribbean Literature V18.0816
Same as French V45.0868
The inaccessibility of the past, the longing for a lost wholeness, the nostalgia for origins and a sense of the
constructed nature of political reality are major themes in the writing of the francophone Caribbean. This
course will examine the way in which five Caribbean novelists deal with the question of time, memory and
the writing of the self. The auto-biographical thrust in these novels from Haiti, Guadeloupe and Martinique
inevitably focuses less on individual lives than a collective experience, less on place than on displacement,
less on memory than the problematic nature of summoning up the past. Politically as much as esthetically
subversive, these texts function ideologically to unmask colonial subjectivity, interrogate the idea of
belonging, call into question the traditional associations of childhood and dramatize the difficulty of
recovering the past. (AF)
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Topics: Marxism and Post Colonial Theory V18.0280
Formerly V13.0400. Same as, English V41.0975
(AM)
Urban Economics V18.0751
Same as Economics V31.0227
Formerly V99.0231
Prerequisite: V31.0002 or equivalent
The city as an economic organization. Urbanization trends, functional specialization, and the nature of
growth within the city; organization of economic activity within the city and its outlying areas, the organization
of the labor market, and problems of urban poverty; the urban public economy; housing and land-use
problems; transportation problems; and special problems within the public sector. (MET)
Women In American Society
V18.0727
Same as History V57.0635 Permission of instructor required.
This course has two themes: how maleness and femaleness (gender) have changed in the last 150 years,
and how women’s lives in particular have been transformed. It emphasizes not only the malleability of
gender, but also the way that gender systems have varied in different class, race, ethnic and religious
groups. We look at women and gender in politics, in work, in family and personal relationships, in sexuality
and in culture. (GEN)
Women Writers in Contemporary Italy
Same as Italian V59.0278
(GEN)
V18.0826
Women Writers In France V18.0740
Same as French V45.0935
The rich and diverse literary works by women express their individuality and their important social and
cultural role in France from the 12th century to the present. The course studies both the changing
sociohistorical context of these writers and the common problems and themes that constitute a female
tradition. Writers include Marie de France, Christine de Pisan, Marguerite de Navarre, Mme. de Sévigné,
Germaine de Staël, George Sand, Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, and Marguerite Duras. (GEN)
World Cultures: Contemporary Latino Culture – V55.0529 (MAP)
In this course we will study today’s Latino cultural expressions and identities in historical perspective. We
will begin with an overview of Latin American cultural theory going back to the time of the Spanish conquest,
and including such thinkers as Bartolomé de las Casas, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Simón Bolívar, José
Martí and José Vasconcelos. We will then trace the development on Latino cultural experiences in the
United States during the 20th century, with special attention to the dramatic political and cultural movements
of the 1960s and 1970s. The latter part of the course will address Latino cultural theories and practices in
the contemporary period; of central concern will be the idea of a pan-ethnic “Latino” identity encompassing
all of the diverse national groups. We will study instances of this new situation in music, literature,
performance and media representation. (LAT, SCA)
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NYU ABROAD
Florence:
CULTURE OF THE CITY: ITALIAN URBAN LIFE V18.9620
Formerly V99.9247 (MET)
Ghana
DOCUMENTING THE AFRICAN CITY V11.9424 (AF, MET)
London:
CITY PLANNING: SOC & CULT ASPECTS OF LONDON V18.9630
Formerly V99.9280
BRITISH ART & ARCHITECTURE IN LONDON V43.9011
IDEOLOGY & URBAN DESIGN: BUILDERS OF BRITAIN V43.9035
ARCHITECTURE IN LONDON…V43.9671
A HISTORY OF LONDON – V43.9127
Paris:
BUILDINGS. LANDSCAPES & CITIES V45.9116 (MET)
PARIS MONUMENTS & POLITICAL POWER …V45.9350 (MET)
FRENCH/AFRICAN RELATIONS
V18.9914 (AF)
Prague:
CULTURAL HISTORY V57.9090 (MET)
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