Courses

A survey of the behavioral models of memory, as well as recent neuropsychological and brain-imaging data on the neural mechanisms underlying memory processes. The course covers all aspects of short- and long-term memory including working memory, unconscious (implicit) memory, episodic and autobiographical memory, memory for source, false memories, and the organization and representation of knowledge in the brain.

Analysis of information and news transmitted by print and electronic media.

Analysis of information and news transmitted by print and electronic media.

This is designed to provide journalism students with the opportunity to learn firsthand how to construct and produce a newspaper. The course is a collection of activities involving research, reporting, writing, and desktop publishing. Inherent in these activities will be opportunities to explore issues of ethics, the actual practice of journalism, as well as readings related to media concerns and theory.

A historical view of the development of New York City governmental and non- governmental institutions involved in policy-making, such as the development of Democratic and Republican parties, the impact of immigrant and ethnic groups on City politics, reform movements, and changes in NYC governmental structure over time. It will discuss the relation of policy-making in New York City to New York State and federal decision-making.

An examination of the philosophy of Nietzsche.

A study of drama written from 1800 to the end of World War II. Topics may includerealism and surrealism; melodrama; theater of cruelty; transnational influencesand movements; nationalisms; political theater; feminist themes. Writers mayinclude Maxwell Anderson, Bertolt Brecht, Gilbert and Sullivan, SusanGlaspell, Zora Neale Hurston, Henrik Ibsen, Sean O’Casey, Clifford Odets,Eugene O’Neill, George Bernard Shaw,August Strindberg, J.M. Synge,Rabindranath Tagore, Oscar Wilde, and Thornton Wilder

This course focuses on domestic developments and international relations that shaped European history during the nineteenth century.

A critical study of the major poets of the nineteenth century. The classic, romantic, and realist trends of Russian poetry are studied and analyzed. Emphasis is placed on the interpretation and discussion of the works of Zhukovsky, Pushkin, Lermontov, Nekrasov, Tyutchev, and Fet.

A critical study of the major prose texts of the nineteenth century. Emphasis is placed on those writers whose works are not considered in separate courses, including Lermontov, Gogol, Goncharov, Turgenev.