Courses

This course combines fieldwork in projects sponsored by the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) with lectures and workshops on skills related to citizen organizing. The history of student activism and its relationship to urban problems will also be discussed. Seven hours of fieldwork per week are required, with weekly fieldnotes, and a final report which draws on fieldwork, reading, and class discussions.

Recognition of common rock-forming minerals, rock fabric variation, and the implications with respect to origin of various combinations provides the framework for examining the physical and chemical properties of Earth materials. These properties in turn have been of value and use to society. How? Why? When? Where?

The evolution of Black literature and literary culture in often in the face of (often legalized) racial oppression from the mid-18th century to late 19th Century. Moving across a range of genres - from poetry to drama to fiction - and mediums - from the periodical to the bound novel - we will interrogate the relationship between literary form, aesthetics, and cultural politics, while developing a deep understanding of the emergence of an African American literary tradition.

This course examines the appearance and development of institutionalized inequalities, and the major forms of political organization humans have devised. Proposed explanations for these phenomena will be evaluated against ethnographic and archaeological examples of complex societies.

This course sociologically examines the contemporary condition of American Orthodoxy. Particular emphasis is placed on the persistence of traditional Judaism in modern America and the social tensions this engenders. Comparisons between Orthodox and other Jewish sects will be made, as well as between other traditional faiths.

Exploration of representative literary creations spanning the entire American continent, under the premise that "America" is more than the United States. It seeks to create a comparative inter-American space where historical and cultural interplays, encounters, convergences, and divergences may be discussed and explored.

An introduction to Earth system science and global environmental change; the historical and geological processes of change in the lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere; humans as a force for change.

Focuses on two major themes of increasing concern to society: global climate change and environment and human health. Theme I, Global Climate Changeintroduces students to basic concepts in mathematics and physics and the implications of climate change to society using selected examples from theIntergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) report.

Introduction to fundamental concepts of painting, both abstract and representational concepts. Issues of space, surface, volumetric representation, the function of color, value, scale, placement, and proportion will be presented.This course has an M&T Fee. For more info visit: http://qc.cuny.edu/?id=JU9F

Concepts of pictorial structure and image making are explored, using historical and contemporary models as examples with an increased potential for personal choice and expression.This course has an M&T Fee. For more info visit: http://qc.cuny.edu/?id=JU9F