Courses

Students will learn the basic skills of stenciling in the screen printing process by creating various areas of positive and negative shapes. The screen designs will become progressively more complex as the semester advances.This course has an M&T Fee. For more info visit: http://qc.cuny.edu/?id=JU9F

May be repeated for a maximum of six credits with permission of the department. Special Projects courses are designed for students who want more intensive work in any studio discipline, or to strengthen or advance their basic skills in serigraphy.This course has an M&T Fee. For more info visit: http://qc.cuny.edu/?id=JU9F

Students are placed with community partner agencies and participate in an on- campus seminar that meets at least biweekly. The combination of community service and in-class learning builds academic and professional skills and helps students connect their academic studies to their community service experiences. Permission of the department is required. 1261 / 1272 Queens College

English poetry and prose of the seventeenth century. Topics may include Stuart absolutism, Puritan dissent, the English Civil War, print culture, scientific discovery, and the Atlantic world. Literary forms, genres, and movements may include metaphysical poetry, cavalier poetry, the court masque, the devotional lyric, life writing, and early prose fiction. Authors may include Jonson, Donne, Herbert, Marvell, Traherne, Cavendish, Behn, and Milton.

The sources and development of painting during the Golden Age of the Spanish empire and the court of Louis XIV at Paris and Versailles, including such artists as Velázquez and Poussin. Cultural relations between the two major powers and the rest of Europe, as well as with their overseas colonies.

This course explores the social construction of gender in a comparative-historical perspective. Emphasis is given to the ways in which particular social and historical conditions shape gender relations in the economy, the political system, the family, and the ideology and practice of sexuality.

What does sex have to do with urban life? Cities have long been sites for the pursuit of self-discovery and sexual freedom and the creation and growth of robust sexual subcultures and communities. This course explores fundamental concepts in the study of sexuality and urban space, the impact of culture and regulation on urban sexual subcultures, and controversies around new forms of sexuality and sex that are emergent in urban life today.

This course will examine the social construction of gender in a wide range of cultures. Beginning with the question of the degree to which gender roles are biologically determined, we will focus our attention on the divergence of gender roles and the nature of gender inequality throughout the world.

This course involves a critical examination of the relationship of gender to personality development and mental disorders. Theories and research concerning gender differences in personality and psychopathology (e.g., depression, eating disorders, substance abuse) are presented.

Examinations of the relationship between modern Indian society and Indian cinema through the lenses of gender and sexuality.