Courses

Examination of the complex dialogue between Black media representations and the lived cultural, social, and historical experiences of people of African descent world-wide. It explores the interdependent roles of Black individuals, groups, and communities as cultural producers, consumers, and subjects of media representations and discourses. Pre req AFST 100 junior standing or permission of the instructor.

Examination of the complex dialogue between Black media representations and the lived cultural, social, and historical experiences of people of African descent world-wide. It explores the interdependent roles of Black individuals, groups, and communities as cultural producers, consumers, and subjects of media representations and discourses.

The impact of globalization on consumers, workers, the structure of production, markets, and government and international regulation and economic strategies; the determinants of economic growth and development, the nature of international trade and finance, as well as the phenomena of inflation and unemployment; the changing structure of selected national economies. The course may not be taken for credit if ECON 101 has already been taken.

An interdisciplinary study of the Greek experience in America, drawing upon works of history, sociology, and literature. The internal structures of Greek communities; the family, religion, culture, education, and the economic order; their participation in the decision-making process and their relation to the ideology of the "melting pot" and the rise of "neoethnicity."

Political, social, economic, educational and cultural attributes of the Greek- American community in the New York area, especially in Queens, which includes Astoria, the largest "Greek Town" in America. The combination of lectures, research to be carried out by students including the development of a questionnaire, and writing of a term paper will enable them to have a good understanding of the Greek community and of the changing dynamics of the Greek community in Queens.

An analysis of the contribution that the Mezzogiorno has made to Italian culture since the mid-thirteenth century, and an exploration of the ways in which an awareness of such a contribution affects Italian-Americans' search for identity.

An overview of historical and contemporary Asian American communities, the formation of an Asian American identity around common cultural elements and social issues, and the role of Asian Americans as members of multicultural America.

A survey of Puerto Rican history from pre-Columbian times to the present.

The historical study of English, including an examination of its present structure, its early origins, and its development. Attention is given to principles of linguistic change, vocabulary and semantics, the English language in America, and world Englishes.

A survey of the political, economic, cultural, and social history of the Middle East under the Ottoman Empire in the 18th Century