Courses

Introduction to fundamental techniques such as throwing on the potter's wheel, hand building, decorating, glazing and firing, and basic health and safety procedures.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 ceramics.This course has an M&T Fee. For more info visit: http://qc.cuny.edu/?id=JU9F

Guidance in the process of obtaining New York State Initial Certification for students in the TESOL program. Review of the principles of ethics and responsibilities relevant to a teacher of young Multilingual Learners.

A survey of significant past and contemporary urban issues and their relationship to New York City’s ever-changing geography. The aim of this course is to analyze the ongoing interaction of the social, economic, and political forces that shape the city’s built environment and social dynamics

From a few agricultural villages chartered in seventeenth century New Netherlands, Queens has evolved into a complex urban system. This class will explore the historical and continuing development of the neighborhoods of Queens. Classroom instruction focusing on key concepts will be illustrated and enlarged with guided walks through key Queens neighborhoods.

An intensive study of Chaucer's poetry. Works discussed may include The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, the dream visions and the short poems.

A close study of the author's principal stories and plays and his place in the history of Russian and world drama. Lectures and readings in English.

The chemical mediation of ecological interactions, including chemical basis of food selection, plant antiherbivore and antifungal defenses, chemistry of mutualistic associations, animal pheromones and defense substances, allelopathy, and chemicals in the environment.

The use of modern instrumental techniques in chemical ecology: analysis of foods, measurement of nutrient and electrolyte levels of biological materials, isolation and quantification of plant and animal defense compounds.

The fundamental principles in chemical thermodynamics and electrodynamics, classical statistical mechanics, and phenomenological chemical kinetics are presented.