Courses

Emphasis on the individual student's concerns and contemporary issues in drawing.This course has an M&T Fee. For more info visit: http://qc.cuny.edu/?id=JU9F

More examination of the visual vocabularies of drawing with an emphasis on acquiring skills and knowledge from historical as well as contemporary cultural precedents.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 drawing.

This multidisciplinary course addresses contemporary issues surrounding dress in society, individual’s identity is expressed through fashion, dress, and the body. Complexities surrounding local and global nationalities, gender, ethnicity, class, religion, and modesty are explored.

Analysis of how the U.S. criminal justice system has affected the use of drugs and treatment for drug abuse, and examination of how the federal, state, and local police organizations plan, implement, and coordinate policies and procedures for combating the use of illegal drugs, in particular on the "War on Drugs." The New York State Penal Laws (Rockefeller Drug) will be discussed in depth.

Evolution and dynamics of the oceans and the atmospheres; ocean-atmosphere interactions; global climate and sea-level changes; human impact on the oceans and atmosphere.

A study in the literatures, theory, and cultures of the early United States in its global context (approximately 1760- 1850). Genres might include the novel, slave writings, essays, periodicals, the short story, and poetry, and topics might include revolution, slavery, national identity, citizenship, literacy, diaspora, sovereignty, and liberty. 620 / 1272 Queens College

The art and architecture of the Mediterranean early Christian world of the fourth century through the creation of Byzantine art in the sixth century and subsequent developments in the Greek east until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453.

Reading, in modern German translation, of representative works of epic and lyric poetry. Brief survey of German literature in the Middle Ages to Humanism, and from Mysticism to the Reformation, and the Counter-Reformation.

The art of the northern European bronze and iron ages up to the spread of Celtic culture and the arrival of Christian art. Topics include Insular manuscript painting and Carolingian art and architecture through the ninth century.