Results for SINY

This seminar includes all program participants and investigates how New York, as a complex, dynamic city, shapes and is shaped by issues relevant to each quarter's thematic lens. Employing theories of place, concepts of cities and change, and a structured experiential education process, the course integrates the learning from all elements of the program and attends to each student's personal, professional, and intellectual development.May be repeat for credit

Examine the economic, cultural and environmental forces transforming the urban experience globally and understand how cities become agile to adapt to rapidly evolving urban challenges. This course would draw from case studies in New York and elsewhere, using guest experts and site visits or walking tours.

This course will offer an opportunity to learn how multilateral diplomacy works in practice, taking advantage of the enormous variety of UN offices, agencies, and related policy institutes based in New York to provide an overview of the different dimensions of the UN's work on security, development, human rights, and other multilateral issues.

This course will examine some of the people, collectives, and organizations working globally that use the realm of the visual to address and advocate for human rights and social justice. Students will learn about practitioners in socially engaged art, concerned photography, cultural organizing, public art, interactive film, and more. The class will include regular visits to (or guests from) artists¿ and photographers¿ studios, and the esteemed foundations and organizations supporting this work. A final paper will be required.

Each week will include a field trip to a VR installation and a subsequent workshop where we break down that VR experience in terms of its usefulness, its fidelity, and its narrative quality.

With field-trips allied to visits from the experts whose work is featured in Nonstop Metropolis¿linguists and demographers, activists and artists, scholars of race and of history¿this course will open our eyes to the splendid feast of the city's immigrant neighborhoods, the ¿gorgeous mosaic,¿ and explore the complex issues involved in immigration and city life. We will investigate the many ways that ¿a sense of place,¿ even in our globalizing age, remains crucial to residents of the city's neighborhoods¿and to all people everywhere.