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The course will engage with aspects of media, migration, and movement in New York City, which is home to the largest population of so-called immigrants, with as many as 800 languages spoken, and is also the largest metropolitan economy in the world. The particular confluence of commerce, migration, and urban density in New York produces very specific cultural forms. Students will be introduced to the diversity of the city's racial and ethnic communities, and their media production and consumption practices. We will interrogate the very term, "migrant," by watching films and media that interrogate border regimes and immigration laws, and explore how New York is turned into a space of belonging, and indeed develops its particular cultural vibrancy only on account of its staggeringly diverse populace. The course is designed to be interactive and engage in multi-modal learning ¿ in addition to watching and discussing films, we will undertake field trips to film festivals, museums, archives, and particular neighborhoods.

Climate Justice in the New York megacity is scaling rapidly. The five boroughs are a living experiment in the global fight against extinction in the Anthropocene. With hardhat site visits, this course will visit projects under construction that address the long-term causation of climate volatility and those that are also adapting to the immediate symptoms.

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

The craft of fiction writing and introduction to the literary culture of New York. Writing exercises will tune students¿ senses to the rhythms of New York. Students produce their own short stories, which will be examined in workshop discussions.

This course is designed to give undergraduate students a foundational understanding of New York City as an object of history and as a site that has fostered the remarkable development of American theater and performance. In this class, we won't approach the concepts of New York City or performance monolithically, but instead develop a broad historical understanding of what these expansive terms look and feel like in and outside of the space of the theaters, performance venues, and on the streets of various neighborhoods across the five boroughs.