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New York City ranges from beautiful to oppressive, from brick tenement to glass tower. The city attracts and repels, clutches and ejects. But one thing never changes -- the fascination it exerts on actors and writers. It continues to be the ulimate aspiration and inspiration for theater artists. Why? In this course you will find out.

This course explores the working-class immigrant city, using language and culture as a lens for understanding how new communities form, evolve, and integrate. In focus are three of New York's fastest-growing but least-studied groups: Indigenous Latin Americans, Himalayans, and Central Asians. Students will have the chance to read and hear accounts directly from community members while also grappling with broader questions around urban space, education, policy, and the future of mobility, with site visits and field research wherever possible.

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 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.