Social and Cultural Analysis (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2021)
SCA-UA 783-000 (21457)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by McHenry, Elizabeth
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Intermediate Cantonese I (SCA-UA 333)
An advanced-level language and culture course following Elementary Cantonese. At this level, when the basic skills and working vocabulary have been mastered, emphasis is placed on the linguistic rules to enable students to communicate with more competence. The lessons focus not only on language, but also use a holistic approach and incorporate discussions on history, current events, literature, pop culture, and native values. Because language is key to connecting with community concerns, the course also includes field trips to Chinatown and to other Cantonese-speaking neighborhoods.
Social and Cultural Analysis (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2022)
SCA-UA 333-000 (8389)
Elementary Cantonese I (SCA-UA 331)
An introduction to Cantonese with an emphasis on the spoken and written language and conversational proficiency as a primary goal. Emphasizes grammar, listening comprehension, and oral expressions. Designed to give beginning students a practical command of the language. Upon completion of the course, students can expect to converse in simple sentences and recognize An introduction to Cantonese with an emphasis on the spoken and written language and conversational proficiency as a primary goal. Emphasizes grammar, listening comprehension, and oral expressions. Designed to give beginning students a practical command of the language. Upon completion of the course, students can expect to converse in simple sentences and recognize and write about 350 Chinese characters. Students with passable conversational ability or native speakers from Cantonese-speaking communities should not enroll in this course.
Social and Cultural Analysis (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Constitution and People of Color (SCA-UA 366)
Examines how the American legal system decided constitutional challenges affecting the empowerment of African, Latino, and Asian American communities from the 19th century to the present. Topics include the denial of citizenship and naturalization to slaves and immigrants, government-sanctioned segregation, the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the prison industry, police brutality, post-9/11 detention issues, and voting rights. Course requirements include attendance at a community function involving constitutional issues, a midterm, and an interactive oral and written final project comparing a present-day issue affecting racial minorities in New York City and proposing measures to collectively address the issue.
Social and Cultural Analysis (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Elementary Filipino I (SCA-UA 321)
An introduction to Filipino with an emphasis on mastering basic grammar skills and working vocabulary. Lessons incorporate discussions on history, current events, literature, pop culture, and native values. Open to beginning language students, and lessons are modified according to the needs of individual students. Because language is key to connecting with community concerns, the course includes field trips to Filipino neighborhoods in Queens and Jersey City.
Social and Cultural Analysis (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2022)
SCA-UA 321-000 (7439)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Mon,Wed2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Magtoto, Agnes
Intermediate Filipino I (SCA-UA 323)
At this level, when the basic skills and working vocabulary have been mastered, emphasis can be placed on the linguistic rules to enable the student to communicate with more competence. There is also a focus on translation. Lessons use a holistic approach and incorporate discussions on history, current events, literature, pop culture, and native values. To observe and experience the language at work, the course includes field trips to Filipino centers in the New York/ New Jersey area, as well as invited guests who converse with students in Filipino about their life and work.
Social and Cultural Analysis (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2022)
SCA-UA 323-000 (8905)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Tue,Thu2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Francia, Luis
History & Literatures of The So Asian Diaspora (SCA-UA 313)
America is not always the answer. This class offers an introduction to the many and varied fictions that have been produced by diasporic South Asians across the globe over the last 150 years: in Australia, Africa, Europe, Caribbean. Our exploration of the poetics and politics of immigration will attend to different types of traveller (inc. soldiers, students, athletes, medics, cosmonauts) and draw on a wide range of media (inc. literature, cinema and music). Particular attention will be paid to the diverse geographies of Asian migration – be they plantations, dance Floors, restaurants, call centres. Themes to be addressed include coolietude, globalization, the impact of 9/11 and techno-servitude.
Social and Cultural Analysis (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2022)
SCA-UA 313-000 (9910)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Mon,Wed8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Sandhu, SS
Elementary Swahili I (SCA-UA 121)
Provides students with an elementary understanding of Swahili, a Bantu language with a rich oral and written tradition that is spoken by about 100 million people from Somalia to Mozambique and Zanzibar. After a short presentation of Swahili?s history, codification, and relation to other languages, students are drilled in phonetics and grammar. They are also introduced to poems, songs, and oral narratives.
Social and Cultural Analysis (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2021)
SCA-UA 121-000 (9390)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Mon,Wed4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Nanji, Abdul
Senior Honors Seminar (SCA-UA 92)
Social and Cultural Analysis (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2022)
SCA-UA 92-000 (7438)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Thu2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Saranillio, Dean
Urban Cultural Life (SCA-UA 608)
Few cities boast as rich a cultural life as New York City, with its plethora of neighborhoods, museums, galleries, theatres, concert halls, and alternative spaces. Through walking tours, attendance at cultural events, and visits to local cultural institutions, students explore the definition of urban culture. Sites include the familiar and the unfamiliar, the Village and the outer boroughs. Students examine the attributes that constitute culture and community from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Social and Cultural Analysis (Undergraduate)
0-4 credits – 6 Weeks
Approaches to Gender & Sexuality Studies (SCA-UA 401)
Designed to interest and challenge both the student new to the study of gender and sexuality and the student who has taken departmental courses focusing on women, gender, and/or sexuality. Through a focus on particular issues and topics, explores the construction of sex, gender, and sexuality; gender asymmetry in society; sexual normativity and violations of norms; and the interactions of sex, gender, sexuality, race, class, and nation. This interdisciplinary course engages materials and methodologies from a range of media and disciplines, such as literature, the visual arts, history, sociology, psychology, and anthropology. Examines both feminist and nonfeminist arguments from a variety of critical perspectives.
Social and Cultural Analysis (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 6 Weeks
Sections (Summer 2022)
SCA-UA 401-000 (2751)05/23/2022 – 07/06/2022 Tue,Wed,Thu2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Gao, Cindy
SCA-UA 401-000 (2783)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Latinx Art & Visual Culture (SCA-UA 533)
This course examines the history of Latinx contributions to the artistic vitality of the United States and will introduce students to some of the contemporary artists, debates and institutions that support Latinx art in NYC and beyond. We will pay especial attention to the relationship between Latinx and Latin American art and consider linkages between museums, private and governmental art stakeholders and communities. We will visit studios, speak to artists and also learn about the role of contemporary art markets in shaping Latinx art worlds.
Social and Cultural Analysis (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Couture/Culture: Fashion and Globalization (SCA-UA 253)
This course examines fashion as both a product and expression of globalization. It explores fashion’s contested histories; its modes of production, consumption, and address; its relationship to colonial enterprises; its system of meaning-making. In this course, we will tackle such issues as the social uses of fashion; the fashion cycle (use, reuse, discard); the relationship between dress and the body; feminist critiques of fashion; the politicization of clothing (from ethnic dressing to green clothing); and the links between style consumption and garment production–and the relationship of all of these to the processes of globalization.
Social and Cultural Analysis (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Shaping The Urban Environment (SCA-UA 762)
Social and Cultural Analysis (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Amer Dilemmas: Race, Ineq, Unful Prm Pub Educ (SCA-UA 755)
Historically, education has been the most accessible and effective means for groups to achieve social mobility in American society. However, access to public education has never been equal for all segments of society, and there continues to be considerable variability in the quality of education provided to students. As a result of both explicit and subtle discrimination, racialized minority groups have at various times been denied access to education or been relegated to inferior schools or classrooms. Yet education has also been the arena where the greatest advances in social justice and racial equality have been achieved. Understanding the contradictions created by the hope and unfulfilled promise of American education is a central theme of this course.
Social and Cultural Analysis (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2022)
SCA-UA 755-000 (24950)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon,Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by D’Andrea Martínez, Pamela
SCA-UA 755-000 (25163)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by D’Andrea Martínez, Pamela
Urban Environmentalism (SCA-UA 631)
Explores environmental issues in urban centers, their causes and impacts, and the rise of a movement that considers the “environment” not just as the term we use to describe the natural world from which most urban residents feel dissociated, but rather as the array of places where we live, work and play. Considers the relationship between society and public policy in the context of environmentalism. Introduces students to public policy analysis, with a focus on policy implementation and decision-making in New York City. Examines the powers of the NYC Council and explains the role of agencies, the private sector, and interest groups as critical parts of a bureaucracy through which environmental issues are shaped, managed and negotiated. Through a variety of case studies, increases students’ understanding of the political, legal, economic and technical and scientific constraints of the policy decision-making process and explores the path towards managing, using and protecting environmental resources in urban centers.
Social and Cultural Analysis (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
New York City in Film (SCA-UA 623)
What are the diverse ways in which New York City has been imagined on the silver screen? How does a cinematic perspective shape our understanding of urban spaces? This course analyzes films that portray New York as a site of local encounter and global exchange in both commercial and documentary films since the 1960s. We will investigate the dramatic mapping and remapping of urban space through works that articulate questions of gentrification, immigrant labor, organized crime, and sexual subcultures. In turn, we will examine how these stories have helped shape and contest the city’s image of itself–as a space of struggle, belonging, illegality, emancipation, and transformation. The goal is to see how each particular film captures a distinct moment both in the city’s history over the past fifty years as well as in the history of filmmaking. In so doing, we will blend the perspectives of urban studies, ethnic studies, and visual culture, placing films within their aesthetic, political, and historical context.
Social and Cultural Analysis (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Social and Cultural Analysis 101 (SCA-UA 101)
Introduces theories, methods, and political trajectories central to the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis (SCA). SCA 101 addresses how individuals and populations structure their worlds and navigate the resulting social, cultural, and political terrain. It privileges scholarly work with an intersectional approach, drawing on theoretical insights from such fields as social geography, feminism and queer studies, ethnic studies, urban and metropolitan studies, critical race theory, labor studies, and cultural studies.
Social and Cultural Analysis (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2022)
SCA-UA 101-000 (9221)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Patros, Tyson
SCA-UA 101-000 (9222)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Wed8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Grimaldi, Nicole
SCA-UA 101-000 (9223)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Thu8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Grimaldi, Nicole
SCA-UA 101-000 (9224)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Thu4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Ghabin, Tamar
SCA-UA 101-000 (9225)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Fri12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Ghabin, Tamar