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Spring 2022

Sex, Gender, & Language (LING-UA 21)

How linguistic practices reflect and shape our gender identity. Do women and men talk differently? Are these differences universal or variable across cultures? How does gendered language intersect with race and class-linked language? What impact does gendered language have on social power relationships?

Linguistics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Spring 2022)

LING-UA 21-000 (8360)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon,Wed4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Shapp, Allison

LING-UA 21-000 (8361)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Tue11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Akanegbu, Anuli

Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Societies & the Social Sciences Undergraduate
Spring 2022

Grammatical Analysis (LING-UA 13)

What determines the sequencing of words in a given language? How can we explain word-order variation within and across languages? Are there universal syntactic properties common to the grammar of all languages? Presents the modern generative approach to the scientific study of language and systematically develops a model that will account for the most basic syntactic constructions of natural language.

Linguistics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Spring 2022)

LING-UA 13-000 (8358)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon,Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Collins, Christopher

LING-UA 13-000 (8359)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Gotah, Selikem

Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Societies & the Social Sciences Undergraduate
Spring 2022

Phonological Analysis (LING-UA 12)

How languages organize sounds into highly constrained systems. Topics: What do the sound systems of all languages have in common? How can they differ from each other? What is the nature of phonological processes, and why do they occur?

Linguistics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Spring 2022)

LING-UA 12-000 (8357)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon,Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Stanton, Juliet

LING-UA 12-000 (8963)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Tue4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Mason, Alicia

Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Societies & the Social Sciences Undergraduate
Spring 2022

Language (LING-UA 1)

Language is a social phenomenon, but languages share elaborate and specific structural properties. Speech communities exist, exhibit variation, and change within the strict confines of universal grammar, part of our biological endowment. Universal grammar is discovered through the careful study of the structures of individual languages, by cross-linguistic investigations, and the investigation of the brain. Introduces fundamental properties of the sound system and of the structure and interpretation of words and sentences against this larger context.

Linguistics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Spring 2022)

LING-UA 1-000 (8354)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon,Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Champollion, Lucas

LING-UA 1-000 (8355)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Grosu, Ioana

LING-UA 1-000 (8356)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Thu12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Okon, Thaddeus

LING-UA 1-000 (9146)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon,Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Thoms, Gary

LING-UA 1-000 (9147)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Wed2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Blix, Hagen

LING-UA 1-000 (9148)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Thu3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Zhao, Zhuoye

Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Societies & the Social Sciences Undergraduate

Strategies for Independent Producing (FMTV-UT 1092)

Today’s content creators must be entrepreneurs, navigating dynamically changing industry. How does emerging talent gain traction in a ’tsunami wave’ of independent films, episodics, webisodes and podcasts? This class explores development, funding, and legal strategies to make, market and distribute DIY low and ultra-low budget projects. Ones you can make now. Students will develop core competencies, culminating in a pitch deck for a viable indie feature film.

Undergraduate

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Class #: 12847
Section #: 001
Meets: T 9:30a-12:15p


Class #: 12848
Section #: 002
Meets: W 6:20-9p

Fall 2025 Fall 2026 General Elective Spring 2025 Spring 2026 Undergraduate

Choreography: A Field Guide for Dance (ARTS-UG 1220)

This class is a guide through the works of choreographers who can teach us the elements of making dance and enable us to create our own movement identity. The psychological storytelling of Martha Graham, George Balanchine’s blazing neo-classicism, the chance field dances of Merce Cunningham, Twyla Tharp’s humorous inversions, the deconstructions of William Forsythe, Mathew Bourne’s gay Swan Lake, and the powerful Black gospel songs of Alvin Ailey are observed through video and readings. After a warmup of technique and improvisation, the student begins with small movement studies, leading to group studies of increasing complexity, with teacher and students responding with supportive feedback. New this semester will be a section, “Dance as Protest,” which explores texts such as Hot Feet and Social Change: African Dance and Diaspora Communities. We will study the movie In the Heights, where Afro-Caribbean dance, ballet, contemporary and hip hop convey ideas about community and representation. Texts include The Intimate Art of Choreography and “Dance in the Age of Black Lives Matter.” Students can have studied dance or simply wish to move and compose using their body and imagination. Student works in a final performance in the theater will be recorded.

Arts Workshops (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2025)

ARTS-UG 1220-000 (9649)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Thu3:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Posin, Kathryn

Expressive Culture Fall 2025 Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Undergraduate
Spring 2022

Elementary Haitian Kreyòl II (LATC-UA 122)

A continuation of Elementary Haitian Kreyòl I, this course develops student’s speaking, reading, and writing skills in Haitian Kreyòl, also called Creole. Haitian Kreyòl is spoken by Haiti’s population of nine million and by about one million Haitians in the U.S. including over 190,000 in the New York City area. In fact, New York City has the second largest population of Kreyòl speakers after Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital. We use a communicative approach, balanced with grammatical and phonetic techniques. Classroom and textbook materials are complemented by work with film, radio, and music, as well as with visits to city museums and institutions related to Haiti. At the end of the course, students will be better able to conduct a conversation in Haitian Kreyòl and have a better command of Haitian vocabulary and grammar within a relevant cultural context.

Latin Amer-Caribbean Studies (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Spring 2022)

LATC-UA 122-000 (9077)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon,Wed,Fri12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Lamour, Wynnie

LATC-UA 122-000 (10249)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon,Wed,Fri12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Lamour, Wynnie

Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Undergraduate
Spring 2022

Elementary Haitian Kreyol I (LATC-UA 121)

This course introduces students to the language of Haitian Kreyòl, also called Creole, and is intended for students with little or no prior knowledge of the language. Haitian Kreyòl is spoken by Haiti’s population of nine million and by about one million Haitians in the U.S. Including over 190,000 in the New York City area. In fact, New York City has the second largest population of Kreyòl Speakers after Port–‐au–‐Prince, Haiti’s capital. Through this course, you will develop introductory speaking, reading, and writing skills. We use a communicative approach, balanced with grammatical and phonetic techniques. Classroom and textbook materials are complemented by work with film, radio, and especially music (konpa, rasin, twoubadou, rap, raga, levanjil, vodou tradisyonèl, etc.), as well as with visits to city museums and institutions related to Haiti.

Latin Amer-Caribbean Studies (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Spring 2022)

LATC-UA 121-000 (9043)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon,Wed,Fri11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Lamour, Wynnie

LATC-UA 121-000 (10248)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon,Wed,Fri11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Lamour, Wynnie

General Elective Undergraduate
Fall 2022

Adv Reporting: (JOUR-UA 301)

Journalism (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2022)

JOUR-UA 301-000 (9062)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Wed1:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Newkirk, Pamela

JOUR-UA 301-000 (10023)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Thu1:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Swarns, Rachel

JOUR-UA 301-000 (8962)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Thu2:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Maloney, Jason

Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Undergraduate
Spring 2022

Honors Senior Seminar (JOUR-UA 352)

The following semester, honors students are required to take a specially designed honors senior seminar, which culminates in each student?s writing a large (6,000-10,000 word/15-20 minutes for broadcast) feature, completing the capstone. The student has to defend his/her work orally before at least two members of the faculty and perhaps a member of the profession.

Journalism (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Spring 2022)

JOUR-UA 352-000 (9155)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Tue10:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Boynton, Robert

JOUR-UA 352-000 (9160)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Wed10:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Samuels, Jason

Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Undergraduate
Fall 2021

Dante’S Divine Comedy (ITAL-UA 270)

Students study the Divine Comedy both as a mirror of high medieval culture and as a unique text that breaks out of its cultural bounds. The entire poem is read, in addition to selections from the Vita Nuova and other complementary minor works.

Italian (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2021)

ITAL-UA 270-000 (9783)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Cornish, Alison · Stemwedel, Nina

Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Undergraduate
Fall 2020

Tpcs in Italian-American Culture (ITAL-UA 861)

The course explores Italian American History since the age of mass migration at the turn of the twentieth century. It begins with an examination of the ways in which race, class, and gender have shaped the Italian American experience. It then moves on to discuss the role of consumption in identity formation, exploring themes such as the significance of immigrants’ encounter with the mass market in processes of acculturation and the symbolical function of the consumption of material and immaterial “things Italian” among subsequent generations of Italian Americans. Finally, the course deals with Italian American identities as objects of cross-cultural consumption, investigating issues such as the encoding of “Italian-Americaness” in the branding of products, images, and experiences (food, film, fashion, etc.), the marketing strategies of Italian American memory, and the uses and meanings constructed through the consumption of Italian American identities from Little Caesar to Jersey Shore.

Italian (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks

Sections (Fall 2020)

ITAL-UA 861-000 (19860)09/02/2020 – 12/13/2020 Mon,Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Bencivenni, Marcella

Liberal Arts & Sciences - Electives Undergraduate