SSN 193 - Ideal Societies

Institution:

CUNY LaGuardia Community College

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Description:

This course is designed to help students understand utopian movements in urban society from historical, psychological, and sociological perspectives. This course will focus on both the causes for creating utopian experiments and the ways in which utopias approach family structure, religion, education, power, and economic organization. Literary versions of utopian communities will be studied. Field trips may be taken to such places as Roosevelt Island and Shaker Village.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.lagcc.cuny.edu

Phone Number:

(718) 482-7200

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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