FSSO 113 - College and City - and the Idea of UniverCity

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Case Western Reserve University

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In this course we will look at ways in which universities and other major cultural institutions interact with the city. Cleveland is right now an excellent site for such researches. The city is pinning the hopes for its future on its ability to become an incubator of creativity, with particular attention to the arts. Local institutions are responding, including CWRU. Imagine yourself as a student in the late nineteenth century entering the granite fortress of Adelbert Hall (the oldest building on campus). This must have sent a very clear message: when you enter this building, you leave the city behind, and you are now in a different world. Or consider the even more fortress-like building, Crawford Hall, marking the western entrance to the campus. Like other cultural institutions in the Circle, CWRU is now concerned to present a very different face to the larger world. So we want to ask: How have things changed, and what further transformations are projected, and with what objectives?

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.case.edu

Phone Number:

(216) 368-2000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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