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4.00 Credits
This course examines the social, cultural, economic, political, and demographic development of New York City and State from Colonial Days to the present. Historical documents, fiction, films about New York will provide the material for a critical discussion about the multicultural heritage of the Empire State. Prerequisite: EMS
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the Women's Movement, both the first wave: 19th Century modern women's rights and suffrage movement, and the second wave; the 20th Century modern women's liveration movement. How did the movements arise, who were their constituents and enemies, how were their goals met? What strategy, ideology, and tactics were used? Readings will consist of historical and theoretical documents, poems, autobiograbies, oral histories, film and pro-feminism and anti-feminism ephemera. Prerequisite: EMS
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4.00 Credits
No course description available.
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4.00 Credits
This course looks at literary genres: the novel, the short story, slave narratives, poetry, the essay, the horror story, and romance as they have evolved and changed through American history. Prerequisite: EMS
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4.00 Credits
This course focuses on the work of American writers since the Second World War, and includes the work of well-known writers such as Saul Bellow and Arthur Miller, as well as minority and women writers such as Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Maxine Hong Kingston, Julia Alvarez, and Leslie Silko. Prerequisite: EMS.
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4.00 Credits
Explores a group of women fiction writers from the turn of the century to the present, with regard to the theme of "the new woman". Writers include Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Toni Morrison, Nella Larsen, Louise Edrich, Maxine Hong Kingston, Anzia Yezierska, Alice Walker, Sandra Cisernos, Dorothy West, and Paula Marshall. Prerequisite: EMS
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4.00 Credits
This course examines modern U.S. literature from a multicultural point of view. Special attention will be paid to writers who experiemented with language and created new "modern" styles of writing to express new "modern" ways of seeing. Ernest Hemingwary, Agenes Snedley, Meridel Le Sueur, F. Scott Fitzgerald, T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and William Faulkner are among the writers included. Prerquisite: EMS
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on major issues in African American labor history since emancipation. It emphasizes the history of African American inclusions and exclusions from jobs and labor unions and examines the relationship between African American struggles for work and the dominant ideologies of racism. It also stresses the connection between labor issues and struggles of African Americans in the larger society. Offered every year. Prerequisites: EMS placement
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the ideas of social change that have developed since 1900 among African-American thinkers. It begins by examining the assumptions and aspirations expressed in the New Negro philosophy that developed at the turn of the century. It proceeds to analyze the social, political, and cultural ideas that grew out of the Garvey movement, the Civil Rights movement and the Black Power struggle. The course stresses the role played by ideas in the process of social change. Prerequisite: EMS.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of film through philosophical and aesthetic frameworks. The course treats film in relation to modern theories and aesthetic techniques and offers students the tools for developing an in-depth analysis of film form and content. Instructor may focus course upon the ideas and aesthetics of particular chronological eras, auteurs, film movements such as African American cinema or feminist filmmaking, or genres. Primary focus is to introduce students to the complexity of film analysis within the framework of close analytic readings of specific films. Offered ocassionaly. PreRequisites: EMS
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