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1.00 Credits
(Same as Media Studies 352) In this seminar, we use the concept of the fragment to explore the contemporary city, and vice versa. We draw on the work of Walter Benjamin, for whom the fragment was both a central symptom of urban modernity and a potentially radical mode of inquiry. We also use the figure of the fragment to explore and to experiment with the situationist urbanism of Guy Debord, to address the failure of modernist dreams for the city, and to reframe the question of the "global" in contemporary discussions of global urbanization. Finally, we use the fragment to destabilize notions of experience and evidence-so central to positivist understandings of the city-as we make regular visits to discover, as it were, non-monumental New York. Readings include works by Walter Benjamin, Stefano Boeri, Christine Boyer, Guy Debord, Rosalyb Deytsche, Paul Gilroy, Rem Koolhaas, Henri Lefebvre, Thomas Lacquer, Saskia Sassen, Mark Wigley, and others. Ms. Brawley, Mr. ChanPrerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2008/09.
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(Same as Art 366) Ms. Collins.
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(Same as Education 367) Instructor to be announced. Prerequisite: Education 235 or permission of instructor One 2-hour period.
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(Same as Art 370) Topic for 2008/09: Scandinavian Modernism. Swedish architecture stands apart from the major developments of central European modernism. Architects such as Gunnar Asplund are seduced by the new modern architecture that they discover in central Europe, but they adapt and transform it to local social and environmental conditions. We examine the importance of the Stockholm Exhibition (1930) and its influence on developments in architecture, the role of Cooperative Society movement, housing policies and practices, urban and city planning, as well as the development of social democracy. Our main focus is the work of Gunnar Asplund and his "conversion" from traditionalist to modernist. Along with architecture, we also examine the role of film, music, and literature in the formation of national identity. Mr. Adams.
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(Same as Education 373) This course combines research, theory and practice in the context of an urban middle school.a__ Concurrently with tutoring a student, we engage in case study research about the literacies our students accept and resist in the various disciplines. We define literacy broadly and look at how school literacy compares and contrasts to the literacies valued and in use in contexts outside of school.a__ We explore how literacy learning is constructed through methods and curriculum with a special emphasis on the diversities at play in middle and high school classrooms.a__ Conceptual understandings of knowledge, strategies that support attaining that knowledge and the role of motivation in learning are emphasized. Ms. McCloskey
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This course is limited to five Vassar students working in a cooperative study with students and faculty from The Culinary Institute of America, Dutchess Community College, Marist College, New Paltz, and Vassar College. The class meets on Wednesday evenings from 4:00 to 7:00 PM at the Children's Media Project, on Academy Street in Poughkeepsie. The topics for the Institute may change from year to year in which case the course may be repeated for credit. Topic for 2008/09: Community in Poughkeepsie. At a time when there is a perception that community is diminishing, or at least changing, both locally and nationally, the Poughkeepsie Institute offers a course that documents ways in which people in Poughkeepsie form social configurations. We examine schools, religious congregations, political issues, human service needs, sports and even restaurants, street life and parks. There is also an effort to uncover connections among these various forms of social energy. We issue a report back to the community in the form of 40-page written document and a 12-15 minute video that includes policy recommendations.a__ This is presented at an end of the semester press conference as well as a presentation to the Mayor and City Council of Poughkeepsie. Mr. Leonard. Special Permission. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Limited to five students per college.
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This course concentrates on advanced debates in Urban Studies and is designed to encourage students to produce research/grant proposals for projects in Urban Studies. Topics vary according to instructor. This seminar is required of all Urban Studies majors. Topic for 2008/09: Musical Urbanism. How is the urban experience represented aesthetically How do cities sustain artistic milieus and cultural production What is genuinely "local" about local culture This seminar takes these questions up through the case of twentieth century popular music and related cultural expressions and media. We inquire into the complex and dynamic relationships between (cultural) urbanism and (spatial, economic, demographic) urbanization by examining the urban dimensions of popular music-its inspiration, production, transmission, consumption, and appreciation-as documented by social research, literary fiction, film, and sound recordings. Additionally, we investigate the complementarities and tensions of empirical, literary, and critical methods to knowing and representing the city. Mr. Nevarez, Mr. ChanPrerequisite: Special permission.
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(same as Classics 389a.)
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Today a majority of Americans lives, works and shops in what Peter Rowe called "the middle landscape," the suburban and exurban area between city and countryside. This seminar investigates one of the middle landscape's most peculiar spatial products, namely the master planned community. The investigation focuses on the physical environment as well as the general attitudes, fears and economic forces that shaped it. Mr. Armborst.
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3.00 Credits
Independent project of reading or research under supervision of one of the participating instructors.
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