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This hands-on introduction to digital video art examines the moving image as a form of personal expression and communication. Through projects, lectures, screenings, and field trips, the course will explore both how video works and how it can be used in innovative, creative ways. Students will produce their own videos from start to finish, developing skills in concept and pre-production, shooting and camera techniques, editing and post-production, and final distribution. This course is intended for students with interests in new media, art, design and photography; no previous experience with video is necessary.

BLS 3085 FMWA - The Sixties in America Top

This course explores the major cultural, social, and political contours of the 1960's. Topics include the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, the rise of the New Left, the challenges and legacies of the Kennedy and Johnson Presidencies, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam war, Second Wave Feminism and movements built by women of color, the movements built by Chicanos and Puerto Ricans, the urban riots and the origins of the contemporary urban crisis, the Counterculture, the Gay and Lesbian Liberation and environmental movements, and the rise of the New Right. The course will focus on what social, political, and economic forces led to political crisis in the Sixties, how the experience of race, class and gender were redefined in the 60's, and the relationship between formal government policies and social movements.

BLS 3085 PMWA - Hip-Hop and Urban Culture in New York City Top

In the 1970s, New York City was experiencing a series of vast social, economic and cultural changes. Extravagant public works projects like the Cross Bronx Expressway had changed the physical and social geography of the city. A recession and oil crisis had hurt the city economically, restricting its ability to provide for its citizens. Landlords who found themselves unable to sell their buildings were burning them down in order to collect insurance settlements. And gang activity was widespread.

This class will explore the emergence of hip-hop music and culture as a creative response to these issues. Specifically, we will discuss the many ways in which hip-hop’s artistic agenda reflected the specific concerns of working-class African American and Latino youth in the 1970s. We will then explore how the choices that they made laid the groundwork for hip-hop to present day, and have been subsequently reinterpreted by people around the world.

BLS 4900 MTA - Gender and Education

This course will examine the ways in which education and its policies affect diverse populations of women and how changes in those structures and policies improve women’s experiences. Topics include education as it plays a role within race, class, gender, education, media literacy, and the development of feminist scholarship and pedagogy.

CHI 4999 PTRA Chinese Grammar

COM 4101 BTR - Work and Family Communication

COM 4101 DMWA - Introduction to Communication Studies

COM 4101 ETRA - Diversity and Leadership

COM 4900 AMWA - Studies in Language and Social Interaction

COM 4900 CMWA - Research Strategies in Communication

COM 4900 PTRA - Conflict Resolution

COM 4900 QTRA - Internal Communication

COM 4900 UWA - Communication and the Human Community

COM 9660 URA - Work and Family Communication

ENG 3645 NW - The Craft of Poetry

Section NW a special workshop in poetry writing will be taught by Laurie Sheck, the Spring 2012 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence. Ms. Sheck is the author of five books of poems, including The Willow Grove and Captivity, and one hybrid work, A Monster’s Notes.

This course will focus on the writing and revising of poems by students in the class. In pursuing this, we will also read widely - from Emily Dickinson to Gertrude Stein; from Langston Hughes to Charles Simic, Frank O’Hara, Sylvia Plath, Federico Garcia Lorca, William Carlos Williams, and other notable poetic voices both in English and in translation. We will wonder about what a poem actually is, and in the course of this inquiry will explore various approaches, traditions and forms.

IN ORDER TO REGISTER FOR THIS COURSE, STUDENTS MUST SUBMIT SAMPLES OF THEIR WRITING FOR REVIEW TO PROFESSOR ROSLYN BERNSTEIN, BY EMAIL: ROSLYN.BERNSTEIN@BARUCH.CUNY.EDU

ENG 3645H NWH - The Craft of Poetry (HONORS)This workshop in poetry writing will be taught by Laurie Sheck, the spring 2012 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence. Ms. Sheck is the author of five books of poems, including The Willow Grove and Captivity, and one hybrid work, A Monster’s Notes.

IN ORDER TO REGISTER FOR THIS COURSE, STUDENTS MUST SUBMIT SAMPLES OF THEIR WRITING FOR REVIEW TO PROFESSOR ROSLYN BERNSTEIN, BY EMAIL: ROSLYN.BERNSTEIN@BARUCH.CUNY.EDU

THIS HONORS COURSE IN POETRY IS OPEN TO STUDENTS IN AN OFFICIAL HONORS PROGRAM AND TO OTHER QUALIFIED STUDENTS WITH AN OVERALL 3.4 GPA. SEE HONORS PROGRAM INFORMATION IN THIS SCHEDULE.

ENG 3950 BMWA - Zones of Hell: Dante’s Inferno and Levi’s Auschwitz

Dante went to Hell figuratively on his way to Paradise, guided by a divine presence that gave meaning to his experience. Primo Levi actually went to hell in person, with little hope to survive, no superior guidance, no hope to reach paradise. In Dante’s Inferno punishments are meted out for specific sins; in Auschwitz the only “sin” to be punished is that of being a Jew. In Dante’s hell the sinners retain their individuality, in the Camp the prisoners were deprived of their identity and dehumanized before their extermination. Yet Levi survived his time in hell on earth, and he, like Dante, writes about it. We will read selections from Dante’s Inferno, and Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz and The Drowned and the Saved, comparing their attitudes towards justice, the zone between good and evil, the operation of memory for the victims and the oppressors, and the new moral universe we inhabit after Auschwitz.

ENG 3950 EMWA - Cities under Siege: Troy and Jerusalem

The siege and conquest of a great city has been a recurring theme in many literary masterworks. The stories of Troy and Jerusalem have been told and retold, as each successive author adapts inherited material. Mythically, the Troy story treats the fall of the city as the struggle over a woman. Jerusalem is figured as a woman both abused and deserted by her lovers and mourning her children. Individual authors both register mythic significances that attach to the stories and shape the stories for their own purposes. Unlike Trojans, Jews wrote a lament for their own city. The Biblical Book of Lamentations (in Hebrew Echah, or “How”) records an active process of making sense of national tragedy, whereas in the cases of Troy, the meaning comes more “ready-made” for writers who are in some way appropriating someone else’s tragedy.

This course will examine texts giving the classic representation of the story of each city, then select texts from the later literary versions of each story and conclude with Jerusalem Delivered, a Renaissance romance epic that presents the struggle for Jerusalem in the First Crusade as a reworking of the founding a new Troy in Rome.

Among the works we will read are Homer’s Iliad (selections), Virgil’s Aeneid, The Trojan Women by Euripides and Seneca, Lamentations, selections from Josephus’ Jewish Wars, The Book of Jonah, and Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered.

Written work will consist of two short critical papers, a midterm and a final. Class participation will improve the final grade.

ENG 3950 TMWA Law and Literature

What can literature teach us about law? What views of legal institutions do literary texts provide, and what place do these views have in a democratic society? How do imaginative writers use the law to structure and tell stories? How much of law itself is narrative, that is, involved in “telling stories” about cases? How do the interpretive tools and methods of lawyers, authors, and literary critics compare? How are human passions and the human condition differently described and treated in law and literature? This course considers these questions within the growing interdisciplinary field of Law and Literature. We will investigate enduring legal issues and themes of justice and bias explored in literary texts by William Shakespeare, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Wole Soyinka, Alice Sebold, and J. M. Coetzee. In addition, we will read writings by Supreme Court Justices, trial transcripts, newspaper reports, prison letters, and documentaries using the methods of literary interpretation and analysis. The 1895 sodomy trial of Oscar Wilde will provide a central case study.

FLM 4900 FMWA - The French New Wave and After

“The New Wave and after” is an in-depth examination of the revolution in film inaugurated by the French New Wave and its consequences for world cinema. We will begin with the study of the classic directors of the New Wave Truffaut, Godard, Resnais, Chabrol, Varda, Rivette and others and then consider their influence on other national traditions, from Hollywood to Japan.

FPA 3041 WW Introduction to New Media

This studio course introduces theories and practices of new media art. Assignments based on lectures, screenings, research, classroom demonstrations, discussions and readings provide hands-on experience in a variety of media, which may include digital imaging, sound, internet art, video, animation, social media, interactivity, etc. Students are introduced to software literacy and to historical and contemporary models and current standards of new media art. The Macintosh computer is featured as the primary computing environment.

HIS 3460 FMW - The Sixties in America

HIS 3460 FTRA-American Politics and Society Since Vietnam, 1975-2001

This course will examine the major political, economic, and social trends in American life in the years since the end of the Vietnam War. Beginning with the energy crises, stagflation, and economic uncertainty of the Ford and Carter years, we will continue into the 1980s, studying the Reagan administration's transformative social and economic policies, before concluding in the 1990s with a consideration of globalization and the digital revolution. Topics will include deindustrialization, deregulation, foreign policy, "trickle down" economics, the Wal-Mart business model, "culture wars," and the dot com crash.

HIS 3860 MT - Martial Arts and Military History: A Cultural History of Combat

This course will explore the cultural history of combat from our earliest records through the early Atlantic World. Many societies around the world evolved unique approaches to personal armed and unarmed combat that reveal much about their concepts of the nature of the body, masculinity, religion, honor, gender relations, as well as tactical realities of combat. We will apply this same cultural history perspective to understanding military history, in contrast to the more popular approach to military history, which focuses primarily on the nature of weapons and the activities of armies in a political context. We will take a comparative approach, exploring how the way individuals and armies fought was an expression of cultural legacies, and how this violence in turn catalyzed new cultural norms. The course will conclude with final reflection of how the combative philosophies of Sun Tzu, Miyamoto Musashi, and American Air Force pilot John Boyd have been applied to non-violent contexts of business and social relations.

HSP 3085 CMWA - A History of US-Mexico Relations: From Aztec Empire to Border Wars

The course examines the relationship between Mexico and the US, starting with the nineteenth-century wars over territorial legitimacy and the redrawing of boundaries. The legacy of ancient indigenous cultures will be studied, as well as the displacement of the original population, twentieth-century patterns of migrant workers to the US, contemporary multilateral trade agreements, human rights and environmental violations at the border. Special emphasis will be given to current debates, such as Mexico’s role as one of the main suppliers of crude oil to the US, drug trafficking and the Secure Fence Act of 2006.

HSP 3085 CTRA - Field Research in Latino Studies

This course will examine the qualitative research methods used to investigate and analyze the life experiences of Latino individuals and communities in the U.S., particularly in NY. The course will be conducted as a "workshop," in which students will work very closely with the professor in developing research proposals and hands-on projects. Likewise, students will receive substantial feedback from their classmates, as they develop an original and creative field project of their choice. Students will learn various methodologies and techniques, including life history and oral history interviews, participant observation, writing field notes, gaining access with local groups, and writing a research proposal that they can potentially execute later on in their undergraduate and post-college lives.

HSP 3085 FMWA- The Sixties in America

HSP 3085 PMWA “Hip-Hop and Urban Culture in New York City"

HSP 4900 MTA - Gender and Education

This course will examine the ways in which education and its policies affect diverse populations of women and how changes in those structures and policies improve women’s experiences. Topics include education as it plays a role within race, class, gender, education, media literacy, and the development of feminist scholarship and pedagogy.

IDC 4050H EMWH - From Page to Stage

Professor Paula Berggren, English/ Professor Susan Tenneriello, Theater

This seminar looks at plays in successive phases, from their gestation, before they are set down on the page, to their realization by actors, directors, and designers in actual production, and their afterlife, as new generations restage and reinterpret dramatic texts. Concentrating on a group of plays and other theatrical events scheduled for performance in New York City during the semester, including Shakespeare’s Richard III, Brecht’s Galileo, and Tennessee Williams’s Streetcar Named Desire, we will ask why some creative artists choose to treat their particular subjects as dramatic vehicles in the first place and examine how scripts are inevitably and constantly transformed through physical and visual embodiment. Students will function as audiences, critics, directors, and actors as we see what happens to words on the page when we speak them ourselves and visit local theaters, among them Baruch’s own performance facilities. The class offers students the opportunity to engage in theater practice and collaborate using digital media, storytelling, and performance, leading to independent final projects.

IDC 4050H CMWH - Representing the Holocaust

Professor Jessica Lang, English/ Professor Michael Staub, English

The Holocaust occupies a uniquely painful place in the history of the twentieth century, and its impact on the visual arts, literature, music, philosophical inquiry, and religious thought has been profound. This course will place the history of the Holocaust “the murder of European Jews “at the center of a broader discussion of anti-Semitism, the rise of Nazism, and the persecution of other groups designated as outsiders and/or enemies of the Nazi regime. It will examine a wide range of cultural documentS“ fiction and memoirs, films and photographs, testimonies and essays “that focus on historical circumstances and events often understood as indescribable. Students will be responsible for reading, discussing, and analyzing these diverse and often difficult materials “both in class and in written assignments.

IDC 4050H ETRH - Women at Work

Professor Mary McGlynn, English/Professor Katherine Pence, History

This course examines the experience of women in a variety of urban workplaces in the 19th and 20th centuries. Beginning with an exploration of what constitutes work, students will read historical documents, works of literature, and historical accounts relating to women as household servants, nurses, industrial workers, service and sales clerks, clerical workers, and professionals during and after industrialization. Issues addressed will include the balance of work and family, participation in labor unions, discrimination in terms of skill levels, wages, sexual harassment, and hiring and firing practices. Students will also investigate how changing worlds of women’s work affected their everyday experiences, identities, leisure and consumerism, and political engagement. Written assignments will include short response papers, an annotated bibliography, and an academic essay.

JRN 3900 FTR - Covering the New York City Music Scene

In New York City, leading artists and organizations in the fine and performing arts from all over the world are in residence, joining tens of thousands of New Yorkers involved with music, from composing to performance to management. This course will expose students to the music scene: genres from classical (orchestral, chamber, vocal) to opera (including rock opera) to jazz (old style, new style), country, rock, hip-hop, Latin, Broadway, Off Broadway and more, and venues from neighborhood clubs to grand concert halls. Students will write (and rewrite) feature and news articles, including interviews and analysis of the scene. Occasional guest speakers will add their expertise to the course.

JRN 3900 NF - Covering Crime, Cops and Courts

It's the seamy underside of Gotham -- the noir-ish world of criminals bent on mayhem, and the officers of the law sworn to lock them up. But bringing the police blotter to life is a specialized skill. In this course, students will study some of New York City's most infamous crime cases -- it's a lurid list -- and the reporting that brought them to light. Through field visits to police facilities and courthouses, students will learn how the police investigate crimes and how prosecutors and judges administer justice, what information is public and how to use public records to tell gripping stories of crime and punishment.

PSY 3040 FMWA - Contemporary Perspectives

This course serves as an introduction toward understanding the relationship that exists between social, political, and legal institutions directed at facilitating (or inhibiting) the emergence of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community/identity. Drawing from both the psychological and sociological discipline, topics covered will be illuminating the nature and development of the relationship above by tracing the expansion of the LGBT community within modern society. Special attention will be devoted to the application of how a variety of factors can shape behavior within, between, outside of, and toward the LGBT community.

PSY 3040 MTA - Positive Psychology

This seminar explores the principles, research, and application of positive psychology. Topics covered from this emerging field include happiness, self-esteem, empathy, friendship, goal-setting, love, creativity, mindfulness, spirituality, and humor. Through primary source reading, integrated media (e.g., movies, music, web), and experiential activities in and out of class, students will have the opportunity to integrate and apply the material to their present life. Students will also have the opportunity to participate in the production of an internet radio show based on Positive Psychology. Prerequisite: PSY 1001; Major/Minor in Psychology (or instructor’s permission).

PSY 3044 QTRA: Career Development Theory and Practice

This course provides an overview of the developmental theories, assessment, and counseling practices in the field of Career Development. Students will engage the fundamental theories that guide contemporary practice is career development counseling as well as undergo an individual vocational assessment and conference as part of the course. Activities and exercises designed to promote positive career outcomes will be demonstrated and analyzed in order to promote understanding of the career development process.

REL 3085H FH24H - Writers & their Spiritual Searches: Remembering and Looking for Meaning

Even in the ancient period, writers reflected on their own experiences, their tragedies, joys, and realizations - their lives - as spiritual journeys. Augustine’s Confessions is an early such effort. Elizabeth Gilbert’s is a contemporary blockbuster bestseller. The others are somewhere in-between. Among these there are some very funny, very disturbing, and some very beautiful efforts. In this semester we will sample a selection, listen carefully to these stories, then together reflect on and connect them to our own stories and journeys both in class and in some writing.

SOC 3085H FH24H - Writers & their Spiritual Searches: remembering and Looking for Meaning

WSM 4900 ETR - Women at Work

WSM 4900 MTA - Gender and Education