ISP 101 Seeking the City: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on New York
3 hours
New York is famously “in your face” but if you take the time to look beneath the frenzy the city reveals itself as a subtle series of interconnected and interdependent histories and cultures. This course takes an interdisciplinary and experiential approach to this phenomenon. Students in this class will explore a cultural theme or event, investigating how it came about, how it manifested itself, and how it evolved over time. They will engage with and draw from multiple voices and disciplines in order to examine how different social, historical, political or cultural forces respond to and grapple with the changing social reality that is life in the Big Apple. Students will seek out New York in the classroom and examine the city up close on its streets, in its parks and neighborhoods, exploring how it lives in our personal and collective emotions and experiences.
Notes
This course satisfies the John Jay College Option: Learning from the Past area of the Gen Ed Program.