2023-2024 Undergraduate Bulletin

MHC 126 Macaulay Seminar 2: The People of New York City

3 hours 

In this seminar, students use tools from the social sciences, from oral history to mapping and participant observation and beyond, to investigate how the diverse people of New York City shape its identity, past, present, and future. Extensive reading and writing assignments are enriched by visits to neighborhoods, museums and historical and cultural sites across the city.

Credits

3

Notes

This course is restricted to students of the Macaulay Honors Program at John Jay College. This course satisfies the Flexible Core: U.S. Experience in its Diversity area of the Gen Ed Program.