Summer Session I: May 28 - July 7
Cultures & Economies: #Metoo? Histories of Sexual Assault & Harassment – SCA-UA 234.001
Prof. Lisa Duggan
Tues, Wed, Thurs, 12:30 – 2:30 PM – 4 points
In this course, we will place the current #MeToo and #Time'sUp phenomena in context, by examining the history of rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment. We'll consider sexual violence, social movements, media and law as they are embedded within structures of racial, class and gender inequality. In addition to considering the pervasiveness of violence against women and analyzing social responses to it, we'll also examine social and moral panics based on false allegations of rape and abuse-- from early 20th century lynching, to the Satanistic child abuse panic that swept US day care centers in the 1980s. (Counts as faculty elective for these SCA major/minors: AMST, GSS, and SOCA).
Topics: Crime & Punishment in American Popular Culture– SCA-UA 280.001
Prof. Zhandarka Kurti
Tues, Wed, Thurs, 3:00 - 5:00 PM - 4 points
It is no secret that America locks up more people than other nations. While the impact of America's punishment policies is usually measured in terms of numbers, it is the popular representations of crime that have the most impact on the lived experiences of individuals and institutions who administer punishment and those unfortunate to endure it. The media also plays a powerful role in exposing everyday Americans to the sprawling criminal justice system and to popularize ideas about crime, punishment and justice. This course explores representations of crime and punishment in American popular culture beginning with the colonial era to our contemporary moment to examine the enduring significance of race and class in the American criminal justice system. Sources include popular fiction, films and television shows, news reports, comics, music, and online media. (Counts as faculty elective for these major/minors: AFRI, AMST, GSS, LAST, SCA.)
New York City in Film – SCA-UA 623.001
Prof. Sukhdev Sandhu
Tues, Wed, Thurs, 9:30 - 11:30 AM - 4 points
What are the diverse ways in which New York City has been imagined on the silver screen? How does a cinematic perspective shape our understanding of urban spaces? This course analyzes films that portray New York as a site of local encounter and global exchange in both commercial and documentary films since the 1960s. We will investigate the dramatic mapping and remapping of urban space through works that articulate questions of gentrification, immigrant labor, organized crime, and sexual subcultures. In turn, we will examine how these stories have helped shape and contest the city's image of itself--as a space of struggle, belonging, illegality, emancipation, and transformation. The goal is to see how each particular film captures a distinct moment both in the city's history over the past fifty years as well as in the history of filmmaking. In so doing, we will blend the perspectives of urban studies, ethnic studies, and visual culture, placing films within their aesthetic, political, and historical context. (Counts as faculty elective for these SCA majors/minors: AMST, MET, SCA)
Summer Session II: July 8 - August 18
Urban Cultural Life – SCA-UA 608.001 or 608.060 (pre-college)
Instructor: Autumn Rain
Tue, Thu 3:00 – 6:00 PM – 4 points
(This course requires a 60-dollar activity fee.)
Few cities enjoy as rich a cultural life as New York City, with its plethora of neighborhoods, museums, galleries, theatres, concert halls, and alternative spaces. Through walking tours, attendance at cultural events, and visits to local cultural institutions, students explore the definition of urban culture. Sites include the familiar and the unfamiliar, the Village and the outer boroughs. Students examine the attributes that constitute culture and community from an interdisciplinary perspective. (Counts as elective for these SCA majors/minors: AMST, MET, SCA)
Topics: Infrastructures of Race, Class & Colonization: from Standing Rock to Trump's Border Wall City – SCA-UA 280.002 or 280.060 (pre-college)
Prof. Samuel Markwell
Tues, Wed, Thurs, 12:30 – 2:30 PM - 4 points
This course offers an introduction to social memory, critically examining multiple modes of remembrance. How are landscapes of memory created and how does memory influence our imagined futures and present actions? Including, but also going beyond institutions of memory, such as museums, can we think of our life experiences and the ways we came to be in this place and space as archives of memory and particular types of histories? Do we embody memory as history? If so, how? How are such repositories of memory expressed through performance and modes of memory called “art”? How are multiple landscapes of memory made simultaneously meaningful here in New York City, where deep colonial and postcolonial histories intersect with dynamic histories of global immigrations, heritages, and experiences? This course will integrate readings, site visits and guest performance to understand connections made between space, place, meanings, movement, and memory. (Counts as elective for these SCA majors/minors: AFRI, AMST, APA, GSS, LAT, MET, SCA.)
Cross-listed Elective: July 10 – July 1 (Study Away)
Topics: Critical Perspectives on Brazil – SCA-UA 9744.001
Prof. Michele Cristine Kettner
Mon, Tues, Weds, Thurs, Friday, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
The College of Arts and Science is offering a new, 3-week Summer in Brazil program (June 10-July 1, 2019) in beautiful Recife. Students enroll in PORT-UA 9700 Topics in Brazil Studies: Critical Perspectives on Brazilian Culture and Society (4-credit course taught in English), or in one of the cross listed Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LATC-UA 9600) or Social and Cultural Analysis (SCA-UA 9744) courses. SCA-UA 9744 also counts as an elective for the Africana Studies major and minor and for the SCA major but not the minor.
Recife is one of Brazil's most innovative artistic and cultural hubs. Located in the northeast of the country, it is well known for its cultural diversity and vibrant art scene, especially independent cinema. Offering a unique perspective outside of the more visited cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, students will get to experience an exciting array of visits and excursions in Recife, Olinda and other areas of the Northeast in summer 2019, which may include: a capoeira workshop; a visit to the Gilberto Freyre Museum; a day trip to Porto de Galinhas and Maracaipe, including a traditional fishing boat tour through the mangroves, and many other cultural events.
Additionally, students who participate in Summer in Brazil benefit from:
1. An automatic 33% tuition discount which represents $1,912 in savings for a 4-point course;
2. Mentorship opportunity with NYU faculty in a small cohort environment;
3. Unique NYU study abroad location, not available during fall or spring.
Please reach out to cas.summerinbrazil@nyu.edu with any questions
(Counts as cross-listed elective for AFRI majors/minors and only SCA majors.)