LEARNING COMMUNITIES COURSE SUPPLEMENT - FOR FIRST YEAR STUDENTS ON THE NEW YORK CITY CAMPUS - Pace University
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LEARNING COMMUNITIES FALL 2019 COURSE SUPPLEMENT FOR FIRST‑YEAR STUDENTS ON THE NEW YORK CITY CAMPUS www.pace.edu/orientationFall 2019 Learning Communities for First-Year Students on the New York City Campus 14366_Fall 2019 Course Supplement NYC Edit.indd 1 4/25/19 12:00 PM
LEARNING COMMUNITIES COURSE SUPPLEMENT Please review this instruction sheet before reading the learning community course descriptions. This Learning Communities Course Supplement includes three sections for: PFORZHEIMER HONORS CHALLENGE TO ACHIEVEMENT AT FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS COLLEGE STUDENTS PACE (CAP) PROGRAM STUDENTS A learning community links courses and disciplines so that students and professors share a coherent and enriched learning experience. For example, an English course might be paired with an introductory computer course, or an astronomy course might be linked to a math course. Pace University offers two types of learning communities: ■■ Two paired, integrated, and coordinated courses, each taught by a different professor in a different discipline. Students must register for both sections of the learning community. OR ■■ An interdisciplinary (INT) course taught by a team of two professors from different disciplines and focused on a particular theme. In either case, learning communities provide an ideal setting for college students to develop a sense of responsibility and community; experience increased interaction with faculty; engage in a rich, active, and collaborative learning environment; explore diverse perspectives; and gain a deeper understanding of course materials. * The 200-level designation of some courses is not important—these classes are without pre-requisites and designed for first-year students without backgrounds in the subjects. Instructions for all sections: Please carefully read through all the following first-year student learning community options. Some learning communities are major-restricted. In the section that applies to you (e.g., first-year, Honors, or CAP) choose and rank your preferences. You will be asked to input your selections when you register for Orientation. Fall 2019 Learning Communities for First-Year Students on the New York City Campus 14366_Fall 2019 Course Supplement NYC Edit.indd 2 4/25/19 12:00 PM
FALL 2019 LEARNING COMMUNITIES FOR FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS 1. Aesthetics: Theory and Practice (6 credits) 4. Composing America (6 credits) Combines ART 165: Mixed Media and PHI 170: Combines ENG 110: Composition and AMS 102: Introduction to Aesthetics Introduction to American Studies Description: The linked philosophical and studio Description: In this learning community, students will learn components of this learning community move back and about the process of writing while using the methods of forth between philosophical aesthetics and actual art- cultural studies to analyze contemporary US life. Students making as if the student were taking a course in ornithology will read texts, view film, and go on field visits in order while training to become a bird. The readings for this to study the spaces, places, and practices that create course range from ancient to contemporary philosophy, the idea of America from both national and transnational while the art assignments will be executed in a variety of perspectives. The final project is a case study about a media. No artistic talent or experience required, and it’s space of the student’s own choosing (a neighborhood, open to all majors. building, public event, and so on) and through research and observation, students will evaluate how certain American 2. Art and Interactivity: Introduction to Digital ideals are reflected or come into contradiction within the place they have chosen. Design and Computing (6 credits) Combines ART 186: Digital Design and CIS 101: 5. Computing and Business in the Digital Age Introduction to Computing (6 credits) Description: This course brings together the disciplines Combines CIS 101: Introduction to Computing and of fine arts and computer science as they intersect in a BUS 101: Contemporary Business Practice blog space. The fine arts portion studies the fundamentals of digital design including imaging, collage, typography, Description: Computer skills have become a fundamental composition, form, perspective, and color theory. Students necessity for anyone in business. This learning community explore artwork and graphics on the Apple platform using integrates the teaching of computer skills with the learning Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and blogs. The of business basics. Students learn the principles of business computer science portion provides an understanding of through a series of computer simulations and learn computer the role of computers and the skill sets required. Each basics by designing spreadsheets and programs to assist in student’s creative abilities are identified and cultivated making business decisions for these simulations. Students through the use of technology in a digital media context. learn to apply Excel, HTML, and JavaScript applications to Key concepts in computing technology are studied simulations about pricing, production, marketing, investments, including software and hardware needs for digital media, distribution, human resources management, global trading, digital rights management, privacy, and security, as well as labor relations, and other business topics. webpage design (HTML), programming (JavaScript), and building one’s own digital media presence. Students will 6. Domination and Resistance: Gender, Race, produce a functional and well-designed blog centered on their interests. and Class (6 credits) Combines POL 102: Public Myth and Ideologies and WS 166: Gender, Race, and Class 3. Bridging the Divide: Traditional Media Meets Digital Technology (6 credits)* Description: This learning community looks at the physical, Combines ART 289: Video I and ART 173: political, legal, and cultural means that have been used by Graphic Design I dominant groups to exert power and shape the consciousness of the less powerful. Students will examine the cultural, social, Description: This learning community examines traditional and political strategies subordinate groups have employed to mediums in 3D along with new technologies of graphic oppose their unequal circumstances and liberate themselves. design. Students’ work will reflect a hybridization of WS 166 will focus on issues of domestic violence, rape, techniques in image making. Imagery will be generated pornography, and global violence against women, particularly digitally (e.g., using Photoshop or Flash) and then serve in recent American immigrant or non-white communities. as a source for spatial design with simple construction POL 102 will investigate the legal, political, and cultural materials. Similarly, students will explore the possibilities of subordination of women in American politics, also paying organic and inorganic forms for both aesthetic and practical attention to three other groups: workers, the black community, three-dimensional objects. and the LGBTQA+ community. The focus is on the lived Note: Only first-year students with a declared art major (BA experience of domination and resistance as seen through film, or BFA) can take this learning community. All art majors are biographical and autobiographical accounts, and theater. encouraged to take this learning community. 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7. Gender and Television (6 credits)* 10. Fearless Texts: Don Quixote (6 credits) Combines ENG 110: Composition and WS 296: Combines ENG 120: Composition and SPA 154: Girls on Film Spanish Culture Description: Second-wave feminist Betty Friedan famously Description: Miguel de Cervantes’ novel Don Quixote claimed that American television presented the American is a masterpiece of the Spanish Golden Age, as well as a woman as a “stupid, unattractive, insecure little household window into the way writing can be fearless at any point in drudge who spends her martyred, mindless, boring days time, including our own. In this class, students will devote dreaming of love—and plotting nasty revenge against her the semester to reading the novel that gave us the first husband.” This learning community will test this claim and modern superhero and dared to connect real-life people explore how gender was constructed and performed in and circumstances to the world of literature. Don Quixote primetime television from the 1950s to the 1980s. It will was a critique of contemporary politics and a commentary examine the presentation of marital roles, child rearing, the on all the forms of writing during Cervantes’ time: novella subaltern, sexuality, and the construction and subversion de caballeria, novella sentimental, novella picaresque, of household normativity. Students will explore the novella pastoral, novella italianizante, and a variety of poetic construction and performance of femininity, masculinity, forms. Through reading, discussion, writing assignments, race, class, and sexuality in primetime television. in-class workshops, and site visits, students will bring this text alive as the fearless experiment that it was for its time. 8. Environment in Flux, 1492–Present (6 credits) Don Quixote and other assigned texts originally written in Spanish will be available in translation. Students are not Combines ENG 110: Composition and ENV 110: Nature required to speak Spanish. and Culture—A Study in Connections Description: This learning community will examine the 11. Making Change Happen: Social and Political profound impact of and interaction between humans Activism in Global Context (6 credits) and our natural environment. The English portion will start in the past—the Columbian Exchange of animals, Combines SOC 113: Dynamics of Change, What’s Next? plants, diseases, and people from the “old” world to the and WS 166: Gender, Race, and Class “new.” This sets the stage for the environmental portion, Description: This learning community will examine which will take students on a whirlwind tour through efforts of different groups to bring about social and contemporary environmental issues. Students will explore political change in the attempt to identify practices and the connections between environmental degradation, mechanisms that promote effective activism. The course disease, the population boom, climate change, and energy will target topics such as collective identity and motivation extraction from scientific, economic, political, and activist for organization, the power that traditional and social perspectives. media plays in facilitating or limiting change, and feminist and anti-feminist forms of activism. Students will study the 9. Ethics in the Public Domain (6 credits) American cases of the Suffrage Movement, the Civil Rights Movement, the Tea Party, and the struggle for reproductive Combines ENG 120: Critical Writing and POL 102: rights, as well as international cases such as activism in Public Myth and Ideologies times of conflict and feminist activism in Latin America and Description: Publicly debated controversies about values the Middle East. and standards of conduct will be analyzed and discussed with attention paid to ideologies, collective behavior, and 12. Man Trouble (6 credits)* common practices. The issues confronted—from a political Combines ENG 110: Composition and WS 268: science and literature perspective—will include human estrangement versus unity, equality, and power, and we will Men and Masculinities track these issues as they change from place to place and Description: The social and biological sciences as well across time. as literary, cultural, and historical criticism reveal few, if any stable definitions of “masculinity.” Masculinity is a social construction—a cultural fiction—yet American culture still looks nostalgically to “manly” culture heroes like John Wayne and Clint Eastwood, or action heroes turned politicians like Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger. This learning community will explore the ways in which masculinity is tied to notions of class, race, nationhood, and sexuality. Students will discuss personal and extrinsic concerns of gender identity and gender performance. * The 200-level designation of some courses is not important—these classes are without pre-requisites and designed for first-year students without backgrounds in the subjects. Fall 2019 Learning Communities for First-Year Students on the New York City Campus 14366_Fall 2019 Course Supplement NYC Edit.indd 4 4/25/19 12:00 PM
13. New York Studies: Sites and Sights (6 credits)* 17. The Sacred and the Secular in East Asia Combines AMS 102: Introduction to American Studies (6 credits)* and ART 297T: Drawing and Painting on Site Combines HIS 131: The Asian World and RES 202: Description: This is a learning community that links Great Ideas in Eastern Religious Thought American Studies with perceptually based drawing Description: This learning community explores the and painting. Through regular field trips and site visits, historical development of society and culture in China and students will learn the interdisciplinary methods of cultural Japan, with emphasis on the influence of religious traditions studies by which we can analyze the place of New York in including Confucianism, Taoism, Mahayana Buddhism, and contemporary US life. Students will create a portfolio of Shinto. Two major components of this learning community drawings and paintings, as well as a case study of a site of will include field trips to local museums and film screenings. their own choosing. 18. War, Peace, and Democracy: International and 14. Paris 101—French Language and Culture American Perspectives (6 credits)* (6 credits) Combines HIS 254: The American Civil War and Combines FRE 155C: Paris: A Tale of Two Cities and POL 111: Introduction to International Relations FRE 101: Elementary College French I Description: Democracy building, nation building, racial Description: Students will have a unique opportunity to oppression, sectional conflict, retribution. The US faced master the fundamentals of spoken and written French these issues dramatically in the mid-19th century, but while simultaneously pursuing a course of study in the modern nations face the same issues and the same culture, literature, and arts of Paris, the City of Light. FRE challenges today. This course will discuss, both within the 155C will investigate French literature, language, and context of the US Civil War and how nations deal with each the arts through the most significant trends and periods other around the world today, the causes of nationalism of French culture. The pairing of the two classes will and ethnic conflict, war, peacemaking and peacekeeping, encourage students to derive maximum benefit from a diplomacy, and human rights. Particular attention will learning experience that will be more than the sum of its be paid to the challenges of democratization and nation parts. “An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.”— building throughout the world as they pertain to the factors Friedrich Nietzsche needed to achieve political and economic stability while building a just society among people and nations. 15. Performing Social Change (6 credits) Combines ENG 110: Composition with AMS 102: 19. Work and Wealth: History and Literature of the Introduction to American Studies Rise of Big Business in America (7 credits) Description: What does equality mean in an unequal Combines ENG 120: Critical Writing and HIS 113K: world? What does inequality look like and how does it The American Experience—The City and the Workplace happen? Most importantly, what can we do to bring about Description: Money, power, greed, ambition, schemes. social transformation? This learning community explores How has work in America produced the rise of big business the ways activists, artists, writers, and thinkers have gone and great wealth? This course will begin with Alexander about assessing and addressing the injustices at work in Hamilton’s plans to link the new nation to the interests of contemporary US culture. Students will critically examine the affluent and then trace the development of America’s and denaturalize the social, economic, and political major businesses through the 20th century. Students will structures that undergird inequality in the US, and consider use literary readings in ENG 120 to gain insight into how the ways our actions as agents of culture act as a vital American society valued achieving wealth through work force in reproducing systems of inequality. and the moral and ethical choices that acquiring wealth can present to individuals. 16. The Economics of Sex (6 credits) Combines WS 166: Gender, Race, and Class, 20. Writing and Media Change (6 credits)* and ECO 106: Principles of Microeconomics Combines ENG 110: Composition and LIT 205: Description: This learning community examines how our Intro to Literature, Culture, and Media consumption impacts the commonly held core values of our Description: This learning community offers an society. The course will focus on issues of sex and sexuality introduction to the study of literature while providing an and analyze them through a lens of women’s and gender opportunity for students to develop their own research and theory and basic principles of economics. The course writing skills. Drawing on literary studies and the related will focus on changes in supply and demand, income fields of cultural and media studies, students will build a distribution, consumer behavior, and other economic critical vocabulary that will be used to understand what factors, as well as address how our consumption impacts literature is, why it matters, how the idea of literature has what we believe about sexuality, pornography, gender, our changed over time, and how the study of literature provides bodies, and our health. insight into ongoing struggles to achieve social justice. * The 200-level designation of some courses is not important—these classes are without pre-requisites and designed for first-year students without backgrounds in the subjects. Fall 2019 Learning Communities for First-Year Students on the New York City Campus 14366_Fall 2019 Course Supplement NYC Edit.indd 5 4/25/19 12:00 PM
PFORZHEIMER HONORS COLLEGE LEARNING COMMUNITIES Section Open to Honors Students Only 1. Antiquity through the Middle Ages in Art and 3. Classical Civilization Living Learning Community History (6 credits)* (at 182 Broadway) (6 credits) Combines ART 102: Art History: Ancient through Gothic Combines PHI 113: Ancient Philosophy and HIS 102: and HIS 102: Ancient and Medieval History through the Ancient and Medieval History through the 14th Century 14th Century Description: In this learning community, students will Description: This learning community provides an examine Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy and literature introduction to centuries of the unique achievements of the beginning with the work of the poets Homer, Hesiod, world’s major cultures, from the prehistoric era through the and Sappho, continuing with representative samples of gothic, using the disciplines of history and art history. Works Greek tragedy and comedy, of the philosophy of Plato and of literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, and other Aristotle, and concluding with examples of Roman literature artifacts are studied with special attention to the development and philosophy. In addition to the curriculum materials of style, historical context, and interaction with other societies. discussed in classes, there will be field trips and additional The social, economic, political, cultural, and geographical extracurricular activities to enrich learning experiences. This backgrounds will be explored in order to lend context to the is a living learning community with a residential component. art, architecture, and literature. This course includes a private All members of this learning community will live together on a tour through the Metropolitan Museum of Art. floor in 182 Broadway. 2. Bridging the Divide: Traditional Media Meets 4. Drama of Social Change (6 credits)* Digital Technology (6 credits) Combines LIT 211J: American Voices and PAGE 274: Combines ART 140: Beginning Drawing and ART 186: Theater and Social Justice Basic Digital Design Description: The revolution will not be televised—it will be Description: Paint and pixels; creativity in old and new staged. This course combines applied theater, a specialized media. This learning community examines the traditional field that uses theater as a means for social change, with medium of painting along with new technologies of digital performance studies and sociology. Students enrolled in design. Students’ work will reflect a hybridization of this course will spend the first half of the semester techniques in image making. Imagery will be generated volunteering at nonprofit organizations working on pressing digitally (e.g., using Photoshop or Flash) and then serve as societal issues and the second half of the semester creating a source for painting. Similarly, paintings may be scanned public performances around the issue they have been digitally and then manipulated. No experience in art required. engaged in. Performances will take place in traditional theater spaces in addition to site-specific locations throughout the University and the city. The final project will be a presentation of one-act plays and monologues created by the students. Note: This course is only open to students who have college English credit or who have a score of 4 or 5 on either AP English test. * The 200-level designation of some courses is not important—these classes are without pre-requisites and designed for first-year students without backgrounds in the subjects. Fall 2019 Learning Communities for First-Year Students on the New York City Campus 14366_Fall 2019 Course Supplement NYC Edit.indd 6 4/25/19 12:00 PM
5. Modern Migrations: Mapping Migration 7. Understanding Business in the Digital Age in Sociology and Literature (6 credits)* (6 credits) Combines LIT 211D: The Individual and Society and Combines CIS 101: Introduction to Computing and BUS SOC 227: Border Crossings: Immigration and Society 101: Contemporary Business Practice Description: This learning community will examine Description: In today’s business environment, business and sociological and literary perspectives on migration with a focus information technology are so inextricably linked that it is not on the US. From the sociological view, students will examine possible for a business to succeed without the support of US immigration policy and laws, the “push” and “pull” factors information technology. Accordingly, this Honors-level learning that spur migration, and the consequences of migration for community integrates professional computer applications and both sending and receiving societies. Through a literary lens, software with the fundamentals of business. Students will students will read novels and short stories about journeys from learn about the functioning of a business through a computer the Caribbean, Latin America, India, and Nigeria. These works simulation that mimics real-world decisions faced by managers. explore migration issues such as cross-cultural identity, second Students will also learn how to apply their mastery of generation experiences, NYC’s status as a global destination, spreadsheets, presentation software, and web design software and the impact of migration on personal and cultural memory. to the business functions of accounting, finance, management, Note: This course is only open to students who have college and marketing. English credit or who have a score of 4 or 5 on either AP English test. 8. The (Virtual Poets) Walk (6 credits)* Incorporates aspects of LIT 211: The Individual and Society with ART 298B: Mobile Media 6. Reacting to the Past: Conflict and Revolution in Early America (7 credits) Description: Students in this learning community will read medieval and Renaissance poetry and create virtual Combines HIS 113M: The American Experience—The Early experiences with contemporary media which enact these American Legacy and ENG 120: Critical Writing works within the landscape of NYC. Students will explore Description: This course will assign texts that will prepare and use geographic and mobile-based media to form a students for role-playing reenactments of famous intellectual reinvented landscape suffused with classic poetry but mixed and political confrontations in early America. First, the course with contemporary sites. Inspired by the Poet’s Walk in will engage in the debates that surrounded women, power, Central Park, students will create an audio-visual experience community, and theology in Puritan Massachusetts during the embodying their poets in Central Park using the contemporary trial of Anne Hutchinson (1637). Second, students will become potential of mobile device media. The course makes residents of NYC in 1775–1776, debating the causes of revolt, connections between the poets and their poetry, from enduring the chaos of revolution, and justifying or repudiating 12th century troubadour poets to William Shakespeare, violence in the pursuit of political power. Using a series of as well as the history and contexts of the medieval and early political texts of the period and related literary works, students modern period. will analyze, argue, and ultimately become subsumed in these Note: This course is only open to students who have college conflicts. English credit or who have a score of 4 or 5 on either AP English test. * The 200-level designation of some courses is not important—these classes are without pre-requisites and designed for first-year students without backgrounds in the subjects. Fall 2019 Learning Communities for First-Year Students on the New York City Campus 14366_Fall 2019 Course Supplement NYC Edit.indd 7 4/25/19 12:00 PM
CHALLENGE TO ACHIEVEMENT AT PACE (CAP) PROGRAM LEARNING COMMUNITIES Section Open to CAP Students Only 1. Culture and Identity (8 credits) 3. Gender, Race, and Class (8 credits) Combines ENG 110: Composition, ENG 105: Combines ENG 110: Composition, ENG 105: Composition and Rhetoric, and ANT 101: Introduction Composition and Rhetoric, and WS 166: Gender, to Anthropology Race, and Class Description: The theme of this learning community Description: This learning community examines the is the relationship between culture and identity. The interdependence of gender, race, and class in a variety anthropology component will begin with a brief survey of of literary genres, media, and in contemporary lives. human evolution, followed by a closer look at subsequent Through written assignments and class discussion, cultural developments. The English component will explore students will examine how gender, race, and class roles attempts made through fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, are constructed, negotiated, and manipulated through and film to voice the conflicts in consciousness that arise literature and other media. from this cultural history. Both courses will examine socio- cultural changes shaped by significant events such as war, globalization, and economic decline. Students will look closely at how such major changes are reflected in books, 4. Normative Ethics: Contemporary Moral Problems music, television, film, drama, and fashion. (Two Sections) (8 credits) Combines ENG 110: Composition, ENG 105: Composition and Rhetoric, and PHI 115: Normative 2. Future Visions: Computers, Technology, and Ethics—Contemporary Moral Problems Society (8 credits) Description: This course is a philosophical examination Combines ENG 110: Composition, ENG 105: of such issues as abortion, sexuality, prostitution, criminal Composition and Rhetoric, and CIS 101: Introduction punishment, euthanasia, medical ethics, business ethics, to Computing civil disobedience, and just and unjust wars. Discussion of these issues will be framed by an examination of major Description: The merger of human and machine in the ethical theories. cyborgs of science fiction echoes a similar merger in our everyday lives. As we have grown increasingly intertwined with our technology, many writers, social scientists, and philosophers have begun to examine how this may be changing us. Through film and readings in nonfiction and fiction, this learning community will explore the impact of 21st century technology on the way we relate to each other, the way we imagine ourselves and society, and what we envision for the future. Fall 2019 Learning Communities for First-Year Students on the New York City Campus 14366_Fall 2019 Course Supplement NYC Edit.indd 8 4/25/19 12:00 PM
5. Religions of the Globe (8 credits) 7. The American Experience: The US and Combines ENG 110: Composition, ENG 105: the World (8 credits) Composition and Rhetoric, and RES 106: Religions Combines ENG 110: Composition, ENG 105: of the Globe Composition and Rhetoric, and HIS 113: The American Experience—The US and the World Description: This learning community focuses on a study of the major religious systems of the globe and Description: This learning community focuses on the the formative influences they have on human culture. international crises that America faced during the 20th Consideration will be given to Hinduism, Buddhism, century. Special emphasis will be placed on World War Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. I, World War II, and the Cold War. Students will read a variety of historical, literary, and nonfiction works in these courses. These readings will be enriched by watching films and taking at least one out-of-classroom field trip. 6. Technology and Writing (Two Sections) (8 credits) Combines ENG 110: Composition, ENG 105: 8. The Worlds of Psychology (Two Sections) Composition and Rhetoric, and CIS 101: Introduction (9 credits) to Computing Combines ENG 110: Composition, ENG 105: Description: This learning community examines where Composition and Rhetoric, and PSY 112: Introduction computing and writing intersect. As students explore this to Psychology idea, they will experience how computing can reinforce writing. Students will apply what they learn in CIS 101 Description: This learning community will integrate when they compose essays and present their work in the study of psychology with critical reading and writing. ENG 110. They will learn to collaborate as a community Analysis of texts representing current issues in the field of learners, develop essays over multiple drafts, design a will serve as a stimulus for discussion, research, and website, and present their writing to peers. enhancement of academic writing skills. This course will serve as an introduction to psychology including coverage of research, human development, personality, testing and assessment, abnormal psychology, treatment of psychopathology, health and wellness, social cognition, and social influence. Fall 2019 Learning Communities for First-Year Students on the New York City Campus 14366_Fall 2019 Course Supplement NYC Edit.indd 9 4/25/19 12:00 PM
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