Spring 2012

The City: New York  

Listed in: American Studies, as AMST-112

Faculty

Carol C. Clark (Section 01)
Karen J. Sanchez-Eppler (Section 02)

Description

This course will explore the imagined and conflicted experience of urban life in the United States through study of the country’s first metropolis: New York. Drawing on primary materials—maps, memoirs, film, poetry, fiction, census data, the natural and the built environment—and a selection of secondary sources, we will encounter moments in the life of the city from the 17th into the 21st century. This semester there will be special focus on the physical city: parks and amusement parks, cemeteries, bridges, housing, skyscrapers, and the public art of memorials.

Limited to 20 students. Spring semester. Professors Clark and Sánchez-Eppler.

AMST 112 - L/D

Section 01
Tu 10:00 AM - 11:20 AM CHAP 201
Th 10:00 AM - 11:20 AM CHAP 201

Section 02
Tu 10:00 AM - 11:20 AM CHAP 203
Th 10:00 AM - 11:20 AM CHAP 203

Offerings

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Spring 2012, Spring 2015