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January Session 2013 at Hofstra provides undergraduate students a new and exciting way to earn three or four credits in just three weeks (January 2-23). We are breaking down the traditional walls of learning with our exclusive Hofstra in NYC offerings. Most courses meet entirely in Manhattan, which allows students to take advantage of their time in the city. These 3 and 4 credit courses in a variety of areas, including fine arts, drama, literature, political science, history, music and finance offer students a unique opportunity to fulfill program requirements while exploring all that NYC has to offer! Visit museums and galleries. Learn about the economic, musical, artistic and cultural forces that have shaped New York. Explore an NYC neighborhood youve only read about. Discover all that the city has to offer. Get to know NYC behind-the-scenes ... this January at Hofstra. Registration begins October 15 at My.Hofstra.edu.
Visiting students are also welcome to take a January Session Class.
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January Session 2013
(January 2-23) Earn three or four credits while exploring New York City!
NYC
Taught by Aleksandr Naymark The course is an intensive study of the general systematic survey of Western art that draws on the incomparable riches of New York art collections. Students explore the collections of 14 majors museums in New York, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Explore our Hofstra in NYC course offerings. These courses are offered only in January they are not taught in the fall and spring semesters so take advantage of this exclusive opportunity!
LING 181, sec. 2: Decoding NYC: Language and Neighborhoods* 3 s.h.
Taught by Gregory Kershner To an outsider and sometimes even to an insider NYC can be hard to understand. In this course students attempt to decode NYCs organization of space, the layout of buildings, street grids, fashion, and neighborhoods. Students learn to read the city as a system of signs, as a language all its own.
NYC*
3 s.h.
Taught by Lauren Kozol From its early days, New York has been impacted by individuals from Latin America who have settled here or come to share their artistic work. In this class, students study Hispanic literature, music, dance, visual arts, cinema and cuisine based in and around New York City.
ENGL 184U, sec. 1: Baseball, Vaudeville and the Making of NYC* 3 s.h.
Taught by Richard Pioreck Broadcast and cable television and professional league sports are major American economic and cultural forces. Baseball and vaudeville are the forerunners of these two industries. In this course, students explore NYC to see how baseball and vaudeville grew up together and continue to influence 20th-century popular culture. .
Taught by Patricia Navarra During this course, students visit a variety of literary, historical, theatrical, musical, and artistic sites to explore the political and cultural significance of the Bohemian movement in NYC. Each student conducts research on a related artist or topic, such as Beat poetry, the Stonewall riots, the Ashcan artists, radical unionism, the Living Theatre, and womens suffrage.