The purpose of this course is to enhance students' abilities to write in different genres, with an
emphasis on developing a project involving research for a real-world audience. With readings
and writing assignments drawn from a range of disciplines, the course prepares students for
writing in a variety of contexts and supports their developing strategies for writing in various
genres. The course will also further develop elements of the writing
process: generating ideas, developing a thesis, supporting a thesis with evidence, seeking and
receiving feedback on work in progress, and revising and editing.

Contemporary Spanish Literature in Translation (SPAN264) will examine, in English, major Spanish authors, literary periods and artistic trends through narrative, poetic, dramatic and visual filmic cultural artifacts produced from 1936-1940 to the present day while learning about the historical, political and cultural contexts that surround them.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

Analyze and formally interpret the assigned texts, visual and filmic artifacts.
Examine and reflect critically upon the cultural values and ideas conveyed by them.
Become familiar with basic cultural, social and political aspects of contemporary Spanish history.
Demonstrate knowledge of the themes, problems and ideas that appear in the texts.
Learn some key concepts, including literary and rhetorical terminology, for the analysis of contemporary literature and cultural production.

This course aims to develop a sociological frame to describe and analyze the nature, function, and causes of “crime” and legal institutions in our society. The class begins with a broad overview of criminology as a field and some of the major classic and contemporary theories. The second part of the course reviews empirical works which illustrate, explore, and/or critique these theories. The final part of the course builds on Part 2 and reviews three recent topics of interest in modern criminology.

At the end of the course, you will be able to:
Describe, discuss, and critique arguments about how our society defines crime, why crime occurs, and how our society reacts to and controls behavior deemed “criminal”
Apply criminological theories to social problems of interest
Understand, critique, and/or apply reform and abolitionist frameworks to current key topics related to the nature and role of our criminal legal system

This course was created as part of the Open Pedagogy Fellowship, through the Mina Rees Library at The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Read more about the process of course design here: Criminology - A Critical and Open Approach
https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2021/03/19/criminology-a-critical-and-open-approach/

World Theatre I is meant to provide a historical survey of performance practices across the globe covering early theatrical forms until broadly the 15th century and traveling through performance traditions in Africa, Western Europe, Asia, and the Americas. This course provides a historical survey of theatre across the globe, covering early theatrical forms until the 15th Century. Through traditions in Africa, Western Europe, Asia, and the Americas, we will examine a variety of theatre forms and styles, as well as individual plays, playwrights, and designers. We will study theoretical texts on theatre and performance from the periods and locales covered. We will also consider the influences on theatre from different cultural, social, political, and economic contexts, and the manners in which theatre has engaged critically and politically in different societies.

We’ll read scripts, theatre/performance theory, and look at some primary sources. All the materials for the class will be housed on this website, including our syllabus, videos from the series Theater CrashCourse, podcasts on Theatre History @Howlround Commons, Library Research Guides (Tools), and other Open Educational Resources. This site is also a work-in-progress platform for rethinking our class’s contents. It will host thoughts and open-access resources to question, research, and practice performance history. [This site was created as part of the Open Pedagogy Fellowship, hosted by the Mina Rees Library, The Graduate Center, CUNY].

Examine critical research issues in Puerto Rican and Latinx studies. Introduce students to a variety of ways of thinking about “knowledge” and to specific ways of knowing and making arguments in Puerto Rican and Latinx studies using key humanistic, social science, and “interdisciplinary methodologies”.

What are some of the ways to study Latinx populations, cultures, and issues? The course seeks to develop in students an ability to apply interdisciplinary concepts, methodology, and theories in examining the issues and experiences of Latinx groups. The course will delve into the strategies/tools available for conducting research in Latinx Studies. The culmination of the course will result in each student identifying a research question, relevant methodologies, and an understanding of the scope of their research problem in relation to Latinx Studies.

An in-depth exploration of foods and foodways of diverse populations and cultures. Examination of the effect of ethnic, geographic, ecological and historical factors on foods, foodways, health and diet related diseases.
The full course site is available at https://culturalfoods.commons.gc.cuny.edu/.

This website was created by Julie Van Peteghem (Hunter College) for the course ITAL 37001 Prose Works of Dante with the support of a CUNY Academic Commons OER Faculty Teaching Fellowship during the Spring 2018 semester. A work-in-progress, the site provides the English translations of Dante’s Vita nuova, De vulgari eloquentia, Convivio, De monarchia, and the letters at zero cost, and other OER materials related to Dante’s works and world, including some created by the ITAL 37001 students. Unless otherwise indicated, the entries are written by Julie Van Peteghem.

Database Management Systems - Baruch College - CIS3400
This course provides students with the background to design, implement and use database management systems in managing the data needs of an organization. It introduces, in a comparative framework, the structure, requirements, functions and evolution of database management systems. After covering conceptual data modeling and entity relationship data model the course focuses on relational data model. Students learn abstract languages such as relational algebra including their commercial implementations like SQL. Database design is introduced and discussed in detail. Concepts of data integrity, security, privacy, and concurrency control are introduced. Ethical issues in the maintenance and use of a database and globalization of information technology are also discussed. Students implement a major database application project using MS Access.

This course is concerned with how practices of reading and writing can be wielded
as technologies of imagination and utopia. More precisely, we will approach, though
perhaps never arrive at, utopia through various theories and practices of anarchism.
What do we mean by ‘anarchism’? This is a question we will pursue again and again
through engaging with a plethora of different forms, practices, and expressions of
anarchism: essays, manifestos, conversations, speeches, poetry, fiction, among
others.

As we read, we will write and converse and hopefully practice our own
nascent form of anarchism centered around that most generous and natural of
human activities: sharing. Sharing writing, ideas, questions, uncertainties, doubts,
needs – rather than march linearly forward in the drive to reach some predetermined
end point, we will attempt to learn with and from one another in an echo of the
Zapatistas, not in order to provide answers, but to practice and celebrate our ability
to pose questions.

The students will familiarize with Dante’s Divine Comedy 1) as a poetic and encyclopedic text that borrows and adapts from ancient texts and from contemporary culture 2) and as a text that, its turn, has influenced our imagination over the centuries.
While learning about the major characters, scenes and literary strategies of the Divine Comedy, the students will engage in discussions, research, writing and peer reviewing. Students will learn to describe a visual artifact in relation to Dante’s text.

Human societies display remarkable creativity and persistence in the range of mind altering substances used historically and cross culturally, although drug use occupies very different social locations in different cultures and historical eras. In the modern era, the regulation of mind and mood altering substances has become enmeshed with larger systems of social control, including public health, criminal justice, immigration and economic globalization. While drug addiction is typically portrayed as an individual problem, both drug use and drug policy are fundamentally social processes, and cannot be separated from larger social and economic systems.

This course teaches the fundamental parts of an economy and the factors that affect individual economic choices. Topics include consumer theory, producer theory, behavior of firms, market equilibrium, competition, international trade and the role of governments in the economy. Students will be introduced to methods economists use in economic analysis and research. Throughout the course, students will be encouraged to relate issues in economics to their own lives and the operations of businesses of different sizes and market structures.

Appreciate the many ways in which the geosciences play critical roles in society, as well as your individual lives.

Introduction to Earth’s climate system; natural and anthropogenic drivers of climate change; effects of climate change on earth’s atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere, and terrestrial environments; potential impacts of climate change; mitigation and adaptation strategies especially as applied to New York City.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course will cover hydrology and hydrogeology, the presence and movement of water both above ground and underground. The course will emphasize concepts, numerical calculations and problem solving skills. Case studies and fieldwork will be used to promote real world understanding of the subjects covered. Specific topics will include:

The hydrologic cycle
Interactions of water, atmosphere, plants, and soils
Surface flow
Groundwater storage and supply
Groundwater flow
Groundwater contamination

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Students will be able to explain and calculate major fluxes of the hydrologic cycle
Manipulate and analyze basic hydrologic data
Relate soil and site characteristics to the distribution of groundwater
Discuss and quantitatively model how and why groundwater moves
Apply quantitative skills for evaluating groundwater resources and problems
Evaluate groundwater supplies in terms of both quantity and quality

English 121 is a continuation of the work accomplished in ENG 111. ENG 121 will advance critical reading skills and essay development with an emphasis on writing analytical essays and papers based on research in various academic disciplines.
The full course site is available at https://english121.commons.gc.cuny.edu/.

Our world is created through stories. In this class (Great Works 2850, in case you forgot), we will read a cross section/sample of riveting works of literature from the 17th century to the present. It will be beautiful. We are going to read across genres—novels, poetry, bits of memoirs, short stories. Hopefully, we can watch some movies, look at some art, and hold class discussions digging into art, literature, and politics, and everything in between. You’ll learn how to speak and write about literature using proper literary terminology without sacrificing your own voice and personal style in the process. We will reconstruct the socio-historical and cultural contexts of the texts we read. We are going to do a lot of scaffolded bits of writing to help us build to the bigger final essays.

This course presents a global approach to literature by introducing a variety of narrative, lyric, and dramatic forms representative of different cultures and historical periods, from the eighteenth century to the present. We will approach texts of a variety of forms and genres, from satire, Romantic poetry, and modern plays, to a broad range of fictional and non-fictional narratives. Discussions involve both close reading of selected texts and comparison of the values the texts promote. You will engage in a variety of communication-intensive activities designed to enhance your appreciation of literature and your awareness of the way it shapes and reflects a multicultural world.

Welcome to ENGL 3141: Victorian Poets
This course is being taught in the Spring 2021 Semester by Prof. Justin Gallagher of Brooklyn College.

What does research by composition scholars teach us about the writing process? And how can we apply those findings to our own individual writing processes? In this class, we will work to dispel “bad ideas about writing”; learn about how genre, multilingualism, and digital media influence rhetoric; and put theory into practice by analyzing what we do when we write and revise.

We will be guided by the concept that writing is a social process. This course will therefore emphasize in-person class discussion, asynchronous social annotation, and peer review. By entering this class, you will become a fellow learner and writer and also a scholar of writing studies. As you get familiarized with major topics in writing studies, you will both enter those conversations and apply what you learn from the research to your own writing process. This will all come together in a final portfolio of your writing projects from the semester.

I am committed to fostering a learning environment that is safe, inclusive, and intellectually challenging for all students, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, immigration status, disability, religion, or any other identity categories. As an educator, I aim to create a learning environment that respects and affirms the diversity of students’ experiences and perspectives.