SPA321 - 3 hours, 3 credits. Readings from representative works of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
El curso está dedicado al examen de la situación de la mujer en la sociedad patriarcal y el compromiso abolicionista durante los siglos XVIII y XIX. Tras una contextualización sumaria sobre los problemas que subyacen a la naturalización acrítica del canon y la periodización hegemónica, debatiremos sobre los estigmas que pesaron sobre las mujeres que querían dedicarse a la literatura; discutiremos el perdurable impacto que tuvo el modelo de domesticidad del “ángel del hogar” y finalmente analizaremos la contradictoria posición ideológica encarnada en el teatro abolicionista español durante este período: Zinda de María Rosa de Gálvez y La cadena rota de Faustina Sáez de Melgar.
De entre los autorxs considerados, prestaremos atención prioritaria a tres escritoras (María Rosa de Gálvez, María del Pilar Sinués, y Faustina Sáez de Melgar), si bien también nos familiarizaremos con autoras notables como María Josefa de Massanés, Carolina Coronado, Rosario de Acuña, Rosalía de Castro y Dolores Cabrera. Como contrapunto a los textos de estas autoras, atenderemos la opinión diversa de autores varones como Benito Jerónimo Feijoo, Henrik Ibsen y Juan Pedro Criado.
Se trata de un curso presencial, de asistencia obligatoria, ofertada para estudiantes del programa subgraduado de español.

In this course, we examine gender deeply and critically from a sociological perspective. We focus on deep reading of foundational gender theory early in the semester, paired with more critical contemporary approaches and current research on gender in society. This course is organized as a seminar, which means that we focus on discussion, active learning, and student leadership.

Course Learning Objectives

To provide an advanced sociological understanding of gender
To examine how gender structures and is structured by social, political and economic institutions
To evaluate current sociological scholarship on gender issues

Analysis of education as a social institution, the school as a social system, and the professional and organizational roles of teachers. Special attention is given to the problems of the school in the urban community.

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:
https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2021/03/11/saving-face-as-a-critical-pedagogue/

This was an assignment I devised as an alternative to a concert report during the first stage of the Covid-19 pandemic in Spring 2020, in which in place of a live concert, students would view and report on one of Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts (I was kind of hoping someone would have the chutzpah to say that Bernstein was a better teacher than I, but alas, no one did). It is a medium-length writing assignment intended to be completed mid- or late-semester (after students have completed training in the musical elements) and to be worth approximately 10% of the final grade.

Syllabus for courses Dynamic Earth (undergraduate course): GEO 101-81 and Earth Processes (graduate course): GEO 501-81. Open textbook used in both courses linked in the syllabus and available at the following link: https://pressbooks.cuny.edu/gorokhovich/

This lecture introduces the time value of money concept. It discusses the present value of a cash flow and how to discount it, the future value of a cash flow and how to compound it. Finally, it discusses three rules for valuing cash flows.

This lecture discusses how to value a series of cash flows such as perpetuities, annuities, growing perpetuities and growing annuities. Additionally, it discusses how to solve for variables other than present value or future value of cash flows.

The course WST 220: Introduction to Women’s Studies is an examination of the forces that shape women’s lives from the perspective of various disciplines such as psychology, sociology, masculinity theory, and history. It also explores ways in which gender intersects with ethnicity, race, and socio-economic class to form social constructs. We will use theoretical, historical and cross-cultural frameworks to explore cultural representations of women, various aspects of women’s experiences, both with public institutions and personal relationships, as well as ways in which their lives have been shaped by structures of gender inequality. Special attention will be placed on feminism and women as agents of local and global social change.

This interdisciplinary and cross-cultural course will foster students’ understanding of women’s studies as an academic discipline in light of concepts and theories proposed by feminist, gender and women’s studies scholars. We will examine their applicability across cultures within the US and among selected societies in Africa, Asia, Australia, the Caribbean, Europe and Latin America. The course is also designed to empower young women and men and allow them to become agents of positive social change.

This course is an examination of the forces that shape women's lives from the perspective of various disciplines such as psychology, sociology, masculinity theory, and history. It also explores ways in which gender intersects with ethnicity, race, and socio-economic class to form social constructs. We will use theoretical, historical and cross-cultural frameworks to explore cultural representations of women, various aspects of women‰Ûªs experiences, both with public institutions and personal relationships, as well as ways in which their lives have been shaped by structures of gender inequality. Special attention will be placed on feminism and women as agents of local and global social change.
The full course site is available at https://wst220.commons.gc.cuny.edu/.

This lecture covers concepts, definitions and methods of Economics and discusses how theories and models are used.

This course introduces students to women’s experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean from colonial times to current days. Through the lenses of sex and gender, we will investigate debates on class, race, and ethnicity while looking at major historical events. We will rely on several primary and secondary sources such as archival documents, oral histories, arts, and visual resources that will help us understand how gender shaped the political, social, cultural, and economic structures of Latin America. In this light, questions of labor, economy, justice, reproduction, sexuality, imperialism, slavery, politics, state formation, and revolution will be addressed.

An activity meant to spur critical analysis of a shared reading. A handful of important quotes are placed on digital or physical boards. Participants should write a combination of “believe” comments, in which they support the author’s position, and “doubt” comments, in which they critique it.

Activity developed within the Writing Across the Curriculum program; description written in part by Lehman WAC coordinators Tiffany DeJaynes and Vani Kannan.