An in-depth exploration of foods and foodways of diverse populations and cultures. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
Introduction to Earth’s climate system; natural and anthropogenic drivers of climate change; …
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 …
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. …
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, …
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 …
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.
What does research by composition scholars teach us about the writing process? …
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.
Course Description: A seminal work of Medieval literature, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales has …
Course Description: A seminal work of Medieval literature, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales has attracted a wide range of praise and critiques over the centuries for its presentation of love and sex. From mind-bendingly dutiful wives to loose and lusty wenches, the varied tales that comprise this classic of English Literature often intimately tie its conceptions of femininity and masculinity into sexuality in the most ribald of ways. Be it barely concealed extramarital affairs occurring in trees or accidental analingus out a window, Chaucer’s taste for the provocative often places his characters in the most #problematic of places. This duality of The Canterbury Tales – being often humorous and horrifying at the same time – deeply troubles and complicates our understanding of consent, sexual violence, and gender in the medieval world, presenting a vision of the Middle Ages that is both impossibly foreign and eerily prescient to our contemporary moment. In this course, we’ll dive into the controversies and debates surrounding Chaucer, and attempt to unravel the enigmatic visions of sex, gender, and love presented by the wide cast of characters. Along the way, you will learn to read Middle English, get hands-on practice working with digital manuscripts and archives, and develop a greater appreciation for these queer resonances across time that emerge from Chaucer’s magnum opus. This course will meet in person.
The nineteenth century was an era marked by unprecedented change, from the …
The nineteenth century was an era marked by unprecedented change, from the expansion of Britain’s empire, to the move from a rural to industrial economy, to developments in science, transportation and technology, to anxieties of class, gender, race, religion and marriage. It was also the era that saw the blossoming of the novel as an art form. In this course, we are going to ask the question: what motivated the rise of the nineteenth-century English novel, and its various genres? Why did Victorians love reading novels?
We are also going to consider the desires of the fictional bodies that populate the Victorian novel. What do the characters of these novels want – be it love, marriage, money, status, revenge, beauty, or power – and why? Which bodies are allowed to desire and how do these desires conform to, question or challenge Victorian beliefs and ideals? What are the consequences of these loves and desires, realized or unrealized? We will pay particular attention to raced, gendered and classed bodies – and bodies deemed mad, bad or dangerous – whose desires violate Victorian expectations and perhaps our own.
I also invite you to draw on the lived experience of your own bodies as you read. We are not living in the world of the Victorians, but we do live with its long history and our own complex desires and relationships as human beings. What do these texts push us to grapple with in our present moment? What do they leave us wanting?
We go to college not just to study something but to learn …
We go to college not just to study something but to learn how to do something – something that those who don’t earn a degree normally do. What is our earned expertise? What is that extra something that college gives us the opportunity and support to pursue?
One answer is that college allows us to learn how to do research. Research involves the creation of questions worth asking, it involves gathering the materials that we need to address these questions, and it involves synthesizing our findings with our questions to come up with credible answers.
In our ENGL 1012 seminar, we will learn how to use the research methods practiced in literary studies. Within this discipline, researchers explore questions of identity, politics, history and aesthetics, among many others, by studying representations of people, places and events in literature. To guide our understanding of research through literature, we will be focusing on the kinds of questions that emerge from the study of early African American culture. We will read narratives of enslavement and resistance from the late 1700s through to the mid 1800s, and we will also read scholarly texts that help understand the historical and political context within which these early African American narratives were first written and read. The readings will serve as an inspiration and evidentiary base to pose questions such as – what is the use of personal narratives and fictional stories in society? How does reading literature change the way in which people think? When we talk about history, are we discussing the past or is our focus on understanding the present? How do race, class, and gender affect the lives and experiences of oppressed people? What strategies have the oppressed used to fight back and change the circumstances of their marginalization?
The written assignments for our seminar will teach us how to address such questions by doing research, and they will encourage us to come up with questions of our own. We will learn how the process of writing allows us to construct answers to our questions and express the value of our opinions. By moving through a series of written exercises that feed into each other, all the students in this course will produce a final research paper that draws on the general theme of the course and makes judicious use of the resources at the library to ask and answer a question of their own design. Possible topics for research can include food, fashion, celebration, medicine, religion, science, among many others. The research paper is a curiosity-driven project where students have the freedom to pursue their interests, within the specific context of early African American culture.
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