Code as a Liberal Art

Learn how gender matters in the work we do by discussing the multiple ways in which gender organizes economic life and our perceptions of the value of different kinds of paid and unpaid labor.

Uncover the interaction between sound, art, and technology in the recent past. Examine the practices and innovations that led to the most current ideas about sound art and music technology, and develop contemporary analytical methods for exploring and creating music.

Build the knowledge base for designing improved functionality, beauty, and ecological and environmental features that benefit both human and non-human species, while advancing knowledge to improve city investments in building out green roofs in the city.

Among the topics you will explore in this course are clinical encounters, citizenship and the pharmaceuticalization of health, racialized medicine and pain management, the commodification of bodies through organ transplantation, structural violence and social suffering.

Discover materialist theories that examine the place of race and racism in social systems of expropriation and exploitation–especially capitalism, slavery, colonialism, and neo-imperialism.

This second-level coding class explores concepts of big data, algorithm credibility and accountability, and computer mediated social interaction through a hands-on experience building a world of autonomous ‘intelligent’ agents.

After examining the drafting and ratification of the Constitution in the late 1780s, this course uses a close reading of significant Supreme Court decisions to examine the Constitution’s major doctrines and the Supreme Court’s interpretation of those doctrines.

Examine different theories and empirical evidence, learning how narrow identity can affect living standard and economic development, and move individuals and communities to see violence as a tool to resolve their differences.

Learn American history through the perspectives of African Americans who recorded their observations and expressed their opinions in autobiographical narratives, speeches, articles, poetry, and literature.

Uncover the nature of human emotion in terms of its physiological underpinnings, variations associated with gender, culture and psychopathology, and the role emotion plays in interpersonal interactions, personality, cognition, decision-making, and human development across the lifespan.

Experience a wide variety of music, dance, and theater performances and art exhibits in New York City as well as on-campus presentations by guest artists.

Read, discuss, and respond in writing to a multiplicity of queer texts, from foundational works of queer theory to contemporary fiction, essays and poetry.

Study ways to perform meaningfully, powerfully and truthfully during this hybrid studio-seminar course that functions as a movement-based, multimedia, living art workshop.

This course explores a wide range of music technologies from historical, philosophical, and practical hands-on perspectives with the goal of inspiring students’ critical and creative understanding of music. Music technologies are broadly defined as any tools for playing music (whether for composing,...

This course links urban ecology and urban design through a civic engagement project with partners building, designing, and managing green roofs in NYC. Green roofs are examples of green infrastructure, often seen by policy makers and community members as a way to increase biodiversity in cities, mit...

Required text: A K Sen (2002, Penguin) Identity and Violence This is multidisciplinary course exploring the links between identity and violence from two different perspectives. The first part examines some key empirical studies that view identity as inborn characteristic of persons and its conseque...

This course explores the relevance and complexity of emotions from both a psychological, experiential, and neuroscience perspective. Emotions are at the center of human experience, a fundamental part of communication and evolution that underpin every aspect of our subjective and social worlds. In bo...

In this course students attend a variety of music, dance, and theater performances, gallery exhibits, and public art installations in New York City as well as presentations by guest artists. Students choose 7 events/exhibits from the course menu and share their reviews in an online forum. Lang Colle...

WRITING THE ESSAY I: THE STORIES WE TELL OURSELVES. This first-year writing seminar examines the theory and practice of creative nonfiction, focusing on the memoir and the personal essay. Students will learn how to translate personal experience into effective pieces of writing. We will study the tec...