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Advanced Placement Credit The Faculty of Humanities and FACULTY OF Social Sciences rarely grants AP credit. However, a student who HUMANITIES AND has attained a grade of 5 in an AP course may petition the dean for permission to waive a core requirement and to substitute an SOCIAL SCIENCES appropriate elective course.

Independent Study Only juniors and seniors in good academic AIMS AND OBJECTIVES standing are eligible for independent study. Independent study may be taken for a maximum of three credits per semester. The student must obtain permission of both the instructor and the The Cooper Union is committed to the principle that an educa- dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. The major tion in the liberal arts provides the ethical, social and humanistic consideration in approving proposals for independent study is framework crucial to personal development and professional the educational value of the study project within the structure of excellence. Through their work in the humanities and social the degree requirements. The Faculty of Humanities and Social sciences, students gain a deeper awareness of the world in which Sciences insists on very high standards as a condition for approving they must live and act. They learn to think, write and speak clearly any independent study project. and effectively. Most significantly, an education in the liberal arts offers students the opportunity to become attentive to the social Minor Students who complete a minimum of 15 upper-division and humanistic implications of their professional work and to credits in a specific field of liberal arts may qualify for a minor in acquire the basis for a satisfying cultural and intellectual life. that field of Humanities and Social Sciences. Minors are offered and may be designated on student transcripts in the following four Curriculum All students take a four-semester core curriculum fields: American Studies, Art History, Literature, and History and of required courses in the humanities and social sciences. In Society. Additional information is available from the office of the addition, students in the School of Art take a required sequence dean of Humanities and Social Sciences. in art history. The core curriculum is a prerequisite to all elective offerings in Humanities and Social Sciences. During the third and fourth years, students have considerable latitude to explore ACADEMIC REGULATIONS the humanities and social sciences through elective courses. All Credits Unless otherwise noted, HSS courses with the prefixes students are expected to take core curriculum courses at The HUM and SS carry three credits and courses with the prefix HTA Cooper Union. carry two credits. Prerequisites The prerequisites for all courses with the prefixes Transfer Credit Transfer credits may be granted for courses HUM and SS are HSS1, 2, 3 and 4. HTA 1, 2 and 3 or HTA 101 with a grade of B or better upon review by the office of the dean and 102 are prerequisites for HTA electives. Exceptions may be of Humanities and Social Sciences to determine that the work granted by special permission of the dean. accomplished meets the Faculty’s requirements. Students may Grades At the end of every semester, each student receives a be required to provide evidence of work completed in the course: grade for his or her semester’s work in each subject. Grades, with syllabi, papers, etc. In rare circumstances, the freshman and their official significance, are as follows: sophomore requirements may be waived if an equivalent course of A Outstanding performance study has been satisfactorily completed elsewhere. Eligible credits B Very good performance should be transferred during a student’s first semester at The C Average performance Cooper Union. Interested students should make an appointment D Passing but unsatisfactory with the dean or the academic adviser of the Faculty of Human- F Failure to meet minimum requirements ities and Social Sciences during the first week of classes in the fall I Work of the course not completed and assignment of grade semester. and credit postponed. This designation will be given only in cases of illness (confirmed by authorized physician’s letter) or of other documented extraordinary circumstances beyond the student’s control, and only with the approval of the dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 2015–16 COURSE CATALOG 119

The deadline for removal of an I designation will be deter- Attendance Students are expected to attend all classes. No more mined by the instructor, but will not be later than six weeks after than the equivalent of one week of unexcused absences will the start of the spring semester for students who receive such a be permitted. In the event of absence a student should contact grade in the fall semester and not later than two weeks after the the instructor in advance. Students who miss more than the start of the fall semester for students who receive such a grade equivalent of one week of classes in any one course may receive a in the spring semester. If the I is not removed within the set time reduction of the final grade or, at the discretion of the instructor, limit, either by completing the work in the subject or by passing may be required to withdraw from the course. a reexamination, the I will automatically become an F unless the Lateness Students are expected to be punctual. Late students dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences extends may be refused entry to a class. Chronic, unexcused lateness may the time or the student withdraws from school. result in a reduction of the final grade or in failure. W Withdrawal (see below) WU Unauthorized withdrawal (see below) Academic Integrity The Faculty of Humanities and Social Indicators of plus (+) and minus (-) are used with the grades A, B, Sciences expects all students to demonstrate the highest levels of C and D. (The grade of A+ is, however, not given.) These indica- academic integrity. Violations of academic integrity have conse- tors are included in computing grade point averages. quences, including, but not limited to, failure for the course. Further information concerning the policy on academic integrity Change of Program is available from the dean’s office. Adding a Course A student is permitted to add a course only during the first week of a semester, during the drop/add pe- Student Behavior Students are expected to conduct themselves riod, and only with the adviser’s approval. in accordance with the guidelines in the “Code of Conduct” (see Adding a course after the drop/add period is not permitted page 30). even if the student has been attending the class. Dropping a Course A student may drop a course during the ACADEMIC ADVISING AND SUPPORT first week of the semester, during the drop/add period, with the Academic Advising In addition to the dean, an academic adviser adviser’s approval. is available in the office of Humanities and Social Sciences for A course dropped during the first week of the semester will consultation by students in all three schools. Students are also be deleted from the transcript. encouraged to seek the advice of individual faculty members Withdrawing from a Course A student anticipating inability about general curricular and scholarly matters. A course to continue an assigned program should immediately see his or instructor may not sign add/drop forms, determine transfer or AP her adviser. After the drop/add period a student may withdraw credits, or pre-approve courses to be taken elsewhere. Such from a course through the eighth week of the semester. It is the questions must be referred to the dean’s office. student’s responsibility to obtain the necessary permission from the adviser and to notify the instructor in order to withdraw from The Center for Writing The communication of ideas in written and a course. A grade of W will appear on the transcript. A student oral form is central to an education in the liberal arts. All humanities, who stops attending a course without permission of the adviser social sciences and art history courses include a substantial will receive a grade of WU. However, if the student is failing the writing requirement and additional requirements for presentations. course at the time of the unauthorized withdrawal, the instructor The Center for Writing offers feedback, support, and instruction in all is free to record a grade of F. areas of written and spoken communication. The Center is staffed A student is not permitted to drop or withdraw from a course by experienced teachers, writers and editors, most with advanced if doing so would impede satisfactory progress towards the degree. graduate degrees. The Center offers one-on-one and small group sessions; students may sign up for single appointments as needed or Assignments Students are required to complete all assignments may enroll for regularly scheduled ongoing sessions. Center associ- and examinations on time. In the case of schedule conflict or an ates provide feedback, work with students on issues of structure unavoidable delay in completing an assignment, the student should and argument and help all writers—regardless of level—to engage discuss the problem with his or her instructor. Failure to complete with their work more effectively. The Center also offers special support assignments on time may result in an F grade for the course. for non-native English speakers, students with learning difficulties, and students without a strong background in writing, as well as inten- sive support for students working on Fulbright and other grants. 120 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

COURSES Core Curriculum HSS 4 The Modern Context: Elective Courses Figures and Topics Courses in the Humanities, HSS I Freshman Seminar A study of an important figure or HUMANITIES Social Sciences, Art History A literature course concentrating on topic from the modern period whose and Foreign Languages poetry and drama. Selected texts from influence extends into contemporary The Faculty of Humanities and Social Prior to registration each semester, antiquity and the Renaissance are culture. The figures and subjects Sciences offers a varied and flexible students should consult the latest common to all sections, with works are chosen from a broad range of elective program that provides rigorous announcement of scheduled courses from other genres, periods and cultures disciplines (including literature, history, study while responding to the changing in the humanities, social sciences, chosen by individual instructors. The politics, technology and art history, needs of students. and art history. (Inquiries concerning course develops aesthetic appreciation among others). Through concentration courses in foreign languages should of literary texts and encourages a on a single figure or focused topic HUM 105 Fundamentals of Music be directed to Professor Sohnya range of critical responses. Through students are encouraged to develop A study of the elements and forms of Sayres, Academic Adviser for HSS, close reading and extended discussion a deep awareness of works of great music and consideration of how they during the first week of the fall students learn to articulate their significance and to understand them define the stylistic characteristics of semester.) Some courses listed below responses in written and spoken form. in the context of modernity. Guided the literature of music from the late may not be offered every year and new 3 credits independent writing projects and oral Renaissance to the present. There will courses may be added each semester. presentations give students HSS 2 Texts and Contexts: an appreciation for what constitutes be extensive use of recordings, as well Old Worlds and New research in the humanities and as attendance at concerts and recitals. A study of texts and topics from 1500 social sciences. Recent topics have 3 credits to 1800, with emphasis on literary included Beckett, humanitarianism, expression and cultural context. the tourist, and Borges. HUM 107 Creative Writing Topics include the formation of states, 3 credits Starting with exercises and word exploration, the encounter with the New May be repeated for Free Elective games, then moving to, e.g., the World, the crises in religious orthodoxy, credit in the Schools of Art and objective poem, collage and concrete the origins of modern science and the Engineering. May be repeated for poetry, metrics, translations. As well beginnings of political and economic Elective credit in the School of as writing, students are expected individualism. This semester develops Architecture, provided the minimum to read widely in poetry and fiction. both cultural and political understanding requirement of six elective credits Attendance at a poetry or prose reading through close reading, class discussion in Humanities and Social Sciences is is obligatory. Grade based on class and careful writing. fulfilled by elective-level courses. performance and portfolio of work. 3 credits In both cases, permission of the dean 3 credits of humanities and social sciences HSS 3 The Making of is required. HUM 129 Environmental Literature Modern Society In this class, we will look at ways of A study of the key political, social Note: The Center for Writing provides imagining and approaching the natural and intellectual developments of targeted support for HSS Core courses. environment through writing, ranging modern Europe in global context. This Associates are available to work on from travelogue to activism. Readings course is organized chronologically, all aspects of essay writing, including will include essays, poetry and fiction beginning with the Industrial and close reading, analysis, development by Wordsworth, Thoreau, Carson, French Revolutions. Students develop of ideas, planning and structure, Abbey and others. Topics for reading an understanding of the political writing in stages, arguments and and writing will center on such grammar and material bases of conclusions, and revision. Associates issues as encounters with nature, the present day by exploring the are also available to help students sustainability, species extinction and social origins of conservatism, prepare for presentations and public global warming. liberalism, feminism, imperialism and speaking in the HSS Core. Center 3 credits totalitarianism. In discussions and in associates can help you to organize lectures students learn to study and your thinking, to challenge yourself HUM 207 Music Cultures of to respond critically in written and and to create better, more engaged, the World spoken form to a variety of historical more interesting work through focused Examines music from a variety of documents and secondary texts. discussion and targeted writing work. musical cultures around the world, from Native American to Indonesian 3 credits Students from all writing backgrounds are encouraged to make use of the Gamelan music, including ethnic Center.Students may make one-time musical events in New York City. appointments or may choose to enroll 3 credits in ongoing sessions for a particular semester. Sessions tend to fill up quickly, and students are encouraged to make appointments in advance. Students working on specific written or spoken communication issues (ESL, learning differences, writing skills difficulties) are strongly encouraged to enroll in ongoing sessions early in the semester. FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 2015–16 COURSE CATALOG 121

HUM 208 Aristophanes gaming, and the men’s movement. We own, perform monologues and scenes achievement of Russia and, in its early Athenian Old Comedy is one of the will read several folk and fairy tales written by master playwrights and phase, the Soviet Union. timelessly funniest and widest-ranging from each of the major collections bring the work of their peers alive 3 credits forms of comedy every produced. of Western Europe, West Africa, the through in-class readings and a final In this course we will read, perform Middle East, South and East Asia. Our staged reading performance open to HUM 321 The Novel (selections), and examine four plays by investigation will be interdisciplinary, the Cooper Union community. This course concerns itself with Aristophanes, the greatest of ancient with our critical approach drawing 3 credits particular trends, moments, issues or comic playwrights: Frogs, Clouds, from literary, sociological-historical, movements in the history of the novel Birds, and Wasps, each named for the psychoanalytic, folklorist, feminist, and HUM 311 New Media as a literary form. Because of the characters assumed by its masked film studies. This course considers what makes nature and length of the material, any chorus. Aristophanes’ irreverent 3 credits media “new” and why those version of this course must be focused portrait of the philosopher Socrates in characteristics are relevant in on a particular set of issues, literary- Clouds will be weighed against Plato’s HUM 249 Homer and the contemporary society. We will consider historical phenomena or cultural more flattering, and ultimately more Tragic Vision how older media have been adapted concerns. The course will typically take influential version in the Apology, An in-depth introduction to Homer’s to incorporate new media technologies as its subject four to six works that which we will also read. Slides will be Iliad and to the major literary genre and strategies, how video games illuminate or ask interesting questions shown to recreate the stunning visual it spawned, Greek tragedy. The and the Internet have changed our about the topic at hand. Recent topics: environment of Periclean Athens which methodology throughout will be close expectations of media experiences, Joyce’s Ulysses; New York City literally and figuratively formed the reading, using comparative translations the impact of new media on artistic literature. backdrop to the original performances of select passages checked alongside practice, the important of new media 3 credits of the plays. This broadly based course the original Greek text, with the in contemporary cultural economy, and will encompass a little military and instructor’s guidance. This course related topics. HUM 323 Presence of Poetry political history, a little art history, is meant to “model” a particular 3 credits This will be a class in which the center a little social history, a little literary approach to the study of literature in of attention is the poem itself. We will criticism, and a lot of fun. translation. It presents an opportunity HUM 312 Islamic Aesthetics concentrate on modern English and 3 credits for interested but “Greekless” students This course is an introduction to American poetry. The common text will to experience some of the most Islamic aesthetics with emphasis on be The Norton Anthology of Modern HUM 230 Postmodernism important and influential works of the nature and development of the Poetry, 2nd edition, edited by Richard and Technology classical literature in a manner that arabesque and calligraphy as ornament Ellman and Robert O’Clair (Norton, This course will explore postmodern approximates as closely as possible in art and architecture. Lectures 1998), but students are encouraged theory and practice and its relationship the experience of those who do have will ask and attempt to answer the to look into other anthologies and to the problems and solutions posed by knowledge of ancient Greek. question of why a pragmatic and into such studies as those of William technology in contemporary society. 3 credits down-to-earth philosophy chose to Empson in Seven Types of Ambiguity 3 credits express itself in a most abstract visual and Martin Heidegger in Poetry, HUM 250 Shakespeare language, how much of the vocabulary Language, Thought. HUM 242 Greek Mythology A course devoted to understanding of that language was originally Arabic, 3 credits The course will concentrate not just on how the plays work, what characters and how much was inspired and/ the endlessly fascinating stories of the say and do, the imagery and thematics or acquired from the various lands HUM 325 Puppet, Automaton, Robot gods drawn from the classic sources, of Shakespeare’s dramas and conquered by Islam. Digital image Puppets, automata, and robots are toys but on a critical analysis of the the performance practices of the lectures will be accompanied by some or machines that look like us (or parts question: How do the gods fare Elizabethan and Jacobean era. Also to poetry, music, Qur’anic recitations and of us). This course will draw upon an throughout the course of western be addressed is the cultural milieu of film viewings. interdisciplinary range of materials— history? Periods to be focused on the plays—the historical, political and 3 credits from philosophy, the history of science, include the time of Homer, Hesiod and religious world they inhabit—in order psychoanalysis, drama, popular culture, the Homeric Hymns; the Archaic period to deepen our access to Shakespeare’s HUM 316 United States and art—to explore ways in which we (the time of the Lyric poets); the high language and to hear it with both his Cultural History can think about what we want from Classical period (the golden age of ears and our own. This course traces the development our “artificial life,” and how the Greek tragedy); the late Classical and 3 credits over time of “America” as place, idea, boundaries between living/non-living Hellenistic periods (the age of the nation and culture. It is concerned with require constant rethinking. great philosophers and their schools); HUM 306 Native America tracing the emergence and contours 3 credits the Augustan era of the Roman Empire An examination of Native American of a widely-shared, if indeterminate (the time of Virgil and Ovid); and world views against a background of and contested, sense of American HUM 327 The History of the Cinema the Renaissance. history. The stress will be on written identity and culture by studying A history of the motion picture from 3 credits literary texts drawn from oral cultures, several enduring forces and themes its origins until now, emphasizing including collections of traditional in its formation. These include the the evolution of the language of HUM 243 The Fairy Tale songs and stories, as well as encounters of Europeans and Indians, cinematic representation—in This course introduces students to the contemporary writers. In addition, we the institution of slavery, the West in feature, documentary, animated and main features of folk and fairy tales will watch videos and listen to music. myth and reality, modernization and experimental filmmaking. Canonical as well as with the developments of 3 credits metropolitan life and the United States works and the major figures of the such tales through history and across in global culture. silent and sound cinema are treated, cultures and geographies. As historical HUM 307 Playwriting and 3 credits including Griffith, Chaplin, Eisenstein, constructs, folk and fairy tales reveal Theater Practicum Vertov, Renoir, Welles, Deren, significant aspects of the cultures in This course will introduce students to HUM 319 Russian Art, Architecture Hitchcock and Godard. which they are created and recreated. two disciplines essential to creating and Literature 3 credits Thus, while our course focuses on theater: acting and playwriting. To Survey of Russian arts from 1703, the folk and fairy tales in their originary help guide the beginning of their founding of St. Petersburg, to 1924, the contexts, it will end by considering the practice in these disciplines, students death of Lenin. This course is a study work they perform in such diverse mod- will read and critique contemporary of the history and ideology underlying ern appropriations as Disney cartoons, and master works, write plays of their the remarkable literary and artistic 122 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

HUM 328 History of the Cinema: HUM 343 Decadence and Modernity disconfirmed? Do scientific theories HUM 377 General Linguistics 1895–1945 This course is concerned with major represent the true nature of the world, Survey of two major types of linguistic This course surveys the history of the issues in the transition from 19th or are they merely convenient tools study: diachronic or historical motion picture, along with some of to 20th century European culture, for making predictions and developing linguistics and synchronic or structural the discourses it inspired, from the focusing on the interaction of politics technology? Is scientific inquiry a linguistics. The course concludes with nickelodeon period through World and aesthetics. purely rational process? Is it influenced presentation of recent linguistic theory, War II, considering avant-garde, 3 credits by social and cultural factors? What with emphasis on cognitive grammar documentary and commercial films, makes science successful? and biolinguistics. with particular emphasis on the movie HUM 345 Readings in Aesthetics 3 credits 3 credits as urban entertainment, expression Key aesthetic concepts in relation of modernity and cult enthusiasm. to artistic practice and audience HUM 369 History of the Book HUM 379 Visual Culture Important figures include D.W. Griffith, reception. This course includes a An introduction to the creation, use An historical account of the developing Fritz Lang, Dziga Vertov, Carl Th. number of historical debates that and meaning of “the book” over its wealth and intensity of visual experience Dreyer, Leni Riefenstahl, Orson Welles, remain ongoing and unresolved, and it long history from the clay tablet to in the United States in the last century and Maya Deren. The transition concludes with contemporary attempts the digital download. Readings and and study of the circulation of images from silent to sound cinema and the to reestablish beauty and pleasure as discussions will bring together literary as a cultural sign system shaping class, surrealist theory of film spectatorship aesthetic categories. and cultural history, as well as aspects gender, race and sexual subjectivities. will be given particular attention. 3 credits of politics, art history and the history 3 credits 3 credits of technology. Topics will include the HUM 346 Western Theories of Art moves from oral to written HUM 381 Post-Colonial Studies HUM 329 The History of the Cinema: This course examines the variety and cultures,from the scroll to the codex, This course engages with the legacy 1945 to the Present development of Western theories and from public reading to reading as of colonialism in literature and theory. A history of the cinema from World of art from antiquity to the present, a private experience; the emergence Topics include the relationship between War II through the present day, with with special attention to theoretical of printers and publishers; the colonizer and colonized, independence, particular attention to the development constructs of the past century. Topics invention of the library; censorship and apartheid and immigration in novels of neo-realist, new wave and third- include connoisseurship and formalism; the spread of reading publics; the rise from South Asia, the Caribbean and world movements. Topics include the modernist criticism; iconology, of the novel and “popular reading”; the Africa. Works by Rudyard Kipling, E.M. impact of television, the influence of Marxism and the social history of comic book; the paperback; and the Forster, Aime Cesaire, Salman Rushdie, Pop Art and the development of digital art; feminism; psychoanalytic theory; movement through digital technologies Nadine Gordimer, Jhumpa Lahiri and technology. Alfred Hitchcock, Jean- structuralism and post-structuralism; to non-print books. Zadie Smith will be addressed. Luc Godard, and Andrei Tarkovsky are postmodern challenges to modernist 3 credits 3 credits among the major figures treated. theory; and museology and 3 credits institutional critique. HUM 373 Seminar in Humanities HUM 382 African-American 3 credits Seminar giving close attention to Literature HUM 331 Eros in Antiquity special topics in the humanities. Under this rubric, courses may address This course will study the theory and HUM 352 The Personal Essay The seminar may be repeated for a range of issues, periods, themes practice of love in the ancient world In this course we will study and discuss credit with the permission of the or questions in African-American and its legacy in the modern. Working essays in Philip Lopate, ed., The Art of dean of the Faculty of Humanities and literature. Specific topics and with primary textual sources, the the Personal Essay, and Social Sciences. descriptions will be detailed in the course will consider Plato’s erotic we will also write our own, on any Recent topic: Plato’s Republic. relevant course bulletin each time dialogues and writings from the Neo- topics we choose, on all manner of 3 credits the course is offered. Platonic tradition extending up to subjects—the daily round, pleasures 3 credits Shelley’s poetry as well as Ovid’s and pains, taking a walk, solitude, HUM 374 Contemporary Culture Amores and the Art of Love. These friendship, in short, our personal and Criticism HUM 383 Opera major texts will be supplemented with responses to any number of objects A survey of the cultural climate since This course will examine the history, examples of erotic poetry from ancient and situations, multiplying ourselves the 1950s, including the influence of materials and structures of opera, a Egypt, Mesopotamia, Archaic and in the process. works by such writers as Benjamin rich and complicated art that is both Classical Greece, and Rome, as well as 3 credits and Bakhtin and the concern with musical and theatrical. We will address works of visual art. contemporary life in terms of such topics as the origins of opera 3 credits HUM 356 Issues in fundamental shifts in community, in 17th-century Italy, the Baroque Contemporary Fiction representation, identity and power. style, the art of bel canto, opera HUM 333 The Age of Augustus Study of literary topics including 3 credits and politics, Wagner’s revolutionary Augustan Rome presents the only partic­ular genres, themes, sensibilities ideas, realism and impressionism serious ancient contender for and critical approaches. The focus of HUM 375 Critical Theory in music, experiments in tonality, comparison with the “Golden Age” of this course will change in individual This course begins with the post World and opera in English. Several works Periclean Athens. In all categories of semesters. War II generation of social thinkers and will be considered in detail. Classes art, architecture, and literature, the age 3 credits critics, such as Barthes, de Beauvoir, will combine lecture-discussion and of the first Roman emperor, Augustus Foucault, Adorno, Horkheimer, Lacan, in screenings of performance on DVDs. (27 BCE-14 CE), rivals that of high HUM 357 Philosophy of Science the development of what later became An interest in music is essential, but Classical Greece. The course thus What, exactly, is science? What is known of as the critical theory of no ability to read scores or play an combines the disciplines of history, the scientific inquiry and explanation, and culture. We then proceed to more instrument is required. visual arts, and literature, with the how might it differ from other forms of recent critics, each time taking our clues 3 credits heaviest emphasis on literature, to inquiry and explanation? In the course, from real life examples. This course arrive at a comprehensive picture of a we will investigate the nature and emphasizing learning how to “see” and relatively short, but disproportionately status of scientific knowledge. Along think in “cultural practices.” It offers consequential moment in the history of the way, we shall ask such questions a chance to have our understanding civilization. as: What are scientific theories? What extended into everyday life and its ways 3 credits relations obtain between scientific of making us cultural beings. theories and observed facts? How 3 credits are scientific theories confirmed or FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 2015–16 COURSE CATALOG 123

HUM 386 The Romantic Movement HUM 392 Ethics SOCIAL SCIENCES SS 318 Seminar in Social Science Beginning with an examination of The course considers real-world ethical Seminar giving close attention to Romantic aesthetic theory and its dilemmas in a philosophical context. SS 220 Environmentalism special topics in the social sciences. application to some of the major poems Throughout the course, students will in the Urban Context Recent topics have included of the period, the course will explore examine and critically evaluate a The recent work of environmental sustainability and the economy.The writing by Goethe, Blake, Wordsworth, variety of ethical theories with the aim activists and scholars has produced a seminar may be repeated for credit Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats. of gaining a fuller appreciation of the new urbanism in which the city form with the permission of the dean of Philosophical and critical readings will complexities of difficult or controversial and function is intimately connected the Faculty of Humanities and Social be drawn from Kant, Lessing, Burke, ethical situations. Particular emphasis with natural processes. This rethinking Sciences. Recent topics: sustainability; DeQuincey, Wollstonecraft and others. will be placed on questions concerning of the city has opened several new total war; human rights, law, and 3 credits the nature and importance of value, possibilities for looking at human- society; Cooper Union world forum. virtue, relationships, commitment, duty, environment interactions. In particular, 3 credits HUM 387 The Life and Death moral disagreement, moral skepticism, the everyday environment of the of Socrates and relativism. Student interest will city may be examined as a site for SS 320 Comparative Politics Socrates, the son of a humble determine the ethical situations that identifying the hidden geographies Comparing political systems is at stonemason, Sophroniskos, was one we explicitly discuss in key weeks of of raw materials, energy and waste least as old as Aristotle, whose library of the most remarkable, controversial the course. flows. This course looks at three contained more than 135 studies of and influential human beings who ever 3 credits central issues: (1) identification of the constitutions of the ancient world. This lived. Though he left behind no written material and ecological processes that course will compare contemporary testimonial of his peculiar, singular HUM 394 World Religions make possible city form and function political systems and consider some genius, we know quite a bit about him An introduction to the five major world possible; (2) interpretation of the of the main challenges they face: through the accounts and recollections religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, city as a constellation of economic forging a common identity and sense of of his contemporaries, critics and Christianity and Islam. The course institutions and social practices community; meeting social and economic followers, primary among them, Plato, considers ancient and contemporary that transform nature over different needs; and securing civil and political Xenophon and Aristophanes. Based religious practices as it examines faith temporal and spatial scales; and (3) the liberties and human rights. Recognizing almost exclusively on readings of the and belief, ritual, scripture and scriptural examination of the environmental and that political societies of today’s worlds major ancient texts, the course focuses interpretation, religious art, orthodoxy health impacts stemming from a city’s can differ dramatically, the course less on the philosophy of Socrates, and heresy, mysticism, and pilgrimage role in production and consumption. will begin by introducing concepts and as filtered through the great and not through a comparative lens. Focus is on Students will work on projects using approaches that make it possible to unbiased lens of his most famous origins, textual traditions and central the principles of ecological design in compare systems as different as those student, Plato, than on the man, his doctrines with further attention to the redevelopment of urban sites. of China and Great Britain. In addition physical demeanor, his way of life, his religion “on the ground” as a living 3 credits to the broader paradigms of system, loves, his friendships and especially and evolving phenomenon. structure and function, we will also his trial and death in 399 B.C.E. 3 credits SS 221 History of the Modern consider forms of political culture and 3 credits Middle East socialization, interest articulation and HUM 395 Hip Hop and Culture This course considers topics in Middle aggregation, party systems and policy­ HUM 389 Love in Western Art In this class, we will trace the roots Eastern history from the First World making. Several distinct systems will and Literature of rap music to West Africa rhythms, War to the present. We examine a be studied; these will be chosen not This course address the representation Jamaican sound systems, and oral century of political unrest that included only for their geographical, but also for of love in Western art, with specific expressive cultures in the American two world wars, colonialism, the their political diversity, representing attention to the body, gender, and South; analyze some of the most Arab-Israeli conflict, the rise of first-world nations such as the United identity. The course will be grounded influential and iconic rap recordings authoritarian state structures, the States, Britain and France, as well as across two crucial poles: the so-called across the decades; study the Iranian Islamic revolution, and the post-communist and post-colonial states Greek revolution as a founding moment techniques and technologies that are American war on terror. such as Russia, China and Nigeria. in the West, with its idea of Eros and used to create DJ-based music; consider 3 credits 3 credits the ideally beautiful body, and the rise other pillars of hip hop culture of the individual in the Renaissance/ (e.g. graffiti and break dancing); and SS 305 Leonardo, Scientist SS 321 The American Presidency Baroque period, with its concepts of examine the controversies that swirl and Engineer The nature and sources of the power subjectivity, self and vision (including around hip hop culture and rap music. This course uses the life and work of of the American presidency, the Shakespeare’s provocative formulation 3 credits Leonardo da Vinci (1453–1519) to explore ways in which it is wielded and the of “a perjured eye.” Readings science, medicine, and engineering in Constitutional restraints upon will include Plato’s Symposium, poetry HUM 99 Independent Study Renaissance Europe. We will look at the its exercise. in the troubadour and Petrarchan (Humanities) social and economic life of the era and 3 credits traditions, Ficino and the Neoplatonists, 3 credits examine the institutions and influences Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley, that served Leonardo’s imagination, his SS 323 Politics and Collective Austen, Foucault, Derrida, Anne Carson inventiveness, and his arts. Memory and others. 3 credits The political uses of collective memory 3 credits can range from defining national and SS 308 Public Policy in social identities to shaping public Contemporary America opinion. In exploring the interactions Issues such as conservation, between memory and politics, this environmental law and policy, mass course will focus on the nature transportation, transfer of development and forms of collective memory, its rights, incentive zoning and historic development and reconstruction preservation, beginning with an and its relationship to structures of introduction to and general analysis authority. Emphasis will be placed on of the policy process. examples from recent political history. 3 credits 3 credits 124 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

SS 333 Politics of Ethnonational SS 345 The Raymond G. Brown SS 351 History of 20th-Century SS 360 American Conflict Seminar Europe Intellectual History An examination of the movements for A seminar in the social sciences on a A study of the dramatic ruptures of A study of major works in intellectual national liberation and independence topic central to the interests of the late Europe’s 20th century, haunted by and literary history written from that have become an increasingly Professor Raymond G. Brown. Recent imperialism, war and genocide. Topics 1780 to the present, focusing on important phenomenon in the second topics: the credit crisis. include the First World War; modernity changing notions of the self, character half of the 20th century. Among the 3 credits and modernism in interwar culture; and community and the ways these movements considered are those of fascism, National Socialism and the concepts have gained intellectual and Algeria, Nigeria, Cyprus, Bangladesh, SS 346 Urban Sociology: Holocaust; postwar displacements literary expression in the United States. Northern Ireland, Quebec, Lebanon Reading the City and migrations; decolonization, the 3 credits and the PLO. Focuses on the relationship between cold war and the postwar economic 3 credits the built environment and human miracle; 1968 and 1989 in both East SS 361 Urban Archaeology behavior, the design of public, urban and West; and the ongoing challenges An introduction to the new field of SS 334 Microeconomics spaces as a reflection of and impetus of integration and multiculturalism. urban archaeology. Topics include The relationship between economic for certain types of human interactions 3 credits how archaeologists work in cities; theory and public policy, focusing and reactions. Another interest of the special problems and rewards of on the central axioms of modern the course will be to onsider the SS 353 American Social History urban archaeology; and what can be economics in the light of recent notion of community as it plays out This course offers an introduction to learned about the development of problems in energy employment in the disciplines of sociology and the major themes in American Social particular cities through this field of and inflation. architecture—how they intersect, History from the Late Colonial Period study, including changes in subsistence 3 credits and how they are changing in our to World War Two. Over the last patterns, the use of urban space and postmodern, post-industrial terrain. few decades, social historians have the definition of ethnicity and gender. SS 335 Science and Technology in Some of the broad areas of interest introduced a broader cast of characters 3 credits the Long 18th Century (1687–1839) of urban sociologists will also into the making of American society; This course will examine the changing be considered. workers, immigrants, minorities and SS 362 Popular Culture roles of science and technology in the 3 credits native Americans are now seen more This course studies popular culture in West during the 18th and early 19th as active participants in the story of the a primarily 20th-century context. Using centuries. We will use a case-study SS 347 Macroeconomics United States rather than as passive both creative and theoretical texts, it approach to consider such topics as The development of modern victims or marginal figures. This course considers developments in contemporary color in theories (light and optics) and macroeconomic theory as it evolves examines the changing role of such popular culture including the rise of color in practice (painting, dyeing and in response to a succession of significant groups and considers how mass media and consumerism, the glassmaking); geology mineralogy and economic problems and crises. they may have changed the shape of elaboration of pop-cultural theory and the development of ceramic industries Emphasis on the recent Keynesian/ the dominant political culture. the trend toward multiculturalism. We in Europe; the invention, use (and monetarist debates and the role of 3 credits will sharpen our critical perspective on misuse) of the natural classifications; the Federal Reserve Bank. our cultural surroundings by questioning and automation and automatons: 3 credits SS 354 New York, 1820–1920: boundaries between the popular and Vaucanson’s duck, Jacquard’s loom, An Urban and Cultural History other cultural categories, notions of Babbage’s Difference Engine. SS 348 Global Cities A presentation of two “maps” to the creativity in the high and popular arts 3 credits Considers specific and general factors city. The first is a history of the built and the bases of our own preferences. that contribute to the rise of global environment, focusing on the changing 3 credits SS 337 American Foreign Policy cities—New York, London, Tokyo— systems of transportation, the In the 20th century, challenges to and how such cities impact other development of building forms and the SS 367 Acting Globally Western liberalism came from fascism city-types, existing and emerging. way the city’s population and functions This course introduces students to the and communism, while more recent This course examines the forces have been distributed in that space. developments sometimes called the challenges have come from terrorist underpinning globalization, The second historical map is made post-postmodern era of globalization, movements on the one hand and the including the shift from industrial up from people’s imaginative with a particular focus on the study European Union on the other. This to informational economies, the responses to those changes, especially of cultural impact. Our approach will course examines American foreign development of new technologies as seen entail both the macro level discussion policy since the collapse of communism and the emergence of new patterns in literature and visual iconography. of conditions and possibilities for in the context of these changing of immigration, in order to understand Among the areas singled out for effecting a decent global future and the challenges. the complexities of global processes special examination are the Bowery micro level of actual sites of responses 3 credits in urban terrains. and the Lower East Side, Central Park to (1) technology transfer; 3 credits and the “downtown” of amusement (2) cultural preservation, resistance, SS 342 Anthropology of Ritual and vice, wherever it happened to odernization and integration; and The study of ritual takes us to the heart SS 349 American Cities be at the time. (3) the new dialogues around of anthropological approaches to Examination of the crisis of urban 3 credits ecological sustainability. We study experience, performance, symbolism America seen through the lens of analytical texts, autobiographies, films and association. Once thought to be New York City. Individual topics will SS 358 Social History of Food and proposals on how to humanize the “vestigial” organs of archaic societies, include urban poverty, relocation of A study of the transformations in food New World Order. rituals are now seen as arenas through manufacturing and foreign competition, production and consumption, 1492 3 credits which social change may emerge but students will be encouraged to to the present. The course examines and are recognized to be present in examine closely a particular aspect of the passage of “new world” foods into all societies. Throughout the course New York City’s problems. Europe and Asia, the rise of commercial we will explore varying definitions of 3 credits agriculture in the colonies, especially ritual and its universal and particular sugar, the rise of national cuisines, the aspects, while surveying ethnographic advent of restaurant culture and the case studies from around the world. perils of fast and industrial food. 3 credits 3 credits FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 2015–16 COURSE CATALOG 125

SS 368 History of Modern Asia a lost war, a collapsed empire and a SS 381 Developmental Psychology SS 385 Science and This course explores the history of Asia failed revolution; the chaotic period of The course will follow the unfolding of Technology in the Modern World from the later imperial eras of China, rebellion and inflation until 1923; the human development from conception (1815 to the Present) Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia brief “Golden Twenties” of relative through adolescence by means of an This course will explore the social into the modern era. A wide range of stabilization and Neue Sachlichkeit array of analytic perspectives. We intellectual and economic relationships political, social, economic and cultural (New Sobriety) with its burst of social will examine and critique cognitive, of science and technology in the issues are explored. While emphasizing welfare initiatives, architectural psychoanalytic, information processing, modern West (i.e., after 1815). Using the distinctive nature of the region, and engineering innovations and and psychosocial models of brain/body/ modified case studies to provide the course will stress the wide efflorescence of art, music, theater mind growth. Reading assignments “snapshots,” students will learn to diversity and inter-connectedness and literature; and finally the crises will be from a textbook on child recognize changes to such factors of ideas, technologies and religions of economic depression and political development as well as primary as who participates, where work is through the region. polarization that culminated with Adolf sources, which will include academic conducted and the supports (social, 3 credits Hitler’s appointment as chancellor of writing, memoir, and fiction. We will financial, emotional) necessary to Germany in January 1933. also view educational and fictional individual and collective pursuits. SS 369 Psychoanalytic Theory 3 credits films, and may also include family 3 credits An introduction to forms of video chronicles. psychoanalytic thinking and theory SS 374 Contemporary Social 3 credits SS 386 The Early Modern making, with special attention paid to Psychology Atlantic World the ways in which different theorists Utilizing a variety of social SS 382 Game Theory This course examines the history conceptualize and invoke psychoanalysis psychological perspectives, general Since its introduction in 1943 by John of the Atlantic world from the mid- as a theory of mind, research tool, issues such as human nature, von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern, fifteenth century through the end of therapeutic process and utopian vision. socialization, attitude formation and the general theory of games has been the eighteenth century. Incorporating Readings include foundational texts change, verbal and non-verbal language, instrumental to our understanding the histories of Europe, North America, by Freud, Ferenczi and Klein, as well interpersonal behavior and the art of of various social behaviors. With South America, and Africa, the course as responses to classical theory by persuasion will be explored with interest key contributions of such renowned will explore social, cultural, economic, Horney, Winnicott, Lacan and others. in cross-cultural comparisons. The scholars as John Nash, Robert Arrow, and political developments of the early 3 credits core questions we will explore include: Thomas Schelling and John Harsanyi, modern era as men and women came What does it mean to be human? How among other Nobel Laureates, together to form the societies in the SS 371 Women and Men: is the self defined and determined? game theory has quickly gained a Americas. Topics will include European- Power and Politics What impact do social groups, culture large following among students of Amerindian relations, European-African An introduction to women’s and and the (built) environment have on economics, evolutionary biology and relations, the slave trade, gender gender studies, and to feminist theory. the development of the self and on our even political science. Though at structures, the development of an Students will examine the ways and everyday behavior? times seemingly abstract, game theory Atlantic economy, and the maturation the historical basis for construction of 3 credits has shown us that it has practical of colonial societies. gender and the interlocking of gender value with applications in firm-level 3 credits with other forms of hierarchy, including SS 378 Time, Travel and management and strategic decisions race, ethnicity, class and sexuality. Communication in making in military campaigns. The SS 387 The History of Readings include classic texts and Early Modern Europe course has two dimensions: the first the Family in America current scholarship in literature, film, This course is a history of early modern is to explore the theoretical basis This course explores the changing history and social science. European technology with a strong of games; the second is to consider construction and function of the family 3 credits focus on design technologies and the application of these concepts in across American history. We will material culture. It will cover the time economics and political science. examine how women and men, sons SS 372 Global Issues period extending approximately from 3 credits and daughters, experienced revolution, This course will examine current the Age of Exploration through the war, economic transformation, issues of global significance and their French Revolution (about 1500-1800). SS 384 Anthropology and the Other politics, sexuality, and religion. We implications for policy and decision- We will examine early modern ideas This course provides an introduction to will consider how the purposes making. Among the trends we will about three critical aspects of modern concepts in social-cultural anthropology. and experience of family life have consider are the tensions between life: time, communication and travel. Students will rethink such concepts as changed over time, as well as how resource competition and authority; (Interpretation of these themes will culture, race, ethnicity, nationalism, the ideologies or ideals about family the emergence of a global economy; be broad and may include not only transnationalism, gentrification, pressed against the grinding wheel the environment and sustainable carriages and bridges but also carriage power and memory. We will use these of history to shape events. Our development; demographic change; upholstery and passports; not only concepts to address the questions historical actors will include Native and the emergence of new security letters, newspapers and books but of human universals and the origins Americans, European colonists, issues, including societal and also songs and emblems; not only the of cultural differences. At the bases rebels and republicans, masters and environmental stress. shift from public to personal time but of these inquiries will be the question slaves, freedmen and immigrants, 3 credits also calendar reform.) In addition to of the “Other.” Who are the “Others” free-love communities, patriarchal readings (both primary and secondary) in culture or society? polygamists, Victorian lovers, Cold War SS 373 Modernity and Modernism: and discussions (in-class and online), 3 credits housewives, Baby Boomers, and our Culture and Society in the students will choose to study three own contemporaries. Weimar Republic artifacts that are relevant to the 3 credits This course explores the turbulent and themes of time, communication and innovative interwar years 1918-1933 travel, research them and present their in Weimar Germany, paying particular findings to the class. attention to cultural and social 3 credits politics. We will study the difficult establishment of the “republic that nobody wanted” in the wake of 126 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

SS 388 Comparative Cities: SS 393 Darwin and His Times SS 396 North American History and New York/Berlin, 1848-1948 This course uses the life of Charles Environmental History A comparative, team-taught urban Darwin (1809-1882) to examine the This course examines recent historical Theory of Art history seminar on Berlin and New York nature of scientific practices during the work that makes claims for the from 1848 to 1948. The course examines nineteenth century and their changing, “environment” being the major While contributing to the required the differing causes of urban growth often revolutionary, role in contemporary determinant in the development of the curriculum of students enrolled in the and the way it was accommodated in life. We will read closely Darwin’s North American continent. We will School of Art, courses in the History novel forms of urban space, highlighting writings on geology and evolutionary look at land use in pre-colonial times, of Art are also available to students the differences between a city that biology, and we will consider the spread of slave-based extensive in the other schools. became a capital of empire and interpretations and implications of agriculture in the South, wood lot one given over to commercial and “Darwinism.” Both readings and films management in the north, mid- All HTA courses are normally offered residential development, as well as will be assigned, western farming, western mining, the for two credits. In exceptional the very different ways that both cities 3 credits parameters of nineteenth century urban circumstances, students may petition experienced periods of rebellion growth as well as the consequences to take an HTA course for an additional and war. SS 394 American Radicalism of the arrival of the automobile. We credit. The student must get permission 3 credits This course will examine cultural will also look at the growth of the from both the instructor and the dean radicalism in American thought from environmental movement over the last of Humanities and SS 390 The Rise of the Modern City the Young Americans of the 1910s two centuries. Social Sciences. in the European Middle Ages and the New York Intellectuals 3 credits Explores how early medieval of the 1930s to the Beat poets of landscapes with castles and small the1950s and the Neo-Conservatives SS 397 History of Industrial Design CORE CURRICULUM villages became wider communities— of the 1970s. Through figures such as In tracing the history of industrial the first modern cities. Focuses on the Randolph Bourne, John Dewey, Meyer design from its emergence at the HTA 101, 102 Modern to major debates of the Middle Ages: the Schapiro, Lewis Mumford, C. Wright beginning of the Industrial Revolution Contemporary: An Introduction to tensions between country and city life; Mills and Dorothy Day, we will trace to the present, this will course will not Art History the role of the church; Scholasticism; the rise and fall of the American avant- only examine aesthetics (of furniture This two-semester art history core the debate between reason and garde, the quest for an indigenous and the decorative arts, typography, course, developed as part of the faith; the role of the French cathedral theory of culture, the social sources advertising, machinery, toys, etc.) but Foundation year for students in in medieval life; the lay reaction to of counterculture, and the shifting also the social and political forces the School of Art but open to all ecclesiastical control and the rise meanings of the concepts “mass that have shaped the many styles. students, is organized around a of communal Italian cities such as culture,” “consumer culture,” “kitsch,” Throughout, we will also demonstrate set of themes running through the Florence, Venice and Siena centered and highbrow/middlebrow/lowbrow. how movements in industrial design history of modernity from the 18th around the civic palace; and the early Among the questions we will address relate to parallel developments in century to the present. Within specific requirements for city beautification. We are: Can one be a political radical and the history of painting, sculpture and themes, significant works, figures will “visit” (virtually) the first hospital, a cultural conservative? A political architecture. and movements in art/design will be universities and prototypical housing. conservative and a cultural radical? 3 credits presented chronologically. Students Everyday life will be illustrated from the 3 credits will be able to identify and critically material remains of art and architecture SS 398 Gender Studies evaluate significant works, figures and through a cross section of different SS 395 Rome Study of the “first wave” of feminism, movements in art/design in the modern social environments. The course focuses on how the city including Mary Wollstonecraft period; be able to describe the main 3 credits of Rome changes through time and and Abigail Adams, through the social and political contexts for the the way its idea of eternity reflects achievement of suffrage in 1920 and changes in art/design over the last two SS 391 Introduction to on its culture and urban changes. then study of the more radical claims hundred years; and engage, in writing Mind and Brain Monumental Imperial Rome will be of “second wave” feminists in the and class discussion, with theoretical The goal of this is to introduce the compared to the recent results from 1970s, with Marxist and Freudian perspectives on art/design production. student to the basic principles excavations and research of the poorly analysis. This course will conclude The course will involve museum of psychology, to guide the student preserved archaic and Medieval with contemporary post-feminisms” visits. Grading will be based on class through the brain and to provide a Rome. Fifteenth-century Rome, with and changing gender relationships. participation, papers, and exams. basic understanding of the relationship its powerful popes, initiated a radical 3 credits 2 credits each semester between the brain and mind addressing urban transformation by attracting issues of consciousness. The first third the best architects and artists for the SS 99 Independent Study of the course will examine the brain next 300 years. With the monarchy of (Social Sciences) and underlying theories in psychology. the end of the 19th century and then 3 credits The majority Mussolini, the city undergoes radical of the course will be focused on changes once again. the relationship between the brain 3 credits and consciousness including self- awareness, theory of mind, deception, abstract reasoning, art, music, spatial abilities and language. Steeped in recent findings in both psychology and neuroscience, the goal of this class will be to provide a modern foundation in the mind and the brain. 3 credits FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 2015–16 COURSE CATALOG 127

ELECTIVES HTA 220 Japanese Art HTA 232 Is Painting Like Poetry? HTA 261 Special Topics in A chronological survey of Japanese Inspired by the famous dictum “ut Nineteenth-Century Art HTA 209 Medieval Art art from prehistoric times to the 17th pictura poesis” (literally, ‘as painting, Recent topics have included Charles and Architecture century, examining the interaction poetry,’ or more loosely, ‘poetry is Darwin’s writings, the “Darwin Investigates the art, architecture of the uniquely Japanese aesthetic like painting’) from Horace’s Art of effect,” and the relationship between and archaeology of medieval Europe sensibility with arts and cultural Poetry, the course examines the evolutionary theory and modern from Constantine (fourth century) to traditions transmitted from the Asian interconnections between literature art, and the history of the bather in approximately 1450, a period when mainland. Although the primary and the visual arts, whether as rivals European art, with particular attention different cultures clashed and mixed emphasis is on painting and sculpture, or as allies, from antiquity through to the work of Courbet, Manet, together to shape the eclectic Western attention is also paid to architecture, the present. A diverse group of topics Daumier, Cézanne and Seurat. medieval world that rose from Roman gardens, pottery, lacquerware and will be considered, within a specific 2 credits imperial ruins and ideals. This course woodblock prints. Museum visits are historical time frame and context, with will follow a chronological sequence, an integral part of the course. the goal of seeking a common ground HTA 263 African Art but use recent data from medieval 2 credits for a discourse with which to evaluate An introduction to the stylistic, excavations to challenge traditional art the nature, significance, and aesthetic conceptual, functional and historical historical statements. Early Christian, HTA 221 Buddhist Art in Asia parameters of each of the two modes aspects of sub-Saharan African Byzantine, Barbarian, Islamic, An historical survey of the of expression in the shared enterprise sculpture and architecture, the place of Romanesque and Gothic periods are visual culture of Buddhism in its of the representation of reality and/or these arts in the traditional context of examined. chronological, geographical, material the world of ideas. black African life and their relationship 2 credits and conceptual development from its 2 credits to the worldview of the African. origin in India, following the death of 2 credits HTA 210 The Art and Culture Siddartha in the fifth century B.C.E., HTA 233 History of Drawing of Fifteenth-Century Florence through various parts of the world, Our class will examine the changing HTA 264 Black Artists This course examines the unique such as South East Asia, Central Asia, character and purpose of drawings, of the Americas historical circumstances and artistic the Himalayan Mountain regions, and from prehistory and antiquity through Studies the influence of African art and personalities that brought about a East Asia up to contemporary society in the Italian Renaissance, Northern culture on black painters and sculptors new kind of art. Special focus will be and beyond Asia. The class introduces Europe, impressionism, Van Gogh, in North and South America. Symbols, placed on the role of the Medici family the basic conventions and traditional Cezanne, Picasso, and others from myths, religious rituals and deities as patrons. Painters, sculptors and visual strategies of Buddhist art in the modern and post-modern periods. will be explicated in terms of the architects to be considered include various media through focusing on Topics will include formal accounts, correspondence they develop between Masaccio, Fra Angelico, Ghirlandaio, selected examples of representative connoisseurship (particularly distant antiquity and the present, Botticelli, Ghiberti, Donatello, the images, objects and monuments controversies around Michelangelo allowing, in some cases, for new Pollaiuolo brothers, Brunelleschi from historical Buddhist art, while and Rembrandt’s drawings), technology creative possibilities. and Alberti. Monuments such as investigating Buddhism as both a (camera obscura, camera lucida), 2 credits Orsanmichele, the Baptistry, the philosophy and a religion that has been figuration and abstraction, and Cathedral and the Medici Palace will continuously reinterpreted. actual practice at a place like HTA 270 The Art of Greece be placed in their social context and 2 credits Cooper Union today. and Rome discussed in detail. 2 credits An introduction to the sculpture, 2 credits. HTA 222 Asian Painting painting, and architecture of ancient A chronological survey of Chinese and HTA 240 Issues in Greece and Rome with attention to the HTA 211 The Renaissance in Italy Japanese painting and an exploration Asian Contemporary Art impact of the classical imagination on An investigation of the art produced of the aesthetic and spiritual values In this course, students will build a the art of succeeding ages. during the 15th and 16th centuries in that shaped the arts of the brush in foundation in critical theory revolving 2 credits Italy, where a revival of classical the Far East. around issues of race, nationality, learning led to an unprecedented 2 credits sexuality and gender as they relate HTA 273 Topics in the artistic flowering. In painting, the to the formation of an artist’s History of Photography course deals with the period from HTA 231 History of Industrial Design identity, and how that identity in turn Writing by the critics, historians and Fra Angelico to Titian; in architecture, In tracing the history of industrial is reflected in the artist’s output. photographers that have influenced from Brunelleschi to Palladio; and in design from its emergence at the Attention will be paid to Asian creation and reception of photography sculpture, from Ghiberti to Michelangelo beginning of the Industrial Revolution contemporary artists working outside throughout its history. Issues include and Benvenuto Cellini. The course will to the present, this course will examine of their own cultures and to Asian- definitions and redefinitions of art, touch on such themes as the classical not only aesthetics (of furniture and American artists, in an attempt to documentary debates and revisionist ideal, town planning, country villas, the decorative arts, typography, analyze the role of the Asian diaspora canons and histories. fresco painting, patronage, the advertising, machinery, toys, etc.) but and its connection to contemporary Recent topic: Altered images. development of perspective, and the also the social and political forces art production in Asia proper. Special 2 credits rise of the portrait. that have shaped the many styles. focus will be paid to the contemporary 2 credits Throughout, we will also demonstrate art of India, HTA 274 History of Photography how movements in industrial design China, Korea and Japan, although other (1839–1965) relate to parallel developments in nations and regions will also A survey of the great artists and the history of painting, sculpture, be discussed. their work throughout the history and architecture. 2 credits of photography with emphasis on 2 credits the images that were made. The importance of key images is discussed. This historical period was one of constant technical innovation and the class studies the effect this had on the work of the individual photographers. 2 credits 128 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

HTA 275, 276 Twentieth-Century HTA 283 The “Genius” HTA 298 History of Graphic Design HTA 318 Pre-Columbian Art and Art History of the Baroque A study of the history of graphic design Architecture in Mesoamerica Considers the flourishing “isms” of This course examines the genius of work arising out of the important cultural, A survey of the arts and architecture the 20th century, as well as historical European Baroque art as distilled in political and social configurations in of the pre-Columbian civilizations of events, intellectual currents and the work of its greatest exemplars. Europe, Asia and the United States from Mexico and Central America from the conflicting aesthetic views, explored We will also address the ideology of the time of the industrial revolution to earliest times through the Spanish in relation to such enduring artists as the counter-reformation church, the the present day. Points of reference conquest. Visits to museums and Picasso, Matisse, Malevich, Kandinsky, emergence of Protestant capitalism include posters, publications and private collections are an integral part Miro, Klee, Dubuffet, Giacometti, and a pluralist, bourgeois society in the promotional pieces being drawn from of the course. Pollock, Smith, Calder and others. north, patronage and social identity, an unusual collection. 2 credits 2 credits each semester propaganda, religious faith, skepticism, 2 credits sexual identity and the family, all HTA 323, 333 Islamic HTA 277 Contemporary Art focused through the position of the HTA 300 Single-Artist Seminar Art and Architecture Survey of the development of artist in society. In no other period A course devoted entirely to the life An introduction to the evolution of contemporary art after Minimalism were body and spirit, sensual and and work of one important artist, Islamic aesthetics, history and philosophy and Pop Art of the 1960s. Chronological sublime, so closely intermeshed. Art selected anew from across the by examining samples of architectural treatment includes canonical texts of history resides precisely in the relation spectrum of world art each time it is monuments, painting, ceramics, critical theory and issues such as genre, between our present interest in these offered. The seminar is designed to metalwork’s and calligraphy, as well multiculturism and site specificity artists and the past conditions in which allow for an in-depth experience in the as literary texts, from the 12th century crucial to the current practice of art. they worked. discipline of art history that extends and the Mongol invasion to the Recent topics: German painting. 2 credits well beyond what is possible in period Reconquista and the fall of Granada in 2 credits survey courses. Recent topics: the15th century. The course traces the HTA 285: Single-Work Seminar Leonardo; Rembrandt; Degas. development of the truly multi-cultural HTA 282 Public Sculpture A seminar devoted entirely to a single 2 credits art of this turbulent period, from in New York City monument or work of art that had Central Asia through Iran and Iraq This course will examine trends that a particularly profound and wide HTA 313 Seminar in Art History and the Levant, to Egypt, the Maghrib, have informed the history of public resonance in the socio-political, A seminar based on a special topic and Spain. sculpture in New York City, including economic, and cultural milieu in which in the study of art history. The seminar 2 credits commemoration of historical events, it was created and whose range of may be repeated for credit with the artistic and civic education for the influence extended well beyond its permission of the dean of the Faculty HTA 324 Arts of the Islamic Book masses, natural history in the service historical time frame. The focused of Humanities and Social Sciences. This course looks at the elements that of the nation, and the cult of great men nature of the course material allows Recent topics: Picasso. contributed to the evolution of Islamic and women. We will also examine for both a breadth and a depth of 2 credits book illustration from the 10th century individual monuments such as Augustus analysis to a greater degree than is to the 17th century, such as materials, Saint-Gaudens’s Farragut Monument possible in other elective art history HTA 315 Mysteries of styles, patronage, administration, (1880), Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi’s courses. Topics have included Duccio’s Northern Renaissance Art choice of text and the relationship Statue of Liberty (1886), the sculptural Maestà, Van Eyck’s Ghent Altarpiece, This course examines some of the most between text and image, with special programs of Central Park, Prospect Park, and Chartres Cathedral. hauntingly beautiful and enigmatic works concentration on the Persian book. and Green-Wood Cemetery, the 2 credits in the history of art, from a period of 2 credits decorations of Rockefeller Center deep religiosity and aristocratic ideals, (including Paul Manship’s 1934 HTA 296 Synartesis emerging contrary middle-class values HTA 327 The New York Prometheus and Lee Lawrie’s 1937 A recurring seminar with a changing and exceptional artistic ambition and Art Collector Atlas), Isamu Noguchi’s News (1940) focus taught by Professor Dore Ashton. self-consciousness. We will begin with This course investigates the history of and the sculpture garden he created at 2 credits a solution for the still unsolved riddle art collecting as it unfolded in Manhattan his Long Island City studio, and Richard of the Ghent Altarpiece and the birth and the surrounding boroughs. Beginning Serra’s Tilted Arc (1978). Emphasis will HTA 297 History of Printmaking of modern painting in the north, move in colonial times with Governor Morris’ be placed on reading works or art as Explores the history of printmaking and through debates about disguised acquisition of 18th-century French primary texts; viewing sculpture, in its various processes from the 15th symbolism and new conceptions of the furniture and ending in the mid-20th local museums or in situ, will be a key century to the present with an eye to artwork in Robert Campin and Rogier century with the formation of such public component of the course. the unique contribution of this graphic van der Weyden, the crisis of modernity institutions as the Museum of Modern 2 credits art to the history of visual language in in Hieronymus Bosch and the emergence Art, the Whitney Museum of American both popular and fine art. While major of a new (sublime) order in the art of Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim printmakers (e.g., Durer, Rembrandt, Pieter Bruegel, among others. Museum, the course will focus on both Daumier, the Nabis, the German 2 credits the men and women instrumental in Expressionists, Jasper Johns) will be the establishment of these collections addressed, attention will also be given HTA 317 Art and Architecture and the specific objects they collected. to the practical and popular use of of Ancient Peru 2 credits prints through the centuries. Introduction to the ancient cultures 2 credits of Peru from about 3000 B.C.E. to the Spanish conquest, as seen in architecture, stone sculpture, ceramics, metalwork and textiles. 2 credits FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 2015–16 COURSE CATALOG 129

HTA 328 Dada and Surrealism HTA 335 Art and Architecture HTA 337 Russian Art and Culture Since their appearance early in the of the Ancient Near East The class will survey the history of 20th century, Dada and Surrealism From the temples of the land of Russian art, reaching back to its pre- have had a profound and lasting Sumer to the tower of Babylon, this modern origins. It will address Russian influence on the arts. This course course provides an overview of the arts and culture in their specific political explores the art and ideas of these two civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia and ideological context(s). Special movements within the social, political, (modern-day Iraq) and Iran, as well as attention will be paid to examining the intellectual and art historical context of surrounding regions, from the Neolithic interdisciplinary character (art, archi- the years 1914–1947. period to the 1st millennium B.C.E.— tecture, design, film and theater) of 2 credits some 10,000 years. We will study the Constructivism and Suprematism of the architecture and artifacts excavated early 20th century. The course will also HTA 329 Nineteenth-Century at major sites in the fertile crescent address the impact of the historical Printmaking including Jericho, Uruk, Ur, Nineveh (or revolutionary) avant-garde on The 19th century witnessed an and many others. In addition, we will contemporary art practices. Students explosion of imagery, in part led discuss major landmarks in the history will be required to prepare short in-class by the technical developments in of civilization such as the development presentation on a specific modern commercial printmaking and the of agriculture, the beginning of urban or contemporary artist, architect, or advent of photography. This course will settlement, the invention of writing, designer, who uses or used the construc­ survey the major themes of the period, and the discovery of metallurgy, and tivist vocabulary in his or her work, including the changing cityscape, the their impact on the manufacture of art and, as a final project, write a ten page iconography of peasants and local and artifacts and their iconography. research paper. landscapes, the influence of caricature 2 credits 2 credits and the popular press and the development of Japonism. Classes will HTA 336 Site-Specific Art HTA 340 The Artist in be based on the hands-on viewing of This course explores the history of Renaissance Italy original prints in the New York Public site-specific art, a term that emerged in This course will focus on artists working Library by artists including Eugene the 1960s to describe artworks created in the Italian peninsula between Delacroix, Edouard Manet, Charles in response to a place or a set of ca 1400 and ca 1600, with the goal of Meryon, Camille Pissarro, Mary Cassatt conditions. The focus will be the role learning how and why they created and James McNeill Whistler. of “site” in minimalism, land-art, post- the paintings, tapestries, sculpture, 2 credits minimalism, institutional critique, prints and decorative art that we now new genre public art, and contemporary think as “Renaissance.” In addition HTA 331 The Arts of China participatory and social practices. Each to studying materials, techniques This course is a chronological survey evolution of the term is also a critique and iconography, we shall consider of the arts of China from the pottery- of the site’s role in the previous moment: the important role of patronage, both making and jade-carving cultures the site in minimalism is complicated sacred and secular. of the Neolithic up to contemporary by feminist performance work; land-art 2 credits works of art. A brief discussion of is problematized by the post-minimalists historical events as well as background and institutional-critical artists working HTA 341 Body Politics in Art in Chinese philosophy, political primarily in the city. In the 1990s Since 1945 systems and religious practices will site-specificity also became a way to This elective will examine the multiple be presented in order to allow students critique the monumentality of public and dynamic ways in which art since to recontextualize selected works sculpture that claimed to represent the Second World War has constructed within their originating culture. The everyone: new-genre public art and understandings of the body. Over the course is designed to provide students community-based work comes out of course of the semester, we will meet with a foundation in visual literacy of artists’ struggle to make work that a strange and motley assortment of China, facilitate written expression responds to the social fabric of a site bodies: the diseased body, the heroic and familiarize them with New York and not simply to its physical location. body, the queer body, the abject body, City’s cultural institutions exhibiting We will read key historical and the body-as-machine. Not primarily Chinese art. theoretical texts closely, and student concerned with images of the human 2 credits presentations will be a major part of figure—although they will certainly the course. Material is organized make appearances from time to time— HTA 333 Islamic Art thematically and structured around the course will instead ask, “How does and Architecture field trips to art installations art think the body? See HTA 323 throughout New York City. 2 credits 2 credits HTA 334 Art and Architecture HTA 99 Independent Study (History/ of Islamic India Theory of Art) A chronological study from the 16th 2 credits century to the 19th century of the development of the art and architecture of the Mughals; and an examination of the Arab, Persian, Indian and European influences that shaped that culture. 2 credits 130 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART

FACULTY Proportional-Time Allison Leigh Faculty Postdoctoral Fellow in Art History Administration B.A., American University; Maren Stange Ph.D., Rutgers University William Germano Professor of Humanities Dean B.A., Radcliffe College; Natasha Marie Llorens M.A., Tufts University; Instructor in Art History Cynthia Hartling Ph.D., Boston University B.A., Simon’s Rock; Administrative Associate M.A., Bard College Visiting Distinguished Professors John Lundberg Sarah Lowengard Visiting distinguished professors Acting Co-Director, Center for Writing Associate Professor of Social Sciences in the Faculty of Humanities and A.B.,Washington University; Kit Nicholls Social Sciences have included: M.A., Ph.D., SUNY at Stony Brook Acting Co-Director, Center for Writing Diane Ackerman, André Sohnya Sayres Aciman,Stanley Aronowitz, David Elizabeth Monti Academic Adviser Garrow, David Harvey, Richard Howard, Assistant Professor of Art History Tamar Jacoby, Floyd Lapp, W.S. B.A., Bryn Mawr; Merwin, Derek Mahon, Marie Ponsot, M.A., Ph.D., New York University Full-Time Faculty Hillard Pouncey, Jim Sleeper and Alan Trachtenberg Sophie Muller Professors Instructor in History B.A., Lehman College William Germano Adjunct Faculty English Literature Jason Lee Oakes B.A., Columbia University; Haitham Abdullah Assistant Professor of Music Ph.D., Indiana University Instructor in Art History B.A., Texas A&M; B.F.A., University of Baghdad; Ph.D., Columbia University Anne Griffin M.A., M.F.A., City College of New York Political Science Harold Ramdass B.A., Wellesley College; Albert Appleton Assistant Professor of Humanities M.A, Ph.D., New York University Associate Professor of Social Sciences B.A., Baruch College; B.A., Gonzaga College; Ph.D., Princeton University Atina Grossmann J.D., Yale Law School History John Sarich B.A., CUNY; Marek Bartelik Assistant Professor of Economics Ph.D., Rutgers University Associate Professor of Art History B.A., University of Michigan; M.S., Columbia University; M.A., Ph.D., New School for Mary Stieber Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center Art History Social Research B.F.A., Carnegie Mellon; Raffaele Bedarida Gail Satler M.A., University of Pittsburgh; Assistant Professor of Art History Professor of Sociology M.A, Ph.D., Princeton University Laurea, Università degli Studi di Siena; B.A., Stony Brook University; Brian Swann Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center M.A., Queens College; Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center Humanities Benjamin Binstock B.A., M.A., Queens College, Assistant Professor of Art History Martha Schulman Cambridge University; B.A., M.A., University of California, Instructor in Humanities Ph.D., Princeton University Berkeley; A.B., University of Chicago; Ph.D., Columbia University M.F.A., Columbia University Associate Professors Gail Buckland Andrew Weinstein Peter Buckley Distinguished Professor in Assistant Professor of Art History History the History of Photography B.A., Brown University; B.A., Sussex University; B.A., University of Rochester M.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.A., Ph.D., SUNY at Stony Brook M.A., New York University; Gerardo del Cerro Santamaría Ph.D., New York University Sohnya Sayres Associate Professor of Social Sciences Humanities M.A., Ph.D., New School for Jerusha Westbury B.A., M.A.H., Ph.D., SUNY at Buffalo Social Research; Instructor in History B.A., Ph.D., Universidad Autónoma B.A., Bard College de Madrid; M.A., Royal Conservatory of Music, James Wylie Madrid Associate Professor of Humanities B.A., Boston University Nicholas D’Avella Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology B.A., Haverford; Ph.D., University of California, Davis Heidi King Instructor in Art History B. A., University of Geneva; M.A., Columbia University