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Spring 2010
- Cross-Cultural and Community-based Film
- Museums and Memorials in the City
- New York City, Modernism, and the Origins of Cool
- Work/Ethics: Frameworks for Observing People at Work
Spring 2009
- Art, Space, and the City
- Imagining New York City
- New York City, Modernism, and the Origins of Cool
- Work/Ethics: Frameworks for Observing People at Work
Fall 2009
- Explorations in the Urban Outback
- New York City, Modernism, and the Origins of Cool
- Space, Place, and Identity in NYC
- Work/Ethics: Frameworks for Observing People at Work
Spring 2008
- Cinema and the City
- Fieldwork in New York
- Revolutions: Contemporary Art in New York
- Street Smarts: Learning to Read the City
Fall 2008
- Covering the Other: A Course in Cross-Cultural and Community-based Film
- Explorations in the Urban Outback
- New York City, Modernism, and the Origins of Cool
- Work/Ethics: Frameworks for Observing People at Work
Spring 2007
- Cinema and the City
- Fieldwork in New York
- Revolutions: Contemporary Art in New York
- Street Smarts: Learning to Read the City
Fall 2007
Fall 2006
Fall 2005
Explorations in the Urban Outback WNY308
Instructor: Margaret Mittelbach
Authors Michael Crewdson and Margaret Mittelbach will lead students in field research in the city's natural and unnatural history. Fieldwork will include visits to a decommissioned airport, an urban wildlife refuge, the American Museum of Natural History, Freshkills Landfill, Central Park, and other wild places. Special attention will be given to Frederick Law Olmstead’s creation of “natural” landscapes in Prospect Park and Central Park. The class will also have discussions with museum curators, pigeon racers, the Jamaica Bay keeper, geologists, biologists, invasive species hunters, artists, and more. Assignments will include field journals and a research-based project.