Courses
Urban Studies Classes at Yale, 2009-2010
Urban Studies is a multidisciplinary subject. The classes are sorted here into the categories of architecture and design, cultural landscape and the built environment, ecology and the environment, history of cities, planning and development, politics and public policy, representations of the city, and social theory. Within each category, courses are listed alphabetically by course number. This list uses the same notation as the Yale College Programs of Study.
This guide does not attempt to list the many courses that may supply essential background or illuminating context for the understanding of cities. Information about such courses – from introductory economics to African American history to classes on migrations or unions – can be found at the Yale Online Course Information Web site, www.yale.edu/courseinfo. Students may consult their faculty advisor or a member of the Urban Studies Committee for additional guidance.
Architecture and Design
ARCH 003b
Making an American Architecture
Turner Brooks
TTh 9.00-10.15, 1 HTBA
Fr sem
Study of architecture from the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. Focus on the work of Frank Furness, H.H. Richardson, Louis Sullivan, early Frank Lloyd Wright, McKim, Mead, and White, and other exponents of the Shingle Style. A series of field trips. Enrollment limited to freshmen. Preregistration required.
ARCH 152a
Introduction to Spatial Language in Design
Kent Bloomer
T 1.30-3.20
Introduction to properties of design, especially architectural design, that can communicate such cultural ideas as memories, imaginations, social and mythic hierarchies, and peculiarities of location.
ARCH 345b
Civic Art: Introduction to Urban Design
Elihu Rubin, Andrei Harwell
MW 9:25-10:15, 1 HTBA
Hu
Introduction to the history, analysis, and design of the urban landscape. Principles, processes, and contemporary theories of urban design; relationships between individual buildings, groups of buildings, and their larger physical and cultural contexts. Case studies from New Haven and other world cities.
ARCH 495a
Senior Research Colloquium for Urban Studies
Karla Britton
TTh 11:35-12:50, 2 HTBA
Development of frameworks and urban strategies for senior projects and/or papers through identification and elaboration of a research topic that synthesizes the interdisciplinary course work of the urban studies curriculum with individual interests. Requirements include proposal drafts, case study research, analyses, and graphic illustrations.
HSAR 238a/ ARCG 238a/ NELC 107a
Buried Cities: Thera, Pompeii, and Herculaneum
Karen Foster
MW 2.30-3.45
Hu
Study of three ancient cities buried by volcanic eruptions--Thera in c. 1530 B.C. and Pompeii and Herculaneum in A.D. 79--with emphasis on their architecture, wall paintings, and small finds in cultural and historical context.
HSAR 252a/ CLCV 175a/ ARCG 252a
Roman Architecture
Diana Kleiner
TTh 9-10:15
Hu
The great buildings and engineering marvels of Rome and its empire. Study of city planning and individual monuments and their decoration, including mural painting. Emphasis on developments in Rome, Pompeii, and central Italy; survey of architecture in the provinces.
HSAR 383a/ SAST 256a
Temple Towns of South Asia
Tamara Sears
MW 2.30-3.45
Hu
Survey of the history, forms, symbolisms, amd meanings of South Asian temple architecture. Focus on Hindu structures, with some examination of Buddhist and Jain buildings.
HUMS 417a/ HSAR 420a
Monuments of Naples: City and Self
Mia Genoni
Th 2.30-4.30
Hu
Study of architectural and sculptural monuments erected in Naples and Campania during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The effects of changes in both rulers and cultural traditions over time. The structure of monuments; interactions with other monuments and the built environment; issues of patronage; the construction of personal and social identity.
HUMS 436b/ FREN 308b
Age of Cathedrals
R. Howard Bloch
T 3.30-5.20
Hu
Study of the culture and monuments of the High Middle Ages in France in their historical and art historical context. Works by Abelard, Suger, Rutebeuf, Saint Bernard, Joinville, and Thibaut de Champagne. Discussions of Gothic architecture, with a focus on Notre Dame de Paris, Saint Denis, Chartres, and Sainte-Chapelle amidst the urban, economic, intellectual, literary, and religions life of twelfth- and thirteenth-century Paris.
LITR 403b/ FILM 442b
The City in Literature and Film
Katerina Clark
TTh 1.00-2.15; screenings T 7 P.M.
Hu
Considerations of the architecture, town planning, and symbolic functions of various cities in Europe, Latin America, the United States, and East Asia. Discussion of the representation of these cities in literature and film. Works include older Soviet and Chinese films about Shanghai and contemporary films about Hong Kong and Beijing.
LITR 425b/ FILM 344b
Landscape, Film, Architecture
Richard Maxwell
MW 11.35-12.50
Hu
Movement through landscapes and cityscapes as a key to understanding them. Simulation of travel, using movie cameras and other visual-verbal means, as a way to expand historical, aesthetic, and sociological inquiries into how places are inhabited and experienced. Exploration of both real and imaginary places traversed in works by Edgar Allen Poe, Jules Verne, Cesar Aira, Georges Rodenbach, Patrick Keiller, Georges Perec, and Andrei Tarkovsky.
PLSC 250a/ ARCH 347a
Infrastructure: Politics and Design
Elihu Rubin
M 3.30-5.20
So
Infrastructures--the physical frameworks for human settlement, urbanization and social life, including networks for transportation, water energy, and communication. Current debates on infrastructure spending in the context of historical investments in the modern American city.
Cultural Landscape and the Built Environment
AMST 207a/ ARCH 340a
American Cultural Landscapes: An Introduction to the History of the Built Environment
Dolores Hayden
MW 10:30-11:20, 1 HTBA
WR, Hu, So
Introduction to land use, transportation, town planning, and vernacular building patterns in the United States. After a brief review of Native American and colonial settlement patterns, the first section of the course (1800-1920) deals with traditional towns and large cities, the second (1920-2000) with peripheral growth that has transformed downtowns and shaped diffuse metropolitan regions.
AMST 350b/ ARCH 350b
Suburbs and the Culture of Sprawl
Dolores Hayden
Th 9.25-11.15
Hu
An exploration of the shifting meanings of city, suburb, and countryside in the United States since 1921. Definition of sprawl as uncontrolled growth on metropolitan fringes, leading to the decline of older inner city neighborhoods and small town centers. Readings from history, geography, architecture, and literature.
AMST 381a/ ARCH 351a
Poets' Landscapes
Dolores Hayden
Th 1.30-3.20
Hu
Descriptions of American landscapes as a way to achieve resonance in poetry. Focus on domestic, public, urban, and rural landscapes in New England, Chicago and the Midwest, New York and New Jersey, and Los Angeles. Attention to poems from a national automotive landscape as well as narrative poems about cities.
ANTH 010b
Urban Culture, Space, and Power
Erik Harms
MW 11:35-12:50
So
Fr Sem
Urban environments as spatial landscapes infused with power relations. Anthropological perspectives are used to analyze spatial dimensions of cities and to understand how social life transforms, and is transformed by, the cities we live in. Enrollment limited to freshmen. Preregistration required.
ARCH 344a
Urban Life and Landscape
Elihu Rubin
T 1:30-3:20
Hu
The built environment examined as a text tool for constructing narratives of human activity, aspiration, and struggle. Methods of viewing the ordinary landscape of the twentieth-century American city: pulling apart its historical layers, examining social meanings, and observing its function today. Modes of inquiry include video, public presentations, field trips, photography, and writing.
HSAR 383a/ SAST 256a
Temple Towns of South Asia
Tamara Sears
MW 2.30-3.45
(For full listing see above under Architecture and Design)
HUMS 417a/ HSAR 420a
Monuments of Naples: City and Self
Mia Genoni
Th 2.30-4.30
(For full listing see above under Architecture and Design)
LITR 403b/ FILM 442b
The City in Literature and Film
Katerina Clark
TTh 1.00-2.15; screenings T 7.00 P.M.
(For full listing see above under Architecture and Design)
LITR 425b/ FILM 344b
Landscape, Film, Architecture
Richard Maxwell
MW 11.35-12.50
(For full listing see above under Architecture and Design)
Ecology and the Environment
ANTH 320a/ ARCG 320a
Mesopotamian Origins
Harvey Weiss
T 2.30-4.20
So
Analysis of the archaeological and paleoenvironmental data for rain-fed and irrigation agriculture settlement, subsistence, and politicoeconomic innovation in Mesopotamia, from sedentary agriculture villages to cities and states to early empire. Focus on combinations of dynamic social and environmental forces that drove these developments. Prerequisite: ANTH 150a or equivalent, or with permission of instructor.
ENVE 444a/ ENAS 444a
Management of Environmental Resources and Environmental Systems
Gideon Oron
TTh 1.00-2.15
Broad analysis of problems related to water resources and environmental issues. Management modeling that simultaneously considers engineering aspects, water quality, environmental characteristics, economic aspects, and community welfare. Decision-making tools for reaching a quantitatively optimal situation within a series of given limitations.
ENVE 445a/ ENAS 445a
Environmental Risk Assessment
Yehia Khalil
WF 4.00-5.15
Fundamentals and applications of probabilistic risk assessment and management in the context of environmental issues. Focus on developing and applying probabilistic and deterministic models to quantify potential risks of individual processes and support risk-based decisions that account for societal, environmental, and economic constraints. Case studies emphasize the importance of green energy sources, professional ethics, and public health and safety. Prerequisite: ENVE 120b or permission of instructor.
EVST 290a/ F&ES 290a
Geographic Information Systems
Charles Tomlin
Th 9.25-11.15
A practical introduction to the nature and use of geographic information systems (GIS) in environmental science and management. Applied techniques for the acquisition, creation, storage, management, visualization, animation, transformation, analysis, and synthesis of cartographic data in digital form.
EVST 398a
Energy, Climate, Law, and Policy
John Wargo
M 1.30-3.20
Overview of the legal norms governing patterns of energy use and associated adverse effects on climate stability, environmental quality, and human health. Focus on U.S. law and policy, with some consideration of relevant international treaties. Special attention to building efficiency and to land-use regulation and urban growth, particularly coastal prospecting and development.
F&ES 012a/ EVST 012a
Urban Ecology in New Haven
Gordon Geballe
TTh 9-10:15
Fr sem
CBL
Methods from ecosystem ecology, landscape ecology, and industrial ecology applied to questions of how cities work and how they can be more sustainable. Guest speakers, community projects, and field trips in New Haven. Application of theory to New Haven and to cities around the world. Enrollment limited to freshmen. Preregistration required.
G&G 100a
Natural Disasters
David Bercovici
MWF 11.35-12.25
Sc
Natural events and their impact on humanity and the built environment. Earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, landslides, coastal flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes, and meteoritic impacts. Hazard mitigation strategies. Consequences of global warming.
HIST 313Ja/ EVST 420a
Asian Environments and Frontiers
Peter Perdue
Th 2.30-4.30
WR, Hu
The impact of Asian farmers, merchants and states on the natural world. Focus on imperial China, with discussion of Japan, Southeast Asia, and Inner Asia in the early modern and modern periods. Themes include frontier conquest, land clearance, water conservancy, urban footprints, and relations between agrarian and nonagrarian peoples. Attention to environmental movements in Asia today.
PLSC 420a/ EVST 424a
Rivers: Nature and Politics
James Scott
W 3.30-5.30
So
The natural history of rivers and river systems and the politics surrounding the efforts of states to manage and engineer them.
History of Cities
AMST 190a/ HIST 112a
The Formation of Modern American Culture, 1876-1919
Jean-Christophe Agnew
TTh 11.35-12.50
Hu
CBL
An introduction to the cultural history of the United States from Reconstruction through the First World War, with special attention to the persistence of popular culture, the transformation of bourgeois culture, and the birth of mass culture during a period of rapid industrialization.
AMST 192b / ER&M 190b
Work and Daily Life in Global Capitalism
Michael Denning
TTh 1.00-2.15
WR, Hu
An introduction to the worlds of twentieth-century capitalism, from Ford to Sony and from Unilever to Microsoft, with particular attention to transformations in work and daily life. Topics include the metal-working cities and industrial plantations of the first decades of the century; the social and cultural upheavals of global depression and world war; the midcentury challenges of communism, social democracy, and decolonization; the rise of service economies and the shifts in women's work; the popular uprisings and cultural revolutions of the 1960s and 1970s; and the conflicts over globalization and neoliberalism in the last quarter century.
AMST 207a/ ARCH 340a
American Cultural Landscapes: An Introduction to the History of the Built Environment
Dolores Hayden
MW 10:30-11:20, 1 HTBA
WR, Hu, So
(For full listing see above under Cultural Landscape and the Built Environment)
AMST 275a/ ER&M 282a/ HIST 183a
Asian American History, 1800 to the Present
Mary Lui
MW 10.30-11.20, 1 HTBA
Hu
An introduction to the history of East, South, and Southeast Asian migrations and settlements to the United States from the late eighteenth century to the present. Major themes include labor migration, community formation, U.S. imperialism, legal exclusion, racial segregation, gender and sexuality, cultural representations, and political resistance.
AMST 300b/ ANTH 307b
Work in America
Kathryn Dudley
M 1.30-3.20
So
The changing nature of work in America from the post-World War II period to the present. Classic and recent ethnographic studies of various kinds of work; historical shifts in technology and the U.S. occupational structure; the cultural implications of growing income inequality. Focus on ways in which race, class, gender, and citizenship shape the experience of work in a global economy.
AMST 350b/ ARCH 350b
Suburbs and the Culture of Sprawl
Dolores Hayden
Th 9.25-11.15
(For full listing see above under Cultural Landscape and the Built Environment)
AMST 457b/ HIST 113Jb
Cultural Capital: New York in the Twentieth Century
Jean-Christophe Agnew
T 1.30-3.20
Hu
An interdisciplinary study of New York City as a global cultural capital in the twentieth century. Social, political, and economic forces shaping the principal institutions of the city's patrician, popular, and mass cultures. The formation of identifiably "New York" styles in the arts, architecture, photography, literature, and film. the changing geography of cultural creation, reproduction, and distribution in the city.
ANTH 221a/MMES 411a
Middle East Society and Culture
Narges Erami
TTh 1.00-2.15
So
Introduction to ethnographic and historical works on the Middle East. Focus on relationships between sociocultural practices and experiences of living in the region. Themes include religion, nationalism, colonialism, Orientalism, kinship, media, informal networks, subjectivity, popular culture, the city, law, education, and gender and sexuality.
ANTH 320a/ ARCG 320a
Mesopotamian Origins
Harvey Weiss
T 2.30-4.20
(For full listing see above under Ecology and the Environment)
CLCV 206a/ HIST 217a
Introduction to Roman History: The Republic
Celia Schultz
MW 1:00-2:15
Hu
The development of Rome from a small village in the archaic period to the head of an empire by the death of Caesar in 44 B.C. Readings from primary sources with emphasis on how the ancients perceived and wrote history, as well as engagement with epigraphic and archaeological material.
EAST 442b/ HIST 314Jb
Urbanization in China, 1850-2010
Toby Lincoln
F 1.30-3.20
WR, Hu
The development of Chinese cities in the modern era. The impact of war and revolution; the explosive growth of cities; China's entry into the globalized landscape of the twenty-first century.
HIST 002b/ AMST 010b/ RLST 010b
The Rise of Religion in Modern America
Jon Butler
MW 1.00-2.15
Fr sem
WR, Hu
The survival and prosperity of religion in America from the 1870s to 2000. The relationship of religion to urbanization, industrialization, and American corporate life; efforts to realign religion to meet conditions of modernity; and ways that pluralism, gender equality, race, class, and expanding debates about values and culture challenged religion even as they expanded its influence in unexpected ways. Enrollment limited to freshmen. Preregistration required.
HIST 123Ja
History of the Sunbelt
Micaela Larkin
W 3.30-5.20
Hu
The ascendancy of the Sunbelt and conservatism in American politics. Suburbanization, economic development, and racial politics in the South and the Southwest after World War II. Political conservatism, civil rights, the Cold War, religion, immigration, and labor struggles. Prominent Sunbelt politicians, including Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, Strom Thurmond, George Wallace, Richard Nixon, the Bush family, and Bill and Hillary Clinton.
HIST 126Jb
Murder and Mayhem in Old New York
Mary Lui
W 1.30-3.20
Hu
Spectacular episodes of crime and violence in New York Ciy from the colonial period to the end of the Victorian and Progressive eras. Themes of race, class, gender, and sexuality; the place of violence in the making of the modern American metropolis.
HIST 131a/ AMST 131a
U.S. Political and Social History, 1900-1945
Glenda Gilmore
TTh 11.35-12.50
Hu
The social, political, and economic changes that transformed American society from the turn of the twentieth century through World War II.
HIST 234b/ HSHM 235b
Epidemics and Society in the West since 1600
Frank Snowden
TTh 10.30-11.20, 1 HTBA
Hu
The impact of epidemic diseases such as bubonic plague, cholera, malaria, and AIDS on society, public health, and the medical profession in comparative and international perspective. Popular culture and mass hysteria, the mortality revolution, urban renewal and rebuilding, sanitation, the germ theory of disease, the emergence of scientific medicine, and debates over the biomedical model of disease.
HIST 255Jb
London and Modernity, 1880 to the Present
Becky Conekin
Th 1.30-3.20
WR, Hu
Aspects of modernity and the changing character of London as a metropolitan center from the late nineteenth century to the present. Social and economic development of the city, urban cultures, historical geography, sexuality, and the imperial and postimperial metropolis.
HIST 272Ja
Mapping the World
Catherine Dunlop
M 1.30-3.20
WR, Hu
Introduction to the art and science of cartography, with a focus on historical connections between map making and power in Europe. Topics include the role of maps in European state formation, maritime exploration, colonial encounters, and urban planning. Study of recent works of map history and theory as well as primary sources from Sterling Memorial Library's Map Room.
HIST 275a
France, 1789-1919
John Merriman
MW 10.30-11.20, 1 HTBA
Hu
Dimensions of political, social and economic change in France during its most turbulent period. The causes and impact of the revolutions of 1789, 1830, 1848, and 1871; demographic change and large-scale industrialization; shifting political elites, republican and socialist alternatives to monarchy, and urbanization.
HIST 313Ja/ EVST 420a
Asian Environments and Frontiers
Peter Perdue
Th 2.30-4.30
(For full listing see above under Ecology and the Environment)
HSAR 238a/ ARCG 238a/ NELC 107a
Buried Cities: Thera, Pompeii, and Herculaneum
Karen Foster
MW 2.30-3.45
(For full listing see above under Architecture and Design)
HSAR 252a/ CLCV 175a/ ARCG 252a
Roman Architecture
Diana Kleiner
TTh 9-10:15
(For full listing see above under Architecture and Design)
HUMS 313a/ GMST 323a/ HIST 245Ja
The Weimar Republic
Emily Levine
MW 4.00-5.15
Hu
The origins, rise, and fall of Germany's first democratic experiment between 1919 and 1933 as a paradigmatic example of modernity. Topics include the relationship between culture and politics, social and political reform, the "New Woman," anti-Semitism, urban culture, and Americanization. Sources from literature, criticism, theater, architecture, fine arts, and film.
HSAR 379a/ AFAM 112a
New York Mambo: Microcosm of Black Creativity
Robert Thompson
TTh 11:35-12:50
Hu
The rise, development, and philosophic achievement of the world of New York mambo and salsa. Emphasis on Palmieri, Cortijo, Roena, Harlow, and Colón. Examination of parallel traditions, e.g., New York Haitian art, Dominican merengue, reggae and rastas of Jamaican Brooklyn, and the New York school of Brazilian capoeira.
HSAR 383a/ SAST 256a
Temple Towns of South Asia
Tamara Sears
MW 2.30-3.45
(For full listing see above under Architecture and Design)
HUMS 376a/ ANTH 150a/ ARCG 100a/ NELC 100a
The Genesis and Collapse of Old World Civilizations
Harvey Weiss
TTh 11.35-12.50
Hu, So
The archaeology of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus Valley from early agriculture to class formation and the early cities and empires. How did these societies develop and why did they collapse? Earliest epics and contemporary ideologies, including the Bushes in Baghdad, examined in literature and film. Readings in translation.
HUMS 396b
The City of Rome
Virginia Jewiss
TTh 11:35-12:50
An interdisciplinary study of Rome from its legendary origins through its evolving presence at the crossroads of Europe and the world. Exploration of the city's rich interweaving of history, theology, literature, philosophy, and the arts in significant moments of Roman and world history.
HUMS 417a/ HSAR 420a
Monuments of Naples: City and Self
Mia Genoni
Th 2.30-4.30
(For full listing see above under Architecture and Design)
HUMS 436b/ FREN 308b
Age of Cathedrals
R. Howard Bloch
T 3.30-5.20
(For full listing see above under Architecture and Design)
LATN 411a
Early Rome: Aeneas to Romulus
Joseph Solodow
MW 9.00-10.15
L5
Hu
Investigation of how the Romans imagined the founding of their nation and their city, events to which they attached the highest importance yet about which they had little information. Careful reading of both prose and verse by Vergil, Livy, Ovid, and others. A bridge course between L4 and other L5 courses.
RLST 108b/ AMST 312b/ HIST 145b
Religion in Modern America, 1865-2000
Kathryn Lofton
W 9.25-11.15, 1 HTBA
American religious expansion from the Gilded Age to the late twentieth century. Religion's response to urbanization, industrialization, and the "new immigrations"; religion and science; the challenge of pluralism; religion in America's wars (hot and cold); religion and politics from 1960s radicalism to neoconservative evangelicalism; women's rise in leadership; New Age occultism.
RUSS 323b/ LITR 241b
City and Country in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
Molly Brunson
TTh 1.00-2.15
Hu
Tr
A study of the thematic, aesthetic, and historical significance of the city and the country in the nineteenth-century European novel. Topics include the idyll and urban development, social mobility, travel and transportation, landscape painting, and literary narrative and spatial organization. Analysis of novels by Dickens, Balzac, and Tolstoy, as well as historical documents, visual materials, and theoretical texts. Readings and discussions in English.
Planning and Development
PLSC 250a/ ARCH 347a
Infrastructure: Politics and Design
Elihu Rubin
M 3.30-5.20
(For full listing see above under Architecture and Design)
LITR 403b/ FILM 442b
The City in Literature and Film
Katerina Clark
TTh 1.00-2.15; screenings T 7 P.M.
(For full listing see above under Architecture and Design)
STCY 176b
Introduction to Study of the City
Alexander Garvin
T 6:45-9:15 pm
An examination of forces shaping American cities and strategies for dealing with them. Topics include housing, commercial development, parks, zoning, urban renewal, landmark preservation, new towns, and suburbs. The course includes games, simulated problems, fieldwork, lectures, and discussion.
Politics and Public Policy
ECON 402b
Economics of Education
Justine Hastings
TTh 1.00-2.15
So
Review of academic research in the economics of education. Measurement of student achievement, funding of public education, and school choice and school vouchers. Prerequisites: intermediate microeconomics or equivalent, calculus, and econometrics or a course in the STAT 101-106 sequence.
PLSC 216a/ AFAM 243a
African American Politics
Khalilah Brown-Dean
T 9.25-11.15
So
Historical and contemporary political experiences of African Americans in the United States. Traditional and nontraditional strategies for gaining political inclusion. Prerequisite: PLSC 113b or equivalent.
PLSC 228b
Perspectives on the City
Harry Wexler
M 5:30-7:20
So
Introduction to the range of disciplines and methods appropriate to exploring the character and evolution of cities. Each week a scholar from a different field discusses that discipline's approach and methodology in its study of urban life. Open to sophomores only.
PLSC 240b
Public Schools and Public Policy
John Bryan Starr
T 3:30-5:20
So
Exploration of policy options on controversial education issues. Case studies from both districts and states. Preference to students with training and experience in national, state, and local public policy.
PLSC 245a
Urban Politics and Policy
Cynthia Horan
Th 1:30-3:20
So
An examination of alternative approaches to urban politics and political economy. Application of theories to contemporary policy issues such as policing, metropolitan disparities, and inner-city revitalization.
PLSC 250a/ ARCH 347a
Infrastructure: Politics and Design
Elihu Rubin
M 3.30-5.20
(For full listing see above under Architecture and Design)
PLSC 252b
Crime and Punishment
Gregory Huber
MW 10.30-11.20, 1 HTBA
So
The theory and practice of crime and punishment in contemporary America from the standpoint of politics and political theory and in light of debates about empirical evidence, the politicization of crime, civil rights issues, abortion, psychiatry and the law, and arguments about punishments and prison reform.
PLSC 260a
Public Schools and Politics
John Bryan Starr
T 3:30-5:20
So
Investigation of how political decisions that affect public schools are made at local, state, and federal levels. Exploration of policy options on controversial education issues. Case studies from both districts and states. Preference to students with training and experience in national, state, and local politics.
PLSC 263a/ AFAM 421a/ ER&M 234a
Race and Ethnicity in American Politics
Khalilah Brown-Dean
T 1.30-3.20
So
Race and ethnicity in American politics. The social construction of race; intersections between race and gender; black, Latino, and Asian American public opinion and political participation; minority representation; the relationship among race, racism, and public policy; immigration and citizenship; state politics; the psychology of race politics; and the role of race in campaigns.
PLSC 264b
Big City Politics in America: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago
Cynthia Horan
Th 3:30-5:20
So
A theoretical and empirical examination of how globalization and responses to globalization are changing the politics of New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Topics include economic restructuring, government reorganization, transformations of urban space, immigration, racial conflicts, and grassroots mobilizations.
PLSC 277b
Politics and the New Media
Cynthia Farrar
M 1.30-3.20
So
A study of changes taking place in contemporary American journalism. The impact of these changes on government and political campaigns.
PLSC 280b
Poverty, Politics, and Policy in the American City
Cynthia Horan
W 1:30-3:20
So
Examination of how politics, especially local politics, informs the formulation and implementation of policies to address urban poverty. Alternative explanations for poverty and alternative government strategies; successful and unsuccessful interventions. Focus on efforts of local organizations and communities to improve their situations within the context of government actions.
PLSC 420a/ EVST 424a
Rivers: Nature and Politics
James Scott
W 3.30-5.30
So
(For full listing see above under Ecology and the Environment)
TPRP 150b
Examining Education
Jonathon Gillette
MW 2:30-3:45
Introduction to a number of ways to challenge and discipline thinking about educational issues. Topics are presented through a series of disciplinary lenses beginning with a historical perspective and moving to psychology, political science, and sociology. Examination of one particular topic--the role of race in education--from two different disciplinary vantage points, psychology and anthropology. A comparison between China and the United States illuminates the American system. Issues of reform are presented using a variety of interdisciplinary approaches.
TPRP 190a
Schools, Communities, and the Teacher
Jonathan Gillette
TTh 1:00-2:15
So
An introduction to the study of schooling in America. The cultural and historical context of schools, and major philosophies of education, discussed along with consideration of contemporary developments in schooling.
TPRP 199b
Teaching and Learning in Secondary Schools
Linda Cole-Taylor
T 1.30-3.20
So
A philosophical and practical forum in which prospective educators enact and evaluate their philosophy of education from the classroom. Expansion of a number of topics arising in TPRP 190a; exploration of specific challenges that face educators and students today. Prospective teachers work together in a Collaborative Teaching Lab to develop and teach formal lessons at a local high school.
WGSS 347a
Race and Sexual Politics in the Modern United States
Timothy Stewart-Winter
Th 3.30-5.20
Hu
Race and sexuality as major categories organizing life and politics in the twentieth century United States. Focus on the development of racial and sexual classification and on ways in which Americans have adopted, resisted, and transformed the normative meanings of these categories. Topics include the politics of respectability in communities of color; definitions of sexual health; reproductive and marital norms; the changing status of sex and marriage across the color line; sexual harassment and violence; HIV/AIDS; and the sexual politics of social movements both left and right.
Representations of the City
AFAM 411b/ AMST 426b/ ER&M 413b/ WGSS 411b
The Fiction of Imaginary or Imminent Futures
Hazel Carby
M 9.25-11.14
Hu
Consideration of the nature of utopian and dystopian ideas and the relation between early science fiction and the political project of colonization. Readings of speculative fiction and critical essays from the middle of the twentieth century to the present, including a survey of writing by African American authors.
AMST 457b/ HIST 113Jb
Cultural Capital: New York in the Twentieth Century
Jean-Christophe Agnew
T 1.30-3.20
(For full listing see above under History of Cities)
AMST 308b/ FILM 467b
The Films of Woody Allen
Michael Kerbel
F 1.30-3.20; screenings W 6.30-10.30 P.M.
Hu
Examination of the works of Woody Allen. Close analysis of his films, essays on the films, and stories by and interviews with Allen. His work in the contexts of film history and U.S. culture and society from the 1970s to the present. Includes screenings of two films per week.
AMST 381a/ ARCH 351a
Poets' Landscapes
Dolores Hayden
Th 1.30-3.20
(For full listing see above under Cultural Landscape and the Built Environment)
AMST 437a/ ER&M 411a
Recording Vernacular Musics
Michael Denning
TTh 1.00-2.15
Hu
Introduction to the cultural study of vernacular musics in the era of sound recording. The rise of the music industry from sheet music to MP3s. Ethnographic field recordings and twentieth-century revivals of folk musics; popular urban music cultures of ports and industrial cities; and global circulation of commercial vernacular musics from jazz, tango, and hula to salsa and hip-hop.
ARCH 344a
Urban Life and Landscape
Elihu Rubin
T 1:30-3:20
(For full listing see above under Cultural Landscape and the Built Environment)
ENGL 445a/ AFAM 437a/ AMST 420a
Ralph Ellison in Context
Robert Stepto
M 1.30-3.20
WR, Hu
The complete works of Ralph Ellison and related works (in various art forms) of his contemporaries, including Wright, Baldwin, Bearden, and Louis Armstrong.
FILM 333a/ HUMS 375a/ LITR 351a
Early Film Theory and Modernity
Francesco Casetti
MW 10.30-11.20, 1 HTBA
Hu
Introduction to film theory from its beginnings to c. 1930, including its emphasis on the spectator's experience. Ways in which early theory highlighted characteristics of modern life such as speed, economy, contingency, and excitation. The role of national identity in defining topics of theoretical research explored through comparison of American and European debates.
FILM 040a/ AFAM 040a
Spike Lee
Terri Francis
MW 1.00-2.15; screenings M 7.00 P.M.
Fr sem
Hu
Introduction to the study of film and issues in contemporary black culture through the study of Spike Lee's films and writings. Close analysis of Lee's style, sources, creative dilemmas, and collaborations, as well as the conversations he and his films generate. Topics include concepts of black leadership, cinematic reflexivity, early film history, race and racism, stereotypes, auterism, cinema of attractions, defining black cinema, and questions of audience and authenticity. Enrollment limited to freshmen. Preregistration required.
FILM 435b
Detection and the City in Film Noir and Fiction
Alan Trachtenberg
Th 3.30-5.20
Hu
Study of the themes of crime, detection, and the city in postwar American film noir and fiction. Focus on American films and related novels of the 1940s and 1950s in which cities, crime, and detective work figure prominently.
FREN 393a/ LITR 230a
Modernism and the Avant-Garde
Jean-Jacques Poucel
TTh 1.00-2.15
Hu
Tr
The praxis, politics and aesthetic of successive avant-gardes from a historical perspective. Shifting modes of media and representation, stylistic analysis, and theorizing the context of experiment. Emphasis on literature, with attention to painting, film, and performance. Cubism, Dada, surrealism, situationalists, and the Oulipo.
HSAR 379a/ AFAM 112a
New York Mambo: Microcosm of Black Creativity
Robert Thompson
TTh 11:35-12:50
(For full listing see above under History of Cities)
HUMS 396b
The City of Rome
Virginia Jewiss
TTh 1:00-2:15
(For full listing see above under History of Cities)
JAPN 260b/ LITR 252b
Imagining Space in Japanese Fiction and Film
Christopher Hill
TTh 1:00-2:15
Hu
Representations of space in modern fiction and selected films. Aesthetic forms as they establish social and psychological space; urbanization and wartime destruction, and rural transformations as they affect the representation of space. Writers and directors include Kawabata, Enchi, Oe, Murakami, and Miyazaki. No knowledge of Japanese required.
LITR 357a/ ENGL 321a/ HUMS 246a
Visual Culture in Literature, Drama, and Film
Edward Barnaby
Th 1.30-3.20
Hu
A discussion of texts that address the transformation of visual culture and the act of seeing in modern industrial society. The dynamics such texts reveal in relationships between individuals and mass culture, authenticity and commodity, theory and ideology. Questions of imperialism, rationalism, industrialism, voyeurism, tourism, and realism as inscribed in landscape, architecture, painting, photography, theater, and cinema.
LITR 403b/ FILM 442b
The City in Literature and Film
Katerina Clark
TTh 1.00-2.15; screenings T 7 P.M.
(For full listing see above under Architecture and Design)
LITR 410a
The Avant-Garde
Katerina Clark
TTh 1.00-2.15
Hu
Study of the principal movements in the avant-garde from the first half of the twentieth century, including futurism, Dada, expressionism, constructivism, and surrealism. Discussion of avant-garde works from a range of media and genres in the literary, visual, and performing arts. Definitions of the avant-garde and its relationship to postmodernism.
LITR 425b/ FILM 344b
Landscape, Film, Architecture
Richard Maxwell
MW 11.35-12.50
(For full listing see above under Architecture and Design)
RUSS 323b/ LITR 241b
City and Country in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
Molly Brunson
TTh 1.00-2.15
(For full listing see above under History of Cities)
Social Theory
AFST 344a/ ANTH 344a
South Africa: An Ethnographic Perspective
Adam Kuper
T 3.30-5.20
Review of attempts by anthropologists to define and understand key features of the new South Africa. Topics include bridewealth and polygamy, Christian churches, ethnic identities, the HIV/AIDS pandemic, migrant labor, social movements, witchcraft, and urban life. Attention to the relationship between politics and anthropology.
AMST 300b/ ANTH 307b
Work in America
Kathryn Dudley
M 1.30-3.20
(For full listing see above under History of Cities)
ANTH 010b
Urban Culture, Space, and Power
Erik Harms
MW 11:35-12:50
Fr Sem
(For full listing see above under Cultural Landscape and the Built Environment)
ANTH 221a/MMES 411a
Middle East Society and Culture
Narges Erami
TTh 1.00-2.15
(For full listing see above under History of Cities)
ANTH 244a
Modern Southeast Asia
Erik Harms
TTh 11.35-12.50
So
Introduction to the peoples and cultures of Southeast Asia, with special emphasis on the challenges of modernization, development, and globalization. Southeast Asian history, literature, atrs, belief systems, agriculture, industrialization and urbanization, politics, ecological challenges, and economic change.
ANTH 369b
Economic Anthropology
Enrique Mayer
Th 1.30-3.20
So
An introduction to understanding economic systems in other cultures and societies. How work and leisure are organized, who gets what and how, and how economic concerns tie into other aspects of social life. Major debates and controversies examined, and examples from different parts of the world presented. No prior background in economics or anthropology assumed.
EP&E 357a
Modernity and Beyond
Maurizio d'Entreves
T 3:30-5:20
(For full listing see above under History of Cities)
INTS 398a/ AFST 398a/ ER&M 398a
Race and Class in Comparative Perspective
Jeremy Seekings
T 2.30-4.20
So
The evolution and character of class stratification and racial inequalities in South Africa, Brazil, and the United States. Twentieth-century analyses of the three societies, including studies of caste and their critiques by Marxist theory. Contemporary issues such as urban inequalities, middle classes and underclasses, identity, and political mobilization.
PLSC 220b
Punishment, Politics, and Culture
Austin Sarat
M 1:30-3:20
(For full listing see above under Politics and Public Policy)
RLST 101a
World Religions in New Haven
Ludger Viefhues-Bailey
TTh 11.35-12.50
Hu
Introduction to the religions studied as "Buddhism," "Judaism," "Christianity," and "Afro-Cuban Religion," with a focus on the interaction between the global representation of these traditions and the local lived practice in New Haven. Thematic exploration of gender and sexuality in these traditions. Course work includes on-site visits, Internet research, and class presentations.
SOCY 041a
Sociology of Social Control and Criminal Justice
Philip Smith
WF 2.30-3.45
Fr sem
So
The criminal justice system from a sociological perspective. Transformations in social control arising with the onset of modernity. Topics include policing, courts, the law, and prisons; costs and benefits of contemporary solutions to the problem of social control; and the role of power and culture in shaping current policy and activity. Enrollment limited to freshmen. Preregistration required.
SOCY 115b
Contemporary American Society
Karl Ulrich Mayer, Ron Eyerman, Philip Gorski
TTh 10.30-11.20, 1 HTBA
So
The major demographics and central dynamics of contemporary U.S. society. Use of sociological theory to analyze social macrostructures and their historical change. Major fault lines in American society; how social structures shape social landscapes. Population and migration, social class, education and social mobility, gender, family and the life course, race, ethnicity and urban poverty, social movements and popular culture, and religion and community.
SOCY 166a
Method and Practice of Field Work
Elijah Anderson
M 1:30-3:20
WR, So
A practical introduction to the theoretical and methodological issues in qualitative sociology. Recommended preparation: SOCY 160a.
SOCY 228a
Norms and Deviance
Elijah Anderson
M 1.30-3.20
So
A sociological analysis of the origins, development, and reactions surrounding deviance in contemporary society. Group labeling, stigma, power, and competing notions of propriety.
SOCY 314a/ EP&E 335a
Social Inequality
Karl Ulrich Mayer
T 3:30-5:20
So
A study of the social and economic inequalities based on race, gender, and social class; such inequalities as a dimension of individual life chances and life aspirations as well as of the structure and organization of societies. Discussion of theoretical, political, empirical, and methodological issues.
SOCY 367b
Citizenship and Civic Engagement
Peter Stamatov
T 1.30-3.20
Citizenship as a complex phenomenon: an instrument of social closure, a determinant of social policies, a normative ideal in political philosophy, and a model for political participation. Meaning and forms of citizenship and civic engagement in historical and theoretical perspective. Debates on the decline of civic participation and on the emergence of a global civil society.
TPRP 190a
Schools, Communities, and the Teacher
Jonathan Gillette
TTh 1:00-2:15
(For full listing see above under Politics and Public Policy)
WGSS 347a
Race and Sexual Politics in the Modern United States
Timothy Stewart-Winter
Th 3.30-5.20
(For full listing see above under Politics and Policy)
Official Yale College course information is found at the Yale Online Course Information Web site, www.yale.edu/courseinfo.
