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Statistics for Social Science — SOC4103.01

Instructor: Emily Waterman
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

In this course students will learn to use social science statistics to test their own research questions, while becoming more educated consumers of statistical analyses presented in research and news sources. Students will employ various inferential statistics techniques commonly used in social science, such as confidence intervals, t-tests, chi-square testing, correlation, ANOVA, and regression. Students will manage and analyze data using the Stata statistical software package.

Open Call — CUR2208.02

Instructor: Anne Thompson
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 2

Join a public dialogue about global contemporary art and ideas! Each year the New York nonprofit apexart holds an open call for curatorial proposals. Out of hundreds of submissions from around the world, three are chosen to become apexart exhibitions through an online jury process. Students in this class will be part of the jury. Initial readings and assignments will address the history of New York nonprofit spaces and apexart鈥檚 position within that landscape over three decades.

Vampire as Cultural Critic — CUR4401.01

Instructor: Anne Thompson
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 4

This seminar explores the cinematic vampire as a symbolic curator, critic, and connoisseur, one who collects, consumes, and reflects cultural concerns. Through films paired with philosophical and critical texts, we examine how vampires serve as mirrors, archivists, aesthetes, and subversive observers and how filmmakers stylistically foreground or reframe aspects of the vampire mythos.

Space Shaping Image Making: Readings — ARC2207.01

Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

鈥淣ot long ago, a near prerequisite for vanguard architecture was an engagement with theory; lately it has become an acquaintance with art鈥 or so observed Hal Foster in his 2011 book 鈥楾he Art Architecture Complex.鈥 While ideas about what constitutes cutting edge architecture may have transformed in the decade since, entanglements between art and architecture and the reciprocal effects that they have on each other remain central to architectural discourse.

Space Shaping Image Making II: Readings — ARC4119.01

Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Days & Time: TU 4:10pm-6:00pm
Credits: 2

鈥淣ot long ago, a near prerequisite for vanguard architecture was an engagement with theory; lately it has become an acquaintance with art鈥 or so observed Hal Foster in his 2011 book 鈥楾he Art Architecture Complex.鈥 While ideas about what constitutes cutting edge architecture may have transformed in the decade since, entanglements between art and architecture and the reciprocal effects that they have on each other remain central to architectural discourse.

Space Shaping Image Making — ARC2208.01

Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Days & Time: WE 10:00am-11:50am & WE 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 4

Can architecture be understood in the same terms as a photograph? A piece of writing? A painting? A film? Or does it require its own vocabulary, rules, precedents, and sensibilities?