Welcome to Professor Healey’s “The Arts in New York City” course website.
Here students will blog weekly on assigned topics throughout the semester, create their photojournal projects, and comment on each others’ work.
Course Overview:
Seminar 1 explores the diverse arts in New York City. During the semester, students attend performances and exhibits of the current cultural season. In addition to the four genres (opera, dance, theater, and the visual arts) covered in all sections of the Seminar, faculty choose from a variety of textual, photographic, musical, and performance genres. Students tackle such questions as: What does each genre offer? How does each speak to us? How does art create, serve, and represent the people of the city and its diverse communities? Aesthetic appreciation is supported by social and historical investigations so that students are provided with opportunities for different kinds of engagement with art forms, including interpretation, analysis, and creative endeavors. The culminating event of the Seminar, Snapshot NYC, is an ongoing accumulation of photographs of student views of New York City.
In three units we will look at three specific personas that the artist may represent, and how the artist interacts with their community as a political and social voice, as well as how the artist preserves and reflects important social and cultural values and events to people outside of their own community. You will be asked to write and reflect on the work you see, as well as create your own original work that reflects your view of this particular cultural moment in New York City.
Course Syllabus
