HNRS 125                                                           FALL 2014

Queens College                                                    Professor M. Healey

Office Hours: Weds 12-1                                     meghan.healey@qc.cuny.edu

Office is located in COLWIN HALL 410-411

HONORS 125: THE ARTS IN NEW YORK CITY

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.

This semester, we will explore artists’ contrasting views of New York City- light and dark, rich and poor, insider and outsider- and discuss our community’s role in the larger American culture as iconic dreamland and urban blight. 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.

This course fulfills the CE requirement of Pathways.