The Arts in New York City
IDC1001H EMWH
VC 4-212
Professor Susan Tenneriello
Department of Fine and Performing Arts: 646-312-4066
Offices: B-7 235
Office hours: M/W 12:30-2:00 or by appointment
susan.tenneriello@baruch.cuny.edu
ITF Jill Belli
jill.belli@baruch.cuny.edu
Office Hours: Click here for Office Hours and to Schedule an Appointment
17 Lexington Ave, Weinstein Honors Lounge, Room 903
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.
Our section of the course we will focus on the theme “Culture and Memory.” We will interact with the ways artists transform living memory into literature, visual art, performance, dance, and music and ask how culture awakens remembrance and shapes our memories. Our long range interest is in the human exchange behind experiencing works of art and art-making processes. The class is interactive in design in order to allow you to collaborate, design, and create at least three projects in stages using digital media, storytelling, and performance, leading to independent final projects.
Texts:
Novel, Jhumph Lihari Namesake
Play, Beaumarchais, The Barber of Seville (bookstore)
Libretto, Rossini, Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Posted)
Sophocles, Antigone (Posted)
The New York Times arts section daily and weekends
Other readings will be provided or posted.
Expectations
Be Present, Be Open, Be Honest, Be Gracious
Attendance is recorded.
2 no questions asked absences are permitted. If you arrive after class has started, you are late. Twice late equals 1 absence. If you accumulate more than three absences, your grade is reduced for each additional absence (i.e. A to A-, A- to B+). If you are absent more than 4 times over the semester, you risk failing the course. No exceptions.
Classroom Policies. Let’s practice common courtesy
Turn off and Remove from sight all cell phones. If you are using your laptop in class lower the lid when someone is speaking. You may not leave the room during class; let’s not eat in class, unless you bring food for everyone.
Course Assignments
Aside from scheduled class events, you will independently sign up for 1 Macaulay Common Event, as well as attend 2 other examples of New York City’s cultural life on your own using your Cultural Passport between September and November 23. These experiences will form the core ingredients of an individual semester Scrapbook.
*Keep all ticket stubs, playbills, or brochures as proof.
(30%) Blog (http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/tenneriellofall2011)
Fresh Paint=written cultural criticism on NYTs arts section reading
Art Talks=written commentary on course readings
Visual Diary=visual storytelling
Video Diary=oral reviews of course events
Podcast=Remembrance project
Comedy Mashup=digital projects
(10%) Individual Eportfolio Semester Scrapbook
(10%) Oral Presentations
(30%) 2 of 3 Reviews on class outings to opera, dance, theatre
(20%) Digital Media Project
With a partner or small group (limit 4) you will create a 10 minute media performance inspired by semester activities and theme “remembrance.” These projects will integrate the sensory elements of different art forms (i.e.: visual art, movement, sound, dialogue) with storytelling. You are always encouraged to “think outside the box.”
Academic Honesty: Best practice: When in doubt, talk to me.
I fully support Baruch College’s policy on Academic Honesty, which states, in part:
“Academic dishonesty is unacceptable and will not be tolerated. Cheating, forgery, plagiarism and collusion in dishonest acts undermine the college’s educational mission and the students’ personal and intellectual growth. Baruch students are expected to bear individual responsibility for their work, to learn the rules and definitions that underlie the practice of academic integrity, and to uphold its ideals. Ignorance of the rules is not an acceptable excuse for disobeying them. Any student who attempts to compromise or devalue the academic process will be sanctioned.” Academic sanctions in this class will range from an F on the assignment to an F in this course. A report of suspected academic dishonesty will be sent to the Office of the Dean of Students, Baruch Honors Program, and MHC Deans. Additional information and definitions can be found at
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/academic/academic_honesty.html
Macaulay Common Events, Meet the Artist Series: You must independently register and attend one event as part of your Scrapbook.
September 1 Meet the Artist: “Becoming Documentary Filmmakers”
September 19 Meet the Artist: Clinton Curtis
October 12 Meet the Artist: “Courting Risk: Blackout”
October 17 Meet the Artist: Michael Gutierrez
October 24 Meet the Artist: Alicia Hall Moran
November 1 Meet the Artist: “Performing Langston Hughes”
