Summer 2021

Course Descriptions

All classes for the summer 2021 term on the CCNY Downtown Campus will be offered remotely. See the instructor’s note on remote course modes below each class/section description.  The following modes will be used.

Synchronous: You will meet live in real-time on the day and time scheduled.

Asynchronous/Fully Online: You will not have any required live sessions and students can complete the work on their own schedule (many instructors teaching this way hold optional live office/discussion hours).

Hybrid/Blended: You will meet live in real-time for part of the class session on the scheduled day (e.g., 6:00-7:30, or every other week for the full time, or for roughly 1/3 of the class sessions, etc.) and asynchronously for the rest of the time.


 

COURSE (SECTION)      TITLE  DAY/TIME   INSTRUCTOR
             

EDCE 20614 (CWNT)

   

ECE II: Development, Assessment, Teaching and Learning in Inclusive Settings

Asynchronous

 

Matthews

EDCE 40500 (2CWE)

   

Facilitating Children’s Artistic Development

Tues 6:00 – 9:20PM

 

Engler Elise

EDCE 40600 (4CWE)

   

Facilitating Children’s Musical Development

Thus 6:00 – 9:20PM

 

Claudia Cali

IAS 23324 (2CWE)

   

Advanced Composition

Tues 6:00 – 9:20PM 

Hybrid/Blended

 

Sweeting-Decaro

IAS 24200 (1CWE)

   

Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies

Mon 6:00 – 9:20PM

Hybrid/Blended

 

Williams

IAS 31182 (XCWE)

   

The Celluloid Classroom: What Movies Can Teach Us About Education

Tu/Th 6:00 – 9:20PM

 

Kopp

IAS 31183 (XCWE)

   

Contemporary Cinema of the Americas

Mo/We 6:00 – 9:20pm

 

Aguasaco

IAS 31185 (XCWE)

   

Mental Health in Urban Schools

Mo/We 6:00 – 9:20PM

 

Zaid-Muhammed

IAS 31249 (3CWE)

   

Internships in Developmental Disabilities

Wed 6:00 – 9:20PM

 

Sutherland-Cohen

IAS 31405 (CWNT)

   

Inclusion: Principles and Practice

Asynchronous

 

Dumoulin

IAS 31409 (3CWE)

   

Gentrification Globalized

Wed 6:00 – 9:20PM

Hybrid/Blended

 

Schaller

MATH 18504 (XCWE)

   

Basic Ideas in Math

Mo/We 6:00 – 9:20PM

 

Cheregi

SOC 38144 (XCWE)

   

Sociology of Education

Tu/Th 6:00 – 9:20PM

 

Diop

 


 

EDCE 20614 ECE II: Development, Assessment, Teaching and Learning in Inclusive Settings

COURSE SECTION TITLE TIME Instructor
EDCE 20614 CWENT ECE II: Development, Assessment, Teaching and Learning in Inclusive Settings Asynchronous Matthews
DESCRIPTION: Students construct a working understanding of theorists such as Dewey, Piaget and Vygotsky, as applied to young children and the curriculum and practices that support their growth. Students will explore typical and inclusive classroom practices in depth.  These understandings are grounded in systematic observations culminating in a child study. Fieldwork required. Pre-requisite: EDCE 20604. 4 hr.; 4 cr. (W)

EDCE 40500 Facilitating Children's Artistic Development

COURSE SECTION TITLE DAY/TIME INSTRUCTOR
EDCE 40500 2CWE Facilitating Children's Artistic Development Tuesday                         6PM-9:20PM Engler
DESCRIPTION:  Students explore the use of a range of art materials and activities for young children at various developmental stages and methods for supporting their total development. The natural sequences and stages of children's drawings and their link to emergent literacy and other developmental areas. Open only to students formally accepted into the Early Childhood Education program. Fieldwork required. Pre-Requisites: See Advisor. 2 hrs.; 2 crs.

EDCE 40600 Facilitating Children's Musical Development

COURSE SECTION TITLE TIME INSTRUCTOR
EDCE 40600 4CWE Facilitating Children's Musical Development Thursday                     6pm-9:20pm Cali
DESCRIPTION: A study of young children's interest and response to rhythms, dramatic play, and spontaneous imaginative experiences which the teacher can guide and incorporate into a program of developmental activities. This course will involve training in movement as well as music methods in early childhood education. Open only to students formally accepted into the Early Childhood Education program. Fieldwork required. Pre-Requisites: See Advisor. 2 hrs.; 2 crs.

IAS 23324 Advanced Composition

COURSE SECTION TITLE TIME INSTRUCTOR
IAS 23324 2CWE Advanced Composition (Blended) Tuesday                       6pm-9:20pm (Hybrid/Blended) Sweeting-DeCaro
DESCRIPTION: This course will introduce students to cultural and literary theory. We will survey a number of important schools of critical theory, including formalism, structuralism, deconstruction, psychoanalytic, new historicism, post-colonial and cultural studies. Theorists studied will include Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Susan Sontag, and Sigmund Freud. Their theory will be studied alongside a variety of "texts", including the poetry of William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge, Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, and Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, as well as Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John, the art of Edward Hopper, the Log of Christopher Columbus, The National Defense Education Act of 1954, and Why Johnny Can’t Read. The goal is to acquire a new critical vocabulary --"critique"--and, of course, to sharpen critical reading, thinking and writing skills. Students will be required to write a number of shorter essays on the above texts and a final ten-page critical essay on that perennial bestseller, written by none other than Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat. Formerly CWE 31308. 4 hrs.; 4 crs. (W)(U)

IAS 24200 Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies

COURSE SECTION TITLE TIME INSTRUCTOR
IAS 24200 1CWE Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies(Blended) Monday                       6pm-9:20pm   (Hybrid/Blended) Williams
DESCRIPTION: This course explores the establishment, growth, and transformation of academic knowledge in the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. It exposes students to the diversity of academic inquiry and the different traditions and vocabularies of humanistic, scientific, and social scientific inquiry, while exploring the potential and limits of interdisciplinary inquiry. (Formerly IAS 31334) 4hr., 4cr. (W)(U)

IAS 31182 The Celluloid Classroom: What Movies Can Teach us About Education

COURSE SECTION TITLE TIME INSTRUCTOR
IAS 31182 XCWE The Celluloid Classroom: What Movies Can Teach us About Education Tue/Thur                      6pm-9:20pm Kopp
DESCRIPTION: What makes a great teacher? A good one? A mediocre one? What does it take to inspire students to do their best work? Those are some of the questions we'll be asking ourselves in this course about the way teachers have been portrayed on film. Many of the movies we'll be watching in whole or in part are docudramas based on real life educators: Jaime Escalate ("Stand and Deliver"); Sylvia Barrett ("Up the Down Staircase"); Roberta Guaspari ("Small Wonders" & "Music of the Heart"); Erin Gruwell ("Freedom Writers"); Melvin B. Tolson ("The Great Debaters"); Anne Sullivan ("The Miracle Worker"); Dr. Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard ("The Wild Child"); and Bruce Pandolfini ("Searching for Bobby Fischer"). Others are straight up documentaries where we can see real teachers at work: Frederick Wiseman's "High School"; Nicolas Philibert's "To Be and To Have"; Marilyn Agrelo's "Mad Hot Ballroom"; and Lucy Walker's "Blindsight." Still other films will be entirely fictional. Most will be set in educational institutions but others will take place largely outside of them. In at least one film - James Marsh's "Project Nim" - we'll encounter a student of another species. What attitudes, philosophies and techniques best nurture learning? Students should expect brief weekly readings and some assigned outside viewing. 4 hr. 4 cr. (W)(U)

IAS 31183 Contemporary Cinema of the Americas

COURSE SECTION TITLE TIME INSTRUCTOR
IAS 31183 XCWE Contemporary Cinema of the Americas Mon/Wed                     6pm-9:20pm Aguasaco
DESCRIPTION:This course will look at cinema released in the Americas since the year 2015. All the films will be part of the 8th The Americas Film Festival of New York (www.taffny.com), organized by the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies CWE in collaboration with various cultural organizations in New York. Course topics will include the social, political, and/or legal circumstances that contribute to cinematic production in these four countries; laws (or lack thereof), which protect cinematic production in these countries (the “Cultural Exception” at the United Nations, GATT, NAFTA, UNESCO); labor unions that work to protect laborers involved in cinema (ie. actors, cinematographers, screenwriters); and basic cinematographic vocabulary and methodologies for analyzing and writing about film. 4 hr. 4 cr. (W)(U)

IAS 31185 Mental Health in Urban Schools

COURSE SECTION TITLE TIME Instructor
IAS 31185 XCWE Mental Health in Urban Schools Mon/Wed                     6pm-9:20pm Zaid-Muhammed
DESCRIPTION:  This course explores the necessity of mental health services in urban school settings, often plagued by poverty and school reform challenges. The course will introduce students to the history, theories, training, and practices of various school mental health disciplines that operate in urban schools. Students will be exposed to the professional issues associated with the three overarching school mental health professions: School Psychology, School Social Work, and School Counseling. To this end, students will learn pragmatic processes involved in examining individual, school, and community-based issues that may impact learning capacities, and ultimately effect educational decisions for school children in urban settings. Students will also be given opportunities to explore a day-in-a-life of school mental health professionals in urban school settings by virtue of case studies and interviews with mental health practitioners who work in urban settings. By the end of the course, students will be able to compare and contrast urban school challenges faced by each of these professions across a variety of factors, including graduate training models, general practices, ethics, and the role of governing bodies of each profession.4 hr. 4 cr. (W)(U)

IAS 31249 Internships in Developmental Disabilities

COURSE SECTION TITLE TIME INSTRUCTOR
IAS 31249 3CWE Internships in Developmental Disabilities Wednesday                 6pm-9:20pm Sutherland-Cohen
DESCRIPTION: For eligible students who wish to supplement classroom study with supervised experience in the field. Students whose jobs involve the developmentally disabled may arrange to complete the work at their places of employment. All placements subject to approval. Bi-Weekly meetings with a faculty member are mandatory. Pre-reqs.: IAS 31235 & IAS 31240. 4 hrs.; 2 crs. (U)

IAS 31405 Inclusion: Principles in Practice

COURSE SECTION TITLE TIME INSTRUCTOR
IAS 31405 CWNT Inclusion: Principles in Practice Asynchronous Dumoulin
DESCRIPTION: A growing number of students with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) who were previously placed in segregated school settings are being educated in general education classrooms. Effectively educating students with ASDs requires an understanding of their unique social, communicative and behavioral challenges. This course will include a study of the history of special education and inclusion, legal issues related to appropriate education, fostering social development and communication, instructional and classroom management strategies, staff training and the collaboration between home and school. 4hrs. 4cr. (W)(U)

IAS 31409 Gentrification Globalized

COURSE SECTION TITLE TIME INSTRUCTOR
IAS 31405 3CWE Gentrification Globalized  Wednesday                  6pm-9:20pm (Hybrid/Blended) Schaller
DESCRIPTION: “The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is the right to change ourselves by changing the city. It is, moreover, a common rather an individual right since this transformation inevitably depends upon the exercise of a collective power to reshape the processes of urbanization. The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of human rights.” (Harvey 2008, 23)

We live above all in an urban world, one marked by spatial, economic and racial segregation as well as political and cultural suppression and displacement. This course examines gentrification both from a theoretical and an advocacy perspective. Gentrification and displacement are not only threatening the right to the city of working class and even middle-class New Yorkers, who are being evicted and excluded from neighborhoods across the city by an apparently natural, economic, process of transformation. Gentrification and displacement are a global phenomenon, and they are the symptoms of planning strategies implemented through public-private policy partnerships. Public officials, real estate lobbying groups, private consulting firms, and financial institutions as well as “gentrifiers” play active roles in the redevelopment schemes that have restructured central cities and urban neighborhoods across the country, indeed across the world. In this course, we will examine various definitions of gentrification in order to unpack a word we seem to hear everywhere but whose meaning has been transformed, especially in the media, to obscure the relationship between gentrification and displacement and to obscure the actors advocating for, leading or supporting gentrification processes. Gentrification has not gone uncontested. We will explore resistance to gentrification from the local neighborhood perspective as well as investigate the linkages organizers have created to build trans-local and international organizing efforts, especially around the right to the city and the right not to be excluded from the city. 4 hr. 4 cr (W)(U)

Math 18504 Basic Ideas in Math

COURSE SECTION TITLE TIME INSTRUCTOR
Math 18505 XCWE Basic Ideas in Math Mon/Wed.                    6pm-9:20pm  Cheregi
DESCRIPTION: Sets, operations with sets, relations, functions, construction of numerical systems, numerical systems with different bases, topics in number theory, geometry. Required for Early Childhood Education majors. Pre-requisite MATH 18004 or equivalent.  4 hr.; 4 cr.

Soc 38144 Sociology of Education: School in American Society

COURSE SECTION TITLE TIME INSTRUCTOR
Soc 38144 XCWE Sociology of Education: School in American Society Tue/Thur.                      6pm-9:20pm  Diop
DESCRIPTION: Analysis of selected social, political and economic forces that influence the school as an institution, and in turn are influenced by the school, especially in urban settings. Special attention to immigrant, bilingual, and language minority groups. Required for Early Childhood Education majors. 4 hrs.; 4 cr. (W)(U)

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