Spring 2017 Courses
In the second semester of the inaugural year of the CUNY Humanities Alliance, the Graduate Teaching Fellows will be teaching the courses listed below at LaGuardia Community College. Additional disciplines and courses will be added in subsequent years of this four-year project.
ELA201: Latin American Literature II
This course deals with an introduction to Latin American literature and its relationship to the dynamics of social change. The course also traces the influence of European, North American, African and pre-Columbian elements on Latin American literacy movements. Topics include pre-Columbian literatures, colonization and exploration, the wars of independence and abolition. This class is entirely taught in Spanish.
Literatura Latinoamericana del Siglo XX Y XXI
Professor Luis Henao Uribe
Textualidades
Professor Rojo Robles Mejías
ENG102: Composition II: Writing Through Literature
This course extends and intensifies the work of Composition I, requiring students to write critically and analytically about culturally-diverse works of literature. Students are introduced to poetry, drama, and fiction, employing close-reading techniques and other methods of literary criticism. Writing assignments follow a variety of academic formats, including the critical research essay, using research methods and documentation procedures.
Breathing Through Writing
Professor Jennifer Polish
State of the Union
Professor Makeba Lavan
HIS102: Themes in American History Since 1865
This course will examine American history since 1865. Such topics as industrialization, labor unions, immigration, organization, political parties, reform movements, foreign policy, and the rise of the U.S. as the major force in the world will be covered in this course.
U.S. History Spring 2017
Professor Emily Brooks
HUP102: Critical Thinking
The goal of this course is to help students become thoughtful and effective critical thinkers, applying the intellectual abilities and specialized reasoning skills to themselves and their society. Students will also learn to identify, evaluate, and solve problems on an individual and societal scale. They will gain self-awareness and a deeper knowledge of the ways in which they interact, change, and are changed by society in order to analyze their role as responsible citizens in a globalized world.
Facts and Fictions
Professor Anton Kociolek
(re)Envisioning How We See and Understand Ourselves and the World
Professor José Alfredo Menjivar
SSY101: General Psychology
This course is an introduction to some of the major fields and theories in the science of psychology, covering a range of topics such as biological foundations, learning, cognition, emotion, perception, theories of personality, psychological disorders and their treatment and the research methods of psychology.
Debates in Psychology
Professor Deshonay Dozier
