This course shows ethnic diversity to be a lynchpin of Manhattan's remarkable creativity and growth. Funding is sought to develop syllabi and a bibliography of recent scholarship on these matters, and to attend a summer program in cultural psychiatry. This new Fall 2000 course will teach students about filming human rights around the world. Showing films from a variety of cultures, the aim is toward a greater understanding of both the human rights issue involved and the methodology that goes into filmmaking and documenting these stories under the most difficult and sensitive situations. The course will feature a human rights film produced by the principal investigator over a 2 year period in Haiti.
Funding is to complete film production.
The purpose of this project is to put in writing the history and programs in Writing Across Curriculum at ELC over the past 12-15 years. This report will then be made available to the New School community. The requested amount is to cover faculty honoraria and a part time student assistant. The completely color-blind cyberclass, where all students are equally invisible, was hailed as a way to obliterate any race and color distinctions that could obstruct full opportunities for students of color. However actual experience suggests that complete color-blindness is a myth and may be more curse than cure.