Deferring admission One of the greatest advantages in attending Barnard College is the wealth of academic resources throughout the city. Professors take advantage of their extended classroom by escorting students on field trips and assigning students to conduct individual and group research. An exploration of religious diversity in New York City with an emphasis on the current historical moment. Meetings will focus on the impact of immigrant and migrant cultures on New York's religious landscape and on texts that explore the experiences and histories of religious communities in New York.
Students conduct and observe supervised research on a particular religious site or community.
Last year members of this course actually sailed on an historic schooner out of New York's South Street Seaport. An integrated examination of the relationship between system function and human habitation for one of the great rivers of the world. Geologic origins, watershed development, estuarine dynamics, habitats, fisheries, industrialization, and transformation of the landscape. Three field trips are included with this class. A study of the cultural roots and historical contexts of specific communities using New York City's dance scene as a laboratory.