How do people, through their practices and their being in the world, form relationships with the locales they occupy (both the natural world and the build environment)? How do they attach meaning to spaces to create places? And how do the experiences of inhabiting, viewing, and hearing those places shape their meanings, communicative practices, cultural performances, memories, and habits? Course themes include mapping and the imagination vision and space soundscape architecture and landscape new media and space/time compression space and identity spatial violence and spatialization of memory. Emphasis will be given on how space socially organizes human meaning and on the “inscription of space”. This course will build on a core concept of Lewis Mumford who understood media ecology as a component of spatial and urban ecology. Liberal Arts Core/CORE Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Cultures and Contexts MCC-UE 1002 Space and Place in Human Communication** How have cultural issues divided human beings, within their own countries and across them? How have these issues changed during our contemporary era of globalization, with its rapid spread of people and ideas across borders? How have these developments created new global alliances as well as fractures? And, most of all, how can we find common ground across our profound cultural and national differences? Special topics may include abortion, same-sex marriage, sex education, pornography, and drug regulation. This course will examine the origins, development, and meaning of cultural conflicts around the world. **Pilot course only approved for Fall 2020** HSED-UE 1033 Global Culture Wars Liberal Arts Core/CORE Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Cultures and Contexts. Students analyze the relationships between body and soul, self and surrounding, hunger and satiety and visit NYC-based institutions like Essex Street Crossing and the Street Vendor Project to further understand how feeding body and soul works outside the classroom. In this course students think across disciplines to consider what it means to satisfy our literal and metaphorical hunger. NYU Steinhardt courses that satisfy the Liberal Arts Core Curriculum requirements: Cultures and Contexts FOOD-UE 1131 Feeding Body and Soul**
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