Cinema's Urban Modernity (HON 101A)
Go back over 100 years to walk the streets of Shanghai, Berlin, Paris, and New York with flappers, avant-garde artists, and new filmgoers in a modernizing world bursting with energy, joy, danger, and excitement. Come experience a movie-mad, once-new way of seeing in a time when a modern world was born!
Dr. Amy Borden
Time: Monday and Wednesdays, 11:30am-1:20pm
CRN: 14605
Women in Middle Eastern Cities (HON 101B)
Focusing on questions of women and gender, this course invites the participants to reflect on women's experiences critically in modern Turkish, Arab, and Iranian contexts. We examine diverse experiences, observe connections to the United States, and explore how gender intersects with class, education, and ethno-religious standing, among others.
Dr. Pelin Basci
Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12:00pm-1:50pm
CRN: 14610
Race, Capital, and the City (HON 101C)
This section of the Global City will consider the transnational history of capitalism, colonialism, segregation, imperialism, settlement, protest, and political struggle to understand how something seemingly “local” in scale- like the events surrounding George Floyd’s death - connect to, and intersect with, systems and processes at the national and global scale. As we travel, we will consider the historical relationship between urban activism within communities of color to national and transnational movements. Our goal will be to understand how networks of racialized capital forged in the 17th century mapped themselves onto the contours of contemporary urban space.
Dr. Paul McCutcheon
Time: Mondays and Wednesdays, 9:00am-10:50am
CRN: 14609
Historical Narratives of the City as Contact Zone (HON 101D)
This Global City sequence takes an historical approach to analyzing the city as a space for shaping identity and social experiences. We will begin by considering the pre-modern cities of Rome and Tenochtitlan as spaces formed in moments of civil war and conquest. We'll proceed to the age of imperialism and consider the impact of colonialism in shaping London and Lagos. We'll conclude our historical survey by examining representations of cities in a decolonized future through the lens of science fiction.
Dr. Harry York
Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2:00pm-3:50pm
CRN: 14608
Writing the City (HON 101E)
This course examines the numerous ways writing is used as an instrument of power within urban environments. We will scrutinize key texts produced by activists and radicals -- both within and outside academic institutions -- to better understand the rhetorical strategies and styles that shape and influence the cities we inhabit and how we can better use these strategies in academic environments.
Dr. Eric Rodriguez
Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:00am-11:50am
CRN: 14607
Who Belongs in the City? (HON 101F)
This section of the Global City will focus on the relationship between groups in the 'imagined community' of the city. We will pay special attention to how specific communities and identities experience citizenship, discussing what it means to belong within the fabric of a city. With an interdisciplinary approach, we will also discuss examples of immigration and emigration to and from cities across the world.
Dr. Ganis is our newest professor, starting at PSU and in Honors this Fall 2024. He is a political scientist who specializes in sub-state nationalism, territory and identity politics, migration, and media.
Dr. Alberto Ganis
Meeting Times: Mondays and Wednesdays, 2:00pm-3:50pm
CRN: 14606