Take a bite out of the Big Apple during Hofstras January Session 2013!

January Session 2013 at Hofstra provides undergraduate students a new and exciting way to earn three or four credits in just three weeks (January 2-23). We are breaking down the traditional walls of learning with our exclusive Hofstra in NYC offerings. Most courses meet entirely in Manhattan, which allows students to take advantage of their time in the city. These 3 and 4 credit courses in a variety of areas, including fine arts, drama, literature, political science, history, music and finance offer students a unique opportunity to fulfill program requirements while exploring all that NYC has to offer! Visit museums and galleries. Learn about the economic, musical, artistic and cultural forces that have shaped New York. Explore an NYC neighborhood youve only read about. Discover all that the city has to offer. Get to know NYC behind-the-scenes ... this January at Hofstra. Registration begins October 15 at My.Hofstra.edu.
Visiting students are also welcome to take a January Session Class.

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January Session 2013
(January 2-23) Earn three or four credits while exploring New York City!

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For more information email january@hofstra.edu.

Residence halls are open during the January Session. For more information visit hofstra.edu/resprograms.
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AH 192, sec. 1: Museums of NYC* 3 s.h.

Taught by Aleksandr Naymark The course is an intensive study of the general systematic survey of Western art that draws on the incomparable riches of New York art collections. Students explore the collections of 14 majors museums in New York, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Take a Bite Out of NYC

FIN 141, sec. 1: Money and Capital Markets 3 s.h.
Taught by Gioia Bales This course offers an in-depth analysis of the structure of domestic and international money and capital markets and the role the government plays in these markets, as well as the role of investment bankers, brokers, and dealers in the financial markets. Issues pertaining to ethics, innovation, competition, and globalization of financial markets are also discussed. Course content is enhanced by three full-day trips to New York City, including visits to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York Stock Exchange, the NASDAQ, and commercial and investment banks and hedge funds. Note: This course meets at Hofstra, January 2-15, 2013, from 9 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.

Explore our Hofstra in NYC course offerings. These courses are offered only in January they are not taught in the fall and spring semesters so take advantage of this exclusive opportunity!
LING 181, sec. 2: Decoding NYC: Language and Neighborhoods* 3 s.h.
Taught by Gregory Kershner To an outsider and sometimes even to an insider NYC can be hard to understand. In this course students attempt to decode NYCs organization of space, the layout of buildings, street grids, fashion, and neighborhoods. Students learn to read the city as a system of signs, as a language all its own.

DRAM 110A, sec. 1: Theatre in NYC* 4 s.h.

Taught by Edward Elefterion Students attend six productions in New York City over three weeks in January 2013. We do not confine ourselves to Broadway; rather, the course enables students to experience a taste of the variety of performing arts in New York City.

MUS 180B, sec. A: Jazz in NYC* 3 s.h.

Taught by David Lalama Music connects our present to our personal, cultural and historical past. The history of jazz is also the history of Americas continuing struggle with racial equality and cultural development. Students learn to identify periods where musical, literary and visual arts have overlapped, and get a firsthand look at New York Citys jazz scene through a variety of well-known and not-so-well-known clubs.

DRAM 110B, sec. 2: Improv in NYC* 3 s.h.

Taught by Christopher Dippel Trust, teamwork, honesty, communication, risk ... these are the foundations of improvisation. These skills are useful in every career field. This course employs theater games and performance exercises to help students learn to think on their feet, work collaboratively, communicate effectively, and trust their own creativity and ideas. Students attend performances of various types of improvisation.

HIST 177A, sec. 1: Teddy Roosevelts NYC 3 s.h.

Taught by Michael Galgano The class focuses on Roosevelts connections to NYC from 1858 (the year of his birth) to 1897, the year he left the New York City Police Department to pursue his new job in Washington, D.C., as assistant secretary of the Navy. Students visit such venues as the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace, American Museum of Natural History, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York City Police Museum, and the New-York Historical Society. Note: The first several meetings of this course will be on Hofstras main campus, followed by meetings in New York City. Details to be arranged on the first day of class.

MUS 180C, sec. 1: Music Performance in NYC* 3 s.h.

Taught by Cathy Callis NYC has one of the most diverse and energetic music scenes in the world today. This seminar provides the opportunity to explore some of NYCs many facets of music performance by sampling a variety of concerts, from classical to jazz to world music.

ENGL 184E, sec. 1: Latino Culture in

NYC*

3 s.h.

PSC 192, sec. 1: Field Study at the United Nations* 3 s.h.

Taught by Paul Fritz This course takes advantage of the unique opportunity afforded by our proximity to the United Nations (UN) and its various national missions and related organizations, in order to hear firsthand from many of the key participants in the UN process. Students are briefed by the three types of inside participants who drive international diplomacy: those who staff United Nations agencies, foreign diplomats, and staff from non-governmental organizations.

Taught by Lauren Kozol From its early days, New York has been impacted by individuals from Latin America who have settled here or come to share their artistic work. In this class, students study Hispanic literature, music, dance, visual arts, cinema and cuisine based in and around New York City.

JWST 101A, sec. 1: Judaism in NYC* 3 s.h.

Taught by David Kaufman In this course, students discover how one of the oldest world religions, Judaism, has taken root and blossomed in the great metropolis of the modern age, New York City. Students encounter the kaleidoscope of Jewish religious life in NYC, including colonial-era Sephardic Jews, uptown Reform Jews, downtown Orthodox Jews, middle class Conservative Jews, Hasidic and Soviet Jews, Syrian and Israeli Jews, New Age Renewal Jews, and others. Together, they mirror the very diversity of NYC itself.

ENGL 184U, sec. 1: Baseball, Vaudeville and the Making of NYC* 3 s.h.
Taught by Richard Pioreck Broadcast and cable television and professional league sports are major American economic and cultural forces. Baseball and vaudeville are the forerunners of these two industries. In this course, students explore NYC to see how baseball and vaudeville grew up together and continue to influence 20th-century popular culture. .

LABR 155B, sec. 1: NYCs Hidden Economy* 3 s.h.

Taught by Gregory DeFreitas This course examines the individuals, institutions and economic forces legal and illegal that built NYC, making it run day-to-day and shaping its future. Finance, fashion, publishing, communications and the arts ... New York City is justly famous as a world leader in these fields and others. But why does New York now have more extreme income inequality than any other part of the country? Students examine this question though class work and trips to a variety of NYC neighborhoods.

Taught by Patricia Navarra During this course, students visit a variety of literary, historical, theatrical, musical, and artistic sites to explore the political and cultural significance of the Bohemian movement in NYC. Each student conducts research on a related artist or topic, such as Beat poetry, the Stonewall riots, the Ashcan artists, radical unionism, the Living Theatre, and womens suffrage.

WSC 180D, sec. 1: Bohemian New York* 3 s.h.

FA 198, sec. 1: The Art Scene in NYC* 3 s.h.

Taught by Stephen Keister This course is an examination of the rapidly expanding art scene in its varied manifestations in Manhattans Chelsea district and Lower East Side neighborhood, and the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Williamsburg, Greenpoint and Bushwick. Students witness the cross-fertilization of ideas and influence in curated group exhibitions in galleries and museums, and also have the opportunity to discuss issues with contemporary artists in their studios.

* Please note: When not exploring NYC, classes will meet

at Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, 210 E. 64th Street, which is between 2nd and 3rd Avenues.