MHC 125 Macaulay Honors Seminar 1: The Arts of NYC

3 hours 

This course introduces you to performances and exhibitions in the arts, using New York City's cultural institutions as resources for aesthetic experiences and opportunities for research, interpretation, and creative work. This course examines intersections among cultural events in the city and academic readings and writings. We will look at the nature of narrative as it is expressed in literature as well as in various other media: opera, popular music, dance, theater, and pictorial art; high as well as folk art, classical as well as contemporary forms. This class is the first of the interdisciplinary New York City-based seminars that make up the curriculum of the Macaulay Honors College.