HIS4619 Crossroads Manhattan
4 Advanced Liberal Arts Credits
Program Fee is paid to Glavin Office – program fee includes: accommodations, breakfast, program planned meals, and cultural excursions. Not included: tuition, transportation to/from NYC/Manhattan, additional meals, and personal expenses. If you want to learn about the language of the native Lenape peoples, study artifacts from the Harlem Renaissance, take a Gay Rights history tour of Greenwich Village, and map out immigration patterns in Chinatown, this course fits the bill. Students in this course will learn about Manhattan’s development by tracing the histories of the native and immigrant people who lived there. We will focus on the experiences of indigenous and enslaved populations as well as waves of migration from Holland, Ireland, Eastern Europe, the West Indies, China and East Asia. Above all, we will talk about Manhattan as a crossroads, a place where the experiences of diverse groups of people intersected and overlapped, leading to both conflict and liberation. What did Manhattan offer members of these diverse groups, and what will it offer us as students of its history?
Prerequisites: 3 intermediate liberal arts courses (CVA, LVA, HSS, CSP, LTA in any combination) and admission in the course