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A program of individual reading and interdisciplinary research under the guidance of faculty members specializing in the student's area of concentration. Approval of the Dean and program director required. Apply no later than December 10 for the Spring term and May 1 for the Fall term.

Prerequisites

A changing series of innovative and experimental interdisciplinary courses on topics not covered in regular courses.

Is paper just for drawing? Works on Paper will encompass various ways that artists use paper to create and express visual and conceptual ideas. The course will use paper as the foundation for students to explore materials and methods by which they can develop various works of art. Through practice, theory, research and discussion, students will learn to use the artist's basic tools, nurture a creative perspective by which to engage in art, and develop artistic sensibilities. Materials fee in lieu of text.

The Seminar in Autobiography is the first step in the CWE Autobiography Program. This initial course introduces students to the genre of life writing, which encompasses different styles and forms of autobiography and memoir, such as the coming-of-age narrative, family history, the personal essay, and memoirs of illness, grief, trauma, and recovery. The course involves studying the basic types of life writing, completing some introductory life-writing exercises, reading and analyzing several autobiographies, and, finally, creating an autobiographical story.

This course examines the impact of women workers on contemporary U.S. society and the role of work in women's lives. Women are most unlike male workers because they have two work sites: in the paid labor force and in the household. This course focuses on the intersection, conflicts, and tensions within as well as between these work sites. The primary goal of the course is to provide students with the ability to understand the social, economic, and historical contexts of their lives as workers.

This course will provide an overview of the field of developmental disabilities using interdisciplinary approaches to survey the nature, diagnosis, and treatment of such disorders as intellectual disability, autism, epilepsy, learning disabilities, and cerebral palsy. Advocacy, the role of the law, and education will be examined.

Have women come a long way? Through original source materials, including autobiography, fiction and film we will study the evolution of women's rights in the United States. Our study will include topics such as women and reproductive rights, women and the workplace, women in the American criminal justice system and in the law enforcement and legal professions.

The Book Talk Series was introduced in Fall 2008 by the Distinguished Lecturers and Endowed Chairs of CCNY and CUNY Lecture Series. Since then CWE has offered Book Talks on varied subjects such as: W.W. Norton Published Authors; Writers on Writing; Aesthetic and Cultural Expressions of African Derived Religions; The Child; and City on City. Book Talks offers students opportunities to explore topics through an interdisciplinary approach as they attend a series of lectures by authors whose works make up the course readings.