School of Professional and Continuing Studies

College at 60 FALL 2018 COURSE CATALOG

School of Professional and Continuing Studies

College at 60 SPRING 2018 COURSE CATALOG

School of Professional and Continuing Studies

College at 60 SPRING 2018 COURSE CATALOG

College at 60 College at 60 has been a core program at Fordham University for

more that 40 years. An initiative of the School of Professional

and Continuing Studies, the program offers noncredit courses

in areas such as creative writing, U.S. history, philosophy, and

literature. The name College at 60 refers to our location at

Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus on West 60th Street and also

to our students—most of whom are over the age of 60.

Tuition • $400 each noncredit course for all students (includes all student fees)• No tuition refunds or tuition waivers will be granted after the second week of classes, regardless of class attendance.

Class Times and Semesters All classes are held at Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus at West 60th Street and Columbus Avenue. The fall semester runs from September to December; the spring term runs from February to May. Daytime courses are offered once a week for a two-hour class session, either from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. or from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Course listings and schedules are published in a brochure each May and December. They can also be found at fordham.edu/collegeat60.

Extra Privileges The College at 60 program provides a free afternoon lecture series each term on Wednesday afternoons. The schedule for the lectures is distributed by mail and email. Participation in the College at 60 also entitles you to attend campus events and to use all Fordham facilities, such as the Fordham Libraries, computer centers, cafeterias, bookstores, and classrooms at the Manhattan, Bronx, and Westchester campuses.

Eligibility and Admission College at 60 welcomes adults over 60 who have a desire to develop their intellectual interests and a capacity for college-level reading.

How to Apply and RegisterFor all College at 60 students, registration will begin on Friday morning, April 27, 2018, at 10 a.m. through the University’s online portal at my.fordham.edu and will continue until the first day of the term, September 12, 2018. New students who have never taken a College at 60 course: The first step is to call the College at 60 program to arrange an introductory meeting with the assistant director of the program, during which you can complete a brief application form detailing your interests and expectations and discuss whether the program is a good fit for you. At that time, you may register for any available class in the upcoming semester. Continuing students and returning students who have previously taken a College at 60 course: Students who have already taken courses in the College at 60 program should register for the next semester’s courses through the online portal. If you cannot or will not use the online technology, you can call the College at 60 to register by phone. However, manual registration may be delayed; online registration is more immediate and you’ll receive an instant confirmation.

Contact InformationDirector Assistant Director Cira Vernazza Laura Greeney Associate Dean and Adjunct Instructor Adjunct Instructor greeney@fordham.edu vernazza@fordham.edu

Fordham School of Professional and Continuing Studies College at 60 113 W. 60th St. Room LL 301 New York, NY 10023 212-636-6372

College at 60 | Fall 2018CALENDAR OF CLASSES

SEPTEMBER MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY

Wednesday, September 12: First day of term for Wednesday classesMonday, September 17: First day of term for Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday classesWednesday, September 19: Yom Kippur; no College at 60 classes

OCTOBER MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY

Monday, October 8: Columbus Day; University closed

NOVEMBER MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY

Tuesday, November 20: No College at 60 classesWednesday and Thursday, November 21 and 22: Thanksgiving recess; University closed

DECEMBER MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY

Thursday, December 13: Last day of classes for the term

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MondaySeptember 17 to December 10

Europe’s Past: The Reformation 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Cira Vernazza | CRN 37481Europeans of the 16th and 17th centuries were caught in a great cultural convulsion resulting from the collision of Renaissance optimism, worldliness, and exuberance with the concurrent anxiety over conflict, death, and salvation. This course will examine the struggle for the renovation and reform of Christianity and will encompass the religion, politics, economic changes, social dislocation, art, and intellectual thought of this tumultuous period.

Issues in Mideast History: Muhammad to McDonald’s— The Middle East from the Prophet to the Present1:30 – 3:30 p.m. | Jean-Marc Oppenheim | CRN 37482This course will examine the transformation of the Middle East from the beginnings of Islam in the seventh century to the present, with emphasis on the region’s political history. For most Americans, the region is “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma,” as Winston Churchill famously described Soviet foreign policy. This is despite, or perhaps because of, such current or recent events as the U.S. presence in Iraq, the Arab Spring and its aftermath, the three Gaza wars, the Syrian civil war, and the advent of ISIS. Topics we will study include the life and times of the Prophet Muhammad; Islamic imperialism and civil wars; the impact of outsiders such as Seljuk Turks, Christian crusaders, Mongols, Ottoman Turks, and 19th-century Europeans in the form of merchants, missionaries, or militaries; religion and its relationship to power and identity; the origins and consequences of modern reforms; gender and minorities; languages and cultures; nationalism and postcolonial societies; secularists and fundamentalists; and the current struggle to develop and establish stable, let alone democratic, societies. Our goal is to unravel the “riddle” inside the “enigma” so that we can understand the many factors that have transformed this region that is so critical to global stability.

Topics in Science: Ideas That Have Changed the World 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. | Richard Hresko | CRN 37483

This course will survey 10 scientific ideas that have shaped how humans view the universe and their place in it. These ideas, taken from physics, astronomy, chemistry, biology, and economics, have had repercussions far beyond their immediate disciplines, and form part of the “basic furniture” of our minds. We will explore the origin, development, and implications of each of these ideas, and thus we will be looking at science within a broad cultural framework. The goals of this course are to develop an appreciation for the interaction of science and society and to encourage looking at knowledge in an interdisciplinary way. Readings will be assigned from current issues of Scientific American, The New York Times Science section, and prepared handouts.

TuesdaySeptember 18 to December 11

The Art of Film: The Works of Billy Wilder10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | John Erman | CRN 37484

One of Hollywood’s most accomplished directors, Billy Wilder played a dominant role in the development of films and was renowned for his wide range of styles and subjects. We will look at his life and his films, including Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot, Double Indemnity, and the underrated Ace in the Hole, among others.

Studies in American Literature: Women Playwrights, Act III— “Scribbling Women” Are Here to Stay 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Laura Greeney | CRN 37485

This course will examine the careers of prominent women playwrights in America, from the early colonial days to those who are currently producing new plays. The course will consider the factors that made working on the stage so difficult in America in general, as well as the particular obstacles for aspiring women dramatists. We will ponder the ways in which plays by women manage to confront important issues specific to women’s lives while also tackling themes that are universally human. We will also examine the growing diversity of women writers’ voices. Authors to be studied include Mercy Otis Warren, Elizabeth Robins, Susan Glaspell, Paula Vogel, Betty Shamieh, and Lynn Nottage.

Cultural Studies in American History: Presidents of the Antebellum 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Philip Suchma | CRN 37486

Nineteenth-century America was a nation marked by growth and challenge on every level of individual life and national structure. Between the period of establishing the new nation and the conflict between the states that saved the Union is the intriguing Antebellum period—from approximately 1815 to 1860. It was an age of territorial expansion, industrial development, urbanization and market growth, and political intrigue. We will explore who it was that led the United States through such a distinct and influential period by taking a close look at the men who filled the executive office during this time. We will identify these men—who range from the recognizable to the unremarkable— and in looking at the Jacksons, Van Burens, Tylers, and Pierces, we will examine the growing pains of the young republic as it marched toward the Civil War.

Creative Writing: “Ripeness Is All”—Writing on Age in Our Time, with Inspiration from Literature and Art 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. | Nina Goss | CRN 37487

In this writing course, other writers as well as visual artists will be our companions as we compose narratives and reflections on time and age. Unlike a conventional memoir class, this course’s premise is the following singularity: all of us in the course belong to the last two—or possibly three—generations, which bridge predigital and postdigital culture. Our experiences of personal identity, of collectivity, of the creation and consumption of art, indeed of the very definitions of reading and writing, link two completely different eras in history. Through writing in a variety of genres, this class offers a chance to explore the unique value of the sensibility time has invested in us. The course will include two or three visits to the Met for writing sessions in the galleries.

Studies in Philosophy: Ethics and Morality 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. | Babette Babich | CRN 37488

In this class, we will read and discuss some of the key texts in philosophical ethics, including Plato, Aristotle, Epictetus, Kant, and Nietzsche, among others. Topics to be discussed include our ethical responsibility to one another and to animals as well as our responsibility to the earth.

WednesdaySeptember 12 to December 12

Religion and Culture: Portraits of Jesus—The Four Gospels10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Byron Shafer | CRN 37489

Each of the four gospels of the New Testament offered, and continues to offer, a distinctive portrait of Jesus. These reflected, and in turn shaped, the multiple images of the historical Jesus developing throughout the Roman Empire in the various first-century Christian communities. Each of these gospels will be read and studied with a view toward not only their similarities, but also their differences.

Topics in History: Launching the American Century, 1900–194010:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Howard Krukofsky | CRN 37490

America at the turn of the 20th century was a nation in transition—and in contradiction. In a continuing quest for identity, American society faced the tensions between internationalism and isolationism, prosperity and economic collapse, progressivism and conservatism. From the anvil of the Progressive Era, the Jazz Age, the Great Depression, and the New Deal were forged the foundations of the “American Century. “

Studies in Music History: Choral Music2:30 – 4:30 p.m. | Kathryn John | CRN 37491

Group singing has surely been around since nearly the beginning of humankind. The satisfaction of joining in song with friends and colleagues, hearing the glorious blends of voices, texts, and harmonies—with or without instrumental accompaniment—continues to be a source of great pleasure, whether as singer or as listener. In this course, we will examine and hear some of the greatest works composed for choruses both large and small, for purposes ranging from worship to entertainment, and from time periods both long ago and more recent. Examples to be studied include chansons and Masses from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance; Monteverdi, Bach, Mozart, and Haydn from the 17th and 18th centuries; and, from the 19th and 20th centuries, orchestral works that include choral segments (Beethoven, Liszt, Mahler, and Vaughan Williams) as well as works which are primarily choral but incorporate some type of instrumental accompaniment (Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Stravinsky, and Bernstein). Thursday September 20 to December 13

America’s Past: The Historical Background of Current Major Supreme Court Cases10:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Juliana Gilheany | CRN 37492

From Marbury v. Madison (1803) to Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Division (2018), this course will trace the history of some of the landmark cases of the Supreme Court and the political, economic, and social ideas and conditions that have led up to significant recent decisions and present-day cases of the court.

Issues in Psychology: My New York 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Marie Sheehan | CRN 37493 Pete Hamill is a novelist, journalist, and screenwriter who writes aboutthe city of New York with an authentic voice. In this course we will study some of his works and the psychological and social issues that he raised in them, exploring his writings on periods from Prohibition and the Great Depression to World War II to the days of the Dodgers and the Giants. Ultimately, we will discuss what makes a New Yorker a New Yorker.

Studies in Art History: Photography, Architecture, and Human Expression10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Sharon Suchma | CRN 37494

Since the birth of photography, architecture has been a constant subject and well-suited partner. In the 19th century, it would patiently sit in front

of the camera for long exposure times; in the 20th century it became the obsessively watched and pictured modern city; and in the 21st century it shows the sometimes inventive, sometimes awkward, relationship between human beings and their environment. This class aims to explore how images of human-made structures reveal more than just the structures themselves, representing exploration, construction, social conditions, lifestyle, and art movements. Some examples for exploration will include early surveys of England and Paris during the Industrial Revolution by Charles Marville and Frederick Evans; the changing cityscape of New York City in the 1930s and 1940s by Berenice Abbott and Todd Webb; large- and small-scale midcentury projects documented by Ezra Stoller, Lucien Hervé, and Julius Shulman; and more recent landscapes such as the banal of Stephen Shore and Ed Ruscha, the global of Andreas Gursky, the sculptural of Hélène Binet, and the fantastical of Luigi Ghirri and Bas Princen. As a note, this course considers architectural photography as something that includes bridges, industrial forms, and interiors, as well as buildings.

Studies in Comparative Literature: Fiction Into Film 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. | Douglas Golde | CRN 37495

This course will compare and contrast several novels and plays with the film versions that they inspired. We will explore such matters as film language, narrative, setting, character, and theme. Works for study will include Hamlet, The Old Man and the Sea, Tom Brown’s School Days, The Leopard, Death of a Salesman, and The Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Studies in Social Science: Ways of Seeing Visionary Films1:30 – 3:30 p.m. | Robert Spiegelman | CRN 37496

Using sociological and cinema studies concepts, our course will explore a rich set of socially relevant films and will pair them with other closely related films, literary texts, or visual media. Students will view films at home using Fordham’s or other free or inexpensive online services. We will analyze and discuss how filmmakers apply a tool kit of models (diaries, paintings, novels, news, plays) and cinematic modes (expository, poetic, performative) to craft their visions. We will view both documentaries and fictional films, focusing on the following filmmakers: Dziga Vertov (Man with a Camera), Ava DuVernay (13th), Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro), John Ford (The Grapes of Wrath), Errol Morris (Wormwood), Marcel Ophüls (Hôtel Terminus), Eleanor Coppola (Hearts of Darkness), Iain Softeley (Wings of the Dove), Jean-Jacques Annaud (The Name of the Rose), Ken Loach (Kes), Debra Granik (Winter’s Bone), Wim Wenders (Salt of the Earth), Yael Hersonski (A Film Unfinished), and lesser-known gems by Bill Morrison (Dawson City) and Jem Cohen (Museum Hours).

Participating FacultyBabette Babich, Ph.D.Boston College After studying biology, Babich turned to philosophy, writing her dissertation in Germany and Belgium. A professor of philosophy at Fordham, she has also taught in Milwaukee; San Diego; Tübingen, Germany; and Washington, D.C. Babich is the author of The Hallelujah Effect: Philosophical Reflections on Music, Performance Practice, and Technology; Words in Blood, Like Flowers; and Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Science. She is a contributing editor of several book collections on continental philosophy of science, aesthetics, and critical theory, and serves as executive editor of the journal New Nietzsche Studies.

John Erman, B.A. Univerity of California, Los Angeles Erman has been directing f ilms and television since the early 1960s. He has won an Emmy, two Director’s Guild awards, the Christopher, the Peabody, and the Humanitas Prize. He has worked with stars such as Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland, and Marlon Brando. He is perhaps best known for his work on Roots and the f irst f ilm about AIDS, An Early Frost. He currently teaches in the f ilm programs at NYU and Columbia University.

Juliana Gilheany, Ph.D. New York University Gilheany has been with the College at 60 for more than 18 years. Her areas of specialization in American studies include foreign relations, Supreme Court cases, women’s history, and the Civil War. She has taught in other colleges of Fordham as well as Manhattan College and NYU.

Douglas E. Golde, M.A., Columbia University Golde has been teaching English for more than three decades. He studied with Lionel Trilling and Jacques Barzun at Columbia, and he studied philosophy with Sir Isaiah Berlin at Oxford. He was awarded Fordham’s Presidential Fellowship for outstanding work in English. His many other awards for teaching include grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a distinguished fellowship to the National Humanities Center, where he was in a unique program called The World, the Self, and the

Text. He has also written a comic novel now being prepared for publication.

Nina Goss, Ph.D. University of WashingtonIn addition to having more than 20 years of experience teaching courses in writing and literature, Goss is the editor of Montague Street, a print journal, as well as co-editor and contributor to a book of essays, Dylan at Play, from Cambridge Scholars Press. Her most recent publication is a 2017 volume of essays she has co-edited and contributed to called Tearing the World Apart: Bob Dylan and the Twenty-First Century.

Laura Greeney, Ph.D. Fordham University Greeney has combined careers in publishing and teaching and has taught American and British literatures and composition at Fordham, Elderhostel, and the Institute of American Language and Culture since 1988. She is the creator of Song and Story, a two-part program on literature and music f irst presented at the College at 60. Her research interests include the intersection of literature and music and the portrayal of women in 19th- and early-20th-century British and American literature.

Richard Hresko, M.S., New York University; M.A., Fordham University Currently an adjunct lecturer at both Fordham University and City University of New York, Hresko has been teaching university courses since 1980, including classes in economics, statistics, general and organic chemistry, and history from antiquity through the 20th century. His academic interests throughout his career have ranged from computer modeling of proteins in aqueous solutions to why medieval England imported iron. He is currently working on the technology and economics of medieval arms and armor.

Kathryn John, M.A. New York University A recipient of Fordham’s Bene Merenti medal, John teaches music history at Fordham and maintains a private practice of music instruction. She has been with the College at 60 since 1984. Her degree specialty is the works of Ludwig von Beethoven. She has taught numerous classical music courses on opera, symphony, concerto, and great composers.

Howard Krukofsky, M.A. Columbia University Twice a recipient of Fordham’s Bene Merenti medal, Krukofsky has been on the faculty for more than 40 years, teaching American, intellectual, and European history. He retired as the director of Pre-professional Programs at CUNY’s Hunter College and is a national off icer of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.

Jean-Marc Oppenheim, Ph.D., Columbia University Oppenheim has been teaching courses on the political and social history of the Middle East, the Islamic world, and modern Europe; sociocultural imperialism; and civil-military relations for more than three decades at Columbia University, NYU, Stevens Institute of Technology, and Fordham. He was an institute scholar at the Yale MacMillan Council on Middle East Studies and an overseas delegate for Oxford University in New York in the Mountbatten Internship Programme. He is an editor of Views from the Edge: Essays in Honor of Richard W. Bulliet as well as author and editor of numerous articles, book chapters, and book reviews. He has two books under preparation for publication—Playing the Colonial Game in Egypt: Cultural Imperialism and the Alexandria Sporting Club 1860–1960 and The Transformation of American Fencing: New York’s Fencing Club, 1883 to the Present.

Byron Shafer, Ph.D. Harvard University An emeritus associate professor of theology and religious studies at Fordham and the pastor emeritus of Rutgers Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, Shafer also served for many years as the Protestant host of Religion on the Line, an interfaith call-in radio program on WABC. In retirement, he has been a visiting professor of Old and New Testaments at United Theological College in Bangalore, India, as well as an adjunct professor at Fordham.

Marie Sheehan, Ed.D. Columbia University Twice a recipient of Fordham’s Bene Merenti medal, Sheehan has been teaching at the College at 60 since its inception in 1973. She also maintains a private therapeutic practice.

Robert Spiegelman, Ph.D.City University of New York Spiegelman is a sociologist who has incorporated f ilm for many years as an integral part of his courses at Fordham, Long Island University, and the College of Staten Island. He is an accomplished statewide public speaker with the New York Council for the Humanities. In addition to his innovative sociology/f ilm courses for the College at 60, he also teaches sociology of media and urban sociology in Fordham’s undergraduate colleges. Spiegelman is an original member of Fordham’s groundbreaking Excel program. He is also a screenwriter and creative producer, with several feature f ilm and documentary projects under development.

Philip Suchma, Ph.D.Ohio State University Currently an adjunct professor of American cultural history and interdisciplinary studies, Suchma has specialized in sport history and the development of cultural urban spaces. He has published numerous articles and book reviews as well as a book chapter for The Rise of Stadiums in the Modern United States: Cathedrals of Sport. He has also been a reviewer for the Journal of Sport History and Sociology of Sport Journal.

Sharon Suchma, Ph.D.City University of New York An alumna of Fordham’s Medieval Studies program, Suchma earned her doctorate in the photography of 1930s America. In addition to teaching at Fordham, she has taught courses on modern art and the history of photography in a number of colleges, including Pratt, Parsons, the New School for Design, Fairleigh Dickinson University, and Brooklyn College. She has also done curatorial work for shows that focus on the history of abstract art in New York City.

Cira Vernazza, M.A.Fordham University Currently an associate dean in Fordham’s School of Professional and Continuing Studies and director of the College at 60 program, Vernazza has taught modern European history for more than 17 years at Fordham. Her degree specialty is English and European history of the 16th and 17th centuries. She is a recipient of the University’s Archbishop Hughes Medal for service.

School of Professional and Continuing Studies

College at 60

School of Professional and Continuing Studies

College at 60 SPRING 2018 COURSE CATALOG

School of Professional and Continuing Studies

College at 60 SPRING 2018 COURSE CATALOG

113 W. 60th St., Room LL 301, New York, NY 10023 | 212-636-6372

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