Columbia University was going to offer a course on Occupy Wall Street this spring, the New York Post and others reported last week—but it looks like that announcement was premature.
The anthropology class at Columbia was to be called “Occupy the Field: Global Finance, Inequality, Social Movement.” However, administrators said the course didn’t go through the necessary faculty approval process in order to be offered this spring, according to Bwog, the blog of Columbia University’s monthly undergraduate magazine, The Blue and White. Hence, the course is no longer listed among the department’s offerings for the semester starting Jan. 17.
Students at NYU, though, will be able to get credit for studying the movement in an undergraduate course in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, taught by Professor Lisa Duggan.
“Occupy Wall Street has done us all the service of illuminating [the fact] that the economy operates within the framework of political, social and cultural conflicts, and not outside them,” Duggan told Washington Square News, NYU’s daily student newspaper.
The university will also offer a graduate course on OWS with Professor of Sociology Jeff Goodwin.
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Letta Page — January 10, 2012
Hopefully they'll make use of the tons of interesting TSP content about OWS!
There's Graphic Sociology: http://thesocietypages.org/graphicsociology/tag/ows/
Sociology Lens: http://thesocietypages.org/sociologylens/tag/ows/
Cyborgology: http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/tag/occupy/
Teaching the Social World: http://thesocietypages.org/teaching/tag/social-movements/
And, of course, Citings & Sightings: http://thesocietypages.org/citings/tag/occupy-wall-street/
Happy reading!
Laura Norén — January 13, 2012
NYU has another course offering that doesn't take it's name from the 99% or Occupy Wall Street but it does cover theories of money, finance, and financialization pertinent to what (at least some) of the Occupy Wall Street movement is about. Called "Media and Culture of Money" it's offered through the Media, Culture and Communication department and taught by bond trader turned cultural theorist Robert Wosnitzer.
Promises to be very interesting for students interested in the ideology of finance.
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