Social Sciences Faculty Research Symposium
On Wednesday, Oct 30, 2024 from 12:10 PM to 01:00 PM
Location: Library Building, Room-LB29
This Lecture
is for Students, Alumni, Faculty and Staff
In response to the challenges of online teaching during the Covid 19 pandemic, Dr. Julia Rothenberg developed a semester-long assignment around an immersive community-based research project in which students examined the impact of the pandemic on several New York City community-based arts organizations. In this presentation, Dr. Rothenberg will address how the project encouraged new and old questions about how to teach Sociology of the Arts to students whose cultural capital is not compatible with conventional academic rewards systems. She will also reveal how challenges posed by teaching sociology of the arts during troubling times prompted her to systematically evaluate the contributions of two seemingly incompatible pedagogical approaches to teaching sociology: the tradition of humanist sociology and the more deterministic perspective on social reproduction, education, and culture offered by the French Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Finally, Dr. Rothenberg will discuss the implementation, challenges, and successes of this experiential learning project, as well as the impact this experience had on her own thinking about the tensions between humanist sociology and social determinism.
Julia Rothenberg is an associate professor of Sociology at Queensborough Community College, CUNY, where she teaches courses in Sociology of the Arts, Urban Sociology and Introductory Sociology.
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This event is sponsored by Social Sciences Department
Contact Name: Amy Traver
Contact Email: [email protected]
