Mike wrote a new post, Human Subjects Research Certification, on the site The...
Every student in every class at Hunter who does research directly involving human subjects has to take a short, easy online course. This shouldn’t take more than an hour or two at the most: Register...
View ArticleMike wrote a new post, Neighborhood Description, on the site The Peopling of NYC
This will create a post introducing you to your classmates and me, and will serve as good practice for posting to the site. Create a new post containing the text of your neighborhood description, your...
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In order to divide you into research/film-making teams, I would like some information on your preferred work partners, if any, and the roles that you might like to perform. Making a film and conducting...
View ArticleMike wrote a new post, Week 2 Reading Response Questions, on the site The...
The following questions are meant to guide your reading and give you a framework for your blog posts, but feel free to a) ignore the questions and respond in a different way to the readings, or b)...
View ArticleMike wrote a new post, Week 4 Reading Questions, on the site The Peopling of NYC
This week we start thinking in a more detailed way about assimilation. The Gordon and Gerstle readings define assimilation and put it in historical context, showing how “American” values and social...
View ArticleMike wrote a new post, Week 3 Reading Questions, on the site The Peopling of NYC
This week we are starting to talk about actual New York neighborhoods, and we’re beginning with perhaps the most notorious neighborhood in New York City history, the “Five Points.” First, watch the...
View ArticleMike wrote a new post, Zooming In, on the site The Peopling of NYC
In this first assignment, your group is asked to “zoom in” from the statistical overview of your neighborhood (courtesy of Social Explorer) to close observations of at least three food-related...
View ArticleMike wrote a new post, Week 6 Reading Question, on the site The Peopling of NYC
You may find the Sullivan and Guest texts redundant, as they both set out to briefly describe the controversy surrounding Alejandro Portes’s “ethnic enclave” theory. Feel free to focus on the reading...
View ArticleMike wrote a new post, Telling Stories, on the site The Peopling of NYC
For this assignment, you’ll revisit your neighborhood and conduct several interviews about food. You can choose to interview the owners, managers or employees of the restaurants you visited for your...
View ArticleMike wrote a new post, Week 7 Reading Question, on the site The Peopling of NYC
After doing the Orozco and Gabbacia readings, reflect on the question that the Gabbacia reading addresses: What, in your opinion, makes a given food “American”? Provide your own answer to this...
View ArticleMike wrote a new post, Week 4 Reading Questions, on the site The Peopling of NYC
This week we start thinking in a more detailed way about assimilation, the so-called American melting pot, and how both of these concepts are manifested in historical debates over immigrant places of...
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