Director: Christophre Georges, Professor of Economics
Phone: 315-859-4472
Email: cgeorges@hamilton.edu
We will focus on macroeconomic developments in the global economy including the global recession of 2007-2009, the shifting geography of production, income, innovation, and finance, and regional and global macroeconomic policy.
Critical examination of some of the global issues and challenges considered through the lens of macroeconomics and macroeconomic policy. Issues to include economic globalization, the geography of production, income, innovation, and finance, international aspects of macroeconomic and regulatory policy, global imbalances, and ecological sustainability. The course is organized around readings, class discussion, films, guest discussion leaders, and field trips in New York City.
New York City was an epicenter of the global financial crisis and recession of 2007-2009 as well as the international policy response to the crisis. What caused the crisis and recession? How effective were international policy responses? What were the patterns of recovery and growth following the recession? Can future financial crises be prevented?
A tutorial resulting in a substantial paper that integrates experience and learning from the internship with an academic perspective and knowledge gained in the seminars or other tutorial readings.
An Independent Study supervised by the director of the Program in New York City and based on an internship with a firm, organization, agency or advocacy group appropriate to the theme of course.
Director: Ella Gant, Associate Professor of Art
Phone: 315-859-4265
Email: egant@hamilton.edu
New York City has long been one of the cultural centers in the global art economy. Artists, art historians, curators, art dealers, and auction houses form a complex global network spanning national boundaries and connecting major cities and diverse cultures around the world. These networks tend to be strongly concentrated in key metropolitan cities like New York City, London, Rio de Janeiro, and Cairo. Our approach to art making and the economies of art production will be interdisciplinary and embrace visual traditions that cross cultures.
Hamilton's art program is concerned with the creation of visual incidents, and the dialogue surrounding the communication and placement of a visual object or experience in both contemporary and historical global contexts. Through readings and discussion students investigate the life cycle of an art object from studio to store.
1 Credit.
Students continue and deepen their critical examination of the necessity of the arts to human experience through visits to cultural institutions; attending events at diverse cultural institutions, such as P.S. 1, The Kitchen, Dickson Place, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music; and presentations by some of the world’s leading artists, curators, museum and gallery directors, and auctioneers.
1 Credit. Fulfills Art 350 Junior Seminar concentration requirement.
Students will receive a credit for working with an artist, or interning at a gallery (profit or non-profit), design firm, auction house, or museum.
1 Credit. Graded Credit/No Credit.
Artists make things. This independent study is concerned with the creation of visual incidents, and the dialogue surrounding the communication and placement of a visual object or experience in both a contemporary and historical context. Students will examine their experiences of the complex relationships in the field of global art via the traditional form of drawing. The sketchbook represents the connection to this ongoing tradition that crosses time and place.
Pre-Req. 100 or 200 level Art Course, Prefer Art 104 or Art 160.
1 Credit. May count toward concentration credit.
