AIP 331 Greenwich Village (UP)
Greenwich Village is a small topic with big possibilities for researching numerous topics in architecture, art, Beats, bohemians, gay and lesbian history, immigrants, labor reform, photography, women’s history and urban renewal. The course will begin by using a variety of primary and secondary sources, fiction and nonfiction, to discuss the geographic, demographic, social, aesthetic, political and economic forces that have shaped Greenwich Village since the eighteenth century. The class includes a walking tour of the places the students have studied.