Arts and Science Undergraduate Semester Program

As part of Vanderbilt’s Arts and Science NYC program, students must participate in a six-credit academic internship in New York. Students will work for approximately 18 in-person hours/week with a direct supervisor. Students pursue internships with the support of Vanderbilt’s Career Center.

This required three-credit Internship Practicum gives students a framework for connecting their internship with the academic expertise gained in their coursework. Students will apply leadership theories and ethical understanding from their coursework to their internship experience and will pursue a project that leverages their insights and forges connections.

• HIST-NYC 2745: City of Migration
  New York City as a driver and product of human mobility from the 19th century to the present. Intersections of immigrants, labor, race, and urban policy. Site visits in key neighborhoods, research in local archives, and engagement with community institutions. [3 credits] (US) (Core C, E)
  
  
• HART-NYC  2805: Intro to Museum Studies
  Fundamentals of museum history; diversity, theory, current practices, and ethics related to collecting and collection management, interpretation, and display. Global perspectivewith emphasis on Euro-American museums. Museums of Art, Anthropology, History, and Science. Includes site visits to local museums. [3 credits] (P) (CORE B, E)
  
  
• ECON-NYC 2300: Money and Banking
  A study of commercial banks and other intermediaries between savers and investors in the United States, including the government's role as money creator, lender, and regulator of private credit, and the effects of financial institutions on aggregate economic activity. Prerequisite: 1010 and 1020. [3 credits] (SBS) (CORE B)
  
  
• MHS-NYC 2250 : What Is Health?
  Interdisciplinary exploration of how health is defined, contested, and pursued across social, cultural, and policy domains, including infrastructure, activism, hospitals and clinics, politics, media, and popular discourse. Uses the city as a laboratory to analyze health as a social good, a business, and a moral imperative. [3 credits] (SBS) (Core C, E)
  
  
• CORE-NYC 2500: Mapping New York City
  This course examines how mapping has shaped and continues to shape New York, from Lenape homelands and Dutch mercantile visions through slavery, immigration, and industrial capitalism to the present day. We analyze infrastructures from Vanderbilt railways to Moses-era megaprojects and the counter-maps of Jane Jacobs and contemporary activists. Art, queer histories, and immigration records reveal alternative visions of New York. Fieldwork and archival encounters reveal how maps encode power, imagination, and inequality in the city’s evolving fabric. [3 credits]