Overview
New York City is a familiar location to many Colgate students, but this study group offers students the opportunity to experience it in a unique context. A densely populated metropolis with diverse residents, New York City has a rich history, an ever-evolving present, and is a true hub of arts and culture within the United States. Brooklyn, where the study group will be based, is home to a wide variety of dynamic, distinctive neighborhoods, and is full of exciting music and arts venues, and iconic sites like the Brooklyn Bridge, the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, and Prospect Park.
Living and studying in New York City for the semester places students at one of the epicenters of local and global “flows” of media and the arts, surrounded by institutions including Anthology Film Archives, The Flaherty, the Museum of the Moving Image, UnionDocs, Women Make Movies, Cinema Tropical, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Brooklyn Museum, the Paley Center, Lincoln Center, and Rooftop Films, to name just a few. New York City also hosts numerous film festivals, including the New York Film Festival, the New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Film Festival, and the New York Asian Film Festival, and is the site of many museums with excellent film and media collections.