Susan Phillip’s Profile
Urban history, architecture and planning; cultural heritage tourism
Susan Phillip is Associate Professor in the Department of Hospitality Management, where she teaches courses in tourism. She developed, and teaches, interdisciplinary courses examining contested monuments and the evolution of Brooklyn’s industrial waterfront; she is a frequent ID guest lecturer on issues related to New York City’s built environment. Place is her pedagogy, and she uses Brooklyn and NYC as resources. Her chapter, “Using Monuments to Teach About Racism, Colonialism, and Sexism,” was included in the book, Interdisciplinary Team Teaching: A Collaborative Study of High-Impact Practices. Her background includes museum-sponsored educational travel and marketing. She is a graduate of Howard University and New York University.
My Courses
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HMGT 4987 Urban Tourism Summer 2018
This course will examine urban tourism as a vehicle of urban renewal and economic regeneration. The roles of government, business, and the community will be explored as well as issues of development, management, the environment and social equity. New York City and Brooklyn will be evaluated as models for the development, challenges and opportunities of urban tourism.
Urban Tourism HMGT4987, Fall 2019
This course will examine urban tourism as a vehicle of urban renewal and economic regeneration. The roles of government, business, and the community will be explored as well as issues of development, management, the environment and social equity. New York City and Brooklyn will be evaluated as models for the development, challenges and opportunities of urban tourism.
LIB2205/ARCH2205 LEARNING PLACES: UNDERSTANDING THE CITY
This special topics course offers an interdisciplinary approach to investigating our built environment using a case study focused on a specific place each semester. This course combines physical examination with information research and data collection using methodologies developed in multiple disciplines. Students from a variety of departments engage in on-site exploration and in-depth research of a location in New York City. Faculty from Hospitality Management and Social Sciences will be teaching the course this semester and will thus focus the course material through the lens of psychological/social science and hospitality and tourism.
LIB2205ID Learning Places, FA2020
This special topics course offers an interdisciplinary approach to investigating our built environment using a case study focused on a specific place each semester. This course combines physical examination with information research and data collection using methodologies developed in multiple disciplines. Students from a variety of departments engage in on-site exploration and in-depth research of a location in New York City. Faculty from the Library and Architectural Technology Departments are teaching the course this semester, and will thus focus course material through a lens of architecture, urban studies, and information studies.
My Projects
Living Lab General Education Seminar Winter 2025
This is a collaborative space for use by Living Laboratory General Education Seminar participants. This seminar will concentrate on incorporating the general education outcomes of civic engagement, critical thinking, ethical reasoning, information literacy, and teamwork into our courses focusing on George D. Kuh’s High Impact Educational Practices, place-based learning, open pedagogy, and assessment practices.
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Living Lab General Education Seminar
This site serves as a primary hub of information and resources for participants of the City Tech Living Lab General Education Seminar beginning in Spring 2019. General Education is a critical component of City Tech’s curriculum. This seminar provides support and training to full-time and part-time faculty seeking to enhance their integration of Gen Ed learning objectives into their assignments and courses. This site has compiled links to many of the Gen Ed seminar sites from previous years to serve as an archive and historical overview of the seminar.
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