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
LIB2205ARCH2205 Learning Places
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.
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.
An overview of the history, likely directions and organizational structure of the hospitality industry and its role in local, national and global economies. Students are introduced to the nature and scope of the hospitality industry, basic terminology, management concepts, career path explorations and the department’s mission and culture.
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.
My Projects
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Living Lab General Education Seminar Winter 2023
This is a collaborative space for use by Living Laboratory General Education Seminar participants. This seminar will concentrate on incorporating the general education outcome of Intercultural Knowledge and Competence into our courses focusing on Kuh’s High Impact Educational Practices, place based learning, open pedagogy and assessment practices.
Advice, tips and resources from faculty, staff and students to ensure all Hospitality Management students can design their own path to graduation.
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