Undergraduate Courses

This course will focus on the lyrical pronunciation rules for American and British English. Students will be required to demonstrate mastery of these rules through transliteration of song texts into the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and in performance of assigned repertoire.

Students will acquire a basic framework for understanding the discipline of entrepreneurship and how to apply it to the music industry. The course is organized around the creation, assessment, growth development, and operation of new and emerging ventures in the for-profit music environments. Key concepts will be explored using the case methods.

This course will investigate the dominant critical perspectives that have contributed to the development of Environmental Communication as a field of study. This course explores the premise that the way we communicate powerfully impacts our perceptions of the "natural" world, and that these perceptions shape the way we define our relationships to and within nature. The goal of this course is to access various conceptual frame woks for addressing questions about the relationship between the environment, culture and communication. Students will explore topics such as nature/wildlife tourism, consumerism, representations of the environment in popular culture and environmental activism.

Introduction to the art and science of cuisine characteristics of selected world cultures through lectures, demonstrations, hands-on preparation, and field trips.

Students who plan on pursuing careers in the media (professional and academic) will be faced with difficulty choices that carry with them potent ethical repercussions, choices that practical training does not properly equip them to approach in a critical and informed manner. The purpose of this course is therefore twofold: 1) to equip future media professional with sensitivity to moral values under challenge as well as the necessary skills in critical thinking and decision making for navigating their roles and responsibilities in relation to them; and 2) honing those same skills and sensitivities for consumers of media and citizens in media saturated societies.

Fame, notoriety, renown – the desire to be recognized and immortalized is the most enduring and perhaps the most desirable form of power. Culture, commerce, politics, and religion all proffer promises of fame – whether for fifteen minutes or fifteen centuries. This course will investigate this subject by asking, what is fame? Why do people want it? How do they get it? What can they do with it? In other words, what kind of good is fame? Drawing on texts from history, ethnography, theory, literature, philosophy, and contemporary media, this course will reflect on the ethics, erotics, pragmatics and pathologies of fame.

Fame—celebrity, notoriety, renown—confers both recognition and immortality.
It is the most enduring and desirable form of social power; a uniquely
human ambition and a central force in social life. Culture, commerce,
politics, and religion all proffer promises of fame, whether for fifteen
minutes or fifteen centuries. Drawing on texts from history, anthropology,
sociology, literature, philosophy, and contemporary media, this course
will reflect on the ethics, erotics, pragmatics and pathologies of fame. We
will compare fame to other forms of recognition (reputation, honor,
charisma, infamy, etc.), and look at how fame operates in various social
and historical circumstances, from small agricultural communities to
enormous, hyper-mediated societies such as our own. How does the fame of
the oral epic differ from the fame of the printed book or the fame of the
photograph? We'll consider the enduring question of fame as it transforms
across space, time, social boundaries, and technological conditions.

Examination of the complex relationships between family and school systems, with a special focus on low-income urban communities as they relate to child development. Topics explore the roles culture, immigration, and racial/ethnic diversity play in establishing effective partnerships between families and schools.

This course examines fashion as a form of communication and culture. Through cultural and media studies theory, we will examine how fashion makes meaning, and how it has been valued through history, popular culture and media institutions, focusing on the relationship between fashion, visual self-presentation, and power. The course will situate fashion both n terms of its production and consumption, addressing its role in relation to identity and body politics (gender, race, sexuality, class), art and status, nationhood and the global economy, celebrity and Hollywood culture, youth cultures and subversive practices.

This course examines fashion both from its diffusion in a globalized society, and as a form of communication and culture. We will examine how fashion has been valued through social sciences - history and sociology on the one hand, and economy on the other hand, from its production to its consumption. The course will address fashion in terms of issues of consumerism and sustainability in a post-industrialized society.

Why do fashion designers and brands exert such influence in contemporary society? What explains the trajectory from The House of Worth to Chanel to this season’s hottest label? This course investigates the interlocking forces shaping fashion: the designer system, celebrities, technology, politics, the arts and media. Through lectures and film viewings, readings, discussions, and individual research, students explore fashion as a crucial aspect of culture and how the fashion system evolved from roots in Parisian couture to become a global phenomenon.

Liberal Arts Core/MAP Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Expressive Cultures

In this course students think across disciplines to consider what it means to satisfy our literal and metaphorical hunger. Students analyze the relationships between body and soul, self and surrounding, hunger and satiety and visit NYC-based institutions like Essex Street Crossing and the Street Vendor Project to further understand how feeding body and soul works outside of the classroom. Liberal Arts Core/CORE Equivalent- satisfies the requirement for Cultures and Contexts.

This course is designed to introduce prospective teachers to the broad and diverse array of institutions that educate children and youth. Working in pairs or small groups, students visit and observe in two or three sites such as museums, settlement houses, schools, child care centers, and volunteer social service programs.

Participation and experience in the professional field of major interest.

This course explores the aesthetics and history of music in cinema. Through examination of scenes from seminal films, assigned readings of historical texts, lectures, and class discussion, the course examines the history of cinema from the viewpoint of its music and provides students with the tools to cogently analyze music for cinema. During the class, students learn to apply historical, cultural, and semiotic analytical methods to unfold the cultural and artistic significance of a movie and its music. No prior training in music is required.

An exploration of film as a medium of information, conveyor and creator of culture and a form of aesthetic expression. Course examines the historical development of film as both a cultural product and industry.

This seminar is to provide students with a facilitated experience filled with information and resources to allow for a successful first year at NYU Steinhardt while building leadership skills for the future. The seminar includes workshops related to college transition, leadership development, enhanced understanding of elements revolving around diversity and inclusion, and community building.

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Course focuses on how people use food to identify themselves as individuals and as groups. Students will ascertain the meaning and significance of food in different cultures by exploring the way that ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status and religion influence our food choices. In addition, they will also examine how people transmit and preserve culture using food. Through reading scholarly articles, personal essays, book excerpts, newspaper articles, cookbooks and viewing films, students will examine the intricate relationships that people have with food. Course looks critically at the following questions: how can food have different meanings and uses for different people? How does food function both to foster community feeling and drive wedges among people? What are some prevailing academic theories that help society understand some of these patterns of identification and how do societies change over time?

Liberal Arts Core/CORE Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Society and Social Sciences