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.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

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

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

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

• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies

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.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

This experiential learning course enables students to integrate academic knowledge with supervised professional work experience aligned to their field of study. Through reflective practice and hands-on engagement, students develop essential professional skills, gain insight into workplace expectations, and identify resources and professional networks that support career development and employment opportunities in their chosen discipline.

• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies

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

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

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

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

• Department: Applied Psychology

This course examines fashion as a form of communication and culture. We 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 situated fashion both in terms of its production and consumption, addressing its role in 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.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

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 for Steinhardt students.

• Department: Art and Art Professions
• Liberal Arts Core: Expressive Culture

Issues related to methods of food production, distribution, marketing, trade and politics, and the impact of these methods on foods intake and the environment in contemporary societies.

• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies

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.

• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies
• Liberal Arts Core: 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

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Participation and experience in the professional field of major interest.

• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies

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.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course introduces film history through a broad survey of the medium’s development from the late nineteenth century through the twentieth century. Students examine the emergence of cinematic form and language, including narrative, editing, sound, genre, and spectatorship, alongside the growth and transformation of film as an industry. The course considers film in the United States and across national, regional, and global contexts, with attention to how cinema has shaped and been shaped by culture, politics, technology, and industry.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

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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Comprehensive study of flute-related topics, including repertoire spanning all style periods, sound, phrasing, articulation, technique, and physical setup.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions