Undergraduate Courses

This course examines how globalization impacts the construction of gender and sexuality. Through discussions of contemporary issues in various global sites, the course addresses the politics of gender as it is shaped by trans-border flows of media, people and cultural products.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

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This course serves both as a methods course and a math content course. Students will concurrently learn Euclidean Plane Geometry content and equitable pedagogical approaches for teaching this content at the secondary level.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course will include further study of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols as they apply to the German language and the rules for lyrical pronunciation of Hoch Deutsch. Students will be required to transliterate song texts into IPA and demonstrate mastery of the diction rules through the performance of assigned repertoire.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This survey class is intended for students to experience a fuller range of techniques over two semesters. Each semester can be taken independently from the other. The first semester focuses on blowing, hot casting, stained glass, mosaic, & kiln casting (fusing and slumping). The second semester concentrates on coldworking, sandblasting, lampworking, & beadmaking.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

This course examines globalization as it is inscribed in everyday practices through the transnational traffic of persons, cultural artifacts and ideas. The course will focus on issues of transnational mobility, modernity, the local/global divide and pay specific attention to how categories of race, gender and ethnicity intersect with transnational change.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

This course will examine the origins, development, and meanings of so-called cultural conflict in the United States. Topics will include abortion, gay rights, bilingualism, and the teaching of evolution in public schools.
Liberal Arts Core/CORE Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Cultures & Contexts for Steinhardt students.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities
• Liberal Arts Core: Cultures and Contexts

This studio course examines a mixtape selection of electronic music from around the world using music theory and composition. Global electronic music necessitates diverse methodologies in critical discussion of the research of this music in a post/neo-colonial setting. Students engage in critical discussion of the studio and the digital audio workstation as compositional tools and of the music itself as innovation, communication, and historiography in global communities of the Information age

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Designed for art students, this lecture course spans a range of histories from across the globe and challenges how we view, understand, and approach concepts of time, globality, and history. We examine canons, works, and phenomena traditionally excluded from art history focusing on key concepts like image, space, material, text, and ritual in artistic practice. Weekly studies of diverse objects and practices explore cultural, historical, and social contexts that shape art. Draws on multiple disciplines, aiming to connect historical periods with contemporary art.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

This course examines public policy issues and institutions of media governance at the international level. It provides an historical overview of the various institutions and actors involved in global media governance, and assesses the various principles and practices that constitute the regime of global media governance, including regulation of broadcasting, telecommunications, the Internet, and trade in media products. Special attention paid to current and emerging debates.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

Specifically for students in the Global Media Scholars program, this course is the required culminating experience taken in the senior year, alongside a travel component during the January term. Course topics reflect faculty research interests, offering students a chance to explore emerging issues in the field of media studies, and are site-specific based on the country chosen for January travel.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

This class examines how televised media genres travel and circulate in specific historical, political and social conditions of consumption. We examine the battle for national, regional, and global media markets as a struggle for the 'legitimate' cultural and political view of the world expressed through information (news), scientific discourse (documentaries), and popular culture (films, soap operas, reality television, music) to understand the complex global flow of television programs and films.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

With an emphasis on British and European news and journalism, this course explores globalization
from a wide range of theoretical frameworks including political economy, cultural analysis, theories of
representation, and critical race and postcolonial studies. It considers how technologies, diasporic and
transnational communities, and international institutions impact global communications, and how these networks
and organizations are challenging, re-imagining and re-shaping social, cultural and geographic boundaries via
mediated discourse.

The course addresses issues and perspectives in global communication, a rapidly evolving field. Students critically assess shifts in national, regional, and international media patterns of production, distribution, and consumption over time, and critically analyze the tumultuous contemporary global communication environment. Topics include national and global media consolidation, cultural implications of globalization, international broadcasting, information flows, law and regulation, and emerging technologies. The focus of the course is international.

The course acquaints students with Latin American theories, practices, and representations of the media. Departing from a critical approach to Habermas's theory of the public sphere, the course traces the arc of the media in Latin America from independence to the post-neoliberal era and the so-called “Media Wars.” Students engage in current incendiary debates about the role of the media, the new media law, and the complex relationship between the media, politics and the state.

The course introduces students to the basic structures and practices of media in Europe and their relationship to everyday social life. Specific case studies highlight current trends in the production, distribution, consumption, and regulation of media. Topics include: national and regional idioms in a range of media genres, from entertainment to advertising and publicity, to news and information; legal norms regarding content and freedom of expression; pirate and independent media; and innovations and emerging practices in digital media.