Undergraduate Courses

Examination of group dynamics through reading, lecture, discussion, & participation in small experiential groups. Discussion of the processes that occur in the development of groups.

Group lessons (by examination) in guitar, supplemented by extra assignments, outside practice, observation.

Study and performance of chamber music.

A performance class devoted to precise understanding of orchestral excerpts from standard repertoire found on auditions. Students study includes tempo, dynamics, articulation & precision.

An examination of scale fingerings, arpeggios, bowings, articulations & rhythmic patterns through single scales & double stops.

Examines ways that hip hop culture, texts, and language exists as valuable resources worthy of serious study in secondary English classrooms. Students will learn to teach English by learning hip hop, learning about hip hop, and learning through hip hop. Group projects focus on grounded investigations in the area of critical literacy, sociolinguistics, and English language arts teaching/learning. Readings will cover divergent voices in contemporary society as students consider ways to integrate such voices into existing language and literacy curriculums, K through college.

Exploration of the vernacular & theatrically influenced forms of Hip Hop dance including but not limited to Breaking, Popping, Locking & Krumping & identifying commonalities & differences within the Hip Hop practices. Focusing on the historical & cultural context & its importance to education in the various schools of dance sectors, students will experience pedagogical approaches, along with approaches to technique, improvisation & cognitive content. Classes will be conducted to Hip Hop, house & dance music from the past three decades. Classes will be begin with a set warm-up & follow with stretching & conditioning exercises. Depending on the week’s focus, there will be across-the-floor progression series & practice techniques of that week’s particular hip-hop dance form. Class will always conclude with a combination that incorporates that week’s dance form & other hip-hop dance forms.

Study of painting and sculpture in America in 1945 to the present with background information concerning development of styles and movements in art in the 20th century. Lectures, discussions, slides, gallery and museum visits.

This umbrella course focuses on specific time periods, technological developments and cultural contexts relevant to understanding the development of digital computing technology over the course of the 20th century and into the 21st. This course familiarizes students with the social forces and techno-cultural innovations
that shaped the computing industry. Specific themes may include: personal computing; Cold War computing; computing and globalization; the quantified self; computational aesthetics; artificial intelligence and machine learning; computing and gender.

This course focuses on technological developments and cultural contexts relevant to understanding the development of digital computing technology. The course familiarizes students with the social forces and technocultural innovations that shaped the personal computing industry, and uses primary documents, academic history and critical theory to contextualize and problematize popular frameworks of technological progress and challenge narratives of computing's inevitability.

Photography is an indispensable component of fashion. It is both a persuasive tool
for selling clothing and accessories and a record of artistic movements, expressions of beauty, gender and social trends. This course traces the development of fashion photography in relation to contemporary fashion, aesthetic influence, photographic styles and techniques, cultural customs and commercial needs. It begins in the 1920s with the growth of periodicals devoted to fashion and continues through the work of the present day.

This course introduces students to key concepts in history of media and communication, and to the stakes of historical inquiry. Rather than tracing a necessarily selective historical arc from alphabet to Internet or from cave painting to coding, the course is organized around an exploration of case studies in context.

This course introduces students to key concepts in the history of media and communication, and to the stakes of historical inquiry. Rather than tracing a necessarily selective historical arc from alphabet to Internet or from cave painting to coding, the course is organized around an exploration of case studies in context. Liberal Arts Core/CORE Equivalent for Societies and the Social Sciences.

This course examines the vast and rich myth-making power of Hollywood film narratives that influence dominant cultural views of American identity. Students view films that explore problems and promises of American culture and society such as equality, democracy, justice, class, gender, sexual orientation, and race/ethnicity. Students analyze films while considering the work of historians, sociologists, film critics, media studies scholars, anthropologists and journalists. Students will screen films outside of class. Assignments include creating a short film that explores the city where myths are both lived out and refuted on a daily basis.

This course provides a laboratory environment where students learn to record, arrange, and produce their own high-quality performance videos using low-cost home equipment and software. The class culminates in each student building a website and internet presence that showcases the content created throughout the course.

This is a semester-long seminar for students in the Honors Program in the
Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders. The seminar has three main objectives: (a) provide a forum where students engage in a serious intellectual discussion about the process of conducting independent research, (b) provide guidance and structure to students in the process of conducting their independent research projects, and (c) prepare students for presentation of their honors thesis in a professional forum. All honors students must have a
research mentor and approved research project prior to registering for the course.

A year-long seminar sequence intended only for students in the honors program in applied psychology. The seminars have three main objectives: (a) to provide a forum where students engage in serious intellectual discussion about the process of research, (b) to provide guidance and structure to students in the process of conducting their independent research studies, & (c) to prepare students for presentation of their senior thesis & oral examination. All honor students must have a research mentor & an approved research project prior to registering for the course.

Seminar course of students in the Honors Program in Applied Psychology. The course has three main objectives: (a) provide a forum where students engage in a serious intellectual discussion about the process of research, (b) to provide guidance & structure to students in the process of conducting their independent research studies, & (c) prepare students for presentation of senior thesis & oral examination. All honors students must have a research mentor & approved research project prior to registering for this course.

This course is a how-to manual for students who are interested in fashion, but don’t know how to explore it. It offers a toolbox of theoretical concepts, interdisciplinary scholarship, and historical and contemporary case studies. Students learn to ask questions like: How is taste mapped onto bodies in social space? Who works in fashion, and how is this work classified? How do images and clothes (both new and old) circulate around the globe? What does the science of sustainability look like? And, where is the body in fashion’s new digital imaginaries? Meets Steinhardt Lib Arts Core for Expressive Cultures

Structure and function of the skeletal, muscular, nervous and circulatory systems. The course is given in lecture format and enhanced with models, slides, handouts, and videotapes.