Undergraduate Courses

The course on “Media, Activism & Democracy” aims at, first, introducing students to the complex and fascinating topic of civil society activism; second, at illustrating them the linkages between activism and media; third, at showing them the impact of civil society’s advocacy on contemporary political systems. In a nutshell, the course aims at providing students with a closer understanding of the civil society activism-media-politics conundrums at the national and global levels.

This seminar addresses global media developments in the context of key theoretical frameworks. Topics include: the disruption of information flows; challenges to democracy; distrust in journalism; the rise of social platforms; gender and diversity biases; ethics and regulation; fake news and deep fakes; the erosion of privacy; citizen journalism; cancel culture; hacktivism and digital activism; #metoo and #blacklivesmatter; the metaverse and VR/AR; Web 3.0 and blockchain; and generative AI. The focus is international, with an emphasis on Australia.

Global Music Trend Analysis provides undergraduate students abroad with the opportunity to conduct primary & secondary research about the music industry in their local country, compare their findings with students concurrently in different locations, research business expansion into their local country, & propose an international expansion plan to a music company.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

An introduction to selected musical sounds and practices from cultural groups around the world. Through exposure to distinct musical cultures, from traditional to transnational, students define and apply musical concepts such as rhythm, timbre, melody, and form. Socio-cultural contexts are also examined, touching on issues such as race, gender, embodied participation, technologies of production and circulation, and relationship to religion, the state, and other social structures.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course examines television in the streaming era, focusing on how television is produced, circulated, and consumed across national, regional, and transnational contexts. Students explore streaming platforms, infrastructures, algorithms, formats and genres, audiences, and industries, with attention to how global television shapes and is shaped by culture, identity, language, power, and uneven conditions of media production and distribution.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

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The course examines the conceptual & empirical work on the social, cultural, & economic aspects of globalization & their implications for education. We shall explore education in light of: 1) the increasing de-territorialization of cultural formations; 2) the emergence of global markets along with the post-nationalization of the production & distribution of goods & services -- with a concomitant premiss on knowledge -- intensive work; 3) new information & communication technologies which are reshaping the structure & meaning of work, belonging & community; 4) unprecedented population movements & worldwide immigration. We shall examine recent conceptual work, in globalization & its relationships to human experience with a focus on youth.

Liberal Arts Core/CORE Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Society & Social Sciences for Steinhardt students.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities
• Liberal Arts Core: Societies and the Social Sciences

This course, taught in small groups of students, serves as an introduction to music composition for the concert stage in an environment that stimulates discussion and collaboration. Students in the group will be encouraged to collaborate in writing pieces, and to critique each other’s works.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course, taught in small groups of students, serves as an introduction to music composition for film, TV, videogames, and commercial media in an environment that stimulates Field available for additional information in footer
discussion and collaboration. Students in the group will be encouraged to collaborate in writing pieces, and to critique each other’s works.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course, taught in small groups of students, serves as an introduction to songwriting in an environment that stimulates discussion and collaboration. Students in the group will be encouraged to collaborate in writing pieces, and to critique each other's works.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

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

• Department: Applied Psychology

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

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Study and performance of chamber music.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

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

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

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

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

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.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

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.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This lecture course examines the evolution of global art movements with a focus on ecology, feminism, and decolonial practices. Students explore how these frameworks have reshaped artistic production, challenging traditional narratives and providing alternative perspectives on art, culture, and identity. Through critical discussions and readings, students develop a deeper understanding of how contemporary art reflects and responds to the socio-political realities of the post-1945 world.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

This 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 and 21st centuries. This course familiarizes students with the social forces and techno-cultural innovations that shaped the computing industry. Specific historical themes may include: personal computing; Cold War computing; computing and globalization; the quantified self; computational aesthetics; artificial intelligence and machine learning; computing and gender.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

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.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication