Undergraduate Courses

Methods for integrating music, art, dance, and drama into an integrated childhood
education curriculum.

Exploring interconnections among the subject areas of early childhood learning through the planning and implementation of integrated sciences, health, and social studies learning experiences. The integration of literacy and mathematical learning into these curricula and the critical role of the physical environment in supporting an integrated curriculum.

This course integrates children's literature, the arts, and technology. Thematic teaching methods specific to these individual content areas will develop prospective teacher's ability to use poetry, prose, storytelling, visual arts, dance, music, drama, computers, the internet and digital media with students grades one thru six. These subject areas will be taught in modules and simultaneously integrated through class activities and field research projects.

Explores the major reasons that people read, ways to engage adolescents in meaningful reading, ways to understand and enhance readers' meaning-making processes and experiences, and ways to assess adolescents' reading development over time. This course also addresses the language and literacy needs of English Language Learners and ways of addressing those needs through modifications of curriculum and instruction.

A seminar course designed to encourage the integration of theory and practice, taken concurrent to first semester of student teaching.

A seminar course designed to encourage the integration of theory and practice, taken concurrent to first semester of student teaching.

A seminar course designed to encourage the integration of theory and practice, taken concurrent to third semester of student teaching.

A seminar course designed to encourage the integration of theory and practice, taken concurrent with last semester of student teaching.

Exploration of dramatic play in integrated early childhood classroom.

Materials and strategies for creating an integrated early childhood curriculum with a focus on infusing the curriculum with music and movement activities.

Taken concurrently with the final semester of student teaching, this course focuses on the development, planning, and implementation of curriculum for diverse learners in early childhood and early childhood special education settings. Emphasizes curriculum integration, the role of the environment in supporting curriculum, methods of observation and assessment, and pedagogical practices. Encourages informed experimentation with various pedagogical and methodological practices in order to develop in students the capacity to create curriculum responsive to the diverse learning needs and experiences of young children and their families.

A survey of contemporary theoretical, technological, and socio-economic structures that link music and participatory/interactive media and entertainment forms. 'Interactive' models in the new music industry include social networks, music search and recommendation engines, personalized Internet radio and streaming, mobile music, live entertainment, and the use of music in video games and smartphone applications. These are examined and contextualized with a view to identifying business opportunities for musical entrepreneurs, creators, fans and facilitators.

Study of dance as cultural practice, exploring dance from a broad spectrum of cultures. Focus on theoretical and practical application of key concepts and dance forms as they relate to cultural identity, representation, and education. Includes critical analysis of dance in the studio, film, and written materials. Implications for curriculum and instruction are stressed.

Introduces students to analyzing artworks through semiotics, psychoanalysis, and related topics. Students engage with images, objects, sounds, and artistic production in the context of language and communication, exploring how meaning is layered and conveyed. Students challenge conventional ways of reading art, question material choices and methods, and articulate systems of influence at play in their work. Through creating artworks and participating in group critiques, students apply concepts from class to support their artistic development.

Builds on Interdisciplinary Art Practice I, with a focus on new ways of approaching 2D, 3D, and 4D disciplines. Students explore new possibilities for artistic practice, contextualizing formal and conceptual experiments within larger histories of thought and cultural production. Students engage more deeply with theoretical frameworks, analyzing and challenging how meaning is constructed and communicated through art. Through creating artworks and participating in group critiques, students apply concepts from class to support their artistic development.

Global migration and displacement of peoples is at a scale unprecedented in human history. This interdisciplinary course examines immigration in the US and globally through the lenses of race, law, psychology, education, and economics. Students explore case studies of out migration and internal displacement through a variety of media including texts, films, podcasts, and personal narratives and examine the isomorphic conditions--as well as differences--in immigration debates, policies, processes, and outcomes. Meets Liberal Arts Core for Societies & Social Sciences for Steinhardt students.

Course ​will provide a forum in which to explore & engage the relationship between photography, performance & contemporary art. Through class assignments & readings in contemporary theory we will develop a critical vocabulary for an understanding of the relationship between photography & performance & a forum in which to challenge & push our individual art practice to the next level.

This course focuses on the processes that inform “how one makes the object”, thereby helping students better understand their personal visual language and how to effectively employ it. The lens of history is used to stimulate dialogue, identify influences, and ultimately integrate the individual student’s point of view. Emphasis is on the examination of the larger continuum of historical & contemporary art. Studio meetings and individual critiques form a fundamental aspect of this course. Readings include Thomas Allen nelson, “Kubrick, Inside a Film Artist’s Maze”; Roberta Bernstein, “Jasper Johns, Paintings and Sculpture, 1945-1974, The Changing Focus of the Eye”; Kathy Halbreich, “Social Life”; Yves Alain Bois, “Painting as Model”.

This course provides space and guidance for students to work
on self-driven, individual and group projects in art and media. Course
content consists of texts, site visits, presentations, workshops, and
critiques built around each student's individual practice. Faculty and
guest critics will hold regular studio visits, to help guide students
through their process. Students’ material and technical investigations and
theoretical inquiries will be addressed in group workshops and
demonstrations. This course will culminate in a public presentation of
students’ work.

The artist's body measures the world. In this class student/artists use their own body as a starting point to make art through painting, digital photography, video, and/or performance as well as a mixture of these mediums. These media interchanges allow student/artists to incorporate painting and photography / video into their art at once. Art processes and their mixtures will be taught along with the contemporary history and conceptual ideas of interdisciplinary art to help frame juxtapositions.