Undergraduate Courses

Assignments, critiques and demonstrations for the more advanced ceramics student. An introduction to the technical problems of making, decorating, glazing, and firing ceramic forms, while providing opportunities for understanding and developing sensitivities to clay as an art form.

This course will introduce students to a variety of different conceptualizations & implementations of Computer Science education for K-12. Students will discuss and analyze the rationale & purpose of CS teaching behind each case & critique the benefits & challenges from the perspective of K-12 education. This will support students in making informed decisions in their own CS teaching practice & to articulate & justify their decisions. The course will also serve to empower students to participate in future CS curriculum development in their school.

This course serves to familiarize the student with the fundamentals of typography. Typography forms the basis of our contemporary communication. Students will gain design abilities based on analogue techniques as well as digital software. The class explores letterform design & moves subsequently to typesetting exercises performed using the letterpress printer & computer. Compositions exploring typography as color, form, & image will be examined for visual impact as well as meaning. The history of typography is incorporated beginning with Guttenberg in the 1400’s through the classic designers of the 17th & 18th centuries, type-design through Russian Constructivism, the Bauhaus, & Modernism to contemporary digital type design.

Assignments, critiques, & demonstrations related to the specific level on which the course is being given. The use of the computer to augment & expand conceptualization & expression has provided the artist with some of the most important new means for visual thinking since the Renaissance invention of perspective. Students learn how to use the computer as an extension of the visualization process & its specific applications in both two-dimensional & three-dimensional art.

This course is an introduction to digital media, focusing on networks, computers, the Web and video games. Theoretical topics include the formal qualities of new media, their political dimensions, as well as questions of genre, narrative, and history.

Basic materials & methods of drawing. It combines perceptual learning with initial conceptual basics for drawing. This includes line usage, shape inventing, size differentiating, brightness contrast, location & overlap. Students will develop the skill to discuss their drawings as well as the drawings of others, & learn to observe & empathize with the genres of landscape, still-life, & figure. Individual & group critiques, slide lectures, & museum & gallery visits support studio activities.

Assignments, critiques & demonstrations for the more advanced drawing student. Combines perceptual learning with initial conceptual basics for drawing. This includes line usage, shape inventing, size differentiating, brightness contrast, location, & overlap. Students develop the skill to discuss their drawing as well as the drawing of others & learn to observe & empathize with the genres of landscape, still life, & figure. Individual & group critiques, slide lectures, & museum & gallery visits support studio activities.

Introduction to the fields of early childhood education and early childhood special education. Topics include: historical, political, and economic contexts of early childhood and early childhood special education, philosophies and models of early childhood and early childhood special education, the role of the child in society, and the locations of institutions of early childhood learning.

Students will develop an understanding of the ways in which they may inquire about policy issues relevant in their academic & professional lives. By exploring in depth a substantial body of knowledge drawn from selected cases & current theoretical issues, students will study the development of policy, the instruments used to effect policy, & some analyses of implementation.

This course will involve an examination of the major periods of theatre history from the Ancient Greeks to the 19th Century United States. There will be analysis of dramatic structures that relate these periods to the discipline of educational theatre. Different perspectives will be offered to give a comprehensive view of the role of theatre as a foundation to educational theatre. Students will develop a knowledge and understanding of strategies employed in educational theatre and an appreciation of the aesthetics of theatre and drama.

Examination of food from historical and transnational perspectives. Topics considered are: the origins of agriculture, the phenomenon of famine, the co-evolution of world cuisines and civilizations, the international exchange and spread of foods and food technologies following 1492, issues of hunger and thirst, and the effects of the emergent global economy on food production, diets, and health.

Liberal Arts Core/MAP Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Cultures and Contexts

Introduction to the foods of various world regions and the techniques used to prepare them through hand-on food preparation, demonstrations, lectures and field trips.

This survey course offers an introduction to the field of global education. Education in the 21st century is undoubtedly a central area for international collaboration as well as contestation. In this survey course, we will examine key debates about the role of education in national & international society, examining the multiple stake holders that work to improve education globally, & their diverse interpretations of that mandate. The course will introduce students to the history of mass education as a global phenomenon, & the comparative ways in which it is now studied. Students will examine both K-12 & higher education.

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

This course introduces the current issues related to global nutrition. It integrates basic information about food intake and nutrition into discussions of major nutrition-related problems around the world. The course will present and discuss international, national and community-level policies and programs designed to improve the nutritional status of populations and to overcome barriers to their implementation. This course will also discuss nutritional status as a "continuum" whereby populations can simultaneously have members with severe under-nutrition, good nutritional status, and over-nutrition. The course will focus on the burden of under-nutrition but will also discuss several "emerging" or special topics including the nutrition transition, weaning and complementary feeding, and women and health. This class satisfies Steinhardt student's Societies and Social Sciences CORE requirement.

The course is designed to enhance students’ awareness of the multifaceted nature of nutrition problems across the globe and the need for holistic approaches of methods to address them including research. The nutrients, nutrient cycle challenges, maternal and child nutrition - the first 1000 days, will be discussed. The course will review the UNICEF malnutrition structure within the context of livelihood frameworks to demonstrate the linkages between health, nutrition and agriculture. Food security issues and impacts on nutrition and developmental issues will be discussed. The new concept of Econutrition within the framework of preventing malnutrition in Africa will be considered. Assess the strategies and policies in Africa towards addressing food and nutrition issues. Globalization, food habits and nutritional implications will be reviewed. Aging and nutrition within the African contextual factors will be discussed. A review of organisations impacting nutrition in developing countries will be examined.

Introduction to Human Physiology is a one-semester course for students with an interest in health care. Little exposure to biology is assumed for this course. This course is heavily concerned with the basic concepts of structural and functional organization of the human body, the terminology involved in the areas of physiology and anatomy, and the understanding of the different anatomo-physiological systems.

Liberal Arts CORE Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Natural Sciences for non-majors

Students may work in a variety of realms such as drawing, painting, photography and/or folding. During the course the students will have the opportunity of creating alongside the professor in her art studio. Students wishing to carry out a personal creative project are most welcome to develop it during the art classes. However, students choosing this must imperatively have proof prior to beginning art classes. The course includes visits to museum to explore the wide range of subjects and materials available to contemporary artists, and concludes with the exhibition/ theatre performance in a prestigious Parisian venue at the end of the semester.

This course presents a critical analysis of the development, principles, strategies, media, techniques, and effects of propaganda campaigns from ancient civilizations to modern technological society. The course focuses on propaganda in the context of government, religion, revolution, war, politics, and advertising, and explores implications for the future of propaganda in the cybernetic age.

Introduces students to the study of media, culture, and communication. The course surveys models, theories, and analytical perspectives that form the basis of study in the major. Topics include dialogue, discourse, mass and interpersonal communication, political economy, language, subject-formation, critical theory, experience, and reception. Liberal Arts Core/CORE Equivalent for Societies and the Social Sciences.

Introduces students to the study of media, culture, and communication. The course surveys models, theories, and analytical perspectives that form the basis of study in the major. Topics include dialogue, discourse, mass and interpersonal communication, political economy, language, subject-formation, critical theory, experience, and reception.