Undergraduate Courses

Principally for nondance majors. Introduction to modern dance, including analysis of movement in dance technique and improvisation.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

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Play and audience analysis, directing methods, production techniques. Each student plans a complete children's theatre production. Laboratory experience recommended.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course provides a practical introduction to urban agriculture. Students will learn horticultural skills while performing tasks at the NYU Urban Farm Lab. They will also learn about the biological processes that these tasks manage & how they fit together in a system. Through visits to other sites around the city, students will be exposed to a wide variety of strategies for practicing horticulture in the urban environment.

• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies

Fundamental principles of art therapy practice will be presented through theoretical discussions and case presentations. Students will learn the historical development of the profession, its distinction from other disciplines and its commonalities to social sciences. This course will examine the art of making processes and products through basics pictorial analysis. Students will study the artistic expression of children, adolescents, adults, and geriatric populations struggling with varied emotional and physical issues in different settings.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

An introduction to the concepts & applications of audio production for video, television & film. Current production techniques frequently used in the post-production industry will be explored, with special emphasis on synchronization & audio production techniques including music editing, sound effects design, Foley, & dialog replacement.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

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.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

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.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

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.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

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 for Steinhardt students.

• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies
• Liberal Arts Core: Cultures and Contexts

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 for Steinhardt students.

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

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.

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.

• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies

This course focuses on building knowledge and skills to improve and maintain
individual health founded on the dimensions of well-being. Students examine varying definitions of health, wellbeing, and wellness from a holistic perspective with special attention given to developing and facilitating strategies to improve health-enhancing behaviors. Topics explore risk factors associated with decreased wellbeing, relationship structures, the processes of aging and dying, and the human role in preserving the environment. Students create behavior change material/media on a specific health disparity and dimension of health and wellbeing.

• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies

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 Steinhardt students (non-majors)

• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies
• Liberal Arts Core: Natural Science

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.

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.

This course introduces students to key concepts of communication, media, culture, and technology. Surveys the models, theories, and analytical perspectives that form the foundations for the study of the major in Media, Culture, and Communication. Topics include modes of communication, rhetoric, persuasion, public sphere, mass media, media effects, reception, global media, social media, ideology, cultural practices, discourse, data, and algorithmic culture. Satisfies Core Societies & Social Sciences for non-MCC Steinhardt students.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication
• Liberal Arts Core: Societies and the Social Sciences

An examination of the ways in which culture and context shape counselor and client identities and their cross-cultural encounters. Topics include individual identities and systems of societal privilege and oppression associated with gender and sexuality, race/ethnicity, disabilities, class, religion, and other forms of cultural influences. The course also focuses on effective strategies for navigating cross-cultural relationships in helping professions.

• Department: Applied Psychology