Undergraduate Courses

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.

How can we explain the many violent conflicts around the world today? What is the lived experience of people in conflict-affected contexts? What can international and local actors do to build peace? These are just some of the many questions that undergraduate students will tackle in this introduction to peace and conflict studies. Students will become familiar with theoretical perspectives, real-world examples, and analytical skills to better understand, critically evaluate, and respond to contemporary issues related to peace and conflict.

This course is an introduction to the concepts and techniques used to manage
performing arts organizations. Subjects include organizational structure, trustee/staff relations, marketing, audience building, fund-raising, human resources, community engagement, performance measurement, leadership, strategic planning, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Through readings, class discussion, case exercises, and engaging with professional arts managers, students will acquire an understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing performing arts managers.

Consideration of the major theories of personality. The work of various theorists is discussed as it relates to personality development through the life span.

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

Assignments, critiques and demonstrations in an intensive survey course for the more advanced printmaking student covering a variety of printmaking techniques including etching, monotype, woodcut, and silkscreen. many new and innovative printmaking media and techniques will be introduced throughout the semester. Demonstrations and lectures. Aesthetic and historical concerns addressed throughout the course.

This course introduces students to the fundamental concepts and skills required to
record, arrange, and produce contemporary popular songs and other compositions. Students explore basic production technology and tools, including how to utilize a digital audio workstation, various recording formats, microphones, synthesis, arrangement, and mixing, and how to collaborate with other stakeholders and artists. Students develop a familiarity with essential productions across a broad set of genres.

Introduction to the fundamental principles of psychology, emphasizing both the unity & the diversity of a field that spans major theoretical & research areas, including biological bases of human behavior, learning, development, motivation, & social and abnormal behavior. Links between theory & classic as well as contemporary research are a recurrent theme.

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

Assignments, critiques and demonstrations for the more advanced sculpture student covering the rendering of the three-dimensional world in sculpture. The class moves through a variety of different materials using simple techniques such as woodcutting, plastering, welding, and sewing.

This course introduces and implements song analysis concepts in establishing a
process of learning and embodying song material. This practice facilitates upper level course work and career success by providing students with a unique and evolving practice based on research, knowledge of self, focused and objective based performance, critical/empathetic listening and reflective study. In-class performance, discussion and assessment are key factors in this class.

This course introduces students to the essentials of contemporary popular songwriting, focusing on how the marriage of lyric, melody, harmony, rhythm, and form intersect to construct meaning for the creator and the audience. Students explore basic songwriting and production technology, such as digital audio workstations, drum machines, and synthesizers. Students develop a familiarity with a repertoire of contemporary and legacy popular songs across a broad set of genres.

This course helps students develop a broad understanding of categories of speech and language delay/disorder including autism spectrum disorder, specific language impairment, language learning disabilities, hearing impairment, speech sound disorder, motor speech impairment and craniofacial anomalies. Topics include basic principles of assessment and intervention and the role of the speech language pathologist.

Survey a broad spectrum of visual art resources through guided lecture-tour visits to current exhibitions at leading museums, galleries and alternative art spaces located throughout New York City. Onsite meetings with art administrators affiliated with various organizations shed light on a wide range of career and management issues pertaining to the field and add to an understanding of the development and continued growth of New York's exciting art world.

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

Students will explore the general development of world theatre & dramatic literature, & become familiar with major movements, styles, theories, & plays from ancient times to the present. Due to the lengthy time span of theatre history covered, this introductory course cannot be all-inclusive, but will focus on pertinent periods of theatre, & select plays that are representative of significant periods that will be studied. Students will also be able to research specific topics in the writing of research papers & group class presentations.

This course introduces students to the central themes, issues, & controversies in American education. What is the purpose of “school”? How did schools begin, in the United States, & how have they evolved across time? How do children learn? How are they different from each other, & why & when should that matter? How should we teach them? & how should we structure schools & classrooms to promote learning?

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

This course covers key issues, theories, and concepts in the field of visual culture, focusing on the social role of images and visuality (the power relations of looking, being seen and unseen). Topics include modern forms of visuality and visual technologies, concepts of spectacle, museums and image collections, image icons, taboo images, how images relate to memory, how images circulate through various social arenas such as art, advertising, popular culture, comic books, news, science, entertainment media, video games, theme parks, architecture, and design.

In this course students explore the structure and function of the vocal mechanism and begin to develop a teaching philosophy and approach to voice teaching. Students learn practical methods for identifying vocal repertoire that supports the development of voice students at varying stages of ability and experience and gain fundamental skills necessary to teach private voice. Course format provides a forum in which students can discuss their experiences as teachers and students of applied voice.

This course will include intensive study of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and the lyrical pronunciation rules for Italian. Students will be required to transliterate song texts into IPA and demonstrate mastery of the diction rules in the performance of assigned repertoire.

Private or group lessons (by examination) in jazz and pop violin, supplemented by extra assignments, outside practice, and observation.

An introduction to various methods of jazz arranging and composing with an emphasis on melody, counterpoint and line writing. Students will examine historic jazz music scores & produce their own arrangements.