Undergraduate Courses

Development of keyboard skills through improvisation and approaches to accompanying movement, singing and instrumental playing. Techniques of sight-reading, transportation, and score reading are emphasized.

Development of functional keyboard skills for music majors. Emphasized skills: technique, score reading, melodic harmonization, transposition, popular chord reading, & harmonization.

Students participate in research on language and literacy skills in children with typical development and in children with a range of conditions, such as developmental language disorder, autism spectrum disorder and hearing impairment. Activities may include a literature review, learning laboratory techniques, collecting data, coding data, and statistical analysis. At the end of the semester, students complete a written report about a research project they worked on or give an oral presentation about the project at a lab meeting.

Students conduct research on normal and disordered voice production under the supervision of a faculty member, the biopsychosocial aspects of voice, transgender voice, effects of risk factors on voice, singing, and the impact of neurological disorders on voice. Activities may include a literature review, learning laboratory techniques, collecting data, coding data, analyzing data, and statistical
analysis. At the end of the term, students complete a written report about a research project they worked on or give an oral presentation about the project at a lab meeting.

Students conduct research on language acquisition and development under the supervision of a faculty member, focusing on children with typical development, late talkers or children with or at risk for a language or communication disorder (such as autism spectrum disorder). Activities may include a literature review, learning laboratory techniques, collecting data, coding data, and statistical analysis. At the end of the semester, students complete a written report about a research project they worked on or give an oral presentation about the project at a lab meeting.

Students conduct research on normal swallowing function and disordered swallowing (known as dysphagia) under the supervision of a faculty member, focusing on the measurement of biomechanical and functional aspects of swallowing. Activities may include a literature review, learning laboratory techniques, collecting data, coding data, and statistical analysis. At the end of the semester, students complete a written report about a research project they worked on or give an oral presentation about the project at a lab meeting.

Students conduct research on speech and language production under the supervision of a faculty member, focusing on both behavioral and neurological aspects of neurotypical adults as well as adults with acquired communication disorders subsequent to stroke. Activities may include a literature review, learning laboratory techniques, collecting data, coding data, and statistical analysis. At the end of the semester, students complete a written report about a research project they worked on or give an oral presentation about the project at a lab meeting.

Students conduct research on speech motor control, under the supervision of a faculty member, focusing on children with speech sound disorders (such as childhood apraxia of speech) and adults following facial reconstruction. Activities may include a literature review, learning laboratory techniques, collecting data, coding data, and statistical analysis. At the end of the semester, students complete a written report about a research project they worked on or give an oral presentation about the project at a lab meeting.

Students conduct research on speech perception and spoken language processing and on the acoustic properties of speech under the supervision of a faculty member, focusing on children and adults with typical speech and language skills and with language and reading impairments. Activities may include a literature review, learning laboratory techniques, collecting data, coding data, and statistical analysis. At the end of the semester, students complete a written report about a research project they worked on or give an oral presentation about the project at a lab meeting.

Students conduct research on developmental stuttering under the supervision of a faculty member, focusing on the factors that contribute to the variability of stuttering events. Activities may include a literature review, learning laboratory techniques, collecting data, coding data, and statistical analysis. At the end of the semester, students complete a written report about a research project they worked on or give an oral presentation about the project at a lab meeting.

Students conduct research on speech development and disorders under the supervision of a faculty member, focusing on the use of technologies to enhance the delivery of speech intervention and/or the measurement of outcomes. Activities may include a literature review, learning laboratory techniques, collecting data, coding data, and statistical analysis. At the end of the semester, students complete a written report about a research project they worked on or give an oral presentation about the project at a lab meeting.

This course examines the role of language in media, culture, and communication. Topics will include language ideologies, register-formation, language politics, standardization, raciolinguistics, code-switching, voicing, speech and text genres, orthographies, fonts, and more. Students will learn to analyze interpersonal and mediated communication-in-context, with attention to pragmatics, performativity and participation frameworks, using key analytics and methods from the fields of socio-linguistics, linguistic anthropology, and semiotics.

This course focuses on the relationship between language development and literacy acquisition. Linguistic diversity and the essential practices for nurturing literacy development in home and preschool settings are explored. Early Childhood field experiences provide opportunities for application of techniques for fostering language development and emergent reading and writing.

Continuation of Language and Reading instruction for Childhood I.

Not Available.

This course examines the production, representation and cultural meaning of Latino media in the U.S. Provides a general survey of Latino media in the U.S. with particular focus on the cultures of production of Spanish and English language television, radio, film, advertising, newspapers, magazines and internet-based media.

What is the most important thing to which I should be devoting my life? This course explores the existential concerns animating questions like this, ones that inspire our lifelong, liberal learning. It focuses on classic works in Western philosophy, literature, and film and examines them as texts of education. Class meetings will be devoted to a mix of lecture and discussion.

Liberal Arts Core/CORE Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Texts & Ideas for Steinhardt students.

What is the most important thing to which I should be devoting my life? This course explores the existential concerns animating questions like this, ones that inspire our lifelong, liberal learning. It focuses on classic works in Western philosophy, literature, and film and examines them as texts of education. Class meetings will be devoted to a mix of lecture and discussion.

Strategies for creating classroom environments and behavior support plans to promote development of positive classroom behaviors and positive social interaction skills.