Undergraduate Courses

Explores how college campuses became centers of political protest and cultural change. Topics include socialist and feminist student activism in Progressive era; 1920s Black student revolts, campus cultural ferment; 1930s Old Left-led mass student movements: 1960s New Left, antiwar, SNCC and Third World Student Activism, CIA infiltration; post-60s PC struggles, divestment movements, gay liberation, curricular change, unionization, conservative student activism from 1950s segregationists through YAF in and beyond the 60s.

This course examines the role of media in the history of empires and revolutions and the history of media empires. It focuses on the investment in media forces by both empires and revolutions, and the tendency of media to form empires that are subject to periodic 'revolution' in the marketplace with the contexts of colonization, decolonization and globalization. Media discussed include prints, paintings, photography, journalism, fiction, cinema, the Internet and digital media.

3D Modeling with Rhino is an introduction to 3D modeling using the Rhino computer program for Mac OS X. Students gain the technical knowledge needed to push rigorous exploration of 3D modeling, both in the physical and digital realm. The course covers basic model manipulation and rendering operations. The course also reviews the history of 3D printing and an examination of how modeling for 2D differs from modeling for physical output. By course end, students will have the opportunity to output their work via CNC milling, 3D printing, or 2D rendered visualization.

Students pursuing careers in music creation — songwriters, composers, instrumentalists, vocalists, engineers, producers, and others — need to be well-versed in the myriad ways they can protect and maximize the rights, revenue streams, and professional relationships that flow from their work. As music marketplace opportunities and distribution channels widen and diversify, music creators have far greater choices than ever before. Students explore the essential elements required to build a career and a life in music, examining them from the creator’s perspective.

Course Repeatable for Credit. Study of traditional and contemporary repertoire for the saxophone and piano including all style periods. (required of all saxophone performance majors)

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In this course students explore the Earth as an integrated, dynamic system involving the material world and diversity of living things which we call biodiversity. Specifically, this course explores the flow of energy and materials through the Earth System and potential human impact on this system. Through the practices of science students learn to use data to produce scientific knowledge for themselves and the public while exploring the question of what it means to engage in citizen science.

Introducing the notion of citizen science, this course provides students with opportunities to use scientific information to solve real-world problems related to environmental & public health. By exploring the practices of science from observing & measurement to analyzing & explaining data, students learn to use data & produce scientific knowledge for the public.

Liberal Arts Core/MAP Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Natural Sciences

Students explore how science became a global form of knowledge making about the natural world, how European notions of science contributed to its growth as a form of systematic knowledge, how some people were excluded from this process, and how bias and discrimination were made real. By observing, measuring, analyzing and explaining data, students learn to produce and evaluate the quality of scientific knowledge and to recognize how science understanding helps to interrogate the construction of difference between facts and lies. Fulfills Life Science Core requirement.

This course provides students with opportunities to use scientific information to understand concepts related to human health & disease while exploring the question of what it means to engage in citizen science. Students explore causes, controls, & natural defenses against a variety of diseases including infectious diseases & cancers. By studying & conducting the practices of science students learn to use data & produce scientific knowledge for themselves & the public.

Liberal Arts Core/MAP Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Natural Sciences

In this course students use scientific information to understand concepts related to the microbial world while exploring what it means to engage in citizen science. Students study the evolutionary origins, lives, and ecologies of various microorganisms including microbe-host interactions that can cause disease. By exploring the practices of science from observing and measurement to analyzing and explaining data, students learn to use data and produce scientific knowledge for themselves and the public. Meets Steinhardt Liberal Arts Core requirement.

As you read this description, structures in your body are participating in an entangled dance with the material of the written text. Science is only just beginning to understand what a complex dance this is. In this course, you will explore neuroscience to develop a richer understanding of the role of your brain in practices we often take for granted. You will also explore how other living things, including plants, learn and think. And that’s not science fiction! Meets Steinhardt Core for Life Science.

Students investigate the nature of water, human use of water, and the impact of humans on its availability and use. These investigations initiate an exploration of the nature of sustainability and through sustainability audits plans for human action. By exploring the practices of science from observing and measurement to analyzing and explaining data, students learn to use data and produce scientific knowledge for the public and begin to explore the bigger question of whether some of the practices in which we engage and the things we use are making our planet sick.

This course is an introduction to the science of human connection and its promise for advancing solutions to our most pressing societal problems. The science of human connection incorporates a wide range of disciplines including developmental and social psychology, neuroscience, primatology, and the health sciences to reveal: 1) the social and emotional nature of humans; 2) how particular cultural values and beliefs disrupt our social and emotional capacities and needs and; 3) the implications for understanding the roots of our problems and how to solve them.

Liberal Arts Core/MAP Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Societies and Social Sciences

This course provides an overview of the scientific study of the human language faculty, focusing on the cognitive & neural processing mechanisms that underlie linguistic knowledge & use. We describe contemporary approaches to delineating levels of language structure & review various scientific methodologies used to study language. Topics include language knowledge & use as well as language change & variation.

Liberal Arts Core/CORE Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Natural Science for non-CSCD majors

This course provides the theoretical foundations that serve as the building blocks for the music for the screen. Divided into two areas that eventually merge, the course explores the application of harmonic and melodic principles for screen music, as well as the study of the foundations of narrative theory and storytelling. Throughout a set of theoretical readings,analyses, and creative assignments, the students will develop a set of techniques to produce music that generates meaning and that enhances the story and the narrative as a whole.

This course explores the ways in which popular Hollywood films construct the historical past, the ensuing battles among historians and the public over Hollywood's version of American history, and the ways such films can be utilized as historical documents themselves. We will consider films as products of the culture industry; as visions of popularly understood history and national mythology; as evidence for how social conflicts have been depicted; and as evidence of how popular understanding and interpretations of the past have been revised from earlier eras to the present.

Develops an understanding of the nature of sculpture & the critical dialogue that surrounds it. Assignments explore the conceptual & formal properties of sculpture, & an individual approach is encouraged. Evaluation of current gallery exhibitions & assigned readings will be an important supplement to studio assignments. Students will have regular access to the sculpture shop, where available equipment includes wood & metal tools, as well as plaster & mold-making facilities.

Casting and Moldmaking is a second tier hands-on studio course which serves as a comprehensive exposure to innovative casting techniques. In this course, students will be asked to consider the transformative process of casting, and its ability to expand the experience of an artwork through a spectrum of materials and processes. The class will experiment with casting using a range of materials including wax and synthetic polymers such as resin, as well as thoughtfully marrying conventional with unconventional non-art materials. Additional projects and demos will explore simple mold making techniques, and field casting outside of the studio.

This course will introduce student to digital fabrication techniques within the
context of contemporary art. Students will complete a series of projects
exploring fabrication technologies such as 3D printing, 3D Scanning, CNC milling
and Laser cutting. In addition, student will question the machines' raw output
by fusing these processes with traditional sculptures techniques. Student will
produce a series of works following project prompts. Although the course will
process-heavy, student will maintain a rigorous conceptual grounding in their
completed works.