Undergraduate Courses

This course shines a bright light on racial inequality in the United States by focusing on structural disparities in key areas of American life: Income, wealth and employment; the right to vote, health and wellbeing, education and juvenile justice. Vanguard leaders from across NYU and across fields of Law, Public Health and Allied Health fields, Education, Social Work, and Public Policy provide insights on key scholarly and community-based frameworks they use to confront problems of inequality in the United States. They share their expertise in designing and implementing policy solutions that offer the promise of a more equitable future.

• Department: Applied Psychology

Liberalism’s founding principles of equality and opportunity have long been the subject of debate, national angst, and conflict. No more is this the case than when we talk about the issue of race. While biological notions of race have lost their scientific validity, race remains a salient issue as a social and political reality sustained through a wide variety of media forms. We examine how notions of race have been defined and shaped in and through these mediated forms, with special emphasis on the ways race is articulated in mass media and popular culture.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

Introduction to the physical aspects of sound, psychoacoustics, basic electricity, principles and practice of magnetic recording and an overview of the recording studio, including an introduction to multi-track recording techniques. Students perform various duties just as they would in a professional recording session with live musicians in the recording studio. Open to students without previous experience in recording technology.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

In the last years of World War II, Albert Camus wrote his novel, The Plague, as a way to illuminate the deep personal and societal ills around him. The book has again become popular as people struggle to understand the ramifications of the COVID-19 plague. Students and faculty use Camus's work to explore what humans are experiencing and how they are reacting to this 21st century plague and its impact on frontline workers, marginalized communities, elections, and universities. Students write an extended review of The Plague to add their reflections to the conversation.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities

For major recitals and accompanists, by advisement.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

For major recitals and accompanists, by advisement.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

For major recitals and accompanists, by advisement.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

For major recitals and accompanists, by advisement.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

For major recitals and accompanists, by advisement.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

For major recitals and accompanists, by advisement.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Recital is the capstone/terminal experience of the vocal performance program. Over the course of the semester, students - with the assistance of the instructor, in discussion, through written assignments, small group exercises, class performance and assessment, write, rehearse and present in a public forum a fully realized capstone program demonstrating the successful amalgamation of knowledge and skills acquired through the course of study.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

For major recitals and accompanists, by advisement.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

The purpose of this course on religion and public education in an international context is for us to engage together in a critical analysis of what continues to be an important contemporary issue. The seminar is designed especially for students preparing for careers in teaching - in both public and private/religious schools, educational administration, educational research, or other professions which will involve them in the ongoing public debates about the uneasy relationship of religion and public education in the United States and other countries. The course will examine these issues historically and in terms of current policy debates and students will be asked to make connections to their own educational practice. Liberal Arts Core/CORE Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Context and Cultures.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities
• Liberal Arts Core: Cultures and Contexts

This course examines the ways in which conventional and non-conventional media recreate religious experience. Increasingly, religion is experienced not one in sacred spaces, and through ritual and scripture, but is also communicated through radio, TV, and the Internet, as well as in consumer culture and political campaigns. This course examines the significance of religion in modern life from historical and contemporary perspectives, paying attention to questions of religious and national difference, as well as material and symbolic practices.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

Course focuses on how research informs policy for children and families in the US and the UK. The course will include topics such as poverty, welfare reform, child care, assessment, literacy instruction, education for language minorities, and intervention programs. What is the history of policy in the US and UK? What research findings are relevant in formulating or evaluating the policy? When does research shape policy? What further research is needed to inform future policies addressing these issues?

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Examines both theoretical and applied aspects of research design, data analysis, and interpretation. Through readings, class discussion, guest lectures and written assignments, student will gain a thorough understanding of and practice in the components of good food-focused research. Topics include: articulating a research question, locating and using primary and secondary source information, conducting original research, and structuring and executing a research project.

• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies

Overview of diverse research designs & essential components of research methods, including: formulation of questions & hypotheses, identification of variables & operational definitions, sampling, data collection, & basic statistical & psychometric techniques. Students learn the basic elements & logic of social science research & develop a conceptual understanding of statistical & psychometric techniques.

• Department: Applied Psychology

In-depth look at specific quantitative & qualitative methodologies in the social sciences discussed & application of methodological understanding gained in previous research methods course, including: developing skills in coding & analyzing data, assessing & improving reliability of measures, & presenting results. Students also learn about special problems of design & measurement when research extends beyond the individual.

• Department: Applied Psychology

This course examines dystopia as a cultural and political framework for understanding crisis, power, and imagined futures. Students explore how literature, film, journalism, theory, and activist media engage conditions such as authoritarianism, inequality, ecological crisis, war, technological change, and social breakdown. The course also considers how media and cultural production imagine resistance, survival, solidarity, and alternative futures.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication
• Liberal Arts Core: Cultures and Contexts