Undergraduate Courses

This course focuses on the modern history of media industries -- film, TV, radio, newspapers, music, magazines, book publishing -- with special emphasis on the pressures that affect them now. Students are required to do extensive background reading, and we will hear from various professionals with long experience in the industries under consideration.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

Critical examinations of the ways that cultures have shaped major theoretical perspectives, diagnoses, & practices in psychology. Various perspectives that consider race/ethnicity, gender, social class, & language use, are explored.

• Department: Applied Psychology

This course examines how economic principles are applied in government regulation of the music industry. Production, distribution and consumption of recorded music in the U.S. are affected by copyright laws, licensing statutes, regulations, and judicial decisions. Students examine the forces and principles of economics, including the power to establish royalties paid by streaming and other services to the owners of musical copyrights, and how they’re applied (or misapplied!) when the government implements regulatory requirements established by Congress.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course explores the music industry to examine how popular music influences global social, cultural and technological trends. Through multimedia presentations, readings, debates and interactions with artists and tastemakers, students explore the relevance of popular music as an expressive culture and the role of New York and London as gateways to music genres from around the world. The course provides a historical overview of contemporary popular music and a critical evaluation of the music industry as catalyzer for self-expression, tradition and media stardom.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

The study of the intersection of key philosophical and ethical systems with the analysis of performing art works and the music industry. Students learn an “Eclectic Method” of analysis to holistically explore and study works of art from cultures from around the world while studying ethical complexities and analytical systems in relation to the performing arts industries.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This seminar develops themes addressed in MCC-UE 1009 Psychoanalysis: Desire and Culture. The course expands and deepens understanding of core Freudian and post-Freudian concepts via texts by Melanie Klein, W.R. Bion, Jacques Lacan, Jean Laplanche, and others. Students consider these texts alongside a series of media-cultural artifacts selected for study by seminar participants.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

An introductory course in the reading of poetry, designed to help students improve their abilities to understand , analyze, enjoy, and exercise critical judgment. Liberal Arts Core/CORE Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Expressive Culture.

• Department: Teaching and Learning
• Liberal Arts Core: Expressive Culture

Designed to facilitate the student's move into the professional realm of the field of early childhood and special education. Topics include: working collaboratively with families, paraprofessional, and other professionals, advocacy for and with children and families, multicultural curriculum and social justice issues, and the role of observation and instruction.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Have you ever wondered how communication is actually accomplished or who rehabilitates it when it breaks down? This class provides an introduction to the underappreciated processes of speech, language and hearing and the research approaches used to study them. We will also explore disordered communication and the role of the speech-language pathologist and audiologist in facilitating communication. Learn about brain injury, hearing loss, autism, stroke, stuttering, literacy, research methods and more. Discover why communication is an art and a science.
Liberal Arts Core/MAP Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Societies and Social Sciences for Steinhardt students (non-CSD majors).

• Department: Communicative Sciences and Disorders
• Liberal Arts Core: Societies and the Social Sciences

This course provides a link between teachers' mathematical knowledge and understanding of the major skills and concepts of probability and statistics to the effective and appropriate teaching of these topics in grades 7 through 12.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course explores the nature and function of higher learning beginning with the Greeks and the ancient academy through the medieval rise of the universities and the expansion of the corporate culture of higher education. Students will be exposed to a vast array of classical works from the fields of philosophy, sociology, economics and the humanities. Student will apply the works of such thinkers as Plato, Kant, Veblen as well as others to ask critical questions about what has shaped their contemporary college experience. Liberal Arts Core/CORE Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Texts and Ideas

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities
• Liberal Arts Core: Texts and Ideas

This course introduces non-majors to theatre as a live and performing art through a variety of experiences including attendance at live performances, readings of play scripts, and theoretical texts, and the creation of original plays. Through lectures, discussions, and written assignments, students will explore the roles of the playwright, actor, director, and designer in the production process, as well as examines the role of the audience in the live performance.

Liberal Arts Core/CORE Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Expressive Cultures for Steinhardt students.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions
• Liberal Arts Core: Expressive Culture

Theory and practice of nutritional education and dietary behavior change; methods of nutrition counseling in a variety of settings.

• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies

An introduction to the tools and vocabulary needed for critically engaging with
music from a broad range of styles and repertoire in preparation for upper-level courses in the music theory sequence. Topics include rhythmic and metric organization, melodic structure, ornamentation, instrumental families, texture, tuning systems, harmonic syntax, and basic voice- leading techniques representative of music in Western diatonic harmony, popular music and film,
and non-Western musics

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Intermediate-level music theory. Courses under this general title provide an introduction to phrase structure, formal analysis, advanced diatonic harmony, basics in chromatic harmony including modulation and tonicization, and advanced topics in rhythm and meter relevant to a particular style of repertoire.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Theory and analysis of popular music. Popular music, defined broadly, includes pop, rock, hip hop, rap, metal, jazz, folk, and musical theater and film repertoire. Topics include scales and modes, lead sheet and Nashville number notation, phrase structure, song forms, harmonic syntax, loops and harmonic chord schemas, tonicization and modulation, and rhythmic and timbral analysis in popular music. Students will develop basic proficiency in a DAW and music notation program. This course will culminate in a final composition or analysis project.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Theory and analysis of popular music. Popular music, defined broadly,
includes pop, rock, hip hop, rap, metal, jazz, folk, and musical theater
and film repertoire. Topics include scales and modes, lead sheet and
Nashville number notation, phrase structure, song forms, harmonic syntax,
loops and harmonic chord schemas, tonicization and modulation, and rhythmic
and timbral analysis in popular music. Students will develop basic
proficiency in a DAW and music notation program. This course will culminate
in a final composition or analysis project.

Theory and analysis of diatonic common-practice classical repertoire with an introduction to chromatic harmony and small forms. Topics include phrase structure, voice leading, sequences, secondary functions, tonicization, modulation, and advanced topics in rhythm and meter in common-practice Western music. The course builds on composition and analysis skills developed in Theory & Practice I, and introduces students to techniques in four-part contrapuntal writing, arranging, and model composition.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Theory and analysis of diatonic common-practice classical repertoire with
an introduction to chromatic harmony and small forms. Topics include phrase
structure, voice leading, sequences, secondary functions, tonicization,
modulation, and advanced topics in rhythm and meter in common-practice
Western music. The course builds on composition and analysis skills
developed in Theory & Practice I, and introduces students to techniques in
four-part contrapuntal writing, arranging, and model composition.

A philosophy underlying informal dramatics, materials for conducting improvised dramatic activities in elementary and secondary education and with adults.Laboratory experience is recommended.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions