Courses

Analysis of the underlying principles of the following types of therapeutic exercise: stretching, strengthening; active assistive; active; resistive, using manual resistance pulleys, weights, hydraulics, elastics, robotics, and mechanical or electromechanical devices: neuromuscular relation, inhibition and facilitation; neuromuscular reeducation; motor training or retraining; developmental; activities; breathing exercises, including ventilatory muscle training; aerobics endurance activities, using cycles, treadmills, steppers, pools, manual resistance, pulleys, weights, hydraulics, elastics, robotics, and mechanical or electromechanical devised; aquatics exercises; and conditioning and reconditioning.

• Department: Physical Therapy

This course engages decision-making involved in intervention planning across communication type and lifespan. Students explore the use of diagnostic data in formulating goals and procedures through a cultural and linguistically responsive lens. Sources of knowledge include the nature of communication of various speech and language differences and disorders, baseline data, factors maintaining communication, language learning theories, and evidence-based data.

• Department: Communicative Sciences and Disorders

An overview of the history and cultures of print. Examines typography communication and the persuasive power of print. Topics include print 'revolution' in early modern Europe, printedness and the public sphere, as well as contemporary relationships between print and digital media. How are digital media making it possible to see new things about print? What can e-books tell us about books?

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

Assignments, critiques and demonstrations encourages further exploration of established & emerging areas of contemporary printmaking, including but not limited to etching, silkscreen, relief (woodcut) & digital print.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

An intensive survey course covering a variety of printmaking techniques including etching, monotype, woodcut, & silkscreen. many new & innovative printmaking media & techniques will be introduced throughout the semester. Demonstrations & lectures. Aesthetic & historical concerns addressed throughout the course.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

Few values have been as unalterably disturbed as privacy by developments in new media and other information technologies. This course presents an inquiry into the impact of information and digital communications technologies upon privacy and its meanings. In order to examine at a deep level technology's place in society and the complex ways that technology and privacy each shape the other in interactive cycles of cause and effect. Philosophical analysis is balanced with significant contributions by legal scholars, computer scientists, social scientists, and popular social critics.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

Composition in all forms and styles including electronic. Electronic laboratory by assignment. Weekly attendance at department Composer's Forum required.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course explores the creation of sound effects for linear and interactive media using real time synthesis models and prototypes. Techniques ranging from subtractive synthesis to physical modeling will be explored in an attempt to better understand the nature of various types of common sound effects from the standpoint of acoustics and physics. A hands-on approach is strongly encouraged and students are required to build audio models and sound effects engines using real time tools such as MaxMSP and Pure Data.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Detailed exploration of the aesthetic, technical, and “psychological” skills and tools required for the production of a master recording by a performer/artist other than producer. Producers will learn how to nurture and develop a vision for each recording; establish a creative environment; collaborate with writers and performers; elicit the best performances by the creative and technical team they assemble; realize the best production possible with the tools available; and create a production to which the target audience (and beyond) wishes to continue to listen.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course will explore the esthetic and technical skills and tools necessary for the production of artistically and commercially successful demonstration recordings of songs. Students will learn how to: establish an environment in which creativity can flourish; elicit the best performances by all involved in a recording; make the best recording possible with the tools available in a given work environment; nurture and develop a vision for each recording; create a recording to which the target audience (and beyond) wishes to continue to listen.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This is an exciting and potentially transformative moment for cultural production across the globe. This class will go behind the scenes to explore how culture (music, cinema, art, journalism, television dramas, social media, etc.) actually gets made. We will adopt a critical approach, reflecting on what's at stake, and investigate the social-structural, organizational, and technological forces that partially determine the aesthetic and political qualities of a range of cultural products.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

This course focuses on the skills necessary to engage in assessment of talent, role, & risk in the contemporary music business. Students will be exposed to the detailed thinking & decision-making process of high-level music business professionals, who will visit to work with them on the evaluation of work submitted by NYU songwriters, performers, producers, & other music creators.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

An orientation to the profession of counseling & its ethical guidelines & to the specific professional specialization of mental health counseling. The course will include discussion of the history of the field & will address issues such as professional roles, functions, & relationships of counselors with other human service providers, licensure & certification issues, & the role of professional organizations in professional development & identity. The examination of the ethical guidelines of the professions & their application to the specialization of mental health counseling will include attention to processes & model of ethical decision making.

• Department: Applied Psychology

This course provides an overview of the broader field of educational media and technology with a focus on identifying personal and professional goals in relation to various career pathways and trends in the field. Through guest speakers, site visits, reflective learning, and research activities students will gain an appreciation for the types of qualifications, skills and mindsets related to various career pathways.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

History of the profession, the professional association, professionalism, individual and cultural differences, health professional/patient relationships, medical and professional ethics, and medical legal aspects of care. The student demonstrates professional behaviors in all interactions with patients, clients, families, caregivers, and other health care providers. Enables the student to practice in a safe setting and manner to minimize risk to the patient, client, therapist, and others; be aware of the practices and ramifications of sexual harassment; identify and assess the health needs of individuals, groups, and communities including screening, prevention, and wellness programs appropriate to physical therapy; display generously as evidenced by the use of time and effort to meet patient or client needs; and demonstrate social responsibility, citizenship, and advocacy including participation in community and human service organizations and activities.

• Department: Physical Therapy

Introduces colleges & university student personnel administration as a professional area. Emphasis on the historical development of the profession, professional standards, the role of specialists in the field, ethical problems, & relations to other helping professions & services.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

A two-semester course designed to expose students to resources in the University and NYC communities. Resources include presentations by faculty and guests who have expertise in areas that impact the profession of dance education, such as anatomy and kinesiology for dance, technology for the contemporary classroom, funding, and inclusion, as well as major artistic, research, and education venues in the city. Students engage in a series of selected experiential lecture/demonstrations, workshops and visits with professionals who promote arts and education programs.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

A two-semester course designed to expose students to resources in the University and NYC communities. Resources include presentations by faculty and guests who have expertise in areas that impact the profession of dance education, such as anatomy and kinesiology for dance, technology for the contemporary classroom, funding, and inclusion, as well as major artistic, research, and education venues in the city. Students engage in a series of selected experiential lecture/demonstrations, workshops and visits with professionals who promote arts and education programs.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This asynchronous course is designed to support the basic skills necessary for
professional development in the field of Applied Psychology, including community service, teamwork, resume and cover letter writing, interviewing, and oral and written communication.

• Department: Applied Psychology

Designed for graduate students who wish to serve as interns in international and intercultural settings. Permission to register is based on evaluation
of student’s internship placement by Internship Coordinator. Through course meetings and assignments, along with working in a professional setting, students develop the necessary skills to later use in their job search and career. Open by special permission to other Steinhardt students.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities