Courses

Deals with research and practice regarding leadership of school units, with emphasis on the knowledge and planning required of school leaders focused on the provision of high quality instruction. Emphasis is on the study and design of classroom and school processes that promote equity in educational opportunities across the school community, including design of learning environments, accountability systems, and assessment strategies. The legal and fiscal environments in which school function are introduced.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

This course familiarizes students in counseling and related fields with principles and strategies related to designing, implementing, and evaluating school-based preventive interventions (prevention programs). Primary focus on the science behind how prevention efforts can positively impact individuals, families, and social systems to decrease the likelihood of developing psychological, educational, substance use, and other health problems. Also addresses ethical, professional, multicultural, and social justice issues related to prevention programming.

• Department: Applied Psychology

Thematic teaching across the curriculum is modeled in this course in science, health and mathematics. The course will give undergraduate childhood students the opportunity to explore teaching methodologies in each of these content areas with primary focus on the role of science education in the elementary school curriculum. Science education requires teachers not only to know science subject matter but also to understand how to use scientific information to solve real-world problems and build an environment in their classrooms where inquiry, observation and tinkering can take place

• Department: Teaching and Learning

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This course is designed to increase your confidence, enthusiasm, and knowledge for teaching science. An overarching focus of the course is the idea that doing science entails individuals using wide-ranging ways of engagement, reasoning, and communicating with others to figure out phenomena. Science is not about
memorizing facts; rather, it is about constructing, debating, and revising multiple explanations and models about the natural world. This course offers you numerous opportunities to read literature that outlines the rationale for this view of science education and documents its effectiveness, and to engage with and reflect upon this type of science teaching and learning.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course examines several models for teaching preschool and elementary science. Science experiences for elementary students are developed, and strategies for implementation and evaluation are devised.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

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.

Liberal Arts CORE: satisfies the Physical/Life Science requirement for Steinhardt students.

• Department: Teaching and Learning
• Liberal Arts Core: Natural 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 for Steinhardt students.

• Department: Teaching and Learning
• Liberal Arts Core: Natural Science

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 for Steinhardt students.

• Department: Teaching and Learning
• Liberal Arts Core: Natural Science

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 for Steinhardt students.

• Department: Teaching and Learning
• Liberal Arts Core: Natural Science

This course provides students with opportunities to use scientific information to understand concepts related to the origins of the universe & life within it. Specifically, this course explores theories of change over time. We will study human’s long cultural history of generating explanations & explore how some have projected possible futures. Students produce scientific knowledge for themselves & the public while exploring the question of what it means to engage in citizen science.

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

• Department: Teaching and Learning
• Liberal Arts Core: Natural Science

Course provides students with opportunities to use scientific information to solve real-world problems related to environmental and public health. By assisting science organizations with generating and/or analyzing data, students learn how non-formal community, and professional science organizations use and produce scientific knowledge for the public. Includes six 3-hour field sessions.

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

• Department: Teaching and Learning
• Liberal Arts Core: Natural Science

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 for Steinhardt students.

• Department: Teaching and Learning
• Liberal Arts Core: Natural Science

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 for Steinhardt students.

• Department: Teaching and Learning
• Liberal Arts Core: Natural 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.

Liberal Arts CORE-satisfies Physical/Life Science Requirement for Steinhardt students.

• Department: Teaching and Learning
• Liberal Arts Core: Natural Science

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 for Steinhardt students.

• Department: Applied Psychology
• Liberal Arts Core: Societies and the 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 Steinhardt students (non-CSCD majors).

• Department: Communicative Sciences and Disorders
• Liberal Arts Core: Natural Science

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

• Department: Communicative Sciences and Disorders

The teaching of reading is a topic of national debate. This course explores contemporary research on reading and how disciplines, such as psychology,
sociology, neuroscience, linguistics, and anthropology, inform our understanding of how reading is learned and taught. Students examine cognitive, developmental, sociocultural, and critical approaches to studying reading through close analysis and discussion of seminal and contemporary articles. Applying concepts and methods from this course, students pursue independent projects in areas of professional interest.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

In this hands-on course, students study and practice a specific area in the field of screen music scoring. The course is intended as a means to provide the students with the necessary insights to develop professionally in these specific areas of interest. During the course, students are exposed to real-world scoring scenarios.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions