Courses

This course examines social media as a set of platforms, cultures, and networked publics that shape how people connect, represent themselves, organize, and circulate information. Students explore how social media developed, how platforms structure visibility and attention, and how users navigate algorithmic, commercial, and political conditions. The course also introduces methods for studying social media, including digital ethnography and discourse analysis. Emphasis is divided between globally dominant platforms and specific geopolitical or regional contexts.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

This course examines collaborative and connected learning in social media environments, and how social media technologies shape how individuals and societies think and interact. Through reading, discussion, writing, and experimenting with communicating on different online platforms, students consider how these technologies impact learning, attention, beliefs, and social interaction; and consider questions of privacy, authorship, knowledge production, and ethics, particularly in an age of artificial intelligence and misinformation. Through projects, students apply course concepts, and critically engage with the possibilities of social media for designing for, and understanding how people learn.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

This blended (classroom and online) course introduces students to some of the important topics when using social media in learning environments. Key controversial topics related to social media in learning environments are examined, such as: privacy versus sharing public learning content; individual versus collaborative learning; “traditional” learning versus knowledge-building communities; and social engagement/activism within interconnected learning communities. This course introduces students to the conceptual frameworks, research literature content, and ideation required for deeper engagement with emerging and future tools for work and play in socially mediated learning environments.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

Social psychological concepts, theories, and research and their relation to educational problems.Concepts treated are attitudes, values, roles, norms, communication, conformity; areas emphasized are group processes and influence, social motivation, prejudice, authoritarianism.

• Department: Applied Psychology

Social psychology concepts, theories, & research & their relation to educational problems. Concepts treated are attitudes, values, roles, norms, communication, conformity; areas emphasized are group processes & influence, social motivation, prejudice, & authoritarianism.

Liberal Arts Core - satisfies the requirement for Society & the Social Sciences for Steinhardt students.

• Department: Applied Psychology
• Liberal Arts Core: Societies and the Social Sciences

This course will provide an introduction to the foundations of multicultural, culturally relevant education, with particular attention to its implications in the area of social studies. We will examine issues of historical and current inequity in our schools and society. Explores dimensions of identity and diversity, as well as concepts of prejudice, discrimination and racism. Introduces the theory and skills necessary for successful culturally responsive teaching. Establishes the basis for planning integrative, social studies curricula that are inclusive of all voices and perspectives, and which prepare students to be agents of change in their own lives and education. Models broad variety of instructional strategies aimed at eliciting participation of diverse learners. This course proposed that multicultural education is by definition and necessity teaching for social justice.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Basic behavioral science principles applied to the study of education as a social institution. An examination of social pressures and conflicts that underlie controversies in the field of education. Inequality, innovation, organizational control are some areas to be studied.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities

This course focuses on pressing issues in science, technology, engineering, math, and environmental (STEME) education and education research--from local classroom contexts to broader institutional and policy levels--and the impact of these issues on teaching and learning. Students make sense of these issues through sociopolitical and sociohistorical lenses and develop informed stances that will shape their emerging work in the education sphere.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Analytical and theoretical concepts required grasping the aesthetic development of electronic and computer music compositions. The course emphasizes analysis and historical understanding of techniques of production and compositional ideas.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Rehearsal techniques and special problems in ensemble performance.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Explores strategies for solo composition in multimovement works using the solo instrumental sonata of the 19th century as its primary focus. Works are studied and performed with reference to their common and distinctive features given the historical and aesthetic contexts in which they were created.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

A survey and performance course on the art song repertoire. Student study the interpretive and stylistic aspects and performs songs in French from the genre of French melodie.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

A survey and performance course on the art song repertoire. Student study the interpretive and stylistic aspects and performs songs in Italian and Spanish from the genres of Italian and Latin American songs.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

A survey and performance course on the art song repertoire. Student study the interpretive and stylistic aspects and performs songs in English from the genres of American and British songs.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

A survey & performance course on the art song repertoire. Student study the interpretive & stylistic aspects & performs songs in English from the genres of American & British songs.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

A survey and performance course on the art song repertoire. Student study the interpretive and stylistic aspects and performs songs in French from the genre of French melodie.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

A survey and performance course on the art song repertoire. Student study the interpretive and stylistic aspects and performs songs in German from the genre of German lieder.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

A survey and performance course on the art song repertoire. Student study the interpretive and stylistic aspects and performs songs in German from the genre of German lieder.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

A survey and performance course on the art song repertoire. Student study the interpretive and stylistic aspects and performs songs in Italian and Spanish from the genres of Italian and Latin American songs.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

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• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions