Courses

The survey is the leading mechanism for collecting information on a wide array of topics in our data-driven world. This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamental aspects of the survey & ways for evaluating this form of data collection. Principal topics include: survey design; coverage, sampling, & non-response; modes of data collection; questionnaire construction & evaluation. Throughout this course, students will be given opportunities to engage in actual survey research activities.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities

The concept of sustainability is important in our current moment, yet we use the
term in a variety of ways and via different frameworks of understanding. This course explores how we talk about and understand the concept of sustainability, including as environment and climate change, food production and consumption, and individual and community health. Students will examine the concept of sustainability through these different lenses, exploring the connections among them.

• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies

Urban policy makers embrace local food systems as a solution to a myriad of urban problems, including lack of green space and a dearth of healthy food availability. At the local and state levels, policies are often based on visions of how food might be grown in a city without considering logistic feasibility or economic viability. This course probes the practical implications of growing food within urban environments.

• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies

Students will learn and practice the design and organization of the nature park experience. Course is designed to deepen student awareness of human-nature relationships and develop professional skills in environmental advocacy. The course involves class meetings on campus- followed by a required field visit to the study site- and production of a final deliverable consisting of key elements of a nature park master plan. Students in Environmental Conservation Education will evaluate and design environmental education elements- and students from other disciplines can develop a sustainability reporting plan for the site.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Students explore how to develop a protocol for a systematic review of an intervention for their health profession. Topics covered include formulating questions, identifying populations, intervention/comparisons, and outcome measures with consideration of health inequities in underrepresented populations, planning search strategies, using multiple databases, collecting records, conducting screenings and data extractions, evaluating risk of bias, statistical review, and introduction to meta-analysis and GRADE. Final project is a complete protocol for a full review.

• Department: Physical Therapy

This course enables students to use their own data to assess and synthesize the effects and quality of evidence of outcomes for a systematic review. Topics include evaluating risk of bias across studies, assessing heterogeneity, using GRADE to evaluate quality of evidence, conducting meta-analyses, assessing publication bias,
completing a Summary of Findings Table (SoF table), writing up results, discussion, and implications for practice and research with consideration for health inequities. The final project is a completed systematic review.

• Department: Physical Therapy

The course combines theory and practice for researching, designing, and
prototyping tangible educational technology. Students will gain experience applying theoretical frameworks for learning and design as they develop an educational experience with a client. Learners will analyze a learning context, conduct primary & secondary research, engage in ideation & prototyping, and iterate on their designs with stakeholders. Students will learn how to use microcontrollers to interface with sensors and actuators, in order to implement their designs and gain feedback.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

This course explores Tango as an aesthetic, social, political, and cultural formation in Argentina and Latin America. During the rapid modernization of the 1920s and 1930s, Tango, formerly seen as primitive and exotic, emerged as a kind of modern art form and quickly came to occupy a central space in nationalist discourse. The course explores how perceptions of primitive and modern converge in this unique and exciting art, and considers tango as a global metaphor with connections to urban poverty, social marginalization, and masculine authority.

Basic course in jazz tap, waltz clog, & soft-shoe styles of tap dance. Relates the cultural & generic origins of these styles to their introduction to & development in theatre as performing art. Includes fundamental skills & traditional steps & sequences for creating tap dance choreography.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This class introduces students to the art of tap dance, including its history, artists and technique. Beginning students develop a working tap dance vocabulary of steps and sequences, including classic repertory, as well as the rudiments of tap improvisation and choreography. More advanced students focus on more difficult steps as well as on developing virtuosity and expressiveness in their dancing.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Basic course in jazz tap, waltz clog, & soft-shoe styles of tap dance. Relates the cultural & generic origins of these styles to their introduction to & development in theatre as performing art. Includes fundamental skills & traditional steps & sequences for creating tap dance choreography.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This class introduces students to the art of tap dance, including its history, artists and technique. Beginning students develop a working tap dance vocabulary of steps and sequences, including classic repertory, as well as the rudiments of tap improvisation and choreography. More advanced students focus on more difficult steps as well as on developing virtuosity and expressiveness in their dancing.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Models of learning, methods, instructional strategies, and resources for teaching a foreign language to elementary school children. Emphasis is on the development of communicative skills. Includes field observation.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Foundational course that explores the connections among research, theory, and practice in teaching second/world languages. Students explore guiding principles and methodology in approaches to the teaching of language; how additional and world languages are learned, taught, and assessed in different contexts; and theories and practices related to teaching reading, writing, speaking, listening, and grammar in a meaning-based, communicative, and contextual framework. Students develop skills in motivation, teacher-student interaction, and classroom management.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Developing mathematics sense through problem solving and procedures while developing skills and intuitions for creating rich learning environments for elementary school children to explore, discover, and understand mathematics. Trends in mathematics education will be researched as well as the implications for student learning and accountability.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Increasingly, students with a variety of disabilities are remaining in the general education classroom. This course is designed for non-special education majors and those from related service areas who recognize the need to understand the issues and possibilities for working successfully with these students. Sample topics include: current legislation, availability of resources and related services, parenting issues and instructional strategies.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

The colloquium provides a setting for students and faculty to share ideas and examine problems/issues common to teacher education and their experience at NYU. Students will discuss broad issues of the profession, career and research opportunities, and foster deeper ties to the department through discussions with faculty, alumni, current students, and administrators on campus, learn more about teaching, resources, and opportunities available to them through our department.

Explores multiple materials - including technology - for involving students in purposeful reading, writing, speaking and listening. Considers innovative approaches for organizing the classroom to address a range of abilities and disabilities and diverse cultural perspectives. Emphasizes the process whereby individual talent contributes to the building of democratic communities. Develops flexible ways, both formal and informal, for assessing literacy development over time.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Students plan, conduct and evaluate a teaching apprenticeship for ages 5-12 in which they demonstrate proficiency in use of biomechanics, artistic imagery, musical accompaniment and insight on the needs of the developing dance student's professioanl and recreational tracks of study.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Examines theories, methods and assessment tools in the teaching of creative movement to children in grades K-6. Concentrates on basics of movement learning, developmentally appropriate activities , lesson planning, and skill in classroom instruction. Integration of dance in K-6 curriculum and multicultural environment is discussed. Observation of dance classroom settings required.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions