Courses

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

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

Students will examine the sources, content, and flow of racial and radicalized discourse on the web, as well as a broader variety of issues related to race and digital media. Central themes of racial formation and critical race theory, coupled with foundational concepts from graph theory and social network analysis will guide explorations into the multifaceted ways in which racial disadvantage , exclusion, segregation and disparate treatment get produced and reproduced in cyberspace.

• 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

Explore how food is used as a tool in social movements across cultures and time. Course themes include food and revolutions, food as social resistance, weaponizing food and food as an apparatus for government policies. Students will learn that food can be both a force for change as well as oppression.

• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies

By exploring the development of the musical traditions found within specific regions of the US & beyond, this class will focus on people & events that helped shape the evolution of jazz music. We will explore the circumstances & coincidences that propelled jazz into the world as viewed through the lens of cultural, social, technological, political & religious implications.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course is designed to help students identify, understand, and manage the diverse language needs, abilities and interests of adult learners essential for teaching, planning and assessing effective classroom practices. Instructional issues and concepts for teaching and designing curriculum are explored theoretically and experientially to incorporate and support the cultural, linguistic, cognitive, professional, pragmatic, experiential and personal perspectives of adult learners.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Study of approaches, methods, and techniques used in teaching language skills and developing cross-cultural understandings to second/foreign language learners at the elementary and secondary levels The emphasis of the course includes curriculum development, language development through different development stages and through content areas, language testing, lesson planning, and micro-teaching.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course explores instructional approaches and resources appropriate for multilingual learners in elementary and secondary classrooms. Students develop skills in curriculum-, unit- and lesson-planning, and creating a safe and inclusive classroom environment. Concrete tools for working in the classroom are explored via frameworks such as culturally-sustaining pedagogy, sociocultural approaches to learning, and communicative language teaching.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

The needs of the preschool child with disabilities is explored through an examination of the child, family, and environmental characteristics. Atypical language, speech, emotional, motor, and cognitive development is presented with a focus on the interdependent nature of these domains. A major focus is transdisciplinary collaboration of educators and specialists from occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech and language, psychology, and recreation and health in making educationally relevant decisions.

• 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

An increasing number of arts institutions, community based organizations, schools and colleges are recognizing the important role of the arts as an essential part of the educational process. The course will introduce students to the basic issues implicit to the collaboration between artists and teachers in an educational setting. It will examine the different perspectives from which artists and teachers often view each other and their work; and will encourage students to identify the common ground that exists in respect to both aims and processes. It will introduce students to some of the fundamental pedagogical issues that confront teachers and artists alike (e.g. the role and relative merits of didacticism, self-discovery, creative expression, freedom, discipline, structure, and cultural relativity etc.) and equip them with some practical strategies and approaches to such tasks and challenges as defining objectives, planning lessons, leading discussions, general classroom management, and the maintenance of a productive learning environment.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

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

The first method course for foreign language education majors.Course contents include guiding principles and methodology in a variety of approaches to the teaching of foreign languages, specifically in developing auditory comprehension and oral production; teaching, reading and writing, impact of culture; heritage, socioeconomic level, and educational background on language and literacy development as well as human development processes and variations. Also included are skills in motivation, communication, and classroom management.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course provides a link between teachers' mathematical knowledge and understanding of the major skills andconcepts of pre-calculus mathematics to the effective and appropriate teaching of these topics in grades 7 through 12.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course provides a link between teachers' mathematical knowledge and understanding of the major skills and concepts of ratios, proporations, percents, decimals and fractions to the effective and appropriate teaching of these topics in grades 7-12.

• 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 class focuses on the use of the voice and singing in music therapy practice. Students explore the importance of the voice in a person's development as well as the many ways to use the voice in music therapy. The students are introduced to a wide range of vocal uses and expression through improvisation and songs and are helped to increase their spontaneity and free their natural voice.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

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