Courses

Topics vary from year to year. See course descriptions in the course notes.

• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies

• Department: Art and Art Professions

• Department: Art and Art Professions

• Department: Art and Art Professions

This course seeks to investigate what history, & particularly recent history, tells us about the role of art in contemporary culture. We will look at the concept of the avant-garde & the notion of “criticality” that dominates the current art system & how that shapes art making, education, patronage, dissemination, & canonization. Mostly, we will ask ourselves questions like, what, if any, is the artist’s (& writer’s) responsibility as a producer of culture? What role does art play in global culture? How do politics affect aesthetics?

Special Topics in Visual Culture and Cultural Studies: Visuality and Globalization

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

This course examines photographers who engage in sustained studies of interior
worlds as practices, meditations, and journeys of the artists and the people they document. The course focuses on themes and topics of intimate relationships, self-study, psychic and spiritual life, mental health, daily rituals, and the body. Engaging visual theory, narrative writing, and artists’ portfolios, we study the techniques, processes, and aesthetics that image-makers employ to express interior life.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

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Course topics will vary from semester to semester.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

This course focuses on the analysis of theoretically supported methodologies in applied psychology, art therapy, communicative science and disorders, drama therapy, music therapy, nutrition, occupational therapy, and physical therapy within the context of patient based management. This course engages students in clinical cases to apply interdisciplinary theories for evaluation and intervention. Theories and methods will be addressed related to models within a biopsychosocial perspective with emphasis on co-morbidity complications.

• Department: Physical Therapy

The best leaders inspire others through the power of their example. This course engages students in a practical research-based approach to transformational leadership practice. Students will: develop their own personal platforms as transformational leaders; deepen their sense of life purpose and professional commitments; increase their competencies for understanding and influencing others; learn how to cope with complexity in the workplace, and practice strategies for self-renewal and self-care as transformational leaders.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

Examines the challenges of transforming high schools to increase educational opportunity & outcomes of urban youth. We will investigate past efforts to transform urban high schools as well as more current school reform efforts such as small schools, charter schools & middle colleges. Using relevant theories on educational change & an in-depth study of school reform, we will examine the roles that principals, teachers, & external providers play in sustaining the change process & analyze the challenges of leading , teaching & learning in today’s changing urban high schools.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

Analyzes the global flow of media products, in particular the circulation of television and film in transnational contexts, at the intersection of political economy (economic, business, and institutional frameworks) with cultural economy (the cultural meanings of these television and film products). Focuses on case studies of the supranational regional players in some of the most important geo-linguistic world markets, where the tensions between global/transnational media flows and local interests are most evident, engaging with theoretical positions ranging from critiques of the homogenizing effects of globalization to those that affirm the changing power relations of counter-flows based on audience preferences.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

Study of the human response to trauma with emphasis on the biologic, psychodynamic & social consequences. Child sexual abuse, terrorism, rape, war & disasters are some examples of the traumas considered. Consideration of theories, dilemmas, & clinical perspectives. Specific attention to legal issue, reporting, identification, assessment, techniques for interviewing & evidence gathering, non-traumatic & traumatic memory, issues & techniques in treatment, & prevention.

• Department: Applied Psychology

Social Studies as a field is reviewed historically and its theoretical base is analyzed. Examines the nature of socialization inherent in different concepts of knowledge and introduces the problems of selecting, organizing, and teaching various approaches to history and the social sciences

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course will introduce social studies majors to the history of historical scholarship (historiography) on the American past. Reviewing the philosophical, political, and methodological shifts in American historical scholarship, the course focuses on debates among historians about the key political events, leaders, social institutions, and protest movements in U.S. history. Learning about the contested nature of historical discourse will enable prospective social studies teachers to teach students that history consists of more than names and dates, that history is a discipline involving critical thinking about, and diverse interpretations of, the past.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Introduces students to the African philosophy of Ubuntu, which priorities shared humanity and collective consciousness across public and private life. Students define and analyze Ubuntu in the context of South Africa and the US, and examine individualism and collectivism, forgiveness and reconciliation and their implications for nation-building. Students experiment with concepts of Ubuntu in collaboration with students in South Africa and apply these concepts to contemporary social problems. Meets Steinhardt Core requirements for Texts & Ideas.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology
• Liberal Arts Core: Texts and Ideas

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

This course will examine the theoretical & practical underpinnings of advising on a
college campus. Materials covered will include best practices in academic, career, & student program advising.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

The best art teacher is life and experience and visiting a new place is the best way to see with new eyes. The aim of this course is to incorporate art into your daily life and Berlin into your art work. Using creativity as a vehicle for personal transformation and exploring your fears, fantasies, Ideas and reactions to the society we live in, you will be required to complete three projects. This is an interdisciplinary studio course with required readings, discussions, films and field trips. Students are encouraged to work in any medium of choice; painting, photography, video, performance, sculpture, etc.

• Department: Art and Art Professions