Courses

This course introduces students to college counseling. Students learn to develop and implement a comprehensive and effective post-secondary planning program. The course focuses on post-secondary education and ways to support high school students to explore those options. Students use case studies and scenarios to develop strategies and coordinate events aligned with promoting postsecondary success.

• Department: Applied Psychology

Although support for rights and protections is at historic highs, a majority of LGBT and gender non-binary youth report experiencing bias, harassment, assault, and victimization based on their sexual or gender identities or their diverse gender expressions. This course explores ways mental health professionals counsel LGBT youth to enhance coping with psychosocial and minority stresses and in affirming their sexual and gender identities.

• Department: Applied Psychology

In an ever-changing landscape of increased rights and backlashes, LGBT and gender non-binary adults and older adults experience bias, stress, and discrimination in health care, housing and public accommodations and at the workplace. This course explores ways mental health professionals counsel adults and older adults facing challenges in self-development, social-emotional relationships, and institutional settings.

• Department: Applied Psychology

Provide an overview of the basic interviewing and counseling skills to help communicative sciences and disorders (CSD) students achieve success when working with individuals and family members exhibiting communication disorders. To effectively deal with roadblocks to success in treatment, CSD students must develop a therapeutic relationship with clients both for obtaining relevant information about the disorder (interviewing) and for helping clients reduce barriers to their success in treatment (counseling).

• Department: Communicative Sciences and Disorders

LGBT families include those with same-sex couples and parents, LGBT youth, and other LGBT family members. This course examines experiences of LGBT families with stigma and discrimination in their interactions with educational, familial, health, and judicial systems. Explores ways in which mental health professionals counsel LGBT families: parents disclosing as LGBT and LGBT people becoming parents; being out as a LGBT family; coping with hate, bias, violence; obtaining equity and equality. A prior course in counseling is strongly recommended.

• Department: Applied Psychology

This course is designed to be accessible and approachable for people
who will be future teachers of elementary school mathematics. It is
also intended for people who want to broaden their knowledge in mathematics
and experience it as a relevant, challenging, and enjoyable field. It is
not intended for math majors. It will be taught as a problem-based course,
that allows for students to explore and develop new ideas, and apply them
to real life situations. The course builds on intuitive understandings of
fundamental ideas of counting and chance and moves gradually to more
formal knowledge of combinatorics and probability concepts and techniques.
The learning experiences offered throughout the course are designed
to facilitate student interactions and active role in the learning process.

Liberal Arts Core/MAP Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Quantitative Reasoning for Steinhardt students.

• Department: Teaching and Learning
• Liberal Arts Core: Quantitative Reasoning

This course will provide the student with all of the skills necessary to take appropriate action in an emergency in any practice setting.

• Department: Physical Therapy

Aimed at students who expect to read & interpret, rather than conduct, statistical analyses, this course is designed to help students become better & more critical consumers of quantitative evidence. Using research studies discussed in the popular media & focused on currently debated questions in education & social policy, the course covers key concepts in quantitative reasoning, basic statistics, & research design. Research readings will focus on topical issues regarding early childhood & K-12 education & other social policy issues that affect children.

Liberal Arts Core/CORE Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Quantitative Reasoning for Steinhardt students.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities
• Liberal Arts Core: Quantitative Reasoning

Aimed at students who expect to read and interpret, rather than conduct, statistical analyses, this course is designed to help students become better and more critical consumers of quantitative evidence. Using research studies discussed in the popular media and focused on currently debated questions in health and human development, the course covers key concepts in quantitative reasoning, basic statistics, and research design. Research readings will focus on topical issues regarding food and nutrition, exercise, sleep, education, and child development.

Liberal Arts Core/CORE-MAP Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Quantitative Reasoning only for students whose Program of Study does not include a Statistics Course-see your Advisor for more information.

• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies
• Liberal Arts Core: Quantitative Reasoning

Students study creativity and the science of engaging learning environments and use their findings to brainstorm low-cost solutions for improving classroom atmosphere. Students generate Do It Yourself" ideas that teachers can use to transform the physical space of their classroom on a budget to help students enter the proper mindset for learning. Students aggregate and edit their ideas into an eBook as an inspirational resources for teachers around the country.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course provides an overview of craniofacial anomalies with an emphasis on cleft lip and palate and on the medical, dental, orthodontic, and surgical considerations for this population. This course also focuses on developing knowledge and clinical practice skills to provide adequate differential diagnosis assessments and design a therapeutic treatment plan with evidence-based rationales for patients with cleft lip, cleft palate, and/or craniofacial abnormalities.

• Department: Communicative Sciences and Disorders

Prepares students to navigate today's world of professional music performance. Topics include setting career goals, defining success, finding and creating performance opportunities, grant writing, creating publicity materials, auditions, day jobs, freelancing, and how to manage money, time, and stress

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Prepares students to navigate today's world of professional music performance. Topics include setting career goals, defining success, finding and creating performance opportunities, grant writing, creating publicity materials, auditions, day jobs, freelancing, and how to manage money, time, and stress.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Focuses on techniques used to create ethnodrama and documentary theatre scripts composed from interview transcripts, field notes, journal entries, and/or print and media artifacts. Through readings, literature reviews, data collection and analysis, performance of data, and construction of scripts, students gain skills to create ethnodrama and documentary theatre scripts. Perspectives on the aesthetics, ethics, limitations, and challenges associated with the forms are also explored. Coursework is informed by the mission and work of the Verbatim Performance Lab.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

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• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course is designed for students who would like to develop knowledge and skills in planning and leading theatre workshops with young people. The course explores the theory and practice of creating theatre with young people from a youth-centered perspective, offers practice in designing workshops, and culminates with an in-course opportunity to initiate practical work with young people. The course will include a written assignment.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course is designed for students who would like to develop knowledge and skills in planning and leading theatre workshops with young people. The course explores the theory and practice of creating theatre with young people from a youth-centered perspective, offers practice in designing workshops, and culminates with an in-course opportunity to initiate practical work with young people. The course will include a written assignment.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

A study of the principles and practice of interactive media; surveying strategies, aesthetics, techniques, and software. Various works will be analyzed for insight into creative process as applied to interactive media. Resources utilized include the Yamaha Disclavier and Nights Multimedia facilities.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Drawing on the resources of New York University in New York and London, this course examines the nature of the Creative and Cultural Industries in the US and UK. Utilizing readings, lectures, and visits to important international cultural venues, we explore how and why the creative and cultural industries play a vital social and economic role in these countries. Finally, we will learn how the UK communicates its success to the world through cultural diplomacy initiatives.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This is a practice-based course designed to teach basic programming skills in the context of critical and cultural media studies and digital humanities. Requires no prior programming experience, simply a willingness to explore code at a more technical level with the aim of using computation as an expressive, analytical, critical and visualizing medium. Students learn basic coding techniques such as variables, loops, graphics, and networking, all within a larger conversation on the social, cultural, and historical nature of code and coding practices.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication