Courses

An introduction to selected musical sounds and practices from cultural groups around the world. Through exposure to distinct musical cultures, from traditional to transnational, students define and apply musical concepts such as rhythm, timbre, melody, and form. Socio-cultural contexts are also examined, touching on issues such as race, gender, embodied participation, technologies of production and circulation, and relationship to religion, the state, and other social structures.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course examines television in the streaming era, focusing on how television is produced, circulated, and consumed across national, regional, and transnational contexts. Students explore streaming platforms, infrastructures, algorithms, formats and genres, audiences, and industries, with attention to how global television shapes and is shaped by culture, identity, language, power, and uneven conditions of media production and distribution.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

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Examines theoretical and empirical work on the social, cultural and economic aspects of globalization and their implications for education. Students explore education in light of the emergence of global governance of and markets in the production and distribution of goods, services and labor; new information and communication technologies reshaping the structure and meaning of education, belonging and community; and unprecedented population movements and worldwide migration.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities

This course examines how gender and sexuality are being reconfigured in the context of globalization and transnational flows. We will examine key texts drawn from feminist/global cultural studies and engage with topics concerning citizenship, modernity, global labor flows, migration and activism. Through a reading of theoretical texts and ethnographic case studies, we will track the politics and performance of gender and sexuality within transnational and mediatized environments.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

The course examines the conceptual & empirical work on the social, cultural, & economic aspects of globalization & their implications for education. We shall explore education in light of: 1) the increasing de-territorialization of cultural formations; 2) the emergence of global markets along with the post-nationalization of the production & distribution of goods & services -- with a concomitant premiss on knowledge -- intensive work; 3) new information & communication technologies which are reshaping the structure & meaning of work, belonging & community; 4) unprecedented population movements & worldwide immigration. We shall examine recent conceptual work, in globalization & its relationships to human experience with a focus on youth.

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

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities
• Liberal Arts Core: Societies and the Social Sciences

The roles and responsibilities of trustees and officers who govern nonprofit, tax-exempt arts organizations. How the planning, budgeting, personnel development, and marketing policies of arts endeavors are determined.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Assignment to studios, mastering labs, or other music technology-related firms for advanced on-the-job training.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

A Stanislavski based course introducing fundamental acting technique and stage convention through the integration of improvisation, monologs, and scene study, speech and movement.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Continuation of skills and concepts introduced in Graduate Acting for Singers I with an increased focus on character development, interaction and heightened language.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

An intensive practicum course building on the skills introduced in Graduate Acting for Singers I and II, with increased focus on acting styles for contemporary and classical theatre.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

A general introduction to the fundamental concepts of music technology, including: sound propagation, the principles of microphone operation, the use of speakers and mixers, the MIDI standard and its implementation, the basics of digital systems, waveform editing and audio file formats and compression. The lectures will be complemented by practical assignments and demonstrations, through which students will gain a basic understanding of how to use technology to enhance and demonstrate their musical work.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Graduate Jazz Seminar will present weekly interviews & discussions wit seminal Jazz artists from around the world. Discussions will include performance practices & oral histories. Students from the Jazz Studies Program are required to attend.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

A classroom or praxis based course, focusing on current issues in studio art or the art professions. Topics examine a broad range of art and visual culture foci, with an emphasis on new approaches to both subject material and pedagogical methods.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

Description; This course examines traditional examples of ethical behavior in the American and European modern and contemporary art market and compares them to current, increasingly complex art business practices. We will analyze general concepts and specific situations in the expanded and interconnected global business of art. Students will be asked to consider which, if any, current business practices and concepts require reconsideration and how these may apply to a global art market.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

This course will investigate the current state of Contemporary Art and how it has come to be shaped by the growing importance of biennials, triennials, and other timed exhibitions as well as the increasing influence of art fairs around the globe.It will show how the evolution of these major international exhibitions and fairs has gradually changed the function and relative emphasis of galleries and museums, critics and curators, art dealers and auction houses, at a time when there are more artists, galleries and collectors than ever before. On-line and off-line exhibition and sales, now in the very early stages, will also factor into the discussion of the rapidly changing art world of the 21st century. Biennial curators, art fair organizers, critics and artists will be invited as guest lecturers to offer their viewpoints on the current state of the arts.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

This project-based course explores contemporary curatorial practice and its application to the display and interpretation of fashion. Through the development of an original and timely topic, students co-curate an exhibition, participating in all aspects of mounting and staging the exhibition along with producing the related research, text, and supporting programming.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

This course is a culmination of a student’s graduate degree. It requires the student
to incorporate elements from their entire course of study to research, program, prepare, and present a successful degree recital.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course is a culmination of a student’s graduate degree. It requires the student
to incorporate elements from their entire course of study to research, program, prepare, and present a successful degree recital.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course is a culmination of a student’s graduate degree. It requires the student
to incorporate elements from their entire course of study to research, program, prepare, and present a successful degree recital.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions