Courses

Overview of microanatomical structure from the perspective of cells, tissues, and systems. The four tissue types are studied including epithelial, connective, nervous, and muscular tissues. Basic concepts of cell and tissue injury and disease are presented, including examination of acute and chronic inflammation and immune and autoimmune responses.

• Department: Physical Therapy

Covers foundation knowledge of special education and eligibility for educational services across disabilities. Examines historical, social, and cultural practices and beliefs about disability, legal foundations of U.S. education policy for students with disabilities, and patterns of inclusion in home, community, and schools. Focus on issues and trends affecting the diverse U.S. population, equity, and access to education and related services for students with disabilities. Teacher development through observations of individualized and collaborative service models.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

To redress anti-blackness in science teaching and learning, we must move beyond ‘Black representation in STEM fields’ as this primarily positions Black science geniuses in the past. Instead in this course we will reposition the historical and present day genius of Black scientific innovations and practices in science so that we can imagine a more affirming and humanizing future through curricular design and archival research. This course aims to humanize Black science cultural practices by centering the work of everyday people in the past, present, and future. In this course students will consider the history of science and science education, both within and beyond the confines of westernized science by engaging with research that looked to the archives to explore Black pedagogical practices. Specifically we will learn about the ways Black teachers prior to Brown vs. Board of Education, 1954 engaged in pedagogical practices that centered love, liberation, and community so that we might use this history to inspire how we might present anti-racist science teaching to all students in our classrooms. Anti-blackness in the use of science today impacts us all and limits our ability to participate in a fully democratic and just society, students will be given the opportunity to consider the misuse of science in their own communities and what they previously accepted as fact versus structural injustices. By the end of the course, students will present on their own research project or science unit storyline that meets at the intersection of Black pedagogical practices, science learning, and historical/current uses of science in our everyday lives.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

To redress anti-blackness in science teaching and learning, we must move beyond ‘Black representation in STEM fields’ as this primarily positions Black science geniuses in the past. Instead in this course we will reposition the historical and present day genius of Black scientific innovations and practices in science so that we can imagine a more affirming and humanizing future through curricular design and archival research. This course aims to humanize Black science cultural practices by centering the work of everyday people in the past, present, and future. In this course students will consider the history of science and science education, both within and beyond the confines of westernized science by engaging with research that looked to the archives to explore Black pedagogical practices. Specifically we will learn about the ways Black teachers prior to Brown vs. Board of Education, 1954 engaged in pedagogical practices that centered love, liberation, and community so that we might use this history to inspire how we might present anti-racist science teaching to all students in our classrooms. Anti-blackness in the use of science today impacts us all and limits our ability to participate in a fully democratic and just society, students will be given the opportunity to consider the misuse of science in their own communities and what they previously accepted as fact versus structural injustices. By the end of the course, students will present on their own research project or science unit storyline that meets at the intersection of Black pedagogical practices, science learning, and historical/current uses of science in our everyday lives.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Influence of philosophy & early systems of psychology on contemporary views. Examination of British empiricism, structuralism, Gestalt psychology, behaviorism, & psychoanalytic theory.

• Department: Applied Psychology

This lecture course examines the evolution of global art movements with a focus on ecology, feminism, and decolonial practices. Students explore how these frameworks have reshaped artistic production, challenging traditional narratives and providing alternative perspectives on art, culture, and identity. Through critical discussions and readings, students develop a deeper understanding of how contemporary art reflects and responds to the socio-political realities of the post-1945 world.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

Study of painting & sculpture in America in 1945 to the present with background information concerning development of styles & movements in art in the 20th century. Lectures, discussions, slides, gallery & museum visits.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

This course focuses on specific time periods, technological developments and cultural contexts relevant to understanding the development of digital computing technology over the course of the 20th and 21st centuries. This course familiarizes students with the social forces and techno-cultural innovations that shaped the computing industry. Specific historical themes may include: personal computing; Cold War computing; computing and globalization; the quantified self; computational aesthetics; artificial intelligence and machine learning; computing and gender.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

This course focuses on technological developments and cultural contexts relevant to understanding the development of digital computing technology. The course familiarizes students with the social forces and technocultural innovations that shaped the personal computing industry, and uses primary documents, academic history and critical theory to contextualize and problematize popular frameworks of technological progress and challenge narratives of computing's inevitability.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

This course surveys developments in contemporary visual arts since the '60s, from Conceptual Art to Land Art and Art and Activism through to Globalism of the '90s and early 2000s, including developments in performance art, dance, film, photography, and new media in the history of the arts.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

Traces the development of fashion photography in relation to contemporary fashion, aesthetic influence, photographic styles and techniques, cultural customs and commercial needs. Fashion photography is more than a medium dedicated to commerce: it is a record of artistic movements, ideals of beauty, and social trends. The course begins in the early 20th century with the growth of periodicals devoted to fashion and continues through the work of the present day.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

Photography is an indispensable component of fashion. It is both a persuasive tool
for selling clothing and accessories and a record of artistic movements, expressions of beauty, gender and social trends. This course traces the development of fashion photography in relation to contemporary fashion, aesthetic influence, photographic styles and techniques, cultural customs and commercial needs. It begins in the 1920s with the growth of periodicals devoted to fashion and continues through the work of the present day.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

Discussions of selected topics in the social and intellectual history of higher education in America since 1750.Integration of educational policies and functions, with attention to limitations of educational responsibility, development of institutional structures, changing modes for gaining and imparting knowledge, and the social prerogatives and initiatives variously assigned to an educated class.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities

This course introduces students to key technologies, transitions, and time periods in the history of media and communication, and to the stakes of historical inquiry. The class explores a wide variety of media formats and innovations throughout human history, with a particular emphasis on the social, economic, cultural and political factors that both shape, and are shaped by, the transformation of media and communication technology over time. Liberal Arts Core/CORE Equivalent for Societies and the Social Sciences.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication
• Liberal Arts Core: Societies and the Social Sciences

This course introduces students to key concepts in the history of media and communication, and to the stakes of historical inquiry. Rather than tracing a necessarily selective historical arc from alphabet to Internet or from cave painting to coding, the course is organized around an exploration of case studies in context. Liberal Arts Core/CORE Equivalent for Societies and the Social Sciences.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

A survey that examines sources and influences that contributed to the formation of taste and style from about 1850 to the present. Through a concept-driven, cross-disciplinary approach that includes art, architecture, decorative arts, and material culture, taste will be explore thematically and chronologically within a broad cultural context. Factors and forces that shape this context include political events, social customs and fads, fashion, pastimes, entertainment and technological advances. Emphasis is placed on developing critical skills through discussion of connections and relationships between the historical development of taste and current trends.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

Tracks evolutions in style, technology, function, and historic developments of textiles from antiquity through the 18th century. Includes close study of important fiber and fabric typologies, including pattern-woven silks, tapestry, embroidery, lace, and printed/painted fabrics. Topics include textiles as indicators of status and wealth, design affinities to other arts, and the impact of cultural exchange among Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

Investigates textiles in terms of design, creation, marketing, and use from the 19th century to present. With particular attention to the rapid technological advances of the past two centuries, visual and structural analysis of objects is combined with consideration of historical developments to situate textiles in the context of the surrounding culture. Includes object examination sessions at the Ratti Textile Center at the Metropolitan Museum as well as other New York collections.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

This course focuses on developing conceptual, experiential, & pedagogic knowledge in five historical dance education traditions: Graham, Hawkins, Dunham, Horton, & Taylor, & 2 modern fusion techniques that incorporate working with differently abled populations. The course will introduce students to the theories & kinesthetic ideas of each of these choreographer/educators, & students will work closely with the accompanist to learn techniques of accompaniment for these styles. Students will investigate the concepts & constructs of a dance “technique” & what purpose technique classes serve to the dancer & choreographer, including the use of technology & assessment to enhance student experience & comprehension.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Students explore vernacular and theatrical jazz dance rooted in the Africanist aesthetic in historical and cultural context, and its relevance to education across the sectors (k-12, post-secondary, independent schools of dance). Emphasis is on experiencing the jazz dance continuum in movement, and deconstructing pedagogical approaches to technique, improvisation, and academic content.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions