Courses

Fundamental principles of art therapy practice will be presented through theoretical discussions and case presentations. Students will learn the historical development of the profession, its distinction from other disciplines and its commonalities to social sciences. This course will examine the art of making processes and products through basics pictorial analysis. Students will study the artistic expression of children, adolescents, adults, and geriatric populations struggling with varied emotional and physical issues in different settings.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

Individual positions with major artists, notable museums, distinguished galleries, art publishers, and art organizations.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

An introduction to arts-based research methodologies and procedures designed for first-year graduate students in creative arts therapies, inter-disciplinary arts majors, educational theatre and applied psychology. Topics include the process of arts-based research, the fundamentals of art-based research design, and the use of new media technologies in research design. Course helps prepare students for the subsequent writing of their theses.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

An introduction to the concepts & applications of audio production for video, television & film. Current production techniques frequently used in the post-production industry will be explored, with special emphasis on synchronization & audio production techniques including music editing, sound effects design, Foley, & dialog replacement.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course is an introduction to the theories and procedures used to identify hearing loss and provide aural rehabilitation to children and adults with hearing loss. Students examine principles and techniques of pure tone and speech audiometry and interpretation of audiograms; review etiologies and considerations for all types and degrees of hearing loss; and explore principles of management of people with hearing loss across the lifespan as well as technological and aural rehabilitation methods available to individuals with hearing loss.

• Department: Communicative Sciences and Disorders

An introduction to the technical problems of making, decorating, glazing, and firing ceramic forms, while providing opportunities for understanding and developing sensitivities to clay as an art for

• Department: Art and Art Professions

In this course, students will learn HTML, CSS, and Javascript while gaining hands-on experience with issues that are specific to coding and designing educational applications and web-based instructional materials. Students will learn the skills required to develop websites and design applications that work across devices. Furthermore, students will explore the affordances that the web and multimedia offers a learning designer, how to apply various perspectives on learning and how to build interactive prototypes and wireframes. No knowledge of programming is assumed.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

This course is a deep examination of the commercial theater business model,
including how commercial productions get made and the role of management in shepherding that process. Topics will include key players and organizational structures; the development life cycle of a show; how money is raised, earned, and spent; union relations; and the challenges currently faced by the industry. Students will also have the opportunity to examine and reflect on their leadership principles.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course will introduce students to a variety of different conceptualizations & implementations of Computer Science education for K-12. Students will discuss and analyze the rationale & purpose of CS teaching behind each case & critique the benefits & challenges from the perspective of K-12 education. This will support students in making informed decisions in their own CS teaching practice & to articulate & justify their decisions. The course will also serve to empower students to participate in future CS curriculum development in their school.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course will introduce students to a variety of different conceptualizations & implementations of Computer Science education for K-12. Students will discuss and analyze the rationale & purpose of CS teaching behind each case & critique the benefits & challenges from the perspective of K-12 education. This will support students in making informed decisions in their own CS teaching practice & to articulate & justify their decisions. The course will also serve to empower students to participate in future CS curriculum development in their school.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course serves to familiarize the student with the fundamentals of typography. Typography forms the basis of our contemporary communication. Students will gain design abilities based on analogue techniques as well as digital software. The class explores letterform design and moves subsequently to typesetting exercises performed using the letterpress printer and computer. Compositions exploring typography as color, form, and image will be examined for visual impact as well as meaning. The history of typography is incorporated beginning with Guttenberg in the 1400's through the classic designers of the 17th and 18th centuries, type-design through Russian Constructivism, the Bauhaus, and Modernism to contemporary digital type design.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

This course is an introduction to digital media, focusing on networks, computers, the Web and video games. Theoretical topics include the formal qualities of new media, their political dimensions, as well as questions of genre, narrative, and history.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

A hands-on introduction to the technical and creative uses of digital photography. The class will explore the use of digital technologies to compose, shoot, scan, alter, and print images, as well as considering the ways in which photographic meaning has been changed by the use of the computer. Student provides their own camera and paper.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

Course takes place during the Residency I requirement of the Online Ed.D. Program. The course provides an overview of the Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership and Organizational Studies curriculum. Students will review the two-year program timeline and discuss expectations of the
program, and the fundamentals of doctoral study. The course will highlight the major program milestones embedded within the capstone deliverables.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

This course is designed for non-majors as an introduction to the basic concepts, theory & practice of drama therapy. The course will use experiential learning to familiarize students with drama therapy as an embodied & narrative approach to therapy & as a diagnostic & intervention tool. Course is appropriate for students in the other creative arts therapies, social work, applied psychology interested in enhancing clinical skills & for students in educational theater wishing to examine the boundaries between applied dramatic art & therapy.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Basic materials and methods of drawing. It combines perceptual learning with initial conceptual basics for drawing. This includes line usage, shape inventing, size differentiating, brightness contrast, location and overlap. Students will develop the skill to discuss their drawings as well as the drawings of others, and learn to observe and empathize with the genres of landscape, still-life, and figure. Individual and group critiques, slide lectures, and museum and gallery visits support studio activities.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

Introduction to the fields of early childhood education and early childhood special education. Topics include: historical, political, and economic contexts of early childhood and early childhood special education, philosophies and models of early childhood and early childhood special education, the role of the child in society, and the locations of institutions of early childhood learning.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course introduces students to principles of evidence-based practice (EBP). Students learn to evaluate clinical literature, determine the evidence level of a clinical study, appraise study feasibility, and apply EBP concepts in everyday practice. The course emphasizes the need for evidence-based clinical practice and prepares students to obtain the knowledge and skills for future clinical effectiveness studies (e.g., participate in systematic review, data collection, or compile an evidence-based treatment guideline).

• Department: Occupational Therapy

Examination of food from historical and transnational perspectives. Topics considered are: the origins of agriculture, the phenomenon of famine, the co-evolution of world cuisines and civilizations, the international exchange and spread of foods and food technologies following 1492, issues of hunger and thirst, and the effects of the emergent global economy on food production, diets, and health.

Liberal Arts Core/MAP Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Cultures and Contexts for Steinhardt students.

• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies
• Liberal Arts Core: Cultures and Contexts

“In this experiential, hands-on course, students investigate the origins and meaning of
environmental justice while developing skills in GIS and spatial analysis. GIS is a
technology widely used in environmental conservation, urban planning, public health,
and other fields for creating, analyzing, and mapping location data with other descriptive information. Students learn to interpret and create maps to tell a story about the environment, pursue their research interests, and engage with classmates and guest speakers working in the field."

• Department: Teaching and Learning