Courses

A continuation of MPATE-UE 1010. This is an advanced & detailed study of the audio-visual production & post-production process including digital recording techniques, with special emphasis on synchronization & the interfacing of SMPTE time code. Sound design, advanced Foley topics, * creative workflow in audio post production will also be discussed.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

The goal of the Applied Data Analytics class is to develop the key data analytics skill sets necessary to harness the wealth of newly-available data. Its design offers hands-on training in the context of real microdata. The main learning objectives are to apply new techniques to analyze social problems using and combining large quantities of heterogeneous data from a variety of different sources. It is designed for graduate students who are seeking a stronger foundation in data analytics.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities

Introduces students to an array of general and generalized linear modeling
techniques (extending correlations and ANOVA to simple and multiple regression, as
well as logistic regression, fixed and random effects) using statistical software as a
platform to achieve hands-on experience with real data. This course is most suitable for students looking to apply these models rather than learn the mathematical underpinnings of these techniques.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities

A systematic study of advanced French phonological, grammatical, and lexical systems with the focus on forms, function, meaning, and usage in French.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

A systematic study of advanced Spanish phonological, grammatical, and lexical systems with the focus on forms, function, meaning, and usage in Spanish.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course offers a systematic study of advanced Mandarin Chinese with a focus on forms, function, meaning, and usage in Chinese and on comparative cultural practices in the use of Mandarin across Mandarin-speaking contexts. In addition, students will improve their teaching through participating in and developing classroom activities.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course centers on advanced skills in modern dance technique with focus on movement precision, musicality, & performance leading to pedagogy. Emphasis is on expanding individual’s technical & expressive capabilities & developing instructional ability in modern pedagogy. Students will investigate the concepts & constructs of their home dance “technique” from a pedagogical perspective, including the use of technology & assessment to enhance student experience & comprehension.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Spatial data arise when information collected on units that reside in different locations. Common examples include geology, criminology and epidemiology, where the goal may be to identify patterning or clusters (;hot spots') in the outcomes across the terrain being examined. In the social sciences, a similar set of questions and techniques are required, for example in studies of homelessness, poverty, environmental justice, and education. However, spatial data present a novel set of exploratory and modeling challenges, given the unique way in which outcomes are related (correlated) with each other through proximity. This course is an overview of the methods needed to analyze data for which it is suspected that the spatial component plays an important role.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities

Hands-on studio course with an emphasis on ear training to increase understanding of different technical & artistic practices in the recording studio. Students will explore use of microphone placement techniques, balancing natural & artificial acoustics as well as dynamic audio effects & filters.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

An exploration of applied theatre which includes studies in community and participatory art forms. Students experience and investigate a range of genres in applied theatre, including community theatre, prison and juvenile justice theatre, theatre for older people, theatre of the oppressed and theatre for development.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

An exploration of applied theatre which includes studies in community and participatory art forms. Students experience and investigate a range of genres in applied theatre, including community theatre, prison and juvenile justice theatre, theatre for older people, theatre of the oppressed and theatre for development.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course focuses on the social effects of applied theatre in community, vocational & educational settings. Informed by the work of Paulo Freire as well as other critical theorists & arts activists, like Augusto Boal, Bertolt Brecht, bell hooks, & Tony Kushner, students will explore projects which have a social justice & human rights agenda.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course focuses on the social effects of applied theatre in community, vocational & educational settings. Informed by the work of Paulo Freire as well as other critical theorists & arts activists, like Augusto Boal, Bertolt Brecht, bell hooks, & Tony Kushner, students will explore projects which have a social justice & human rights agenda.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course introduces students to key aspects of the art market including pricing, marketing, and valuation of art from the 18th to 20th centuries. Through fieldwork, discussions, and readings, students explore the roles of different professionals, the effects of new markets and technologies, primary and secondary markets, digital platforms, and international fairs. The course includes analysis of various fine and decorative art categories and research methods for appraisal.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

This course is the prerequisite to the more advanced, specialized qualitative methods courses that Steinhardt offers and is open to and appropriate for graduate students in any department or field. This course introduces students to foundational tenets of qualitative research and a range of methods in the qualitative paradigm. The course is a combination of learning about and reading examples of the methods we study – drawing from education, sociology, and psychology, among other fields – and of “hands on” practice in methods such as interview and observation.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities

This class reads architecture and the built environment through the lenses of media, communication, and culture, departing from the proposition that spaces communicate meaningfully and are in conversation with the social. From Gothic cathedrals to suburban shopping malls to homes, factories, skyscrapers and digital cities, students acquire a vocabulary for relating representations and practices, symbols and structures, and for identifying the ideological and aesthetic positions that produce settings for everyday life.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

This class reads architecture and the built environment through the lenses of media, communication, and culture. Through analyses of a range of spaces - from Gothic cathedrals to suburban shopping malls to homes, factories, skyscrapers and digital cities - students will acquire a vocabulary for relating representations and practices, symbols and structures, and for identifying the ideological and aesthetic positions that produce settings for everyday life.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

An examination of the art of debate using current issues of public policy and social justice. Students will learn the skills of critical thinking, evidence evaluation and persuasion. Hours are arranged for fieldwork and student evaluation.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

This class will seek to interrogate the categories of art & activism by looking closely at the following efforts: Occupy Wall Street movement, Gulf Labor Coalition & Global Ultra Luxury Faction (G.U.L.F.), the direct action wing of Gulf Labor Coalition, & the Direct Action Front for Palestine-NYC & Black Lives Matter. These case studies will sketch the possibility of a practice in which artist’s work does not simply add an artistic flair to this or that campaign, but rather theory and research, action & aesthetics, debriefing & analysis. Close readings of texts and visual materials form the core of the class supplemented with field trips, & special guests.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

The contemporary art world is a convoluted interplay of aesthetics & economics; ego & idealism. How can an emerging artist navigate its layers & idiosyncrasies? Through readings of theory & criticism, lectures, discussions, site visits, guest speakers, & student responses in the form of multimedia projects and art writing, this course explores contemporary art’s mechanisms & current discourse, always keeping Berlin’s local context in mind.