Courses

Course provides students with opportunities to use scientific information to solve real-world problems related to environmental and public health. By assisting science organizations with generating and/or analyzing data, students learn how non-formal community, and professional science organizations use and produce scientific knowledge for the public. Includes six 3-hour field sessions.

Liberal Arts Core/CORE Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Natural Sciences

In this course students use scientific information to understand concepts related to the microbial world while exploring what it means to engage in citizen science. Students study the evolutionary origins, lives, and ecologies of various microorganisms including microbe-host interactions that can cause disease. By exploring the practices of science from observing and measurement to analyzing and explaining data, students learn to use data and produce scientific knowledge for themselves and the public. Meets Steinhardt Liberal Arts Core requirement.

As you read this description, structures in your body are participating in an entangled dance with the material of the written text. Science is only just beginning to understand what a complex dance this is. In this course, you will explore neuroscience to develop a richer understanding of the role of your brain in practices we often take for granted. You will also explore how other living things, including plants, learn and think. And that’s not science fiction! Meets Steinhardt Core for Life Science for Steinhardt students.

Students investigate the nature of water, human use of water, and the impact of humans on its availability and use. These investigations initiate an exploration of the nature of sustainability and through sustainability audits plans for human action. By exploring the practices of science from observing and measurement to analyzing and explaining data, students learn to use data and produce scientific knowledge for the public and begin to explore the bigger question of whether some of the practices in which we engage and the things we use are making our planet sick.

Liberal Arts CORE-satisfies Physical/Life Science Requirement for Steinhardt students.

This course is an introduction to the science of human connection and its promise for advancing solutions to our most pressing societal problems. The science of human connection incorporates a wide range of disciplines including developmental and social psychology, neuroscience, primatology, and the health sciences to reveal: 1) the social and emotional nature of humans; 2) how particular cultural values and beliefs disrupt our social and emotional capacities and needs and; 3) the implications for understanding the roots of our problems and how to solve them.

Liberal Arts Core/MAP Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Societies and Social Sciences

This course provides an overview of the scientific study of the human language faculty, focusing on the cognitive & neural processing mechanisms that underlie linguistic knowledge & use. We describe contemporary approaches to delineating levels of language structure & review various scientific methodologies used to study language. Topics include language knowledge & use as well as language change & variation.

Liberal Arts Core/CORE Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Natural Science for Steinhardt students (non-CSCD majors).

This course provides an overview of the scientific study of the human language faculty, focusing on the cognitive and neural processing mechanisms that underlie linguistic knowledge and use. We describe contemporary approaches to delineating levels of language instruction and review various scientific methodologies used to study language. Topics include language knowledge and use of well as language change and variation.

The teaching of reading is a topic of national debate. This course explores contemporary research on reading and how disciplines, such as psychology,
sociology, neuroscience, linguistics, and anthropology, inform our understanding of how reading is learned and taught. Students examine cognitive, developmental, sociocultural, and critical approaches to studying reading through close analysis and discussion of seminal and contemporary articles. Applying concepts and methods from this course, students pursue independent projects in areas of professional interest.

In this hands-on course, students study and practice a specific area in the field of screen music scoring. The course is intended as a means to provide the students with the necessary insights to develop professionally in these specific areas of interest. During the course, students are exposed to real-world scoring scenarios.

This course provides students with the set of skills required to create music for video games and interactive environments. During the course, students learn how to work with technology used to implement audio in games, work on strategies to create interactive non-linear music, and develop strategies to foster their creativity by applying specific techniques designed to create rich music in these environments.

This research-based course explores the aesthetics and the history of music for the screen. In a modular approach, all students study core research foundations that relate to the field of music for the screen. After this, they select between a range of research topics that relate to the history and/or aesthetics of diverse types of music for the screen.

This course provides the theoretical foundations that serve as the building blocks for the music for the screen. Divided into two areas that eventually merge, the course explores the application of harmonic and melodic principles for screen music, as well as the study of the foundations of narrative theory and storytelling. Throughout a set of theoretical readings,analyses, and creative assignments, the students will develop a set of techniques to produce music that generates meaning and that enhances the story and the narrative as a whole.

The course prepares students in a crucial aspect of screen scoring: the scoring
recording session. Through a combination of instructional workshops, observation of recording sessions, feedback sessions, and applied practice, students develop as scoring professionals within a studio setting. Students integrate knowledge from different areas of inquiry in screen scoring involved in the production of recordings for scores. Further, students learn how to collaborate and function as a team in a time-sensitive and high-pressure environment.

The course prepares students in a crucial aspect of screen scoring: the scoring
recording session. Through a combination of instructional workshops, observation of recording sessions, feedback sessions, and applied practice, students develop as scoring professionals within a studio setting. Students integrate knowledge from different areas of inquiry in screen scoring involved in the production of recordings for scores. Further, students learn how to collaborate and function as a team in a time-sensitive and high-pressure environment.

This course explores how popular Hollywood films construct versions of the historical past, & can be utilized as historical documents themselves. The films reach mass audiences, they entertain, they mythologize, they produce compelling narratives about the past, they simplify complex problems, & they have been influential in creating audiences’ historical understanding. Hollywood films are significant & complex cultural texts, & this course will study them as artifacts of a powerful communications entertainment industry whose visions of the past & arguments regarding social, political, economic order throughout the 20th century & into the 21st centuries warrants our close examination.

Analysis of dramaturgical components (plot, structure, character, theme, style) of selected musicals from the American repertoire, with an historical perspective. In the process students will develop their own research and writing skills.

Develops an understanding of the nature of sculpture & the critical dialogue that surrounds it. Assignments explore the conceptual & formal properties of sculpture, & an individual approach is encouraged. Evaluation of current gallery exhibitions & assigned readings will be an important supplement to studio assignments. Students will have regular access to the sculpture shop, where available equipment includes wood & metal tools, as well as plaster & mold-making facilities.

Introduction to the rendering of the three-dimensional world in sculpture. The class moves through a variety of different materials using simple techniques such as woodcutting, plastering, welding, & sewing.

Casting and Moldmaking is a second tier hands-on studio course which serves as a comprehensive exposure to innovative casting techniques. In this course, students will be asked to consider the transformative process of casting, and its ability to expand the experience of an artwork through a spectrum of materials and processes. The class will experiment with casting using a range of materials including wax and synthetic polymers such as resin, as well as thoughtfully marrying conventional with unconventional non-art materials. Additional projects and demos will explore simple mold making techniques, and field casting outside of the studio.

This course focuses on learning second language acquisition (SLA) theories and various approaches to conducting SLA research. Students develop an understanding of the major theories and theoretical debates in SLA, and explore the major paradigms in SLA research. In addition, students learn how to read and critically evaluate original SLA research articles, as well as how to develop a research proposal addressing a problem in the practice of second language education as a capstone project.