Courses

Based on the work of the Creative Arts Team's acclaimed High School Program, this intensive introductory course focuses on the use of drama and theatre techniques to address critical issues facing young people. Participants will explore the step-by-step process of designing workshops using techniques such as the mini-script, literature-to-life (using short stories, newspaper articles, etc.), still pictures/tableaux, and role-play. Students will be required to complete a written assignment.

The seminar provides additional orientation and guidance to the school, the university, and the city, explores professional issues, and provides opportunities for students to enhance their writing, discussion, and presentation skills for the American classroom.

The seminar provides additional orientation and guidance to the school, the university, and the city, explores professional issues, and provides opportunities for students to enhance their writing, discussion, and presentation skills for the American classroom.

The course focuses on advanced knowledge in clinical work, appreciation for contemporary issues in professional development, fostering skills in peer-supervision and support, and improving clinical case presentation skills. Students participate in an active, seminar-style discussion on clinical cases and professional issues. Students provide peer support and supervision of cases from external placements and make formal case presentations with opportunity for feedback.

Explores the role of the literacy specialist as agent of ongoing school literacy reform. Attention to school professional learning communities, the role of data analysis in school reform, professional coaching, literacy program implementation and supervision, and the development of a comprehensive school literacy model.

This class focuses on examining the function and facilitation skills of the 'Joker' (the facilitator role in Theatre of the Oppressed) across a diversity of contexts and communities as well as examining the history and practice of Invisible Theatre, Rainbow of Desire, and Legislative Theatre techniques. These components of Theatre of the Oppressed are at the heart of the intersection between theory, theatre, civic and political engagement, and personal and social change. These techniques allow us to more introspectively examine the ways in which we interact as human beings in an ever-changing society. The course focuses on both the theoretical foundations of the work, as well as the application of these techniques in practice.

Fame, notoriety, renown – the desire to be recognized and immortalized -- is the most enduring and perhaps most desirable form of power. Culture, commerce, politics, and religion all proffer promises of fame – whether for fifteen minutes or fifteen centuries. What is fame? Why do people want it? How do they get it? What can they do with it? Drawing on texts from history, ethnography, theory, literature, philosophy, and contemporary media, this course reflects on the ethics, erotics, pragmatics and pathologies of fame.

Fame, notoriety, renown – the desire to be recognized and immortalized -- is the most enduring and perhaps most desirable form of power. Culture, commerce, politics, and religion all proffer promises of fame – whether for fifteen minutes or fifteen centuries. What is fame? Why do people want it? How do they get it? What can they do with it? Drawing on texts from history, ethnography, theory, literature, philosophy, and contemporary media, this course reflects on the ethics, erotics, pragmatics and pathologies of fame.

Fame—celebrity, notoriety, renown—confers recognition and immortality. It is an
enduring and desirable form of power; a uniquely human ambition and a central force in sociallife. Culture, commerce, politics, and religion all proffer promises of fame, whether for 15 minutes or 15 centuries. Drawing on texts from history, anthropology, sociology, this course reflects on the ethics, erotics, pragmatics and pathologies of fame. We compare fame to other forms of recognition and look at how it transforms across space-time, social boundaries, and technological conditions.

The main objective of this course is to help students develop an understanding of the complexities of the relationships between family and school systems by taking a look at the nature of both as they relate to child development. The course will be taught from a developmental-ecological-systems perspective, with a focus on issues related to education of children in urban, low-income environments.

Examination of the complex relationships between family & school systems, with a special focus on low-income urban communities as they relate to child development. Topics explore the roles culture, immigration, & racial/ethnic diversity play in establishing effective partnerships between families & schools.

This course examines fashion both from its diffusion in a globalized society, and as a form of communication and culture. We will examine how fashion has been valued through social sciences - history and sociology on the one hand, and economy on the other hand, from its production to its consumption. The course will address fashion in terms of issues of consumerism and sustainability in a post-industrialized society.

This course examines fashion as a form of communication and culture. We examine how fashion makes meaning and how it has been valued through history, popular culture and media institutions, focusing on the relationship between fashion, visual self-presentation, and power. The course situated fashion both in terms of its production and consumption, addressing its role in identity and body politics (gender, race, sexuality, class), art and status, nationhood and the global economy, celebrity and Hollywood culture, youth cultures and subversive practices.

Why do fashion designers and brands exert such influence in contemporary society? What explains the trajectory from The House of Worth to Chanel to this season’s hottest label? This course investigates the interlocking forces shaping fashion: the designer system, celebrities, technology, politics, the arts and media. Through lectures and film viewings, readings, discussions, and individual research, students explore fashion as a crucial aspect of culture and how the fashion system evolved from roots in Parisian couture to become a global phenomenon.

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

Issues related to methods of food production, distribution, marketing, trade and politics, and the impact of these methods on foods intake and the environment in contemporary societies.

In this course students think across disciplines to consider what it means to satisfy our literal and metaphorical hunger. Students analyze the relationships between body and soul, self and surrounding, hunger and satiety and visit NYC-based institutions like Essex Street Crossing and the Street Vendor Project to further understand how feeding body and soul works outside of the classroom. Liberal Arts Core/CORE Equivalent- satisfies the requirement for Cultures and Contexts.

On-site consultation for in-service personnel by faculty on such problems as goal selection, curriculum development, or evaluation. In-service personnel and faculty sponsor mutually identify a problem and develop and implement a plan. May be taken on group or individual basis. Registration requires submission of field consultation from and approval of faculty sponsor and program director.

Participation and experience in the professional field of major interest and seminar discussion of professional career options and responsibilities. Application must be filed during the previous term.

This course explores the connection between language teaching observation and reflective practice. Students are required to observe language teaching in 30+ hours of fieldwork in a variety of local educational settings. Students will connect field observations to seminar discussions, presentations, and reports. This course is a prerequisite for LANED-GE.2035 (Seminar/Practicum in Adult Second/World Language Education).

This course is designed to introduce prospective teachers to the broad and diverse array of institutions that educate children and youth. Working in pairs or small groups, students visit and observe in two or three sites such as museums, settlement houses, schools, child care centers, and volunteer social service programs