Courses

This course introduces students to key concepts of communication, media, culture, and technology. Surveys the models, theories, and analytical perspectives that form the foundations for the study of the major in Media, Culture, and Communication. Topics include modes of communication, rhetoric, persuasion, public sphere, mass media, media effects, reception, global media, social media, ideology, cultural practices, discourse, data, and algorithmic culture. Satisfies Core Societies & Social Sciences for non-MCC Steinhardt students.

Introduces students to the study of media, culture, and communication. The course surveys models, theories, and analytical perspectives that form the basis of study in the major. Topics include dialogue, discourse, mass and interpersonal communication, political economy, language, subject-formation, critical theory, experience, and reception. Liberal Arts Core/CORE Equivalent for Societies and the Social Sciences.

This course provides an overview of the most relevant qualitative methods used to research media audiences, platforms, technologies, industry, history, policies and texts.

An examination of the ways in which culture and context shape counselor and client identities and their cross-cultural encounters. Topics include individual identities and systems of societal privilege and oppression associated with gender and sexuality, race/ethnicity, disabilities, class, religion, and other forms of cultural influences. The course also focuses on effective strategies for navigating cross-cultural relationships in helping professions.

An examination of the ways in which culture and context shape counselor and client identities and their cross-cultural encounters. Topics include individual identities and systems of societal privilege and oppression
associated with gender and sexuality, race/ethnicity, disabilities, class, religion, and other forms of cultural influences. The course also focuses on effective strategies for navigating cross-cultural relationships in
helping professions.

Assignments, critiques and demonstrations through in-the-studio-practices for the more advanced painting student. The relationship between form and content (technique and concept) is informed by art history and theory. Such processes as palette orientation, paint manipulation, and canvas preparation are discussed as well as contemporary painting practices. Individual and group critiques support studio activities.

How can we explain the many violent conflicts around the world today? What is the lived experience of people in conflict-affected contexts? What can international and local actors do to build peace? These are just some of the many questions that undergraduate students will tackle in this introduction to peace and conflict studies. Students will become familiar with theoretical perspectives, real-world examples, and analytical skills to better understand, critically evaluate, and respond to contemporary issues related to peace and conflict.

This course is an introduction to the concepts and techniques used to manage
performing arts organizations. Subjects include organizational structure, trustee/staff relations, marketing, audience building, fund-raising, human resources, community engagement, performance measurement, leadership, strategic planning, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Through readings, class discussion, case exercises, and engaging with professional arts managers, students will acquire an understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing performing arts managers.

Consideration of the major theories of personality. The work of various theorists is discussed as it relates to personality development through the life span.

Liberal Arts Core/CORE Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Society & Social Sciences for Steinhardt students.

Introduction to the use of photography as a medium of documentation and expression. Assignments and critiques enhance the development of individual work while developing photographic skills and techniques. Students provide their own camera and paper. Enlargers and photographic chemicals are provided in class.

Assignments, critiques and demonstrations in an intensive survey course for the more advanced printmaking student covering a variety of printmaking techniques including etching, monotype, woodcut, and silkscreen. many new and innovative printmaking media and techniques will be introduced throughout the semester. Demonstrations and lectures. Aesthetic and historical concerns addressed throughout the course.

This course introduces students to the fundamental concepts and skills required to
record, arrange, and produce contemporary popular songs and other compositions. Students explore basic production technology and tools, including how to utilize a digital audio workstation, various recording formats, microphones, synthesis, arrangement, and mixing, and how to collaborate with other stakeholders and artists. Students develop a familiarity with essential productions across a broad set of genres.

This is the first in a four-course sequence in which students create, assess and refine their portfolios. Portfolios are web-based and include performance observations, case studies, peer ratings, specialty certification, documentation of professional activities, publications, and presentation summaries. At the end of the program, students present their portfolio to a panel of faculty members. The portfolio must document how the student integrated knowledge and skills learned in the curriculum to his or her specialty practice area.

Introduction to the fundamental principles of psychology, emphasizing both the unity & the diversity of a field that spans major theoretical & research areas, including biological bases of human behavior, learning, development, motivation, & social and abnormal behavior. Links between theory & classic as well as contemporary research are a recurrent theme.

Liberal Arts Core/MAP Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Society & the Social Sciences for Steinhardt students.

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, and sewing.

Assignments, critiques and demonstrations for the more advanced sculpture student covering 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, and sewing.

This course introduces and implements song analysis concepts in establishing a
process of learning and embodying song material. This practice facilitates upper level course work and career success by providing students with a unique and evolving practice based on research, knowledge of self, focused and objective based performance, critical/empathetic listening and reflective study. In-class performance, discussion and assessment are key factors in this class.

This course introduces students to the essentials of contemporary popular songwriting, focusing on how the marriage of lyric, melody, harmony, rhythm, and form intersect to construct meaning for the creator and the audience. Students explore basic songwriting and production technology, such as digital audio workstations, drum machines, and synthesizers. Students develop a familiarity with a repertoire of contemporary and legacy popular songs across a broad set of genres.

This course helps students develop a broad understanding of categories of speech and language delay/disorder including autism spectrum disorder, specific language impairment, language learning disabilities, hearing impairment, speech sound disorder, motor speech impairment and craniofacial anomalies. Topics include basic principles of assessment and intervention and the role of the speech language pathologist.

Survey a broad spectrum of visual art resources through guided lecture-tour visits to current exhibitions at leading museums, galleries and alternative art spaces located throughout New York City. Onsite meetings with art administrators affiliated with various organizations shed light on a wide range of career and management issues pertaining to the field and add to an understanding of the development and continued growth of New York's exciting art world.