Courses

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.

Introduces students to therapeutic interventions with couples and families through a culturally responsive and inclusive lens. Emphasis on traditional and contemporary models such as family systems, attachment theory, trauma-informed care, and relational ecosystem frameworks alongside indigenous and multicultural perspectives. Practical concepts in assessment; session dynamics; and therapeutic intervention; impact of culture, power, and systemic oppression on relationships; couple dynamics; intimacy; conflict; supervision; and therapist’s reflective use of self.

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 examines the corpus of literature that uses social network theory to
describe the evolution of taste. Social networks consist of groups of people who are connected through socially meaningful exchanges. Studies based on social networks examine how groups of people interact, including creation of social capital as well as the exclusion of some individuals.

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.

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.

Play and audience analysis, directing methods, production techniques. Each student plans a complete children's theatre production. Laboratory experience recommended.

Play and audience analysis, directing methods, production techniques. Each student plans a complete children's theatre production. Laboratory experience recommended.

Students will explore the general development of world theatre & dramatic literature, & become familiar with major movements, styles, theories, & plays from ancient times to the present. Due to the lengthy time span of theatre history covered, this introductory course cannot be all-inclusive, but will focus on pertinent periods of theatre, & select plays that are representative of significant periods that will be studied. Students will also be able to research specific topics in the writing of research papers & group class presentations.

This course provides a practical introduction to urban agriculture. Students learn horticultural skills at the NYU Urban Farm Lab. Students learn about biological processes and how they fit together in a system. Through visits to other sites around the city, students are exposed to various strategies for practicing urban horticulture. Additionally, we engage with greater themes found within urban agriculture such as entrepreneurship, food justice, individual and group sustenance, cultural enactments of identity, community building, and education.

This course introduces students to the central themes, issues, & controversies in American education. What is the purpose of “school”? How did schools begin, in the United States, & how have they evolved across time? How do children learn? How are they different from each other, & why & when should that matter? How should we teach them? & how should we structure schools & classrooms to promote learning?

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

This course covers key issues, theories, and concepts in the field of visual culture, focusing on the social role of images and visuality (the power relations of looking, being seen and unseen). Topics include modern forms of visuality and visual technologies, concepts of spectacle, museums and image collections, image icons, taboo images, how images relate to memory, how images circulate through various social arenas such as art, advertising, popular culture, comic books, news, science, entertainment media, video games, theme parks, architecture, and design.

In this course students explore the structure and function of the vocal mechanism and begin to develop a teaching philosophy and approach to voice teaching. Students learn practical methods for identifying vocal repertoire that supports the development of voice students at varying stages of ability and experience and gain fundamental skills necessary to teach private voice. Course format provides a forum in which students can discuss their experiences as teachers and students of applied voice.

This course covers regression techniques from a simulation-based perspective, with an emphasis on applications rather than mathematical theory. Topics include linear regression with single and multiple predictors; linear regression assumptions, diagnostics, and interpretation; prediction and inference; transformations and interactions; ANOVA; global tests for coefficients; contingency tables; and information criteria and model comparison. R will be used throughout the course.

This course offers the student, whether graduate or arts administration practitioner, an intensive experience in learning about cultural policies and arts management practices in at least two European countries. The Arts Administration Study Abroad is comprised of a series of lectures, site visits, case studies, discussion sessions and presentations. Issues change from year to year as cultural policies develop in chosen venues. Students examine a combination of policy and practice, meet with arts administrators and policy makers, and present case study analyses on the basis of their lectures and on-site visits.