Cross Registration Guide

Media, Culture and Communication

Jillian Sullivan
Associate Director of Undergraduate Affairs
Department of Media, Culture, and Communication
239 Greene Street, 7th Floor, East Building
Phone: (212) 998-5191
E-mail: jillian.sullivan@nyu.edu

Dept Website
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/mcc/

Course Offerings
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/mcc/undergraduate/courses

The department offers a minor in Media, Culture, and Communication as well as the cross-school minor Business of Entertainment, Media, and Technology. BEMT is a cross-school minor between Stern, Steinhardt, and Tisch and students take courses in each. More information on both minors can be found here:
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/mcc/undergraduate/minors

The department offers courses open to non-majors every semester. You should be able to enroll yourself in any open courses in via Albert. If you have questions you can e-mail the department's advising staff at comm.advisors@nyu.edu

MCC-UE 1012.001 CRIME, VIOLENCE & MEDIA

This course considers the culture of crime in relation to conventions
of news and entertainment in the mass media. Topics include competing
theories of criminogenic behavior, news conventions and crime
reporting, the aesthetics and representation of crime in the media,
the role of place in crime stories, moral panics and fears, crime and
consumer culture, and the social construction of different kinds of
crimes and criminals.

MCC-UE 1015.001 ADVERTISING AND SOCIETY

This course will examine the emergence of advertising as a form of
communication, its influence upon other forms of mediated
communication and its impact upon culture and society.

MCC-UE 1017.001 Communication, Community & Social Change

This course explores the theory, practice, and impact of the
non-profit youth media organizations and school-based programs working
in this field locally and around the world. Students will also use
media production to conduct fieldwork in the New York City area that
further builds the subfields of youth media/youth development,
teaching and learning, and community building. Research projects will
document and investigate how youth media is supporting the development
of young people's capacities for 21st century skills of digital
communication, critical literacy, and civic engagement.

MCC-UE 1029.002 NEW MEDIA RESEARCH STUDIO

New Media Research Studio is a lab dedicated to examining and
deconstructing new information technology tools and environments.
Students will be exposed to the contemporary discourse around new
media through reading, listening and watching. We will embark on
virtual journeys into media and will update the class collaborative
blog with travelogues from social networking sites,
massive-multi-player online environments, the blogosphere, the open
source movement, radical online activist groups, internet art
collectives and more.

MCC-UE 1030.001 ARCHITECTURE AS MEDIA

This class reads architecture and the built environment through the
lenses of media, communication, and culture. The course takes
seriously the proposition that spaces communicate meaningfully and
that learning to read spatial productions leads to better
understanding how material and technological designs are in sustained
conversation with the social, over time. 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.

MCC-UE 1303.001 PRIVACY AND MEDIA TECHNOLOGY

Few values have been as unalterably disturbed as privacy by
developments in new media and other information technologies. This
course presents an inquiry into the impact of information and digital
communications technologies upon privacy and its meanings, in order to
examine at a deep level technology’s place in society and the complex
ways that technology and privacy each shape the other in iterative
cycles of cause and effect. Philosophical analysis is balanced with
significant contributions by legal scholars, computer scientists,
social scientists, and popular social critics.

MCC-UE 1305.001 COMMUNICATION AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

This course introduces students to theoretical foundations in
historical and contemporary issues in communication, media,
information and international development. Topics include
state-building, modernization, dependency and globalization. Every
week will be dedicated to a particular country/region and media
development program whereby students will analyze a specific case
study.

MCC-UE 1340 RELIGION AND MEDIA

This course examines the ways in which conventional and
non-conventional media re-create religious experience. Increasingly,
religion is experienced not only in sacred spaces, and through ritual
and scripture, but is also communicated through radio, TV, and the
Internet, as well as in consumer culture and political campaigns. This
course examines the significance of religion in modern life from
historical and contemporary perspectives, paying attention to
questions of religious and national difference, as well as material
and symbolic practices.

MCC-UE 1403 POSTCOLONIAL VISUAL CULTURE

This courses addresses how colonialism and postcolonialism are shaped
and mediated through images and the gaze. The dynamics of colonial
history motivate and shape colonial and postcolonial perceptions and
influence their patterns of global circulation when the boundary
between the world out there and the nation at home is increasingly
blurred. We will survey a range of image texts through various media
(photography, television, cinema) and sites (war, the harem, refugee
camps, prisons, disasters): nationalist mobilization,
counter-insurgency, urban conflict, disaster management, the prison
system, and the war on terror.

MCC-UE 1517 PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE VISUAL ARCHIVE

This course examines the role and history of photography within the
historical landscape of media and communication. Special emphasis is
placed on the accumulative meaning of visual archives, tracing how
images relation and establish cultural territories across a variety of
texts and media. The course investigates and contrasts the mimetic
visual strategies within western and non-western traditions, looking
at historical and contemporary images in a variety of forms.

MCC-UE 1414.001 VISUAL CULTURE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

This course examines the imagery of science and technology, the role
of visuality in the construction of scientific knowledge, artistic
renditions of science, and the emergence of visual technologies in
modern society. It looks at how visuality has been key to the exercise
of power through such practices as cataloguing and identification; the
designation of abnormality, disease, and pathologies; medical
diagnosis; scientific experimentation; and the marketing of science
and medicine. We will examine the development of the visual
technologies in the emerging scientific practices of psychiatry and
criminology; explore the sciences of eugenics, genetics, pharmacology,
brain and body scans, and digital medical images of many kinds; the
marketing of pharmaceuticals, and the emerging politics of scientific
activism.

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Educational Theatre

Dr. Phillip Taylor
Program in Educational Theatre
82 Washington Square East, Pless Annex, Rm. 223
Phone: (212) 998-5424
Email: pt15@nyu.edu

Dr. Nancy Smithner
Assistant Professor
Phone: (212) 998-5250
Email: ns23@nyu.edu

Department Website
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/music/edtheatre

Undergraduate Course Offerings
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/music/edtheatre/curriculum/undergraduate

Minor Requirements
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/music/edtheatre/programs/minor/

Certain courses require access codes. Please contact the department regarding this.

Overview
The program emphasizes the applications of theatre in a range of community and educational settings, with course work in production and performance; criticism, aesthetics, and research; theatre and drama education; artist-inresidence strategies; and theatre for and by young audiences. It provides pathways of specialization in applied theatre, drama and the curriculum, and theatre for child and adult audiences.

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Studio Art

Alex Jovanovich
Student Advisor
Email: aj825@nyu.edu

Jesse Bransford
Director of Undergraduate Program
Email: jesse.bransford@nyu.edu

Department Website
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/art/studio/bfa

Undergraduate Course Offerings
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/courses/art

Minor Requirements
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/art/studio/minor

Overview
The Bachelor of Fine Arts is designed for undergraduate students who want to combine intensive and innovative studio art practice with an outstanding education in the liberal arts. A thorough grounding in art history and critical theory helps students explore issues in their own work and that of others. Studio courses in a wide variety of disciplines mix the rich visual traditions of the past with emerging forms and ideas. Interdisciplinary classes, which integrate modern and postmodern approaches with experimental artistic practices, encourage students to envision fresh new ways of making art.

Registration
All "Intro" courses in the Steinhardt Art department are open on a first-come, first-served basis to all NYU students. No special forms or procedures are necessary. Some intermediate and advanced level studio courses may be available; this is noted on Albert and does not require any special form or procedure. Other courses may be available (on a space available basis) but would require special permission from one of the advisors listed above. Often, however, students have to wait until the beginning of the semester to see if there will be space available in these courses. There are some courses that are only open to art majors, regardless of space availability, including all "Fundamentals" courses.

Special Information
In addition to all of the department's introductory studio classes, the department is especially interested in promoting the following courses to Gallatin students:

E94.0010 Art: Practice and Ideas, 4 pts offered in spring semester
E94.0050 Modern Art and Contemporary Culture, 3 pts, offered in fall and spring semesters
E90.1022 Interdisciplinary Projects, 2-4 pts, several different topics are offered in both fall and spring semesters

ART-UE 501.001 Intro to Crafts II (Metal), 4 pts, January 2012, Class # 1064, Price: $4,636
Studio Art fee: $250

Also note that, with very few exceptions, the department generally requires that students take an introductory course, regardless of their skill level, before moving on to more advanced courses. Also, though not required, it is helpful for students to have examples of their art work readily available on CD or DVD for help in placing them in intermediate and advanced courses.

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Nutrition, Food Studies, & Public Health

Nutrition and Food Studies
Domingo Pinero
Director of Undergraduate Studies
35 West Fourth Street, 10th Floor
Phone: (212) 998-5145
Email: domingo.pinero@nyu.edu

Public Health
Lisa Kroin
Administrative Aide
35 West Fourth Street, 10th Floor
Phone: (212) 998-5286
Email: lisa.kroin@nyu.edu

Dept Website
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/nutrition/programs

Course Offerings
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/nutrition/courses

The department offers minors in Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health. More information can be found here:
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/nutrition/minor/

Overview:
The Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health is the legacy of an academic unit originally founded in the 1920s. Today, in recognition of the fundamental importance of food and nutrition to human life and pleasure; the growing demand for knowledgeable, skilled public health professionals, nutritionists, food managers, and food professionals, the department now trains students for a wide range of careers related to the role of food, nutrition, and health in modern society, culture, and business — domestically and internationally.

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American Sign Language

Randolph L. Mowry
Program Chair
Phone: (212) 998-5224
Email: rm5@nyu.edu

Program Website
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/academics/sign_language

The program offers a four course sequence in American Sign Language I-IV.

The sequence is:
ASL: Level I, E64.0091 (introductory, requiring no prior knowledge)
ASL: Level II, E64.0092
ASL: Level III, E64.0093
ASL: Level IV, E64.0094
ASL satisfies the foreign language requirement in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human development.

ASL can be declared as a minor if the student takes the full four-course sequence. The minor is available to students throughout NYU.

Students may also take part or all of the sequence as electives. ASL I and II are offered each fall and spring semester. ASL III is offered only in the fall; ASL IV is offered only in the spring.

The courses are listed under the heading of American Sign Language in the Directory of Classes and Albert.

The courses are offered by the Department of Applied Psychology. The Applied Psychology website can be found here.

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Teaching and Learning

Victoria Carr
Undergraduate Student Advisement Coordinator
Steinhardt Teaching and Learning
239 Greene Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10003
Phone: (212) 998-5483
Fax: (212) 998-4049
Email: victoria.carr@nyu.edu

Dept. Website:
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/teachlearn/

Overview:
The Department of Teaching and Learning has organized its courses, developed its programs, integrated university course work with school-based experiences, and designed research, demonstration, and training grants to achieve five goals:

-- to build a department that prepares educators, broadly defined, with a coherent vision of change and of their roles in achieving it;
-- to build an educational community with common themes and understandings that cross traditional conceptions of levels of study, faculty/student roles, academic areas of specialization, and cultures, while recognizing the particular requirements of diverse specializations;
-- to build programs that prepare educators with a solid grasp of the historical forces that have shaped schools, of the philosophical positions that shape ideologies, and of the complexities of learning and teaching in a multicultural, multiethnic world that is constantly subject to change from social, political, and technological forces;
-- to build a scholarly community rooted in reality and firmly committed to improving urban education; and
-- to build a relationship with our students, alumni, field-based professionals, and community that creates support groups and networks that will serve them as they meet the difficulties and challenges of teaching.

Registration Information:
The department offers the course Intro to Teaching and Learning I (E27.0001) which has no prerequisites and is open to all students for registration. The department also offers a general education minor. The requirements for the minor can be reviewed by following the link below:

http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/educationminor/general

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Dance and Dance Education

Frederick Curry
Program Administrator
35 West 4th Street
Phone: (212) 998-5534
Email: frederick.curry@nyu.edu

Department Website
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/music/dance/

Overview
In addition to courses in Dance Education, department offers courses in dance technique —ballet, modern, African dance and Anatomy & Kinesisiology.

Registration
Most of the zero level and 1000 level classes are open to all undergrads. Some of the classes are closed to majors only and rarely have openings.

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Music Performance

Dr. Paul Horan
Advisement Coordinator
Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions
35 W. 4th Street, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10012
Phone: (212) 998-5424
Fax: (212) 995-4043
Email: pgh1@nyu.edu

Department Website
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/music/

Registration Information
Students may register for private lessons for non-majors with the department. These lessons can be found on Albert. Students can register for 2 or 4 credits which correspond to half-hour and hour lessons respectively. These lessons carry an enrollment fee of $105.00. More information may be found here:

Ensemble Audition Information
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/music/ensembles/

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Music Business

Catherine Fitterman Radbill
Undergraduate Program Director
Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions
35 W. 4th Street, Suite 777
New York, NY 10012
Phone: (212) 998-5409
Email: catherine.fitterman@nyu.edu

Department Website
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/music/business

Overview
Successful music business candidates are expected to be highly motivated and prepared to take advantage of a professional program set in the world's music business capital. In addition to providing structured courses, the curriculum promotes individual choices and development through an interactive classroom atmosphere, internships, participation in our record company, Village Records, and completion of research requirements. Students are encouraged to participate in extracurricular activities such as the Program Board, radio station WNYU and the NYU MEISA (Music & Entertainment Industry Student Association).

Registration
Students are able to take classes in the program however the pre-requisite class for undergrads is MPAMB-UE 100, Business Structure of the Music Industry (2 pts). There is a section for non-majors in the Fall, Spring, and Summer. For summer, students don't need an access code -- they can just register on Albert. The policy and procedure for registration is on the "request by non-majors" form. Students can pick up this form at the the Music Business Program (Room 1241 of 35 West 4th Street) where they can also turn it in. If there is space in a Music Business class, the department will issue an access code.

Sometimes the department does not know until the first week of classes whether there will be space for non-majors, but some classes usually have space. The earlier students can submit the form, the better. Non-majors can take up to a maximum of three Music Business classes, but the department can not guarantee that they can take three.

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Communicative Sciences and Disorders

Jeanette Pitre
Department Administrator
665 Broadway, 9th Floor
New York, NY 10012
Phone: (212) 998-5678
Email: jp13@nyu.edu

Deparment Website
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/speech/

Course Offerings
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Overview:
The Bachelor's of Science degree program at New York University provides a firm foundation in communicative disorders across the life span as preparation for specialized graduate study in speech-language pathology. The American Speech-Language -Hearing Association has designated the master's degree as the entry level degree for certification as a speech-language pathologist. The program provides an extensive knowledge base in anatomy and physiology of the speech and hearing mechanism; normal speech, language, and hearing development; and disorders that can affect the ability to communicate, such as neurogenic communication disorders in adults, child language disorders, and articulation disorders. Additional coursework from related fields such as American Sign Language, psychology, linguistics, and statistics is integrated into the program, and a generous number of liberal arts and elective courses allow students to explore areas of interest of their own choosing. Additionally, students will have the opportunity to pair their theoretical knowledge with practical application while observing ongoing therapy in our on-campus, state-of-the-art speech language pathology and audiology clinic.

Registration Information:
The department offers courses open to non-majors as well as a minor. Information regarding courses required for the minor, courses open to non-majors and the semesters in which they are offered can be found by following the link below.

http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/speech/minor

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Applied Psychology

Department of Applied Psychology
246 Greene Street, 8th Floor
Phone: (212) 998-5555
Email: applied.psychology@nyu.edu

Department Website
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/appsych/

Overview
The mission of the Applied Psychology department is to prepare students to understand and intervene in human development across contexts and cultures. Our faculty conducts research using multifaceted strategies. We draw on our experiences in practice to help guide the work that we undertake.

Registration
Most courses in the department are open to non-majors. Students should be able to register for them on Albert. Courses that require special permission or prerequisites will be noted on Albert.

Special Information
The Department of Applied Psychology offers a popular sequence of courses and a minor in American Sign Language (ASL). For more information click here.

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Game Center

Frank Lantz
Interim Director
Email: frank.lantz@nyu.edu

Dylan McKenzie
Program Coordinator
Phone: (212) 998-1973
Email: dylan.mckenzie@nyu.edu

Website
http://gamecenter.nyu.edu

Course Offerings
http://gamecenter.nyu.edu/courses

Overview
The NYU Game Center, established in 2008, is an independent, multi-school center for the research, design and development of digital games. The Center is housed at the Tisch School in the Skirball Center for New Media and is a collaboration with NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development. Its goal is to incubate new ideas, create partnerships, and establish a multi-school curriculum to explore new directions for the creative development and critical understanding of games. In so doing, the Game Center will help establish New York City as a place of innovation and creativity within this important field.

The mission of the Center is to graduate the next generation of game designers, developers, entrepreneurs, and critics, and to advance the art, science and culture of gaming by carrying out research in an innovative and interdisciplinary environment. The Center’s students, both undergraduates and graduates, will be drawn from disciplines throughout the university, in particular from areas of study beyond those typically associated with game design in order to encourage a free flow of ideas and a broadness of vision throughout the Center.

The Center is currently in its initial phase of development, but once fully established, it will serve as a dynamic training ground of the future creative and business leaders of the gaming field and have a major impact on the game industry and the evolution of games as an art form, a mode of entertainment, an economic force, and a cultural practice.

“At the dawn of the twenty-first century, interactive systems surround us not just as the material reality of our lives but also as our primary method for understanding the world and our place in it. The study of games is the study of the aesthetics of interactive systems—their capacity to move us, to fascinate us, and to connect us in entirely new ways.”

-Frank Lantz

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History of Education (Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Professions)

Letizia La Rosa
Program Coordinator
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Professions
Kimball, 246 Greene Street, 300
Phone: (212) 992-9408
Fax: (212) 995-4832
Email: ll409@nyu.edu

Program Website
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/humsocsci/history

Dept Website
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/humsocsci/

New Course - SPRING 2011

Introduction to American Education: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Course Number : E55.1055 or V57.0664
Credits: 4
Eligibility: Open to all undergraduates
Lecture: Monday and Wednesday, 3:30-4:45
Recitation: Monday, 9:30-10:45, 11:00-12:15, 4:55-6:10, 6:20-7:35

Course description: This course will introduce you to the central themes,
issues, and controversies in American education. What is the purpose of
³school²? How did schools begin, in the United States, and how have they
evolved across time? How do children learn? How are they different from
each other, and why and when should that matter? How should we teach them?
And how should we structure schools and classrooms to promote learning?

For more information, please contact Professor Jonathan Zimmerman at JLZIMM@aol.com.

The department offers two undergraduate History of Education courses:

E55.0610: Education and the American Dream: Historical Perspectives on Democracy and Education

Description:
The course will examine historical perspectives on the relationship between public schooling and the promotion of democratic ideals. Students will explore some of the central goals and purposes of American public education over the past two centuries, and the historiographical debates about those goals and purposes. In the second half of the course, students will the relationship between schooling and civic education, and between schooling and specific communities, in order to ask whether the goals of schooling might promote or contradict the goals of particular groups who seek to benefit from public education, and ways in which education does not promote democratic ideals.

E55.1033: The 'Culture Wars' in America: Past. Present and Future

Description:
This course will examine the origins, development, and meanings of so-called cultural conflict in the United States. Topics will include abortion, gay rights, bilingualism, and the teaching of evolution in public schools.

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Cross Registration Guide

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March 25, 2009

Media, Culture and Communication

March 27, 2009

Educational Theatre

April 1, 2009

Studio Art

April 3, 2009

Nutrition, Food Studies, & Public Health

American Sign Language

June 3, 2009

Teaching and Learning

Dance and Dance Education

Music Performance

Music Business

Communicative Sciences and Disorders

June 18, 2009

Applied Psychology

August 3, 2009

Game Center

August 25, 2009

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