Graduate Courses

This course combines the technical abilities a student has learned in the voice studio with the performance and practical skills needed to be a well-rounded performer. Focus on performance skills required for a hybrid singer, including but not limited to truthful communication, stage presence, movement, the ability to use the prosody of language/speech inflections to inform vocalism and psychological gesture, and appropriateness of style and genre.

A culminating and integrating experience designed to provide doctoral students writing their dissertations the opportunity to discuss and probe the broader aspects of international development education, global and cross-cultural education, and public diplomacy.

A culminating and integrating experience designed to provide doctoral students writing their dissertations the opportunity to discuss and probe the broader aspects of international development education, global and cross-cultural education, and public diplomacy.

Course focuses on strategies involved in developing corporate sponsorships in the arts. Various sponsorship case studies between corporations and non-profit arts organizations are analyzed as marketing tools to build the sponsor’s business, raise brand awareness, as well as align with and increase institutional support. Principles of strategic marketing and practical tools are presented through readings, assignments and discussions tied to effective writing to a potential sponsor, benefits offered and other tactical tips to secure sponsorship today.

With a focus on preparing students for professional experience. Costume Conservation offers a consideration of the place of costume in the museum environment. Special attention is devoted to the handling and display of costume, textile and related objects. The course provides an introduction to the materials and methods of conservation, storage, and interpretation, and addresses appropriate actions in the museum context.

Costume Design for the modern stage and the history of fashion. Three hours of practical laboratory a week.

This course introduces students to college counseling. Students learn to develop and implement a comprehensive and effective post-secondary planning program. The course focuses on post-secondary education and ways to support high school students to explore those options. Students use case studies and scenarios to develop strategies and coordinate events aligned with promoting postsecondary success.

Although support for rights and protections is at historic highs, a majority of LGBT and gender non-binary youth report experiencing bias, harassment, assault, and victimization based on their sexual or gender identities or their diverse gender expressions. This course explores ways mental health professionals counsel LGBT youth to enhance coping with psychosocial and minority stresses and in affirming their sexual and gender identities.

In an ever-changing landscape of increased rights and backlashes, LGBT and gender non-binary adults and older adults experience bias, stress, and discrimination in health care, housing and public accommodations and at the workplace. This course explores ways mental health professionals counsel adults and older adults facing challenges in self-development, social-emotional relationships, and institutional settings.

Provide an overview of the basic interviewing and counseling skills to help communicative sciences and disorders (CSD) students achieve success when working with individuals and family members exhibiting communication disorders. To effectively deal with roadblocks to success in treatment, CSD students must develop a therapeutic relationship with clients both for obtaining relevant information about the disorder (interviewing) and for helping clients reduce barriers to their success in treatment (counseling).

LGBT families include those with same-sex couples and parents, LGBT youth, and other LGBT family members. This course examines experiences of LGBT families with stigma and discrimination in their interactions with educational, familial, health, and judicial systems. Explores ways in which mental health professionals counsel LGBT families: parents disclosing as LGBT and LGBT people becoming parents; being out as a LGBT family; coping with hate, bias, violence; obtaining equity and equality. A prior course in counseling is strongly recommended.

Analysis of etiological conceptions of cleft palate and orofacial anomalies related to articulatory and phonatory disorders. Clinical tests and procedures for general and specific therapy.

Prepares students to navigate today's world of professional music performance. Topics include setting career goals, defining success, finding and creating performance opportunities, grant writing, creating publicity materials, auditions, day jobs, freelancing, and how to manage money, time, and stress.

Focuses on techniques used to create ethnodrama and documentary theatre scripts composed from interview transcripts, field notes, journal entries, and/or print and media artifacts. Through readings, literature reviews, data collection and analysis, performance of data, and construction of scripts, students gain skills to create ethnodrama and documentary theatre scripts. Perspectives on the aesthetics, ethics, limitations, and challenges associated with the forms are also explored. Coursework is informed by the mission and work of the Verbatim Performance Lab.

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This course is designed for students who would like to develop knowledge and skills in planning and leading theatre workshops with young people. The course explores the theory and practice of creating theatre with young people from a youth-centered perspective, offers practice in designing workshops, and culminates with an in-course opportunity to initiate practical work with young people. The course will include a written assignment.

This course is designed for students who would like to develop knowledge and skills in planning and leading theatre workshops with young people. The course explores the theory and practice of creating theatre with young people from a youth-centered perspective, offers practice in designing workshops, and culminates with an in-course opportunity to initiate practical work with young people. The course will include a written assignment.

A study of the principles and practice of interactive media; surveying strategies, aesthetics, techniques, and software. Various works will be analyzed for insight into creative process as applied to interactive media. Resources utilized include the Yamaha Disclavier and Nights Multimedia facilities.

Drawing on the resources of New York University in New York and London, this course examines the nature of the Creative and Cultural Industries in the US and UK. Utilizing readings, lectures, and visits to important international cultural venues, we explore how and why the creative and cultural industries play a vital social and economic role in these countries. Finally, we will learn how the UK communicates its success to the world through cultural diplomacy initiatives.

Students serve as a production team that will create, rehearse, produce, and perform a culminating musical presentation at local venues. Such site may be schools, Senior Citizens Homes, Health Care Facilities, Community Centers. Students will assume the roles played by all personnel involved in putting on a performance, as well as becoming familiar with repertoire *music, lyrics, and dialogue) suited to the abilities of the performers.