Graduate Courses

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.

This course explores the playful elements in personality, culture and the arts, through vocal and movement improvisation, song, mask work, exploration and creation of ritual, story writing and telling, and investigation of the clown/fool/trickster. Students examine theoretical interpretations of play in performance studies, child development and Drama in Education practices. Students discover and analyze the meaning of creative play in their personal development as artists and teachers, through exploration of humanizing principles that unite aesthetics and education.

Crisis intervention is an increasingly critical competency for all student affairs professionals. This course seeks to help students understand crisis interventions at various scales and provides response strategies and preventative measures for higher education practitioners. Students think critically about the various impacts that crisis has on institutional stakeholders and explore crisis management systems in higher education, such as student health centers, campus safety, and town and gown relationships.

Design and implementation of decision-making guidelines in order to utilize outcome effectiveness and efficiently studies to establish, implement, and evaluate the effectiveness of patient or client protocols. The student will use a case report as a vehicle for identifying clinical problems, assessing measuring devices, and collection and interpreting data to aid in clinical decision-making.

Students will integrate knowledge in physical therapy with statistics and research design to critically analyze current physical therapy literature. Each student will be able to develop a research plan with a given topic.

Students develop skills for parenteral and enteral nutrition (nutrition support), factoring in inflammatory metabolism, indications, calculations, formulas and solutions, feeding access, complications, and ethical considerations, along with professional practice issues and the regulatory status of nutrition support products.

The principles of evidence-based practice are essential for ethical and effective decision-making in the clinical setting. In this course, students build and grow their skills in obtaining and evaluating research by learning about different research designs, strategies, and related concepts including reliability and validity. Students ask and answer clinically relevant questions as informed, active consumers of the research literature and practice communicating their findings in a clinically accessible manner.

This course will enable the student to utilize critical inquiry by applying the principles of scientific method to read and interpret professional literature. The student will apply the principles of clinical decision-making in the delivery of patient or client care to include: identification of problem, collection and interpretation of data, formulation of hypothesis, collection of data, interpretation of findings, acceptance or rejection of hypothesis, determination of clinical decision, deliberate action, and reevaluation of actions. The final outcome of this course will be a Review of Literature.

Exploration of the relationships between the study of language and such phenomena as culture, social class, and community. Examination of such problems as the effects of mass communication and urban society on the individual and his use of language. Consideration of the social and pedagogical implications of the use of different dialects of teachers.

Critically investigates the personal and systemic politics of leadership within the complex cultural landscape of public education. Scrutinizes the power dynamics that are intentionally present and their shaping educational practices and policies. Offers a deep dive into frequently conflicting expectations, vested interests, and contextual concerns that various communities introduce into education. This course encourages students to challenge normative assumptions, engage with critical theories, and develop strategies for more equitable and inclusive leadership.

This course will explore the intersections between critical pedagogy, contemporary art, and public pedagogy. Based on readings in education and cultural theory, as well as case studies and presentations by artist and educators, students will explore education as a creative act and means of social transformation in formal and informal learning settings. Students will analyze their own teaching and learning and connect theory with practice through opportunities to work with local cultural organizations.

This course focuses on critical social theory and its connection to sociological and educational research. Explores the works of the Frankfurt School and Black Intellectuals in the early 20th century and their impact on contemporary critical theories. Examines theories such as Marxism, Critical Race Theory, TribalCrit, and Postcolonial theory. Issues of power, domination, and privilege in school and society will be analyzed

Much of critical theory finds its origin in the work of Karl Marx. The purpose of this doctoral seminar is to read key works by Marx, supplemented by some contemporary texts in western Marxist political theory, with the ultimate goal of understanding the various political and philosophical debates with which these texts engage. The course emphasizes Marxism as a political theory, but will also address Marxism as a scholarly methodology for critique applicable to disciplines beyond political theory. Themes include: the commodity, alienation and reification, surplus value, ideology, consumerism, spectacle, empire, feminism, postfordism, community, and communism.