Graduate Courses

This course will introduce students to critical video—the use of documentary, ethnographic, and research-based video to investigate and critique contemporary culture. The class offers students a theoretical overview of documentary video, a set of conceptual tools to analyze video, and an introduction to the practice of video production for small and mobile screens. Students will apply texts on video’s history, culture and distribution, as well as on the ethical challenges of video production, to their own research-based video project. No prior experience in video production is required.

This course develops cultural awareness & responsiveness of creative arts therapists & community educators. Using embodied practice & theory, the course explores intersections of race, class, sexuality, gender, age, ability, religion, immigration, & other cultural identity markers (visible & invisible). Students examine the impact of intersections and ostracisms as practitioners on their own personal & professional lives, as well as those of clients and group participants. Competencies are taught through action methods, Theatre of the Oppressed,lecture/discussion.

An examination of how behavior & experience are influenced by culture & intersectionality. Emphasis is given to increasing counselor self awareness, knowledge, & skills necessary to apply counseling theory & technique to diverse populations & settings.

Students examine and assess different strategies for conducting inquiries about policy issues relevant to their academic and professional lives.Through the use and analysis of case studies, students examine how policies are developed and implemented, explore cross-sector effects, and critically assess public policies with an understanding of the media and political biases. Cases are drawn from current domestic and international debates in such areas as desegregation, public health, housing, and migration.

This course offers an in-depth look at a specific cuisine or cuisines. We look at the historical evolution of cuisine including but not limited to agriculture, technology, geo-political forces, climate change, geographic border changes, colonialism, post-colonialism, and nationalism. We analyze this cuisine in its specific cultural context as well as through a broader, global prism. We pay particular attention to performances of national identity through food and cooking. We rely on both academic research and cookbooks.

An individualized project that reflects a student's understanding of science teachings and learning and the student's philosophical underpinnings developed throughout his or her entire program.

Project-based research course that integrates educational research with social studies classroom practice. Aims to broaden students understanding of what constituters appropriate data for scholarly inquiry. Focusing on particular research methods and drawing from the rich offerings of New York City's various collections, students explore strategies for locating, analyzing, and incorporating a broad array of sources into their doing, writing, and teaching of history and social studies. Also includes exploration of economics in the contemporary world and historically. Offers models and approaches for conducting research in and on social studies classrooms.

Program seminar addresses issues confronting dance educators. Emphasis on integrating theory and practice and on the generation of new ideas, approaches and perspectives in dance education. Required culminating project or dance-related research or curriculum design for elementary, secondary, or post-secondary settings. Particular attention paid to report writing.

In this course, students read and critique current trends in TESOL and world language research. They conduct an individual or small group research project on a pedagogical issue of concern to them, drawing on current research and considering implications for their particular teaching context.

Examines how branding for arts organizations communicates a distinctive role, relevance and identity to convey a clear institutional message. Rising media costs, ever increasing options for leisure-time activities, and the shift from philanthropic to brand-focused corporate support combine to create an imperative for clarity and impact in arts marketing activities. Theoretical business frameworks, case studies and guest speakers, effective strategies to engage target audiences and build a sustainable identity are analyzed.

Survey of the ways in which art therapy may be used with the geriatric population including individuals with dementia, depression, psychiatric disorders, frail elders & healthy elders.

This course examines the importance of cultural considerations within music therapy practice through experientials, group discussions, and didactic learning. Students critically investigate how cultural humility and reflexivity can be implemented within clinical contexts. Students explore their sociocultural identity and consider how race, ethnicity, language, ability, age, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and culture intersect at the individual and collective-societal levels in therapeutic, supervisory, and professional relationships.

This course examines the interactive relationship between culture and tourism. By taking a case approach the class analyzes the business practices of the arts as a tourism enterprise. The cases will highlight marketing principles drawn from readings, discussions, and guest lectures. Lectures, discussions and guest speakers will accompany text and journal readings. Case studies will provide concrete examples to accompany theoretical concepts.

Students reflect and form their initial frameworks about speech and language practices with culturally and linguistically diverse populations in health settings and global contexts. Students prepare to develop a global consciousness, and provide effective services in a globalized world through understanding how communication processes fit into historical, economic, political and sociocultural contexts and the implications of these broader contexts for collaborative and family-centered assessment and intervention services.

The course situates SLP practice within its historical and ideological roots; analyzes the socio-political context underlying service delivery to minoritized children labeled as disabled in the US; interrogates how socially-constructed positionalities intersect within systems of oppression, and how this intersectionality affects instructional practices for all learners. Integrates culturally responsive, sustaining, and decolonial pedagogies into the repertoire of speech-language practices and develops new asset-focused and liberatory assessments and interventions.

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Increasingly, leaders are looking for strategies to lead in arts organizations. This course provides a framework for students interested in leadership development in the arts. The most dynamic leaders inspire others to think outside the box and use creative approaches to solve complex issues. Through this course, students apply principles in music as well as other art forms and artistic creative thinking approaches to inspire engaged learning of leadership application for socially innovative thinking.

In depth examination of cultural and contextual factors and how these factors impact every aspect of psychological theory, practice and research. Major theories, assessment approaches, clinical practice and research in psychology will be critiques by investigating universalistic principles, behavior and experience as it occurs in cultures and contexts and is influenced by culture and context, as well as issues such as oppression, racism, prejudice, social class and value differences.

Explores the creative and practical aspects of curating contemporary art. Students will devise an exhibition proposal to be presented in the project space at 80WSE Gallery. Students will be introduced to curators, explore a variety of current exhibitions, and discuss expanded curatorial approaches and counter-exhibition histories. Other assignments include developing an exhibition budget, devising a design/installation plan and determining communication strategies.design/installation plan & determining communications strategy.

The early childhood classroom explored as nexus for collaborative, integrative curriculum building, with greater focus on theory. Emphasis on child-centered, culturally inclusive approaches. Study of verbal and nonverbal communication, reading, writing, numeracy, science, social studies, the arts, and an expanded vision of technology appropriate for diverse populations of young children.