Graduate Courses

This practical course is designed to introduce drama activities to students and professionals who work with young people with special needs. With increased number of inclusion classrooms and mainstreaming of students with special needs this course is designed for both special and general education educators. Participants will review the current trends and classifications of special education and explore the development and implementation of drama curricula for emotionally disturbed and learning disabled populations. Participants will learn curriculum design and adaptation, effective drama strategies for classroom management, receive an overview of terms and definitions for special education. Appropriate for K-12 educators.

Methods and materials for role-playing, story dramatization, mask, puppetry, and improvisation for practical training in the elementary classroom, in such areas as learning processes, motivation, communication and classroom management. Relationship of drama and theatre to the elementary curriculum. Use of drama and theatre to address human development processes affecting K-6 child's readiness to learn, such as culture, nutrition, personal safety and community. Allows students enrolled in certification programs to accumulate required pre-student teaching fieldwork hours.

Theories and practices of dramatic art in relation to principles and curriculum of secondary education. Attention given to assembly programs, creative and formal techniques of play production for school, extracurricular club, camp, and playground in a practical training capacity. Allows students enrolled in certification programs to accumulate required pre-student teaching fieldwork hours.

Assignments, critiques and demonstrations for the more advanced drawing student. Combines perceptual learning with initial conceptual basics for drawing. This includes line usage, shape inventing, size differentiating, brightness contrast, location, and overlap. Students develop the skill to discuss their drawing as well as the drawing of others and learn to observe and empathize with the genres of landscape, still life, and figure. Individual and group critiques, slide lectures, and museum and gallery visits support studio activities.

An introduction to the role and responsibilities of teachers, school administrators, and pupil personnel staff in the coordinated school health programs. Course content covers mandated health subjects, e.g., recognition and prevention of substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, child abduction; child abuse recognition (2 hours), safety education, including fire and arson prevention, and violence prevention (2 hours). Meets NYS Education Department certification requirements for instruction in school violence prevention, identification and reporting of child abuse. Fulfills training required for certification/licensure under the Dignity for All Students Act (DASA).

An introduction to the role and responsibilities of teachers, school administrators, and pupil personnel staff in the coordinated school health programs. Course content covers mandated health subjects, e.g., recognition and prevention of substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, child abduction; child abuse recognition (2 hours), safety education, including fire and arson prevention, and violence prevention (2 hours). Meets NYS Education Department certification requirements for instruction in school violence prevention, identification and reporting of child abuse. Fulfills training required for certification/licensure under the Dignity for All Students Act (DASA).

Description of swallowing disorders in adults and children associated with various structural, neurological, and behavioral disorders. Assessment and remediating approaches will be addressed.

This course will examine theories & techniques related to analyzing recorded & environmental sounds. Students will sharpen listening skills with comprehensive ear training exercises & guided listening explorations. Topics include frequency discrimination, reverberation, dynamics, distortion, sonic effects, sound ecology & other related topics.

Considers essential elements of economic theories of the public finance and human capital. Examines arguments for and against various policy strategies for funding higher education. Provides knowledge of higher education finance and budgeting and undergraduate student aid. Includes a Virtual University simulation that provides experience working with key variables.

*An introduction to the theoretical and empirical methods used in modern
economic analysis of education. Economic theory and econometric methods are
applied to topics such as the demand for and returns to schooling, the
impact of school resources on outcomes, student incentives, school choice,
accountability, teacher labor markets, and school funding equity. Attention
is paid to the ability of statistics and econometric methods to make causal
inferences about effects of education policies and to predict likely impact
of policy changes.

Course focuses on the fundamentals of applied microeconomics to the production, pricing, selling, and reselling of works of art. Topics include the production economics of the artist’s studio and analysis of art markets in terms of supply and demand, property rights, and other concepts from microeconomics and related business strategy. The course applies economic analysis to for-profits (galleries and auction houses), non-profits (museums), and hybrid models (technology-driven start-ups/artist-led social-practice)

Strategies for general and special education teachers to meet the cognitive, emotional, and social needs of adolescents with disabilities in general education classes in middle and high schools. Methods for collaboration with teachers, parents and other professionals, including participation in IEP development. Examination of service delivery models at the middle and high school levels. Issues of transition planning, curriculum development, instructional planning, uses of technology, identifying strengths and differentiating instruction, with a special focus on the development of literacy skills and processes that promote social skill development and interpersonal communication

Summer institute focused on co-designing game-like learning strategies to address authentic educational problems. Through face-to-face and online activities, this blended course partners graduate students with pre and in-service teachers to create usable learning materials, which are then archived online to support continued collaborations. Final project allows students to test game-based designs at an onsite children's summer camp. Course targets students seeking to apply design to real-world settings and teachers seeking unique professional development.

Students engage with concepts, theories, designs, and examples of learning experiences that may or may not be seen as "creative" by learners and stakeholders in China. Explores what creative learning might be in Chinese contexts through hands-on projects, qualitative data collection/analysis, and applications of theories of learning, design, and creativity to experiences and sites across the lifespan. Students create case studies which critique, problematize, and challenge traditional notions of creative learning and assembled into a shared online resource publication.

Working with a real world client, students will work collaboratively on an integrated design project to imagine creative solutions to emergent problems, think critically, communicate effectively, & manage both human and material resources. On teams with graduate student peers, faculty, and external clients students will develop skills to understand, empathize & ‘frame’ client challenges & opportunities responsive to challenging times. Students will present solutions to problems and opportunities,
and iterate based on feedback.

This course is an introduction to entrepreneurship in education where students learn how to critically evaluate ideas, companies, and markets related to educational technology, especially in relation to some of the key problems and challenges of educating all people to their fullest potential. Students hear from
guest experts, explore in-depth case studies, and do field work with companies in the NYU Edtech Accelerator. Students may also participate in a concurrent optional internship (permission of instructor required).

This course will address the development and implementation of curricula and instructional strategies for special education teachers to meet the academic and socio emotional needs of the children with disabilities in elementary and secondary environments, including classroom and community. The course also focuses on methods for collaboration among teachers, parents, and other professionals, including participation in IEP development. Frameworks for universal design and differentiating instruction will be used to support methods of instruction.

An in-depth study of education reform in an international context. The goal is to understand education policy reform, with attention to the contexts & variables contributing to reform initiatives, With emphasis on original research & the exchange of ideas, students will explore educational reform’s contextual variables & the push & pull factors such as globalization & key international institutions involved in reform. Different theoretical frameworks used to understand educational reform will be examined.

Learn essential concepts in the design and administration of study abroad and apply learning through support of short-term study abroad programming. In a series of seminars, participants will study theories of education specific to study abroad including those related to pedagogical practices, risk management, access and equity, and the field of education abroad. Students partner with faculty and global affairs staff to create a personalized practicum that applies concepts learned to the administration and delivery of a short-term, faculty-led study abroad program.

Course is designed to introduce students to public policy & provide a foundation for understanding & assessing education policies in particular. Students will examine the theoretical perspectives in policy as well as examine the policy process & the institutions under which policies are formed, specifically the difference between market systems & the role of government. Fourth, the methods & tools for policy analysis, both before & after policies are implemented will be studied. Finally, students will examine the role of institutions as well as policy design. Topics may include No Child Left Behind, financial aid for higher education, tax reforms to encourage saving for college, school reform in major cities, poverty & inequality, among others.