Graduate Courses

Designed to provide graduate students with an opportunity to examine India's higher education system and to discover and analyze similarities and differences in comparison to higher education in the United States. Through visits to universities and public and private colleges, we will engage in discussion with directors, faculty members, deans of students and their staffs and students themselves. Special lectures with sociologists and national officials will help us understand the goals and future aspirations of Indian higher education and how higher education meets the social, political, and cultural needs of society. In addition to meeting on the campus in New York, students will participate in a two week travel program in India that will provide an in-depth case study of its higher education. The course includes lectures from scholars and visits to Indian colleges and universities to meet with faculty, administrators, and students. Additional sessions will be held with directors of the national government commission on the future of higher education. Topics will include curricular options, admissions requirements, distribution of students by class and ethnic group, college climate, and services offered.

This course is designed to provide graduate students with an opportunity to examine Turkey's higher education system & to discover & analyze similarities & differences in comparison to higher education in the United States & other countries. The course will focus on Turkey's ancient & very recent university traditions. Turkey has several institutions of higher learning, which date back more than 500 years, & has seen rapid development & expansion among universities in the last few decades. Changes in national law in 1981 permitted the establishment of private non-profit universities. Today, there are 102 public universities & 52 private universities, several which are internationally ranked, all under the jurisdiction of central policy agencies & a national testing & admissions system.

An introduction to selected musical sounds and practices from cultural groups around the world. Through exposure to distinct musical cultures, from traditional to transnational, students define and apply musical concepts such as rhythm, timbre, melody, and form. Socio-cultural contexts are also examined, touching on issues such as race, gender, embodied participation, technologies of production and circulation, and relationship to religion, the state, and other social structures. This course does not count towards graduate degree requirements.

Examines theoretical and empirical work on the social, cultural and economic aspects of globalization and their implications for education. Students explore education in light of the emergence of global governance of and markets in the production and distribution of goods, services and labor; new information and communication technologies reshaping the structure and meaning of education, belonging and community; and unprecedented population movements and worldwide migration.

This course examines how gender and sexuality are being reconfigured in the context of globalization and transnational flows. We will examine key texts drawn from feminist/global cultural studies and engage with topics concerning citizenship, modernity, global labor flows, migration and activism. Through a reading of theoretical texts and ethnographic case studies, we will track the politics and performance of gender and sexuality within transnational and mediatized environments.

The roles and responsibilities of trustees and officers who govern nonprofit, tax-exempt arts organizations. How the planning, budgeting, personnel development, and marketing policies of arts endeavors are determined.

Assignment to studios, mastering labs, or other music technology-related firms for advanced on-the-job training.

A Stanislavski based course introducing fundamental acting technique and stage convention through the integration of improvisation, monologs, and scene study, speech and movement.

Continuation of skills and concepts introduced in Graduate Acting for Singers I with an increased focus on character development, interaction and heightened language.

An intensive practicum course building on the skills introduced in Graduate Acting for Singers I and II, with increased focus on acting styles for contemporary and classical theatre.

A general introduction to the fundamental concepts of music technology, including: sound propagation, the principles of microphone operation, the use of speakers and mixers, the MIDI standard and its implementation, the basics of digital systems, waveform editing and audio file formats and compression. The lectures will be complemented by practical assignments and demonstrations, through which students will gain a basic understanding of how to use technology to enhance and demonstrate their musical work.

Graduate Jazz Seminar will present weekly interviews and discussions wit seminal Jazz artists from around the world. Discussions will include performance practices and oral histories. Students from the Jazz Studies Program are required to attend.

A classroom or praxis based course, focusing on current issues in studio art or the art professions. Topics examine a broad range of art and visual culture foci, with an emphasis on new approaches to both subject material and pedagogical methods.

Description; This course examines traditional examples of ethical behavior in the American and European modern and contemporary art market and compares them to current, increasingly complex art business practices. We will analyze general concepts and specific situations in the expanded and interconnected global business of art. Students will be asked to consider which, if any, current business practices and concepts require reconsideration and how these may apply to a global art market.

This course will investigate the current state of Contemporary Art and how it has come to be shaped by the growing importance of biennials, triennials, and other timed exhibitions as well as the increasing influence of art fairs around the globe.It will show how the evolution of these major international exhibitions and fairs has gradually changed the function and relative emphasis of galleries and museums, critics and curators, art dealers and auction houses, at a time when there are more artists, galleries and collectors than ever before. On-line and off-line exhibition and sales, now in the very early stages, will also factor into the discussion of the rapidly changing art world of the 21st century. Biennial curators, art fair organizers, critics and artists will be invited as guest lecturers to offer their viewpoints on the current state of the arts.

This project-based course explores contemporary curatorial practice and its application to the display and interpretation of fashion. Through the development of an original and timely topic, students co-curate an exhibition, participating in all aspects of mounting and staging the exhibition along with producing the related research, text, and supporting programming.

This course is a culmination of a student’s graduate degree. It requires the student
to incorporate elements from their entire course of study to research, program, prepare, and present a successful degree recital.

This course is a culmination of a student’s graduate degree. It requires the student
to incorporate elements from their entire course of study to research, program, prepare, and present a successful degree recital.

This course is a culmination of a student’s graduate degree. It requires the student
to incorporate elements from their entire course of study to research, program, prepare, and present a successful degree recital.

This course is a culmination of a student’s graduate degree. It requires the student
to incorporate elements from their entire course of study to research, program, prepare, and present a successful degree recital.