Graduate Courses

Introduces students to the most pressing normative, theoretical, empirical and practical questions in international development. Topics may include development challenges; theories of development; international development aid; development actors and institutions; the role of education; education interventions; local approaches to development; policy and program implementation; program and impact evaluation; and theory-practice questions. Variants of the course, that build upon one another, are offered on Washington Square and at NYU study away sites.

Focuses on practical questions of international development and explores how relationships, respect and reciprocity are cornerstones of socially engaged research and practice. Students examine how local and international actors think about the role of education in international development; challenges and opportunities of implementing programming and why some programs and approaches are successful; and how local experiences can inform our broader understanding of or alternative approaches to international development.

Survey of the scope and variety of practices in the music therapy profession. Current research and methodologies. Contrasting modalities of treatment. Relationship to arts therapies, music education, special education. Of special interest to educators, performers, and art professionals.

This course introduces students to the field of drama therapy. Students explore the history of drama therapy and its role in healing, identify core and meta processes of drama therapy, analyze applications of drama therapy in practice, and become familiar with drama therapy theory, research, and practice, which is an integral part of the Drama Therapy curriculum. Students complete an annotated bibliography and final project on how drama functions in/as therapy and participate in field training opportunities.

This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the basic concepts of marketing management and experience in making marketing decisions in uncertain environments. Students examine issues relating to developing marketing strategy and planning marketing tactics. Approach is largely from a practical perspective with an emphasis on managerial decision-making.

Play and audience analysis, directing methods, production techniques. Each student plans a complete children's theatre production. Laboratory experience recommended.

This course is an introduction to the sociopolitical activist forms that make up the arsenal of the Theatre of the Oppressed. Originally developed in Brazil by theatre innovator Augusto Boal, these forms were inspired by the educational theories of Paulo Freire and employed with peasants and workers throughout Latin America. Now they are used internationally and have been developed and adapted by countless companies and practitioners. This introductory level course will engage students with the foundational theories, through the writings of both Freire and Boal, and given them a sound exposure to the interactive games and exercises that form the bedrock of this work. Students will investigate social, political, pedagogical and artistic intersections through Image Theatre, Forum Theatre, and Newspaper Theatre.

Fundamental principles of art therapy practice will be presented through discussions and case presentations. Students learn the historical development of the profession, its distinction from other disciplines and its commonalities to social sciences. Basic pictorial analyses examine artistic processes and products. Students study the artistic expression across the developmental span. Clinical applications for populations struggling with varied psychological and physiological issues are offered. Each class includes experiential art making to demonstrate interventions.

Individual positions with major artists, notable museums, distinguished galleries, art publishers, and art organizations.

An introduction to arts-based research methodologies and procedures designed for first-year graduate students in creative arts therapies, inter-disciplinary arts majors, educational theatre and applied psychology. Topics include the process of arts-based research, the fundamentals of art-based research design, and the use of new media technologies in research design. Course helps prepare students for the subsequent writing of their theses.

This course is an introduction to the theories and procedures used to identify hearing loss and provide aural rehabilitation to children and adults with hearing loss. Students examine principles and techniques of pure tone and speech audiometry and interpretation of audiograms; review etiologies and considerations for all types and degrees of hearing loss; and explore principles of management of people with hearing loss across the lifespan as well as technological and aural rehabilitation methods available to individuals with hearing loss.

An introduction to the technical problems of making, decorating, glazing, and firing ceramic forms, while providing opportunities for understanding and developing sensitivities to clay as an art for

In this course, students will learn HTML, CSS, and Javascript while gaining hands-on experience with issues that are specific to coding and designing educational applications and web-based instructional materials. Students will learn the skills required to develop websites and design applications that work across devices. Furthermore, students will explore the affordances that the web and multimedia offers a learning designer, how to apply various perspectives on learning and how to build interactive prototypes and wireframes. No knowledge of programming is assumed.

This course is a deep examination of the commercial theater business model,
including how commercial productions get made and the role of management in shepherding that process. Topics will include key players and organizational structures; the development life cycle of a show; how money is raised, earned, and spent; union relations; and the challenges currently faced by the industry. Students will also have the opportunity to examine and reflect on their leadership principles.

This course will introduce students to a variety of different conceptualizations & implementations of Computer Science education for K-12. Students will discuss and analyze the rationale & purpose of CS teaching behind each case & critique the benefits & challenges from the perspective of K-12 education. This will support students in making informed decisions in their own CS teaching practice & to articulate & justify their decisions. The course will also serve to empower students to participate in future CS curriculum development in their school.

This course serves to familiarize the student with the fundamentals of typography. Typography forms the basis of our contemporary communication. Students will gain design abilities based on analogue techniques as well as digital software. The class explores letterform design and moves subsequently to typesetting exercises performed using the letterpress printer and computer. Compositions exploring typography as color, form, and image will be examined for visual impact as well as meaning. The history of typography is incorporated beginning with Guttenberg in the 1400's through the classic designers of the 17th and 18th centuries, type-design through Russian Constructivism, the Bauhaus, and Modernism to contemporary digital type design.

A hands-on introduction to the technical and creative uses of digital photography. The class will explore the use of digital technologies to compose, shoot, scan, alter, and print images, as well as considering the ways in which photographic meaning has been changed by the use of the computer. Student provides their own camera and paper.

Course takes place during the Residency I requirement of the Online Ed.D. Program. The course provides an overview of the Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership and Organizational Studies curriculum. Students will review the two-year program timeline and discuss expectations of the
program, and the fundamentals of doctoral study. The course will highlight the major program milestones embedded within the capstone deliverables.

This course is designed for non-majors as an introduction to the basic concepts, theory & practice of drama therapy. The course will use experiential learning to familiarize students with drama therapy as an embodied & narrative approach to therapy & as a diagnostic & intervention tool. Course is appropriate for students in the other creative arts therapies, social work, applied psychology interested in enhancing clinical skills & for students in educational theater wishing to examine the boundaries between applied dramatic art & therapy.

Basic materials and methods of drawing. It combines perceptual learning with initial conceptual basics for drawing. This includes line usage, shape inventing, size differentiating, brightness contrast, location and overlap. Students will develop the skill to discuss their drawings as well as the drawings 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.