Graduate Courses

This course introduces students to principles of evidence-based practice (EBP). Students learn to evaluate clinical literature, determine the evidence level of a clinical study, appraise study feasibility, and apply EBP concepts in everyday practice. The course emphasizes the need for evidence-based clinical practice and prepares students to obtain the knowledge and skills for future clinical effectiveness studies (e.g., participate in systematic review, data collection, or compile an evidence-based treatment guideline).

Introduction to world food problems and their nutritional, economic, and social effects.

This course provides an overview of the most relevant qualitative methods used to research media audiences, platforms, technologies, industry, history, policies and texts.

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.

Assignments, critiques and demonstrations through in-the-studio-practices for the more advanced painting student. The relationship between form and content (technique and concept) is informed by art history and theory. Such processes as palette orientation, paint manipulation, and canvas preparation are discussed as well as contemporary painting practices. Individual and group critiques support studio activities.

Introduction to the use of photography as a medium of documentation and expression. Assignments and critiques enhance the development of individual work while developing photographic skills and techniques. Students provide their own camera and paper. Enlargers and photographic chemicals are provided in class.

This is the first in a four-course sequence in which students create, assess and refine their portfolios. Portfolios are web-based and include performance observations, case studies, peer ratings, specialty certification, documentation of professional activities, publications, and presentation summaries. At the end of the program, students present their portfolio to a panel of faculty members. The portfolio must document how the student integrated knowledge and skills learned in the curriculum to his or her specialty practice area.

Introduction to the rendering of the three-dimensional world in sculpture. The class moves through a variety of different materials using simple techniques such as woodcutting, plastering, welding, and sewing.

Survey a broad spectrum of visual art resources through guided lecture-tour visits to current exhibitions at leading museums, galleries and alternative art spaces located throughout New York City. Onsite meetings with art administrators affiliated with various organizations shed light on a wide range of career and management issues pertaining to the field and add to an understanding of the development and continued growth of New York's exciting art world.

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

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

This course provides a practical introduction to urban agriculture. Students learn horticultural skills at the NYU Urban Farm Lab. Students learn about biological processes and how they fit together in a system. Through visits to other sites around the city, students are exposed to various strategies for practicing urban horticulture. Additionally, we engage with greater themes found within urban agriculture such as entrepreneurship, food justice, individual and group sustenance, cultural enactments of identity, community building, and education.

This course covers regression techniques from a simulation-based perspective, with an emphasis on applications rather than mathematical theory. Topics include linear regression with single and multiple predictors; linear regression assumptions, diagnostics, and interpretation; prediction and inference; transformations and interactions; ANOVA; global tests for coefficients; contingency tables; and information criteria and model comparison. R will be used throughout the course.

This course offers the student, whether graduate or arts administration practitioner, an intensive experience in learning about cultural policies and arts management practices in at least two European countries. The Arts Administration Study Abroad is comprised of a series of lectures, site visits, case studies, discussion sessions and presentations. Issues change from year to year as cultural policies develop in chosen venues. Students examine a combination of policy and practice, meet with arts administrators and policy makers, and present case study analyses on the basis of their lectures and onsite visits.

This course offers the student, whether graduate or arts administration practitioner, an intensive experience in learning about cultural policies and arts management practices in at least two European countries. The Arts Administration Study Abroad is comprised of a series of lectures, site visits, case studies, discussion sessions and presentations. Issues change from year to year as cultural policies develop in chosen venues. Students examine a combination of policy and practice, meet with arts administrators and policy makers, and present case study analyses on the basis of their lectures and on-site visits.

The course will offer a historic and practical foundation for understanding and identifying the issues surrounding the creation of music with new technology. The lectures will present a series of alternative strategies in composing and performing with digitally assisted analog equipment. The ongoing class assignments will support both technical and cognitive understanding and usage of the hybrid approach. The resources will be: The Buchla 200e synth, Ableton Live, ProTools and Korg Nano MIDI Controllers.

An introduction to the materials of jazz arranging through examination of music scores from early twentieth-century sources to the present. Students produce their own arrangements.

An extension of MPAJZ-2273 with a special emphasis on arrangements for large jazz ensembles.