Graduate Courses

This course enables the student to apply manual therapy (including mobilization and manipulation) which consists of a broad group of passive intervention in which physical therapists use their hands to modulate pain, increase joint range of motion, reduce soft tissue inflammation, induce relaxation, improve contractile and noncontractile tissue extensibility, and improve pulmonary function.

This course is the second in a series of two manual techniques courses that will enable the student to have an in-depth understand & “hands on experience” of manual techniques relevant to current clinical practice. The course focuses on joint-related manual techniques for evaluation & intervention in the following contests: to modulate pain, to increase joint range or motion, reduce soft tissue inflammation, induce relaxation, to improve contractile & non-contractile tissue extensibility, & to improve muscle activation. The course also provides the students with an introduction to the assessment of motion, including goniometry. A problem solving approach based on the International Classification of Function framework will be utilized throughout this course.

In this course students explore the development of the Western art market from the Middle Ages to the present day. Students study key moments and figures - the Dutch Golden Age (17th century); the birth of the Impressionist and avant-garde market in Paris (late 19th - early 20th century); the Harlem Renaissance and the establishment of New York as the capital of the art market after the second world war; and the role of the gallery in a changing global market.

Investigation and application of marketing techniques and practices for performing arts organizations. The aim is to develop student's abilities to select and identify effective marketing applications to increase earned revenue from all sources. Promotional techniques such as telemarketing, brochure and advertising, and merchandising-related artistic products are examined. Participants are required to propose, present, and defend assigned projects.

A theory and practice approach, viewing the couple or the family as a unitary psycho-social system, focusing on general functioning, dysfunction, and intervention. In contrast to viewing individuals as the locus of a problem, the relationship is seen as a unitary system where harmony and difficulty depend on characteristics of the unit as a whole. Major areas covered include history, theory, practice models, and intervention techniques.

Historical and practical experience in basic mask and puppet-making techniques. Exploration of the uses of masks and puppets and their importance in theatre. Laboratory three hours a week.

This course takes place during Residency II requirement of the Online Ed.D. Program. Students will be exposed to industry experts in the education field of various sectors and learn how the theories learned in the last two years of the program are applicable to the current state of education.

Introduces students to seminal ideas and perspectives that inform our discipline. Begins inquiry into several complex questions: How might English be conceived as a school subject? How might language be learned and used? How and why might literature be read and experienced? What are the possible relationships among reading, talking, listening and thinking? What issues are influencing the teaching of English today? What are the possible roles for the English teacher?

The emphasis in this class in on the student performance & analysis of string music. Students prepare & perform literature from the 17th to the 21st century for Artist Teachers who offer insights into technical & interpretive topics including phrase shaping, expressive timing, ornamentation, & extended techniques.

The emphasis in this class in on the student performance & analysis of woodwind music. Students prepare & perform for Artist Teachers who offer insights into technical & interpretive topics including phrase shaping, expressive timing, ornamentation, & extended techniques.

Principles and application of nutrition for healthy mothers, infants, children, and adolescents with emphasis on current research related to normal growth and development.

Graduate mathematics course targeted to students in mathematics education to develop mathematical knowledge for research & teaching in mathematics education. This knowledge includes developing skills in problem solving- problem posing- extending problems- & deeply exploring K-12 mathematics from a disciplinary perspective.

The course focuses on significant aspects and perspectives of mathematical proof and proving, e.g.: The need for proof; Various types of mathematical proofs and their logical foundation; Communicating and presenting proofs coherently and flawlessly; Visual proofs; Alternative ways of proving a given statement; Mathematical fallacies. Lessons will be structured around activities that engage students in constructing formal proofs, searching for multiple ways of proving various mathematical statements, evaluating each others' proofs, attending to visual entailments, and detecting flaws in mathematical fallacies.

Programming for MIDI, C, and other appropriate techniques. Design and implementation of software sequencers, interface drivers, and hardware applications will be the focus.

The theoretical basis, principles, and techniques of kinesiological electromyography and motion analysis of normal and abnormal human motion.

The theoretical basis, principles, and techniques of dynamometry; the integration of kinesiological electromyography, motion analysis, and dynamomtry.

This interactive and discussion-oriented course provides an introduction to the politics and tactics underlying five broad categories of media activism: media interventions at the levels of representation- labor relations- policy- strategic communication- and "alternative" media making. The course will rely on both a survey of the existing scholarship on media activism- as well as close analyses of actual activist practices within both old and new media. As a class- we will examine a wide-range of digital media as well as local- national- and global media activist institutions.

This course investigates the ways human and natural environments have been shaped by media representations and technologies, extending from newspapers, photography, and popular literature, to film, television, and video games. Integrating eco-cinema, eco-criticism, environmental communication, and environmental studies, the course explores how environments are represented in visual media through different historical and social contexts, beginning with the rise of landscape photography, scientific representations of nature, and "fictional" wildlife films, to environmental media works in the 1960s to the role of contemporary interactive and "recycling" based aesthetics.

Explores theoretical, methodological, and archival strategies for research on early or obsolete media artifacts. This seminar functions as an ongoing research studio while discussing central texts in the field of media archaeology.