Graduate Courses

This course examines the role played by media events and spectacle in the shaping of belief, attitudes, and actions, with particular attention paid to the concept of the masses and its changed meaning over time. The course examines concepts of mass culture, the decentralization of cultural forms, and the rise of convergence culture. It explores the history of the media event and the theories that have shaped it, and the role of spectacle in society from the Renaissance to modern society to the age of digital media.

This course examines the nature, application, & use of media - including video, audio, multi-image, computer-based multimedia, Internet, & tie-ins - for such shared learning environments as cultural institutions, historical & visual arts museums, communications & entertainment museums & visitor information centers through the analysis of site visits & case studies. The use of media in curating & interpretation of exhibit environments, educational programs, orientation presentations, community interface, development & fund-raising programs is examined. Emphasis centers on developing criteria in decision-making processes regarding the variety of media choices available, analysis of the visitor experience, the learning environment & the ways in which media choices can serve a museum’s or visitor’s centers’ goals.

This course focuses on enhancing classroom practice through exploration of the uses of media and technology. The course addresses the development of media literacy skills with an added focus on developing methods to utilize media as a tool to enhance content in the art classroom. The potential of media and technology to assist in the development of innovative curricula in all content areas is examined, with attention to interdisciplinary curricula integrating the arts. There is a substantial lab component to this course, providing extensive hands-on experience in available technologies. Additional topics include the changing classroom in the information age; visual literacy; the role of media technologies for communication in a diverse, democratic society; authenticity and reproduction; inquiry-based learning and technology.

Students are placed in field internships in a variety of professions related to digital media design for learning including product development, user experience, instructional design, educational technology, media design and development and educational research. Students learn through supervised participation in professional settings including corporate, cultural, communications, non-profit, health, K-12 and higher education, among others.

Examines theoretical approaches that are central to the study of media, culture, and communication. provides students with a historical and critical framework for understanding the literature and research traditions within the field of media studies with an emphasis on media and communication as institutional actors, technological artifacts, systems of representation and meaningful cultural objects.

This course examines the relationship of visual media to historical narratives and cultural memory. It looks at photography, film, television, and forms of new media in relation to theories of historiography and cultural memory.

This seminar treats the body as a bio-political medium and media as mimetic, cyborgian and visualized forms of flexible embodiment. We will explore the political encoding of bodies as a crucial, yet under-analyzed, mode of modern political communication encompassing the racialized, colonized, gendered, medicalized, technologicalized, disabled and terrorized body.

This course explores how forms of media and popular culture have historically constructed a sense of realism, authenticity, or access to direct experience through various technologies, production, marketing, programming, performance techniques and promotion practices. It will survey the history of hoaxes, spectacles, photography, documentary, news, robotics, video games, virtual reality, reality television, and social media in order to trace the history and analyze the repercussions of the ethics, aesthetics and business of "the real".

Etiology, pathology, and sequela of selected medical, psychiatric, orthopedic, and neurological conditions that frequently necessitate occupational therapy intervention. Standard diagnostic systems and somatic treatments are reviewed.

Study of the research basis of diet therapy for the principle nutrition related disease conditions through analysis of case histories. The relationship of food and nutrition to medicine: physiological and clinical basis of disease processes and medical, surgical and diet therapies for acute and chronic disease conditions, through lectures, case discussions, assigned readings, programmed learning guides, and class presentations. Course is restricted to diet interns.

This course enables the student to independently examine and reexamine a patient or client with musculoskeletal problems by obtaining a pertinent history from the patient or client and from other relevant sources by performing relevant systems review, and by selecting appropriate age-related tests and measure. The courses also enable the student: to provide direct physical therapy interventions to achieve patient/client outcomes based on t he examination and the impairments, functional limitations, and disabilities.

This course enables the student to independently examine and reexamine a patient or client with musculoskeletal problems by obtaining a pertinent history from the patient or client and from other relevant sources by performing relevant systems review, and by selecting appropriate age-related tests and measure. The courses also enable the student: to provide direct physical therapy interventions to achieve patient/client outcomes based on t he examination and the impairments, functional limitations, and disabilities.

This course enables the student to independently examine and reexamine a patient or client with musculoskeletal problems by obtaining a pertinent history from the patient or client and from other relevant sources by performing relevant systems review, and by selecting appropriate age-related tests and measure. The courses also enable the student: to provide direct physical therapy interventions to achieve patient/client outcomes based on t he examination and the impairments, functional limitations, and disabilities.

This course is designed to expose students to the complex real-world datasets commonly used in machine learning applications. The course provides an accessible introduction to supervised machine learning, while covering aspects of data collection and cleaning. Specific topics include model construction, evaluation, and regularization, as well as web scraping, text data, feature construction, and measurement error. Students complete short assignments, longer homework sets, and a final project.

Beginning and traditional techniques for jewelry and metalsmithing. Through demonstrations and practice, students create individual projects in a variety of materials. Discussions and assignments consider preconceived notions about jewelry as well as structural design problems.

Research procedures in all phases of theatre and educational theatre.

This first of two field-based courses explores theoretical and practical frameworks for designing and implementing grades 5-12 science curricula topics including learning theories, safety, planning and curriculum development, classroom management, integration of science with other disciplines, reading and science, traditional and alternative assessment, and multicultural science teaching. The use of technology as an instructional tool to support learning and communication are applied to teaching and learning situations as an integral aspect of the course.

This course continues to build your learning as you develop a further repertoire of practices and understandings to support your growth as an innovative professional educator who uses inclusive and culturally relevant design through the use of counter narratives to develop science curricula that are technologically rich, engaging and practically and intellectually challenging for middle and high school students in grades 5-12.

Techniques and practice of creative drama. Students lead classes; weekly critiques. laboratory experience.