Graduate Courses

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.

This course provides a study of evidenced-based nutrition guidelines for acute and chronic disease conditions. Through case studies, assigned readings, learning guides, class presentations, and lectures, students explore the relationship of food and nutrition to medicine, including physiological and clinical basis of disease processes and medical, surgical, and diet therapies for disease conditions. This course fulfills competenices for the NYU Dietetic Internship and is restricted to dietetic interns.

Application of evaluation and intervention methods in psychosocial occupational therapy practice. Screening, assessment, goal-setting, planning of intervention, implementation of intervention, and program planning in mental health settings. Therapeutic use of self, activity based treatment and clinical application of occupational therapy frames of reference. Major psychiatric disorders as clinical examples.

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 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.

Identifies characteristics of high-incidence disabilities impacting learning, attention, and behavior in early childhood settings. Related curriculum and instructional methods for increasing student efficacy in across general and special education, with the use of assistive technologies. Focuses on a wide range of learning environments including home, school, and recreational settings. Teacher knowledge/skill development on family and professional partnerships, inclusion, advocacy, interagency collaboration.

Covers the etiology, characteristics, and services for students with low-incidence disabilities affecting development across early childhood, childhood, and adolescence. Focus is on curriculum and instruction for intellectual, socioemotional, physical, behavioral, and communicative learning. Includes assistive technology. Instructional methods in varied learning environments including home, school, and community-based settings is central to course content. Course also addresses facilitation of family partnerships, inclusion, advocacy, interagency collaboration.No Course Description Available

This course focuses on methods of teaching English and native language arts and literacy to multilingual learners. Topics include connecting research-based methods to instructional strategies; examining the role of cultural, linguistic and individual factors in the development of biliteracy; and investigating how bilingual students use their home language skills to develop and acquire English literacy.