Graduate Courses

Open to department graduate students majoring in music. Private piano lessons covering repertoire from all styles and forms, supplemented by extra assignments. Attendance at recitals and master classes required

The emphasis on this c lass is on the historical and aesthetic analysis of the development of piano literature in the Classic, Romantic, and Impressionistic traditions. Compositions by pianist/composers including Hayden, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms, Scriabin, Rachmaninov and Debussy are studied to reconstruct and analyze the development of harmonic practices, genres, and styles. Students demonstrate their knowledge of the repertoire in research papers, related written assignments, and listening exams. Student performance in class is required.

The emphasis in this class is on the historical and aesthetic analysis of the development of piano literature in the Contemporary period. Compositions for piano that represent atonality, serialism, extended techniques, multimedia and interactive electronic techniques, the influence of jazz and popular music, Darmstadt and the New York School, and Spanish and Latin American music are performed and analyzed in class. Scholarship that examines ?the new complexity?, minimalism, and postmodernism is reviewed. Students demonstrate their knowledge of the repertoire in research papers, related written assignments, and listening exams. Student performance in class is required. [03/28/2008]

Developing basic skills in evaluating form and content of pictorial and sculptural work produced in art therapy sessions. Developing skills in integrating evidence of developmental level, perceptual capacities, psychodynamic processes, emotional handicaps, environmental stimuli in art work, and behavior. Students should be prepared to furnish some art work from child, adolescent or adult population. Studio component included.

A content mathematics course in geometry for teachers.

Focuses on play and drama approaches for the treatment of children & adolescents with a variety of psychological stressors, including physical & sexual abuse, life-threatening illnesses, death of a parent, divorce, & bullying. Examines treatment models & protocols relevant to institutional & community agency settings. Includes case examples, demonstration of play & drama techniques, & interactive class participation.

Techniques for strategic planning and managerial finance in the performing arts organization from the perspective of its chief executive officer. Integration of skills in organizational evaluation, strategic planning, mission formulation, operations management, and finance. Students are required to write a strategic plan for a performing arts organization.

Communicative aspects of American government, including the preparation of candidates, the electoral process, political advertising and public relations. The use of strategic communication to influence political agendas, the formation of public policy, and the process of political debate.

An examination of reading and writing education from historical, theoretical, critical, and pedagogical perspectives. Course questions include the role of literacy in a global society and the influences of policies and political practices. Research studies that have shaped literacy instruction in the last century are considered.

This course explores the politics of civil conflict, peacebuilding, and the role of education in promoting violence or peace. Specifically it explores the humanitarian efforts of international actors (international organizations, bilateral donors, NGOs), local actors (civil society associations, nationalist and ideological factions), and their influence on education systems during war and emerging peace. Case studies may include Afghanistan, Colombia, Sierra Leone, Pakistan, and West Bank/Gaza.

Explores tools of political and strategy in education, including concepts and theoretical frameworks applicable to the political process; political and governance structures in education, and major issues in educational policy.

The meditation and technological development of vision and its dominance over the human sensorium is integral to the emergence of the modern, including experiences of urbanism, consumer desire, gender/sexual identities, race and ethnicity, trans-cultural image systems, aesthetic production, and the making of power and political truth claims. This seminar will focus on introducing participants to the core theories and analytic methods of visual culture, and the socio-political history of the human sensorium in a variety of disciplines, including ethnography, social history, urban studies, cinema studies, social geography, material culture studies, and media studies.

Students participate in a variety of activities and assignments to help them create and enact their own curriculum, lessons and activities in the space of a 21st century secondary music classroom. Students gain practical experience in learning and teaching contemporary popular music instrumentation including guitar, electric guitar, electric bass, ukulele, drum-kit, keyboard, and other electronic instruments.

Course provides structure for teaching portfolios to demonstrate efficacy in components of the Learning to Teach Framework.

Course provides structure for teaching portfolios to demonstrate efficacy in components of the Learning to Teach Framework.

Course provides structure for teaching portfolios to demonstrate efficacy in components of the Learning to Teach Framework.

Building on innovations in the merging field of positive psychology, this course explores research and theory on factors that represent strengths and virtues and that enhance the human capacity to experience wellness. Particular emphasis is placed on the interplay between culture, context and positive psychological outcomes (e.g., hope, creativity, purpose, wisdom) and on state-of-the-artinterventions that facilitate individual, family, and community efforts to achieve these outcomes.

The aim of this advanced graduate seminar is to bring together two fields which are rarely discussed together: postcolonial theory and global media studies. Although postcolonial theory is primarily concerned with issues of race, class, gender and decolonization, it has a deep underlying interest in the role of novels, narrative and visual modes in the process of decolonization. Global media studies, which focuses largely on the recent flow of money, images, peoples and commodities, needs to be critically aware of the ways in which minds,
bodies and states throughout the world are still entangled in colonial modes of thought and practice. Bringing these frameworks together can cast new light on power, mediation and coloniality.

Problems in academic theatre: research projects; instructional procedures; creative expression in acting, directing, and writing. Exploration of the uses of drama at all levels of education.

Experience in clinical research centers under supervision of experienced clinical researchers of problems concerned with human motion of cardiopulmonary function.