Graduate Courses

A two-semester seminar focusing on major research frameworks in education, Jewish studies, and Jewish education. Students will be engaged in practical research experiences in the Jewish education field. These experiences provide opportunities to formulate creative plans for dealing with a variety of educational issues and problems.

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An advanced seminar which examines the key considerations which drive research activity in applied theatre. Students canvas the territory of applied theatre, the purposes of an applied theatre, and the challenges researchers face when designing, implementing and presenting their applied theatre studies. Students create their own applied theatre research project which can include a creative component.

Study of Teaching I is the first of two courses designed to support preservice teachers' efforts to integrate learning from courses with practice in the field and to explore the role of teacher-as-researcher as a vehicle for continual professional growth. The course is concurrent with methods of courses in literacy, mathematics, and science and is intended to help beginning teachers analyze the various teacher roles, actions, teaching models, and decisions they make as they interact with learners around the implementation of their methods course assignments in the process of student teaching. Students will begin their professional portfolios and complete a small-scale action research study focused on some aspect of learning.

Analysis of the media environment from a variety of critical perspectives. Emphasis on writing as well as reading media criticism.

Designed for doctoral students. Study directed toward fulfillment of degree requirements in performance and/or composition.

This doctoral level seminar will introduce students to some of the important seminal writings in communicative sciences and disorders. The articles chosen for study will provide historical perspectives and exposure to current ongoing debates in the literature. Each week students will be responsible for reading the assigned articles and attending class prepared for discussion. In addition to providing students with the opportunity to develop skills as critical consumers and disseminators of research, this course provides a review of material that is relevant for providing breadth of knowledge to individuals seeking a doctoral degree in communicative sciences & disorders.

This course includes a supervised practicum experience in TESOL or world language education at the adult or college level for six hours per week for one semester. Practicum experiences are supported by a weekly seminar that addresses theoretical underpinnings and practical application of planning and curriculum implementation relative to adult learners. Prerequisite: BILED-GE 2250 or WLGED-GE 2918.

This course will explore selected current topics in advanced nutrition through the critical analysis of pertinent original research publications and class discussion.

This short survey course uses a systems approach to explore important global problems in public health nutrition, such as food insecurity, over consumption, the effects of food systems on the environment, and the impact of COVID-19 on global health and food systems. Students explore the politics of food policy, the role of various stakeholders in food choices, and ways to advocate for sustainable food systems and accountability.

This class examines creativity, aesthetics, and audience response (artist, artwork, and viewer) through diverse psychological theories. We proceed chronologically starting with Modernism, in the visual arts and psychoanalysis, which converged to catalyze the profession of Art Therapy. We conclude with Postmodernist discourses on gender, feminism, patriarchy, class, power, race, identity, and LGBTQTIA+ issues. The class is half seminar and half art experientials that are designed to facilitate students' deeper understanding of self-identity as art therapists.

This seminar provides both theoretical and technological foundations on ways of producing unique sounds using acoustic instruments — often in tandem with digitally processed or sampled sound. The course also introduces students to the concept of sampling and the creation of custom-made sample libraries, as well as the process of writing music for improvisers (jazz combo, soloists, etc.)

This seminar explores the ins-and-outs of writing for small ensemble and electronics. Students explore each instrument, pertinent repertoire and musical examples; compose a piece for an ensemble-in-residence; premiere works in a concert setting; and have works recorded by the ensemble. Through interactions with the ensemble-in-residence, compositions will be developed in three stages:
early semester brainstorming; mid semester reading; dress rehearsals before the final concert.

In search of new musical possibilities, we challenge established compositional parameters, tools, and techniques; examine perceptual dynamics; and explore aesthetics of extreme, fringe, forgotten, and less-known genres and works. We draw parallels between avant-garde music and multimedia across time, place, and style. Weekly projects culminate in our innOVATION performance at the cutting-edge Audio Lab (50 speakers, 4 screens). Our inclusive approach to sonic, technological, structural, and conceptual experimentation welcomes creative minds from different programs.

Focuses on developing a personal musical language, compositional skills, and self-
presentation - all key factors in developing a presence in the field of Music Composition. Students create new works for the NYU Contemporary Ensemble. The course includes student presentations of their works-in-progress, presentations of previous works, and engagement with the ensemble. Critique/feedback is offered on form, aesthetics, orchestration, and developing an individual voice, as well as on how composers articulate their ideas to the public.

This is the first of a two-seminar sequence that provides analytical and practical approaches to composition for the string quartet. Over the course of two semesters students write a progressive series of studies starting with a solo, followed by a duo, trio and finally a full quartet. Professional musicians workshop these pieces in class, culminating in a concert by a guest quartet in residence. Interwoven with these workshops students analyze and discuss contemporary quartet repertoire from the past 50 years.

This is the second of a two-seminar sequence that provides both analytical and practical approaches to composition for the string quartet. This seminar includes workshops and performances of a full composition for String Quartet as well as student presentations on selected contemporary quartet repertoire.

Under this general title various courses will be offered that explore music theoretic and analytical topics of current interest. These topics will range from (i) the study and application of an important theoretical framework or analytical approach, to (ii) the close examination of a particular repertory and the theoretical/analytical tools developed for it.

This course centers on in-depth study of tonal forms from the 18th and 19th centuries. Students will engage with major repertoire from the tonal canon starting at the phrase level and ending with analyses of full-length works. A major emphasis of this course is engaging with deformations of the tonal models, developing strategies for analyzing new works, and effectively articulating a work's underlying narrative in formal theoretical writing. Explorations into later tonal styles will also occur later in the semester.

Our senses are inextricably linked. Sounds can create the illusion of visual movement, a pianist’s gestures alter the way we perceive duration, a change in musical timbre can make a cup of coffee taste more bitter, and the flash of an object can make an unnoticed sound audible. Drawing on research in cognitive psychology and neuroscience, this course explores the dynamic way our senses influence our experience of music and multimedia. Through class discussions and projects, students apply research in multisensory perception to their own area of specialization.