Graduate Courses

This course will provide musicians with an opportunity to physically embody music through the form of Baroque dance. Basic Baroque dance steps, phrases & ornamentations, will be learned & examined through the historic relationship between the two art forms of music & dance. An exploration of the Beauchamp-Feuillet notation system will then be applied to their own reconstructions & their performances throughout the semester.

Course Repeatable for Credit. Study of standard and contemporary orchestral flute repertoire with focus on solo and sectional playing (open to flute performance majors)

Study and performance of chamber music.

This introductory course prepares students to use statistics for data analysis. The course makes use of statistical computer software to achieve hands-on experience with data. This course covers methods for displaying and describing data as well as statistical inference. Topics include frequency distributions and their graphical representations, percentiles, measures of central tendency and dispersion, hypothesis tests, analysis of variance, correlation, and simple regression.

The second semester builds on the foundation of the first and covers particular methods of statistical inference that rely on the normal t, F, and chi-square distributions to test hypotheses about means, variances, correlations, and proportions.

Study and performance of chamber music.

A performance class devoted to precise understanding of orchestral excerpts from standard repertoire found on auditions. Students study includes tempo, dynamics, articulation and precision.

No course description available.

This is a course in intermediate and advanced foundations of statistical inference in the context of applied research and covers Bayesian workflow, conjugate models, MCMC, prediction and model evaluation, Bayesian estimation of GLMs, and introduction to hierarchical/multilevel models. Through this course, students gain an understanding of mathematical theory, implement related statistical algorithms in R and Stan, and interpret models and parameters in the context of applied statistical analysis of real data. Prior exposure to probability and statistics required.

Fundamentals of ballet technique including special emphasis on placement & utilizing individual anatomical structures most efficiently.

No course description available.

Fundamentals of technique including placement, flexibility, motor skills, & some improvisation.

Principles and methods of play writing. Completion of several writing assignments is required, including a one-act play. Plays of special merit considered for program production.

This course explores theory, policy, and practice at the intersection of bilingualism and exceptionality. Topics include sociocultural and biolinguistic influences on multilingual exceptional children, special education legislation, global perspectives of exceptionality, school-family collaboration, bilingual inclusion program models, assessment practices, and modes of classification, identification, and intervention strategies.

This course explores theory, policy, and practice of bilingual and multilingual experiences and counseling/ education models in the U.S. and global contexts. Emphasis is on intersections of language and other identities (race, class, gender, etc), and systems of power and privilege. Topics include home language support, language/literacy teaching for developmentally and linguistically diverse students, and the various roles and responsibilities of counselors working with multilingual communities.

This course explores theory, policy, and practice of bilingual and multilingual experiences and education models in the U.S. and global contexts. Emphasis is on intersections of language and other identities (race, class, gender, etc), and systems of power and privilege. Topics include home language support, language/literacy teaching for developmentally and linguistically diverse students, and the various roles and responsibilities of educators and professionals working with multilingual communities.

Rehearsal techniques and special problems in ensemble performance.

Rehearsal techniques and special problems in ensemble performance.

No course description available.

Rehearsal techniques and special problems in ensemble performance.