Graduate Courses

A colloquium that provides a forum for the presentation of current issues in visual arts management by leaders in the field. Students and professional participants are invited to comment, ask questions and engage in an array of topics related to both for profit and nonprofit issues.

Development of a business in the fine arts including core vision, program and presentation, promotion, marketing, sales, contracts, and financial planning. Examination of what differentiates an arts business from other kinds of businesses. Students gain exposure to variety of professionals in the commercial arena of the visual arts including gallerists, dealers, and consultants. The course concludes with the formulation and presentation of a comprehensive business plan for a start up arts business.

This course is an introduction to the history and theory of vision and visuality, with a particular focus on research methods in the study of visual culture. The course focuses on the research methods and approaches specific to the field of visual culture and related fields of study, its scholarly literature, its theoretical genealogy, and the stakes in interdisciplinary research.

This course examines visual culture through a focus on the city, from the dynamics of visuality in the nineteenth-century modern cityscape to the mega cities of globalization. We will look at the visual dynamics of urbanscapes, architecture, cinema, memory, and consumerism in the visual culture of the city.

Private coaching sessions in the preparation of material for performance in the student's graduating recital. Work is focused on interpretation, style, and placing material in its appropriate cultural and historical context.

A laboratory environment where students will have the opportunity to hone their teaching skills. Each student will teach 4 demonstration lessons in class. The objective will be to apply the knowledge acquired in Vocal Pedagogy I regarding anatomy, physiology, acoustics and teaching philosophy.

Examines current knowledge of the singing voice based on research in anatomy, physiology, and acoustics with a focus on the study or voice science. Theoretical concepts based in current scientific research regarding singing and widely used resonance strategies will be discussed. Students develop assessment and application tools including the use of VoceVista, a computer software/hardware program used to measure acoustic output and connectivity at the vocal fold level.

Introduction to vocal techniques and materials with emphasis on vocal development at all grade levels, including the changing voice.

Students and teachers in this class will study musical theatre genre so as to consider the application and use of this repertoire in the training and developing analytical and pedagogical tools pertaining to repertoire and development of the human voice will be addressed as well as historical and current trends in the genre.

In this course, students examine classical vocal repertoire and consider its application and practical use in the training of the singing voice throughout all stages of vocal development. Students apply analytical and pedagogical tools to assess the physical characteristics, artistic capabilities, and musical aptitude of the individual singer while determining the accessibility and appropriateness of assigned repertoire. Students consider the parameters of range, tessitura, melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic complexities, language, duration, dramatic context, and style.

In this course, students examine classical, musical theatre and contemporary commercial vocal repertoire to consider its application and practical use in the training of the singing voice throughout all stages of vocal development. Students apply analytical and pedagogical tools to assess the physical characteristics, artist capabilities and musical aptitude of the individual singer while determining the difficulty levels of songs based on factors including, but not limited to vocal range, tessitura, dynamics, laryngeal positioning and embouchure configurations.

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

Private lessons for non-majors (by examination) in voice, supplemented by extra assignments, outside practice, and observation.

This course continues the training of voice teachers as singing health specialists adding “hands-on” experience, thus increasing depth of content comprehension and advancing skills of application. Prerequisite knowledge will be made more explicitly practical for the teacher working with a compromised singing voice. Real-time application, assessment, and critical thinking will be emphasized in the context of a voice care “team”, further equipping singing teachers to confidently determine the most beneficial course of action for a singer needing specialized guidance.

This course, offered in conjunction with the Langone Voice Center at the NYU School of Medicine, trains voice teachers as singing health specialists, building on prerequisite knowledge of vocal function thus increasing understanding of the care required for a compromised singing voice. Enhanced skills of aural discernment in placing voices on a spectrum from optimally functional to some degree of compromised function will expand assessment ability within the context of the private studio in order to determine if any singer is in need of specialized guidance.

This course focuses on the anatomic, physiologic, and perceptual aspects of voice production and the voice changes triggered by risk factors or changes to the larynx. Students refine their voice models, enhance discrimination of voice characteristics, and learn setup procedures to encourage easy phonation. They learn to use a hypothesis-driven context to link vocal characteristics to underlying physiology. Students identify risk factors and learn to promote efficient phonation within a multicultural context, including transgender voice production.

The course provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary overview of the multifaceted role that vocal expression plays in everyday communication.Familiar voice recognition, perception of emotion, attitude and personality, and interactions between speech and voice perception are described from sociological, psychological, physiological, and neurological perspectives. Evolutionary biology, cultural differences, singing, and uses in media and courtroom are discussed. Clinical studies examine self-awareness of vocal expression and the influence of vocal quality on personal identity. Voice as communication vehicle for speaker and listener is fully explored.

This seminar explores the practices of war as modes of material political communication in which media is militarized and violence is mediatized. This seminar will examine how modern warfare has generated new visual cultures, new media networks and the sensorium of modernity.

Investigates the final stage of the food system- water and waste disposal- as it is manifested in the urban metropolis. This course also draws upon the historical underpinnings of the systems used to manage water and waste- but also the underlying issues of purity and contamination that these systems are also designed to address. Issues include water and waste in relation to changing landscapes and demographics- enmeshment in urban policymaking- and competing notions of environmentalism.

Students examine the evidence-based approaches to obesity management, including diet, physical activity, behavior modification, medications, surgery, and dietary supplements, in the treatment of excess body weight and adiposity. Students also discuss the current weight reduction trends that patients/clients may adopt outside of medical supervision.