Graduate Courses

Instrumental Performance juries assess each student’s growth in instrumental techniques including intonation, rhythm, tone production, articulation, dynamics, and musicality. Juries take place at a designated time at the end of the semester and are evaluated by each student’s program director and any additional invited faculty. Jury repertoire is selected in conversation with each student’s private teacher, and
each student studies their jury repertoire in their private lessons.

An ensemble approach to teaching, learning and performing on brass instruments in diverse music and school settings. Each student will have experience with high and low brass instruments, and will study the transpositions needed for these instruments. This course is designed for students in Music Education and prepares them for meeting the requirements for K-12 music teacher certification.

Based on theories of psychoanalysis, attachment, & interpersonal relations, this course covers the basic principles that guide brief psychodynamic psychotherapy. This course also provides opportunities for students to practice skills of developing an accurate case formulation of the client in order to promote change through specific interventions based on the model of brief dynamic therapy.

This course will introduce students to principles of funding allocation within post-secondary institutions. It will focus primarily on departmental and programmatic assets and needs, and will expose students to best practices in the field.

Focuses on institutional assessment, program evaluation, and accreditation by external quality assurance agencies, governmental organizations, and special groups. Examines approaches for building and maintaining institutional quality, including the role of strategic planning and resource allocation; defining, developing, and assessing outcomes including student learning; analyzing and presenting data; and developing and using institutional self-study reports.

In this course, students develop the technical and computational skills needed to create learning analytics applications that respond to real educational needs. The course explores the computational approaches needed to design and use algorithms to capture and automatically analyze data produced during online or face-to-face learning activities and to implement applications that provide feedback to the stakeholders of the learning process. As part of the course, students will independently create a prototype Learning Analytics application to address a real educational need. Prior coursework in EDCT-GE 2252: Learning Analytics and Data Science in Education or similar course is recommended.

Provides a comprehensive understanding of the diverse ways the visual arts & business intersect in the United States & abroad. Traditional corporate art programs are examined, as well as new models pertaining to today’s style of management & more technologically-oriented businesses as well as the real estate, hospitality & healthcare industries. Examination of how art in the work place matches the culture & philosophy of a business or corporation & how they are successfully used as a tool in branding, public relations, client development, community outreach, & human resources. Attention is paid to the marketing benefits accrued to a corporation when it engages in a visual arts effort, be it through collecting, museums, exhibitions, art education programs, artist/exhibition sponsorship, communications or technology. On-site visits & guest lecturers from professionals in the field.

Implementation of marketing plans and related public relations activities; major reimbursement guidelines; how to reflect patient or client care activities in all billing; apply time management principles to patient or client treatment scheduling; and understand and exhibit responsibility for practicing within the guidelines of third party payers.

A graduate-level introductory course in programming for audio & music applications. Extensive C programming assignments cover topics including software designs, algorithms, & data representation for digital signal processing & other audio applications. No prior programming experience is required.

C programming for music technology lab is taken concurrently with MPATE-GE 2618 & provides students with hands-on instruction in algorithmic design & general programming concepts. Example code is implemented, discussed, & demonstrated in detail in order to provide students with step-by-step examples of programming design paradigms

This course will explore perspectives of college/university community, the impact of education & campus contexts, the various groups who comprise the college campus (e.g. traditional/non-traditional populations) & the dynamic of interaction that contribute to student development, retention, & other outcomes. The goals of this course are to increase awareness & understanding of the role that community & student subcultures play in the overall student experience while in college & how to structure communities to foster student success.

This course is designed to demonstrate the student’s accumulated knowledge in Leadership and Organizational Studies in a series of projects under the additional supervision of an advisor. The completed problem of practice should bring together the student’s central research question, organization, leadership skills, and professional experiences.

In this course students will gain knowledge and skills in conducting a needs assessment. The course will build on prior foundational coursework related to critical reflection, research methods, literature review, evidence-based practice, gathering and analyzing data, and report writing. Students will begin to collaborate with their capstone site mentor and will plan and conduct a needs assessment that is relevant to their capstone experience.

This course is the continuation of Capstone I designed to support the completion of the first draft of the Problem of Practice and Organizational Improvement Plan under the additional supervision of an advisor. The Capstone necessitates multiple drafts of the research that are subjected to heightened peer review and regular feedback from the student’s instructors and advisor.

This course introduces principles of program development and evaluation to prepare students for designing their capstone project. Emphasis will be on students’ understanding and implementation of concepts and skills necessary for effective program design, implementation.

During this course, students will incorporate advisor, instructor, and peer feedback into their final Problem of Practice and Organizational Improvement Plan. This course also includes a residency in which students showcase their Capstone Project.

Course focuses on the development of the OTD capstone project proposal. Emphasis is placed on understanding and defining the relationship between elements in a scholarly proposal including the problem statement supported by the needs assessment, literature review, methodology, and knowledge translation (KT) sections. Students will develop culturally and contextually appropriate KT products, based on the needs of multiple stakeholders to disseminate knowledge gained from their Capstone project and facilitate uptake of their work.

This course is the final culmination of the Capstone requirement. This course includes one-on-one advising and finalizing of all capstone deliverables as students prepare for Problem of Practice defenses in the final semester.

The focus of the course is to guide students’ implementation and completion of their doctoral capstone project while on the Doctoral Capstone Experience (DCE). The doctoral capstone coordinator (DCC) will deliver lectures, and serve as a resource and consultant to students, faculty and capstone mentors. The faculty mentor serves as a resource and consultant to the student on the doctoral capstone proposal that was developed in previous courses. Students will complete a final capstone report and disseminate outcomes of their capstone project at the end of the course.

This capstone thesis course gives students nearing graduation the opportunity to integrate and apply what they have gained through previous academic coursework and field experiences to major culminating projects while being supervised by ECT faculty members. Options for capstone thesis projects include design and development projects, research studies, and scholarly inquiry papers.