Undergraduate Courses

This course explores a range of analytical methods and compositional
techniques characteristic of French art music from the belle époque to 1950. Topics include French dances and other large forms, rich chords, embellishing chords, the “cadence Fauréenne,” modes and pentatonic collections, and Messiaen’s “additive rhythm” and “modes of limited transposition.” Students gain hands-on practice with techniques for orchestration and transcription and analyze regional and stylistic influences, including those from Spain, Javanese Gamelan, and American blues and ragtime.

The study of non-Western theories of music. This course examines topics in pitch, rhythm, and formal structure in selected music from Africa, Latin America, East Asia, India, and the Middle East. Students will acquire a foundational understanding of the transcription and analysis of non-Western art and folk music, as well as a basic introduction to theory and performance practice by guest artists. The course will culminate in a final analysis project.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course builds on material presented in Theory & Practice II: Popular Music.
Students explore advanced topics in harmony, rhythmic function, metric dissonance, formal function and ambiguity in song form, tuning practices, vocal and instrumental timbre, texture, recording techniques and sampling, music video analysis, and discussions of identity in popular song. Popular music, defined broadly, includes pop, rock, hip hop, rap, metal, folk, EDM, country, and other genres. Students engage with topics through assigned reading and listening, discussions, and projects.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Multichannel Media Installation & Performance is a course designed for composers & artists who want to work in a performance or installation context with immersive sound & image technology. The course focuses on software & hardware workflows for the creative applications of multi-channel sound & immersive video for the creation of fixed, generative, reactive, performance-based, & interactive systems that can be experienced in a gallery context or a live performance. Students will develop a semester-length project to use scale & immersion to creative effect. The course will feature regular creative critique as well as an overview of relevant interaction design strategies for creating interactive spaces using sensors & cameras.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

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• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Students in the Steinhardt School of Education and the School of Nursing are required to take this course. The course builds on Writing the Essay (EXPOS-UA 1) and provides advanced instruction in analyzing and interpreting written texts from a variety of academic disciplines, using written texts as evidence, developing ideas, and writing persuasive essays. It stresses analysis, inductive reasoning, reflection, revision, and collaborative learning. The course is tailored for students in the Schools of Education and Nursing so that readings and essay writing focus on issues that are pertinent to those disciplines.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities

An introduction to the professions of marketing, promotion, and advertising, with an emphasis on industry structure, branding, integrated marketing communication, effective techniques, and changing communication strategies.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

This course will examine the emergence of advertising as a form of communication, its influence upon other forms of mediated communication and its impact upon culture and society.

This course surveys the history of advertising, branding, and consumer culture in a US and global context. It examines the history of advertising media, consumer practices, the spaces of consumerism, the role that consumption plays in identity, and the environmental impact of consumerism as well as the impact of digital media, social media, and data gathering on the emergence of brand culture.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

This course teaches students who have a basic understanding of advertising techniques how to develop a complete advertising campaign across a range of media for a product, service or nonprofit organization.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

A critical listening study of acoustic music recordings that develops the student's ability to define and evaluate aesthetic elements of recorded music. Students explore recorded music attributes including dynamic range, stereo imaging, perceived room acoustics, the use of reverb and equalization, naturalness, and the listening perspectives.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Adopting an ecological approach that emphasizes that #ContextMatters, we explore the theoretical foundations and methodological approaches to studying the development of African American children; the role of contextual influences (specifically, family, school, neighborhood, culture) on children’s learning and developmental processes; and apply research on African American children and families to larger social and/or policy issues. Class includes a visit to the chomburg Center and the curation of an African American Children and Families Museum.

• Department: Applied Psychology

This course will introduce students to Afro-Caribbean dance with a focus on Haiti and The Bahamas while exploring its roots in West African dance and culture. Classroom activities will embody fundamental dance movements and explore the relationship to the country’s customs and traditions, inclusive of cultural games and songs. Basic African and Caribbean dance skills and movement vocabulary will be taught emphasizing coordination, polyrhythm and body awareness.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Students will study the music of Cuba from African, Iberian, and Pan-American roots, and learn to analyze and understand its musical and historical significance. Course addresses technological, social, and economic developments in Cuba, the Caribbean, and the US in the context of their influence on the evolution of Cuban music. Students will study the development of Afro-Cuban music as a musical style and learn to identify harmonic, rhythmic, melodic and textural elements. Students will gain a heightened awareness of music, culture and race relations associated with this genre. The commonalities and differences between Afro-Cuban music and jazz will be explained and discussed.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This seminar helps students both within and outside core technical research
communities to develop a grounded understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) systems. Drawing primarily from the interdisciplinary field of Science & Technology Studies (STS), students learn to look beyond the current hype of AI and engage with it as a distributed infrastructure of humans, machines, institutions, regulations, practices, and ideologies. This is a seminar-style class that prioritizes discussion over lectures.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

A mind body method for becoming aware of & changing movement habits. Focus is on recognizing & learning how to release excess tension & change those habits of movement that interfere with the free & centered use of the body. This leads to the development of a physical understanding of oneself through movements.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

A mind body method for becoming aware of and changing movement habits. Focus is on recognizing and learning how to release excess tension and change those habits of movement that interfere with the free and centered use of the body. This leads to the development of a physical understanding of oneself through movements.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

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This repertory ensemble performs varied literature from the traditional Big Band Era to modern jazz and commercial ensembles. Students are encouraged to compose and arrange for the ensemble. Specific focus on learning styles of music found within the performed literature, as well as improvisation as a major component to this ensemble. Enrollment by audition.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course will track the various manifestations of media amateurism over time and medium, while also exploring theoretical concerns and cultural discourses that surround their work and social construction, especially in relation to notions of professionalism, community, networks, artistic practice, collectivism, and marginalization.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication