Undergraduate Courses

This course is an analysis of changing trends in marketing ranging from corporate social responsibility to guerrilla and viral marketing. Discussion of theoretical concepts are applied through fieldwork and project-based learning. Guest lectures on emerging topics are featured.

Inquiries I explores two themes: Learners and Learning and Teachers and Teaching. Students are introduced to teaching and learning by reconstructing, critiquing and sharing their own educational histories, and by reading and responding to the autobiographies and memoirs of learners and teachers of diverse backgrounds, needs, and experiences. The course focuses on way to promote and assess learning, support learners' interests, foster effective communication, honor diversity, create democratic learning environments, and enable teachers to fulfill their responsibility to self, others, school and community. By applying relevant professional literature to their micro teaching and their observations in school settings, students examine how the classroom context shapes the acquisition of knowledge, attitudes, and skills.

MCC Research Inquiry Seminars, taken early in the major, expose students to the department’s culture of scholarly inquiry. Course topics reflect faculty research interests, offering students a chance to explore emerging issues in the field of media studies.

Strategies of observation and assessment, identifying strengths, individualizing instructional plans, and adapting classroom environments, curriculum and instructional methodologies to support highest levels of achievement and development for young children with diverse needs. Topics will also include strategies for promoting positive classroom behavior and social interaction skills, facilitation of language development across all cognitive and social domains, the use of assistive and instructional technology, and strategies for using assessment and observational data to plan or modify instruction.

In the context of the children's spatial and temporal world, students will explore: strategies of observation and assessment, identifying strengths, individualizing instructional plans, adapting classroom environments, curriculum and instructional methodologies to support achievement and development for young children with diverse needs. Topics will include strategies for promoting positive classroom behavior and social interaction skills, facilitation of language development, the use of assistive and instructional technology, and strategies for using assessment and observational data to plan or modify instruction.

Development of advanced choral and instrumental conducting techniques, including procedures for rehearsal and performances, and appropriate repertoire for all levels.

Private or group lessons (by examination) in instrumental jazz, supplemented by extra assignments, outside practice, and observation.

Lab ensemble is an essential program requirement to prepare emerging teachers for K-12 certification to strengthen performance skills on primary and secondary instruments. This repeatable course is taken during freshman and sophomore semesters while in residence at NYU New York City campus and prior to enrolling in Instrumental Materials, Techniques and Conducting (MPAME-UE 1054) or (MPAME-GE 2115).

Students build on foundations from Fundamentals of Conducting and implement effective teaching strategies for instrumental music educators, including rehearsal planning and preparation, instrumental transpositions, arranging, ensemble resources, performance literature, supplemental materials, and equipment repair/maintenance. Hands-on demonstrations and discussion. Includes collaboration with Instrumental Lab Ensemble. Prerequisite: MPAME-UE 1465 Fundamentals of Conducting

Through study and travel, this course explores how agriculture, food cuisine, nutrition, and health affect and are affected by the unique culture, history, climate, geography, and economic and political systems of selected countries. The course draws on local academic and professional experts, food producers, and food service providers to investigate these interrelationships through field trips, site visits, interviews, lectures, seminars, and demonstrations, with an emphasis on cross-cultural perspectives.

Methods for integrating music, art, dance, and drama into an integrated childhood education curriculum.

Methods for integrating music, art, dance, and drama into an integrated childhood
education curriculum.

Exploring interconnections among the subject areas of early childhood learning through the planning and implementation of integrated sciences, health, and social studies learning experiences. The integration of literacy and mathematical learning into these curricula and the critical role of the physical environment in supporting an integrated curriculum.

Developing integrated curriculum by exploring the relationships among science, health, and social studies. Literacy and mathematical learning and the role of the environment will be included in the integrative planning.

Thematic teaching across the curriculum is modeled in this course in science, health and mathematics. The course will give undergraduate childhood students the opportunity to explore teaching methodologies in each of these content areas with primary focus on the role of science education in the elementary school curriculum. Science education requires teachers not only to know science subject matter but also to understand how to use scientific information to solve real-world problems and build an environment in their classrooms where inquiry, observation and tinkering can take place

This course integrates children's literature, the arts, and technology. Thematic teaching methods specific to these individual content areas will develop prospective teacher's ability to use poetry, prose, storytelling, visual arts, dance, music, drama, computers, the internet and digital media with students grades one thru six. These subject areas will be taught in modules and simultaneously integrated through class activities and field research projects.

An exploration of children’s literature and its role in classroom instruction, including an examination of the developmental needs and interests of children and the selection/evaluation of children’s books and media.

Explores the major reasons that people read, ways to engage adolescents in meaningful reading, ways to understand and enhance readers' meaning-making processes and experiences, and ways to assess adolescents' reading development over time. This course also addresses the language and literacy needs of English Language Learners and ways of addressing those needs through modifications of curriculum and instruction.

A seminar course designed to encourage the integration of theory and practice, taken concurrent to first semester of student teaching.

A seminar course designed to encourage the integration of theory and practice, taken concurrent to first semester of student teaching.