Undergraduate Courses

Course explores Participatory Art and Creative Placemaking.Students will develop site-specific artworks in collaboration with The Prattsville Art Center in Prattsville, NY a small rural Catskill community still recovering from the devastating floods associated with Hurricane Irene. Socially engaged artwork as well as critical ideas institutions, and funders that have been central to these art movements will be discussed within this process. Through this course and collaboration students will explore art in relationship to town planning, social activism, entrepreneurship, and community revitalization.

Using Josef Albers' landmark text "Interaction of Color", this course aims to describe a process of working with color that is applicable to students working in any medium, using drawing as a bridge. Color as a phenomenon is one of the most powerful tools in the artist’s repertoire. It’s relation to perception lies at the heart of our notions of the objective and the subjective. Color will be explored in depth through a series of open-ended projects and a series of short experiment/assignments.

How do educators and activists spread messages about human rights? What might make them more likely to succeed? What are the ethical and political implications of using education as a tool for moral persuasion? Students will engage with these questions, as well as be introduced to the role of the United Nations, NGOs, and state governments in facilitating human rights education. Students will also engage critically with debates over whether the human rights system is an appropriate way to achieve justice in diverse contexts. Throughout the course, students will apply theory on human rights education and activism to real-life examples, as well as create their own advocacy campaign and lesson plan.

The Internet is at the heart of major digital transformations in industry, society and culture. This course introduces key skills in analysis and critique of the technologies involved in networked change, exploring internet imaginaries, histories and emerging phenomena.

Practical work experience in food studies and food management supported by class work, discussion and projects. The objectives of the course are to apply classroom content to work experience; identify career options through professional seminars; work experience, and class discussions; develop professional skills through personal observations, work experience and class assignments and identify resources and professional networks that support employment opportunities in the field of interest.

Assignment to record companies, music venues, management agencies or music industry-related firms for on-the-job training. s or other Written report, workshop, and orientation required.

Assignment to studios and/or corporations for on-the-job training.

Students are assisted in finding individualized internships in New York City with recognized artists, museums, commercial galleries, non-profit arts organizations or creative companies within the visual arts. Students work closely with the internship coordinator to assess their progress and define learning goals while receiving guidance from a sponsor at the host institution. Internships should be arranged during the term prior to the actual internship, be approved by the internship coordinator and academic advisor in advance, and students must register by the drop/add deadline.

The internship program promotes the integration of academic theory with practical experience. Internships expand student understandings of the dynamics of the ever-changing field of communication.

The application of various systems of communication analysis to specific behavioral situations. Through the case-study method, students apply communication theories and models to practical, everyday situations.

Overview of psychological theoretical frameworks, concepts, strategies and tactics of intervention and social change at different levels of analysis. Emphasis is placed on designing and implementing social change interventions in the domains of environmental behavior, poverty, inequality, health, education, conflict and peace, collective action and social movements.

This course focuses on the principles and practices of successful interviewing techniques. Students are provided with background on the structure of an interview and learn how to analyze success and/or potential problems. Review of case studies and practice in holding interviews enables students to gain experience and to improve their own abilities.

Survey of the scope and variety of practices in the music therapy profession. Current research and methodologies. Contrasting modalities of treatment. Relationship to arts therapies, music education, special education. Of special interest to educators, performers, and art professionals.

Principles and techniques of pure tone and speech audiometer; interpretation of ideograms; consideration of etiologies and auditory characteristics of major types of hearing impairment.

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Fundamental principles of art therapy practice will be presented through theoretical discussions and case presentations. Students will learn the historical development of the profession, its distinction from other disciplines and its commonalities to social sciences. This course will examine the art of making processes and products through basics pictorial analysis. Students will study the artistic expression of children, adolescents, adults, and geriatric populations struggling with varied emotional and physical issues in different settings.

An introduction to the concepts and applications of audio production for video, television and film. Current production techniques frequently used in the post-production industry will be explored, with special emphasis on synchronization and audio production techniques including music editing, sound effects design, Foley, and dialog replacement.

An introduction to the technical problems of making, decorating, glazing, and firing ceramic forms, while providing opportunities for understanding and developing sensitivities to clay as an art form.