This course will introduce students to issues in the design, implementation & evaluation of social interventions aimed at addressing social problems such as delinquency, lags in early learning, youth unemployment, poverty & its effects on human development, & so on. Students will become familiar with a range of problems & programs, and will study one program in depth across the semester with a small team of classmates.
This blended (classroom and online) course introduces students to some of the important topics when using social media in learning environments. Key controversial topics related to social media in learning environments are examined, such as: privacy versus sharing public learning content; individual versus collaborative learning; “traditional” learning versus knowledge-building communities; and social engagement/activism within interconnected learning communities. This course introduces students to the conceptual frameworks, research literature content, and ideation required for deeper engagement with emerging and future tools for work and play in socially mediated learning environments.
In this workshop-based course, students will become well versed in contemporary debates on social media and its impact on self and society, share their own experiences and observations in this area, design an original research project (using methods such as discourse analysis, virtual ethnography, and interviewing), and write a long-form analysis paper.
In this workshop-based course, students will become well versed in contemporary debates on social media and its impact on self and society, share their own experiences and observations in this area, design an original research project (using methods such as discourse analysis, virtual ethnography, and interviewing), and write a long-form analysis paper.
Social psychology concepts, theories, & research & their relation to educational problems. Concepts treated are attitudes, values, roles, norms, communication, conformity; areas emphasized are group processes & influence, social motivation, prejudice, & authoritarianism.
Liberal Arts Core/CORE-MAP Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Society & the Social Sciences
This course will provide an introduction to the foundations of multicultural, culturally relevant education, with particular attention to its implications in the area of social studies. We will examine issues of historical and current inequity in our schools and society. Explores dimensions of identity and diversity, as well as concepts of prejudice, discrimination and racism. Introduces the theory and skills necessary for successful culturally responsive teaching. Establishes the basis for planning integrative, social studies curricula that are inclusive of all voices and perspectives, and which prepare students to be agents of change in their own lives and education. Models broad variety of instructional strategies aimed at eliciting participation of diverse learners. This course proposed that multicultural education is by definition and necessity teaching for social justice.
This course focuses on pressing issues in science, technology, engineering, math, and environmental (STEME) education and education research--from local classroom contexts to broader institutional and policy levels--and the impact of these issues on teaching and learning. Students make sense of these issues through sociopolitical and sociohistorical lenses and develop informed stances that will shape their emerging work in the education sphere.
A survey and performance course on the art song repertoire. Student study the interpretive and stylistic aspects and performs songs in English from the genres of American and British songs.
A survey and performance course on the art song repertoire. Student study the interpretive and stylistic aspects and performs songs in French from the genre of French melodie.
A survey and performance course on the art song repertoire. Student study the interpretive and stylistic aspects and performs songs in German from the genre of German lieder.
A survey and performance course on the art song repertoire. Student study the interpretive and stylistic aspects and performs songs in Italian and Spanish from the genres of Italian and Latin American songs.
Songwriters Forum is a practical writing course designed to help students become the best music creators they can be, in styles, genres, and approaches they define. While the focus tends to be on popular song, the curriculum addresses any and all songwriting. Forum students analyze, review, and, most of all, explore the tools (including collaboration) employed by composers and lyricists whose work has distinguished them as important practitioners of the art and craft of song. The goal is improved writing, with all other elements and aspects directed towards it.
This course will explore the history & development of classic popular music of the past 60 years. Through a detailed study of 14 profoundly influential songs & recordings, we will examine how art affects, & is affected by, its cultural & historical moment. Over the course of the semester, students will engage in musical analysis, critical listening, & a detailed study of songwriting & recording
techniques. They will also view archival films of relevant musical artists, & engage in close analysis of selected musical performances.
This course will explore the history and development of classic popular music of the past 60 years, with a focus on the period 1980-2005. Through a detailed study of 14 profoundly influential songs and recordings, we will examine how art affects, and is affected by, its cultural and historical moment. Students will engage in musical analysis, critical listening, and a detailed study of songwriting and recording techniques. They will also view archival video of relevant musical artists, films, and news events and engage in close analysis of select musical performances.
This course focuses on three important areas in music technology: spatialization, computer aided composition, analysis and synthesis techniques. In each area, concepts and implementations will be explored in a variety of artistic and technological contexts. Students will work with the latest technologies including IRCAM Tools, Spat plugin, Max Bach library, Ambisonics, and Wave Field Synthesis. The course includes a 3-hour weekly lecture, 3-hour studio lab, and workshops at IRCAM. This course is taught in collaboration with IRCAM in Paris, one of the world leading institutions in computer music and acoustics.
This course investigates cultural influence and exchange between Africa, the African diaspora, Europe and America with a particular emphasis on sound and music. How has the sound of Africa been transcribed, recorded, stored, transported, and represented in the West? What can this tell us about global cultural flow? How do specific recording techniques articulate with global music markets? The course analyzes the transatlantic feedback between Africa, America and Europe; evaluates the politics of transcription, ethnographic description, and recording; and examines the changing role for traditional African music in a global world.
This course will build on a core concept of Lewis Mumford who understood media ecology as a component of spatial and urban ecology. Emphasis will be given on how space socially organizes human meaning and on the 'inscription' of space. How do people, through, their practices and their being in the world, form relationships with the locales they occupy (both the natural world and the build environment)? How do they attach meanings to spaces to create places? and how do the experiences of inhabiting viewing and hearing those places shape their meanings, communicative practices, cultural performance memories and habits? Course themes include; mapping and the imagination; vision and space, soundscape, architecture and landscape; new media and space/time compression; space and identity; spatial violence; spatialization of memory.
Liberal Arts Core/CORE Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Cultures & Contexts
This course explores the power of oral storytelling as a means of self-excavation and community building. It offers students a survey of the history of oral storytelling as well as existing research on the relationship between storytelling and identity/community development. The course also serves as an intensive workshop, wherein students will learn from seasoned, award-winning storytellers in guest lectures; practice the art and craft of oral storytelling in a small group of their peers; and prepare and eventually perform a personal story of their own.
