Undergraduate Courses

Study and performance of chamber music.

A performance class devoted to precise understanding of orchestral excerpts from standard repertoire found on auditions. Students study includes tempo, dynamics, articulation and precision.

An examination of scale fingerings, arpeggios, bowings, articulations & rhythmic patterns through single scales & double stops.

Study and performance of chamber music.

A performance class devoted to precise understanding of orchestral excerpts from standard repertoire found on auditions. Students study includes tempo, dynamics, articulation & precision.

An examination of graded technical material, repertoire & teaching methods. Studies will include how to teach various technical concepts, working with various fingerings & bowings & the correct progression of repertoire. The emphasis will be on understanding how students learn mentally & physically.

An examination of scale fingerings, arpeggios, bowings, articulations & rhythmic patterns through single scales & double stops.

A studio course that combines theory & artistic practice to examine the development of the arts from a critical perspective. The course will address a range of models from structuralism & semiotics to modern & postmodern paradigms. The class is designed for practicing artists, allowing students to gain the skills & confidence to express their artistic objectives in critical writing, art making, & verbal analysis. Each student is responsible for oral presentations, works of art generated through research, & written statements about their artistic objectives.

This course examines the imagery of science and technology, the role of visuality in the construction of scientific knowledge, artistic renditions of science, and the emergence of visual technologies in modern society. It looks at how visuality has been key to the exercise of power through such practices as cataloguing and identification; the designation of abnormality, disease, and pathologies; medical diagnosis; scientific experimentation; and the marketing of science and medicine. We will examine the development of the visual technologies in the emerging scientific practices of psychiatry and criminology; explore the sciences of eugenics, genetics, pharmacology, brain and body scans, and digital medical images of many kinds; the marketing of pharmaceuticals, and the emerging politics of scientific activism.

This course examines visual culture of the city- from the dynamics of visuality in the 19th-century modern cityscape to the mega cities of globalization. It addresses the visual dynamics, infrastructure, architecture, public art and design imaginaries of urban spaces, taking New York City and Paris as primary case studies and including other cities from the 19th century to the present. The course will examine the politics of urban design, the city as a site of division, disaster, memory, and political activism.

Private coaching sessions in the preparation of material for performance in the student's graduating recital. Work is focused on the interpretation, style, and placing material in its appropriate cultural and historical context.

Private coaching sessions in the preparation of material for performance in the student's graduating recital. Work is focused on the interpretation, style, and placing material in its appropriate cultural and historical
context.

Study of fundamental techniques for performance in opera. Performance of selected arias, scenes, and one at operas.

Introduction to vocal techniques and materials with emphasis on vocal development at all grade levels, including the changing voice.

Study of vocal physiology and the basic principles and techniques of vocal production and pedagogy. Students learn practical application of vocal principles by giving private vocal instruction to nonvoice majors.

Group lessons (by examination) in voice, supplemented by extra assignments, outside practice, observation.

Private or group lessons in voice, supplemented by extra assignments, outside practice, and observation.

Private or group lessons (by examination) in voice, supplemented by extra assignments, outside practice, and observation. Required attendance at recitals.

Private lessons (by examination) in voice, supplemented by extra assignments, outside practice, and observation.

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