Undergraduate Courses

This course is designed to prepare digital-era students in all fields of study for professional achievement in a technologically sophisticated, global, networked environment. The course is structured around three central elements of “digital literacy” -- 1) human perception & cognition, 2) computers & electronic intelligence, & 2) the network architecture of the digital web. It is a rigorous intellectual introduction to the fundamental principles on which these technologies are based. There are no perquisites & those from the technologically challenged to the techno-geeks are welcome. Students will be introduced to the fundamentals of human attention, how sound waves, light waves & electromagnetic waves work & what computers and routers do. . This is a “flipped course” – what would normally be in-class lectures and demonstrations are available online as curricular modules & can be viewed at students’ convenience (& reviewed as appropriate) much like traditional reading assignments. In-person class sections are used for dialog, discussion & Q & A with the instructor.

This course explores the civil rights movement roots of Berkeley’s historic student revolt, the reasons for the Free Speech Movement’s success in attracting student support and changing campus policy, its impact on the history of free speech, and on the rise of both the New Left and the Reaganite Right. This course ends with reflections on the state of free speech on campus in our own century when that freedom is often slighted, dismissed or weaponized by student groups on the left and right and the corporate groups that subsidize them, leaving us with the question of whether the Free Speech Movement is still relevant to the campus scene today.

Basic principles & practical experience in development of beverage systems & menus. Considers pricing, equipment, legal, merchandising & personnel policies.

Overview of the conditions facing immigrant-origin and displaced children and youth in the U.S. and globally. Emphasis is placed on the experiences of children and youth in the contexts of family, school, social networks, and community in different countries and cultural environments. Discussion includes family- to policy-level interventions to improve the developmental potential of children and youth from immigrant families.

Students meet each week by advance appointment with faculty, visiting artists, & critics for individual critique & in-depth discussion of their work & the visual, technical, & theoretical issues that inform their practice.

Theory, policy, & practice of bilingual education. Key topics include models & programs of bilingual education; policy & politics of language minority education in the US & internationally; psycholinguist perspectives on bilingualism, including language development; cultural, social, & political perspectives on language minority education; & evaluation of bilingual education programs. Emphasis on pedagogical implications of the above, with attention to native language development, second language/literacy teaching for developmentally & linguistically diverse students.

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This course analyzes writing from 1845 to the present, surveying African-American history and literature beginning with the writings of Frederick Douglass and the Harlem Renaissance writers that originate from
Washington, DC’s Howard University (Zora Hurston and Alain Locke). From this historical foundation, the course will move to examine issues of race and caste from Ta-Nehisi Coates’ memoire Between the World and Me, a text that focuses on the death of Coates’ Howard classmate at the hands of police. In addition to the selected texts, the course will use the location of Washington, DC as a resource, visiting sites related to course content, including the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, Howard University, the National Museum of African-American Culture and History and the Martin Luther King Memorial Site.

This experiential seminar interrogates the democratization of pattern discovery. Who decides what to count and what to keep? Using New York City as a laboratory, we explore the systems of power embedded in tabulation and archiving, and the possibilities of open, decentralized, and autonomous futures. We reflect on the past and present of knowledge infrastructures -- from books to blockchain.

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

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

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

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Instrumental Performance juries assess each student’s growth in instrumental techniques including intonation, rhythm, tone production, articulation, dynamics, and musicality. Juries take place at a designated time at the end of the semester and are evaluated by each student’s program director and any additional invited faculty. Jury repertoire is selected in conversation with each student’s private teacher, and
each student studies their jury repertoire in their private lessons.

An ensemble approach to teaching, learning and performing on brass instruments in diverse music and school settings. Each student will have experience with high and low brass instruments, and will study the transpositions needed for these instruments. This course is designed for students in Music Education and prepares them for meeting the requirements for K-12 music teacher certification.

This course is meant to be taken alongside the Business and Society course (SOIM-UB 125) offered by the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, which introduces students to the evolving role of business in society and challenges students to explore how business can and should create value for society. This course is meant for students in the NYU Opportunity Programs only.

A background study of all related areas of the multibillion-dollar music industry, including records company operations, music publishing, artist management, promotion, copyright, and corporate structures.