Undergraduate Courses

All undergraduate music majors meet in Collegium six times each semester to discuss broad issues of the music profession, career opportunities, and department matters. During the remaining weeks students meet with members of their major program for visits with specialists in their field and for programmatic discussions.

All undergraduate music majors meet in Collegium six times each semester to discuss broad issues of the music profession, career opportunities, and department matters. During the remaining weeks students meet with members of their major program for visits with specialists in their field and for programmatic discussions.

All undergraduate music majors meet in Collegium six times each semester to discuss broad issues of the music profession, career opportunities, and department matters. During the remaining weeks students meet with members of their major program for visits with specialists in their field and for programmatic discussions.

All undergraduate music majors meet in Collegium six times each semester to discuss broad issues of the music profession, career opportunities, and department matters. During the remaining weeks students meet with members of their major program for visits with specialists in their field and for programmatic discussions.

All undergraduate music majors meet in Collegium six times each semester to discuss broad issues of the music profession, career opportunities, and department matters. During the remaining weeks students meet with members of their major program for visits with specialists in their field and for programmatic discussions.

All undergraduate music business majors meet in Collegium six times each semester to discuss broad issues of the profession, career opportunities, and program/department matters. During the remaining weeks students meet with members of their major program for visits with specialists in their field and for progrommatic discussions.

All undergraduate music majors meet in Collegium six times each semester to discuss broad issues of the music profession, career opportunities, and department matters. During the remaining weeks students meet with members of their major program for visits with specialists in their field and for programmatic discussions.

Introduces the use of color through analytical & observational exercises. A series of color theory exercises will be followed by painting exercises. The interrelatedness of color & meaning of color will be emphasized.

Building on the ideas and techniques learned in Color I,Color II continues with fundamental color exercises in painting. Additionally an analysis of the technical language of color as used in photography, video and the digital realm will be examined.

This course is meant to be taken alongside the Commerce and Culture course (MULT-UB 100) offered by the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, which explores representations of American business in literature, film, art, and architecture. This course is meant for students in the NYU Opportunity Programs only.

This course explores the ways people create, maintain, and augment the meaning of gender, developing insight into understanding gender ideology and the media representation of gender. The course examines how ideas about gender shape our communication practices, and how our practices of communication produce gender.

An overview of the nature, course, and severity of communication disorders resulting from neurological injury or disease, including impact of acquired neurologically-based communication disorders on the geriatric population. Topics include neurological basis of aphasia, dementia, traumatic brain injury, motor speech impairment, and dysphagia, as well as current evaluation strategies and treatment programs for these and related disorders. Effects of normal and pathological aging on speech, voice, language, cognition, hearing, and swallowing will also be examined.

Techniques for communicating information about nutrition to professionals, the public, the media, and food and beverage marketers.

Rationale for development of community nutrition programs and their design, implementation, and evaluation. Lectures and individual and group projects.

Community psychology focuses on the application of psychological theory,
concepts and knowledge to address the needs, concerns and aspirations of
communities. Specifically, community psychology is concerned with person
environment interactions and the ways in which society impacts on
individual and community functioning. Community psychology adopts a
collectivist paradigm in understanding behaviour and in applying relevant
methods and techniques. This course will introduce students to the field of
community psychology with emphasis on theory and methods of community
psychology within the context of the psycho-social needs of the Ghanaian
society. Topics include: the history of community psychology; doing
community research; prevention and health promotion; interventions and
program evaluation; community mental health, understanding communities and
social and community change.

Focuses on understanding people in their social contexts; integrates social action & psychological research in culturally diverse contexts; introduces community psychology & perspectives on intervention & social change; & considers how contexts are powerful in shaping a human behavior.

Explores the politics of civil conflict, peace-building, & the role of education in promising violence or peace. Explores the role of external actors (international organizations, bilateral donors, non governmental organizations), local actors (civil society associations, nationalist & ideological state factions), & their influence on education systems during was & emerging peace. Readings & discussion will focus on humanitarian action, human rights & development, nationalism & ethnic conflict, the political economy of post-conflict education, & the politics of promoting education in early reconstruction & peace-building. Case studies will include Afghanistan, Colombia, Sierra Leone, Pakistan, & West Bank/Gaze, but students will be encouraged to explore cases of their choosing.

NYU Composers Ensemble is an opportunity for composition majors to gain performance and recording experience through workshopping new, evolving compositions with live musicians. Members of the ensemble compose and perform in the group. All acoustic instruments and vocal types are welcome, as are electronic and software-based composers/performers.There is a public, recorded performance and recording session for each student's compositions in the Dolan Studio.

Students attend weekly presentations from composers, and concerts. Composer guests introduce students to their aesthetic world by discussing, analyzing, and playing recordings of some of their most relevant works. Students have the opportunity to network with a diverse range of visiting composers, which helps them create contacts for their professional development. Some of the classes
include attending concerts in which works from living composers are featured, including NYU students and faculty.

Addressing the matrix of directorial vision and visual, narrative, and dramatic world of a film, this course will examine a broad range of musical approaches and those requirements necessary for composing music for film and multimedia. Cultural, cinematic, and musical codes will be discussed and critiqued through critical analyses of seminar scores, scoring assignments, and collaborative director/composer interactions.