Undergraduate Courses

In communicating and teaching people the big ideas associated with knowing science, students engage with how science understands the world and the complexity of making scientific-based decisions associated with wicked present and future problems. In designing explorations, students learn ways to enact equity, inclusion, and culturally sustaining practices with the goal of ensuring that their communication and teaching brings joy and wonder. This course is for those
interested in understanding science education and for prospective science teachers.

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.

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.

Introduction for teachers, composers, and performers to explore potentials of computer music synthesis. Basic concepts of music synthesis presented through the use of a microcomputer, keyboard, and appropriate software. System may be used as a real-time performance instrument or as a studio composition instrument. Educators may explore potentials for classroom application.

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.

Composition in all forms and styles including electronic. Electronic laboratory by assignment.

Composition in all forms and styles including electronic. Electronic laboratory by assignment.

Composition in all forms and styles including electronic. Electronic laboratory by assignment.

Introduction to the concert business: contracts; the relationship between promoters, managers, & agents; marketing & ticket sales; how the concert business relates to other segments of the music industry.

Introduction to the concepts of live concert recording. Microphone selection, characteristics & placement as well as acoustic problems encountered in concert halls will be discussed. Students will have the opportunity to apply the lecture material by recording undergraduate rehearsals & recitals.

In this studio class, students work on specific advanced skills required for today’s professional orchestral and ensemble conductor. They practice challenging pieces from the orchestral repertoire, with a specific emphasis on contemporary pieces of music. Students also develop a comprehensive approach to rehearsal planning and structure, including specific strategies that allow time optimization.

In this studio class, students work on specific advanced skills required for the professional music theater conductor. They study works from the music theater repertoire, with a specific emphasis on shows of various periods and genres. Students develop a comprehensive approach to rehearsal planning and structure, including specific strategies that allow time optimization.

In this studio class, students develop foundational conducting skills for the professional conductor. This includes specific techniques associated with choral conducting, instrumental conducting, and conducting synchronized with visual media. Topics include arms/baton technique, rehearsing the ensemble, score study techniques, and conducting with a click track.

In this studio class, students build upon foundational conducting skills to develop specific techniques to conduct instrumental ensembles with a focus on the orchestral repertoire. Students practice seminal pieces of the history of western orchestral music that serve as case studies to develop a sophisticated set of instrumental conducting skills.