Courses

Analysis of etiological conceptions of cleft palate and orofacial anomalies related to articulatory and phonatory disorders. Clinical tests and procedures for general and specific therapy.

Prepares students to navigate today's world of professional music performance. Topics include setting career goals, defining success, finding and creating performance opportunities, grant writing, creating publicity materials, auditions, day jobs, freelancing, and how to manage money, time, and stress

Prepares students to navigate today's world of professional music performance. Topics include setting career goals, defining success, finding and creating performance opportunities, grant writing, creating publicity materials, auditions, day jobs, freelancing, and how to manage money, time, and stress.

Focuses on techniques used to create ethnodrama and documentary theatre scripts composed from interview transcripts, field notes, journal entries, and/or print and media artifacts. Through readings, literature reviews, data collection and analysis, performance of data, and construction of scripts, students gain skills to create ethnodrama and documentary theatre scripts. Perspectives on the aesthetics, ethics, limitations, and challenges associated with the forms are also explored. Coursework is informed by the mission and work of the Verbatim Performance Lab.

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This course is designed for students who would like to develop knowledge and skills in planning and leading theatre workshops with young people. The course explores the theory and practice of creating theatre with young people from a youth-centered perspective, offers practice in designing workshops, and culminates with an in-course opportunity to initiate practical work with young people. The course will include a written assignment.

This course is designed for students who would like to develop knowledge and skills in planning and leading theatre workshops with young people. The course explores the theory and practice of creating theatre with young people from a youth-centered perspective, offers practice in designing workshops, and culminates with an in-course opportunity to initiate practical work with young people. The course will include a written assignment.

A study of the principles and practice of interactive media; surveying strategies, aesthetics, techniques, and software. Various works will be analyzed for insight into creative process as applied to interactive media. Resources utilized include the Yamaha Disclavier and Nights Multimedia facilities.

Drawing on the resources of New York University in New York and London, this course examines the nature of the Creative and Cultural Industries in the US and UK. Utilizing readings, lectures, and visits to important international cultural venues, we explore how and why the creative and cultural industries play a vital social and economic role in these countries. Finally, we will learn how the UK communicates its success to the world through cultural diplomacy initiatives.

“Creative Coding” is a practice-based course designed to teach basic programming skills in the context of critical & cultural media studies & the digital humanities. The course requires no prior programming experience, simply a willingness to explore code at a more technical level with the aim of using computation as an expressive, analytical, critical & visualizing medium. Students will learn basic coding techniques such as variables, loops, graphics, & networking, all within a larger conversation on the social, cultural, & historical nature of code & coding practices.

This course is designed for students interested in learning about using creativity and future studies in formal and informal educational settings. Students explore technological progress and notions of futurism to better prepare students for a fast-paced world. The course offers an opportunity for students to create tangible and useful educational material and to exercise their creativity muscles in educationally significant ways.

What is the value of an idea? How do we frame ideas to convince others of their value? Students explore methods of fundraising for educational projects, including grant writing, crowdfunding, and community engagement; analyze successful grant proposals, Kickstarter campaigns and events; and discover ways technology has enhanced small-scale fundraising. Students craft their own fundraising pitch around a new creative product, project or need. This course offers a fun and engaging way to gain experience in educational fundraising—a crucial skill for any future educator.

Students serve as a production team that will create, rehearse, produce, and perform a culminating musical presentation at local venues. Such site may be schools, Senior Citizens Homes, Health Care Facilities, Community Centers. Students will assume the roles played by all personnel involved in putting on a performance, as well as becoming familiar with repertoire *music, lyrics, and dialogue) suited to the abilities of the performers.

Students serve as a production team that will create, rehearse, produce, and perform a culminating musical presentation at local venues. Such site may be schools, Senior Citizens Homes, Health Care Facilities, Community Centers. Students will assume the roles played by all personnel involved in putting on a performance, as well as becoming familiar with repertoire *music, lyrics, and dialogue) suited to the abilities of the performers.

Exploration of the playful element in personality, culture, and artistic creation. The method is experimenal-participatory and cross-cultural. Playful modes of activities include improvisation, masquerading, misrule and celebration as well as the ritualization of simple pastimes and games. Work with the symbolic potential of found-objects and primary materials. Classroom includes movement, vocal expression, plastic construction, and enactment: the finding of various playful personae like the fool, the clown, and the 'philobat.'

Course explores the question of what is creativity through a set of practices that can be integrated into professional and personal lives. Students will answer this question through an exploration of three themes: creativity and identity (everyone has creative potential), rules and limits (do they limit and/or foster creativity), imagination and possibilities for action. At each course meeting, students will highlight creative thinking tools, exercises, and strategies to think through various challenges in their particular fields.

Debates about the role of crime in the media have been among the most
sustained and divisive in the field of communications, and they are
dependent on a foundation of equally divisive debates about “media
influence.” This course will broaden this discussion to consider the
culture of crime in relation to conventions of news and entertainment in
the mass media, and its larger social and political context. Topics will
include crime reporting, the role of place in crime stories, the aesthetics
of crime, moral panics and fears, crime and consumer culture, and the
social construction of different kinds of crimes and criminals.

The cultural context of crime in relation to conventions of news and entertainment in the mass media. Topics include competing theories of criminogenic behavior, news conventions and crime reporting, the aesthetics and representation of crime in the media, the role of place in crime stories, moral panics and fears, crime and consumer culture, and the social construction of different kinds of crimes and criminals.

Principles and skills for parental and enthrall nutrition (nutrition support) practice: inflammatory metabolism, indications, calculations, formulas and solutions, access, complications, and ethical considerations, along with professional practice issues and the regulatory status of nutrition support products.

Consideration of the formulation and design of research problems; collection, processing, and interpretation of data. Evaluation of research in speech and speech pathology and audiology.