Courses

A study abroad course program that examines the higher education system of Ghana in comparison to the US and other countries. Through visits to universities, policy organizations, and government planning agencies, students will have the opportunity to meet with administrators, faculty, researchers, and students themselves. Our goals will be to understand the opportunity structures for all groups in this developing national context.

Designed to provide graduate students with an opportunity to examine India's higher education system and to discover and analyze similarities and differences in comparison to higher education in the United States. Through visits to universities and public and private colleges, we will engage in discussion with directors, faculty members, deans of students and their staffs and students themselves. Special lectures with sociologists and national officials will help us understand the goals and future aspirations of Indian higher education and how higher education meets the social, political, and cultural needs of society. In addition to meeting on the campus in New York, students will participate in a two week travel program in India that will provide an in-depth case study of its higher education. The course includes lectures from scholars and visits to Indian colleges and universities to meet with faculty, administrators, and students. Additional sessions will be held with directors of the national government commission on the future of higher education. Topics will include curricular options, admissions requirements, distribution of students by class and ethnic group, college climate, and services offered.

This course is designed to provide graduate students with an opportunity to examine Turkey's higher education system and to discover and analyze similarities and differences in comparison to higher education in the United States and other countries. The course will focus on Turkey's ancient and very recent university traditions. Turkey has several institutions of higher learning, which date back more than 500 years, and has seen rapid development and expansion among universities in the last few decades. Changes in national law in 1981 permitted the establishment of private non-profit universities. Today, there are 102 public universities and 52 private universities, several which are internationally ranked, all under the jurisdiction of central policy agencies and a national testing and admissions system.

This course introduces students to theories of global television studies, the reception of American media abroad, & several case studies of television from around the world. Students will learn about the challenges & rewards of studying global television, both of which revolve around how to study television programming & the television industry across cultures & across languages.

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The course examines the conceptual & empirical work on the social, cultural, & economic aspects of globalization & their implications for education. We shall explore education in light of: 1) the increasing de-territorialization of cultural formations; 2) the emergence of global markets along with the post-nationalization of the production & distribution of goods & services -- with a concomitant premiss on knowledge -- intensive work; 3) new information & communication technologies which are reshaping the structure & meaning of work, belonging & community; 4) unprecedented population movements & worldwide immigration. We shall examine recent conceptual work, in globalization & its relationships to human experience with a focus on youth.

Liberal Arts Core/CORE Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Society & Social Sciences

The course examines the conceptual and empirical work on the social, cultural, and economic aspects of globalization and their implications for education. We shall explore education in light of: 1) the increasing de-territorialization of cultural formations; 2) the emergence of global markets along with the post-nationalization of the production and distribution of goods and services -- with a concomitant premiss on knowledge -- intensive work; 3) new information and communication technologies which are reshaping the structure and meaning of work, belonging and community; 4) unprecedented population movements and worldwide immigration. We shall examine recent conceptual work, in globalization and its relationships to human experience with a focus on youth.

This course examines how gender and sexuality are being reconfigured in the context of globalization and transnational flows. We will examine key texts drawn from feminist/global cultural studies and engage with topics concerning citizenship, modernity, global labor flows, migration and activism. Through a reading of theoretical texts and ethnographic case studies, we will track the politics and performance of gender and sexuality within transnational and mediatized environments.

The roles and responsibilities of trustees and officers who govern nonprofit, tax-exempt arts organizations. How the planning, budgeting, personnel development, and marketing policies of arts endeavors are determined.

A Stanislavski based course introducing fundamental acting technique and stage convention through the integration of improvisation, monologs, and scene study, speech and movement.

Continuation of skills and concepts introduced in Graduate Acting for Singers I with an increased focus on character development, interaction and heightened language.

An intensive practicum course building on the skills introduced in Graduate Acting for Singers I and II, with increased focus on acting styles for contemporary and classical theatre.

Examination of the processes of A&R (Artists & Repertoire), production, & manufacturing. Criteria for music evaluation & genre categories are analyzed. The role of the studio for the producer & the artists.

A general introduction to the fundamental concepts of music technology, including: sound propagation, the principles of microphone operation, the use of speakers and mixers, the MIDI standard and its implementation, the basics of digital systems, waveform editing and audio file formats and compression. The lectures will be complemented by practical assignments and demonstrations, through which students will gain a basic understanding of how to use technology to enhance and demonstrate their musical work.

Assignment to studios, mastering labs, or other music technology-related firms for advanced on-the-job training.

Graduate Jazz Seminar will present weekly interviews and discussions wit seminal Jazz artists from around the world. Discussions will include performance practices and oral histories. Students from the Jazz Studies Program are required to attend.

Description; This course examines traditional examples of ethical behavior in the American and European modern and contemporary art market and compares them to current, increasingly complex art business practices. We will analyze general concepts and specific situations in the expanded and interconnected global business of art. Students will be asked to consider which, if any, current business practices and concepts require reconsideration and how these may apply to a global art market.

This course will investigate the current state of Contemporary Art and how it has come to be shaped by the growing importance of biennials, triennials, and other timed exhibitions as well as the increasing influence of art fairs around the globe.It will show how the evolution of these major international exhibitions and fairs has gradually changed the function and relative emphasis of galleries and museums, critics and curators, art dealers and auction houses, at a time when there are more artists, galleries and collectors than ever before. On-line and off-line exhibition and sales, now in the very early stages, will also factor into the discussion of the rapidly changing art world of the 21st century. Biennial curators, art fair organizers, critics and artists will be invited as guest lecturers to offer their viewpoints on the current state of the arts.

This project-based course explores contemporary curatorial practice and its application to the display and interpretation of fashion. Through the development of an original and timely topic, students co-curate an exhibition, participating in all aspects of mounting and staging the exhibition along with producing the related research, text, and supporting programming.

This course is a culmination of a student’s graduate degree. It requires the student
to incorporate elements from their entire course of study to research, program, prepare, and present a successful degree recital.