Courses

Examines how branding for arts organizations communicates a distinctive role, relevance and identity to convey a clear institutional message. Rising media costs, ever increasing options for leisure-time activities, and the shift from philanthropic to brand-focused corporate support combine to create an imperative for clarity and impact in arts marketing activities. Theoretical business frameworks, case studies and guest speakers, effective strategies to engage target audiences and build a sustainable identity are analyzed.

This course explores the multi-faceted nature of New York City as a cultural and economic hub for food and media. Food is never just something we eat, but in New York City food has taken on an increasing prominence in public life. Food shapes communities and is an increasingly important marker of social and cultural identities. Media of all types fuel and shape our connections to food. Tastes are defined; diets and food habits are promoted and demoted; food fortunes and food celebrities are made. How has New York City become so important to the business of taste? What goes on behind-the-scenes? Topics include: Food-related publishing and broadcasting; green markets, food trucks, and systems of supply and distribution; marketing; Chinatowns, diversity, fusion, and identity. Open to majors and non-majors including special students. Classroom instruction is supplemented by site visits, guest lectures, and field research.

This course explores the multi-faceted nature of New York City as a cultural and economic hub for food and media. Food is never just something we eat, but in New York City food has taken on an increasing prominence in public life. Food shapes communities and is an increasingly important marker of social and cultural identities. Media of all types fuel and shape our connections to food. Tastes are defined; diets and food habits are promoted and demoted; food fortunes and food celebrities are made. How has New York City become so important to the business of taste? What goes on behind-the-scenes? Topics include: Food-related publishing and broadcasting; green markets, food trucks, and systems of supply and distribution; marketing; Chinatowns, diversity, fusion, and identity. Open to majors and non-majors including special students. Classroom instruction is supplemented by site visits, guest lectures, and field research.

This course explores the multi-faceted nature of New York City as a cultural and economic hub for media and the arts, arguably the cultural capital of the world. Classroom instruction is supplemented by site visits, guest lectures, and field research to develop an appreciation of the ways that media and the arts have shaped the work and leisure of life in New York City for the past one hundred years. How did New York City become such a focal point for the creative industries? What goes on behind-the-scenes? Topics include: Time Square and live spectacle, the Broadway theatre, Madison Ave and modern advertising, the museum of New York, galleries, artists, and the art market, the Harlem Renaissance, alternative media and Bohemian arts.

Survey of the ways in which art therapy may be used with the geriatric population including individuals with dementia, depression, psychiatric disorders, frail elders & healthy elders.

Whether large, small, wide, high-definition, public, personal, shared, or handheld, screens are one of the most pervasive technologies in everyday life. From spaces of work to spaces of leisure, screens are sites for collaboration, performance, surveillance, and resistance. This course traces the cultural history of screens from a range of forms - from the panorama to the cinema, from the radar system to the television, and from the terminal to the mobile device - to provide a way of thinking about the development of the screen as simultaneously architectural, material, representational and computational.

This course examines the importance of cultural considerations within music therapy practice through experientials, group discussions, and didactic learning. Students critically investigate how cultural humility and reflexivity can be implemented within clinical contexts. Students explore their sociocultural identity and consider how race, ethnicity, language, ability, age, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and culture intersect at the individual and collective-societal levels in therapeutic, supervisory, and professional relationships.

This course examines how cultural memory is enacted through visual culture in a comparative global context. It looks at the rise of a memory culture over the last few decades, in particular in the United States, Europe & Latin America, & how this engagement with memory demonstrates how the politics of memory can reveal aspects of nationalism & national identity, ethnic conflict & strife, the legacies of state terrorism, & the deployment of memory as a means for further continued conflict.

This course examines the interactive relationship between culture and tourism. By taking a case approach the class analyzes the business practices of the arts as a tourism enterprise. The cases will highlight marketing principles drawn from readings, discussions, and guest lectures. Lectures, discussions and guest speakers will accompany text and journal readings. Case studies will provide concrete examples to accompany theoretical concepts.

Students reflect and form their initial frameworks about speech and language practices with culturally and linguistically diverse populations in health settings and global contexts. Students prepare to develop a global consciousness, and provide effective services in a globalized world through understanding how communication processes fit into historical, economic, political and sociocultural contexts and the implications of these broader contexts for collaborative and family-centered assessment and intervention services.

Students co-create frameworks that center equity and justice in SLP in schools. Situates SLP practice within historical and ideological roots; analyzes the socio-political context underlying service delivery to minoritized children labeled as disabled; interrogates how socially constructed positionalities intersect within systems of oppression, and how this affects instructional practices for all; integrates culturally responsive, sustaining, and decolonial pedagogies into speech-language practices; and develops new assessments and interventions.

What does it mean to be "urban" in China and how is Chinese urbanism mediated by new cultural formations? In this course we will examine the culture and media that define city life in China, including Chinese state and popular media, television and film, music, fashion, verbal art and literature (in print and online) and visual art. we will focus on the period from the building booms of the mid-to-late nineties to the present. Students will work in teams to make presentations on urban culture, and use primary sources in translation and secondary sources to write individual essays. Chinese language ability appreciated but by no means required.

This course will investigate the cultural geography of a specific commodity, assessing historical and contemporary issues that inform modes of production and development of international or domestic trade. The subtopic may vary. Students will work as a team to produce a project that analyzes the intricacies of the commodity"in this case, coffee. The course will include on-the-ground research and site visits.

Increasingly, leaders are looking for strategies to lead in arts organizations. This course provides a framework for students interested in leadership development in the arts. The most dynamic leaders inspire others to think outside the box and use creative approaches to solve complex issues. Through this course, students apply principles in music as well as other art forms and artistic creative thinking approaches to inspire engaged learning of leadership application for socially innovative thinking.

In depth examination of cultural and contextual factors and how these factors impact every aspect of psychological theory, practice and research. Major theories, assessment approaches, clinical practice and research in psychology will be critiques by investigating universalistic principles, behavior and experience as it occurs in cultures and contexts and is influenced by culture and context, as well as issues such as oppression, racism, prejudice, social class and value differences.

A veritable buzzword globalization refers to several newly emerged trends. To name the three most visible ones these are the economy, culture and politics. Media do not only describe and interpret globalization but also are its important part. A study of globalization is inherently diverse and eclectic. So is this course. Students will read, watch, analyze and discuss. In class discussions and writings they are expected to engage questions connected to globalization, culture and the media. Through a series of lectures and discussions the course explores how the process of globalization transforms the media and examines the impact of new technologies on global communications. Emphasizing the transnational context of media and culture the course approaches global media and cultural production from a wide range of theoretical frameworks relevant to contemporary condition.

Explores the creative and practical aspects of curating contemporary art. Students will devise an exhibition proposal to be presented in the project space at 80WSE Gallery. Students will be introduced to curators, explore a variety of current exhibitions, and discuss expanded curatorial approaches and counter-exhibition histories. Other assignments include developing an exhibition budget, devising a design/installation plan and determining communication strategies.design/installation plan & determining communications strategy.

The early childhood classroom explored as nexus for collaborative, integrative curriculum building, with greater focus on theory. Emphasis on child-centered, culturally inclusive approaches. Study of verbal and nonverbal communication, reading, writing, numeracy, science, social studies, the arts, and an expanded vision of technology appropriate for diverse populations of young children.

This course covers issues that arise from the diversity of music therapy theory and practice. It examines the clinical, theoretical, professional, and ethical concerns that constitute the contemporary debate over the nature of music therapy practice and the identity of the discipline and its practitioners.
The NYU program is contextualized within the broader profession of music therapy and the profession as a whole is contextualized within a variety of social contexts.