Courses

This course provides students with the set of skills required to create music for video games and interactive environments. During the course, students learn how to work with technology used to implement audio in games, work on strategies to create interactive non-linear music, and develop strategies to foster their creativity by applying specific techniques designed to create rich music in these environments.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This research-based course explores the aesthetics and the history of music for the screen. In a modular approach, all students study core research foundations that relate to the field of music for the screen. After this, they select between a range of research topics that relate to the history and/or aesthetics of diverse types of music for the screen.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course provides the theoretical foundations that serve as the building blocks for the music for the screen. Divided into two areas that eventually merge, the course explores the application of harmonic and melodic principles for screen music, as well as the study of the foundations of narrative theory and storytelling. Throughout a set of theoretical readings,analyses, and creative assignments, the students will develop a set of techniques to produce music that generates meaning and that enhances the story and the narrative as a whole.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

The course prepares students in a crucial aspect of screen scoring: the scoring
recording session. Through a combination of instructional workshops, observation of recording sessions, feedback sessions, and applied practice, students develop as scoring professionals within a studio setting. Students integrate knowledge from different areas of inquiry in screen scoring involved in the production of recordings for scores. Further, students learn how to collaborate and function as a team in a time-sensitive and high-pressure environment.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

The course prepares students in a crucial aspect of screen scoring: the scoring
recording session. Through a combination of instructional workshops, observation of recording sessions, feedback sessions, and applied practice, students develop as scoring professionals within a studio setting. Students integrate knowledge from different areas of inquiry in screen scoring involved in the production of recordings for scores. Further, students learn how to collaborate and function as a team in a time-sensitive and high-pressure environment.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course explores how popular Hollywood films construct versions of the historical past, & can be utilized as historical documents themselves. The films reach mass audiences, they entertain, they mythologize, they produce compelling narratives about the past, they simplify complex problems, & they have been influential in creating audiences’ historical understanding. Hollywood films are significant & complex cultural texts, & this course will study them as artifacts of a powerful communications entertainment industry whose visions of the past & arguments regarding social, political, economic order throughout the 20th century & into the 21st centuries warrants our close examination.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

Analysis of dramaturgical components (plot, structure, character, theme, style) of selected musicals from the American repertoire, with an historical perspective. In the process students will develop their own research and writing skills.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Develops an understanding of the nature of sculpture & the critical dialogue that surrounds it. Assignments explore the conceptual & formal properties of sculpture, & an individual approach is encouraged. Evaluation of current gallery exhibitions & assigned readings will be an important supplement to studio assignments. Students will have regular access to the sculpture shop, where available equipment includes wood & metal tools, as well as plaster & mold-making facilities.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

Introduction to the rendering of the three-dimensional world in sculpture. The class moves through a variety of different materials using simple techniques such as woodcutting, plastering, welding, & sewing.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

Casting and Moldmaking is a second tier hands-on studio course which serves as a comprehensive exposure to innovative casting techniques. In this course, students will be asked to consider the transformative process of casting, and its ability to expand the experience of an artwork through a spectrum of materials and processes. The class will experiment with casting using a range of materials including wax and synthetic polymers such as resin, as well as thoughtfully marrying conventional with unconventional non-art materials. Additional projects and demos will explore simple mold making techniques, and field casting outside of the studio.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

This course focuses on learning second language acquisition (SLA) theories and various approaches to conducting SLA research. Students develop an understanding of the major theories and theoretical debates in SLA, and explore the major paradigms in SLA research. In addition, students learn how to read and critically evaluate original SLA research articles, as well as how to develop a research proposal addressing a problem in the practice of second language education as a capstone project.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Current approaches and issues in second language acquisition including various acquisition models, multilingualism, discourse analysis, and the role of culture in language learning. Hours arranged are for student collection and analysis of field data.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

A content mathematics course in number theory for teachers.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

A content mathematics course in discrete mathematics for teachers.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Supervised student teaching in elementary school classroom settings (grades Pre-K - 6); includes scheduled conferences with field supervisor. Student teachers observe, plan, teach, and evaluate drama lessons. Student teachers develop and create appropriate goals, negotiate and enact appropriate learning experiences for all learners, and assess student learning. Student teachers develop their skills as a reflective practitioner.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

A two year seminar emphasizing ways in which the intellectual orientations of education and Jewish studies can be fruitfully integrated. The seminar acquaints students with the present state of research in both education and Jewish studies, emphasizing the parallels and differences between these multifaceted research areas. In addition, the seminar addresses the research needs and opportunities found in the rapidly expanding field of Jewish education in North America. Throughout this experience, students will be encouraged toward identifying their own research problems in Jewish education.

A two-semester seminar focusing on major research frameworks in education, Jewish studies, and Jewish education. Students will be engaged in practical research experiences in the Jewish education field. These experiences provide opportunities to formulate creative plans for dealing with a variety of educational issues and problems.

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• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies

An advanced seminar which examines the key considerations which drive research activity in applied theatre. Students canvas the territory of applied theatre, the purposes of an applied theatre, and the challenges researchers face when designing, implementing and presenting their applied theatre studies. Students create their own applied theatre research project which can include a creative component.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Study of Teaching I is the first of two courses designed to support preservice teachers' efforts to integrate learning from courses with practice in the field and to explore the role of teacher-as-researcher as a vehicle for continual professional growth. The course is concurrent with methods of courses in literacy, mathematics, and science and is intended to help beginning teachers analyze the various teacher roles, actions, teaching models, and decisions they make as they interact with learners around the implementation of their methods course assignments in the process of student teaching. Students will begin their professional portfolios and complete a small-scale action research study focused on some aspect of learning.

• Department: Teaching and Learning