Courses

Analysis of the media environment from a variety of critical perspectives. Emphasis on writing as well as reading media criticism.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

Designed for doctoral students. Study directed toward fulfillment of degree requirements in performance and/or composition.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This doctoral level seminar will introduce students to some of the important seminal writings in communicative sciences and disorders. The articles chosen for study will provide historical perspectives and exposure to current ongoing debates in the literature. Each week students will be responsible for reading the assigned articles and attending class prepared for discussion. In addition to providing students with the opportunity to develop skills as critical consumers and disseminators of research, this course provides a review of material that is relevant for providing breadth of knowledge to individuals seeking a doctoral degree in communicative sciences & disorders.

• Department: Communicative Sciences and Disorders

This course includes a supervised practicum experience in TESOL or world language education at the adult or college level for six hours per week for one semester. Practicum experiences are supported by a weekly seminar that addresses theoretical underpinnings and practical application of planning and curriculum implementation relative to adult learners. Prerequisite: BILED-GE 2250 or WLGED-GE 2918.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course will explore selected current topics in advanced nutrition through the critical analysis of pertinent original research publications and class discussion.

• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies

This short survey course uses a systems approach to explore important global problems in public health nutrition, such as food insecurity, over consumption, the effects of food systems on the environment, and the impact of COVID-19 on global health and food systems. Students explore the politics of food policy, the role of various stakeholders in food choices, and ways to advocate for sustainable food systems and accountability.

• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies

The first part of a three-course sequence. This course introduces students to applied research and to evidenced-based practice. Students explore various subfields in professional psychology and learn to synthesize information from psychological literature.

• Department: Applied Psychology

Students learn to draw connections between their practical experience in the field & psychological literature . The course also introduces students to professional practice
and to ethical guidelines protecting human research participants. A minimum of 8 hours of supervised fieldwork experience per week is required, students must attend supervision seminars.

• Department: Applied Psychology

Students explore in greater depth the connections between practice, theory & research through a semester-long independent project. A minimum of 8 hours of supervised fieldwork experience per week is requires; students must attend supervision groups.

• Department: Applied Psychology

This class examines creativity, aesthetics, and audience response (artist, artwork, and viewer) through diverse psychological theories. We proceed chronologically starting with Modernism, in the visual arts and psychoanalysis, which converged to catalyze the profession of Art Therapy. We conclude with Postmodernist discourses on gender, feminism, patriarchy, class, power, race, identity, and LGBTQTIA+ issues. The class is half seminar and half art experientials that are designed to facilitate students' deeper understanding of self-identity as art therapists.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

This seminar provides both theoretical and technological foundations on ways of producing unique sounds using acoustic instruments — often in tandem with digitally processed or sampled sound. The course also introduces students to the concept of sampling and the creation of custom-made sample libraries, as well as the process of writing music for improvisers (jazz combo, soloists, etc.)

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This seminar provides both theoretical and technological foundations on ways of producing unique sounds using acoustic instruments — often in tandem with digitally processed or sampled sound. The course also introduces students to the concept of sampling and the creation of custom-made sample libraries, as well as the process of writing music for improvisers (jazz combo, soloists, etc.)

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This seminar explores the ins-and-outs of writing for small ensemble and electronics. Students explore each instrument, pertinent repertoire and musical examples; compose a piece for an ensemble-in-residence; premiere works in a concert setting; and have works recorded by the ensemble. Through interactions with the ensemble-in-residence, compositions will be developed in three stages:
early semester brainstorming; mid semester reading; dress rehearsals before the final concert.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This seminar explores the ins-and-outs of writing for small ensemble and electronics. Students explore each instrument, pertinent repertoire and musical examples; compose a piece for an ensemble-in-residence; premiere works in a concert setting; and have works recorded by the ensemble. Through interactions with the ensemble-in-residence, compositions will be developed in three stages:
early semester brainstorming; mid semester reading; dress rehearsals before the final concert.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

In search of new musical possibilities, we challenge established compositional parameters, tools, and techniques; examine perceptual dynamics; and explore aesthetics of extreme, fringe, forgotten, and less-known genres and works. We draw parallels between avant-garde music and multimedia across time, place, and style. Weekly projects culminate in our innOVATION performance at the cutting-edge Audio Lab (50 speakers, 4 screens). Our inclusive approach to sonic, technological, structural, and conceptual experimentation welcomes creative minds from different programs.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Focuses on developing a personal musical language, compositional skills, and self-
presentation - all key factors in developing a presence in the field of Music Composition. Students create new works for the NYU Contemporary Ensemble. The course includes student presentations of their works-in-progress, presentations of previous works, and engagement with the ensemble. Critique/feedback is offered on form, aesthetics, orchestration, and developing an individual voice, as well as on how composers articulate their ideas to the public.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This is the first of a two-seminar sequence that provides analytical and practical approaches to composition for the string quartet. Over the course of two semesters students write a progressive series of studies starting with a solo, followed by a duo, trio and finally a full quartet. Professional musicians workshop these pieces in class, culminating in a concert by a guest quartet in residence. Interwoven with these workshops students analyze and discuss contemporary quartet repertoire from the past 50 years.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This is the second of a two-seminar sequence that provides both analytical and practical approaches to composition for the string quartet. This seminar includes workshops and performances of a full composition for String Quartet as well as student presentations on selected contemporary quartet repertoire.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This is the second of a two-seminar sequence that provides both analytical and practical approaches to composition for the string quartet. This seminar includes workshops and performances of a full composition for String Quartet as well as student presentations on selected contemporary quartet repertoire.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Under this general title various courses will be offered that explore music theoretic and analytical topics of current interest. These topics will range from (i) the study and application of an important theoretical framework or analytical approach, to (ii) the close examination of a particular repertory and the theoretical/analytical tools developed for it.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions