Courses

This course centers on in-depth study of tonal forms from the 18th and 19th centuries. Students will engage with major repertoire from the tonal canon starting at the phrase level and ending with analyses of full-length works. A major emphasis of this course is engaging with deformations of the tonal models, developing strategies for analyzing new works, and effectively articulating a work's underlying narrative in formal theoretical writing. Explorations into later tonal styles will also occur later in the semester.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Our senses are inextricably linked. Sounds can create the illusion of visual movement, a pianist’s gestures alter the way we perceive duration, a change in musical timbre can make a cup of coffee taste more bitter, and the flash of an object can make an unnoticed sound audible. Drawing on research in cognitive psychology and neuroscience, this course explores the dynamic way our senses influence our experience of music and multimedia. Through class discussions and projects, students apply research in multisensory perception to their own area of specialization.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Modern music theory employs a wide array of analytical techniques that contribute
to the understanding of many different musical styles, including classical Western, popular, Jazz and post-tonal music. This course explores the most important and widely used techniques, clearly defining their scope, applicability, and integration into the research workflow. Cultivating independent research skills, the course equips students to navigate relevant scholarly literature and engage with analytical techniques in a manner tailored to their specific projects.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Examination of selected theories of psychotherapy, including metatheories in clinical and counseling psychology with a focus on evidence-based practice (utilizing best available research, clinician expertise, and the context of client characteristics, culture, and preferences) in psychotherapy. Students will develop their own personal theoretical and practice orientations.

• Department: Applied Psychology

Course examines and critiques the conceptual and empirical literature on career from a contextual perspective that includes the radical changes occurring in the social context of work in contemporary times. A focus of the course will be the design of educational and therapeutic practices responsive to this social context as well as the research needed to inform these practices.

• Department: Applied Psychology

This course will provide students with a thorough grounding in Heinrich Schenker's theory of tonal structure. The associated analytical technique will be developed through weekly assignments and a final project. A number of specialized topics - including the theory's implications to performance, composition, and improvisation - will be explored through readings from the Schenkerian literature.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course enables the student to integrate knowledge in physical therapy with motor learning, human growth and development, nutrition, pharmacology, medical diagnostic techniques, orthopedic surgery and performance as a disabled athlete and their impact on the musculoskeletal system.

• Department: Physical Therapy

This course will explore semiotics & performance theory by comparing the modes of performance used in media (including television, film, radio, advertising, theater, music & visual art) with social performance in general. Readings will draw from classic & contemporary work in semiotics, performance theory & linguistic anthropology, analyzing media & art forms from around the world.
Students will engage with the theoretical concepts & analytical models encountered in class by applying them to a media form, performance or piece of art of their own choosing.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

Seminar for students who have been approved by the department to pursue honors in the major. Extended primary research in Media Studies, focusing on the development and workshopping of individual research projects. Students enroll concurrently in two credits of independent study under the direction of a faculty honors sponsor, as outlined in departmental guidelines.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

This course is a seminar for students pursuing Honors Research in Teaching and Learning. It will guide students through the processes of selecting an area of educational inquiry, developing research questions, choosing and implementing appropriate methodologies, building outlines, developing bibliographies, writing literature reviews, and preparing drafts. During the first semester this seminar will meet regularly, as students develop their projects. During the spring semester students will work independently on their projects under the direction of individual faculty supervisors, with whom they will hold regular meetings.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Seminar for students pursuing Honors Research in Teaching and Learning. Guides students through the processes of selecting an area of educational inquiry, developing research questions, choosing and implementing appropriate methodologies, building outlines, developing bibliographies, writing literature reviews, and preparing drafts. During the first semester, this seminar meets regularly, as students develop their projects. During the spring semester, students work independently on their projects under the direction of individual faculty supervisors, with whom they hold regular meetings, and then come together with their classmates for give scheduled meetings.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Course is designed as the culminating experience for Education Studies majors. Students will demonstrate an integration of disciplinary content knowledge & research skills culminating in a senior thesis or a final project. The final product requires students to synthesize course work & practical experiences & explore potential career options and academic pursuits upon completion of the program.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities

This course serves as the culminating experience for undergraduate students completing a bachelor of science degree in Educational Theatre. Each student will create & present an individual capstone project in one of three concentration areas: Theatre Performance & Production, Applied Theatre, or Drama in Education. Through seminar discussions, written assignments, presentations, & performances, students will demonstrate how their course work & practical experiences have contributed to this final culminating project. Students will also explore potential career options & academic pursuits upon the completion of the degree.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

A culminating studio course designed to generate a ‘body of work’; this body of work will be discussed, critiqued & contextualized within the framework of peers, the art world & the world at large. Students are expected to work on a coherent body of works that will be discussed one-on-one as well as in critique settings though out the semester. Readings will be distributed as they relate to art making strategies. This process will culminate in a thesis exhibition designed & presented with several peers.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

A culminating studio course designed to generate a ‘body of work’; this body of work will be discussed, critiqued & contextualized within the framework of peers, the art world & the world at large. Students are expected to work on a coherent body of works that will be discussed one-on-one as well as in critique settings though out the semester. Readings will be distributed as they relate to art making strategies. This process will culminate in a thesis exhibition designed & presented with several peers.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

This seminar expands and refines students' skills in reading and writing about art in relation to their practice, ideas, and experiences. The course is structured around group discussions and in-class writing, beginning with an exploration of artist writings and personal essays, focusing on voice, description, structure, and research. Students learn to distinguish between an essay and an academic paper, examining how personal experience can inform critical discussions around art, culture, society, and politics. Students draft and revise their thesis essays.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

Examines concepts associated with sexual orientation, gender identity and LGBTQA+ development and discusses interventions to support LGBTQA+ individuals across the lifespan. Explores various health and mental health issues, including issues around oppression, intersectionality, discrimination and heteronormativity, as well as LGBTQA+ history, advocacy and culture.

• Department: Applied Psychology

Examines Shakespeare in performance and in the classroom. Dramaturgy, scene analysis, and youth theatre included.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Examines Shakespeare in performance and in the classroom. Dramaturgy, scene analysis, and youth theatre included

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course examines literature and research findings for evidence that supports treatment of children and youth with autism in a variety of settings. Students’ clinical and educational experiences are used as a basis to examine the efficacy and effectiveness of intervention through a strength based lens.

• Department: Occupational Therapy