Courses

In today’s society, the need for diversity, equity, access, and inclusion in the workplace has significantly increased. This course empowers students to become dynamic leaders in the development and implementation of this process. Students explore the fundamental tools of audience development and community engagement and develop an understanding of the challenges and opportunities of building diverse audiences and organizations through visiting multicultural arts centers and meeting with leaders of community arts organizations.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Investigates the processes of art galleries and museums employ to expand visitorship, membership, attendance and support. The course will examine professional practices in constituency identification and analyze audience members' values and lifestyles as they pertain to consumer and visitor decision making. Students will study the methods used in preparing creative marketing strategies, visitor surveys and membership drives. Through practical review of audience needs assessments, the course will prepare students to create programs, expand audience and meet community interests.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

This course explores audio implementation & scripting/programming for interactive environments with an emphasis on gaming & the specific requirements & demands of this medium. Using code, visual scripting tools & professional level designer software, students will construct dynamic virtual environments, build interactive prototypes of complex audio objects, & learn techniques of interactive mixing for games & immersive environments. A hands-on approach will be used & students are encouraged to experiment with the tools & techniques discussed in class in new & creative ways. The course is taught using powerful tools, software & techniques in use throughout the gaming industry.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This advanced course focuses on the technical development, production, and delivery of audio and multimedia content for the Internet using industry-standard tools and technologies. Topics include web dynamic applications, audio formats, internet protocols, audio compression, broadcasting and podcasting.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

An introduction to the concepts and applications of audio production for video, television and film. Current production techniques frequently used in the post-production industry will be explored with special emphasis on synchronization and the interfacing of SMPTE time code, and multi-track audio-sweetening techniques including music editing, sound effects design, foley, and dialog replacement.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

A continuation of E85.2620. This is an advanced detailed study of the audio-visual production and post-production process including digital recording techniques with special emphasis on synchronization and the interfacing of SMPTE time code. Multi-track audio-sweetening techniques including music editing, sound effects design, foley and playback will be discussed, as well as other issues that concern stare-of-the-art post-production.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Mastering is the crucial final stage of audio production where subtle to transformative techniques are used to ensure that recorded works are ready for mass distribution. The craft demands a wide-ranging aesthetic sense, a solid understanding of digital audio, aural communication skills, and deep listening. This class combines demonstrations, discussions of theory and process, and hands-on practice. Significant participation in the form of frequent and continuing discussions throughout the semester is required.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course gives an introduction to the perceptual and signal processing elements from which digital audio codecs are built including the human auditory system, hearing acuity, modeling of noise masking in human hearing and sound localization in space. These principles ​are​ illustrated by investigating several MPEG audio coding formats and current music and video streaming architectures.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Principles and techniques of audiologic evaluation and management of hearing impaired infants and children. Both personal and assistive amplification listening systems are covered. Speech reading and auditory training techniques. Educational and communicative options for children of different ages with different types and degrees of hearing loss. The cochlear implant: implications for rehabilitation and education of profoundly hearing-impaired children are included.

• Department: Communicative Sciences and Disorders

A performance class geared towards students who are taking auditions. Included in the class are two recording sessions to make pre-screen recordings. Readings will include studies on proper breathing & stage presence. The class includes mock audition sessions.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

A performance class geared towards students who are taking auditions for graduate school. Included in the class are two recording sessions to make pre-screen recordings. Readings will include studies on proper breathing & stage presence. The class includes mock audition sessions.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course provides a comprehensive overview of communicative approaches for individuals who are nonverbal or who have severe communications disorders. Special techniques and equipment are employed to allow these individuals to communicate effectively. A thorough examination of assessment and therapeutic process is presented, with emphasis on communication disorders secondary to congenital/acquired cognitive & motor impairments.

• Department: Communicative Sciences and Disorders

In Aural Comprehension IV the students will continue their exploration of the main elements of music - melody, harmony, rhythm, and form - through active listening, sight-singing, and dictation. Course activities are correlated with materials from Music Theory IV. The tonal material will remain a part of our exercises, but we will work with elements of atonal music and complex rhythms too. Besides regular sight singing, prepared singing, dictations and transcriptions of recorded music we will also listen to orchestral instrumentation, identify musical forms from listening to recordings, try to hear overtones, micro-intervals, improvise second voice to a song and write and sing a short piece of music.

Aural Comprehension III is a one-credit course, building on the foundations you have created in AC I and II. The two weekly class sessions will be devoted to group work in sight-singing and dictation: melodic, rhythmic and harmonic -- and in listening to longer segments of work to sharpen your perception of musical form. You will be expected to keep up a regular practice of these skills outside of class. In addition, we will arrange tutorials (at least three per semester) for individual work and assessment.

The musical materials of AC III will be taken mostly from 19th-century sources,
reinforcing your work in Music Theory and Music History III. We will also work with more chromatic music of the 18th century, as well as jazz, popular music and relevant world cultures.

Continued training in elementary musicianship skills.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Techniques of music listening developed through musical sight-singing, dictation, and aural analysis. Topics are coordinated with the co-requisite course Theory & Practice I. Students learn techniques for critically listening to, analyzing, and notating elements of rhythmic and metric organization, instrumentation, texture, and diatonic melodic and harmonic pitch structure in a broad range of music from Western classical music, popular music and film, and non-Western music.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Intermediate level aural skills. Courses under this general title introduce students to listening and sight-reading techniques coordinated with topics in the corresponding co-requisite Theory & Practice II course.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Techniques of music listening developed through musical sight-singing, dictation, and aural analysis. Topics are coordinated with the co-requisite course, Theory & Practice II: Popular Music. This course builds on skills developed in Aural Skills I. Students learn techniques for critically listening to, analyzing, and notating musical elements of instrumentation, sound production and timbre, advanced rhythm and meter, loops and harmonic chord schemas, advanced diatonic harmony, and basic chromatic harmony including secondary functions and modulation.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Techniques of music listening developed through musical sight-singing,
dictation, and aural analysis. Topics are coordinated with the co-requisite
course, Theory & Practice II: Popular Music. This course builds on skills
developed in Aural Skills I. Students learn techniques for critically
listening to, analyzing, and notating musical elements of instrumentation,
sound production and timbre, advanced rhythm and meter, loops and harmonic
chord schemas, advanced diatonic harmony, and basic chromatic harmony
including secondary functions and modulation.

Techniques of music listening developed through musical sight-singing, dictation, and aural analysis. Topics are coordinated with the co-requisite course, Theory & Practice II: Tonal Harmony & Voice Leading. This course builds on skills developed in Aural Skills I. Students learn techniques for critically listening to, analyzing, and notating four-part diatonic harmony and basic chromatic harmony including secondary functions and modulation, advanced rhythm and meter, chromatic melodies, and instrumentation.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions