Courses

The impact of music technology and its implications for music education are examined. Students are introduced to Digital Audio and MIDI (Music Instrument Digital Interface) and focus on techniques of special applications of web and digital media to classroom teaching, composing, and performing ensembles.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course introduces students to the study of technology and society, examining how technology — mechanical, electronic, analog, and digital — shapes and is shaped by cultural, political, and social values. Readings focus on key concepts and approaches including technological determinism, the social construction of technology, actor-network theory, affordances, infrastructure, and design, exploring how these have been applied to such cases as the clock, the automobile, the telephone, the internet, and a range of contemporary digital media.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

This course offers students the opportunity to discuss trends in technology and learn about the changing nature of work. Students explore the accelerating rate of technological development by doing independent research on forthcoming innovations and sharing their discoveries through class presentations and Socratic discussions. Students analyze how we view work as a society, what work means to us as individuals, and explore possible solutions to mass unemployment and automation. Guest speakers join us for class discussions and all classes are recorded and shared.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Applications of communication and digital technologies as designed for performing arts as resources for performing arts educators. Special emphasis is given to the use of the World Wide Web (WWW) as a resource for researching and creating performing arts materials and developing collaboration in the performing arts.Applications of the WWW as an archive for performing arts materials and portfolios are also explored.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This seminar will introduce students to the emerging practice of tele-drama therapy. Students will discuss ethical and technological considerations in the context of tele-
mental health. Students will examine and gain practice with tele-drama therapy approaches and consider applications with individuals and groups. Students will discuss implications of artificial intelligence for practice.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course introduces television history through a broad survey of the medium’s development from radio and early broadcasting through network, cable, and streaming television. Students examine television as a cultural form, technology, and industry, with attention to programming, genre, audiences, regulation, public service, advertising, and distribution. The course considers how television has shaped and been shaped by social life, politics, identity, and changing media technologies.

This course introduces television history through a broad survey of the medium’s development from radio and early broadcasting through network, cable, and streaming television, dominantly focused on the United States. Students examine television as a cultural form, technology, and industry, with attention to programming, genre, audiences, regulation, public service, advertising, and distribution. The course considers how television has shaped and been shaped by social life, politics, identity, and changing media technologies.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

Using a wide range of texts (traditional and nontraditional) as primary tools in the teaching of reading comprehension from multiple perspectives. Strategies for locating, selecting, and evaluating resources and materials for use in classroom literacy programs, including texts that appeal to reluctant readers and students with special needs. Digital platforms such as information and communication technologies are emphasized.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

A critical examination of several histories of American education. Compares historical analyses of the changes in curriculum, structure, and functions of American education in relation to the changing social and political contexts.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities

Students will examine the theoretical & practical issues that continue to influence the training of pianists. By exploring historical pedagogical & performance practices, students will come to understand the core principles & diversity of pianistic performance traditions. Topics include the evolution of the piano & its repertoire over three centuries & pedagogical approaches that evolved concurrently regarding articulation & pedal; physical technique & virtuosity; & expressive timing.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Course is designed to trace the dominant traditions in contemporary American piano pedagogy. Focuses on the philosophies, methods, & techniques associated with major pedagogues including Heinrich Neuhaus , Konstantin Igumnov, Alexander Brailowsky, Vladimir Horowitz, Sascha Gorodnitzki, Adele Marcus , Clifford Curzon, Beveridge Webster, Rudolf Firkušný, Leonard Stein, & David Burge. Students will examine the lasting influence of Artur Schnabel & Ferruccio Busoni on American pedagogy. Students will perform a final solo recital & produce a statement of teaching philosophy.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course examines the economics, marketing, content development process,
consumption patterns, merger & acquisition activity, core companies, technological innovation, and trends driving the podcast industry. Through workshops, discussions, readings, research reports, social media and guest speakers, students gain a deep understanding of the business while learning essential fundamentals that will benefit them within any facet of podcasting and other forms of linear audio storytelling.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

In this course, students explore the interplay between college student populations and the campus environment and examine the ways in which campus environments can be enhanced to maximize student success and satisfaction. Concepts and issues related to safety, inclusion, equity, campus climate, and retention are discussed as crucial environmental considerations in response to the increasingly diverse characteristics of U.S. college students.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

Examination of the organization, function, & objectives of two-year colleges. Investigation of their operations, including research into problems of curriculum development, student services, articulation, & special programs designed to meet community needs.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

Experiential course providing an overview of counseling techniques, focusing on the interview as an interactional process.

• Department: Applied Psychology

This course focuses on the practices of teaching, and the creation of critical learning environments that have a sustained and substantial impact on how students think, act, and feel. Together, we will explore the fundamentals of course management, strategies for student engagement, and tools for self-assessment and course evaluation. It is designed primarily for new instructors of record and teaching assistants. Students who complete this course will have a better understanding of how and when teaching works.

The rapid growth of nonprofit arts organizations to license the use of artistic works to commercial enterprises has attracted the attention of leaders in the nonprofit, government, and private sectors. This course explores the social and economic impact of these industries in the US and the UK, and examines how arts administrators manage their effects and contribute to policy development.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course focuses on the modern history of media industries -- film, TV, radio, newspapers, music, magazines, book publishing -- with special emphasis on the pressures that affect them now. Students are required to do extensive background reading, and we will hear from various professionals with long experience in the industries under consideration.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

Critical examinations of the ways that cultures have shaped major theoretical perspectives, diagnoses, & practices in psychology. Various perspectives that consider race/ethnicity, gender, social class, & language use, are explored.

• Department: Applied Psychology

The major goal of this advanced developmental psychology course is to explore the lives and futures of Black children, youth, and families with a focus on how their lives are impacted by various structures and social institutions while also appreciating their needs and development. Through a combination of discussions, projects, and immersive learning experiences, this course centers the humanity, promise, and well-being of Black children and youth in order to deepen our understanding of how Black children and their families thrive.

• Department: Applied Psychology