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• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

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• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

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• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

A production course for teachers, recreation leaders, language specialists, actors, directors, and students of educational theatre. Focuses on the creation and performance of projects with special educational content. Students survey the history of T.I.E. programs, as well as research, devise, and present their own original productions.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Provides foundation knowledge underlying occupational therapy practice for the formulation and use of conceptual practice frameworks. The course focuses on the theories supporting current and emerging areas of occupational therapy practice.

• Department: Occupational Therapy

How theoretical information is formulated, refined, tested, and assessed relative to its suitability for use in sets of guidelines for occupational therapy practice.

• Department: Occupational Therapy

Examination of theoretical literature commonly employed and debated within the humanities and social sciences. Through the work of established social theorists and scholars, students explore on-going debates in traditional academic disciplines and understand their usefulness to recent scholarship in developing food studies.

• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies

This course introduces first-year doctoral students to the empirical study of higher education. Students examine the ways that scholars in the field have framed lines of inquiry, with particular attention paid to the role of theory in research. Students review and analyze several major topics in higher education, including the relationship between postsecondary institutions and societies, workers, and students.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

This course will develop students’ ability to synthesize key theories & concepts in the study of media, culture, & communication, through the mapping of conceptual fields & development of syllabi aimed at core theories & individual research areas, drawing out relationships—logical, epistemological, historical, & methodological between relevant concepts, theories, schools of thought, & subdisciplines.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

Theory and practice of nutritional education and dietary behavior change; methods of nutrition counseling in a variety of settings.

• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies

This seminar consists of readings, writings, and discussion. The course is divided into weekly units covering theories and philosophies relating to art and new media, as well as geo- and spatial politics, social justice, literature, environment, race, gender, and other topics. The course bibliography is tailored specifically to current MFA students and their art practices. Readings span a range of historical periods, with emphasis on how these texts relate to the contemporary moment, exposing students to both canonical and new ideas in art and theory.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

Students use learning theory to develop their own teaching philosophy and apply both to the development of instructional methods appropriate for their content and teaching environment. Includes examination of learning theory, instructional techniques, tools, strategies, and issues related to effective teaching and adult learning in academic and organizational settings.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

Critical overview of the major theories of personality.

• Department: Applied Psychology

Learning in, through, and about dance is the focus of this course which investigates contemporary educational theory, curriculum development and assessment approaches basic to the establishment of a teaching method in dance. Focus on understanding dance education in the context of general education learning environments (K-12) in multicultural settings, incorporating the National, State, and New York City Standards in Dance Education; and exploring how dance enhances social and cognitive skills critical to the developing child. Learning through and about dance is the focus of this course.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

An introduction to the tools and vocabulary needed for critically engaging with
music from a broad range of styles and repertoire in preparation for upper-level courses in the music theory sequence. Topics include rhythmic and metric organization, melodic structure, ornamentation, instrumental families, texture, tuning systems, harmonic syntax, and basic voice- leading techniques representative of music in Western diatonic harmony, popular music and film,
and non-Western musics

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Intermediate-level music theory. Courses under this general title provide an introduction to phrase structure, formal analysis, advanced diatonic harmony, basics in chromatic harmony including modulation and tonicization, and advanced topics in rhythm and meter relevant to a particular style of repertoire.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Theory and analysis of popular music. Popular music, defined broadly, includes pop, rock, hip hop, rap, metal, jazz, folk, and musical theater and film repertoire. Topics include scales and modes, lead sheet and Nashville number notation, phrase structure, song forms, harmonic syntax, loops and harmonic chord schemas, tonicization and modulation, and rhythmic and timbral analysis in popular music. Students will develop basic proficiency in a DAW and music notation program. This course will culminate in a final composition or analysis project.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Theory and analysis of popular music. Popular music, defined broadly,
includes pop, rock, hip hop, rap, metal, jazz, folk, and musical theater
and film repertoire. Topics include scales and modes, lead sheet and
Nashville number notation, phrase structure, song forms, harmonic syntax,
loops and harmonic chord schemas, tonicization and modulation, and rhythmic
and timbral analysis in popular music. Students will develop basic
proficiency in a DAW and music notation program. This course will culminate
in a final composition or analysis project.

Theory and analysis of diatonic common-practice classical repertoire with an introduction to chromatic harmony and small forms. Topics include phrase structure, voice leading, sequences, secondary functions, tonicization, modulation, and advanced topics in rhythm and meter in common-practice Western music. The course builds on composition and analysis skills developed in Theory & Practice I, and introduces students to techniques in four-part contrapuntal writing, arranging, and model composition.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Theory and analysis of diatonic common-practice classical repertoire with
an introduction to chromatic harmony and small forms. Topics include phrase
structure, voice leading, sequences, secondary functions, tonicization,
modulation, and advanced topics in rhythm and meter in common-practice
Western music. The course builds on composition and analysis skills
developed in Theory & Practice I, and introduces students to techniques in
four-part contrapuntal writing, arranging, and model composition.