Courses

An examination of graded technical material, repertoire & teaching methods. Studies will include how to teach various technical concepts, working with various fingerings & bowings & the correct progression of repertoire. The emphasis will be on understanding how students learn mentally & physically.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

An examination of graded technical material, repertoire & teaching methods. Studies will include how to teach various technical concepts, working with various fingerings & bowings & the correct progression of repertoire. The emphasis will be on understanding how students learn mentally & physically.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

An examination of scale fingerings, arpeggios, bowings, articulations and rhythmic patterns through single scales and double stops.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

An examination of scale fingerings, arpeggios, bowings, articulations & rhythmic patterns through single scales & double stops.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This 9-week, Saturday practicum focuses on the teaching of visual arts in secondary school & the qualities that constitute meaningful learning through the visual arts. The course will cover the theoretical & practical aspects of teaching, understanding the relationship of art education to contemporary society as well as methods & strategies to deal with the demands of teaching in a variety of school settings. The practicum is taken in conjunction with is part of School Arts: Issues in Pedagogy & Curriculum II, ARTED GE 2272.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

Individual studio visits with full-time & visiting faculty, visiting artists, curators, & writers are arranged by advance appointment for an in-depth discussion about the student’s work

• Department: Art and Art Professions

Development of a business in the fine arts including core vision, program and presentation, promotion, marketing, sales, contracts, and financial planning. Examination of what differentiates an arts business from other kinds of businesses. Students gain exposure to variety of professionals in the commercial arena of the visual arts including gallerists, dealers, and consultants. The course concludes with the formulation and presentation of a comprehensive business plan for a start up arts business.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

Building on Interdisciplinary Art Practice I and II and designed for practicing artists, this course combines theory and artistic practice to examine the development of the arts from a critical perspective. Students explore a range of models from structuralism and semiotics to modern and postmodern paradigms. Students gain the skills and confidence to express their artistic objectives in critical writing, art making, and verbal analysis through presentations, works of art generated through research, and written statements about their artistic objectives.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

This course is an introduction to the history and theory of vision and visuality, with a particular focus on research methods in the study of visual culture. The course focuses on the research methods and approaches specific to the field of visual culture and related fields of study, its scholarly literature, its theoretical genealogy, and the stakes in interdisciplinary research.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

This course examines the imagery of science and technology, the role of visuality in the construction of scientific knowledge, artistic renditions of science, and the emergence of visual technologies in modern society. It looks at how visuality has been key to the exercise of power through such practices as cataloguing and identification; the designation of abnormality, disease, and pathologies; medical diagnosis; scientific experimentation; and the marketing of science and medicine. We will examine the development of the visual technologies in the emerging scientific practices of psychiatry and criminology; explore the sciences of eugenics, genetics, pharmacology, brain and body scans, and digital medical images of many kinds; the marketing of pharmaceuticals, and the emerging politics of scientific activism.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

Examines visual culture of the city, from the dynamics of visuality in the 19th-century modern cityscape to the mega cities of globalization. It addresses the visual dynamics, infrastructure, architecture, public art and design imaginaries of urban spaces, taking New York City and Paris as primary case studies and including other cities from the 19th century to the present. The course will examine the politics of urban design, the city as a site of division, disaster, memory, and political activism. Meets Liberal Arts Core requirement for Societies and Soc Sciences.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

This course examines visual culture through a focus on the city, from the dynamics of visuality in the nineteenth-century modern cityscape to the mega cities of globalization. We will look at the visual dynamics of urbanscapes, architecture, cinema, memory, and consumerism in the visual culture of the city.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

Private coaching sessions in the preparation of material for performance in the student's graduating recital. Work is focused on the interpretation, style, and placing material in its appropriate cultural and historical context.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Private coaching sessions in the preparation of material for performance in the student's graduating recital. Work is focused on the interpretation, style, and placing material in its appropriate cultural and historical context.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Private coaching sessions in the preparation of material for performance in the student's graduating recital. Work is focused on interpretation, style, and placing material in its appropriate cultural and historical context.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

A laboratory environment where students will have the opportunity to hone their teaching skills. Each student will teach 4 demonstration lessons in class. The objective will be to apply the knowledge acquired in Vocal Pedagogy I regarding anatomy, physiology, acoustics and teaching philosophy.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Examines current knowledge of the singing voice based on research in anatomy, physiology, and acoustics with a focus on the study or voice science. Theoretical concepts based in current scientific research regarding singing and widely used resonance strategies will be discussed. Students develop assessment and application tools including the use of VoceVista, a computer software/hardware program used to measure acoustic output and connectivity at the vocal fold level.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Introduction to vocal techniques and materials with emphasis on vocal development at all grade levels, including the changing voice.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Introduction to vocal techniques and materials with emphasis on vocal development at all grade levels, including the changing voice.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Study of vocal physiology and the basic principles and techniques of vocal production and pedagogy. Students learn practical application of vocal principles by giving private vocal instruction to nonvoice majors.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions