Courses

Students and teachers in this class will study musical theatre genre so as to consider the application and use of this repertoire in the training and developing analytical and pedagogical tools pertaining to repertoire and development of the human voice will be addressed as well as historical and current trends in the genre.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

In this course, students examine classical vocal repertoire and consider its application and practical use in the training of the singing voice throughout all stages of vocal development. Students apply analytical and pedagogical tools to assess the physical characteristics, artistic capabilities, and musical aptitude of the individual singer while determining the accessibility and appropriateness of assigned repertoire. Students consider the parameters of range, tessitura, melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic complexities, language, duration, dramatic context, and style.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

In this course, students examine classical, musical theatre and contemporary commercial vocal repertoire to consider its application and practical use in the training of the singing voice throughout all stages of vocal development. Students apply analytical and pedagogical tools to assess the physical characteristics, artist capabilities and musical aptitude of the individual singer while determining the difficulty levels of songs based on factors including, but not limited to vocal range, tessitura, dynamics, laryngeal positioning and embouchure configurations.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Group lessons (by examination) in voice, supplemented by extra assignments, outside practice, observation.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Private lessons (by examination) in voice, supplemented by extra assignments, outside practice, and observation.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Private lessons for non-majors (by examination) in voice, supplemented by extra assignments, outside practice, and observation.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Open to department graduate students majoring in music. Private voice lessons covering repertoire from all styles and forms, supplemented by extra assingnements. Attendance at recitals and master classes required.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Private or group lessons in voice, supplemented by extra assignments,
outside practice, and observation.

Private or group lessons (by examination) in voice, supplemented by extra assignments, outside practice, and observation. Required attendance at recitals.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Private lessons (by examination) in voice, supplemented by extra assignments, outside practice, and observation.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Private lessons for non-majors (by examination) in voice, supplemented by extra assignments, outside practice, and observation.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course continues the training of voice teachers as singing health specialists adding “hands-on” experience, thus increasing depth of content comprehension and advancing skills of application. Prerequisite knowledge will be made more explicitly practical for the teacher working with a compromised singing voice. Real-time application, assessment, and critical thinking will be emphasized in the context of a voice care “team”, further equipping singing teachers to confidently determine the most beneficial course of action for a singer needing specialized guidance.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course, offered in conjunction with the Langone Voice Center at the NYU School of Medicine, trains voice teachers as singing health specialists, building on prerequisite knowledge of vocal function thus increasing understanding of the care required for a compromised singing voice. Enhanced skills of aural discernment in placing voices on a spectrum from optimally functional to some degree of compromised function will expand assessment ability within the context of the private studio in order to determine if any singer is in need of specialized guidance.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course focuses on the anatomic, physiologic, and perceptual aspects of voice production and the voice changes triggered by risk factors or changes to the larynx. Students refine their voice models, enhance discrimination of voice characteristics, and learn setup procedures to encourage easy phonation. They learn to use a hypothesis-driven context to link vocal characteristics to underlying physiology. Students identify risk factors and learn to promote efficient phonation within a multicultural context, including transgender voice production.

• Department: Communicative Sciences and Disorders

A class for undergraduate majors of Educational Theater, this course focuses on the development of an actor's vocal instrument through physical exercises and work with poetic and dramatic text. Through exploration of established vocal techniques, students will build positive habits and ways of working with their voices that will allow for them to develop natural resonance and create more vocal variation. This increased vocal clarity will put them more directly in touch with their emotional impulses, and build a stronger dramatic foundation in acting.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

The course provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary overview of the multifaceted role that vocal expression plays in everyday communication.Familiar voice recognition, perception of emotion, attitude and personality, and interactions between speech and voice perception are described from sociological, psychological, physiological, and neurological perspectives. Evolutionary biology, cultural differences, singing, and uses in media and courtroom are discussed. Clinical studies examine self-awareness of vocal expression and the influence of vocal quality on personal identity. Voice as communication vehicle for speaker and listener is fully explored.

• Department: Communicative Sciences and Disorders

This seminar explores the practices of war as modes of material political communication in which media is militarized and violence is mediatized. This seminar will examine how modern warfare has generated new visual cultures, new media networks and the sensorium of modernity.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

This course examines the proposition that contemporary war should be understood as media. War has become mediatized and media has been militarized. This course treats war and political violence as communicative acts and technologies and focuses on how they shape our understanding and experience of landscape, vision, body, time and memory.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

Investigates the final stage of the food system- water and waste disposal- as it is manifested in the urban metropolis. This course also draws upon the historical underpinnings of the systems used to manage water and waste- but also the underlying issues of purity and contamination that these systems are also designed to address. Issues include water and waste in relation to changing landscapes and demographics- enmeshment in urban policymaking- and competing notions of environmentalism.

• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies

Students examine the evidence-based approaches to obesity management, including diet, physical activity, behavior modification, medications, surgery, and dietary supplements, in the treatment of excess body weight and adiposity. Students also discuss the current weight reduction trends that patients/clients may adopt outside of medical supervision.

• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies