Courses

Application of electrotherapeutic modalities, including alternating, direct, and pulsed current (e.g. high voltage galvanic stimulation, interferential current), neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES), functional electrical stimulation (FES) for improving posture for movement, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS), iontophoresis, electrical muscle stimulation, and biofeedback in order to: modulate or decrease pain; reduce or eliminate soft tissue inflammation caused by musculoskeltelal, neuromuscular, peripheral vascular, or integumentary injury, disease, developmental delay, or surgery; maintain strength after injury or surgery; decrease unwanted muscular activity; assist muscle contraction in gait or other functional training; or increase the rate of healing of open wounds.

• Department: Physical Therapy

This course surveys African-American history and literature from 1845 to the present, from Frederick Douglass and the Harlem Renaissance writers that originate from Howard University (Zora Hurston and Alain Locke). The course examines issues of race and caste from Ta-Nehisi Coates’ memoire Between the World and Me. The course uses the location of Washington, DC as a resource, visiting the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, Howard University, the National Museum of African-American Culture and History, and the Martin Luther King Memorial Site.

The course considers the global circulation of Black culture(s) via diasporic
(US/Caribbean, African, Afro-pean, Afro-Asian) cultural forms, including painting, lithography, photography, cinema, anime, and the discursive habits of cyberspace. Screenings of photography, television, music videos, cartoons allow students to reflect on Black aesthetic traditions and media practices as a way of engaging a civil society structured by racial antagonism. Readings draw on African art history, audio and film culture studies, psychoanalysis, critical theory and ethnic studies

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

This experiential seminar interrogates the democratization of pattern discovery. Who decides what to count and what to keep? Using New York City as a laboratory, we explore the systems of power embedded in tabulation and archiving, and the possibilities of open, decentralized, and autonomous futures. We reflect on the past and present of knowledge infrastructures -- from books to blockchain.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Rehearsal techniques and special problems in ensemble performance.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Open to departmental graduate students majoring in music. Private lessons in brass instruments. All styles & forms supplemented by extra assignments. Jury examination required at end of semester. Required attendance at brass recitals & master classes.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

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

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

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Private or group lessons (by examination) in brass instruments, supplemented by extra assignments, outside practice, and observation.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Rehearsal techniques and special problems in ensemble performance.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course provides students with foundational knowledge of pedagogical
approaches for teaching brass instruments through established methods and repertoire. Students gain knowledge of pedagogical approaches and resources for teaching brass at various levels, put new information into practice through teaching demonstrations and research assignments, and explore methods on organizing and managing a private studio.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course provides students with foundational knowledge of pedagogical
approaches for teaching brass instruments through established methods and repertoire. Students gain knowledge of pedagogical approaches and resources for teaching brass at various levels, put new information into practice through teaching demonstrations and research assignments, and explore methods on organizing and managing a private studio.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Instrumental Performance juries assess each student’s growth in instrumental techniques including intonation, rhythm, tone production, articulation, dynamics, and musicality. Juries take place at a designated time at the end of the semester and are evaluated by each student’s program director and any additional invited faculty. Jury repertoire is selected in conversation with each student’s private teacher, and
each student studies their jury repertoire in their private lessons.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Instrumental Performance juries assess each student’s growth in instrumental techniques including intonation, rhythm, tone production, articulation, dynamics, and musicality. Juries take place at a designated time at the end of the semester and are evaluated by each student’s program director and any additional invited faculty. Jury repertoire is selected in conversation with each student’s private teacher, and
each student studies their jury repertoire in their private lessons.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

An ensemble approach to teaching, learning and performing on brass instruments in diverse music and school settings. Each student will have experience with high and low brass instruments, and will study the transpositions needed for these instruments. This course is designed for students in Music Education and prepares them for meeting the requirements for K-12 music teacher certification.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

An ensemble approach to teaching, learning and performing on brass instruments in diverse music and school settings. Each student will have experience with high and low brass instruments, and will study the transpositions needed for these instruments. This course is designed for students in Music Education and prepares them for meeting the requirements for K-12 music teacher certification.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

The course in designed to expose students to a series of musical styles, presented chronologically respecting the historical, social, political & economic developments of Brazilian culture as whole.Specific recordings will be used to enhance the awareness of harmonic, rhythmic & textural elements on each genre. Together with these musical styles the students will learn about the racial structure of Brazilian culture, the social impact of its music on education & economical stability to many under privilege communities.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions