Courses

This course focuses on the theory, practice, and practical applications of sound reinforcement. Topics covered include specific microphone techniques, for live sound, audio system components and configuration, stage monitoring, film, and corporate events, permanent sound installation, and Broadway productions. Onsite visits will be included.

This is an advanced graduate-level course covering the C++ programming
language, with an emphasis on developing applications for music and audio. Students are expected to have working knowledge of C; this course extends that knowledge to C++, exploring object-oriented topics such as classes, inheritance, function and operator overloading, polymorphism and encapsulation. Students use existing frameworks and libraries to create their own audio applications and audio plug-ins.

Students place, conduct and evaluate a teaching apprenticeship for adolescents in which they demonstrate proficiency in the use of biomechanics, artistic imagery, musical accompaniment and insight on the needs of the developing dance student at professional and recreational tracks of study. Additionally, students will examine and prepare a Ballet choreography and differentiate its elements according to the developmental needs of students ages 5-9, 10-13, and 14-18.

This course enables the student to understand advanced knowledge of the musculoskeletal system and knowledge of the interaction of this system with the neuromuscular, cardiovascular pulmonary, integumentary, endocrine, reproductive and digestive systems. The advanced knowledge will include synthesizing histology, physiology, pathophysiology, and pathophysiology effects on the musculoskeletal system.

The course focuses on the selection and use of an evidence-based evaluation system to measure practice outcomes and interpret clinical change. This process requires selecting the tools for assessment of function based on achieved validity and to accurately interpret observations and measurements.

An advanced examination of technology and production techniques related to recorded music. Topics include evaluating artistic elements of sound in audio reproductions, the listening space, sonic characteristics of analog and digital mediums, mono, stereo, quad and surround microphone techniques, signal processing and mixing.

Advanced level aural comprehension. Courses under this general title explore advanced topics in sight-reading, music transcription, and critical analytical listening.

Techniques of music listening developed through sight-singing, transcription, and aural analysis. Topics are coordinated with the co-requisite course, Advanced Theory & Practice: French Music and include French dances and other large forms, added and extended chords, embellishing chords, the “cadence Fauréenne,” modes and pentatonic collections, and Messiaen’s “additive” rhythms and “modes of limited transposition.” Students will learn aural strategies for describing form, characteristic features of French dance, and stylistic and regional influences.

Practice in the critical listening and transcription of popular music. Advanced topics in rhythm and meter, timbre, chromatic and extended harmonies, and melody. Building on transcription skills acquired in Aural Skills I and II, students learn techniques for transcribing recorded vocal and instrumental material in popular music. Defined broadly, popular music includes pop, rock, hip hop, R&B, blues, rap, disco, indie, metal, jazz, folk, and musical theater and film repertoire. The course will culminate in a final transcription project.

Continued development of sight-singing, dictation, and aural analysis
skills developed in the prerequisite course, Advanced Aural Skills:
Chromatic Harmony. Students will critically listen to, transcribe, and
perform music incorporating modes, chromatic and jazz harmony, extended
tonality, and atonality. Advanced rhythmic topics include polyrhythm,
syncopation, swing, mixed meter, and metric modulation.

Practice in advanced melodic and rhythmic sight-singing. This course builds on skills developed in Aural Skills I and II, emphasizing the performance of melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic material using solfège. Students learn strategies for improvisation and advanced sight reading in a broad range of styles and genres including repertoire from jazz, classical, and popular music.

This course builds statistical and analytic skills in advanced causal inference techniques, focusing on advanced topics and applications in regression discontinuity designs and in matching estimators. We go in depth with the theory, assumptions and plausibility checks, applications, recent advances, combinations of these designs with other techniques, and complications of the designs. Students learn advanced techniques hands-on, and produce a journal-quality manuscript by the end of the semester.

This course addresses issues unique to the teaching of Chinese as a world or second language. Students learn to develop standards-based thematic units for the Chinese classroom and Chinese-specific strategies for engaging students with varying learning needs, comprehension and production, pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing). Attention will be paid to understanding the cultural context of teaching and program models. Part I focuses on classical Chinese.

This course develops advanced Chinese (Mandarin) language proficiency in both oral and written expression and enhances knowledge of Chinese language and rhetorical instructions through selected readings of both classical and contemporary Chinese literary works of various genres. Part II focuses on contemporary Chinese.

Project-based course designed to guide students through three advanced projects:
data visualization with APIs, games that communicate specific experiences, and cooperative networked interactions where two users work together to achieve a common goal. Each project is split into 3-4 weeks, so students have ample time to thoughtfully design a program, think through the technical architecture, develop it, and iterate based on in-class feedback.

An advanced course in expository writing for all students, especially those concerned with writing in school settings. Hours are arranged for individual counseling.

Focuses on artistic creation with digital audio, honing both technical and aesthetic skills. Students work through exercises using a variety of platforms, learn to critique and help improve each other’s work, and explore unfamiliar techniques and styles to extend and enrich the idioms of their prior practice. Students analyze landmark compositions from the history of computer music as well as contemporary electronic genres. Course culminates with a public performance of student work.

​Advanced Directing​ is an examination of advanced techniques of directing through the practical directing of scenes, exploration of rehearsal tools for work with actors, and the creation of original staging formats. Innovative directing techniques will be explored, including a study of Naturalism, Realism, Viewpoints, Rasa Boxes, and Expressionistic and Brechtian devices. Students will work towards developing their own directorial voice and performance aesthetics through​ practical and​ dynamic use of the theatre space.

This course enables the student to integrate knowledge in physical therapy with statistics and research design to critically analyze current physical therapy literature.

Principles and practice of identification, comparison, and evaluation of selected foods, ingredients, techniques, and equipment for recipe formulation, menu planning, or preparation with an emphasis on modifications to meet specific nutritional or other requirements.