Courses

This course, taught in small groups of students, serves to polish and develop composing skills in an environment that stimulates discussion. During the small group discussions, students present some of their work, which is critiqued by the instructor and the other students in the group. Through this process of critique and discussion, students refine their composition skills and techniques.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Composition in all forms and styles including electronic. Electronic laboratory by assignment.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Technology-based methods for transcription and analysis of language samples in the assessment of communication disorders. How the analysis of language samples collected during spontaneous speech production plays an important part in the assessment of such disorders and provides a key feature of research involving this population. Students will video-record an interaction between two speakers, learn to use digitized image and sound for transcription of language samples, and use a computerized method (the SALT program) for analyzing language samples collected during spontaneous speech.

• Department: Communicative Sciences and Disorders

Introduction to the concert business: contracts; the relationship between promoters, managers, & agents; marketing & ticket sales; how the concert business relates to other segments of the music industry.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Course emphasizes concert promotion & facilities management. Content to include large venues & club outlets, box office & crowd management, labor relations, production techniques (i.e. sets, lights, sound, costumes, etc.), special events, tour planning & coordination, contracts & riders. Case histories to display investment capital pursuits, administration/staffing, market identification, objectives, sequencing & strategies, budgeting, & break-even from an entrepreneurial perspective.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course prepares students to participate in NYU Steinhardt's Fall Dance Concert. Explore dance production from an educational perspective, with a focus on using a professional concert model as a basis for creating productions in a variety of settings. Guest lectures in lighting and stage management as well as required elements for participation as a choreographer for the concert.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course guides and supports students as they develop their choreographic work for NYU Steinhardt's Fall Dance Concert. Creates an open dialogue among choreographers to develop their skills in processing feedback and evaluating their own work. Students work in committees to co-produce aspects of the concert including publicity and press, documentation and reception, and programming and scheduling. Students share works in progress informally in class, semi-formally at faculty/staff showing, and formally onstage in the Loewe Theatre.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Introduction to the concepts of live concert recording. Microphone selection, characteristics & placement as well as acoustic problems encountered in concert halls will be discussed. Students will have the opportunity to apply the lecture material by recording undergraduate rehearsals & recitals.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Introduction to the concepts of the live concert recording. Microphone selection, characteristics, and placement, as well as the acoustic problems encountered in concert halls will be discussed. Students will have the opportunity to apply the lecture material by recording undergraduate rehearsals and recitals.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

In this studio class, students work on specific advanced skills required for today’s professional orchestral and ensemble conductor. They practice challenging pieces from the orchestral repertoire, with a specific emphasis on contemporary pieces of music. Students also develop a comprehensive approach to rehearsal planning and structure, including specific strategies that allow time optimization.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

In this studio class, students work on specific advanced skills required for today’s professional orchestral and ensemble conductor. They practice challenging pieces from the orchestral repertoire, with a specific emphasis on contemporary pieces of music. Students also develop a comprehensive approach to rehearsal planning and structure, including specific strategies that allow time optimization.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

In this studio class, students work on specific advanced skills required for the professional music theater conductor. They study works from the music theater repertoire, with a specific emphasis on shows of various periods and genres. Students develop a comprehensive approach to rehearsal planning and tructure, including specific strategies that allow time optimization.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

In this studio class, students work on specific advanced skills required for the professional music theater conductor. They study works from the music theater repertoire, with a specific emphasis on shows of various periods and genres. Students develop a comprehensive approach to rehearsal planning and structure, including specific strategies that allow time optimization.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

In this studio class, students develop foundational conducting skills for the professional conductor. This includes specific techniques associated with choral conducting, instrumental conducting, and conducting synchronized with visual media. Topics include arms/baton technique, rehearsing the ensemble, score study techniques, and conducting with a click track.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

In this studio class, students develop foundational conducting skills for the professional conductor. This includes specific techniques associated with choral conducting, instrumental conducting, and conducting synchronized with visual media. Topics include arms/baton technique, rehearsing the ensemble, score study techniques, and conducting with a click track.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

In this studio class, students build upon foundational conducting skills to develop specific techniques to conduct instrumental ensembles with a focus on the orchestral repertoire. Students practice seminal pieces of the history of western orchestral music that serve as case studies to develop a sophisticated set of instrumental conducting skills.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

In this studio class, students build upon foundational conducting skills to develop specific techniques to conduct instrumental ensembles with a focus on the orchestral repertoire. Students practice seminal pieces of the history of western orchestral music that serve as case studies to develop a sophisticated set of instrumental conducting skills.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Consultation skills are central to the roles of counselors working in schools and various
mental health settings. This course exposes students to consultation theory, research, and practice in
settings serving children, adults, and families. By integrating experiences and observations in field
placements, students develop skills to examine variables related to client, consultee, and
organizational/systems contexts to implement and assess the effectiveness of various consultation
approaches within diverse communities and settings.

• Department: Applied Psychology

This course examines theories of consumption, consumer culture, commodification, branding, and the changing patterns of media consumption. We will investigate the history of consumer society from the nineteenth century through contemporary consumer practices shaped by digital media, changing spaces of consumerism, taste and lifestyle, the consumption of entertainment media, and critiques and resistances to consumerism.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

This course offers students the opportunity to engage with theories of communication & culture through the context of consumption & contemporary consumer society. Our focus will be on the role of commodities & consumer practices in everyday life & in culture at large. We will give particular attention to consumption's role in the construction of social & cultural identities. Students will consider critical responses to consumer culture, including the resistance & refusal of consumption as well as the attempted mobilization of consumption toward social change.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication