Courses

A laboratory environment where students prepare for and execute all aspects of recording and releasing an Extended Play (EP) album. Students select songs, create accompaniment tracks and band charts, record vocals in a professional studio, mix and master final tracks, and release their EP on all major streaming and download
platforms.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

A laboratory environment where students explore all elements of contemporary songwriting (structure, harmony, melody and lyric). Students analyze and perform existing songs as well as compose their own original songs.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course trains the singer in the methods used to create studio recordings. Students learn the protocols of a recording studio environment (Dolan Recording Studio) and record professional background vocals in small groups.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course combines the technical abilities a student has learned in the voice studio with the performance and practical skills needed to be a well-rounded performer. Focus on performance skills required for a hybrid singer, including but not limited to truthful communication, stage presence, movement, the ability to use the prosody of language/speech inflections to inform vocalism and psychological gesture, and appropriateness of style and genre.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course offers an in-depth exploration of contemporary vocal styles with a strong emphasis on visual storytelling, music video production, and the creation of short-form performance content. Students will examine and perform material from a wide range of styles—including rock, pop, country, R&B, folk, disco, rap, and poetic/lyric-driven music—while learning to identify and embody the vocal traits that make each genre unique. The semester culminates in the creation of a personalized music video and short-form performance recordings suitable for social media or promotional materials.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This Module focuses on developing curriculum that is meaningful and culturally relevant, and responds to the individualized needs and abilities of diverse learners. Topics include theories of learning and instruction, accommodations and modifications for individuals, techniques for improved student performance, and using technologies to promote meaningful instruction. Module explores using learning characteristics to develop content-rich lesson plans to challenge and engage all learners while building on learners’ previously acquired skills, abilities, and knowledge.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Module introduces fundamentals of curriculum planning & development. Focus will be on creating content-rich curricula that provide culturally relevant learning experiences for students & enable them to connect meaningfully to other content areas & experiences outside the classroom. Students will gain valuable skills in developing curricula that meet content area standards while addressing students’ varied learning needs; providing individualized instruction (including use of IEPs in the classroom); & strategies for authentic assessment.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course serves as an introduction to special education. In this module, interns
learn foundational content on serving students with IEP’s using inclusive practices. Interns learn relevant special education policy, models of inclusive practices, aligning students’ individualized needs with grade-level content, and how to read and write IEP’s.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course focuses on assessment as an integral dimension of teaching and
learning. Our goals are to examine the role of assessment in designing and implementing IEPs for students with disabilities, and apply evidence-based assessment practices to address learning outcomes and enhance understanding for all students. This course encourages interns to examine the uncertainty that lies at the heart of teaching, and to identify practices that promote equitable
learning opportunities for all.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This culminating module focuses on participatory action research (PAR), which is one of the programmatic themes. PAR is characterized by a collaborative process of inquiry & action for change in response to organizational or community problems. Interns will learn how to design, create, implement, participate in, & present a PAR program of research focuses on a content area problem as well as learn how to keep the everyday world problematic, how to practice radical listening, & how to be a mindful learner.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This culminating module focuses on a year-long participatory action research
(PAR) journey. PAR is characterized by a collaborative process of inquiry and action for change in response to organizational or community challenges. Interns engage in a cycle of inquiry that focuses on the process of designing, creating, implementing, and practice radical listening, and being mindful learners and leaders. Interns are encouraged to reflect on the process and how it helped them develop student leadership, advocacy and voice as leaders.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

A culminating and integrating experience designed to provide doctoral students writing their dissertations the opportunity to discuss and probe the broader aspects of international development education, global and cross-cultural education, and public diplomacy.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities

A culminating and integrating experience designed to provide doctoral students writing their dissertations the opportunity to discuss and probe the broader aspects of international development education, global and cross-cultural education, and public diplomacy.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities

Examines the basic tenets and operative principles of the global copyright system. Considers the ways in which media industries, artists, and consumers interact with the copyright system and assesses how well it serves its stated purposes: to encourage art and creativity. Special emphasis on the social, cultural, legal, and political issues that have arisen in recent years as a reult of new communicative technologies.

Examines the basic tenets and operative principles of the global copyright system. Considers the ways in which media industries, artists, and consumers interact with the copyright system and assesses how well it serves its stated purposes: to encourage art and creativity. Special emphasis on the social, cultural, legal, and political issues that have arisen in recent years as a result of new communicative technologies.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

An in-depth exploration of the financial principles and methodologies used to
assess the value of companies and assets in the music sector is conducted through case studies of major music companies, independents, and emerging platforms incubated to acquire music catalog rights. Learners analyze the unique economic factors influencing valuations in the music industry, including intellectual property valuation, revenue streams from different types of royalties, and the impact of continued transformation through the adoption and growth of streaming.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Course focuses on strategies involved in developing corporate sponsorships in the arts. Various sponsorship case studies between corporations and non-profit arts organizations are analyzed as marketing tools to build the sponsor’s business, raise brand awareness, as well as align with and increase institutional support. Principles of strategic marketing and practical tools are presented through readings, assignments and discussions tied to effective writing to a potential sponsor, benefits offered and other tactical tips to secure sponsorship today.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

With a focus on preparing students for professional experience. Costume Conservation offers a consideration of the place of costume in the museum environment. Special attention is devoted to the handling and display of costume, textile and related objects. The course provides an introduction to the materials and methods of conservation, storage, and interpretation, and addresses appropriate actions in the museum context.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

Costume Design for the modern stage and the history of fashion. Three hours of practical laboratory a week.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Costume Design for the modern stage and the history of fashion. Three hours of practical laboratory a week.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions