Courses

This course examines how cultural memory is enacted through visual culture in a comparative global context. It looks at the rise of a memory culture over the last few decades, in particular in the United States, Europe & Latin America, & how this engagement with memory demonstrates how the politics of memory can reveal aspects of nationalism & national identity, ethnic conflict & strife, the legacies of state terrorism, & the deployment of memory as a means for further continued conflict.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

This course examines the interactive relationship between culture and tourism. By taking a case approach the class analyzes the business practices of the arts as a tourism enterprise. The cases will highlight marketing principles drawn from readings, discussions, and guest lectures. Lectures, discussions and guest speakers will accompany text and journal readings. Case studies will provide concrete examples to accompany theoretical concepts.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Students reflect and form their initial frameworks about speech and language practices with culturally and linguistically diverse populations in health settings and global contexts. Students prepare to develop a global consciousness, and provide effective services in a globalized world through understanding how communication processes fit into historical, economic, political and sociocultural contexts and the implications of these broader contexts for collaborative and family-centered assessment and intervention services.

• Department: Communicative Sciences and Disorders

The course situates SLP practice within its historical and ideological roots; analyzes the socio-political context underlying service delivery to minoritized children labeled as disabled in the US; interrogates how socially-constructed positionalities intersect within systems of oppression, and how this intersectionality affects instructional practices for all learners. Integrates culturally responsive, sustaining, and decolonial pedagogies into the repertoire of speech-language practices and develops new asset-focused and liberatory assessments and interventions.

• Department: Communicative Sciences and Disorders

What does it mean to be "urban" in China & how is Chinese urbanism mediated by new cultural formations? In this course we examine the culture and media that define city life in China, including state and popular media, television and film, music, fashion, verbal art and literature, and visual art. We focus on the period from the building booms of the mid-to-late nineties to the present. Students work in teams to make presentations, use primary sources (in translation) and secondary sources to write individual essays.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

A veritable buzzword globalization refers to several newly emerged trends. To name the three most visible ones these are the economy, culture and politics. Media do not only describe and interpret globalization but also are its important part. A study of globalization is inherently diverse and eclectic. So is this course. Students will read, watch, analyze and discuss. In class discussions and writings they are expected to engage questions connected to globalization, culture and the media. Through a series of lectures and discussions the course explores how the process of globalization transforms the media and examines the impact of new technologies on global communications. Emphasizing the transnational context of media and culture the course approaches global media and cultural production from a wide range of theoretical frameworks relevant to contemporary condition.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

Increasingly, leaders are looking for strategies to lead in arts organizations. This course provides a framework for students interested in leadership development in the arts. The most dynamic leaders inspire others to think outside the box and use creative approaches to solve complex issues. Through this course, students apply principles in music as well as other art forms and artistic creative thinking approaches to inspire engaged learning of leadership application for socially innovative thinking.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

In depth examination of cultural and contextual factors and how these factors impact every aspect of psychological theory, practice and research. Major theories, assessment approaches, clinical practice and research in psychology will be critiques by investigating universalistic principles, behavior and experience as it occurs in cultures and contexts and is influenced by culture and context, as well as issues such as oppression, racism, prejudice, social class and value differences.

• Department: Applied Psychology

Explores the creative and practical aspects of curating contemporary art. Students will devise an exhibition proposal to be presented in the project space at 80WSE Gallery. Students will be introduced to curators, explore a variety of current exhibitions, and discuss expanded curatorial approaches and counter-exhibition histories. Other assignments include developing an exhibition budget, devising a design/installation plan and determining communication strategies.design/installation plan & determining communications strategy.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

The early childhood classroom explored as nexus for collaborative, integrative curriculum building, with greater focus on theory. Emphasis on child-centered, culturally inclusive approaches. Study of verbal and nonverbal communication, reading, writing, numeracy, science, social studies, the arts, and an expanded vision of technology appropriate for diverse populations of young children.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course covers issues that arise from the diversity of music therapy theory and practice. It examines the clinical, theoretical, professional, and ethical concerns that constitute the contemporary debate over the nature of music therapy practice and the identity of the discipline and its practitioners.
The NYU program is contextualized within the broader profession of music therapy and the profession as a whole is contextualized within a variety of social contexts.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Critical analysis of recent research, trends, and public policy issues in selected areas of nutrition and health.

• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies

A multi-disciplinary examination and application of the implications of critical theory for curriculum and pedagogy and the ways in which the educative environment can reflect this framework in music education. Particular attention will be paid to the performing arts and the ways in which our marginal status provides a powerful entry point into the conversation of "general education."

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

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• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies

Introduction to academic and professional resources at New York University and to career opportunities in food studies and food management, nutrition and dietetics, or public health. Class meets three or four times during the first semester of study.

• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies

Critical evaluation of recent research through seminars and class discussions.

• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies

Explores how the curriculum and instructional practice are shaped by research in Literacy and English Language Arts. Topics to be discussed include teacher-initiated research on curriculum and instruction, the relationship between research and curriculum development, and the role of the teacher in interpreting research. This course fulfills the culminating experience requirement for English Education MA degrees.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

An overview of various junior and senior high school mathematics curricula and methods of assessment with a focus on their differences and how they are implemented in an actual classroom environment.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Explores how curriculum and instructional practice are shaped by research in Literacy and English Language Arts. Topics to be discussed include teacher-initiated research on curriculum and instruction, the relationship between research and curriculum development, and the role of the teacher in interpreting research. This course fulfills the culminating experience requirement for the English Education MA degrees.

• Department: Teaching and Learning