Courses

This life drawing course explores the human figure along with compelling ideas. Our process focuses on observation and the relational over strict anatomy, aspiring for nuanced and skillful representation. Ideas examined include notions of time, value, beauty, structure, humanism and more -- all to be explored in an effort to unpack the inherent but changing resonance of the human form in art.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

An introduction to the role and responsibilities of teachers, school administrators, and pupil personnel staff in the coordinated school health programs. Course content covers mandated health subjects, e.g., recognition and prevention of substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, child abduction; child abuse recognition (2 hours), safety education, including fire and arson prevention, and violence prevention (2 hours). Meets NYS Education Department certification requirements for instruction in school violence prevention, identification and reporting of child abuse. Fulfills training required for certification/licensure under the Dignity for All Students Act (DASA).

• Department: Applied Psychology

An introduction to the role and responsibilities of teachers, school administrators, and pupil personnel staff in the coordinated school health programs. Course content covers mandated health subjects, e.g., recognition and prevention of substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, child abduction; child abuse recognition (2 hours), safety education, including fire and arson prevention, and violence prevention (2 hours). Meets NYS Education Department certification requirements for instruction in school violence prevention, identification and reporting of child abuse. Fulfills training required for certification/licensure under the Dignity for All Students Act (DASA).

• Department: Teaching and Learning

An introduction to the role and responsibilities of teachers, school administrators, and pupil personnel staff in the coordinated school health programs. Course content covers mandated health subjects, e.g., recognition and prevention of substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, child abduction; child abuse recognition (2 hours), safety education, including fire and arson prevention, and violence prevention (2 hours). Meets NYS Education Department certification requirements for instruction in school violence prevention, identification and reporting of child abuse. Fulfills training required for certification/licensure under the Dignity for All Students Act (DASA).

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course explores the professional responsibilities of teaching in connection with students, colleagues, families, & the school community. Topics include the social responsibilities of teachers and DASA training in anti-bullying education, substance abuse prevention, HIV/AIDS prevention, child abuse recognition and reporting and school violence prevention. Residents gain skills in activating protective resources, advocating for diverse students & their families, working with colleagues & community partners, & supporting empowerment & resilience in the classroom.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course examines the concept of rhythm, its use primarily in contemporary
songwriting, screen scoring, and concert composition, and the tools employed in its integration in the music created in those fields. Students explore a wide range of stylistic approaches to the art of drumming, programming in the digital audio workstation, and beat-making within the context of music creation, arranging and performing. Students gain a historical perspective through an exploration of the rhythmic styles of the popular music of the past 60 years.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Description of swallowing disorders in adults and children associated with various structural, neurological, and behavioral disorders. Assessment and remediating approaches will be addressed.

• Department: Communicative Sciences and Disorders

This course will examine theories & techniques related to analyzing recorded & environmental sounds. Students will sharpen listening skills with comprehensive ear training exercises & guided listening explorations. Topics include frequency discrimination, reverberation, dynamics, distortion, sonic effects, sound ecology & other related topics.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course examines contemporary mass media in East Asia by focusing on media institutions and practices in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China. Special attention is paid to such issues as media regulations and censorship, press freedom and journalistic practices, the rise of East Asian media industries, intra-region flows of information and entertainment, and the presence and influence of transnational media companies in East Asia.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

Considers essential elements of economic theories of the public finance and human capital. Examines arguments for and against various policy strategies for funding higher education. Provides knowledge of higher education finance and budgeting and undergraduate student aid. Includes a Virtual University simulation that provides experience working with key variables.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

*An introduction to the theoretical and empirical methods used in modern
economic analysis of education. Economic theory and econometric methods are
applied to topics such as the demand for and returns to schooling, the
impact of school resources on outcomes, student incentives, school choice,
accountability, teacher labor markets, and school funding equity. Attention
is paid to the ability of statistics and econometric methods to make causal
inferences about effects of education policies and to predict likely impact
of policy changes.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities

Course focuses on the fundamentals of applied microeconomics to the production, pricing, selling, and reselling of works of art. Topics include the production economics of the artist’s studio and analysis of art markets in terms of supply and demand, property rights, and other concepts from microeconomics and related business strategy. The course applies economic analysis to for-profits (galleries and auction houses), non-profits (museums), and hybrid models (technology-driven start-ups/artist-led social-practice)

• Department: Art and Art Professions

Strategies for general and special education teachers to meet the cognitive, emotional, and social needs of adolescents with disabilities in general education classes in middle and high schools. Methods for collaboration with teachers, parents and other professionals, including participation in IEP development. Examination of service delivery models at the middle and high school levels. Issues of transition planning, curriculum development, instructional planning, uses of technology, identifying strengths and differentiating instruction, with a special focus on the development of literacy skills and processes that promote social skill development and interpersonal communication

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Summer institute focused on co-designing game-like learning strategies to address authentic educational problems. Through face-to-face and online activities, this blended course partners graduate students with pre and in-service teachers to create usable learning materials, which are then archived online to support continued collaborations. Final project allows students to test game-based designs at an onsite children's summer camp. Course targets students seeking to apply design to real-world settings and teachers seeking unique professional development.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

Students engage with concepts, theories, designs, and examples of learning experiences that may or may not be seen as "creative" by learners and stakeholders in China. Explores what creative learning might be in Chinese contexts through hands-on projects, qualitative data collection/analysis, and applications of theories of learning, design, and creativity to experiences and sites across the lifespan. Students create case studies which critique, problematize, and challenge traditional notions of creative learning and assembled into a shared online resource publication.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

Working with a real world client, students will work collaboratively on an integrated design project to imagine creative solutions to emergent problems, think critically, communicate effectively, & manage both human and material resources. On teams with graduate student peers, faculty, and external clients students will develop skills to understand, empathize & ‘frame’ client challenges & opportunities responsive to challenging times. Students will present solutions to problems and opportunities,
and iterate based on feedback.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

This course is an introduction to entrepreneurship in education where students learn how to critically evaluate ideas, companies, and markets related to educational technology, especially in relation to some of the key problems and challenges of educating all people to their fullest potential. Students hear from
guest experts, explore in-depth case studies, and do field work with companies in the NYU Edtech Accelerator. Students may also participate in a concurrent optional internship (permission of instructor required).

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

This course considers the role of education as a social institution and the ways in which it fosters, prevents, and maintains social inequities in the U.S. We examine the structural and cultural ways in which schools have played a role in building and sustaining social hierarchies and shaped the character of our society. We explore how schooling socializes students differently based on their real/perceived culture, race, class, gender, sexual identity, and immigrant status and how that leads to differential outcomes for different groups. Students explore the origins, development, and current state of social theory and practice/research on education.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities

This course will address the development and implementation of curricula and instructional strategies for special education teachers to meet the academic and socio emotional needs of the children with disabilities in elementary and secondary environments, including classroom and community. The course also focuses on methods for collaboration among teachers, parents, and other professionals, including participation in IEP development. Frameworks for universal design and differentiating instruction will be used to support methods of instruction.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

An in-depth study of education reform in an international context. The goal is to understand education policy reform, with attention to the contexts & variables contributing to reform initiatives, With emphasis on original research & the exchange of ideas, students will explore educational reform’s contextual variables & the push & pull factors such as globalization & key international institutions involved in reform. Different theoretical frameworks used to understand educational reform will be examined.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology