Courses

This is a multidisciplinary course in which students with previous experience with analog and digital electronics create a novel hardware--based electronic musical instrument, controller, effects unit, or other device related to their interests in music and audio. Student projects may be analog, digital, or a hybrid, and should be unique in some way from devices currently in the commercial marketplace. Students present their designs and functioning physical prototypes with the class as they evolve throughout the semester for feedback.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This is a multidisciplinary course in which students with previous experience with analog and digital electronics create a novel hardware--based electronic musical instrument, controller, effects unit, or other device related to their interests in music and audio. Student projects may be analog, digital, or a hybrid, and should be unique in some way from devices currently in the commercial marketplace. Students present their designs and functioning physical prototypes with the class as they evolve throughout the semester for feedback.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course is designed to introduce occupational therapy students to the concept of leadership in complex and emerging practice environments. The course integrates leadership theory with practice through topical readings, reflection, discussion, and guest presentations. Students will develop a personal leadership philosophy to help guide their future leadership roles.

• Department: Occupational Therapy

A survey of post-industrial business models and regional/global markets that will under gird the production and distribution of music and music-related cultural goods and services in the first decades of the 21st century. The course lays out the major theoretical, historical, technological, and socioeconomic threads linking popular music and networked communications systems and media. Mixed contemporary theory with analyses of real-world.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Occupational therapists have always and will continue to respond to the emerging needs of society. This course examines how changes in society and health care influence and expand the provision of occupational therapy services in nontraditional settings, explores the history of emerging practice in the profession and teaches students how to develop theoretically based programs or services for emerging practice opportunities.

• Department: Occupational Therapy

Focuses on the way that emotion develops over the course of a lifespan in relation to cognition. Topics include the organization model of emotional development; the neural basis of emotion & cognition; the relation of emotional & cognitive development to temperament & personality.

• Department: Applied Psychology

This course will focus on the lyrical pronunciation rules for American and British English. Students will be required to demonstrate mastery of these rules through transliteration of song texts into the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and in performance of assigned repertoire.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Focus is on theoretical & practice-based understandings of admissions & retention programming in U.S. colleges. Links between practice & the theory & research relating to college choice, access, & retention will be explored. Variations by student population & institutional type will be presented & implications for programming will be considered.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

Students will acquire a basic framework for understanding the discipline of entrepreneurship & how to apply it to the music industry. The course is organized around the creation, assessment, growth development, & operation of new & emerging ventures in the for-profit music environments. Key concepts will be explored using the case methods.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Students will acquire a basic framework for understanding the discipline of entrepreneurship and how to apply it to the music industry. The course is organized around the creation, assessment, growth development, and operation of new and emerging ventures in the for-profit music environments. Key concepts will be explored using the case methods.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course is a comprehensive introduction to the performing arts environment in the US. It explores how external forces - political, legal, economic, social, cultural, and technological - along with global and industry-specific factors, impact cultural organizations and contribute to their success or failure. The course will help arts managers respond to the constantly changing global environment to successfully navigate an uncertain and complex future. The course includes a lab designed to enhance students’ career planning and professional development skills.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

An in-depth study of the music entertainment environment and the rapid changes (i.e. technology, acquisitions etc.) affecting the creation, production, business administrations, and professional standards of the industry. Emphasis is placed on expanding markets, new products, future technologies, and planning for the future. A historical overview and case studies are explored.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Introduction to environmental education with particular emphasis on theoretical & practical applications. Historical & philosophical perspectives will be explored in relation to current topics in environmental education & implications for school reform. We will examine national & local models of environmental education & analyze their relationship to contemporary issues of environmental literacy. Case studies will be drawn from a wide range of educational settings. Students will develop competencies in planning environmental education.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Identification of the formal structure, leadership, & recent activities of public & private organizations, groups, & businesses that express concern for, or engage in, public educational activities related to the environment. What are the agencies & organizations? What are they doing? What are their commitments? What are the intellectual grounds of their activities. Topical focus changes yearly.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Introduction to the art and science of cuisine characteristics of selected world cultures through lectures, demonstrations, hands-on preparation, and field trips.

• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies

Orientation to the profession of clinical and counseling psychology in the context of the sociological and historical literature on professionalization. Major issues in psychology across areas of theory, research, and practice are considered along with APA Professional Practice Guidelines. Major foci of the course also include examining ethical issues in research, practice, and training and the socialization of students to provision of health service psychology. There is a particular focus on racism, marginalization, and oppression from an intersectional perspective.

• Department: Applied Psychology

Course is focused on ethical principles in art therapy & designed to deepen personal & professional values. Students will enhance their theoretical knowledge by art experientials & role playing. Course topics are organized to reflect the professional Ethics Code established by the American Art Therapy Association. Particular emphasis will be placed on confidentiality dilemmas in therapy & research, dual-role relationships, & the personal & professional development of students’ identities as ethically minded art therapists.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

Analysis of philosophical issues in occupational therapy with an emphasis on considering ethical dilemmas and sound arguments. Characteristics of analytic philosophy and techniques used in inquiry are explained.

• Department: Occupational Therapy

Students who plan on pursuing careers in the media (professional and academic) will be faced with difficulty choices that carry with them potent ethical repercussions, choices that practical training does not properly equip them to approach in a critical and informed manner. The purpose of this course is therefore twofold: 1) to equip future media professional with sensitivity to moral values under challenge as well as the necessary skills in critical thinking and decision making for navigating their roles and responsibilities in relation to them; and 2) honing those same skills and sensitivities for consumers of media and citizens in media saturated societies.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

In this course, students evaluate the ethics of drama therapeutic or applied theater work across cultures and in communities across abilities, identities, mental illness and injury. Students examine and discuss topics essential for the training and education of creative arts therapists including professional responsibility, competence, confidentiality, informed consent, principles of teaching and training, responsibility to research subjects, dual relationship, use of physical contact and touch, self-disclosure, and risk management.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions