Courses

This course offers an in-depth examination of the mental processes underlying knowledge acquisition and understanding, including how our minds encode, store, and retrieve information.The course emphasizes not only the theoretical underpinnings of human thought—such as memory structures, representation systems, and developmental trajectories—but also the ways in which cognitive science can inform the design of technologies for learning.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

Interventions aimed at ameliorating mental illness & promoting wellness are examined. Integration of research & treatment models that consider mental health well-being in terms of pathology with models of wellness broadly conceived as optimal psychological & physical development. The meanings of “wellness,” “health,” & “illness” across lines of identity (e.g. ethnicity, culture, gender, sexuality, class, & age) are explored. Pathological outcomes (e.g., depression, anxiety, psychosis) are examined in tandem with such constructs as resilience, hope, wisdom, & spirituality, & considered at the individual, interpersonal, & community level.

• Department: Applied Psychology

Overview of current theory and practice in curriculum development and assessment. Application to Pre-K through 6th grade classrooms in urban settings emphasized.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Introduces the systematic study of language. Prepares educators to understand theory and research on language use and development. Explores implications of such study for English teaching- reading and composition teaching- foreign language teaching- and working with people with language disorders.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Introduces colleges & universities as a career professional field. Emphasis on historical development, philosophical & sociological foundations, the structure & variety of students & institutions; governance & administration, professional standards, the role of specialists, ethical problems & relationships to other professions & educational sectors.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

Internationally, communities approach the idea of human rights (HR) though many histories, traditions, and values. This course studies those differences and returns to the foundational questions of contemporary HR, asking: “what do we owe one another and how do we express and share those values and obligations?” Through this course students shall: 1) become more familiar with the history of HR and associated educational projects, 2) gain familiarity with the theoretical foundations of the same, and 3) become adept in the use of both as tools in the service of wider international and domestic educational goals.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities

This course is designed to introduce students to a framework of affirmative
psychological practice with LGBTQ+ clients. Students will learn about interventions,
assessment, diagnosis, education, and research with LGBTQ+ clients across the lifespan. Students will also be exposed to scholarship and clinical applications that center the identities of LGBTQ+ clients.

• Department: Applied Psychology

This course focuses on the foundational skills required for beginning to read, as well as on how to foster and assess the overall literacy development of diverse learners in the early elementary grades. A wide range of instructional strategies, texts, lesson formats, and digital resources are explored. Classroom field experiences provide opportunities for application of instructional practices in beginning reading.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course focuses on the foundational skills required for beginning to read, as well as on how to foster and assess the overall literacy development of diverse learners in the early elementary grades. A wide range of instructional strategies, texts, lesson formats, and digital resources are explored. Classroom field experiences provide opportunities for application of instructional practices in beginning reading.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Introduction to music education as a profession, exploring the issues and relevant literature that inform and challenge music educators in the context of a diverse and changing culture.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Introduction to music education as a profession, exploring the issues and relevant literature that inform and challenge music educators in the context of a diverse and changing culture.

This course orients students to the profession of occupational therapy & its historical & philosophical development. The course examines activities & occupations in the contest in which humans engage & participate in them. Tools of practice, service delivery models, practice settings, & current issues that influence the profession are also examined. Concepts in this foundational course are taught via lecture, discussion, field experiences & lab practica.

• Department: Occupational Therapy

This course orients students to the profession of occupational therapy, including its historical and philosophical development. The course further examines activities and occupations in their associated context, including an in-depth examination of the therapeutic value of activities and occupations through activities analysis, synthesis, and gradation. Tools of practice, teaching and learning process, service delivery models, practice settings, and current issues that influence the profession are also examined.

• Department: Occupational Therapy

This course focuses on the history & changing role of school counselors, including innovative roles & modes of intervention (e.g., direct service, consultation, program development & use of data). In addition, the counselor’s role in career development, school reform & social advocacy will be emphasized in accordance with the American School Counseling Association National Model.

• Department: Applied Psychology

History, philosophy and role of education as the foundation of education for all students. Legalization and litigation affecting the provision of services and life opportunities for individuals with diverse characteristics and needs. Characteristics of individuals with disabilities and the effect of those disabilities on learning and behavior. Included study of education and special education service delivery systems, employment, and community-based resources and supports.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course examines theoretical lenses from the learning sciences, including constructivism, constructionism, socio-constructivism, situativity, and cultural-context frameworks—and applies them to analyze real-world learning environments. Through weekly readings, collaborative reading annotations, in-class activities, and a semester-long field observation project, students bridge theory and practice, and develop skills in evaluating and designing learning experiences across material, social, and cultural contexts.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

This course will include further study of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols as they apply to the French language and the rules for lyrical pronunciation of French. Students will be required to transliterate song texts into IPA and demonstrate mastery of the diction rules through the performance of assigned repertoire.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course teaches foundations of statistical inference in the context of applied research. Assuming some prior exposure to probability and statistics, this course covers topics such as the principles of estimation and hypothesis testing, and the application of these topics to the general linear model,including scientific computation. This course thoroughly explores the frequentist approach to inference by delving into mathematical theory and the implementation of related statistical algorithms.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities

In this course we will cover the varieties of Italian food in their past and present forms. First, we will explore the history of food from past civilizations, leading up to World War I, just after the great immigration to the New World. Time periods examined will be ancient Rome, Medieval, Renaissance, Risorgimento, leading to the modern era. This course includes topics ranging from Pellegrino Artusi’s famous cookbook in the contest of Italian unification to the relationship between Italian Futurism and food. The second part of the course will introduce students to the regional diversity of Italian food using mediums such as TV, art, and film. We will examine the ways in which food shapes contemporary Italian society, from the more intimate family kitchen to the most elegant Italian restaurant in New York City.

• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies

An introduction to maintenance and troubleshooting concepts used in the recording studio. Procedures discussed are those necessary in utilizing sophisticated audio equipment and understanding essential aspects of studio design.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions