Courses

MCC Research Inquiry Seminars, taken early in the major, expose students to the department’s culture of scholarly inquiry. Course topics reflect faculty research interests, offering students a chance to explore emerging issues in the field of media studies.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

Look behind the curtain of study abroad and international exchange at the world’s leading global university: NYU. In this experiential course students examine the processes underlying international student exchange and study abroad across NYU’s global academic centers. Students meet and work with leadership and staff at NYU’s global programming offices and explore the extensive strategizing, coordination, and logistics involved with creating, managing, and executing international education experiences within NYU’s Global Network University.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities

Strategies of observation and assessment, identifying strengths, individualizing instructional plans, and adapting classroom environments, curriculum and instructional methodologies to support highest levels of achievement and development for young children with diverse needs. Topics will also include strategies for promoting positive classroom behavior and social interaction skills, facilitation of language development across all cognitive and social domains, the use of assistive and instructional technology, and strategies for using assessment and observational data to plan or modify instruction.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

In the context of the children's spatial and temporal world, students will explore: strategies of observation and assessment, identifying strengths, individualizing instructional plans, adapting classroom environments, curriculum and instructional methodologies to support achievement and development for young children with diverse needs. Topics will include strategies for promoting positive classroom behavior and social interaction skills, facilitation of language development, the use of assistive and instructional technology, and strategies for using assessment and observational data to plan or modify instruction.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course introduces graduate students to instrumental tools used in the evaluation and treatment of swallowing disorders. Students will actively engage in problem-based learning in small groups. Groups will conduct structured research on the effectiveness and appropriateness of instrumental swallowing tools that are currently used in dysphagia management. Problem-based learning format is used to emphasize the development of life-long learning skills.

• Department: Communicative Sciences and Disorders

Practical procedures and materials for conducting instrumental ensembles at all levels of music education. Students enrolled in this course demonstrate essential instrumental conducting techniques, knowledge of appropriate instrumental repertoire, and the ability to analyze and synthesize chamber and orchestral music scores for conception, interpretation, rehearsal, and performance.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Development of advanced choral and instrumental conducting techniques, including procedures for rehearsal and performances, and appropriate repertoire for all levels.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Private or group lessons (by examination) in instrumental jazz, supplemented by extra assignments, outside practice, and observation.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Private or group lessons (by examination) in instrumental jazz, supplemented by extra assignments, outside practice, and observation.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Lab ensemble is an essential program requirement to prepare emerging teachers for K-12 certification to strengthen performance skills on primary and secondary instruments. This repeatable course is taken during freshman and sophomore semesters while in residence at NYU New York City campus and prior to enrolling in Instrumental Materials, Techniques and Conducting (MPAME-UE 1054) or (MPAME-GE 2115).

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Lab ensemble is an essential program requirement to prepare emerging teachers for K-12 certification to strengthen performance skills on primary and secondary instruments. This repeatable course is taken during freshman and sophomore semesters while in residence at NYU New York City campus and prior to enrolling in Instrumental Materials, Techniques and Conducting (MPAME-UE 1054) or (MPAME-GE 2115).

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Students build on foundations from Fundamentals of Conducting and implement effective teaching strategies for instrumental music educators, including rehearsal planning and preparation, instrumental transpositions, arranging, ensemble resources, performance literature, supplemental materials, and equipment repair/maintenance. Hands-on demonstrations and discussion. Includes collaboration with Instrumental Lab Ensemble. Prerequisite: MPAME-GE 2102 Fundamentals of Conducting

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Students build on foundations from Fundamentals of Conducting and implement effective teaching strategies for instrumental music educators, including rehearsal planning and preparation, instrumental transpositions, arranging, ensemble resources, performance literature, supplemental materials, and equipment repair/maintenance. Hands-on demonstrations and discussion. Includes collaboration with Instrumental Lab Ensemble. Prerequisite: MPAME-UE 1465 Fundamentals of Conducting

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Rehearsal techniques and special problems in ensemble performance.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Rehearsal techniques and special problems in ensemble performance.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Rehearsal techniques and special problems in ensemble performance.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Examination of educational and cultural exchange programs that disseminate information to foreign countries about a nation's policies, institutions, culture and values. Focus is on the development of international information programs, the purposes of exchange programs, and the relationship between government and private educational and cultural communities. Case studies are drawn from such organizations as the United Nations Department of Public Information, the United States Information Agency, the Council on International Exchange of Scholars, the Institute of International Education, and the Academy for Educational Development.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities

Explores international perspectives on the recording, publishing, streaming, live performance, and broader music markets beyond the United States, grounded in contemporary theories of globalization, hybridization and “soft power”. Topics include the roles of firms, creators and states in different types of music and media networks and economies; global and local music business related institutions and governance models from regions to countries to cities; and targeted examinations of specific developed and emerging national and diasporic markets around the world.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Through study and travel, this course explores how agriculture, food cuisine, nutrition, and health affect and are affected by the unique culture, history, climate, geography, and economic and political systems of selected countries. The course draws on local academic and professional experts, food producers, and food service providers to investigate these interrelationships through field trips, site visits, interviews, lectures, seminars, and demonstrations, with an emphasis on cross-cultural perspectives.

• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies

Developing integrated curriculum by exploring the relationships among science, health, and social studies. Literacy and mathematical learning and the role of the environment will be included in the integrative planning.

• Department: Teaching and Learning