Courses

This course focuses on the principles and practices of successful interviewing techniques. Students are provided with background on the structure of an interview and learn how to analyze success and/or potential problems. Review of case studies and practice in holding interviews enables students to gain experience and to improve their own abilities.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

Introduces students to the most pressing normative, theoretical, empirical and practical questions in international development. Topics may include development challenges; theories of development; international development aid; development actors and institutions; the role of education; education interventions; local approaches to development; policy and program implementation; program and impact evaluation; and theory-practice questions. Variants of the course, that build upon one another, are offered on Washington Square and at NYU study away sites.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities

Focuses on practical questions of international development and explores how relationships, respect and reciprocity are cornerstones of socially engaged research and practice. Students examine how local and international actors think about the role of education in international development; challenges and opportunities of implementing programming and why some programs and approaches are successful; and how local experiences can inform our broader understanding of or alternative approaches to international development.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities

Survey of the scope and variety of practices in the music therapy profession. Current research and methodologies. Contrasting modalities of treatment. Relationship to arts therapies, music education, special education. Of special interest to educators, performers, and art professionals.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Survey of the scope and variety of practices in the music therapy profession. Current research and methodologies. Contrasting modalities of treatment. Relationship to arts therapies, music education, special education. Of special interest to educators, performers, and art professionals.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Principles and techniques of pure tone and speech audiometer; interpretation of ideograms; consideration of etiologies and auditory characteristics of major types of hearing impairment.

• Department: Communicative Sciences and Disorders

This course introduces students to the field of drama therapy. Students explore the history of drama therapy and its role in healing, identify core and meta processes of drama therapy, analyze applications of drama therapy in practice, and become familiar with drama therapy theory, research, and practice, which is an integral part of the Drama Therapy curriculum. Students complete an annotated bibliography and final project on how drama functions in/as therapy and participate in field training opportunities.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course will involve an examination of the major periods of theatre history from the Ancient Greeks to the 19th Century United States. There will be analysis of dramatic structures that relate these periods to the discipline of educational theatre. Different perspectives will be offered to give a comprehensive view of the role of theatre as a foundation to educational theatre. Students will develop a knowledge and understanding of strategies employed in educational theatre and an appreciation of the aesthetics of theatre and drama.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Students will develop an understanding of the ways in which they may inquire about policy issues relevant in their academic & professional lives. By exploring in depth a substantial body of knowledge drawn from selected cases & current theoretical issues, students will study the development of policy, the instruments used to effect policy, & some analyses of implementation.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

Introduction to the foods of various world regions and the techniques used to prepare them through hand-on food preparation, demonstrations, lectures and field trips.

• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies

This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the basic concepts of marketing management and experience in making marketing decisions in uncertain environments. Students examine issues relating to developing marketing strategy and planning marketing tactics. Approach is largely from a practical perspective with an emphasis on managerial decision-making.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

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Principally for nondance majors. Introduction to modern dance, including analysis of movement in dance technique and improvisation.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

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Play and audience analysis, directing methods, production techniques. Each student plans a complete children's theatre production. Laboratory experience recommended.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Play and audience analysis, directing methods, production techniques. Each student plans a complete children's theatre production. Laboratory experience recommended.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course provides a practical introduction to urban agriculture. Students will learn horticultural skills while performing tasks at the NYU Urban Farm Lab. They will also learn about the biological processes that these tasks manage & how they fit together in a system. Through visits to other sites around the city, students will be exposed to a wide variety of strategies for practicing horticulture in the urban environment.

• Department: Nutrition and Food Studies

This course is an introduction to the sociopolitical activist forms that make up the arsenal of the Theatre of the Oppressed. Originally developed in Brazil by theatre innovator Augusto Boal, these forms were inspired by the educational theories of Paulo Freire and employed with peasants and workers throughout Latin America. Now they are used internationally and have been developed and adapted by countless companies and practitioners. This introductory level course will engage students with the foundational theories, through the writings of both Freire and Boal, and given them a sound exposure to the interactive games and exercises that form the bedrock of this work. Students will investigate social, political, pedagogical and artistic intersections through Image Theatre, Forum Theatre, and Newspaper Theatre.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Fundamental principles of art therapy practice will be presented through discussions and case presentations. Students learn the historical development of the profession, its distinction from other disciplines and its commonalities to social sciences. Basic pictorial analyses examine artistic processes and products. Students study the artistic expression across the developmental span. Clinical applications for populations struggling with varied psychological and physiological issues are offered. Each class includes experiential art making to demonstrate interventions.

• Department: Art and Art Professions