Courses

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

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

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

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Performance of standard and contemporary literature for percussion instruments.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Instrumental Performance juries assess each student’s growth in instrumental techniques including intonation, rhythm, tone production, articulation, dynamics, and musicality. Juries take place at a designated time at the end of the semester and are evaluated by each student’s program director and any additional invited faculty. Jury repertoire is selected in conversation with each student’s private teacher, and
each student studies their jury repertoire in their private lessons.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Instrumental Performance juries assess each student’s growth in instrumental techniques including intonation, rhythm, tone production, articulation, dynamics, and musicality. Juries take place at a designated time at the end of the semester and are evaluated by each student’s program director and any additional invited faculty. Jury repertoire is selected in conversation with each student’s private teacher, and
each student studies their jury repertoire in their private lessons.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

An ensemble approach to teaching, learning and performing on percussion instruments in diverse music and school settings. Each student will have experience with a variety of percussion instruments for current and traditional music. This course is designed for students in Music Education and prepares them for meeting the requirements for K-12 music teacher certification.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

An ensemble approach to teaching and learning percussion instruments. Students perform, compose/arrange, and conduct using various percussion configurations.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

An ensemble approach to teaching, learning and performing on percussion instruments in diverse music and school settings. Each student will have experience with a variety of percussion instruments for current and traditional music. This course is designed for students in Music Education and prepares them for meeting the requirements for K-12 music teacher certification.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

A seminar/master class format will provide the context for the exploration of contemporary performance practices, interpretative strategies, extended techniques, & the incorporation of multimedia in 20th- & 21st-century piano music. In-class performances & critiques will facilitate discussion of related aesthetic issues, programming strategies, & the entrepreneurial & administrative skills relating to audience development.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

The role of the occupational therapist in relating maturational data from conception to old age to the practice of occupational therapy.

• Department: Occupational Therapy

Doctoral dissertation advisement with dissertation committee coordinated with seminars in which students present their works in progress and discuss research problems. Current researchers in the performing arts are invited to share research and writing.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Doctoral dissertation advisement with dissertation committee coordinated with seminars in which students present their works in progress and discuss research problems. Current researchers in the performing arts are invited to share research and writing.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Analysis of factors inherent in the persuasive process, examination and application of these factors in presentations. Hours are arranged for student evaluation and practice.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

This course aims to train students to think philosophically about our rapidly
changing—and ever more intimate—relationship with machines. We focus in particular on the following subjects: artificial intelligence, robots, cyborgs, automation and science fiction speculation.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

A study of the production, description, and classification of speech sounds; English sounds, stress, and intonation; phonemes and allophones, ear training, phonetic and phonemic transcription.

• Department: Communicative Sciences and Disorders

This course introduces students to the nature of human speech and speech sounds. Students explore how different sounds are produced (phonetics), how they pattern (phonology), and how speech production can vary across individuals. Students learn to represent the speech sounds of English with phonetic transcription, including transcribing clinically relevant variation in speech production and speech patterns in major varieties of American English.

• Department: Communicative Sciences and Disorders

Emphasis is on the creation of a body of prints dealing with one subject or theme. Aesthetic decisions made by the individual in choice of subject matter & technique are considered. Lectures, technical demonstrations, & individual critiques are included. Readings on individual photographers, aesthetics, & darkroom techniques are assigned. Critiques by visiting photographers/artists are held.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

This course examines the role and history of photography within the historical landscape of media and communication. Special emphasis on the accumulative meaning of visual archives, tracing how images reconfigure and establish cultural territories across a variety of texts and media. Investigates and contrasts the mimetic visual strategies within western and nonwestern traditions, looking at historical and contemporary images in a variety of forms.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

Introduction to the use of photography as a medium of documentation and expression. Assignments and critiques enhance the development of individual work while developing photographic skills and techniques. Students provide their own cameras. Enlargers and photographic chemicals are provided in class.

• Department: Art and Art Professions