Courses

The emphasis in this class is on the historical and aesthetic analysis of the development of piano literature in the Contemporary period. Compositions for piano that represent atonality, serialism, extended techniques, multimedia and interactive electronic techniques, the influence of jazz and popular music, Darmstadt and the New York School, and Spanish and Latin American music are performed and analyzed in class. Scholarship that examines ?the new complexity?, minimalism, and postmodernism is reviewed. Students demonstrate their knowledge of the repertoire in research papers, related written assignments, and listening exams. Student performance in class is required. [03/28/2008]

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

The emphasis in this class is on the historical and aesthetic analysis of the development of piano literature in the Contemporary period. Compositions for piano that represent atonality, serialism, extended techniques, multimedia and interactive electronic techniques, the influence of jazz and popular music, Darmstadt and the New York School, and Spanish and Latin American music are performed and analyzed in class. Scholarship that examines 'the new complexity', minimalism, and postmodernism is reviewed. Students demonstrate their knowledge of the repertoire in research papers, related written assignments, and listening exams. Student performance in class is required.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course is required for music majors in piano. The main focus is the development of the specific repertoire as well as working on the related technical problems.

Developing basic skills in evaluating form and content of pictorial and sculptural work produced in art therapy sessions. Developing skills in integrating evidence of developmental level, perceptual capacities, psychodynamic processes, emotional handicaps, environmental stimuli in art work, and behavior. Students should be prepared to furnish some art work from child, adolescent or adult population. Studio component included.

• Department: Art and Art Professions

A content mathematics course in geometry for teachers.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

Platforms are instrumental in mediating a wide range of phenomena, including
social interaction, economic transactions, resource access, information circulation, cultural experiences, and more. Their ubiquity in everyday life is documented in concepts of platformization and platform capitalism and an emerging discipline of platform studies. This course explores the metaphors, histories, logics, and materialities of platforms. Through lenses of media studies, political economy, and anthropology, students investigate the implications of platforms in contemporary life.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

Focuses on play and drama approaches for the treatment of children & adolescents with a variety of psychological stressors, including physical & sexual abuse, life-threatening illnesses, death of a parent, divorce, & bullying. Examines treatment models & protocols relevant to institutional & community agency settings. Includes case examples, demonstration of play & drama techniques, & interactive class participation.

• Department: Applied Psychology

Techniques for strategic planning and managerial finance in the performing arts organization from the perspective of its chief executive officer. Integration of skills in organizational evaluation, strategic planning, mission formulation, operations management, and finance. Students are required to write a strategic plan for a performing arts organization.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course focuses on the essentially communicative aspects of American government, including the preparation of candidates, the electoral process, political advertising and public relations. It also includes the use of strategic communication to influence political agendas, the formation of public policy, and the process of political debate.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

This course focuses on the essentially communicative aspects of American
government, including the preparation of candidates, the electoral process,
political advertising and public relations. It also includes the use of
strategic communication to influence political agendas, the formation of
public policy, and the process of political debate.

Communicative aspects of American government, including the preparation of candidates, the electoral process, political advertising and public relations. The use of strategic communication to influence political agendas, the formation of public policy, and the process of political debate.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

Introduction to the political economy of education, exploring how education is
shaped by various political and economic forces. Students examine such topics as education finance, labor markets, accountability, school choice, and the internationalization of higher education. Focus on understanding the conceptual and theoretical foundations of the political economy of education. Students explore education as a site of struggle between competing views on the organization of society, the role of the state, and the structure of the economy.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities

Why do so many high school students apply to study at expensive institutions when there are cheaper alternatives available? Who is able to attend, and who is excluded? Why do college costs keep rising so fast? Shouldn’t college be free? Students explore answers to these kinds of questions in this course. Students explore a range of economic concepts and empirical evidence that speaks to the value of Field available for additional information in footerhigher education for individuals and societies; state and institutional financial aid policies; and university budgets and spending priorities.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities

Looking at the rhetoric of public relations we examine the principles and assumptions in the process of analyzing the process of political campaigns. Focuses on an analysis of what is reported to the mass media and how the 'gatekeepers,' reporters, editors and producers of news filer the messages. Also, discussion on how public relations participates in the creation of viewpoints that eventually become well established and widely held.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

An examination of reading and writing education from historical, theoretical, critical, and pedagogical perspectives. Course questions include the role of literacy in a global society and the influences of policies and political practices. Research studies that have shaped literacy instruction in the last century are considered.

• Department: Teaching and Learning

This course explores the politics of civil conflict, peacebuilding, and the role of education in promoting violence or peace. Specifically it explores the humanitarian efforts of international actors (international organizations, bilateral donors, NGOs), local actors (civil society associations, nationalist and ideological factions), and their influence on education systems during war and emerging peace. Case studies may include Afghanistan, Colombia, Sierra Leone, Pakistan, and West Bank/Gaza.

• Department: Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities

Explores tools of political and strategy in education, including concepts and theoretical frameworks applicable to the political process; political and governance structures in education, and major issues in educational policy.

• Department: Administration, Leadership, and Technology

The meditation and technological development of vision and its dominance over the human sensorium is integral to the emergence of the modern, including experiences of urbanism, consumer desire, gender/sexual identities, race and ethnicity, trans-cultural image systems, aesthetic production, and the making of power and political truth claims. This seminar will focus on introducing participants to the core theories and analytic methods of visual culture, and the socio-political history of the human sensorium in a variety of disciplines, including ethnography, social history, urban studies, cinema studies, social geography, material culture studies, and media studies.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

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

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

No description available.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions