Courses

The application of quantitative methods to organizational analysis, problem-solving, & research. Utilizes appropriate computer hardware & software technology for analyzing empirical data drawn from practical organizational & administrative settings.

This course examines the political movement of queer and transgender artists and programmers who are creating games and computational media. Throughout the semester, we will read work by queer, trans, and feminist scholars and game designers and play the games they designed in order to situate today’s queer and trans games movement within the histories, contributions, and politics of queer and trans people and people of color. How might we re-imagine the radical potentiality of video games by centering game studies on queer and trans life, history and
experience?

This course examines the political movement of queer and transgender artists and programmers who are creating games and computational media. Throughout the semester, we read work by queer, trans, and feminist scholars and designers and play the games they created in order to situate today’s queer and trans games movement within the histories, contributions, and politics of queer and trans people and people of color. How might we re-imagine the radical potentiality of video games and software by centering game studies on queer and trans life, history, and politics?

In this course, we explore queer and transgender identity through practice, theory, and politics. Approaching media from queer, trans, and intersectional lenses can inform the way we understand the circulation of power around media technologies, and enable us to better understand their histories and cultural contexts. Our approach is grounded in theories, case studies, and readings from communication and media studies. Students are equipped to bring tools from queer theory & trans studies to their everyday encounters with media, technology, and culture.

The course explores queer and transgender identity through the lens of film and
visual media. Through readings, films, and assignments, students investigate key historical moments of queer representation across a range of aesthetic genres, including Hollywood films, television, documentary, and New Queer Cinema, with emphasis on the American cultural context. Using key tools and insights from queer theory, we “read” these works as cultural texts that shed light on the ongoing struggle over gender representation, identity, and appropriate
sexual behaviors.

This course explores queer and transgender identity through the lens of film and
visual media. Through readings, films, and assignments, students investigate key historical moments of queer representation across a range of aesthetic genres, including Hollywood films, television, documentary, and New Queer Cinema, with emphasis on the American cultural context. Using key tools and insights from queer theory, we “read” these works as cultural texts that shed light on the ongoing struggle over gender representation, identity, and appropriate sexual behaviors.

This course shines a bright light on racial inequality in the United States by focusing on structural disparities in key areas of American life: Income, wealth and employment; the right to vote, health and wellbeing, education and juvenile justice. Vanguard leaders from across NYU and across fields of Law, Public Health and Allied Health fields, Education, Social Work, and Public Policy provide insights on key scholarly and community-based frameworks they use to confront problems of inequality in the United States. They share their expertise in designing and implementing policy solutions that offer the promise of a more equitable future.

Liberalism’s founding principles of equality and opportunity have long been the subject of debate, national angst, and conflict. No more is this the case than when we talk about the issue of race. While biological notions of race have lost their scientific validity, race remains a salient issue as a social and political reality sustained through a wide variety of media forms. We examine how notions of race have been defined and shaped in and through these mediated forms, with special emphasis on the ways race is articulated in mass media and popular culture.

In this course, an advanced seminar, students will deepen their understanding of the concepts of race, ethnicity, and racism across multiple contexts, such as the nation-state, region, schools, and others, with a focus on the United States. Through a range of texts drawn from the social sciences and humanities, students examine the processes of the social construction of race and inequality reproduction, engage historical ideas of race and racism, and consider future recalibrations of the forms of race and racism.

This course focuses on the ways that media have shaped public discourse about race and racism both within and beyond the confines of the United States. The course considers a variety of media - television sitcoms and drama, television and print news, film, popular music, the internet and others - for the purpose of investigating how media have and continue to variably influence the public's 'racial agenda,' and the general content, tone and tenor of racial conversation in the public sphere.

This course addresses philosophical. historical, socio-politcal contexts of multiculturalism in the United States, with an emphasis on relationship to critical pedagogy and contemporary art practices. Current ideas about representation and identity will be considered specifically in relation to a critique of mainstream notions of multiculturalism and art. Topics may include the history of race in the United States, the role of ethnicity and class in shaping identity, and feminism and multiculturalism. The course of addresses pedagogy and curriculum in a variety of educational settings, including schools, museums, and alternative spaces.

Introduction to the physical aspects of sound, psychoacoustics, basic electricity, principles and practice of magnetic recording and an overview of the recording studio, including an introduction to multi-track recording techniques. Students perform various duties just as they would in a professional recording session with live musicians in the recording studio. Open to students without previous experience in recording technology.

In the last years of World War II, Albert Camus wrote his novel, The Plague, as a way to illuminate the deep personal and societal ills around him. The book has again become popular as people struggle to understand the ramifications of the COVID-19 plague. Students and faculty use Camus's work to explore what humans are experiencing and how they are reacting to this 21st century plague and its impact on frontline workers, marginalized communities, elections, and universities. Students write an extended review of The Plague to add their reflections to the conversation.

Core course for understanding the teaching of reading from early childhood through grade 6. Survey of reading theory, development, assessment, and related reading instructional practices. Focus on teaching the skills involved in reading words accurately and fluently to comprehend complex texts (literary, informational, digital media). Emphasis on providing appropriate instruction to students from linguistically and culturally diverse backgrounds and providing targeted intervention for struggling readers and students with dyslexia.

Core course for understanding the teaching of reading from grades 5 through 12. Survey of reading theory, development, assessment and related instructional practices. Focus on teaching the skills involved in reading words accurately and fluently to comprehend complex texts (literary, informational, digital media). Emphasis on providing appropriate instruction to students from linguistically and culturally diverse backgrounds and providing targeted interventions for struggling readers.

Study and analysis of significant current writing in national business and business education periodicals and books; consideration of solutions to inherent problems and application to business and classroom settings.

This course surveys the historical development and shifting definitions of documentary and reality television. We explore the ways in which television has understood and utilized non-fiction formats at specific historical moments; trace the formations and deployment of realist aesthetics; explore the ethical obligations/problematics of these forms and their practitioners; understand the impacts on and relationship to both their participants and viewers; examine the implications and meanings of documentary/reality hybrids; and consider the reception of and cultural meanings derived from particular documentary and reality texts and subgenres.

For major recitals and accompanists, by advisement.

For major recitals and accompanists, by advisement.

For major recitals and accompanists, by advisement.