Courses

This course is designed to prepare digital-era students in all fields of study for professional achievement in a technologically sophisticated, global, networked environment. The course is structured around three central elements of “digital literacy” -- 1) human perception & cognition, 2) computers & electronic intelligence, & 2) the network architecture of the digital web. It is a rigorous intellectual introduction to the fundamental principles on which these technologies are based. There are no perquisites & those from the technologically challenged to the techno-geeks are welcome. Students will be introduced to the fundamentals of human attention, how sound waves, light waves & electromagnetic waves work & what computers and routers do. . This is a “flipped course” – what would normally be in-class lectures and demonstrations are available online as curricular modules & can be viewed at students’ convenience (& reviewed as appropriate) much like traditional reading assignments. In-person class sections are used for dialog, discussion & Q & A with the instructor.

This course explores the civil rights movement roots of Berkeley’s historic student
revolt, the reasons for the Free Speech Movement’s success in attracting student support and changing campus policy, its impact on the history of free speech, and on the rise of both the New Left and the Reaganite Right. This course ends with reflections on the state of free speech on campus in our own century when that freedom is often slighted, dismissed or weaponized by student groups on the left and right and the corporate groups that subsidize them, leaving us with
the question of whether the Free Speech Movement is still relevant to the campus scene today.

Basic principles & practical experience in development of beverage systems & menus. Considers pricing, equipment, legal, merchandising & personnel policies.

Overview of the conditions facing immigrant-origin and displaced children and youth in the U.S. and globally. Emphasis is placed on the experiences of children and youth in the contexts of family, school, social networks, and community in different countries and cultural environments. Discussion includes family- to policy-level interventions to improve the developmental potential of children and youth from immigrant families.

Students meet each week by advance appointment with faculty, visiting artists, & critics for individual critique & in-depth discussion of their work & the visual, technical, & theoretical issues that inform their practice.

Theory, policy, & practice of bilingual education. Key topics include models & programs of bilingual education; policy & politics of language minority education in the US & internationally; psycholinguist perspectives on bilingualism, including language development; cultural, social, & political perspectives on language minority education; & evaluation of bilingual education programs. Emphasis on pedagogical implications of the above, with attention to native language development, second language/literacy teaching for developmentally & linguistically diverse students.

This course explores theory, policy, and practice at the intersection of bilingualism and exceptionality. Topics include sociocultural and biolinguistic influences on multilingual exceptional children, special education legislation, global perspectives of exceptionality, school-family collaboration, bilingual inclusion program models, assessment practices, and modes of classification, identification, and intervention strategies.

This course explores theory, policy, and practice of bilingual and multilingual experiences and counseling/ education models in the U.S. and global contexts. Emphasis is on intersections of language and other identities (race, class, gender, etc), and systems of power and privilege. Topics include home language support, language/literacy teaching for developmentally and linguistically diverse students, and the various roles and responsibilities of counselors working with multilingual communities.

This course explores theory, policy, and practice of bilingual and multilingual experiences and education models in the U.S. and global contexts. Emphasis is on intersections of language and other identities (race, class, gender, etc), and systems of power and privilege. Topics include home language support, language/literacy teaching for developmentally and linguistically diverse students, and the various roles and responsibilities of educators and professionals working with multilingual communities.

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This course analyzes writing from 1845 to the present, surveying
African-American history and literature beginning with the writings of
Frederick Douglass and the Harlem Renaissance writers that originate from
Washington, DC’s Howard University (Zora Hurston and Alain Locke). From
this historical foundation, the course will move to examine issues of race
and caste from Ta-Nehisi Coates’ memoire Between the World and Me, a text
that focuses on the death of Coates’ Howard classmate at the hands of
police. In addition to the selected texts, the course will use the location
of Washington, DC as a resource, visiting sites related to course content,
including the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, Howard University,
the National Museum of African-American Culture and History and the Martin
Luther King Memorial Site.

This experiential seminar interrogates the democratization of pattern discovery. Who decides what to count and what to keep? Using New York City as a laboratory, we explore the systems of power embedded in tabulation and archiving, and the possibilities of open, decentralized, and autonomous futures. We reflect on the past and present of knowledge infrastructures -- from books to blockchain.

Rehearsal techniques and special problems in ensemble performance.

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Rehearsal techniques and special problems in ensemble performance.

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

Private or group lessons (by examination) in brass instruments, supplemented by extra assignments, outside practice, and observation. Required attendance at recitals.

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