Courses

Emphasis on the development and maintenance of communicative oral skills in French. May include opportunities for attendance at lectures, movies, theatres, and events where French is spoken.

A continuation of the principles covered in E85.1035. The semester is divided into three modules - Room Acoustics, Physics of Vibration and Issues in Synthesis and Sound Design - designed to address critical yet broad areas concerning the science and art of producing sound in space. Students are responsible for hands-on projects on each modules, quizzes on reading assignments and a final project.

Interested in downhill skiing or running a marathon at age 65? Or maybe you want to help older adults in your family maintain mobility and strength? A long & active lifestyle requires preservation of the musculoskeletal system and the intake of certain nutrients can mean the difference between fragility and strength. Nutrient requirements for this body system remain an area of active controversy making it an exciting and dynamic field. This course provides a comprehensive review of the musculoskeletal system and clinically relevant disease states, & evaluates the most current nutrition recommendations for optimal musculoskeletal health.

An accelerated survey of basic principles of Neuro-Nutrition (aka Nutrition for the Brain), from neuroscience to neurology, applied to food studies: brain-specific nutrients; nutrient functions and nutritional requirements for brain health; current research on brain aging and how food can slow down or even prevent age-related disease like Alzheimer’s and dementia; menu planning and assessment; dietary patterns associated with long-lasting brain health; recommendations and food products for neuro-nutritional purposes. For students with previous undergraduate training in nutrition or health.

Writing for the full symphony orchestra.From classical to contemporary styles the principles of orchestral scoring are examined through both detailed score analysis and writing projects, as well as related topics including transportation, score format, and new notation.

A doctoral level course with discussion covering topics within the areas of communicative sciences and disorders. Topics vary by semester and instructor.

An examination of advanced drama therapy theory and research; new approaches that speck to the aesthetic and psychological dimensions of drama therapy. Intended for students planning research for the M.A. thesis.

This course focuses on the development of applications on the iOS platform (e.g. iPhone), with an emphasis on audio engineering. The goal is to provide students with an understanding of the iOS development environment from a music technology perspective: its languages, its tools, its advantages and its limitations. After this course, students should be ready to build their own stand-alone music apps and have a deeper understanding of low-level audio development. Course work will include several programming assignments designed to put concepts and ideas into practice, and a final project to capture a large portion of what they have learned in this course.

This course focuses on the theory, practice, and practical applications of sound reinforcement. Topics covered include specific microphone techniques, for live sound, audio system components and configuration, stage monitoring, film, and corporate events, permanent sound installation, and Broadway productions. Onsite visits will be included.

This is an advanced graduate-level course covering the C++ programming
language, with an emphasis on developing applications for music and audio. Students are expected to have working knowledge of C; this course extends that knowledge to C++, exploring object-oriented topics such as classes, inheritance, function and operator overloading, polymorphism and encapsulation. Students use existing frameworks and libraries to create their own audio applications and audio plug-ins.

Students place, conduct and evaluate a teaching apprenticeship for adolescents in which they demonstrate proficiency in the use of biomechanics, artistic imagery, musical accompaniment and insight on the needs of the developing dance student at professional and recreational tracks of study. Additionally, students will examine and prepare a Ballet choreography and differentiate its elements according to the developmental needs of students ages 5-9, 10-13, and 14-18.

The course focuses on the selection and use of an evidence-based evaluation system to measure practice outcomes and interpret clinical change. This process requires selecting the tools for assessment of function based on achieved validity and to accurately interpret observations and measurements.

Advanced level aural comprehension. Courses under this general title explore advanced topics in sight-reading, music transcription, and critical analytical listening.

Continued development of sight-singing, dictation, and aural analysis
skills developed in the prerequisite course, Advanced Aural Skills:
Chromatic Harmony. Students will critically listen to, transcribe, and
perform music incorporating modes, chromatic and jazz harmony, extended
tonality, and atonality. Advanced rhythmic topics include polyrhythm,
syncopation, swing, mixed meter, and metric modulation.

Continued development of sight-singing, dictation, and aural analysis skills developed in the prerequisite course, Advanced Aural Skills: Chromatic Harmony. Students will critically listen to, transcribe, and perform music incorporating modes, chromatic and jazz harmony, extended tonality, and atonality. Advanced rhythmic topics include polyrhythm, syncopation, swing, mixed meter, and metric modulation.

Advanced techniques of music listening developed through sight-singing, dictation, and aural analysis. Students develop skills for critically listening to, analyzing, and notating four-part chromatic harmony, chromatic melodies, advanced rhythm and meter, and instrumentation in common-practice 18th and 19th century classical repertoire Course activities are correlated with topics presented in the co-requisite course, MPATC-UE 1331 Advanced Music Theory: Chromatic Harmony and Form.

Techniques of music listening developed through sight-singing, transcription, and aural analysis. Topics are coordinated with the co-requisite course, Advanced Theory & Practice: French Music and include French dances and other large forms, added and extended chords, embellishing chords, the “cadence Fauréenne,” modes and pentatonic collections, and Messiaen’s “additive” rhythms and “modes of limited transposition.” Students will learn aural strategies for describing form, characteristic features of French dance, and stylistic and regional influences.

Practice in the critical listening and transcription of popular music. Advanced topics in rhythm and meter, timbre, chromatic and extended harmonies, and melody. Building on transcription skills acquired in Aural Skills I and II, students learn techniques for transcribing recorded vocal and instrumental material in popular music. Defined broadly, “popular music” includes pop, rock, hip hop, R&B, blues, rap, disco, indie, metal, jazz, folk, and musical theater and film repertoire. The course will culminate in a final transcription project.

Practice in advanced melodic and rhythmic sight-singing. This course builds on skills developed in Aural Skills I and II, emphasizing the performance of melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic material using solfège. Students learn strategies for improvisation and advanced sight reading in a broad range of styles and genres including repertoire from jazz, classical, and popular music.

This course builds statistical and analytic skills in advanced causal inference techniques, focusing on advanced topics and applications in regression discontinuity designs and in matching estimators. We go in depth with the theory, assumptions and plausibility checks, applications, recent advances, combinations of these designs with other techniques, and complications of the designs. Students learn advanced techniques hands-on, and produce a journal-quality manuscript by the end of the semester.