Courses

Community Music is an emerging field of music education that challenges many traditional assumptions and forms of music teaching and learning. This course examines the conceptual, cultural, historical, sociological and pedagogical foundations of community music from a global perspective.

Rationale for development of community nutrition programs and their design, implementation, and evaluation. Lectures and individual and group projects.

This year-long mentored experience accompanies the post-residency first-year paid teaching assignment. The approach to mentoring will follow closely the practices of the New Teacher Center, which include a formative assessment system based on the Danielson Framework, self-directed inquiry and professional growth planning, attention to teaching artifacts like student work, videos of practice, and synchronous as well as asynchronous online protocols to guide collective learning conversations about how to improve participants' teaching practice. Participants, under the guidance of the NYU faculty mentor, will attempt to solve real-time problems, share resources, improve existing teaching tools and develop new ones, observe best practices, and learn from master teachers.

This year-long mentored experience accompanies the post-residency first-year paid teaching assignment. The approach to mentoring will follow closely the practices of the New Teacher Center, which include a formative assessment system based on the Danielson Framework, self-directed inquiry and professional growth planning, attention to teaching artifacts like student work, videos of practice, and synchronous as well as asynchronous online protocols to guide collective learning conversations about how to improve participants' teaching practice.Participants, under the guidance of the NYU faculty mentor, will attempt to solve real-time problems, share resources, improve existing teaching tools and develop new ones, observe best practices, and learn from master teachers.

Focuses on understanding people in their social contexts; integrates social action & psychological research in culturally diverse contexts; introduces community psychology & perspectives on intervention & social change; & considers how contexts are powerful in shaping a human behavior.

Community psychology focuses on the application of psychological theory,
concepts and knowledge to address the needs, concerns and aspirations of
communities. Specifically, community psychology is concerned with person
environment interactions and the ways in which society impacts on
individual and community functioning. Community psychology adopts a
collectivist paradigm in understanding behaviour and in applying relevant
methods and techniques. This course will introduce students to the field of
community psychology with emphasis on theory and methods of community
psychology within the context of the psycho-social needs of the Ghanaian
society. Topics include: the history of community psychology; doing
community research; prevention and health promotion; interventions and
program evaluation; community mental health, understanding communities and
social and community change.

Introduction for teachers, composers, and performers to explore potentials of computer music synthesis. Basic concepts of music synthesis presented through the use of a microcomputer, keyboard, and appropriate software. System may be used as a real-time performance instrument or as a studio composition instrument. Educators may explore potentials for classroom application.

Explores the politics of civil conflict, peace-building, & the role of education in promising violence or peace. Explores the role of external actors (international organizations, bilateral donors, non governmental organizations), local actors (civil society associations, nationalist & ideological state factions), & their influence on education systems during was & emerging peace. Readings & discussion will focus on humanitarian action, human rights & development, nationalism & ethnic conflict, the political economy of post-conflict education, & the politics of promoting education in early reconstruction & peace-building. Case studies will include Afghanistan, Colombia, Sierra Leone, Pakistan, & West Bank/Gaze, but students will be encouraged to explore cases of their choosing.

Review and analysis of the cultural context, rationale for, and applications of complementary and alternative nutritional therapies for acute and chronic conditions. The course emphasizes critical evaluation of scientific and other evidence for safety and clinical efficacy of products and methods, and of library, internet, and popular resources on this topic.

Students attend weekly presentations from composers, and concerts. Composer guests introduce the students to their aesthetic world by discussing, analyzing, and playing recordings of some of their most relevant works. Students will have the opportunity to network with a diverse range of visiting composers, which will help them to create contacts for their professional development. Some of the classes include attending concerts in which works from living composers are featured, including NYU students and faculty.

Rehearsal techniques and special problems in ensemble performance.

NYU Composers Ensemble is an opportunity for composition majors to gain performance and recording experience through workshopping new, evolving compositions with live musicians. Members of the ensemble compose and perform in the group. All acoustic instruments and vocal types are welcome, as are electronic and software-based composers/performers.There is a public, recorded performance and recording session for each student's compositions in the Dolan Studio.

Students attend weekly presentations from composers, and concerts. Composer guests introduce students to their aesthetic world by discussing, analyzing, and playing recordings of some of their most relevant works. Students have the opportunity to network with a diverse range of visiting composers, which helps them create contacts for their professional development. Some of the classes
include attending concerts in which works from living composers are featured, including NYU students and faculty.

Addressing the matrix of directorial vision and visual, narrative, and dramatic world of a film, this course will examine a broad range of musical approaches and those requirements necessary for composing music for film and multimedia. Cultural, cinematic, and musical codes will be discussed and critiqued through critical analyses of seminar scores, scoring assignments, and collaborative director/composer interactions.

Composition in all forms and styles including electronic. Electronic laboratory by assignment.

Composition in all forms and styles including electronic. Electronic laboratory by assignment.

This course, taught in small groups of students, serves to polish and develop composing skills in an environment that stimulates discussion. During the small group discussions, students present some of their work, which is critiqued by the instructor and the other students in the group. Through this process of critique and discussion, students refine their composition skills and techniques.

Composition in all forms and styles including electronic. Electronic laboratory by assignment.

Technology-based methods for transcription and analysis of language samples in the assessment of communication disorders. How the analysis of language samples collected during spontaneous speech production plays an important part in the assessment of such disorders and provides a key feature of research involving this population. Students will video-record an interaction between two speakers, learn to use digitized image and sound for transcription of language samples, and use a computerized method (the SALT program) for analyzing language samples collected during spontaneous speech.

Introduction to the concert business: contracts; the relationship between promoters, managers, & agents; marketing & ticket sales; how the concert business relates to other segments of the music industry.