Courses

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

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.

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.

Course emphasizes concert promotion & facilities management. Content to include large venues & club outlets, box office & crowd management, labor relations, production techniques (i.e. sets, lights, sound, costumes, etc.), special events, tour planning & coordination, contracts & riders. Case histories to display investment capital pursuits, administration/staffing, market identification, objectives, sequencing & strategies, budgeting, & break-even from an entrepreneurial perspective.

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.

This course prepares students to participate in NYU Steinhardt's Fall Dance Concert. Explore dance production from an educational perspective, with a focus on using a professional concert model as a basis for creating productions in a variety of settings. Guest lectures in lighting and stage management as well as required elements for participation as a choreographer for the concert.

This course guides and supports students as they develop their choreographic work for NYU Steinhardt's Fall Dance Concert. Creates an open dialogue among choreographers to develop their skills in processing feedback and evaluating their own work. Students work in committees to co-produce aspects of the concert including publicity and press, documentation and reception, and programming and scheduling. Students share works in progress informally in class, semi-formally at faculty/staff showing, and formally onstage in the Loewe Theatre.

Introduction to the concepts of live concert recording. Microphone selection, characteristics & placement as well as acoustic problems encountered in concert halls will be discussed. Students will have the opportunity to apply the lecture material by recording undergraduate rehearsals & recitals.

Introduction to the concepts of the live concert recording. Microphone selection, characteristics, and placement, as well as the acoustic problems encountered in concert halls will be discussed. Students will have the opportunity to apply the lecture material by recording undergraduate rehearsals and recitals.

In this studio class, students work on specific advanced skills required for today’s professional orchestral and ensemble conductor. They practice challenging pieces from the orchestral repertoire, with a specific emphasis on contemporary pieces of music. Students also develop a comprehensive approach to rehearsal planning and structure, including specific strategies that allow time optimization.

In this studio class, students work on specific advanced skills required for the professional music theater conductor. They study works from the music theater repertoire, with a specific emphasis on shows of various periods and genres. Students develop a comprehensive approach to rehearsal planning and tructure, including specific strategies that allow time optimization.

In this studio class, students work on specific advanced skills required for the professional music theater conductor. They study works from the music theater repertoire, with a specific emphasis on shows of various periods and genres. Students develop a comprehensive approach to rehearsal planning and structure, including specific strategies that allow time optimization.

In this studio class, students work on specific advanced skills required for today’s professional orchestral and ensemble conductor. They practice challenging pieces from the orchestral repertoire, with a specific emphasis on contemporary pieces of music. Students also develop a comprehensive approach to rehearsal planning and structure, including specific strategies that allow time optimization.

In this studio class, students develop foundational conducting skills for the professional conductor. This includes specific techniques associated with choral conducting, instrumental conducting, and conducting synchronized with visual media. Topics include arms/baton technique, rehearsing the ensemble, score study techniques, and conducting with a click track.

In this studio class, students develop foundational conducting skills for the professional conductor. This includes specific techniques associated with choral conducting, instrumental conducting, and conducting synchronized with visual media. Topics include arms/baton technique, rehearsing the ensemble, score study techniques, and conducting with a click track.

In this studio class, students build upon foundational conducting skills to develop specific techniques to conduct instrumental ensembles with a focus on the orchestral repertoire. Students practice seminal pieces of the history of western orchestral music that serve as case studies to develop a sophisticated set of instrumental conducting skills.

In this studio class, students build upon foundational conducting skills to develop specific techniques to conduct instrumental ensembles with a focus on the orchestral repertoire. Students practice seminal pieces of the history of western orchestral music that serve as case studies to develop a sophisticated set of instrumental conducting skills.

Conflict is an important part of our daily lives. Conflict is omnipresent in interpersonal relationships, workplace, national and international affairs, etc. In this class we will examine theories and research that help us understand the nature and roots of conflict, its evolution, and strategies that lead to its resolution. The first part of the course will focus on roots and dynamics of conflict, whereas the second part will focus on strategies to resolve conflict. Students will have the opportunity to apply the knowledge gained in this class to conflicts at different levels: Interpersonal, organization, community, and international.

Consultation skills are central to the roles of counselors working in schools and various
mental health settings. This course exposes students to consultation theory, research, and practice in
settings serving children, adults, and families. By integrating experiences and observations in field
placements, students develop skills to examine variables related to client, consultee, and
organizational/systems contexts to implement and assess the effectiveness of various consultation
approaches within diverse communities and settings.

This course examines theories of consumption, consumer culture, commodification, branding, and the changing patterns of media consumption. We will investigate the history of consumer society from the nineteenth century through contemporary consumer practices shaped by digital media, changing spaces of consumerism, taste and lifestyle, the consumption of entertainment media, and critiques and resistances to consumerism.