Courses

Hands-on lab accompanying Digital Electronics. Lab sessions will contain hands-on experience with logic circuits & microcontrollers. The course culminates with a student developed final project.

This course offers students a foundational understanding of the technological building blocks that make up digital media & culture, & of the ways they come together to shape myriad facets of life. Students will acquire a working knowledge of the key concepts behind coding, & survey the contours of digital media architecture, familiarizing themselves with algorithms, databases, hardware, & similar key components. These technological frameworks will be examined as the basic grammar of digital media & related to theories of identity, privacy, policy, & other pertinent themes.

There has been much public outcry over the data-tracking practices of governments and corporations and how these threaten civil liberties. Meanwhile, people have increasingly embraced wearable technologies and smartphone apps to monitor and analyze their own bodies and lives. How do individuals "datafy" themselves and how, in turn, does data intimately shape their experience, identity, and life chances? What does contemporary self-tracking (and its pre-digital antecedents) reveal about changing cultural values, political contexts, and understandings of the self?

Students may pursue work in black and white, color or digital photography. Technical demonstrations may include studio lighting, experimental processes, and large format cameras. Individual and group critiques focus on the development of ideas and meaning through photographic imagery, as well as aesthetic and formal concerns. Readings on individual photographers, history, and theory, as well as darkroom techniques are assigned.

A hands-on introduction to the technical and creative uses of digital photography. The class will explore the use of digital technologies to compose, shoot, scan, alter, and print images, as well as considering the ways in which photographic meaning has been changed by the use of the computer. Students provide their own camera and paper.

Digital recording technology & production techniques are explained & demonstrated. Lecture topics engage analog to digital conversion, digital to analog conversion, digital signal theory & filter design, digital audio effects & mixing. Studio lab assignments are performed outside of class reinforcing weekly lecture topics.

Theoretical and practical foundations for programming and digital signal processing at an advanced level. Topics covered include signal and system representation, time and frequency domains, phase vocoding, and filter theory and implementation. Lectures, covering concepts important to the implementation of DSP, are reinforced with assignments utilizing MATLAB to digitally manipulate sound files. A background in mathematics and computer programming is recommended, but not required.

Digital technologies are now an integral part of the design of a growing number of learning experiences. Modern learning designers need to master several digital skills to effectively and efficiently embed these new technologies into their designs. Through modular and personalized learning paths, this course will provide practical training and practice to acquire basic skills in graphic design, multimedia production and interactive multimedia for novice students or to attain higher levels of mastery for students with previous experience.

In this hands-on communications course on food media, students learn how to use use social media, write for the web, analyze photography and video, and build and develop a website for an idea -- whether it be business, personal, or professional.

Examines how arts organizations use networked
technologies and digital media in the development and fulfillment of their missions. Students consider the creative, theoretical, and practical implications of integrating various technologies from
multiple perspectives. Students gain an understanding of the ever-shifting landscape of social media and digital marketing, digital-born artworks, emerging technologies, e-commerce, and the role of digital in confronting issues of social justice and racial equity.

This course covers the theoretical and clinical application of digital music in music therapy, focusing on imaginative listening, typologies and sociocultural history, and approaches to tele-health. Students create digital compositions related to the course material and clinical practice.

Elements of play scripts are analyzed and dramatized. Students cast and rehearse members of of the acting classes in brief scenes performed at workshop meetings on Friday afternoons. Class assignments included.

This course provides an essential foundation upon which to build a drama-in-education practice. It introduces students to many drama-in-education strategies; critiques the educational rationale which supports them; and analyzes the process of structuring drama work as a medium for learning across the curriculum and beyond using the main dramatic conventions of the drama-in-education canon, they will experiment with ways in which to sequence these conventions and will become critically acquainted with the pedagogical principles which delineate the teaching terrain of the drama-in-education practitioner. Students will be required to read a prescribed text, keep a journal, and write a sequence of session plans.

This course explores how education, traditional Chinese health beliefs and practices impact the current health care, access and public transportation, and social welfare for individuals with disabilities in China. Students will explore and identify factors, which may influence a community’s view of disability. The course utilizes the reflective teaching model and experiential learning to enrich students’ understandings of the context.

NYU students will learn traditional Israeli customs, traditions and lifestyles relative to health and disability. Students will learn about the arts and culture of Israel. We will study the practices of the region and compare them with the practices and impact of disability in the U.S..

Explores the implications and meaning of having a disability in global contexts by introducing students to experts’ voices, especially disabled activists, as they seek to advance disability justice and inclusion and demand systemic change in spheres of influence including education, politics, healthcare, the arts, culture, social welfare, and everyday life. Examines how public (government) and private (outside of the government) policies and practices in these sectors affect the inclusion of persons with disabilities. Students explore and identify how international trends in disability and inclusion, local cultural beliefs, and biases influence inclusion.

In this course, we will examine the significance of technology to the definition and experience of disability; the relationship between disability and the development of new media; the politics of representation; and current debates between the fields of disability studies and media studies. Specific topics will include: biomedical technology and the establishment of norms; the category of “assistive technology”; cyborgs and prostheses as fact and as metaphor; inclusive architecture and design; visual rhetorics of disability in film and photography; staring and other practices of looking; medical and counter-medical performance; media advocacy, tactical media, and direct action.

Uses a diversity lens to examine theories, practices, and policies relative to disability, equity, and culture. Explores educators’ development of culturally responsive special education through reflective practices, teaching philosophy, and school resources and curriculum. Course content also includes classroom-based practices including individualized curriculum development, instructional planning, and assessment for diverse learners. Teachers’ professionalism and advocacy for students with disabilities and their families are also addressed.

This course offers a survey of discourse analytic approaches to research in
education and related areas of inquiry. Considers discourse analysis through interdisciplinary lenses and various disciplinary traditions. Designed as a research methods course for doctoral students in social sciences such as education, human development, art performances, media, and culture, it engages students in learning about and practicing discourse analytic approaches to explore important questions in their respective discipline at the intersections of language, discourse, and power.

This course offers a survey of discourse analytic approaches to research in
education and related areas of inquiry. Considers discourse analysis through interdisciplinary lenses and various disciplinary traditions. Designed as a research methods course for doctoral students in social sciences such as education, human development, art performances, media, and culture, it engages students in learning about and practicing discourse analytic approaches to explore important questions in their respective discipline at the intersections of language, discourse, and power.