Courses

Physiological and pathophysiological principles for understanding the response of the human body to exercise. The musculoskeletal, pulmonary, cardiovascular and metabolic responses to exercise and their implications in physical therapy intervention will be explored. The effects of aging, nutrition and environmental stress on the body's performance will be discussed. Human energy expenditures, body composition and effects of training are presented in lectures and are coordinated with laboratory demonstration and experiences

Concepts, procedures, materials, and tools necessary for producing and managing exhibition projects in museums, cultural centers, and galleries. Space planning, traffic flow, object placement, use of graphic elements, interpretive techniques, and participatory and interactive strategies are discussed. Students will learn the skills of sketching, drafting, and model making by designing an exhibition layout, graphic, and sample label.

Exploration and use of electronic, multi-media, and other techniques in music parograms for the public schools. Conversations with leading contemporary composers.

Explores issues, trends, and research related to the study and practice of college student learning in service learning, internships, and civic engagement programs. Provides skills to education professionals to support individual, organization, and civic benefits of experiential learning opportunities. Topics include lifelong learning theories and research on the effectiveness of structured/unstructured interventions.

Application of basic and more complex experimental designs such as block designs, factorial, latin square, and repeated measures as well as single case designs. Students will learn the basis for these designs, power and sample size calculations, and related approaches to statistical analysis.

Based on the work of the Creative Arts Team's acclaimed High School Program, this intensive introductory course focuses on the use of drama and theatre techniques to address critical issues facing young people. Participants will explore the step-by-step process of designing workshops using techniques such as the mini-script, literature-to-life (using short stories, newspaper articles, etc.), still pictures/tableaux, and role-play. Students will be required to complete a written assignment.

The seminar provides additional orientation and guidance to the school, the university, and the city, explores professional issues, and provides opportunities for students to enhance their writing, discussion, and presentation skills for the American classroom.

The seminar provides additional orientation and guidance to the school, the university, and the city, explores professional issues, and provides opportunities for students to enhance their writing, discussion, and presentation skills for the American classroom.

The course focuses on advanced knowledge in counseling assessment and therapy, appreciation for contemporary issues in professional development, fostering skills in peer-supervision and support, and improving clinical case presentation skills. Students participate in an active, seminar-style discussion on clinical cases and professional issues. Students provide peer support and supervision of cases treated within an externship placement and formally make case presentations with an opportunity for feedback.

Explores the role of the literacy specialist as agent of ongoing school literacy reform. Attention to school professional learning communities, the role of data analysis in school reform, professional coaching, literacy program implementation and supervision, and the development of a comprehensive school literacy model.

This class focuses on examining the function and facilitation skills of the 'Joker' (the facilitator role in Theatre of the Oppressed) across a diversity of contexts and communities as well as examining the history and practice of Invisible Theatre, Rainbow of Desire, and Legislative Theatre techniques. These components of Theatre of the Oppressed are at the heart of the intersection between theory, theatre, civic and political engagement, and personal and social change. These techniques allow us to more introspectively examine the ways in which we interact as human beings in an ever-changing society. The course focuses on both the theoretical foundations of the work, as well as the application of these techniques in practice.

Fame—celebrity, notoriety, renown—confers both recognition and immortality.
It is the most enduring and desirable form of social power; a uniquely
human ambition and a central force in social life. Culture, commerce,
politics, and religion all proffer promises of fame, whether for fifteen
minutes or fifteen centuries. Drawing on texts from history, anthropology,
sociology, literature, philosophy, and contemporary media, this course
will reflect on the ethics, erotics, pragmatics and pathologies of fame. We
will compare fame to other forms of recognition (reputation, honor,
charisma, infamy, etc.), and look at how fame operates in various social
and historical circumstances, from small agricultural communities to
enormous, hyper-mediated societies such as our own. How does the fame of
the oral epic differ from the fame of the printed book or the fame of the
photograph? We'll consider the enduring question of fame as it transforms
across space, time, social boundaries, and technological conditions.

Fame, notoriety, renown – the desire to be recognized & immortalized is the most enduring & perhaps the most desirable form of power. Culture, commerce, politics, & religion all proffer promises of fame – whether for fifteen minutes or fifteen centuries. This course will investigate this subject by asking, what is fame? Why do people want it? How do they get it? What can they do with it? In other words, what kind of good is fame? Drawing on texts from history, ethnography, theory, literature, philosophy, & contemporary media, this course will reflect on the ethics, erotics, pragmatics & pathologies of fame.

The main objective of this course is to help students develop an understanding of the complexities of the relationships between family and school systems by taking a look at the nature of both as they relate to child development. The course will be taught from a developmental-ecological-systems perspective, with a focus on issues related to education of children in urban, low-income environments.

Examination of the complex relationships between family & school systems, with a special focus on low-income urban communities as they relate to child development. Topics explore the roles culture, immigration, & racial/ethnic diversity play in establishing effective partnerships between families & schools.

This course examines fashion as a form of communication and culture. Through cultural and media studies theory, we will examine how fashion makes meaning, and how it has been valued through history, popular culture and media institutions, focusing on the relationship between fashion, visual self-presentation, and power. The course will situate fashion both n terms of its production and consumption, addressing its role in relation to identity and body politics (gender, race, sexuality, class), art and status, nationhood and the global economy, celebrity and Hollywood culture, youth cultures and subversive practices.

This course examines fashion both from its diffusion in a globalized society, and as a form of communication and culture. We will examine how fashion has been valued through social sciences - history and sociology on the one hand, and economy on the other hand, from its production to its consumption. The course will address fashion in terms of issues of consumerism and sustainability in a post-industrialized society.

Why do fashion designers and brands exert such influence in contemporary society? What explains the trajectory from The House of Worth to Chanel to this season’s hottest label? This course investigates the interlocking forces shaping fashion: the designer system, celebrities, technology, politics, the arts and media. Through lectures and film viewings, readings, discussions, and individual research, students explore fashion as a crucial aspect of culture and how the fashion system evolved from roots in Parisian couture to become a global phenomenon.

Liberal Arts Core/MAP Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Expressive Cultures

Advanced course addressing market needs, research methods, trend projections, feasibility, evaluation strategies, capital budgets, and financing for development of food service projects.

In this course students think across disciplines to consider what it means to satisfy our literal and metaphorical hunger. Students analyze the relationships between body and soul, self and surrounding, hunger and satiety and visit NYC-based institutions like Essex Street Crossing and the Street Vendor Project to further understand how feeding body and soul works outside of the classroom. Liberal Arts Core/CORE Equivalent- satisfies the requirement for Cultures and Contexts.