Courses

History, philosophy and role of education as the foundation of education for all students. Legalization and litigation affecting the provision of services and life opportunities for individuals with diverse characteristics and needs. Characteristics of individuals with disabilities and the effect of those disabilities on learning and behavior. Included study of education and special education service delivery systems, employment, and community-based resources and supports.

This course focuses on the social and cultural issues of learning as they relate to individual and group cognition in the context of media-rich technology learning environments. The course delves deeply into constructivism/constructionism, scaffolding, apprenticeship, distributed cognition, computer-supported collaborative learning, knowledge-building communities, the learning sciences, perspectivity and identity formation as they relate to the creation of successful and equitable learning environments for diverse populations of learners.

This course will include further study of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols as they apply to the French language and the rules for lyrical pronunciation of French. Students will be required to transliterate song texts into IPA and demonstrate mastery of the diction rules through the performance of assigned repertoire.

This is a course in the intermediate and advanced foundations of statistical inference in the context of applied research. Assuming some prior exposure to probability and statistics, this course will first cover topics such as the principles of estimation and hypothesis testing, and the general and generalized linear models, including scientific computation. This course thoroughly explores the frequentist approach to inference. The student will be expected to understand the mathematical theory, implement related statistical algorithms in statistical programming language such as R, and interpret models and parameters in the context of applied statistical analysis of real data.

In this course we will cover the varieties of Italian food in their past and present forms. First, we will explore the history of food from past civilizations, leading up to World War I, just after the great immigration to the New World. Time periods examined will be ancient Rome, Medieval, Renaissance, Risorgimento, leading to the modern era. This course includes topics ranging from Pellegrino Artusi’s famous cookbook in the contest of Italian unification to the relationship between Italian Futurism and food. The second part of the course will introduce students to the regional diversity of Italian food using mediums such as TV, art, and film. We will examine the ways in which food shapes contemporary Italian society, from the more intimate family kitchen to the most elegant Italian restaurant in New York City.

This mathematics content course helps students develop understanding of important arithmetic concepts. Besides developing understandings that underlie fractions, ratio, and arithmetic algorithms, students develop greater skill in mathematical justification and communication. Classwork is active, including working in small groups to solve mathematical tasks and participating in whole-class discussions of the mathematical ideas under development.

An introduction to maintenance and troubleshooting concepts used in the recording studio. Procedures discussed are those necessary in utilizing sophisticated audio equipment and understanding essential aspects of studio design.

Advanced work in studio repair and maintenance focusing on digital equipment. Students will develop practical skills tracing schematics, using test equipment, and replacing components as required daily in the studio environment.

Prepares emerging music teachers to conduct and rehearse ensembles. Focuses on gestural patterns, cuing, score preparation, score analysis, instrumental transpositions, as well as rehearsal and performing techiniques for ensembles found in school settings. Pre-requisite to MPAME-UE 1054 Instrumental Materials, Techniques, and Conducting.

The purpose of this course is to acquire the basic knowledge and skills
necessary to conduct choral and instrumental ensembles in rehearsal and
performance. Special emphasis will be placed on skills such as fundamental
beat patterns; preparatory gestures; basic score preparation, analysis and
interpretation; basic rehearsal techniques and error detection; and use of
the baton, posture, and stance.

Prepares emerging music teachers to conduct and rehearse ensembles. Focuses on gestural patterns, cuing, score preparation, score analysis, instrumental transpositions, as well as rehearsal and performing techiniques for ensembles found in school settings. Pre-requisite to MPAME-GE
2115 Instrumental Materials, Techniques, and Conducting.

Theoretical and practical foundations for digital signal processing. Topics covered include signal representation in time and frequency domains, Fourier transform, spectrum analysis, transfer functions, convolution, filter theory and implementation. Lectures are reinforced with a co-requisite weekly lab.

Hands-on lab accompanying Fundamentals of Digital Signal Theory Lab E85.2599. Lab sessions will contain programming exercises to reinforce topics including signal representation, Fourier transform, spectrum analysis, transfer functions, convolution, and filtering.

Analysis of the exponential expansion of digital communication and computation
and the resultant impact on social interaction, cultural creation, education and business enterprise. Key topics include: cyber security, artificial intelligence, machine learning, neural network architectures, natural language processing, viral information dynamics, block chain technologies, data mining and data analytics. No prerequisites.

A general introduction to the fundamental concepts of music technology, including: MIDI and sequencing, the basics of digital audio, sound recording, mixing and sound synthesis,. The course will also briefly overview advanced topics and applications in the field.

Leaders of mission driven educational organizations & networks that collaborate with schools & communities face the challenge of both understanding & securing funds for educational equity & social change. Restrictive government grants & the ever-changing grant making cycles of philanthropic foundations make fundraising difficult for mission driven organizations to sustain &/or grow programming. This course helps leaders 1) learn about the challenges of fundraising for organizations focused on educational equity, 2) identify sources of funding aligned with mission, 3) engage school & community stakeholders on resource sharing & 4) write effective grants that will lead to sustainable initiatives.

This course builds on the fundamentals of learning theory and interactive design by rethinking these issues in the context of dramatically evolving technology as well as new institutions and new social expectations about the learning process. A dominant theme is the tension between the relatively fixed limitations of the evolved human cognitive system and the dramatic changes in technology, institutions and social expectations.

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Video games are becoming ever-present in educational settings, with classrooms incorporating both commercial & educational games in curriculum, & educational technologists becoming ever more interested in developing “serious” or educational games. However, there are still many unknowns, such as, what genres of games may best be used for certain kinds of learning, & how we can go about studying how games affect players & learners. This course will prepare students to: understand the history of educational video games, & what shaped the development of certain genres; identify theories of learning & play; & describe how they relate to the educational potential of video games; analyze & evaluate commercial & educational video games; & design educational video games with history, theory, learning outcomes, & learner characteristics in mind.

For students who wish to conduct studies related to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people. Topics approved in advance are investigated by the student with the supervision of a faculty adviser. Either a paper, a journal article, a report, or an equivalent project is required.