Courses

This course will provide students with hands-on experience facilitating action interventions in psychodrama, such as creating contracts, scene setting, training auxiliaries, the walk & talk, directing the psychodrama vignette & psychodrama with individuals. Upon completion of Psychodrama & Sociometry & Advanced Psychodrama & Sociometry, the student will have accrued sufficient hours of training to begin psychodrama practicum.

This course enables the student to independently examine and reexamine a patient or client with musculoskeletal problems by obtaining a pertinent history from the patient or client and from other relevant sources by performing relevant systems review, and by selecting appropriate age-related tests and measure. The courses also enable the student: to provide direct physical therapy interventions to achieve patient/client outcomes based on the examination and the impairments, functional limitations, and disabilities

This course enables the student to independently examine and reexamine a patient or client with musculoskeletal problems by obtaining a pertinent history from the patient or client and from other relevant sources by performing relevant systems review, and by selecting appropriate age-related tests and measure. The courses also enable the student: to provide direct physical therapy interventions to achieve patient/client outcomes based on the examination and the impairments, functional limitations, and disabilities.

A review of selected current topics in second language and education research. Opportunity for students to enhance their knowledge of research approaches and content in areas such as second language acquisition, foreign language development, bilingual literacy, cross-cultural pragmatics, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics. Students will pursue individual areas of interest by completing a project under faculty guidance. (11/16/1999). To be taken near the end of the student's program of study. The culminating and integrative experience of the master's degree programs in foreign languages and bilingual education: each student presents his or her findings on the problem or problems he or she has pursued and studies their implications relative to local, regional and national professional issues.

As a core component of the training program, seminar provides students with experience in professional presentations of their work, exposes them to strong models of such presentations, & explores substantive, methodological, & professional issues not covered in classes. In addition to student presentations, there will be outside speakers, faculty presentations, discussions of pertinent journal article, & discussion of professional issues.

In addition to developing the candidacy paper this course provides an overview of the profession. Students become familiar with the components of the candidacy paper & begin to research & develop information related to those components. Profession-related topics include vita construction, identifying & pursuing faculty positions in higher education, the major conferences & publications in the profession, the critical steps & major benchmarks in doctoral training & funding sources for doctoral research.

This seminar is intended for advanced doctoral students who wish to explore in greater depth questions of theory & method raised by the Listening Guide.

This seminar is intended for advanced doctoral students who wish to explore in greater depth questions of theory and method raised by the Listening Guide.

Advanced level music theory. The courses build on techniques developed in Theory & Practice I and II.

Introduction to the materials and organizing principles of 20th and 21st
century concert music and jazz. Students will engage with a range of
analytical methods and compositional techniques applicable to a broad range
of repertoire incorporating advanced chromaticism, modes, extended
tonality, atonality, jazz harmony, and contemporary techniques in metric
organization and form. The course will culminate in a final paper or
presentation analyzing a 20th or 21st century work.

Introduction to the materials and organizing principles of 20th and 21st century concert music and jazz. Students will engage with a range of analytical methods and compositional techniques applicable to a broad range of repertoire incorporating advanced chromaticism, modes, extended tonality, atonality, jazz harmony, and contemporary techniques in metric organization and form. The course will culminate in a final paper or presentation analyzing a 20th or 21st century work.

Hands-on work with the materials of chromatic tonality and an introduction to complex forms. This course builds on composition and analysis skills developed in Theory & Practice II: Tonal Harmony & Voice Leading, and introduces students to advanced techniques in four-part contrapuntal writing, arranging, model composition, and formal analysis in 18th and 19th century common-practice classical music.

Digital audio workstations (DAW), such as Garage Band, Audacity, and Ableton provide students with a hands-on polyphonic platform for studying and composing contrapuntal music. This course aims to bridge traditions and practices to accommodate students in various specializations and to impart a creative understanding of counterpoint and polyphonic thinking relevant to a broad range of musical repertoire. Working in DAW, students practice contrapuntal techniques and styles using different types of audio material. The course culminates in a final composition project.

This course explores a range of analytical methods and compositional
techniques characteristic of French art music from the belle époque to 1950. Topics include French dances and other large forms, rich chords, embellishing chords, the “cadence Fauréenne,” modes and pentatonic collections, and Messiaen’s “additive rhythm” and “modes of limited transposition.” Students gain hands-on practice with techniques for orchestration and transcription and analyze regional and stylistic influences, including those from Spain, Javanese Gamelan, and American blues and ragtime.

The study of non-Western theories of music. This course examines topics in pitch, rhythm, and formal structure in selected music from Africa, Latin America, East Asia, India, and the Middle East. Students will acquire a foundational understanding of the transcription and analysis of non-Western art and folk music, as well as a basic introduction to theory and performance practice by guest artists. The course will culminate in a final analysis project.

This course builds on material presented in Theory & Practice II: Popular Music.
Students explore advanced topics in harmony, rhythmic function, metric dissonance, formal function and ambiguity in song form, tuning practices, vocal and instrumental timbre, texture, recording techniques and sampling, music video analysis, and discussions of identity in popular song. Popular music, defined broadly, includes pop, rock, hip hop, rap, metal, folk, EDM, country, and other genres. Students engage with topics through assigned reading and listening, discussions, and projects.

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Course explores the intersection of gender, identity, culture and food. Students will analyze the influences of sexual identity, human sexuality, sexual orientation and gender on real and perceived cultural views of food and consumption. Topics will address how society assigns gender to food by investigating historical and contemporary texts. Employing advertisements, menus, recipes, cookbooks, television programs, films and packaging, students will critically analyze gendering practices. Theoretical frameworks will include queer theory, early feminist theory, Whiteness theory and emerging male studies and transgender studies.

This course explores organic agriculture from multiple angles, starting with a historical exploration of organic and finishing with policy approaches to organic. Specific aspects studied include the environmental benefits of organic production systems, the political economy of the US organic regulation, health benefits of organic, and organic consumption and marketing.

This course focuses on contemporary political struggles for control over agrifood systems. The course examines the relationship between the capitalist development of agrifood systems and national sovereignty and focusses on Latin America, a major U.S. agricultural trading partner. Students will review recent research on topics, such as trade integration, land grabbing, food systems financialization, states and contemporary agrarian policies, agroecology, and transnational peasant movements.