Courses

Lab ensemble is an essential program requirement to prepare emerging teachers for K-12 certification to strengthen performance skills on primary and secondary instruments. This repeatable course is taken during freshman and sophomore semesters while in residence at NYU New York City campus and prior to enrolling in Instrumental Materials, Techniques and Conducting (MPAME-UE 1054) or (MPAME-GE 2115).

Lab ensemble is an essential program requirement to prepare emerging teachers for K-12 certification to strengthen performance skills on primary and secondary instruments. This repeatable course is taken during freshman and sophomore semesters while in residence at NYU New York City campus and prior to enrolling in Instrumental Materials, Techniques and Conducting (MPAME-UE 1054) or (MPAME-GE 2115).

Students build on foundations from Fundamentals of Conducting and implement effective teaching strategies for instrumental music educators, including rehearsal planning and preparation, instrumental transpositions, arranging, ensemble resources, performance literature, supplemental materials, and equipment repair/maintenance. Hands-on demonstrations and discussion. Includes collaboration with Instrumental Lab Ensemble. Prerequisite: MPAME-GE 2102 Fundamentals of Conducting

Students build on foundations from Fundamentals of Conducting and implement effective teaching strategies for instrumental music educators, including rehearsal planning and preparation, instrumental transpositions, arranging, ensemble resources, performance literature, supplemental materials, and equipment repair/maintenance. Hands-on demonstrations and discussion. Includes collaboration with Instrumental Lab Ensemble. Prerequisite: MPAME-UE 1465 Fundamentals of Conducting

Rehearsal techniques and special problems in ensemble performance.

Rehearsal techniques and special problems in ensemble performance.

Rehearsal techniques and special problems in ensemble performance.

Examination of educational and cultural exchange programs that disseminate information to foreign countries about a nation's policies, institutions, culture and values. Focus is on the development of international information programs, the purposes of exchange programs, and the relationship between government and private educational and cultural communities. Case studies are drawn from such organizations as the United Nations Department of Public Information, the United States Information Agency, the Council on International Exchange of Scholars, the Institute of International Education, and the Academy for Educational Development.

Explores international perspectives on the recording, publishing, streaming, live performance, and broader music markets beyond the United States, grounded in contemporary theories of globalization, hybridization and “soft power”. Topics include the roles of firms, creators and states in different types of music and media networks and economies; global and local music business related institutions and governance models from regions to countries to cities; and targeted examinations of specific developed and emerging national and diasporic markets around the world.

Through study and travel, this course explores how agriculture, food cuisine, nutrition, and health affect and are affected by the unique culture, history, climate, geography, and economic and political systems of selected countries. The course draws on local academic and professional experts, food producers, and food service providers to investigate these interrelationships through field trips, site visits, interviews, lectures, seminars, and demonstrations, with an emphasis on cross-cultural perspectives.

Developing integrated curriculum by exploring the relationships among science, health, and social studies. Literacy and mathematical learning and the role of the environment will be included in the integrative planning.

Extension of work in Integrating Seminar I encouraging deeper understanding and further practices. Focus on development as teach-researcher.

Extension of work in Integrating Seminar II encouraging examination of practices in early childhood settings through previously acquired skills as teaching-researcher. Exploration of opportunities for advocacy on behalf of children and their families.

Methods for integrating music, art, dance, and drama into an integrated childhood education curriculum.

Methods for integrating music, art, dance, and drama into an integrated childhood education curriculum.

Methods for integrating music, art, dance, and drama into an integrated childhood
education curriculum.

Exploring interconnections among the subject areas of early childhood learning through the planning and implementation of integrated sciences, health, and social studies learning experiences. The integration of literacy and mathematical learning into these curricula and the critical role of the physical environment in supporting an integrated curriculum.

This course integrates children's literature, the arts, and technology. Thematic teaching methods specific to these individual content areas will develop prospective teacher's ability to use poetry, prose, storytelling, visual arts, dance, music, drama, computers, the internet and digital media with students grades one thru six. These subject areas will be taught in modules and simultaneously integrated through class activities and field research projects.

Prepares students to integrate digital media and technology into learner curricula. Through demonstrations, hands-on use, and application projects, students gain experience with the roles digital tools play to support teaching methods and learning strategies associated with a continuum of learner- and teacher-centered educational approaches and goals. Students develop skills in HTML, podcasting, digital storytelling, use of Web 2.0 tools (e.g., content management systems, social networks, e-portfolios), digital video, and virtual worlds in order to design and formatively assess engaging learning communities.

Explores the major reasons that people read, ways to engage adolescents in meaningful reading, ways to understand and enhance readers' meaning-making processes and experiences, and ways to assess adolescents' reading development over time. This course also addresses the language and literacy needs of English Language Learners and ways of addressing those needs through modifications of curriculum and instruction.