Courses

By writing fragments of a reading autobiography, students explore the impact of their language development of literary texts read at home and at school. These experiences are then reflected upon to explore implications for the teaching of literature from preschool through college.

Explores the interconnections among the acquisition of first (and second) language and the development of print and media literacy from birth through adolescence. Emphases are placed on the interactions of reading and writing with a focus on those children who make transitions and acquire the appropriate skills easily, as well as those who find it more difficult, particularly in middle childhood and adolescence. The implications for literacy education for students speaking a second language or a variety of English are also explored in the context of urban education.

This course offers an overview of current knowledge of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the field of communication disorders and related areas. Students learn about current theories of underlying causal factors, as well as different educational approaches and settings. Special emphasis is placed on language and communication skills, focusing on assessment and intervention.

This course examines the role of language in media, culture, and communication. Topics will include language ideologies, register-formation, language politics, standardization, raciolinguistics, code-switching, voicing, speech and text genres, orthographies, fonts, and more. Students will learn to analyze interpersonal and mediated communication-in-context, with attention to pragmatics, performativity and participation frameworks, using key analytics and methods from the fields of socio-linguistics, linguistic anthropology, and semiotics.

This course focuses on the relationship between language development and literacy acquisition. Linguistic diversity and the essential practices for nurturing literacy development in home and preschool settings are explored. Early Childhood field experiences provide opportunities for application of techniques for fostering language development and emergent reading and writing.

Continuation of Language and Reading instruction for Childhood I.

In this course, students explore the structure, meaning and function of language that is commonly exhibited in typical development and discuss how these domains may change during atypical development. Additionally, students learn the basic principles of assessment and intervention and the role of the speech language pathologist in supporting language development for individuals exhibiting typical and atypical development.

This course focuses on the development of oral and written language, and the reciprocal relationship of oral and written language skills, different types of oral language and literacy disorders, and the role of the speech and language pathologist working with school-age children with varying language-learning disabilities. This course also fulfills specific requirements from the New York State Department of Education to attain a bilingual extension to the certificate of Teacher of Students with Speech and Language Disabilities.

In this course students examine assessment and remediation of language disorders associated with various etiological factors and consider the relationship of language performance to psychosocial, sensorimotor, and cognitive behavioral systems. Special focus on the formulation of intervention goals and procedures for children from the prelinguistic stage through the preschool years.

Workshop for development of placement, achievement, diagnostic, and proficiency tests for second language students for all language and ability levels. Examination of language tests and such concepts as validity and reliability in testing.

This course provides students with an understanding of the fundamental goals, principles, and concerns of second and world language assessment. The course emphasizes classroom assessments that promote student learning. Students connect theory to practice by analyzing existing language assessments and developing their own language classroom assessment.

Readings and research on the ways in which language is implicated in different cultures and constructions of time, space, c=consciousness, self, truth, knowledge, and gender.

This course is designed to serve as a bridge between introductory statistics/econometrics and practical work with real, large-scale databases. The analytic skills taught in this course are broadly applicable to research in education, education policy, and the social, behavioral, and health sciences. Emphasis throughout the course is on hands-on data preparation, workflow, and modeling using the Stata statistical software package.

Rehearsal techniques and special problems in ensemble performance.

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This course examines the production, representation and cultural meaning of Latino media in the U.S. Provides a general survey of Latino media in the U.S. with particular focus on the cultures of production of Spanish and English language television, radio, film, advertising, newspapers, magazines and internet-based media.

Issues of law that affect the arts, e.g., contracts, liability, copyright, and labor relations. Analyzes important legal practices that have shaped cultural institutions in this century and examines legal relationships of procedures, artists, and presenters in the performing arts.

Review and analysis of the law and agreements basic to the music industry. Designed to provide the student with an appreciation of legal issues as they affect management and production in the music industry,

This course offers an overview of American art law, focusing on legal issues in art businesses like galleries, auction houses, museums, and non-profits. Topics include contractual matters, provenance, authenticity, statutes of limitation, intellectual property, museum law, international art trade, stolen art, and cultural heritage concerns. Students also examine legal impacts on freedom of expression in art.

To what extent is "the media" governed by law, and to what extent is it a law unto itself? Does "the media" enable or unsettle the regnant forms of international order? This course will discuss shifts in the post WWII world order, as perceived through the category of media, and via issues of international law and justice. This course will seek to understand some key dynamics of changing world order, shifting between history and courtroom, to try to understand the new contours of the international world order over the course of the 20th C and to the present time.