Courses

This course is designed to expose students to the complex real-world datasets commonly used in machine learning applications. The course provides an accessible introduction to supervised machine learning, while covering aspects of data collection and cleaning. Specific topics include model construction, evaluation, and regularization, as well as web scraping, text data, feature construction, and measurement error. Students complete short assignments, longer homework sets, and a final project.

This course engages the sculpture student interested in small metal construction and cross-disciplinary approaches to object making. Noticing that a growing number of contemporary artists are producing work with their hands, using methods and materials traditionally associated with craft, this course will focus on the object materiality and the condition of their construction. We will pay close attention to the psychical and physical processes involved in the handmade object, and explore the intersection where process and product, idea and material, tradition and innovation meld.

Beginning and traditional techniques for jewelry and metalsmithing. Through demonstrations and practice, students create individual projects in a variety of materials. Discussions and assignments consider preconceived notions about jewelry as well as structural design problems.

Research procedures in all phases of theatre and educational theatre.

This field-based course explores theoretical and practical frameworks for designing and implementing classroom management, integration of science with other disciplines, reading and science, traditional and alternative assessment, and multicultural science teaching. The use of technology as an instructional tool to support learning and communication are applied to teaching and learning situations as an integral aspect of the course.

This first of two field-based courses explores theoretical and practical frameworks for designing and implementing grades 5-12 science curricula topics including learning theories, safety, planning and curriculum development, classroom management, integration of science with other disciplines, reading and science, traditional and alternative assessment, and multicultural science teaching. The use of technology as an instructional tool to support learning and communication are applied to teaching and learning situations as an integral aspect of the course.

This course continues to build your learning as you develop a further repertoire of practices and understandings to support your growth as an innovative professional educator who uses inclusive and culturally relevant design through the use of counter narratives to develop science curricula that are technologically rich, engaging and practically and intellectually challenging for middle and high school students in grades 5-12.

Introduces students to several methods of analyzing the content, production, and contexts of media in society. Students explore the basic approaches of textual analysis, political economy, and ethnography. Students adopt, adapt and employ these methods in their own analyses, survey and data collection, and ethnographies. Students create their work by means of digitally mediated image annotation and manipulation, data collection and visualization, and audio/video production.

Techniques and practice of creative drama. Students lead classes; weekly critiques. laboratory experience.

Techniques and practice of creative drama. Students lead classes; weekly critiques. Laboratory experience.

Identifies characteristics of high-incidence disabilities impacting learning, attention, and behavior in early childhood settings. Related curriculum and instructional methods for increasing student efficacy in across general and special education, with the use of assistive technologies. Focuses on a wide range of learning environments including home, school, and recreational settings. Teacher knowledge/skill development on family and professional partnerships, inclusion, advocacy, interagency collaboration.

Covers the etiology, characteristics, and services for students with low-incidence disabilities affecting development across early childhood, childhood, and adolescence. Focus is on curriculum and instruction for intellectual, socioemotional, physical, behavioral, and communicative learning. Includes assistive technology. Instructional methods in varied learning environments including home, school, and community-based settings is central to course content. Course also addresses facilitation of family partnerships, inclusion, advocacy, interagency collaboration.No Course Description Available

This course focuses on methods of teaching English and native language arts and literacy to multilingual learners. Topics include connecting research-based methods to instructional strategies; examining the role of cultural, linguistic and individual factors in the development of biliteracy; and investigating how bilingual students use their home language skills to develop and acquire English literacy.

This elective course assists MFA candidates in the development of a substantial body of work in preparation for exhibitions. Issues addressed include the production, installation and display of work, artist statements, catalog essays, and other materials that might accompany an exhibition.

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Examines developments of culture, politics, and media in contemporary Middle East through an historical and cultural lens. Course is organized by theoretical theme and geographic location and addresses culture as a site of struggle; the impact of globatlization on Arab mass media; the connections between civil society, demoracy and Islam; and gender, national and diasporic identities.

This studio course is centered on in-class discussion and demonstration of student works created using a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) such as Logic Pro, Sample Libraries, Synthesizers, and Sound Processors. During the class, students and faculty will provide feedback to student projects in order to improve the overall quality of the music production. In addition, there will be presentations and discussion of new releases of sample libraries, audio processors,
and synthesizers, as well as new features from updates on the DAW.

An introduction to MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) with an emphasis on sequencing, production and arranging techniques. Open to students without previous experience in music technology.