Courses

This class is designed to equip MCC students with the ability to translate their academic background in media and cultural analysis into a career working within a facet of the media industry and to expose them to the latest industry practices from a master media practitioner. Students are guided by an alumni instructor to make
connections between their academic coursework and current industry practice with the goal to help them understand the media industry application of their intellectual studies. Industry focus is dependent on alumni instructor’s expertise.

This course focuses on enhancing classroom practice through exploration of the uses of media and technology. The course addresses the development of media literacy skills with an added focus on developing methods to utilize media as a tool to enhance content in the art classroom. The potential of media and technology to assist in the development of innovative curricula in all content areas is examined, with attention to interdisciplinary curricula integrating the arts. There is a substantial lab component to this course, providing extensive hands-on experience in available technologies. Additional topics include the changing classroom in the information age; visual literacy; the role of media technologies for communication in a diverse, democratic society; authenticity and reproduction; inquiry-based learning and technology.

Students are placed in field internships in a variety of professions related to digital media design for learning including product development, user experience, instructional design, educational technology, media design and development and educational research. Students learn through supervised participation in professional settings including corporate, cultural, communications, non-profit, health, K-12 and higher education, among others.

Examines theoretical approaches that are central to the study of media, culture, and communication. provides students with a historical and critical framework for understanding the literature and research traditions within the field of media studies with an emphasis on media and communication as institutional actors, technological artifacts, systems of representation and meaningful cultural objects.

This course examines the relationship of visual media to historical narratives and cultural memory. It looks at photography, film, television, and forms of new media in relation to theories of historiography and cultural memory.

This seminar treats the body as a bio-political medium and media as mimetic, cyborgian and visualized forms of flexible embodiment. We will explore the political encoding of bodies as a crucial, yet under-analyzed, mode of modern political communication encompassing the racialized, colonized, gendered, medicalized, technologicalized, disabled and terrorized body.

This course explores how forms of media and popular culture have historically constructed a sense of realism, authenticity, or access to direct experience through various technologies, production, marketing, programming, performance techniques and promotion practices. It will survey the history of hoaxes, spectacles, photography, documentary, news, robotics, video games, virtual reality, reality television, and social media in order to trace the history and analyze the repercussions of the ethics, aesthetics and business of "the real".

Etiology, pathology, and sequela of selected medical, psychiatric, orthopedic, and neurological conditions that frequently necessitate occupational therapy intervention. Standard diagnostic systems and somatic treatments are reviewed.

This course provides a study of evidenced-based nutrition guidelines for acute and chronic disease conditions. Through case studies, assigned readings, learning guides, class presentations, and lectures, students explore the relationship of food and nutrition to medicine, including physiological and clinical basis of disease processes and medical, surgical, and diet therapies for disease conditions. This course fulfills competenices for the NYU Dietetic Internship and is restricted to dietetic interns.

Application of evaluation and intervention methods in psychosocial occupational therapy practice. Screening, assessment, goal-setting, planning of intervention, implementation of intervention, and program planning in mental health settings. Therapeutic use of self, activity based treatment and clinical application of occupational therapy frames of reference. Major psychiatric disorders as clinical examples.

A historical analysis of mental health viewed within a changing social & political context. Special attention given to the changing notions of mental health. Applications to different populations & symptoms &, as a corollary, changing notions of intervention.

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 t he 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 t he 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 t he examination and the impairments, functional limitations, and disabilities.

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

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

The relationship between learning outcomes and assessment is considered in relation to how it influences instructional decisions especially with respect to development of curriculum. The roles of instructional strategies, motivation, classroom management, curriculum and technology are addressed as a means of sustaining learner interest and cooperation.