Courses

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.

Critical analysis of teaching models through observation and practice. Students will learn to organize a course, conceptualize a unit, prepare lesson plans, devise and evaluate assessments, and effectively use technology in the classroom.

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.

Programming for MIDI, C, and other appropriate techniques. Design and implementation of software sequencers, interface drivers, and hardware applications will be the focus.

This course examines migration, mobility and the role of media and technology in redefining cultural borders and citizenship. We will discuss how the presence and representation of migrants and immigration reconfigure visions of national belonging. How are migrants imagined and surveilled in global urban contexts? How do media and technology enable the (re)imagining of transnational communities and cultural politics? Through discussions and lectures, students will engage with changing urban landscapes and emerging networks of migration.

A one credit, seven week analysis of the life and times of Miles Davis. The theme of searching & changing will unify the discussion of the five important periods in the career of Miles Davis: Early Miles (bebop); The Cool School of the 50s; Kind of Blue & modal jazz; The 60s quintet & modern jazz; Electric Miles. Video & audio examples will inform the discussion around Miles Davis' autobiography.

Musicians are increasingly writing about experiences with mental health difficulties, such as posttraumatic stress, suicidal ideation, and psychosis. Their vulnerability in song can help listeners feel less alone and can reduce stigma in talking about mental health issues and accessing treatment. In this course, students examine songs from diverse artists and genres to explore how music can provide a unique understanding of mental health issues by emphasizing lived experience and open and honest expression.

This course covers the theory and recent research on the application of mindfulness and other forms of meditation to individual and social well-being in different contexts. We will examine the implementation and evaluation of mindfulness programs in schools, organizations, and psychotherapeutic settings, as well as the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying effects on
learning, cognition, and well-being. The course will be designed to foster critical thinking about the science behind one of the fastest growing education, workplace, and therapeutic interventions.

Minority-serving institutions (i.e., historically Black colleges and universities, Tribal colleges and universities, Hispanic-serving institutions, and Asian-serving institutions) all play a significant, but under-examined role in American higher education. This course covers the development and evolution of these institutions in the context of American higher education both historically and more contemporarily. This course will emphasize the characteristics of MSIs based on their political and racialized origins, student populations, funding schemes, governance and leadership.

Course provides students with a basic knowledge of missing data analysis, beginning with the types of missing data mechanisms (e.g., missing completely at random). We then discuss the problems with ignoring missing data and examine problems with conventional fixes. Single imputation with noise is contrasted with multiple imputation approaches. Real examples from policy research are given throughout. More advanced topics include pattern mixture models and handling data that are not missing at random

This course explores the art and craft of mixing records, with special attention to “mixing in the box” (via a digital audio workstation). Focus on methodology and technique, with particular emphasis on establishing balances, using such tools as compression and automation to enhance dynamics and develop unique coloration. Examines intersection of technology, budgets, and the marketplace. Students execute their own mixes, with guidance and critique from the instructor. Basic level of DAW proficiency required.

This course explores the art and craft of mixing records, with special attention to “mixing in the box” (via a digital audio workstation). Focus on methodology and technique, with particular emphasis on establishing balances, using such tools as compression and automation to enhance dynamics and develop unique coloration. Examines intersection of technology, budgets, and the marketplace. Students execute their own mixes, with guidance and critique from the instructor. Basic level of DAW proficiency required.

In recent years, content moderation received attention as screening of user-generated content on social media platforms. Content moderators filter explicit materials, hate speech, and misinformation and thus play an important role in the curation of online experiences. Content moderation pertains to questions on the digital political economy, online culture, as well as democracy and social justice. This course examines the implications of content moderation for how we understand media technologies, online platforms, labor relations, and politics in the digital age.

A content mathematics course in modern and abstract algebra for teachers.