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Courses at Teachers College


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Visual Methods and Education

BBSR 4002

Moving “beyond words,” this course aims to provide a range of qualitative visual research tools to invoke different stories, views, voices, embodiments, and experiences.

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Visual Arts Research Methods

A&HA 5005

This course explores research methods and methodologies grounded in the practices, theories, and contexts of the visual arts.

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Spatial Methodologies

A&HW 5199

This course explores both spatial and visual methodologies, in both documenting space and using visual methods to transform space.

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Qualitative Research Methods in Biobehavioral Sciences

BBSR 4001

The course provides students with techniques and strategies for collecting, analyzing, and reporting data from a qualitative perspective.

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Qualitative research and evaluation in international education

ITSF 4092

The study of qualitative methodologies appropriate to various kinds of educational programs, issues, and problems in diverse research settings.

Visual explanation

HUDK 5030

Surveys production and comprehension of visualizations across time and media.

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Museum Ed Issues I

A&HA 4090

An examination of the challenges facing art museums in the twentieth century, with a focus on changing interpretations of objects and how museums respond to public need.

Processes and Structures in the Visual Arts

A&HA 4087

In-depth and sustained exploration of the properties, structures, and expressive uses of selected art materials.

 

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Current Issues and Practices, Art & Education

A&HA 4086

An analysis of current philosophies, theories, and practices in art and art education at all levels of instruction.

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Varieties of visual experience: Museums and education

A&HA 5085

Participants will visit New York City museums and use the multiple resources of the museums to develop personalized curriculum materials. Enrollment limited. Special fee: $30

Museums as resource

A&HA 5804

Independent study at Teachers College combined with workshops, lectures, and seminars at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Principles and practices in arts administration: Visual arts

A&HG 5174

A continuation of A&HG 4170 with special reference to the application of management principles and skills to the visual arts.

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Social and communicative aspects of the Internet

MSTU 4200

Examines social-communicative practices as synergistic; how space, time, and social networks evolve and interact, and what this implies for the design and the use of technology.

Video as art: An explanation

MSTU 4102

This course will take an aesthetic approach to the exploration of emerging forms of video, including anime, music videos, do-it-yourself video, video sharing websites, and more. Students will be engaged in video production throughout the course.

The history of communication

MSTU 4016

A comprehensive survey of the history of communication, tracing the development of the dominant modes of transmitting knowledge, from speaking to writing, from printing to the electronic media.

Video games in education

MSTU 4039

Provides students with tools they will need to understand, analyze, and build games.

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Possibility of virtual worlds

MSTU 5000

Explores possibilities of virtual worlds for gaming and education.

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Educational video production I

MSTU 5191

Practical studio and field production experience of educational video programs with special concern for realizing educational purposes through directing, scripting, staging, camera operation, lighting, and sound design.

Technology and culture

MSTU 4028

An exploration of the impact of technology, broadly defined, upon cultural evolution as currently discussed in anthropology and related disciplines.

Equity, ethical, and social issues in educational technology

MSTU 4005

Addresses a wide range of issues concerning equity and access, including differential gender, racial, and ethnic uses of computers. Examines legal and ethical issues in students' use of technology with an emphasis on improving access and use of technology for all students.

Culture, media, and education

MSTU 5002

In this course, we consider the cultural implications of media and technologies for education by pairing theoretical frameworks with case studies and other examples of empirical research. Media production is required.

Technology and school change

MSTU 4001

Explores how technology is currently used in our schools and how technology can be used more effectively as a catalyst for larger school reform efforts.

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Television and the development of youth

MSTU 4024

This course brings a sociocultural lens to issues related to youth(including children and adolescents) and the evolving terrain of television. Students will review research and theories and experiment with media production in this course. No prior media production experience is necessary.

Hypermedia and education

MSTU 4036

Introduction to hypermedia products and programming and their role in education. Four-point registration is for hypermedia programming lab.

Introduction to mobile phone learning

MSTU 4040

This course explores how one can utilize the mobile phone for learning and the factors to consider maximizing mobile learning. Roughly half of the world's population already has some type of mobile phone, making it the most widespread technology and most common electronic device in the world (Reuters 2007).

Digital geographies and virtual spaces

MSTU 5004

Explore newly‑developed spaces and consider how the evolving relationship between new technologies and communication and literacy are making these spaces available.

Theory and programming of interactive media: Part I

MSTU 5003

Aimed at students who are interested in building instructional multimedia in Adobe Flash. Provides students with tools for understanding, analyzing, and constructing Flash-based multimedia in a hands-on manner. Examples and mini-tutorials abound. Theory and design are integrated to ensure that students emerge as authors of well-designed, educationally-sound media.

Technology and the emergence of a global curriculum

MSTU 5555

This course deals with the impact of technology on human society over the ages, how technology, in particular, is shaped by, and in turn shapes, the vision informing a specific culture and its curriculum, and how the global sharing of technology is inexorably contributing to the emergence of a common global curriculum.

Media and gender

A&H 4065

The education of boys and girls in the new audio-visual literacies. Critical responses to the new media and the dominance of screen/image in learning. Flexibility of teaching required for male and female learning styles and non-normative genders/sexualities.

Aesthetics of technology

A&H 4089

Technology as a cultural form regulating the development of the human self. Metaphysical, symbolic, and fantasy components in computing, space travel, medicine, reproduction, new media, and children's toys. Literary and artistic representations.

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