Spring 2019 Update 
    
    May 16, 2024  
Spring 2019 Update [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 
  
  • PED (0852) 632 - Intro To Sports Management


    Credits: 3.00

    A general overview of the application of management theory to athletics and sports organizations and an introduction to problems in sports management.

  
  • PED (0852) 633 - Sport Marketing


    Credits: 3.00

    The students will examine sport products and marketing strategies in contemporary sport industry; analyze marketing strategies to understand how sport marketing practitioners effectively advance and increase visibility of various sport products, and market other products through sport.

  
  • PED (0852) 634 - Sport Alliances and Sponsorships


    Credits: 3.00

    Students will focus on ways to achieve corporate marketing objectives by incorporating sponsorships and sales promotion activities into an integrated communications plan. Promotional mix strategies to cost-effectively leverage sponsorships will also be discussed.

    Prerequisite 1: PED 632   Prerequisite 2: PED 633  
  
  • PED (0852) 636 - Athletic Administration


    Credits: 3.00

    Application of administrative theory to problems in intercollegiate and interscholastic athletics including budgeting, facility management, personal relations, marketing, personnel management, Title IX, and ethical concerns.

  
  • PED (0852) 637 - Organization And Administration of Physical Education


    Credits: 3.00

    An investigation into the processes of appropriate organization, administrative techniques, and procedures useful in efficient management.

  
  • PED (0852) 638 - Contemporary Issues in Sport Management


    Credits: 3.00

    Students will examine the character and position of sport business administration within a global marketplace. Specifically, students analyze administrative strategies utilized to resolve prevalent issues in amateur, youth, interscholastic, intercollegiate, and professional athletics in diverse environments. 

    Upon completion of this course students will be able to:

    1. Identify current issues relevant to sport administrators within professional, intercollegiate, interscholastic and amateur organizations.

    2. Utilize critical thinking and problem solving skills to dissect contemporary sport management topics.

    3. Demonstrate an understanding of the impact globalization has on sport administrators as well as athletes.

    4. Identify ways to initiate organizational change and effectively manage conflict to address various issues that influence the sport industry and society.

    5. Understand the current role of intercollegiate athletics within higher education.

    6. Analyze the financial implications of an intercollegiate athletic program on higher education institutions.

    7. Demonstrate an understanding of economic development as it relates to amateur, youth, interscholastic, intercollegiate, and professional sport organizations.

    8. Identify the implications of using public funds to support professional sport franchises.

    9. Analyze the impact of sports gambling on intercollegiate and professional sport.

    10. Explain the role of gender equity within professional and intercollegiate athletic programs.

    11. Explore the prevalence and impact of race on sport organizations.

    12. Understand how and why current administrative practices are implemented to address issues and concerns within amateur, youth, interscholastic, intercollegiate, and professional sport organizations.

  
  • PED (0852) 639 - Introduction To Sports Law


    Credits: 3.00

    A general overview of sport law and athletic compliance for the collegiate administrator or coach. Students gain knowledge of the variety of state and national laws applying to sports as well as athletic compliance and the current operating bylaws.

    This course should enable you to:

    1. Understand and analyze different types of legal issues affecting the sports industry;

    2. Understand the significance of proper contractual drafting and negotiation;

    3. Understand the significance of the application of antitrust law to the sports industry;

    4. Understand the significance of collective bargaining to the sports industry;

    5. Understand the fiduciary relationship between sports agent and athlete;

    6. Understand the relationship between constitutional law and the sports industry; 

    7. Basic understanding of how to analyze Court decisions/caselaw and how to apply same.

    8. Describe the historical and legal implications of the NCAA.

    9. Describe the relationship between financial responsibilities and educational goals in NCAA member institutions.

    10. Evaluate the NCAA, NCAA member institutions, and stakeholders (e.g., administrators, coaches, student-athletes, boosters) relationship with the sport and the social world (i.e., diversity issues, gender equity, student-athlete development).

    11. Integrate historic literature, current events, and practical experiences into a greater understanding of intercollegiate sport and sport administration.

  
  • PED (0852) 641 - Social Foundations of Physical Education


    Credits: 3.00

    In meeting the New York State Standards, the course presents an overview of social theory applied to physical activity. Interactions between males and females, cultural awareness, and diversity issues presented.

  
  • PED (0852) 643 - Movement Experience for Elementary School


    Credits: 3.00

    A comprehensive study of movement in relation to motor and perceptual motor development in children. Includes movement activities for the pre-school and elementary school child, curricula, and program development.

  
  • PED (0852) 644 - Sport Economics


    Credits: 3.00

    The students will explore basic financial and managerial concepts necessary for financial literacy in the business of sport. Sport organizations’ uses of revenue generating techniques will be analyzed. Budget and financial planning practices of sports businesses will also be thoroughly examined.

    Prerequisite 1: PED 632  
  
  • PED (0852) 645 - Sport Licensing and Merchandising


    Credits: 3.00

    The students will expand upon the introductory of sport licensing and merchandising through topics such as sport product lifecycle, licensing programs, product development, fashion forecasting, line planning, sourcing, pricing/markdowns, vendor relations, and planning and allocation.

    Prerequisite 1: PED 632   Prerequisite 2: PED 633  
  
  • PED (0852) 647 - Public Relations in Sport


    Credits: 3.00

    The course is designed to provide students with a working knowledge of public relations in sport industry through an examination of the requisite techniques and writing skills. Additionally students will learn how public relations fit into the overall business processes of promotion and marketing.

    Prerequisite 1: PED 632   Prerequisite 2: PED 633  

     

  
  • PED (0852) 648 - Sport Facility and Event Management


    Credits: 3.00

    This course aims to inform students of the principles and practices of planning, funding, and managing sport events and facilities. Students are introduced to administrative, supportive, and maintenance services unique to the operation and organization of event and facility management within the sport industry.

    Upon successful completion of this course the student should be able to:

    1. Understand the use of needs assessments, feasibility studies, resources, and economic impact studies in the facility planning process.

    2. Demonstrate an understanding of various types of sport/leisure facilities and the unique characteristics of each type of facility.

    3. Students demonstrate an understanding of the structure of sport event and the financial, organizational and promotional needs associated with them. 

    4. Understand the concept of risk management and the significance of legal issues in the area of sport facility and event management.

    5. Identify and understand conventional methods used to finance sport facilities and events.

    6. Understand the basic principles associated with managing a sport facility and event.

    7. Develop an understanding of the managerial issues (recruitment, selection, compensation, negotiating, volunteers, hospitality and employee diversity) which are specific to sport facility and event management.

  
  • PED (0852) 650 - Research & Design of Experiments


    Credits: 3.00

    The survey and critical analysis of different types of research in physical education and/or exercise science includes statistics, the analysis of techniques and research design.

  
  • PED (0852) 652 - Curriculum Analysis


    Credits: 3.00

    Major stages of in curriculum planning, the present status of physical education programs, models and experimental development in curriculum. Overview of New York State and National Standards presented.

  
  • PED (0852) 653 - Motor Learning


    Credits: 3.00

    Psychological and physiological factors affecting the acquisition of motor skills. Emphasis on the role of teachers in facilitating learning.

  
  • PED (0852) 654 - Biomechanics


    Credits: 3.00

    Body framework and architecture and neuromuscular considerations as applied to human movement. Analysis of movement and its applications to teaching coaching of motor skills.

    Prerequisite 1: PED 461  
    Free Note: Department approval required to register.

  
  • PED (0852) 656 - Teaching Analysis


    Credits: 3.00

    Analysis of effective instructional techniques and aids. An examination of models and tools for the behavioral analysis of teaching and their application to physical education. Includes experiences in observing, recording, describing, and analyzing the teaching act.

  
  • PED (0852) 670 - Physical Education for Developmental & Learning Disabilities


    Credits: 3.00

    Literature review related to physical activity and sport for individuals with developmental delays, learning disabilities; and autism spectrum disorders. Review of programs, teaching and intervention strategies programs as well as training strategies underlying compensatory life-time activities for students with the above disabilities.

  
  • PED (0852) 671 - Physical Education for the Exceptional Child


    Credits: 3.00

    Introductory knowledge base and skills necessary to teach students with disabilities in the general physical education environment. Field experience required. Meets New York State mandate on training the needs of children with autism.

  
  • PED (0852) 673 - Evaluation of Special Populations


    Credits: 3.00

    Techniques of assessment of motor proficiency, motor fitness, and motor patterns that will assist in the design of appropriate educational environments and instructional procedures.

  
  • PED (0852) 676 - Physical Education for Physically Disabled Individuals


    Credits: 3.00

    Review of literature related to physical activity and sport for individuals with physically disabling conditions. Teaching techniques and intervention strategies training strategies underlying compensatory activities will be included.

  
  • PED (0852) 677 - Motor Development and Developmental Delays


    Credits: 3.00

    Students will examine the dynamic interaction among neurological, cognitive, perceptual-motor and social development as they relate to normal and abnormal motor development and impact developmental delays.  Emphasis is on the application of motor development concepts through analysis of age-appropriate movement experiences and movement behaviors of children.

    Prerequisite 1: PED 671  
    Learning Goals:

    1.Through article summaries and exams students will demonstrate the ability to identify and describe theoretical concepts underlying motor development and the influence on overall development.

    2.Students will be able to identify and discuss changes in neurological developmental and the impact on developmental stages of cognitive, and perceptual-motor abilities.  

    3.Students will be able to discuss the dynamic relationship between motor development and cognitive, perceptual-motor, and social development as they relate to normal development and developmental delays.  

    4.Through exams and analysis assignments students will be able to identify and describe the qualitative and quantitative changes in developmental stages of cognitive, perceptual-motor, and social abilities.  

    5.Through visitations and analysis of children’s behavior students will demonstrate the ability to analyze the motor behaviors of children at play and identify critical elements of developmental stages of cognitive and perceptual-motor abilities with respect to children with and without disabilities.

    6.Through completion of the analysis papers students will demonstrate the ability to analyze elementary games and activities according to the cognitive and perceptual-motor abilities challenged in the game and identify the critical elements needed for successful participation

    Through exams and analysis assignments students will be able to demonstrate the ability to apply knowledge of changes in cognitive, social, and perceptual-motor abilities to modifying and teaching developmentally appropriate activities.

  
  • PED (0852) 680 - Special Topics: Advanced Topics in Physical Education


    Credits: 3.00

    This course is designed to provide a student with a wide variety of understanding using technology in sports management.

  
  • PED (0852) 791 - Independent Study


    Credits: 1.00 to 6.00

    Comprehensive investigation of an area of special interest.

  
  • PED (0852) 792 - Internship


    Credits: 3.00

    Supervised field experience.

  
  • PED (0852) 794 - Fieldwork in Adapted Physical Education


    Credits: 3.00

    Practical application of theoretical principles to the physical education environment. Supervised field experiences with a variety of disabling conditions in the school and community setting.

  
  • PED (0852) 799 - Advanced Practicum in Physical Education


    Credits: 3

    Designed to provide students with the opportunity to implement and evaluate innovative concepts and procedures in teaching and curriculum design related to the training of competent physical education teachers.

  
  • PES (0853) 120 - Conditioning And Weight Control


    Credits: 1.00

    Students have an opportunity to choose from a variety of activity courses designed to introduce them to a new sport or lifetime skills. The activities carry 1 credit for semester’s work and 2 credits for the full semester.

  
  • PES (0853) 121 - Fitness Fundamentals I


    Credits: 1.00

    Students have an opportunity to choose from a variety of activity courses designed to introduce them to a new sport or lifetime skills. The activities carry 1 credit for semester’s work and 2 credits for the full semester.

  
  • PES (0853) 130 - Beginning Karate


    Credits: 2.00

    Students have an opportunity to choose from a variety of activity courses designed to introduce them to a new sport or lifetime skills. The activities carry 1 credit for semester’s work and 2 credits for the full semester.

  
  • PES (0853) 200 - Special Topics: Phys Ed Activity Elective


    Credits: 2.00

    Introduction to various forms of western dance, including line, two step and western square dancing. Basic steps, team work emphasized.

  
  • PES (0853) 220 - Cross Training for Health and Fitness


    Credits: 1.00

  
  • PES (0853) 224 - Personal Fitness


    Credits: 2

    Students will gain enhanced knowledge of physical activity and health. This class will focus on the development of a goal-oriented personalized program of physical activity with both theoretical support and actual exercise participation.

    Learning Goals

    Students will demonstrate the proper ways to engage in a variety of exercises.  

    Students will demonstrate the ability to participate in a variety of different types of exercise programs.

    Students will demonstrate their knowledge of safely engaging in physical activity while applying the principles of overload, progression, and specificity within class assignments.

    Students will provide resources used when giving their muscle group presentations or exercise activity presentations. 

  
  • PES (0853) 225 - Introduction to Strength Training


    Credits: 1.00

    Students have an opportunity to choose from a variety of activity courses designed to introduce them to a new sport or lifetime skills. The activities carry 1 credit for semester’s work and 2 credits for the full semester.

  
  • PES (0853) 227 - Advanced Resistance Exercise Training


    Credits: 100

    Students have an opportunity to choose from a variety of activity courses designed to introduce them to a new sport or lifetime skills. The activities carry 1 credit for semester’s work and 2 credits for the full semester.

  
  • PES (0853) 228 - Fitness Fundamentals II


    Credits: 1.00

    Students have an opportunity to choose from a variety of activity courses designed to introduce them to a new sport or lifetime skills. The activities carry 1 credit for semester’s work and 2 credits for the full semester.

  
  • PES (0853) 271 - Sport Fundamentals


    Credits: 2.00

    Students will learn sport skills through personalized training.   Course content includes a comprehensive approach to fitness and athletic performance enhancement.  Students will participate in skill analysis and extended practice of sport skills in order to increase proficiency of skill demonstrations and critiquing when observing others.

    •    Demonstrate performance competency in select fundamental skills
    •    Identify, define and apply functional training and skill related components of fitness
    •    Observe, analyze, and provide corrective feedback regarding motor skill performance and tactical applications
    •    Identify and apply basic sport specific biomechanics and physiological considerations
    •    Demonstrate expertise in sport-specific training exercises and conditioning practices

     

  
  • PES (0853) 422 - Yoga


    Credits: 2.00

    This course is designed for student to learn and understand how to use Yoga to release stress, tone and strengthen muscles, improve overall health and to relax the body/relax the mind.

  
  • PFA (0192) 100 - Introduction To Stanislavsky


    Credits: 2.00

    The aim of the first year is to develop self-awareness and to discover the actor’s potential - to diagnose strengths and weaknesses and to begin to break down bad acting habits. The focus of the exercise works will include improvisation, theater games, and ensemble building techniques.

    Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 COMMUNICATION ORAL Distribution Requirement Arts



  
  • PFA (0192) 108 - Beginning Acting


    Credits: 3.00

    Students, including non-majors, explore acting as a theatrical process seen from the actor’s perspective. Through personal experience applied to reading plays and other potentially dramatic material, through improvisational exercises, character exploration and the performance of short pieces, the student begins a serious exploration of the actor’s craft.  

    Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 COMMUNICATION ORAL Distribution Requirement Arts



  
  • PFA (0192) 109 - Dramatics


    Credits: 3.00

    Non-majors learn basic acting techniques to build teamwork skills applied to the performance of multi-character dramatic scripts. Memorized pieces, scene work, theatre games and group improvisation build confidence, oral skills and facility at group participation.  This course may be taken independently of Beginning Acting, or build upon its content. 

    Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 COMMUNICATION ORAL Distribution Requirement Arts



  
  • PFA (0192) 111 - The Profession and the Working Actor


    Credits: 2.00

    Focus of this course will be obtaining work in the professional theater. The major actors’ unions will also be covered. Putting together a picture/resume, actors’ relationships to agents and managers, and making the rounds. Contracts, riders, and residuals.

    Distribution Requirement Arts



  
  • PFA (0192) 130 - Mechanics of Voice Production


    Credits: 2.00

    In this first of four required semesters of vocal training, students learn how theatre voice is produced, supported and used in a free, vibrant and safe manner, experimenting with the use of tones, emphasis, expression and vocal variety, while practicing the proper use and maintenance of the vocal instrument.

     

    Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 COMMUNICATION ORAL Distribution Requirement Arts



  
  • PFA (0192) 135 - Black Performing Arts


    Credits: 3.00

    Distribution Requirement Arts



  
  • PFA (0192) 140 - Black Drama Workshop


    Credits: 3.00

    Distribution Requirement Arts



  
  • PFA (0192) 150 - Introduction To Scene Study


    Credits: 2.00

    Expanding upon the basic ensemble-building and character investigations of the first semester of first year acting, the student works to intensify simple character investigation through analyzing, rehearsing and performing in partnered and multi-character scenes.

    Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 COMMUNICATION ORAL Distribution Requirement Arts



    Free Note: Majors only

  
  • PFA (0192) 180 - Vocal Production


    Credits: 2.00

    This is the second of four required theatre voice courses, building upon techniques explored in 0192-130, and continuing to train for safe usage, but expanding into new areas: diaphramatic breathing, projection and the development of the strength necessary to perform in large spaces. 

    Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 COMMUNICATION ORAL Distribution Requirement Arts



    Free Note: Majors only

  
  • PFA (0192) 200 - Text Analysis


    Credits: 2.00

    In the second year of acting, the student actor begins the application of the actor’s technique to the demands of a script. While there is a reinforcement of work done in the first year, the stress is on character development, relationships, and environment. The emphasis is on analysis of text and subject.

    Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 COMMUNICATION ORAL Distribution Requirement Arts



  
  • PFA (0192) 210 - Theatre History I


    Credits: 3.00

    Western theatre origins, practice, literature and styles from Greek tragedy to the English Renaissance theatre are focuses of this course.  Using lectures, historical texts, representative dramas and recorded productions, the themes, language and development of Greco-Roman, medieval and British Renaissance theatre are examined in historical context.

     

    Distribution Requirement Arts



  
  • PFA (0192) 230 - Diction Erasing Local Accents


    Credits: 2.00

    In this third of four required voice courses, the student builds upon basics of vocal mechanics and technique through an intensive investigation of the standardized production of de-nasalized vowels and clear consonants. The student also learns to use the International Phonetic Alphabet as a pronunciation tool.

     

    Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 COMMUNICATION ORAL Distribution Requirement Arts



  
  • PFA (0192) 248 - Theatre Movement


    Credits: 2.00

    Theatre students take six semesters of a developmental track in theatre movement.  The Fall course 248 focuses on basic theatre movement, musical theatre movement and basic stage combat for a certificate program. 

  
  • PFA (0192) 249 - Theatre Movement


    Credits: 2.00

    The Spring continuation of 248, this course moves the student on to period-theatre movement, more advanced dance-movement skills, and advanced stage combat with weapons for a certificate program.

  
  • PFA (0192) 250 - Intermediate Scene Study


    Credits: 2.00

    The third semester of required acting courses, 0192-250 focuses on process, not result: how a character is developed, taking into account investigations of past life, relationships, conflicts and intentions.  The increasingly complex process of character development throughout an entire script is the course’s concern.

     

    Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 COMMUNICATION ORAL Distribution Requirement Arts



    Free Note: Majors only

  
  • PFA (0192) 260 - Theatre History II


    Credits: 3.00

    This continuation of Theatre History I begins with the English Restoration and examines Neo-Classicism, Romantic, naturalistic and realistic theatre, major avant-garde movements and the development of modern American theatre.  Lectures, historical texts, representative dramas, class discussion and recorded productions illuminate the construction of today’s eclectic theatre world.

     

    Distribution Requirement Arts



  
  • PFA (0192) 280 - Diction Projection-Working with the Accentless Voice


    Credits: 2.00

    In the fourth of four required voice courses, projection and support technique from the first year, and second-year diction training, combine for advanced work on the well-supported use of a properly placed and malleable voice, with continuing work on any personal diction issues.

     

    Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 COMMUNICATION ORAL Distribution Requirement Arts



    Free Note: Majors only

  
  • PFA (0192) 300 - Psychological Acting I


    Credits: 2.00

    The fifth semester of a six-semester cycle on Stanislavski-based scene study, this course investigates the deep psychological rooting of character in modern theatre and media on an advanced level. Authors such as, but not limited to, Williams, Miller, O’Neill, Ibsen and Strindberg provide the raw material.

    Distribution Requirement Arts



  
  • PFA (0192) 304 - Performing Verse Drama


    Credits: 3.00

    An introductory but intense course in performing drama written in verse, it concentrates on using Moliere, Shakespeare, and modern verse playwrights to develop skills in analysis and the making of powerful, text-based choices using basic elements like tone, color, meter, rhyme, pace, and rhythm.

    Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 COMMUNICATION ORAL Distribution Requirement Arts



  
  • PFA (0192) 340 - Rudiments of Directing


    Credits: 2.00

    The directing student is introduced to script analysis, directorial concepts, dramaturgy, blocking action, casting and designing the recording book of the production.  Consideration is given to the director’s role as a coordinator of all theatre action and design in a production, including budgeting and rehearsal scheduling.

     

    Distribution Requirement Arts



  
  • PFA (0192) 350 - Psychological Acting II


    Credits: 2.00

    This is sixth in a Stanislavski-based series of scene-study classes during which the student continues a deep exploration of the sub-textural basis of modern theatrical characters, which lies at the heart of acting. Writers like Chekhov, O’Neill, Williams and others provide the working material.

    Distribution Requirement Arts



    Free Note: MAJORS ONLY

  
  • PFA (0192) 354 - Performing Shakespeare


    Credits: 3.00

    Continuing with the work of PFA 304 , this course concentrates on Shakespearean monologues and scenes to deepen the student’s understanding of how to act verse powerfully and truthfully, and continues work done in earlier classes in linking voice and bodily relation to text-based acting choices.

    Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 COMMUNICATION ORAL Distribution Requirement Arts



    Free Note: Majors only

  
  • PFA (0192) 360 - Directing


    Credits: 3.00

    This advanced directing course builds on the required pre-requisite RUDIMENTS OF DIRECTING.  Students direct a larger, more complex project, with the expectation of more advanced research, dramaturgy and comprehensive director’s book.  

    Distribution Requirement Arts



    Free Note: Majors only

  
  • PFA (0192) 380 - Stage Accents


    Credits: 2.00

    Working with the isolation of each dialect’s ‘signature sounds’ and learning the techniques of shifting the focus of speech resonance, students are taught to research, document, rehearse, and develop accents and dialects for stage, animation, recording, or other use, while mastering their own personal vocal instrument.

    Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 COMMUNICATION ORAL Distribution Requirement Arts



    Free Note: Majors only

  
  • PFA (0192) 400 - Auditioning


    Credits: 2.00

    Students practice essential skills for entering the workplace in this fourth-year course: choice and development of proper audition material; acquiring  representation and mastering interviewing; job searching and resume/photo preparation; and specifically preparing for graduate school, stock and regional auditions upon or near graduation.

    Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 COMMUNICATION ORAL Distribution Requirement Arts



  
  • PFA (0192) 450 - Acting For The Camera


    Credits: 2.00

    Opportunities to perform on camera are essential for the actor’s professional growth.  This fourth-year course familiarizes students with vocal control, a relaxed relationship to the camera, reducing the ‘size’ of the theatrical performance, and techniques needed to for audition for commercials, television and film.

    Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 COMMUNICATION ORAL Distribution Requirement Arts



    Free Note: Majors only

  
  • PFA (0192) 481 - Manhattan Production


    Credits: 2.00

    Learning the techniques of choosing self-advantageous material, of assessing the self professionally, and of attracting an audience of professional agents and casting people is rewarded with a Manhattan performance for a professional audience for graduating senior actors.

    Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 COMMUNICATION ORAL Distribution Requirement Arts



    Free Note: Majors only

  
  • PFD (0191) 110 - Ballet I


    Credits: 2.00

    Study and practice in ballet, designed to continue over a four-year range of technical work. Assignment to one of several sections is made on the basis of advancement and experience. Meets five times a week.

    Distribution Requirement Arts



  
  • PFD (0191) 111 - Ballet II


    Credits: 2.00

    Study and practice in ballet, designed to continue over a four-year range of technical work. Assignment to one of several sections is made on the basis of advancement and experience. Meets five times a week.

    Distribution Requirement Arts



  
  • PFD (0191) 125 - Modern Dance I


    Credits: 2.00

    Study and practice in modern dance, designed to continue over a four-year range of technical work. Assignment to one of several sections is made on the basis of advancement and experience. Meets five times a week.

    Distribution Requirement Arts



  
  • PFD (0191) 126 - Modern Dance II


    Credits: 2.00

    Study and practice in modern dance, designed to continue over a four-year range of technical work. Assignment to one of several sections is made on the basis of advancement and experience. Meets five times a week.

    Distribution Requirement Arts



  
  • PFD (0191) 210 - Ballet III


    Credits: 2.00

    Study and practice in ballet, designed to continue over a four-year range of technical work. Assignment to one of several sections is made on the basis of advancement and experience. Meets five times a week.

  
  • PFD (0191) 211 - Ballet IV


    Credits: 2.00

    Study and practice in ballet, designed to continue over a four-year range of technical work. Assignment to one of several sections is made on the basis of advancement and experience. Meets five times a week.

    Distribution Requirement Arts



  
  • PFD (0191) 218 - Dance Improvisation


    Credits: 3.00

    This course explores spontaneous body movement with the purpose of increasing body and spatial awareness, movement invention, performance applications and movement creativity.

  
  • PFD (0191) 221 - Dance Theory And Composition I


    Credits: 2.00

    Principles of dance theory and composition with application of spatial, temporal, dynamic, and dramatic elements in choreography. Emphasis on individual assignments.

  
  • PFD (0191) 222 - Dance Theory and Composition II


    Credits: 2.00

    Principles of dance theory and composition with application of spatial, temporal, dynamic, and dramatic elements in choreography. Emphasis on individual assignments.

  
  • PFD (0191) 225 - Modern Dance III


    Credits: 2.00

    Study and practice in modern dance, designed to continue over a four-year range of technical work. Assignment to one of several sections is made on the basis of advancement and experience. Meets five times a week.

  
  • PFD (0191) 226 - Modern Dance IV


    Credits: 2.00

    Study and practice in modern dance, designed to continue over a four-year range of technical work. Assignment to one of several sections is made on the basis of advancement and experience. Meets five times a week.

    Distribution Requirement Arts



  
  • PFD (0191) 235 - Dance History and Criticism I


    Credits: 3.00

    Chronological study of the history and evolution of dance from the dawn up to dance in the United States during the 19th Century. A semester of interactive approaches to understand how dance is not only interconnected with other art forms but also to historical, political, economical, and social events throughout the various period and epochs.,

    Distribution Requirement Humanities and Languages



    Free Note: 15 Dance Major Seats Permanent for Course

  
  • PFD (0191) 236 - Dance History & Criticism II


    Credits: 3.00

    The study of significant concepts in dance from preliterate societies to the present. Various functions of dance as art, ritual, and social activity, and their developments as spectacle and entertainment, are considered. In addition, the dance culture

    Distribution Requirement Humanities and Languages



    Free Note: 15 Dance Major Seats Permanent for Course

  
  • PFD (0191) 240 - Music Rhythmic Training For Dance


    Credits: 3.00

    This course is designed to help dance majors understand music, an essential component of their field of study. Students will focus on the basic elements of music, including rhythmic and musical notation, instrumentation, and explore the various periods of music history from baroque to present.

  
  • PFD (0191) 310 - Ballet V


    Credits: 2.00

    Study and practice in ballet, designed to continue over a four-year range of technical work. Assignment to one of several sections is made on the basis of advancement and experience. Meets five times a week.

  
  • PFD (0191) 311 - Ballet V I


    Credits: 2.00

  
  • PFD (0191) 325 - Modern Dance V


    Credits: 2.00

    Study and practice in modern dance, designed to continue over a four-year range of technical work. Assignment to one of several sections is made on the basis of advancement and experience. Meets five times a week.

  
  • PFD (0191) 326 - Modern Dance VI


    Credits: 2.00

    Study and practice in modern dance, designed to continue over a four-year range of technical work. Assignment to one of several sections is made on the basis of advancement and experience. Meets five times a week.

  
  • PFD (0191) 348 - Intermed Dance Comp I


    Credits: 2.00

    The study of dance composition with emphasis on the interaction of form and content in the creative purpose. Individual projects are required.

    Prerequisite 1: PFD 221  or PFD 222  
  
  • PFD (0191) 350 - Dance Theatre


    Credits: 1.00

    Credit given for rehearsal and performance of choreographic works on the Mainstage of the Olmsted Theatre.

    Free Note: Audition Required

  
  • PFD (0191) 401 - Senior Dance Choreography Project


    Credits: 4.00

    This is a capstone where the student will present and perform a fully realized dance from the ground up. For this capstone course students will cast, rehearse and stage develop at least one new dance.

    Prerequisite 1: PFD 221   Prerequisite 2: PFD 222   Prerequisite 3: PFD 348  
    Free Note: For Senior Dance Majors Only

  
  • PFD (0191) 410 - Ballet V I I


    Credits: 2.00

    Study and practice in ballet, designed to continue over a four-year range of technical work. Assignment to one of several sections is made on the basis of advancement and experience. Meets five times a week.

  
  • PFD (0191) 411 - Ballet V III


    Credits: 2.00

    Study and practice in ballet, designed to continue over a four-year range of technical work. Assignment to one of several sections is made on the basis of advancement and experience. Meets five times a week.

  
  • PFD (0191) 425 - Modern Dance V I I


    Credits: 2.00

    Study and practice in modern dance, designed to continue over a four-year range of technical work. Assignment to one of several sections is made on the basis of advancement and experience. Meets five times a week.

  
  • PFD (0191) 426 - Modern Dance V I I I


    Credits: 2.00

    Study and practice in modern dance, designed to continue over a four-year range of technical work. Assignment to one of several sections is made on the basis of advancement and experience. Meets five times a week.

  
  • PFD (0191) 450 - Dance Theatre


    Credits: 1.00

    Prerequisite 1: PFD 350  
  
  • PGP (0508) 901 - Psychoanalytic Research Methodology I


    Credits: 2.00

    This course introduces candidates to different approaches as well as techniques for conducting behavioral and social research with strong emphasis on experimental and quasi-experimental methods and design.  Candidates are introduced to fundamental concepts and approaches of social science research, and ethical research standards.

  
  • PGP (0508) 902 - Psychoanalytic Theory of Psychodiagnosis I


    Credits: 2.00

    This course will introduce students to the conceptual bases of psychoanalytic diagnoses.  In addition, it will cover a series of types of psychopathology in order to introduce students to specific diagnostic types of diagnoses from a psychoanalytic perspective.

  
  • PGP (0508) 903 - Psychoanalytic Research Methodology II


    Credits: 2.00

    This course is a continuation of Psychoanalytic Research Methodology I. The course objectives and reading textbook are the same.

  
  • PGP (0508) 904 - Psychoanalytic Theory of Psychodiagnosis II


    Credits: 2.00

    This course will be a continuation of Psychodiagnosis I and will cover a more comprehensive list of types of diagnostic types from a psychoanalytic perspective.  Case examples will be provided as illustrations.

  
  • PGP (0508) 905 - Sociocultural Influences on Growth and Psychopathology I


    Credits: 2.00

    This course will examine the impact of race and ethnic background on growth and psychopathology.  The value of using a relational psychoanalytic approach in working with patients of various racial and ethnic backgrounds will be emphasized.  Specific relational principles, such as co-construction of meaning and empathic attunement, will be considered.

  
  • PGP (0508) 906 - Psychoanalytic Theories of Psychopathology I


    Credits: 2.00

    This course focuses on psychological disorders one may encounter in clinical practice.  The class will study the biological and psychological determinants of mental illness.  Emphasis will be on the individual psychology of patients within the diagnostic categories, from a psychoanalytic perspective.  An overview of potential treatment modalities will be presented.

     

  
  • PGP (0508) 907 - Sociocultural Influences on Growth and Psychopathology II


    Credits: 2.00

    This course will address a variety of diversity issues that can have a great impact on the patient–religious orientation, sexual identity, and life-altering experiences with which the patient needs to contend.

  
  • PGP (0508) 908 - Psychoanalytic Theories of Psychopathology II


    Credits: 2.00

    This course continues to address the types of psychological disorders one may encounter in clinical practice, including the biological and psychological determinants of mental illness.  There will be an emphasis on the individual psychology of patients within diagnostic categories, from a psychoanalytic perspective.  An overview of treatment modalities is presented.

 

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