Lessons plans for the entirety of Days #4–7, which introduce concepts and skills related to notating and hearing rhythm and meter in Western Art Music staff notation. Each day begins with a short attendance ticket quiz, an ungraded check-in activity that allows instructors to take attendance for the day by collecting student slips and gives students the opportunity to review material from previous sessions. The bulk of each lesson plan is then devoted to the main topics for the days, which include common rhythm durations, measures, beats, simple vs. compound meter, time signatures, and syncopation. Bullet point notes on how to explain each concept are given as well as activities to students.

Two assignments geared at practice concepts and skills related to scales. First and second assignment are about major and minor scales, respectively. Topics include the patterns of whole and half-steps, scale-degree numbers, solfege syllable, and scale-degree names.

Syllabus for the first in-person edition of Music Theory Fundamentals taught at Hunter College since the first pandemic lockdown in Spring 2020.

Physics 110LB: General Introductory Physics Laboratory Exercises (Electricity, Magnetism, Light, and Atomic Physics)

In person, this lab class was designed to allow students to obtain hands-on experience in semi-formal laboratory settings. The goal of this design was two-fold: to give students a visual and tactile understanding of the basic principles of physics; and to give students a taste of the world of scientific research and literature.

Due to the COVID-19, we can no longer have in-person lab class. To fill this gap, we turn to online simulations which model real world experiments, albeit with simplified physics. While these simulations are helpful, we should go into this class understanding that the simplified physics removes the key factor of error in measurement and manual labor, but gives us more expected results. In other words, the labs looked cooler in person, but these simulations should give you the results you want much more easily.

Our modified goals for our online lab class are as follows:

To utilize simulations for their visual and semi-tactile representations of basic physics.
To enter into the world of academic research papers and its language, format, and style.

This course introduces the aspects of programming that can support business analytics. The course covers hands-on issues in programming for analytics which include accessing data, creating informative data graphics, writing functions, debugging, and organizing and commenting code.

A Research Toolkit covering: 1.What is my research question? 2. How do I find sources? 3. How do I read this stuff? 4. How do I use sources in my paper? 5. Faculty Guide

Principles of social research methods in the context of social work practice. Problem formulation, research design and role of research in social work, ethical issues, sampling, measurement, and data collection.

Research 1 is the first part of a two-semester course. During the first semester, the course provides you with an introduction to basic research methods within the context of social work practice.

Major concepts and the steps of empirical research are examined, including problem identification and formulation, literature review, research design, sampling, definitions, measurement of variables, and instrument construction. Emphasis is placed on using empirical research to inform practice and developing knowledge from practice. The major goal is to enhance the student’s capacity to identify problems and interventions and reach valid and reliable conclusions about their practice through research. Quantitative and qualitative research approaches are emphasized equally as strategies for evaluating one’s practice.

Readings and discussion of issues concerning ethnicity, race, gender, and concerns of special populations are essential features of this course. The political context for researching historically oppressed or hidden groups is explored. The concern with special populations is integrated throughout all stages of the research process, including problem identification; research design; sampling; measurement; data analysis, and interpretation of findings. Ethical issues regarding human subjects and federally mandated procedures for protecting human subjects, including the institutional review board, are also discussed.

This is a non-major, online and synchronous introduction to Western art music. The workload of the course consists of a combination of blog post assignments, quiz/exams, and a written concert essay aimed at developing the students’ ability to combine their critical insight with their acquired listening and analytical skills so as to produce an interesting essay.

15-week long course (Fall) taught online synchronously. The course is a survey of Western art music for non-music majors and incorporates a significant amount of group work throughout the semester. It uses an OER textbook, Resonances by Esther Morgan-Ellis, and is a Zero Textbook Cost course.

This course is an introduction to the field of urban studies. We will consider how social, political, and economic transformations shape the material and ideological landscape, and the many ways we experience these forces in our everyday lives. Taking the urban setting as our focus, we will examine what it is that constitutes a city and what significance different approaches to this question have for the way we relate to one another. The course is designed to lay a foundation for you to be able to critically analyze some of the prominent threads and debates in urban studies, while engaging with overlaps from your other courses and experiences.

We’ll read work from a range of academic disciplines, including urban planning, geography, history, and sociology. You will learn to identify the methods used by the authors of our course readings, and the assignments will challenge you to use these methods to construct and present knowledge about your urban environment.

This course is designed to survey the diversity and breathe of what we call music. The emphasis of the course is on perspectives of critical thinking, reflective listening and active engagement. Throughout the course, we will learn about local musical traditions on their own terms as well as attempt to understand the socio-cultural conditions of each tradition.

In considering some of these issues we move from one genre or locale to another, the focus will be developing our abilities to identify, describe, and discuss music, in terms of both style and cultural context. Through the lens of music, we will investigate human diversity, ingenuity, and artistry and highlight ways in which music-making are integral to the spheres of collective and individual expression in all its political, social and cultural dimensions.

First part of a scaffolded writing assignment (leading to a final paper), where I asked students to propose & think about a final topic; identify three possible academic sources for their paper; read two pieces of writing about the purpose of citations (from opposing viewpoints); and answer a few questions based on the readings. Includes assignment instructions & worksheet.

Prompt for a written concert report (500 words) of a live or recorded performance of world music.

Guide for optional, low-stakes writing that I invited students to do in conjunction with assigned listening examples.

Final stage of a scaffolded writing assignment (preceded by a bibliography assignment also shared on the Hub).

Instructions & rubric for low-stakes reading response assignment. Asks students to engage actively & closely, with excerpt from Christopher Small’s Musicking text, includes detailed instructions on how to do so.

Syllabus for in-person world music survey course at Hunter College. Includes overview, learning goals, grading policy, description of assignments & quizzes, college resources, & class schedule. Required textbook: World Music: A Global Journey (Miller and Shahriari 2016). About 70 students in this section. Note: instructor notes that late work & attendance policies are largely inflexible here, and she would rethink these for future classes.